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'NOBLE AND PATRIOTIC' THE BEAUMONT GIFT 1828
No author listed.
Stock no. 1604895
Published by National Gallery. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition.

Card wraps. B/w and colour photos. The collection of paintings gifted to the National Gallery by Sir George Beaumont. ISBN: 0947645470.

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ONE RISSOLE ON MY PLATE REMINISCENCES OF AN ERK WHO SERVED BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
Written by Antony Brian Tinsley.
Stock no. 1708436
Published by Merlin Books Ltd.. 1st 1984. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. 88 pages. ISBN: 0863031560. Faint ink initials to front cover.

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HAPPY THOUGHT AND OTHER POEMS FOR CHILDREN
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson; Victor Gad. Illustrated by Victor Gad.
Stock no. 1807453
Published by Midway. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Poems selected and illustrated by Gad. Square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 1" closed tear to lower edge of title page, else contents fine.

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THE LEMONADE STAND: EXPLORING THE UNFAMILIAR BY BUILDING LARGE-SCALE MODELS
Written by Maurice Mitchell.
Stock no. 1807446
Published by Centre For Alternative Technology. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Calling on architects, development workers and students to experience the process of building first hand. How group building courses run at the Centre for Alternative Technology using unfamiliar materials have generated skills, techniques and forms mirrored in the world of vernacular architecture, communal building and self help shelter construction around the world. Cardwraps. B/w photos and diagrams. 180 pages. ISBN: 1902175778.

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POTTER PINNER MEADOW
Written by Mollie Kaye. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1401657
Published by Collins. 1st 1937. Fair condition.

Large square format. Cloth spine. Green and white pictorial boards. Cute colour pictures. Corners bumped, board edges worn and rubbed. Spine browned. Boards are grubby with a couple of stains to rear board. Front joint cracked, causing first gathering of pages to feel a little loose. A few pages a little detached. One page has large tear which affects a little of the text. Couple of erased pencil marks. Some grubby marks.

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OUR DARLINGS
No author listed. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris; Louis Wain; Ambrose Dudley; et al..
Stock no. 1501367
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. Good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial front board shows children carol singing. Tipped-in colour plates plus b/w illustrations throughout. Includes 3 colour plates by Wain plus some b/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Corners and board edges worn. Small pieces of paper missing from both front and rear board. Front board lightly scratched. Tiny hole near to centre of front endpaper. A little foxing and one or two marks otherwise contents generally clean.

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OBOLI, BOBOLI AND LITTLE JOBOLI
Written by Bernard Darwin. Illustrated by Elinor Darwin.
Stock no. 1401654
Published by Country Life Ltd.. 1942. Good condition.

Five short stories. Red pictorial card wraps. Black titles to spine. Five full page colour illustrations plus b /w text illustrations. 79 pages. Spine is split at top and bottom with slight loss of backstrip. Covers a bit grubby. Some joints are broken where backstrip is missing but binding generally firm. Bookplate to front endpaper. 5cm x 1.5cm piece missing from bottom of one page. Large crease to top of a page. Pages a little browned.

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THE BRITISH BUS STORY EARLY 'EIGHTIES
Written by Alan Townsin.
Stock no. 1604862
Published by The Transport Publishing Company. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Die is Cast. Large format. Green glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0863171702. Some light browning / foxing to page margins.

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SPORTING ART IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
Written by Stephen Deuchar.
Stock no. 1604857
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A full account of this artistic phenomenon, combining a cogent analysis of the ideologies lying behind these sports with the history of their imagery. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0300041160.

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THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART COLLECTIONS, BOTANICAL GARDENS
Written by Elizabeth Pomeroy.
Stock no. 2111088
Published by Scalo; Philip Wilson. 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0935748563. Reprint, with some revisions. Odd mark to endpapers and prelims. A little edge-creasing to wrapper.

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH INTERIORS
Written by Alan Gore; Ann Gore.
Stock no. 2111086
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st thus 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0714834688. A few marks to covers.

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