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BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER (CROWOOD AVIATION SERIES)
Written by Jerry Scutts.
Stock no. 1328578
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1861266669. Spine very slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is lightly edge creased.

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HAWKER TYPHOON, TEMPEST AND SEA FURY (CROWOOD AVIATION SERIES)
Written by Kev Darling.
Stock no. 1328577
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The full story of these important aircraft. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations plus a few colour. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 1861266200. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased and sunned to spine.

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LIBERATOR ALBUM B-24 LIBERATORS OF THE 2ND DIVISION USAAF
Written by Mike Bailey.
Stock no. 1328576
Published by Midland Publishing. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Grey boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1857800605. Spine slightly bumped with fading to top and tail of spine. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased, sunned to spine and has a tear to top edge of front panel.

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SUPERMARINE SEAFIRE (CROWOOD AVIATION SERIES)
Written by Kev Darling.
Stock no. 1328575
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Always overshadowed by its far more famous sibling, the Spitfire, the Seafire was an aircraft adapted in haste to fill a large gap in the Fleet Air Arm's fighter inventory... Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 9781861269904. Small bump to top of spine else a fine copy. Dustwrapper is just a little edge creased.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT MA100 - MZ999
Written by James J. Halley.
Stock no. 1328574
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1991. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851301940. Cover edges very lightly rubbed. Spine slightly sunned.

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THE HALIFAX FILE
Written by R.N. Roberts.
Stock no. 1328573
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1982. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851300987. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Light creasing to covers. Slight cracking to inside front joint and some light creases/marks to prelims.

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THE HAWKER HURRICANE
Written by Francis K. Mason.
Stock no. 1328572
Published by Crecy Publishing Limited. 2001. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. An illustrated history. ISBN: 0947554866. Minimal bumping to spine. Contents fine. Wrapper spine is slightly faded.

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STEALING SPEED: THE BIGGEST SPY SCANDAL IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY
Written by Mat Oxley.
Stock no. 1828849
Published by Haynes Publishing. 2010. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The remarkable true story of how one of Japan's biggest motorcycle manufacturers stole a Nazi rocket scientist's engine secrets from behind the Iron Curtain to win the motorcycle power race and conquer the world. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 240 pages including index. ISBN: 9781844256891. Light 'dint' to top front edge of spine. Page 35/36 has binding error whereby the page has creased before trimming so is slightly larger than it should be but does not notice with the crease, this crease has left a light impression to a couple of pages either side. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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A BURTON RAILWAYMAN
Written by David Fleming.
Stock no. 1828848
Published by David Fleming. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

Autobiography. Cardwraps. B/w photos. 388 pages. ISBN: 0955084709. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Covers edge-worn, creased at spine and rubbed to rear panel. Text block a little grubby. Last page has been taped back in with clear tape having come loose from the binding (neat).

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THE FLYING HORSES: TALES FROM CHINA
Written by Jo Manton; Robert Gittings. Illustrated by Derek Collard.
Stock no. 1828847
Published by Methuen Children's Books Ltd.. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Chinese stories taken from translations of Chinese history and literature, the dialogue and poems often embody and give substance to ancient Chinese sayings. They range in time from the earliest popular legends, which deal with the origins of the universe, to a twentieth-century account of the Revolution. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Full page b/w illustrations. 172 pages. ISBN: 041683440X. Text block lightly browned. Light browning to vertical edge of front endpaper and small foxspot else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and a little scuffed.

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THE RUGGED ROAD
Written by Theresa Wallach; Barry M. Jones.
Stock no. 1828845
Published by Panther Publishing. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition.

London to Cape Town overland by Panther Motorcycle and sidecar, pulling a trailer. No roads, no back up - just straight across the Sahara through equatorial Africa, and South to the Cape - in 1935.... Pictorial glazed boards. Introduction and biographies by Barry M. Jones. B/w photos. vi and 150 pages. ISBN: 0953509826. A lovely copy.

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RAILWAYS OF SUNDERLAND
Written by Neil T. Sinclair; et al.
Stock no. 1828844
Published by Tyne And Wear Museums. 2nd 1986. Very good condition.

Second revised edition. Slightly oblong format. Staple bound card wraps with orange title to front. B/w photos. 84 pages. ISBN: 090597428X. Orange titles to front cover partially faded. Inscription in ink to inside front cover. Name & date in ink to half-title page. Contents clean.

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