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VISITATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES VOLUME 12
Written by Frederick Arthur Crisp.
Stock no. 575978
1st 1904. Very good condition.

Large format. Vellum spine with gilt title, green-blue cloth. 500 copies. Privately printed. 18 b/w armorial plates. Copy no. 104. Vellum spine discoloured. Free endpapers browned. Contents very good indeed.

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THE COTTAGE HOMES OF ENGLAND
Written by Stewart Dick. Illustrated by Helen Allingham.
Stock no. 576017
Published by Edward Arnold. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Large format. White cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Gilt-ruled decoration. Top edge gilt. 64 tissue-guarded colour plates. Limited edition of 500 copies. SIGNED by illustrator (Allingham). Copy no. 475. All plates present. Contents very good. Rear cover soiled, front cover and spine browned. REDUCED FROM £480.

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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 576038
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1ST 1929. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A jovial domestic portrayal of Goldsmith's classic. 12 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Dark green cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 232 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Tiny bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Hinge between frontis and half-title page cracked. Contents fine. A few tiny foxspots to edge of textblock. Pictorial wrapper is soiled and torn with loss at edges.

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WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Written by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 575952
Published by William Heinemann. 1st UK 1925. Very good condition.

Gissing lived alone on the Canine Estates, had an income of 1000 bones a year but was not happy... A story about dogs. 4 unusual colour plates and 16 b/w line drawings. Bright blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover and spine. Blue and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 227 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine slightly darkened with a few faint spots at base. Otherwise covers bright and clean. Endpapers browned. First hinge is cracked at the top. Contents and plates are fine.

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THE VOYAGE OF THE ARCTIC TERN
Written by Hugh Montgomery. Illustrated by Nick Poullis.
Stock no. 732681
Published by Walker Books. Slightly better than very good condition.

Uncorrected Proof. Cream card wraps. B/w illustrations throughout. 212 pages. A nice copy.

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THE HOME OF THE WOLVERENE AND BEAVER
Written by Charles Henry Eden.
Stock no. 732707
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Circa 1885. Good condition.

Sub-titled Fur Hunting In The Wilds Of Canada. Green decorated cloth with gilt title label to spine. 254 pages plus booklist to rear. B/w frontis. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few tiny brown spots to front cover and very faint splashmark to rear cover. Front joint broken, name and date in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to contents.

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SEPTIMUS HONEYDEW
Written by Susan Hill. Illustrated by Carol Thompson.
Stock no. 426238
Published by Julia MacRae Books. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. When Septimus Honeydew can't sleep - he makes sure that no one else in the house sleeps either! ISBN: 0862034574. SIGNED by illustrator, with inscription on title page. A few light marks to covers. Contents fine.

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GEORGE AND JULIET
Written by Geraldine Middleton. Illustrated by Peter Green.
Stock no. 426258
Published by S.P.C.K.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

George and Juliet move to the country and make friends with the Vicar and his wife. They learn about lots of different festivals... Yellow pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations. SIGNED by author, with inscription on front endpaper. Corners a little bumped. A few light finger marks to endpapers. Wrapper has a closed tear to spine and is a little chipped at edges.

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THE WICKED ONE
Written by Mollie Hunter.
Stock no. 426263
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colin Grant was a hot-tempered man, and the wicked one called the Grollican delights in troubling any man with such a temper!... Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0241895707. SIGNED by author, with inscription on half-title page. A couple of corners bumped, edges a little rubbed. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut, faded to spine and a little edge-creased.

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THE HAUNTING OF NADIA
Written by Julia Jarman. Illustrated by Michael Charlton.
Stock no. 426264
Published by A. & C. Black. 1st 1997. Fine condition.

Chillers series. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0713645997. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page.

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF JENNIFER HOWARD
Written by Anthony Masters.
Stock no. 426267
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When Jennifer's brother dies of Aids, her world is overturned. She can only see one way out...then she meets the Gleaners... Blue boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0416187528. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Three small indentation marks to front cover, with corresponding ones on wrapper.

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THE WELL
Written by Gene Kemp. Illustrated by Chantal Fouracre.
Stock no. 426272
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1984. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Memories of the childhood of Annie Sutton (Alias Gene Kemp), living in Tyburn Cottage in a Midlands village, in the years before World War II. Green boards, gilt title. ISBN: 0571132847. SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Score mark to front of wrapper.

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