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THE WATERING PLACES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND FASHIONABLE DIRECTORY ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS
No author listed. Illustrated by W.H. Bartlett.
Stock no. 1806586
Published by I.T. Hinton. 1831. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Three-quarters leather binding with gilt title to spine and marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title page plus 30 engraved plates. Engraving by J.C. Allen. Edges rubbed, corners worn with some loss to leather at sides. Boards rubbed/scuffed. Front joint cracked, broken at bottom edge where leather has worn away from spine. Rear joint is sound. Some foxing present. Plate opposite page 149 is torn almost right across at the lower margin of the plate not affecting the plate itself. A few other plates may have small closed margin tears. Most plates have browning to margins of page. It is possible that there is a page or more missing at the end although the book appears to be complete in itself - the last printed page number is 216 and this ends partway through a sentence. Overall, a good working copy.

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THE BOOK OF MODERN ENGINES (6 VOLUMES)
Written by Rankin Kennedy.
Stock no. 1806583
Published by Caxton Publishing Company Limited. Good condition.

An Entirely New and Revised Edition. 6 volumes. A practical work on prime movers and the transmission of power steam, electric, water, gas, and hot air. Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos and illustrations. 2 volumes have elaborate colour diagrams at front of book. Top & tail of spines worn with fraying to cloth. Volume I - spine is split to both sides and backstrip is worn, one hinge is broken so that contents are in two halves. Foxing to text blocks. Contents are generally clean. A good working copy.

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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1308562
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1915. Almost very good condition.

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Rebound with white cloth spine and gilt title, red cloth covers. Grey endpapers. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Spine bumped and slightly grubby, some slight fading to top edge of rear cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Front joint (between fly-leaf and frontis) cracked. Foxing and some fingering throughout. Erased crayon name to verso of frontis.

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MIXED GAUGES
Written by J.B. Snell.
Stock no. 2108600
Published by Camden Miniature Steam Services. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Travels in the years of steam. Large oblong format. Colour photos. ISBN: 9780954713164. A few small marks to covers. Corner creasing to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of nicks to corners and closed tear to rear panel.

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MAVERICK AIRMAN
Written by Michael J. Partridge.
Stock no. 2108593
Published by Eastbourne College. 1st 2010. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The extraordinary life of Frederick Frank Reilly Minchin. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780955494017. SIGNED by author to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small marks. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2108586
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges, prelims and some page margins.

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OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN
Written by Agnes Castle; Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2108585
Published by William Heinemann. 2nd 1915. Very good condition.

Green cloth covers, gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Endpapers are illustrated. 8 beautiful guarded colour plates and many b/w text illustrations throughout. 304 pages. Darkening to spine. Corners and spine are a little bumped, with wear. A few marks to covers. Foxing to pages. All plates present.

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KNAPWORTH AT WAR
Written by Timothy Finn.
Stock no. 2108565
Published by Duckworth. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Stories from an England village 1939-45. ISBN: 0715616765. SIGNED by author to title page. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Wrapper is price-cut with some browning to spine.

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THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1799-1882)
Written by P.C. Sadgrove.
Stock no. 1706800
Published by Ithaca. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

ISBN: 0863722024. Wrapper spine faded.

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BEHIND THE CASTLE GATE
Written by Matthew Johnson.
Stock no. 1706787
Published by Routledge. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

From Medieval to Renaissance. B/w photos. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0415258871. Top edge of front panel of wrapper badly creased.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806559
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Some of the pictures are offset with colours from printing process. Otherwise a nice, clean copy.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806558
Published by The Children's Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Light browning otherwise a nice copy.

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