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Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd., 1956. Book. Illus. by Kenney, John. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 18 x 12cm. numerous colour & illustrations. Original dust jacket near fine with a little rubbing to the spine ends, list of 1 previous title to the rear flap, not price clipped, priced 2'6 net, now protected in a removeable sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, ladybird patterned front free endpapers, inscriptions to the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket..

Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd., 1956. Book. Illus. by Kenney, John. Fine. Hardcover. 18 x 12cm. numerous colour & illustrations. Original dust jacket near fine with a little rubbing to the spine ends, list of 11 previous titles to the rear flap, not price clipped, priced 2'6 net, now protected in a removeable sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, ladybird patterned front free endpapers, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy in a near fine jacket..

Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd., 1963. Book. Illus. by Kenney, John. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 18 x 12cm. numerous colour & illustrations. Original dust jacket very good with a little rubbing to the spine ends, list of previous title to the rear flap ticked in crayon, not price clipped, priced 2'6 net,. Hard back binding very good. Contents clean and tight, map design to front free endpapers, name and address neatly to imprint page. A very good copy in a very good jacket..

London: Roger Schlesinger R. H. S. (Publications) Ltd., 1969. Book. Illus. by Mihel, Merrily. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 16mo. colour illustrations by Merrily Mihel throughout. Original dust jacket very good, with minimal wear only, price-clipped. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, neat gift inscription dated 1970 to the front free end paper. A very good clean copy. Scarce.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo. 103pp. The boards are a little marked with a little wear to the lower corners and a slight lean. The dust jacket is a little soiled and has a few short tears (repaired with archival tape - a reversible process) and a little chipping to the top of the spine with very small loss. Intenally clean and fresh, no inscriptions or sigs, joints very good..

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1870. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong 4to. No date but Copac cites 1870. Pp. [4], 83, [1]. Fine hand-coloured tinted lithographic frontispiece plate with 19 further hand-coloured tinted lithographic plates, representing Animal and plant life of different parts of the world. Each plate with a blank guard leaf. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering, very good with a little general wear and rubbing, very small professional repair to the cloth at the head of the spine. Contents clean and tight, original yellow coated end papers, slight spotting to frontispiece plate otherwise unmarked without inscriptions, small repaired tear to the corner of the plate of The great African desert, first gatherings slightly out of line but binding remains tight. A very good copy. The tinted hand-coloured illustrations in this work are superb: it is shame that the artist and lithographer are not credited..

London: The Boy Scouts Association in Conjunction with Evans Brothers Limited, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (25 x 31cm). A very good copy. 84 pages; colour and b/w illustrations. Original tan cloth with blue lettering and decoration, very good with light wear only, single very small point of wear at the base of the front joint, cloth slightly marked. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions, no notes no photographs. A very good copy with an exceptionally clean interior..

London: Sampson Low Book. Very Good. Paperback. 16mo. 40 pages, b/w illustrations. Original colour pictorial wrappers, very good with slight wear and a few marks only. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy..

London: Collins, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. An undated edition in blue cloth. 311 pages, b/w frontispiece plate. Original binding with gilt lettering, very good. Contents clean and tight, top edges blue, unmarked. A very good copy..

London: The Daily Herald, 1930. Book. Illus. by McLaren, D.. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Large 8vo. 64 pages, red tinted & b/w illustrations. Printed red and black covers good with some general wear and rubbing, a little marked, tear to lower spine. Contents clean and tight, minimal pencil inscriptions, short tear to lower spine of first page. A good to very good copy, complete..

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. B/w portrait frontispiece, b/w plates. Original blue cloth binding with gitl and red lettering, bevelled boards, a little general wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, bookplate to front paste-down. A very good copy..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1927. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 471, b/w frontispiece, other b/w plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Original pictorial cloth binding decorated in orange and black, minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, neat contemporary inscription, no foxing or spotting. A very good copy to fine copy..

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (19 x 25cm). b/w and colour illustrations throughout, pictorial end-papers. Original yellow cloth binding with brown lettering, very good with a little general wear and rubbing, no fading. Contents clean and tight, a few pages lightly creased no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Collins, 1934. Book. Illus. by Jackson, A. E.. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. A very scarce title - according to Copac no libraries in the UK have a copy. And this copy with the original jacket too. Not dated but gift inscription dated xmas 1934. Unpaginated, 8 plates in colour after A. E. Jackson, Warwick Goble and others; b/w in-text illustrations. Dust jacket with colour on-lay to the front board, good with a little general wear and some rubbing to edges, lightly chipped/stained to head/tail of the spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Original blue cloth hard-back binding with gilt lettering and gilt vignette of a knight, very good and bright with a small light stain to the head of the spine. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy with a good dust jacket..

London: Collins, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. A very scarce title - according to Copac no libraries in the UK have a copy. And this copy with the original jacket too. Not dated but circa 1930s.. Unpaginated, 8 plates in colour after P. B. Hickling, Victor Prout and others; b/w in-text illustrations. Dust jacket with colour on-lay to the front board, good with a little general wear and some rubbing to edges, lightly chipped/scuffed to the head/tail of the spine, light staining in a couple of places (which also lightly affects the boards) not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Original blue cloth hard-back binding with gilt lettering and gilt vignette of a viking, good. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy with a good dust jacket..

London: Collins, 1934. Book. Illus. by Jackson, A. E.; Anderson, Anne. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. Large 8vo. A scarce title, no date but Copac cites 1922. And this copy with the original jacket too. Unpaginated, 8 plates in colour after A. E. Jackson, Anne Anderson and others; b/w in-text illustrations. Dust jacket with colour on-lay to the front board, with a little general wear and some rubbing to edges, lightly chipped to head of the spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Original blue cloth hard-back binding with gilt lettering and gilt vignette of three children reading, very good with a little general wear, lower edge lightly bumped. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy with a very good dust jacket..

London: Hutchinson, 1966. Book. Illus. by Ambrus, Victor G.. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust jacket with a little edge-wear and a few small marks, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1918. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large 8vo (15.5 X 19.5 cm). No date but neat gift inscription dated 1918; the plates are dated 1909. 95 pages + adverts; 8 full-page colour plates (all present and correct), artist not credited. Red cloth boards with decoration and gilt lettering, colour on-lay to the front board; binding very good with a little general wear and light rubbing to edges, corners slightly knocked. Contents clean and tight, patterned end papers. A very good copy. Part of the Nelson's Fireside Library..

London: Heinemann, 1961. Book. Illus. by Meredith, Helen. Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 4to Oblong. 30 pages, illustrated throughout. Original dust jacket good with a little wear and rubbing to edges, a few short nicks and /very small chips, lower part of rear panel with some soiling, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Hardback binding very good, rear board with a stain. Contents clean and tight, end paper very slightly marked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. London: Oxford / Humphrey Milford, 1933. Black cloth, stamped decoratively in white and green in a deco fashion. Very good, no inscriptions, no foxing, lacks dust jacket, assuming it was published with one. An excellent copy of a rare book..