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DARE TO DREAM: THE JOHN BRITTEN STORY
Written by Felicity Price.
Stock no. 1330680
Published by Hazard Press Limited. 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The man, the family, and the friends who made the dream of winning the world's toughest motorcycle races come true. Oblong format. Black boards. 143 pages. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 1877270504. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and has a small 'cancer research' sticker to front panel.

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HOW TO RESTORE TRIUMPH TR4 & TR4A (ENTHUSIAST'S RESTORATION MANUAL)
Written by Roger Williams.
Stock no. 1330679
Published by Veloce Publishing Limited. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Foreword by Bill Piggott. Complete guide to all aspects of restoration. Cardwraps. 192 pages. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 1903706041. Covers are edge worn. Old barcode label to rear cover. Some page corner tips lightly creased. Half title-page is slightly grubby. Includes an Errata sheet loosely inserted.

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CROZ: LARRIKIN BIKER
Written by Graeme Crosby.
Stock no. 1330678
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Ltd. 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

In 1979 Graeme Crosby arrived in Britain with his worldly possessions in a carry-bag. Four years later 'Croz' as he is affectionately known to millions of fans, walked away from the glamour world of world championship Grand Prix racing, taking with him a bag full of trophies and his ever-present sense of humour... Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 9781869508579. SIGNED by Croz by means of a dedication to title-page. Slight rubbing to spine and corners.

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SUZUKI TWO-STROKES
Written by Roy Bacon.
Stock no. 1330677
Published by Niton Publishing. 1st thus 1997. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

All Two-Stroke Singles, Twins and Triples (plus RE5) 1952 to 1979. B/w photos. Originally published by Osprey Publishing Limited in 1984. ISBN: 1855790327. Spine and corners bumped and cover edges rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small tears at corners.

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ROSAMUND'S TUCK-SHOP
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1330676
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

The 25th title in the famous Abbey series, originally published in 1936. Complete and unabridged. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour frontis. 183 pages. ISBN: 190441706X. Spine is faded and spine edge of rear cover. Creasing to spine edges where the covers have been held open to read the book. Light marks to textblock else contents clean.

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THE CRICKET TERM
Written by Antonia Forest.
Stock no. 1330675
Published by Puffin Books; Penguin Books Ltd. 1st thus 1979. Almost very good condition.

It is busy summer again at Kingscote School. Nicola Marlow is coaching her team with a steely determination to beat the senior girls in the inter-form cricket cup, and her twin sister Lawrie is just as determined to get the part she really wants in the school play. A Puffin paperback. Pictorial cardwraps. 255 pages. ISBN: 0140311378. Half title-page is almost detached (but still present). Wear to top of spine. Some light rubbing and creasing to cover edges. Contents are lightly browned but otherwise clean.

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ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN'S TEXTS AND CULTURES
Written by Nina Goga; Lykke Guanio-Uluru; Bjorg Oddrun Hallas; Aslaug Nyrnes.
Stock no. 1330674
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2018. Very good condition.

Critical Approaches to Children's Literature series. This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. Pictorial boards. 209 pages. ISBN: 9783319904962. Joint between colophon and contents is cracked else contents fine. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed.

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THE FEMININE SUBJECT IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs.
Stock no. 1330673
Published by Routledge. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Proposing a new paradigm of readership - irrespective of the sexual identity of the actual reader - that is deeply informed by the consciousness and unconsciousness of language, and demonstrates how feminist analysis can open bold new textual possibilities for children's literature. Pictorial boards. 201 pages. ISBN: 0415929962. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

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INDEX TESTACEOLOGICUS, AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHELLS
Written by W Wood; Sylvanus Hanley. Illustrated by W. Wood.
Stock no. 1209003
Published by Willis And Sotheran. 1st thus 1856. Almost very good condition.

Containing about 2800 figures accurately coloured after nature. A New and Entirely revised edition with ancient and modern appellations, synonyms, localities, etc, etc. Three-quarter green leather binding with marbled paper boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt title and decorative tooling. 46 exquisite handcoloured plates. Top edge gilt. Ex-library with usual stamps. Leather spine & corners rubbed and worn with some removal of surface leather. Couple of patches of loss of leather to base of spine. Small patch of surface paper loss to front board and front pastedown. Front joint split, rear joint starting to crack but binding is tight. Some joints pulled. A few scattered foxspots to contents. All plates present, plate 35 has small closed tear (no loss) to top margin. Overall, a nice copy.

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A DISSERTATION ON THE UNIVERSE IN GENERAL AND ON THE PROCESSION OF THE ELEMENTS IN PARTICULAR
Written by Richard Saumarez.
Stock no. 1209002
Published by T. Egerton; C. Dilly, In The Poultry. Circa 1830. Very good condition.

The author was a surgeon and member of the Company of Surgeons. Includes Annual Oration to the council and fellows of the Medical Society of London dated 1813; and A Letter on the Evil Effects of Abesenteeism; being an answer to Hastings Elwin Esq dated 1829. A Dissertation on the Universe in General is dated 1795. Green leather spine and corners, gilt title to spine. Marbled paper sides and red speckled text block. Not illustrated. Edges of boards rubbed, leather spine & corners rubbed. Top half of marbled front board faded. Free endpapers heavily browned. One or two foxspots and some pencil annotation else remarkably clean for it's age. 'A Letter...' has top diagonal corner torn away from title page (not affecting text) and page behind the loss is browned in the same area.

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HALF HOURS WITH A NATURALIST: RAMBLES NEAR THE SHORE (THE HALF HOUR LIBRARY)
No author listed.
Stock no. 1209001
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Limited. Circa 1911. Good condition.

The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers. Full olive green calf leather binding with Heath Mount Hampstead vignette to front, burgundy title block with gilt title and 5 raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and text block. B/w illustrations. xii and 340 pages. Spine is lightly browned and has a few patches of loss to leather. Heavy dampstaining affecting boards, prelims to page 1, and lower edge of last few pages. Prize inscription to front fly leaf dated 1911.Front joint split between fly leaf and half-title page but binding still tight. Some light top corner creasing. Contents otherwise generally clean.

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EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE
Written by P.H. Gosse.
Stock no. 1209000
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1874. Very good condition.

Or, Researches Amond the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life. A New Edition, Revised and Annotated. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and vignettes. B/w illustrations to text. xii and 422 pages including index plus 4 pages of publisher adverts to rear. Joints cracked and slightly pulled. Text block browned with a few minor foxspots. a few grubby marks to boards. Faint inscription in ink to top of black front endpaper. Name in ink to top of title page. A few scattered foxspots to contents.

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