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GENERAL WRANGEL: RUSSIA'S WHITE CRUSADER
Written by Alexis Wrangel.
Stock no. 1329369
Published by Leo Cooper. 1st thus 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Maroon boards with gilt title to spine. Baron Peter Wrangel was one of the most important of the "White Generals" to fight the Red Army and one of the first officers to join the White Army against the Bolsheviks. This biography has been carefully compiled by his son. ISBN: 0850528909. Spine and corners bumped. Pale page browning, small green felt-tip pen mark to lower edge of textblock, contents otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is slightly creased to spine and a little worn to top corner of front panel.

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A HISTORY OF FLYFISHING
Written by Conrad Voss Bark. Illustrated by Peter Gathercole.
Stock no. 1329327
Published by Merlin Unwin Books. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the Macedonian 'plumes' of old to the hairwing streamers of today. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 202 pages. B/w photos and diagrams. Colour photos of flys by Gathercole. ISBN: 1873674031. Spine slightly bumped. Very light scratch mark to front cover. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, there is an old price sticker to rear panel and a small mark.

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ONE MAN'S MOTORCYCLES 1939-1949
Written by Peter McManus.
Stock no. 1829544
Published by Tranters. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

A motorcycle theme with much more than that... Boyhood in Rhyl during the depression driven 1930s, Engineering apprenticeship in Dickensian conditions in Derby then Aero Engine Development at Rolls Royce. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 271 pages. ISBN: 0953060322. SIGNED by the author (with good wishes) to title page. Author's address label to inside of front cover. Light scuffing to rear cover. Contents clean.

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TEN MINUTES TO BUFFALO: THE STORY OF GERMANY'S GREAT ESCAPER
Written by Ulrich Steinhilper; Peter Osborne.
Stock no. 1829543
Published by Independent Books. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Having fought throughout the Battle of Britain, Ulrich Steinhilper was shot down as he flew his Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 on a bomber escort duty. So it was in late October 1940 Ulrich was to begin a phase of his life which would stretch him to the limit of physical endurance and to the edge of insanity. He was to become a prisoner of war, but he was not a man to embrace something as alien as imprisonment lightly and so he was to dedicate himself to the idea of escape... Blaqck cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 432 pages. ISBN: 1872836011. SIGNED by the author to bookplate on front endpaper. Lower corners of boards bumped. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE BATSFORD BOOK OF SPORTING VERSE
Written by Peter Verney. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick.
Stock no. 1329301
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 135 pages. ISBN: 071342009X. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Browning and foxing but contents generally clean. Price-cut wrapper.

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SALMON AND WOMEN - THE FEMININE ANGLE
Written by Wilma Paterson; Peter Behan.
Stock no. 1329275
Published by H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The authors set out to examine, and try to account for, the amazing success of female salmon fishers. Introduction by Hugh Falkus. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 176 pages including index. ISBN: 0854932011. Spine bumped. Tiny nick to top edge of front cover. Dustwrapper is edge creased.

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THE LOST ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES OF WARWICKSHIRE (VOLUME 1 - THE SOUTH)
Written by Peter Bolton.
Stock no. 1829467
Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Landmark Collector's Library series. Combing the county's towns, villages and fields, this book aims to record every building of significance in South Warwickshire destroyed or altered in the twentieth century. Red cloth boards, gitl title to spine. B/w photos. 160 pages including index. ISBN: 1901522989. Front corners lightly bumped. Very faint fading to lower edge of front board. Minor mark to vertical margin of half-title page. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and has old price-label to rear panel.

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PETER DEWINT 1784 - 1849 'FOR THE COMMON OBSERVER OF LIFE AND NATURE'
Written by John Lord. Illustrated by P. Dewint.
Stock no. 1829421
Published by Lund Humphries. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

Accompanies the exhibition of the same name held in 2007. A major reappraisal of the artist's life and career with essays by Peter Bower, Jim Cheshire, John Ellis, John Lord and Ian Waites. Large format, pictorial cardwraps. B/w and colour illustrations. 208 pages including index. ISBN: 9780953923861. Tiny mark to front edge of spine. Text block slightly grubby. One or two minor margin marks but generally clean.

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SECRET BIDEFORD
Written by Peter Christie.
Stock no. 1829401
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2015. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book goes behind the facade of the familiar medival town to discover lesser-known aspects of its fascinating past ranging from its strategic Anglo-Saxon importance to its high-profile witch trials in the seventeenth century. From its chapels, churches and graveyards to its former patrons and men of industry, Bideford is revealed to be a town of historic importance. Cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781445644844. A nice, clean copy.

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF OLD BIDEFORD: VOLUME NINE
Written by Peter Christie.
Stock no. 1829400
Published by Edward Gaskell Publishers. 1st 2016. Very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos of times-gone-by. 158 pages. ISBN: 9781906769703. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Light waving to contents else contents clean.

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THE ART OF PETER SCOTT: IMAGES FROM A LIFETIME
Written by Philippa Scott; Keith Shackleton. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1829384
Published by Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. 1st thus 2008. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Selected and with captions by Philippa Scott. Introduction by Keith Shackleton. The first and only book to cover the whole range of Sir PPeter's output - ranging from early childhood sketches to the last unfinished painting: his vision of the London Wetlands Centre. Oblong format. B/w pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 168 pages. ISBN: 9780900806377. Lower edge of boards rubbed. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed.

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TRAVEL DIARIES OF A NATURALIST (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1329190
Published by Collins. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Miranda Weston-Smith. Each volume covering different regions. Blue boards, gilt titles to spines. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. Each volume is a first edition, published 1983, 1985 and 1987 respectively. Spines slightly bumped. Dustwrapper spines are sunned and edges are slightly rubbed.

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