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JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK
Written by Hallam Tennyson. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329746
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1886. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, dark title to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. English Hexameters. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers grubby. Some hinges pulled but binding still tight. Some fingermarks to contents.

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WHAT THE BLACKBIRD SAID
Written by Mrs. Frederick Locker. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329745
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1881. Fair condition.

Blue pictorial cloth with gilt and red titles. B/w plates. 87 pages. Spinne and corners bumped and rubbed. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Centre hinge is broken causing pages 41-48 to be detached (but still present).

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AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329744
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1919. Very good condition.

Sung by Master Bill Primrose. Green boards, dark green titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 7 colour illustrations tipped onto brown paper. B/w illustrations and endpapers. Slight rubbing to cover edges and slight wear to spine ends. Neat name in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxing and fingering but generally contents clean.

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THE THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329743
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1919. Very good condition.

Grey boards, dark green titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 7 colour illustrations tipped onto brown paper. B/w illustrations and endpapers. 8.5 x 6.5". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some light foxing and fingering.

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COME LASSES AND LADS
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329742
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1915. Almost very good condition.

Pale green boards with dark green titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 6 colour illustrations mounted onto brown paper plus b/w illustrations and endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn, backstrip neatly relaid. Covers slightly grubby. Some foxing and light page browning. Small margin tear to rear free-endpaper.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK No. 2
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329741
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1919. Almost very good condition.

Containing: The Three Jovial Huntsment; Sing a Song For Sixpence; The Queen of Hearts; The Farmer's Boy. Beige pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations throughout. Page edges red. 9.5 x 8.25". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Small stains to lower edge of front cover. Rear cover is faded. Corners are slightly worn. Page 25/6 of Sing a Song for Sixpence is repaired with tape. Light creasing to front free-endpaper. Some light fingering else contents clean.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK No. 1
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329740
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1910. Good condition.

Containing The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack Built; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood. Square format. Pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. Decorated pale orange endpapers (publisher's motif?). Spine and corners bumped. Some small dents to cover edges and some scuffing and scratches to cloth. Covers a bit grubby. Inscriptions in ink to front free-endpaper (one crossed out). Front free-endpaper is creased. Front joint is cracked. Pages 23-26 of John Gilpin have been torn and now repaired with tape. A couple of the b/w illustrations have been coloured in with water-colour paint. There is some foxing throughout. A few small margin tears. Not as bad as it sounds, still a reasonable copy for a book that is over 100 years old!

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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
Written by W.A. Waterton.
Stock no. 1329739
Published by Grub Street. 1st thus 2012. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Story of a Chief test pilot and the perils of post-war test flying. First published in 1956 by Frederick Muller Ltd. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 201 pages. ISBN: 9781908117274. Light scratch mark to front cover.

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AGRICULTURAL TRADE UNIONISM IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1872-1950
Written by Nigel Scotland.
Stock no. 1329737
Published by The Centre For The Study Of Religion Cheltenham & Gloucester College Of Higher Education. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Tracing the emergence and growth of agricultural trade unionism in Gloucestershire during the period 1872-1950. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 238 pages (including index). Some b/w photos. ISBN: 0951736906. Minimal bumping to spine. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly creased to spine.

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THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY
Written by William Hogarth; Ronald Paulson.
Stock no. 1329736
Published by Paul Mellon Centre For British Art; Yale University Press. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited with an introduction by Paulson. Based on the first (and only) edition published during Hogarth's lifetime, incorporating his errata in the text, and correcting obvious errors. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. 162 numbered pages. B/w plates. ISBN: 0300073356. Spine bumped. Evidence of pencil erasure to front free-endpaper and some very light foxing to endpapers else contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased.

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VENICE
Written by James Morris.
Stock no. 1329735
Published by Faber & Faber. 1960. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A portrait of an eccentric city. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. B/w photos. Second impression of August 1960. Spine and corners bumped. Name and date in ink to half title-page. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly chipped.

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THE TORRINGTON DIARIES VOLUME ONE
Written by John Byng; Cyril Bruyn Andrews.
Stock no. 1329734
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1934. Very good condition.

This is volume one only. Edited by Andrews, with an introduction by Beresford. Grey cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 382 pages. Torrington family tree to rear of book. Spine and cover edges darkened. Spine bumped. Small, neat name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to textblock, pale page edge browning.

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