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RIFLE AND FIELD EXERCISES AND MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION FOR HER MAJESTY'S FLEET
No author listed.
Stock no. 2106937
1882. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Dark blue covers with brass clasp. Front part of clasp has now broken off and is missing. Heavy wear to covers; creasing to a couple of corners. Some scuff marks. Front joint is cracked and weak at this part of binding. Chipping to some page edges; small loss. Page browning. A little pencil to fold-out pages to rear, which also has a couple of edge-tears.

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THE LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
Written by Charles Bucke.
Stock no. 2106931
Published by Thomas Tegg. 1839. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Leather spine and corners. Marbled boards. B/w frontis. Heavy wear and fading to spine and corners. Some scuffing to covers. Heavy foxing to prelims, but contents very good. New endpapers.

Price: £75.00 £56.25.

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DADDY CAT
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2106927
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Cloth spine, dark green paper boards with pictorial onlay to front. 32 colour illustrations including half-title page and title page. All about 'Daddy Cat'. Covers are heavily worn; bumping and chipping to corners; grubby marks; some red crayon scribble to rear cover. Onlay has a little chipping to edges. Front joint is cracked. Grubby marks and some foxing to pages internally. Tears to edges of some pages; one has 1" x 1" semi-circle of loss to margin (with tiny piece of loss from actual illustration). Classic charming Louis Wain cat illustrations!

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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE
Written by Bret Harte. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 2106919
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1886. Good condition.

Cream cloth covers, colour vignettes to front and rear, black titles to spine. Full-page colour frontis illustration, colour text illustrations throughout. 58 pages. 8.5 x 6.5". Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Covers are heavily worn with some bumping, fading and marks. Front joint is cracked; half-title page is nearly detached. Contents are generally very good, but pages do have some grubby margin marks.

Price: £68.00 £51.00.

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YOU FUNNY LITTLE NODDY!
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 2106877
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Pleiades Books. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Noddy book no. 10. Pale pink pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Some wear and grubby marks to covers. Partially erased inscription in ink to front pastedown. Odd grubby margin mark. Wrapper is grubby with some creasing; wear to edges.

Price: £30.00 £20.00.

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ANIMAL LIFE OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Edward Step.
Stock no. 2106809
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with gilt and black titles. Gilt vignette of fox head to front board. Colour and b/w plates. The Wayside and Woodland Series. Some wear to cover edges and corners. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing. Wrapper has large tear to spine (almost torn in half); browned to spine; small pieces of loss to top of spine.

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DANNY, A BUSY BOY
Written by Dolly Rudeman. Illustrated by Dolly Rudeman.
Stock no. 1705943
Published by Mulder & Zoon. Very good condition.

White pictorial boards. 10 x 8". Lovely colour illustrations.

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THE SCARLET HERRING
Written by Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by A. D. Rusden.
Stock no. 1705911
Published by Smith, Elder & Co.. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

A collection of six stories. Green covers, red vignette of fish to front and spine. Red title to front cover, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis and text illustrations throughout. 252 pages plus small catalogue and specimen page. A few marks to covers. Corners bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper.

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THE MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTIQUARY VOLUME XXI
Written by Annette M. Burton.
Stock no. 1805772
Published by Monmouthshire Antiquarian Association. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition.

Grey pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Holocene Floodplain Sediments and Associated Archaeology of the Olway Valley (Gwent, UK): An Excavation Report; Roman and Medieval-Early Modern Building Stones in South : Sandstone and Dolomitic Conglomerate (Triassic); The Roads of Trelech: Investigation of the Development of the Medieval Town; Monmouthshire Journeys: The Visits to Monmouthshire of Sarah Eardley-Wilmot (Nee Haslam) in 1795 and 1802; Kingshill, Newport. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents fine.

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PICTURE-BOOK WORLD
Written by Bettina Hurlimann; Brian W. Alderson.
Stock no. 1705877
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Modern picture-books for children from twenty-four countries with a bio-biographical supplement by Elizabeth Waldmann. Colour illustrations. 216 pages. Board edges worn with bumped corners. Ink stamps to prelims. Wrapper faded and grubby with edge-creasing and chipping.

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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CARDIFF
Written by Brian Ll. James; S.M. Romaya.
Stock no. 1705876
Published by Survey Of Cardiff. 1st 1989. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. 49 pages. ISBN: 0951388606. A few marks to covers.

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MASTERWORKS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE VOLUME 1
Written by Francelia Butler; et al.
Stock no. 1705875
Published by Chelsea House Publishers; The Stonehill Publishing Company. 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Early Years C. 1550- c. 1739. Volume one ONLY. ISBN: 0877543755. Publisher Allen Lane Stickers added with additional ISBN of 0713916966. Wrapper grubby.

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