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JOEY AND THE HELICOPTER
Written by Robert Martin. Illustrated by T.R. Freeman.
Stock no. 2109085
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red covers, dark titles. Part of 'The Joey Books' Series. B/w illustrations. Old ink price to front pastedown. Some foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-tears and chips; some loss to top and tail of spine; creased.

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THE WAR IN THE AIR VOL. I
Written by Walter Raleigh.
Stock no. 2109071
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1939. Almost very good condition.

Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Underlining throughout.

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AMERICA'S FIRST AIR WAR
Written by Terry C. Treadwell.
Stock no. 2109060
Published by Airlife. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The United States Army, Naval and Marine Air Services in the First World War. B/w photos. ISBN: 1840371137. Light wear along cover edges. Small label/plate to front endpaper. Wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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CHEPSTOW MISCELLANY
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1707131
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. 118 pages. 6 x8.5 inches. Excellent black and white drawings and photos throughout. Wrapper torn and repaired with tape. Small hole in side of spine.

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HOW TOM BEAT CAPTAIN NAJORK & HIS HIRED SPORTSMEN
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1401245
Published by Random House. 1st thus 1993. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Green endpapers. Colour illustrations. Little Greats Series. ISBN: 1856817342. Spine and corners bumped. Spine is faded. School stamp to front free endpaper. A little browning to top of some pages, else contents are very good.

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SILLY SILLY
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1501108
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Mouse and Duck are arguing about which of them is the sillier... ISBN: 0862647401. Spine slightly bumped with small nick at bottom. Very pale page edge browning otherwise contents excellent.

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THE HISTORY OF THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY (PRINCE ALBERT'S) 1914-1919
Written by Everard Wyrall.
Stock no. 2109024
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Good condition.

Leather spine and corners. Cloth covers. With 29 portraits, 7 other illustrations and 21 maps. Large format. Heavy wear to top of spine. Damp marks/browning to covers. Front joint is cracked and therefore prelims detached. Some foxing. A little pen annotation to a couple of pages; damp to some page edges. Creasing, browning and a few tears to fold-out plans. All illustrations and plans are present.

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CYRIL BONHAMY V MADAM BIG
Written by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1401220
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Hilarious department store mystery for children. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224019910. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to text block. Previous owner's ink stamp to title page. Pencil annotations to first few pages. Wrapper is foxed and edge worn and the spine is faded.

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ELEMENTARY BOTANICAL PLATES
Written by Robert John Thornton.
Stock no. 2109001
1810. Very good condition.

Very large format. Modern binding; green cloth spine; grey covers with printed title label stuck to front. Illustrative of the science of botany....but more particularly intended to illustrate botanical extracts; or the philosophy of botany. Made up from sections of the author's work: A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus. Contains 44 engraved plates; mostly showing specimens viewed under the microscope. Some light wear to cover edges; a bit of damage to home made title label. First 2/3rds of pages have been trimmed, especially to bottom edge; others are uncut; some pages look longer internally than others. Foxing and some grubby margin marks spread to page throughout the book. Damp staining to corners and a couple of edges of pages.

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TURNPIKE ROADS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 2108996
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Limited to 105 copies. B/w illustrations. Green cloth. The Chepstow and New Passage Turnpike Districts. ISBN: 0906134315.

Price: £65.00 £48.75.

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CHEPSTOW PACKETS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 2108995
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1983. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Limited to 195 copies. 140pp inc.index. Numerous b/w illus. throughout. Pull out map of Chepstow as it was. 9 x 5.75". ISBN: 0906134218. A little fading/foxing to wrapper spine with light edge-creasing.

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