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JOSEPH: A DANCING BEAR
Written by John Barnett. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 385549
Published by Eveleigh Nash. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Green cloth with black title and brown vignette of bear to front, gilt title to spine. 274 pages. B/w plates. Spine and corners bumped with a few small splits to top and tail of spine. Spine browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint cracked. Fingermarks to contents. Dusty page edges. A couple of plates are partly detached. A nice copy of a very scarce book.

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A MASQUE OF DAYS
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 385556
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1901. Very good condition.

From the last essays of Elia. Attractive pictorial boards, cream cloth spine. Blue and yellow decorated endpapers. Pretty colour illustrations on every page. Unpaginated. Pages printed one side only and unopened. 11 x 8.5". Cover edges worn. Some scuffing/rubbing to covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Light fingermarks to page margins else contents clean.

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PIXIE PRANKS
Written by C.E.B. Bernard. Illustrated by C.E.B. Bernard.
Stock no. 385447
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

A book of colour plates and full-page 2-tone illustrations, pixies getting up to all sorts of things! Large format (10.25 x 8"). Blue cloth spine, pictorial boards. Spine and cover edges lightly rubbed, corners worn. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Heavy foxing to contents, mainly at margins.

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LAUNCEY VERNON or EDIE'S PARTICULAR FRIEND
No author listed.
Stock no. 385380
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, pictorial boards. 125 pages. B/w frontis plus a few text illustrations. Spine bumped and browned. Corners worn and cover edges lightly rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown and endpapers browned. Address written in pencil to front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and page margins. Contents clean.

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STIGGLES
Written by K.K. De Karroff. Illustrated by Margery Colman.
Stock no. 449477
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1943. Very good condition.

Brown pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Some browning to covers. Couple of corners are bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper.

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THE MOTHERS' BOOK OF SONG
No author listed. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 449480
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with black title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Fading and wear to spine. Some browning and odd foxspot to contents.

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AGRICULTURAL TRANSPORT IN WALES
Written by John Geraint Jenkins.
Stock no. 822733
Published by National Museum of Wales. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A catalogue and handbook describing the agricultural transport collection at the Welsh Folk Museum. Green boards. B/w photos and diagrams. 107 pages plus plates. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Contents fine. Corners bumped. Wrapper price-cut, a little edge-chipped and repaired with tape.

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THE FISHERMAN'S HANDBOOK
Written by George Brennand. Illustrated by Colin Gibson.
Stock no. 822744
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. 1st 1951. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Trout, Salmon and Sea Trout with Notes on Coarse Fishing. Brown cloth. 8 colour plates and 32 b/w photos. Very light browning to endpapers else contents mint. Wrapper price-cut and slightly edge-chipped.

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THURSDAY AHOY!
Written by Michael Bond. Illustrated by Leslie Wood.
Stock no. 822759
Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.. 1st USA 1970. As new condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, black title to spine and vignette to front, reinforced binding as published. B/w illustrations. Wrapper price-cut with brown mark to lower edge where label has been removed.

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THE ART OF ANGLING
Written by Trevor Housby. Illustrated by John Nash.
Stock no. 822762
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1972. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0237443929. Wrapper has a few small closed and repaired edge-tears.

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND DRAMATIC ROMANCES & LYRICS
Written by Robert Browning. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Stock no. 385347
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1909. Very good condition.

Limited edition of 260 copies (of which 250 are for sale). White vellum binding with gilt titles and vignette. 246 pages. 10 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Minimal bumping to spine. A couple of marks to rear cover. Foxing and pale page browning to contents else clean.

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A COMPLETE AND UNIVERSAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Written by James Barclay.
Stock no. 822712
Published by J.F. & C. Rivington. 1792. Slightly better than good condition.

Including Not Only a Full Explanation of Difficult Words and Technical Terms in All Faculties and Professions But Also a Pronouncing Dictionary. Full brown leather binding. Gilt title to spine. Contents very good. Rebacked with original spine laid down.

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