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BOY
Written by Paul Manning. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1303977
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co.. 1st USA 1988. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A verse and beautiful picture on every page. Glazed pictorial boards. A Merry-Go-Rhymes book. 5.75 x 4.75". ISBN: 0027622517.

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THE GURKHA RIFLES
Written by J.B.R. Nicholson. Illustrated by Michael Roffe.
Stock no. 1203304
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 1974. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour plates. B/w photos. Men at Arms Series. ISBN: 0850452287.

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FOUR FEET BY TWO
Written by Edric Vredenburg.
Stock no. 1104995
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Circa 1892. Very good condition.

Cloth spine. Animal Talks and Tales. 8 colour plates. B/w illustrations. 72 pages. Edges are worn. Some foxing. Pages browned. A few small closed tears to some page margins. All plates present.

Price: £90.00 £67.50.

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THE GREY RABBIT
Written by May Gladwin. Illustrated by May Gladwin.
Stock no. 1104994
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Large pictorial onlay to front cover. Red, black and white illustrations throughout. Spine worn. Covers are marked and scuffed. Some margin marks.

Price: £70.00 £52.50.

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COME LASSES AND LADS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1104993
Published by Castell Brothers. Circa 1893. Very good condition.

Small square format. Brown cloth spine. Glazed pictorial boards. Pretty chromolithograph illustrations in the style of Randolph Caldecott. Light page browning.

Price: £50.00 £37.50.

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THE SONG OF THE SANDPIPER
Written by J. Morton Boyd. Illustrated by J. Morton Boyd.
Stock no. 1803077
Published by Colin Baxter Photography Ltd.. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A memoir of a Scottish naturalist. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 1841070033. Corners bumped. Contents fine. Blue wrapper is creased at edges.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1995
Written by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1104948
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1995. Fine condition.

No. 60. 75th anniversary edition. Front cover shows Rupert on winged horse. ISBN: 1874507465. Still in original shrink wrap, which is becoming a little ragged at edges. Couple of corners have become bumped.

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MOTOCOURSE 1984-85
No author listed.
Stock no. 1601323
Published by Hazleton Publishing. 1st 1984. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Motorcycle racing. Foreword by Eddie Lawson. ISBN: 0905138333. Top of text block dusty. Contents clean and bright. Pictorial wrapper is foxed to verso and lightly edge creased with a few edge tears (including 3cm tear at top of spine).

Price: £60.00 £45.00.

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FLUKES AND SNAILS
Written by C.A. Wright.
Stock no. 1803043
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Science of Biology Series 4. A general account of the biology of the digenetic trematodes with particular emphasis on the ecological aspects of the relationships between the larval stages and their molluscan hosts. Green boards, silver title to spine. B/w plates. 168 pages including index. ISBN: 0045950083. A nice, clean copy in a blue dustwrapper which is edge-worn and a little grubby.

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THE BLUE DRAGON FLY
Written by M.M.H..
Stock no. 1104929
Circa 1898. Almost very good condition.

Cream boards with gilt titles and borders. Two-tone illustrations. 53 pages. Covers are very grubby and foxed; small split to top of spine and worn corners. Some foxing. Inscribed by author 'For Queenie, with love from the author, Christmas 1898'.

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HOW THE WHALE BECAME
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by George Adamson.
Stock no. 1303954
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A collection of stories about the days when the world was brand new, and the animals were still making up their minds just what they wanted to be. Blue mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 72 pages. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Light page browning to half-title page else contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby on rear panel and slightly worn at top and tail of spine. A nice copy of the scarce first edition.

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MARGERY MERTON'S GIRLHOOD
Written by Alice Corkran.
Stock no. 1303938
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1906. Almost very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 6 b/w plates. 286 pages plus 32 page catalogue at rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. A few small bubbles in the cloth on rear cover. Prize plate to front pastedown (name crossed out). Some fingering but contents generally clean. Last page of catalogue is slightly torn at inner margin.

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