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FASTI HEREFORDENSES AND OTHER ANTIQUARIAN MEMORIALS OF HEREFORD
Written by Francis T. Havergal. Illustrated by G.C. Haddon.
Stock no. 2123314
1869. Good condition.

Large format. Brown leather cloth with raised bands to spine and gilt titles, blind patterns to covers. Heavy bumping and wear to corners. Some scuffing and marks. Damp marks to bottom edges of a few pages. Some foxing.

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NEWPORT RUGBY GREATS
Written by Alan Roderick.
Stock no. 2123308
Published by Handpost Books. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0951521357. Creasing to bottom corner of rear cover. Contents are excellent.

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ENID BLYTON PRESENTS MARY MOUSE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Olive F. Openshaw.
Stock no. 2123306
Published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

A Werner Laurie Show Book Series A No. 2. Oblong format. Colour pictorial boards. A brilliantly coloured showbook, based on the Victorian Peepshow. Fold-out theatre at the end of the book and pages of characters to press out. Contents are UNUSED! Wear to cover edges; bumping to top of spine and to pages internally. Some browning. A few page margins have small bumps. Push out pieces are all still present and lovely and bright.

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A COLLECTION OF RIGHT MERRIE GARLANDS FOR NORTH COUNTRY ANGLERS
Written by Joseph Crawhall.
Stock no. 2123304
Published by George Rutland. 1864. Almost very good condition.

Green leather spine. Red cloth. And continued to this present year. Fifity copies printed on large paper. B/w illustrations. Words and music. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Scuffing to leather spine, with a bit of chipping. Bookplates to prelims. Browning and foxing to outer page edges.

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A TROUBLESOME TRIO
Written by Annie Beatley.
Stock no. 1407105
Published by The National Sunday School Union. 2nd Slightly better than good condition.

Red pictorial cloth, yellow title to front, black to spine. 4 b/w plates. 248 pages. No date. Bumping and rubbing to spine and corners. Spine and board edges faded. Covers slightly grubby. Joints cracked. Some of the hinges badly cracked. Name stamped to front endpaper and inscription to half-title page. Foxing mainly to page edges. Plates all present but one is wrinkled at hinge and another has a mark at the bottom.

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HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN NORWAY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1208692
Published by John Murray. 9th 1897. Almost very good condition.

Ninth Edition Revised with Maps and Plans. Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Pocket for map inside front cover. All maps and plans present. Map in front pocket has a small mark and tear to margin but no loss. Rear pocket contains Murray's Hand-Book to Norway Cycling Routes, Grammar and Vocabulary. Spine browned. Covers marked. Inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Name and date in ink on verso of front endpaper. Contents clean.

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HANDBOOK FOR NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND RUTLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1208690
Published by John Murray. 1st 1878. Good condition.

Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles. With Map. A Murray's Guide. Map in rear pocket present and complete without tears. Covers marked. Spine browned with wear and small split at top. Joints cracked. Tear to lower edge of front endpaper. Name and date in ink to half-title page. Foxspots to prelims else contents clean. A sound copy of the first edition.

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VICTORIANS ABROAD
Written by John S. Goodall. Illustrated by John S. Goodall.
Stock no. 1407097
Published by Atheneum. 1st USA 1981. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small oblong format. Blue cloth with red titles. Colour illustrations throughout. No text. 5.5 x7" ISBN: 0689501919. Small bump to side of boards. Pictorial wrapper is slightly edge rubbed. Spine is faded. A few light foxspots to verso.

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DON'T TELL THE GROWN-UPS
Written by Alison Lurie.
Stock no. 1407094
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Subversive Children's Literature. A collection of essays looking at children's classics. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine. 229 pages. ISBN: 0747506035. Small bump to bottom of front board. Small white mark to top of rear board. Small mark to side of text block. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed

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KING GRISLY-BEARD
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1507591
Published by The Bodley Head. 1991. Very good condition.

A Tale From the Brothers Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor. Green pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 037002026X. Fading to spine and some cover edges.

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THE BEAR NOBODY WANTED
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg.
Stock no. 1507579
Published by Viking. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author's own version of a story he loved as a child. Brown cloth, black titles. Brown endpapers. B/w illustrations. 142 pages. ISBN: 0670839825. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Tiny black spot to front cover. Small amount of erased writing to half-title page. Just an odd fox spot. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a couple of small marks.

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ISLANDS IN TIME: ISLAND SOCIOGEOGRAPHY AND MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY
Written by Mark Patton.
Stock no. 1814260
Published by Routledge. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. The prehistory of the Mediterranean and an explanation of the effects of isolation on the development of human communities. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. x and 213 pages including index. ISBN: 0415126592. Boards clean. Name in ink to front pastedown. Pencil erasure marks to half-title page. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby. Contents clean.

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