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SHADOWS OF THE GALLOWS
Written by Patrick C. Murphy.
Stock no. 598436
Published by The Caxton Printers Ltd.. 1928. Fair condition.

The author was a life prisoner in the Idaho State Penitentiary. Red cloth. B/w photos. Rear board badly dampstained and photos at rear affected by damp.

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MEET MY FOLKS!
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by George Adamson.
Stock no. 380156
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The authors first book for children. Yellow and red pictorial boards. Full-page b/w illustrations. 42 pages. Spine and corners just a little worn. Tiny dent to lower edge of front cover. Light foxing to endpapers and contents (mainly to page edges). A couple of faint marks to prelims else covers and contents clean). Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby with foxing and large damp stain to top edge of rear panel. Minimal loss to top and tail of spine, some closed tears which have been repaired with magic tape on verso.

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THE BOY'S STORY OF LINDBERGH THE LONE EAGLE
Written by Richard J. Beamish.
Stock no. 380157
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine and large pictorial onlay to front cover. 320 pages. B/w photos. The story of the first man to fly from New York to Paris. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Large but neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins but contents generally clean.

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DON'T BE SILLY, MR. TWIDDLE!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Hilda McGavin.
Stock no. 380160
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1967. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps priced at 2'6. B/w illustrations to text, 79 pages. Covers lightly creased, lower corner tip of rear cover torn off. Light page browning and foxing throughout. One page has a light blue mark to the margin else contents clean.

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FILIDA AND CORYDON, WITH OTHER STORIES
Written by Gwendolen Forwood. Illustrated by Gwendolen Forwood.
Stock no. 380164
Published by J.J. Keliher & Co. Limited. 1902. Good condition.

Written and illustrated by a child for Children. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. 32 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Covers edge worn with some paper loss to spine edge of rear cover. Covers stains to covers. Foxing and fingering throughout but generally contents clean. Both joints have been neatly repaired with white paper. 1" closed tear to top of title page.

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CLOSE TO THE EARTH
Written by Judith Cook.
Stock no. 598349
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st 1984. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Living Social History of the British Isles. B/w photos. ISBN: 0710096348.

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IT'S A DOG'S LIFE
Written by J.G. Marash. Illustrated by Gwendoline Perkins.
Stock no. 437795
Published by Edwards The Printers Limited. 2nd Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Large format. Pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Just over half an inch of backstrip missing to base of spine; smaller piece missing to top of spine. Some long splits to spine. Corner cut from top of front endpaper. Contents are very good. Pictorial wrapper is very torn and chipped, with pieces of loss and marks.

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BLACK COUNTRY TRAMWAYS VOLUME I
Written by J.S. Webb.
Stock no. 598179
Published by J.S. Webb. 1st 1974. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Company-worked tramways and light railways of the West Midlands industrial area (South Staffordshire and North Worcestershire) 1872-1912. B/w photos. Wrapper has lightly rubbed corners and slightly faded spine.

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MUM'S PLACE
Written by Reginald Ottley.
Stock no. 598121
Published by Collins. 1st 1974. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A children's book about the emotional struggle between a man and boy in a rundown Australian community. Wrapper slightly edge-chipped.

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DIRECT METHODS FOR SPARSE MATRICES
Written by I.S. Duff; A.M. Erisman; J.K. Reid.
Stock no. 598129
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1986. Fine condition.

Blue boards, red title label with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0198534086.

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CENTRALBLATT DER BAUVERWALTUNG
Written by Otto Sarrazin; Oskar Hossfeld.
Stock no. 598134
Published by Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn. 1892. Almost very good condition.

Jahrgang XII. Large format. 12.5 x 10". Black cloth spine. Marbled boards. Numerous b/w illustrations. Text in German. Front endpapers browned else contents very good. Small ink stamps to title page. A couple of small brown marks to few pages. Corners worn.

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