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CALIBAN'S HOUR
Written by Tad Williams.
Stock no. 438320
Published by Legend Books. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A stunning return to the magnificent isle of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Red boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0099263610. SIGNED by author on title page. Pictorial wrapper is edge-creased, with some light wear.

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THE FINISHING SCHOOL
Written by Pamela Brown.
Stock no. 438220
Published by John Goodchild. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Rosemary Langford was born in Singapore but was sent to school in England. Just before she was due to return to school in the Autumn of 1939 she had to spend three weeks in hospital in Singapore. War was declared and Rosemary's mother said she could go to finishing school in Switzerland when the war was over. The author's last book. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0863910580. Some light page browning to pages internally.

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DRAGON QUEST
Written by Allan Baillie. Illustrated by Wayne Harris.
Stock no. 438229
Published by Scholastic. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Oblong format. Colour illustrations. Be a hero and great warrior - hunting the last dragon! ISBN: 1863881190. SIGNED by author - 'Cheers Rebecca, good luck in finding the dragon!' with small knights helmet illustration. Spine and corners are bumped and worn, with a little chipping. A few indentation marks to covers. Binding is starting to come a little loose in places.

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SUMMER IS A FESTIVAL
Written by Pamela Brown.
Stock no. 438200
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

White boards, metalic red title to spine. For Bethany and the other students at Broomfields, the hightlight of the holidays was to be their performance at Camelyeard's Summer Festival... ISBN: 0340158379. Bumping along a couple of cover edges, with a little browning. A few pages internally have corner creases. Pictorial wrapper is bright with a little edge-creasing and a few wear marks to rear panel and corners.

Price: £85.00 £63.75.

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JEREMY'S DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 438207
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 401. Buff boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Bumping along couple of cover edges. Some light green pencil colouring to front endpaper. Free front endpaper has an extensive ink drawing of a person to it. Some of the b/w illustrations above text to text pages have the characters tails coloured with biro. Ink tick and cross marks to other ladybird titles page to rear of book. Pictorial wrapper has ink underlining to titles on rear flap, edge-tear to front flap, and a few other smaller edge-tears and nicks. Name in pencil written across front of front panel. A few other smaller marks to wrapper. Overall, still a good copy of this scarce item.

Price: £64.00 £48.00.

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DAYS IN CATLAND
Written by Arthur Burnaby. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 627756
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1912. Good condition.

A Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong format. 4 plates in concertina form that fold out to create a large panorama with 14 numbered card figures of cats, and corresponding numbered slits in the panorama to insert the cat figures. On the reverse is a rhyme by Arthur Burnaby with b/w illustrations also by Wain. Concertina folds worn leading to two pages being detached and last page fold fragile but holding. Edges rubbed. All figures present and in place. Light page bronwing. Colour illustrations and figures nice and bright.

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YOUR DOG
Written by John Cree.
Stock no. 806809
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st thus 1996. Nearly fine condition.

A Guide to Solving Behaviour Problems. First published as 'Your Problem Dog' in 1991 by Pelham books. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Fully revised and reset. ISBN: 1852239549. Covers very lightly scuffed. Contents as new.

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EIGENSCHAFTEN DER MATERIE IN IHREN AGGREGATZUSTANDEN 2 TEIL
Written by Klaus Schafer; Ellen Lax.
Stock no. 806836
Published by Springer. 1960. Almost very good condition.

Bandteil a Gleichgewichte Dmpf-Kondensat Und Osmotiche Phanomene. Large format. Grey cloth, red title labels with gilt titles. 974 pages. Book: Ex-lib. Minimal stamps. Contents fine. Library label to front cover.

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BATH MILLENIUM
Written by Barbara G. Stone.
Stock no. 806614
1973. Fine condition.

The Christian Movement 973-1973. Red pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. ----

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THE SHOW BORDER COLLIE
Written by Joyce Collis.
Stock no. 806532
Published by Ringpress Books. 1st 1988. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

'Book of the Breed' series. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 094895535X. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-creased and has a few blind marks.

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THE MASTER OF MARYKNOLL
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Alice Bush.
Stock no. 806406
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An exciting story set in Ludlow and Hereford. Blue boards, gilt titles. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Endpapers are maps. 223 pages. Bumping to a couple of corners. Some browning along cover edges. Foxing to outer page edges and a few page margins. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis plate. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with a couple of small pieces of loss, to top of front panel and top and tail of spine. Grubby marks to rear panel; edge-creasing.

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