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BILLY BUNTER'S BANKNOTE
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by R.J. Macdonald.
Stock no. 1503734
Published by Charles Skilton. 1st 1948. Slightly better than good condition.

How did it come about that Bunter, never famous for possessing cash, was one day waving a ten-pound note around asking someone to change it?? Pale blue boards with dark blue titles to spine and front cover. Colour frontis + b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine and part of front cover faded and browned. Covers grubby. Front joint and one hinge starting to crack. Foxing, mainly to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Contents very good.

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BOM GOES TO HO HO VILLAGE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by R. Paul-Hoye.
Stock no. 1403319
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1958. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Bom Book 4. Pictorial boards and spine. Colour illustrations. 61 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Board edges a little rubbed. Erased pencil marks to the top corner of the front endpaper. Stitching to first gathering is a little loose. One hinge a little cracked. A few grubby margin marks otherwise contents are generally clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and badly creased with a few tears. Sellotape to top edge of wrapper and covering tear between front panel and flap. Small piece of sellotape at bottom of spine. Wrapper is grubby and a little browned.

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WINGLESS EAGLE U.S. ARMY AVIATION THROUGH WORLD WAR I
Written by Herbert A. Johnson.
Stock no. 2115638
Published by Chapel Hill. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0807826278. Bumping to top and tail of spine. Wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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SUBEDAR TO FIELD MARSHAL
Written by Partap Narain.
Stock no. 2115610
Published by Manas Publications. 1st INDIA 1999. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This book is on Indianisation of the armed forces, the civil and police services. ISBN: 8170490723. Wrapper flaps are stuck to pastedowns (possibly when published). A few grubby marks and creasing to edges of wrapper.

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SAN FRANCISCO PORT OF GOLD
Written by William Martin Camp.
Stock no. 2115605
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1948. Very good condition.

Dark green cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Bumping to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front free endpaper. Some foxing.

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MAJOR DEFENCE OPERATIONS SINCE 1947
Written by Ranbir Singh.
Stock no. 2115595
Published by Ocean Boos Pvt. Ltd. 1st 2005. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. B/w photos. The Book covers the four major wars with Pakistan besides the operations taken for integration of the states. ISBN: 8188322679. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Wrapper is edge-creased with some grubby marks and a couple of nicks.

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THROUGH STORMY SEAS SOME OF THE SPIRITUAL CRISES IN MY LIFE AFLOAT
Written by E.G. Carre.
Stock no. 2115579
Published by Pickering & Inglis Ltd.. 2nd 1939. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, black title to spine. B/w photos. Some light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-tears and chips - 1" loss to top f spine.

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BOM AND HIS MAGIC DRUMSTICK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by R. Paul-Hoye.
Stock no. 1403313
Published by Brockhampton Press. Slightly better than good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Colour pictures throughout. Bom book no. 2. 61 pages. Spine bumped and worn. Top and bottom of spine missing. Small split between spine and rear cover. Corners are worn. Covers are grubby. Names in child's writing to belongs to box. Small closed tear to the bottom of one page. Pink line at hinge between two pages - probably printing error. A few light grubby marks otherwise contents are clean.

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DIE DEUTSCHEN SEGELSCHULSCHIFFE
Written by Gerhard Koop.
Stock no. 1810221
Published by Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

'The German Sail Training Ships'. Text in German. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 3763758607. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded at spine and has a closed tear to top rear edge (no loss).

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FOUR FOOTED FAVOURITES
Written by Mrs. Surr. Illustrated by Giacomelli.
Stock no. 1314229
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial paperwraps. 4 full-page chromolithograph illustrations. New staples along spine edge. Covers slightly grubby with light creasing at edges. Some slight colour transfer from the illustrations but otherwise the contents are clean.

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FLYING SAIL
Written by Michael E. Ulyatt.
Stock no. 1810213
Published by Bradley Publications Of Hull. 1975. Very good condition.

The Humber Keel and Sloop. Cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. A stapled booklet. 45 pages. Browning to covers and a few grubby marks. Foxing to text block. Light crease to vertical margins.

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TIM'S FRIEND TOWSER
Written by Edward Ardizzone. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1314218
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format, Pink pictorial boards, blue spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Ex-Lib (school) with a couple of ink library stamps to front free-endpaper. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Light musty smell to contents and some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Dustwrapper is price-cut with new price sticker above, slightly edge worn with small piece of loss to base of spine.

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