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SUNDAY READING FOR THE YOUNG 1904
Written by E.W. Grierson; S.L. Heward; Bessie Marchant; et al. Illustrated by Gordon Browne; A.G. Walker; Helen Miles; et al..
Stock no. 1315246
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. 1904. Very good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows boy and girl on steps of a house talking to a man with a wooden leg. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. First story is "How The King Escaped". Spine bumped, corners and cover edges lightly rubbed. A few scuff marks to front cover. Prize inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Some foxing to textblock.

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DOOMED FLIGHT
Written by J. Railton Holden.
Stock no. 2119169
Published by Newnes. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with black title to spine. This thriller-of-the-air is set around the Suez Canal zone, with heroes 'Spider' Stockwell and 'Nugget' Willis, members of the Air Intelligence branch of the Australian Expeditionary Force. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Front joint a bit cracked. Some foxing. Contained in a colour PHOTOCOPY wrapper.

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MOTHER GOOSE
No author listed. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1315243
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1922. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with black titles and colour vignettes to front cover and spine, colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 12 colour plates mounted onto plain captioned paper. B/w text illustrations throughout. 159 pages. Spine bumped, some fading and browned at base. A few tiny nicks to cover edges. Name plate and small sticker (J.6.) to front pastedown. 1st colour plate (frontis) is missing, 11 remaining. Light foxing and fingering else contents clean. Closed tears to the bottom of a couple of pages.

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ABSEITS DER MAGISTRALEN
Written by Markus Krause.
Stock no. 2119158
Published by Kosler Verlag Koln. 1987. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Photographic boards. Landliche Eisenbahnnebenstrecken Heute. Eine Zeitgeschichtliche Photodokumentation. Text in German. ISBN: 3924208050. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of closed tears, repaired to verso with sticky tape; edge-browned.

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VASUTHISTORIA EVKONYV 1991
No author listed.
Stock no. 2119144
Published by Kozdok. 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Dark cloth with gilt title to front cover. Text is in Hungarian. B/w photos. This is a Trains History Yearbook. Book has an invalid ISBN listed of 9789999045315. Bumping to corners. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few nicks.

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WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Wal Paget.
Stock no. 1315237
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1898. Good condition.

Red pictorial cloth, gilt. Edges olive green. Grey endpapers. 12 b/w plates plus 1 map and 7 battle-field plans. 384 pages + 32 pages booklist. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Illustrations to spine and front cover rubbed away slightly. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to contents throughout and light page browning to the catalogue pages at rear.

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PRINCIPLES OF DYNAMICS
Written by Rodney Hill.
Stock no. 1811331
Published by Pergamon Press. 1st 1964. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Presenting dynamics as a classic model of the scientific theory. Red cloth, blue title block to spine with gilt title. viii and 191 pages including index. Corners slightly bumped. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby.

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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 1811329
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Boards lightly mottled at edges. Text block a little grubby. 1.5cm x 6.5cm cut from top of front endppaer. Minor foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Boards slightly bowed.

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THE PARTICLE PLAY: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER
Written by J.C. Polkinghorne.
Stock no. 2119117
Published by W.H. Freeman and Company. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Written for the layman. It unfolds a tale which starts with the deceptively simple days of the early 1930s, through the tide of discovery which flowed from the giant machines constructed for accelerating particles, to the present concern with the quark structure of matter and the unification of fundamental interactions. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 138 pages including index. ISBN: 071671177X. A very nice copy with dustwrapper.

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OUR VILLAGE
Written by Mary Russell Mitford. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson; Alfred Rawlings.
Stock no. 2119098
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1910. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth, gilt titles and gilt shepherd vignette to front cover. 16 tipped-in colour plates by Rawlings. Numerous b/w illustrations by Thomson. Top edge gilt. Covers are unevenly browned. A few chips and nicks at cloth; with a little fraying in places. Plate to opposite page 27 is MISSING (mounting card and tissue-guard are still present, but plate no longer there). Some foxing and page browning.

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MOTHER GOOSE
No author listed. Illustrated by Laura Larcombe.
Stock no. 2119085
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. Circa 1918. Good condition.

A Dean's Rag Book. Colour illustrations and quite large print. Front cover is pretty faded. Some creasing. Brown marks/spotting/mottling to all pages. Odd fray of cloth at edges.

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SUCH FUN
Written by Norman Gale; Grace C. Floyd; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2119056
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Father Tuck's 'Children's Own' Library. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations by Wain throughout - all pussy cats! Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Scuffing and chipping along cover edges. Front board is a little bowed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and grubby marks, mostly to endpapers and page margins.

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