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WINGS ON MY SLEEVE
Written by Eric Brown.
Stock no. 1828796
Published by Airlife. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The incredible story of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, the outstanding test pilot. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 202 pages. ISBN: 0950454362. Top & tail of spine worn with slight loss to tail. Spine is slightly cocked. Text block is lightly browned and has a few minor foxspots. Name in ink to front endpaper. Couple of minor marks to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at corners, lightly faded to spine, a little grubby to rear panel, foxing to verso.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1325566
Published by William Heinemann. 1910. Very good condition.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book, one pair of plates are on facing pages. 62 text pages. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn, small split to top of spine. Some light marks to covers. Evidence of removal of a small label to front pastedown. Some light margins marks else contents clean. All plates present, one is lightly creased but the others are fine.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1323387
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. 16 colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Tiny white mark to top edge of front cover. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss and a little faded to spine.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving; Shirley Goulden. Illustrated by Nardini.
Stock no. 1323019
Published by W. H. Allen. 1st thus 1965. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Splendour Books series. Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge rubbed. Tape marks to pastedowns and facing endpapers. Some surface paper damage to endpapers. Contents clean. Original film dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and has tape marks to flaps where it was stuck down to pastedowns of book at one time. Removal of tape has left sticky residue.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Everett Shinn.
Stock no. 1323016
Published by Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.. Circa 1939. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour plates plus green and white text illustrations/surrounds. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge rubbed. Tiny booksellers sticker to front free-endpaper. Small label to verso of front free-endpaper. Pencil doodles to verso of half title-page. Contents generally clean.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1320489
Published by Peter Hansens Forlag. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Text in Danish. Limited edition. Large format, green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Each of the 51 tipped-in colour plates are mounted on a separate sheet of heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards. Except for the frontis, the plates are all bound together after the text. This is copy NO. 180 with prineted signature of Arthur Rackham. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Ink writing to front free-endpaper. Joints cracked. Browning to contents.

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ROUVA SIIRI SIPINEN
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1318600
Published by Otava. Circa 1979. Fine condition.

The Tale of the Mrs Tiggy-Winkle translated into Finnish by Raija Mattila. White glazed pictorial boards. Small format. 59 pages. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9511052136.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2124414
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack. Good condition.

Cream/yellow boards with black titles and small image to front board. Stories We Love Series. 4 Colour plates and b/w illustrations. 63 Pages. Heavy foxing to rear cover. Brown stains to front cover. Heavy wear to corners and spine. Top half - one inch of spine is MISSING. Some other chipping to spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to pages. All colour plates present. A few page corners are chipped off. Contents are still generally very good.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
Stock no. 1814767
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1924. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth. Gilt title to spine. Large pictorial onlay to front. Blue pictorial endpapers. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Front board a little marked and pictorial onlay scuffed. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Scattered foxing throughout. All plates present with some pale foxing to margins. One hinge pulled.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1406359
Published by William Heinemann. 1919. Slightly better than good condition.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book. 62 text pages. Green cloth, green titles and vignette to front cover. Spine bumped, worn and browned with small splits to the cloth. Top corners badly bumped with top rear corner almost split. Bumping to bottom corners. Bottom board edges bumped and rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Book plate to front pastedown. Browning to front endpapers and some of the mounts for the plates. Inscription in ink to half title page. Some hinges are cracked. Some fingering. Creasing to a couple of plates. Top of book is bowed.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 2118108
Published by William Heinemann. 1919. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book, one pair of plates are on facing pages. 62 text pages. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Damp marking to top of spine and along edges of front and rear covers out from that. Browning to endpapers, pastedowns and page edges/margins of green pages. Light foxing. Wrapper is edge-creased with tears and chips; a little loss; some grubby marks and foxspots.

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NEW PLAYS FROM OLD STORIES
Written by Hermon Ould. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1402702
Published by Oxford University Press. 1924. Slightly better than good condition.

Contains three stories (Peter the Pied Piper, The Princess in the Sleeping Wood, Rip van Winkle) adapted into plays. Black boards with gilt titles to front and spine and vignette to front cover. Colour plates. 96 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Fading to gilt on spine and some of gilt on front cover. Front endpaper is MISSING. Browning to endpapers which are also a little grubby. Some foxing and a few margin marks.

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