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THE CLEVER LITTLE TAILOR or SEVEN AT A BLOW
Written by Frederic B. Saywell. Illustrated by Herbert J. Harvey.
Stock no. 739032
Published by Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd.. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

White cloth spine with gilt title, decorated paper boards. 12 tipped-in colour plates mounted on grey captioned card. 56 pages. Top edge purple. Spine slightly bumped, corners lightly rubbed. Endpapers are lightly browned A couple of hinges are partly cracked. Some light marking to page margins but contents generally clean. Brown wrapper is slightly edge rubbed but clean.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 5 - THE BIG GAME HUNT
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 738993
Published by Daily Express. Good condition.

Rupert's Big Game Hunt and Rupert and the Banjo. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Cover edges rubbed and covers grubby. 1.5" split to base of spine. Contents are grubby and part detached at lower staple.

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YORKSHIRE BATTLES
Written by Edward Lamplough.
Stock no. 590896
Published by William Andrews & Co.. 1st 1891. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles, patterned onlays to front cover. Top edge gilt. 10 x 7.5". x + 232 pages including index + 8 page booklist. Contents very good. Covers unevenly faded. Top and bottom of spine rubbed.

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PLAYWAYS ANNUAL
Written by Enid Blyton; et al.
Stock no. 590933
Published by Playways Office. Very good condition.

Orange cloth spine. Colour pictorial front board shows children playing on a mat, pretending it's a boat. Colour plates. Two-tone illustrations. With a long story by Enid Blyton 'The Saucy Jane Family'. A picture to paint partially completed. Light foxing to endpapers else contents fine. Corners rubbed.

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NOW WE ARE SIX
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 738962
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe edition bound in limp olive green morocco with gilt decorations to front cover and spine. Pink pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. All edges gilt. Spine is browned and worn. with slight loss to top. Edges are rubbed with slightly worn corners. Some light scuffing to rear cover. Previous owner's inscription in ink to half-title page. Tiny booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A couple of hinges slightly cracked, some light fingering to page margins. Very light browning to half-title page and light creasing to last page. Contents generally very clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1968
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 738976
Published by Daily Express. 1968. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert & chums watching large ball coming down from the sky. The last Rupert annual to include Magic Paintings. 10 x 7 inches. 115 pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners bumped and just slightly worn with small split to top of spine. Previous owner's name in ink to belongs to box. price-cut. Colouring (not water) to two of the magic paintings, the rest are untouched, top corner of last magic painting page torn out. Light foxing to outer page edges. One hinge pulled.

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REAL FAIRIES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 590889
Published by J. Saville & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1923. Very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. A book of poetry. Small format. Enid Blyton's second book. Corners bumped. Endpapers very lightly browned. Page 23 has skillfully repaired closed tear.

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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
Written by Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 738893
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

Bound in publishers deluxe binding of brown leather with embossed decoration at front edges and with gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Two-tone green pictorial endpapers. 12 tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Tiny worn patch to lower edge of rear cover. Some very faint marking to covers. Light foxing throughout. Lower corner of half-title and frontis creased, tiny nick to edge of half-title page. All other plates fine condition.

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NOW WE ARE SIX
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 738899
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt titles, vignette and border. Top edge gilt. Pink pictorial endpapers. Delightful b/w illustrations throughout. 103 pages. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed to head and tail, spine has faded patches to centre and base. Lower edge of rear cover is very slightly faded. Covers generally bright and clean. Previous owner's name in ink to half-title page. One hinge cracked. A few very light finger marks to page margins. The book itself is a nice, clean copy. Original wrapper is in two halves (detached along rear edge of spine), spine is browned and has 2.5" loss at top, 1" loss at centre and slight loss at base, also patch of loss to top corner of rear panel. The wrapper looks as though it was originally too small for the book (0.5cm too small along top edge).

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THE DIRECTORY OF THE MOTOR INDUSTRY
No author listed.
Stock no. 590802
Published by Society Of Motor Manufacturers & Traders Ltd.. 1969. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. 937 pages. Book: Ex-lib, stamps to prelims, else contents very good. Spine faded.

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THE JUNIOR INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS RECORD OF TRANSACTIONS VOLUME XXII
Written by A. Clifford Swales.
Stock no. 590826
Published by Percival Marshall And Co Ltd.. 1912. Very good condition.

Edited by Swales. Purple cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Spine faded.

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TWO THOUSAND MILES OF WANDERING IN THE BORDER COUNTRY, LAKELAND AND RIBBLESDALE
Written by Edmund Bogg.
Stock no. 590790
Published by Edmund Bogg. 1st 1898. Slightly better than good condition.

Large paper edition. Three-quarter dark blue leather binding with raised bands, gilt title and decoration to spine. Dark blue boards with gilt title to front. Marbled endpapers. xxi + Errata page + 364 pages + 263 pages. Includes list of subscribers. Numerous b/w photos and illustrations. Contents detached from covers but otherwise tight, foxing to endpapers but generally clean and bright. Corners a little worn.

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