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BOTH SIDES THE BORDER
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Ralph Peacock.
Stock no. 591118
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower. Navy blue and brown pictorial cloth, gilt. All edges green. 12 b/w plates. 384 pages + 32 pages booklist. Some slight foxing to contents. Top and tail of spine bumped. Small scratch to front cover. Bookplate to front pastedown. All plates present. A nice bright copy.

Price: £85.00 £63.75.

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ENGLISH SPAS
Written by William Addison.
Stock no. 591144
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1951. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Dustwrapper: corners rubbed.

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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING
Written by Lord Houghton. Illustrated by Walter Severn.
Stock no. 739083
Published by Day & Son. Circa 1880. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Purple embossed cloth with gilt title and decoration to front. Attractive illustrations with decorated text and paper guards. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Previous owner's name and date and ink to front endpaper. A couple of hinges cracked. Some light foxing but contents generally bright and clean.

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AN ANTIQUARIAN SURVEY OF EAST GOWER GLAMORGANSHIRE
Written by W. Ll. Morgan.
Stock no. 591014
Published by Chas. J. Clark. 1st 1899. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Top edge gilt. xvii + booklist + Parish of Llandilo Talybont opening page + 282 pages. Corners worn. A few ink stains to covers. Name in ink to verso of front endpaper.

Price: £70.00 £52.50.

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SERVICE AND SMASH
Written by H.W. Austin.
Stock no. 591020
Published by Flicker Productions Ltd.; Slazengers Ltd.. Circa 1935. Slightly better than good condition.

Flicker Book No. 10b. Green card wraps. Very small format, 7cm x 5cm. B/w photos showing Austin in action as you flick through the book. Covers grubby. Name in ink to inside front cover. Staple rusted. Images clean.

Price: £70.00 £52.50.

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THE CLEVER LITTLE TAILOR or SEVEN AT A BLOW
Written by Frederic B. Saywell. Illustrated by Herbert J. Harvey.
Stock no. 739032
Published by Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd.. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

White cloth spine with gilt title, decorated paper boards. 12 tipped-in colour plates mounted on grey captioned card. 56 pages. Top edge purple. Spine slightly bumped, corners lightly rubbed. Endpapers are lightly browned A couple of hinges are partly cracked. Some light marking to page margins but contents generally clean. Brown wrapper is slightly edge rubbed but clean.

Price: £58.00 £43.50.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 5 - THE BIG GAME HUNT
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 738993
Published by Daily Express. Good condition.

Rupert's Big Game Hunt and Rupert and the Banjo. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Cover edges rubbed and covers grubby. 1.5" split to base of spine. Contents are grubby and part detached at lower staple.

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YORKSHIRE BATTLES
Written by Edward Lamplough.
Stock no. 590896
Published by William Andrews & Co.. 1st 1891. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles, patterned onlays to front cover. Top edge gilt. 10 x 7.5". x + 232 pages including index + 8 page booklist. Contents very good. Covers unevenly faded. Top and bottom of spine rubbed.

Price: £50.00 £37.50.

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PLAYWAYS ANNUAL
Written by Enid Blyton; et al.
Stock no. 590933
Published by Playways Office. Very good condition.

Orange cloth spine. Colour pictorial front board shows children playing on a mat, pretending it's a boat. Colour plates. Two-tone illustrations. With a long story by Enid Blyton 'The Saucy Jane Family'. A picture to paint partially completed. Light foxing to endpapers else contents fine. Corners rubbed.

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NOW WE ARE SIX
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 738962
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe edition bound in limp olive green morocco with gilt decorations to front cover and spine. Pink pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. All edges gilt. Spine is browned and worn. with slight loss to top. Edges are rubbed with slightly worn corners. Some light scuffing to rear cover. Previous owner's inscription in ink to half-title page. Tiny booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A couple of hinges slightly cracked, some light fingering to page margins. Very light browning to half-title page and light creasing to last page. Contents generally very clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1968
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 738976
Published by Daily Express. 1968. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert & chums watching large ball coming down from the sky. The last Rupert annual to include Magic Paintings. 10 x 7 inches. 115 pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners bumped and just slightly worn with small split to top of spine. Previous owner's name in ink to belongs to box. price-cut. Colouring (not water) to two of the magic paintings, the rest are untouched, top corner of last magic painting page torn out. Light foxing to outer page edges. One hinge pulled.

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