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LOCUST
Written by Jeffery A. Lockwood.
Stock no. 1802966
Published by Basic Books. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier. Black paper spine with gilt title, light tan paper boards. xxiii and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 0738208949. Top & tail of spine bumped, lower corners bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is lightly creased at top & tail of spine and a little scuffed.

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THE WHISTLERS' ROOM
Written by Paul Alverdes.
Stock no. 1203162
Published by Martin Secker. 1929. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with dark titles. Spine and cover edges browned. Name in ink to front endpaper. Reprint in same year as 1st.

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REVISION DER INDO-AUSTRALISCHEN OPIINAE
Written by Max Fischer.
Stock no. 1802933
Published by The Hague. 1st 1966. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Series Entomologica Volume 1. Text in German. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. vi and 167 pages including index. A fine copy in a white pictorial wrapper which is a little grubby and worn at corners.

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THE EARTH DWELLERS
Written by Erich Hoyt.
Stock no. 1802932
Published by Mainstream Publishing. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Adventures in the Land of Ants. Set in the nature reserve of La Selva in Costa Rica, this title illuminates the lives of individual ants, allowing them to lead us into their vivid and complex world. Green boards, silver title to spine. 318 pages including index. Colour plates & b/w illustrations. Original published in American by Simon & Schuster in 1996. ISBN: 1840180870. Overall a nice copy, but with some ink annotations to margins In a pictorial wrapper which is lightly edge-creased.

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THE BROADS (NN 89)
Written by Brian Moss.
Stock no. 1802930
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

New Naturalist No. 89. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour and b/w photos. 392 pages including index. ISBN: 0007124104. Lower edge of text block a little bumped to first section of contents. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. Contents fine.

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THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Written by Jon Lake.
Stock no. 1601245
Published by Silverdale Books. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial glazed boards, white title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 256 pages. ISBN: 1856055353. Base of spine scuffed with some surface loss.

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1000 CIVIL AIRCRAFT IN COLOUR
Written by Gerry Manning.
Stock no. 1802883
Published by Midland Publishing. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition.

The aim of this book is to show the range of liveries to be seen on civil aircraft operating commercial or special services. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. 159 pages. Full of colour photos of aircraft. ISBN: 185780208X. Corners lightly rubbed, contents fine.

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AIR DATES
Written by L.G.S. Payne.
Stock no. 1802878
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A chronological survey of the principal events in the fields of military and civil aviation in Great Britain and abroad, beginning in 1783 with balloon ascents in Paris, and ending on 31 December 1956. The major part of this work focuses on 1939-1956. Pale blue boards, black title to spine. 565 pages including index. Base of spine lightly rubbed, light browning to endpapers. Contents clean. Price-cut yellow dustwrapper is faded at spine and grubby.

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GOING FOREIGN - VFR
Written by James Allan.
Stock no. 1802876
Published by Robert Pooley Ltd.. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

Visual Flight Rules (VFR) - flying performed on he basis of "see and be seen" so far as collision avoidance is concerned. Blue glazed boards. viii and 143 pages including index. ISBN: 0902037102. A few light marks to boards where labels have been removed. Contents fine.

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AIRCRAFT WEAPONRY OF TODAY
Written by Roy Braybrook.
Stock no. 1802871
Published by Foulis; Haynes. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An international survey in which each category of weapon is comprehensively and comprehensibly explained, evaluated, and compared and its development placed in historical and political context. Grey glazed boards. B/w and colour photos. 166 pages. ISBN: 0854296344. A few small marks to cover, small bump to lower edge of front board. Contents fine. Matching pictorial grey wrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

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THE LEADING EDGE
Written by Walter J. Boyne.
Stock no. 1802870
Published by Macdonald Orbis. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A history of the new ideas in aviation technology and the gains we have realized because of them. Blue cloth boards, red title to spine, embossed title to front. Colour photos. 231 pages including index. ISBN: 0356143287. Small mark to lower edge of front endpaper. Contents fine. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is lightly browned.

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U.S. NAVAL AVIATION A MILITARY PHOTO LOGBOOK VOLUME 1
Written by Dennis R. Jenkins.
Stock no. 1802860
Published by Speciality Press. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

The first in a series of photo scrapbooks using images taken by Navy photographers with unparalleled access to facilities and aircraft around the world. Blue pictorial cardwraps. 120 pages. ISBN: 9781580071147. Corners lightly rubbed and creased. Contents fine.

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