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Peter the Great (Critical Issues in History Ser) (Critical Issues in World and International History)

By: Bushkovitch, Paul

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: 2003

Seller ID: 017811

ISBN: 0847696391

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 187pp, index, chronology, notes. Softback, a VG clean tight copy. Signed and dated to 1/2 title, almost certainly by the author.
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Victorian Sketchbook

By: Bye, Ranulph / Richie, Margaret Bye (text)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Haverford House Inc: 1980

Seller ID: 018354

ISBN: 0910702047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 128pp, index, bibliography, glossary, 94 plates, many in colour. Gilt on red boards, small mark to front board, overall a VG clean tight copy in (short closed edge tear, slight fading to spine and adjacent edge, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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George Lawrence: An Illustrated Biography

By: Campbell, Jean

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Australia, Australian Artist Editions: 1980

Seller ID: 017963

ISBN: 0959839550

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

127pp, 45 colour plates plus pages from the artist's sketch books. Silver on blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in (slight edge rubbing, small surface loss) dustwrapper.
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Hank Williams: Country Music's Tragic King

By: Caress, Jay

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1979

Seller ID: 022745

ISBN: 0812825837

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 253pp, index, discography, 14pp illustrations. Quarter-bound in red cloth over grey boards, slight bumping to upper corners, general light ageing, a VG copy in a Good (spine faded, edge chipped with losses) dustwrapper.
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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books

By: Carey, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 2014

Seller ID: 022642

ISBN: 0571310923

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 361pp, index. Grey boards, VG in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author to title page, 'signed by the author' label to dustwrapper. 3rd impression.
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Image for Rembrandt Och Hans Tid (Rembrandt and His Age): : Människan i Centrum (Focus on Man). En Utstallning Ingaende I Nationalmuseums 200-Arsjubileum (Exhibition Catalogue)

Rembrandt Och Hans Tid (Rembrandt and His Age): : Människan i Centrum (Focus on Man). En Utstallning Ingaende I Nationalmuseums 200-Arsjubileum (Exhibition Catalogue)

By: Cavalli-Björkman, Görel

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Nationalmuseum: 1992

Seller ID: 018880

ISBN: 9171004165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

414pp, index, bibliography, illustrations, many in colour, 7 essays. Laminated pictorial boards, light wear only, very slight fading to spine, a VG clean tight copy. Essays in dual Swedish/English text, catalogue in Swedish only. Published for an exhibition 2 October 1992 - 6 January 1993.
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Oakwood Library of Railway History OL121: C.B. Collett: A Competent Successor

By: Chacksfield, John E

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2002

Seller ID: 030518

ISBN: 0853615861

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, bibliography, 7 appendices, drawings, black and white plates. Softback, VG.
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Oakwood Library of Railway History OL133: The Drummond Brothers. A Scottish Duo

By: Chacksfield, John E

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2005

Seller ID: 030519

ISBN: 0853616329

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

168pp, index, bibliography, 7 appendices, drawings, black and white plates. Softback, VG.
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Oakwood Library of Railway History OL151: Sir William McAlpine. A Tale of Locomotives, Carriages and Conservation

By: Chacksfield, John E

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2009

Seller ID: 030683

ISBN: 0853616884

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

120pp, index, bibliography, 2 appendices, black and white photographs. Softback, a VG copy.
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Tide-Race

By: Chamberlain, Brenda

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1962

Seller ID: 031262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

222pp, 4 colour plates, drawings, all by the author. Black boards, light wear, light ageing mainly to edges, a VG copy in (slightly edge rubbed, slight edge browning) dustwrapper. The story of life on an island six miles off the Welsh coast.
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Image for Lights and Shadows of Sailor Life As Exemplified in Fifteen Years' Experience Including The More Thrilling Events of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, and Reminiscences of An Eventful Life on the 'Mountain Wave'

Lights and Shadows of Sailor Life As Exemplified in Fifteen Years' Experience Including The More Thrilling Events of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, and Reminiscences of An Eventful Life on the 'Mountain Wave'

By: Clark, Joseph G

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, Books for Libraries Press: 1971

Seller ID: 030220

ISBN: 0836959744

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

324pp, index, illustrations. Brown boards, light wear, general light ageing, a VG copy without dustwrapper, probably as issued. A reprint of the 1847 1st edition.
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A Victorian Soldier: His Life and Times

By: Clark-Kennedy, AE

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Cambridge, John Bluff: 1980

Seller ID: 022041

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

204pp, limited first edition, notes, sources and bibliography, illustrated. Red boards, slight foxing mainly to page edges, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Clifford Coffin: Photographs from Vogue 1945-1955

By: Coffin, Clifford / Edited and with a Text By Robin Muir

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Art Data: 1997

Seller ID: 030070

ISBN: 0948835222

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, photographs throughout, some in colour. Published for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 13 June to 28 September 1997. Black cloth boards, VG in dustwrapper.
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Jess Stacy: The Quiet Man of Jazz

By: Coller, Derek

Price: £20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Jazzology Press: 1997

Seller ID: 018511

ISBN: 0963889044

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

296pp, cd in pocket at rear, indexes, discography, 12 appendices, illustrations. Softback, creasing to upper front corner of rear cover and adjacent pages, minor marking to edges, otherwise light reading wear only. A Good tight copy. Signed by author to 1/2 title: 'With Best Wishes, Derek Coller'.
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Memoirs of Admiral the Right Honble. Sir Astley Cooper Key

By: Colomb, Vice-Admiral PH

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1898

Seller ID: 017553

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

511pp, index, errata slip, frontispiece. Blue boards, gilt titling and decoration to spine, foxing mainly to endpapers, overall a near VG tight copy. Memoirs covering the early life of Cooper Key, and his naval exploits, including battles during the Anglo-French blockade of Rio de la Plata and the Crimean War, before becoming First Naval Lord in 1879.
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At Home in the World: Memoirs of a Traveling (Travelling) Woman

By: Conlon, Dorothy S.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Publishamerica: 2007

Seller ID: 020147

ISBN: 1413791603

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, map, photographs. Softback, light reading wear only, a VG copy. Personalised gift dedication from the author to title page.
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De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow

By: Coogan, Tim Pat

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1993

Seller ID: 022268

ISBN: 009175030X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 772pp, index, bibliography, appendices, notes, 16pp black and white photographs. Black boards, slight bump to corner, general ageing to pages, a VG copy in a near VG (short edge tears to corners, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to the title page.
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By: Crosse, Gordon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, AR Mowbray: 1932

Seller ID: 021569

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

vii + 128pp, index, frontispiece. Red boards, owner's details to front endpaper, slight water-marking to base of spine and rear board, overall a near VG copy in a Good (browning to spine, staining to base of rear panel and edge of adjacent spine, edge chipped with small loss) dustwrapper.
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Cuba and Hemingway on the Great Blue River.

By: Cruz, Mary (Translated from the Spanish By Harold Spencer)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cuba, Instituto Cubano Del Libro: 1994

Seller ID: 018859

ISBN: 9590900739

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

244pp, bibliography. Softback, reading creases/rubs to covers, general browning to pages, some annotation in orange highlighter, some in pencil, overall a Good tight copy. This is very much a working copy only and is sold with all faults. A study of the relationship between Cuba and Hemingway and his work.
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The Peninsular Journal, 1808 - 1817 (Napoleonic Library No. 8)

By: D'Urban, Major-General Sir Benjamin / Edited, with an Introduction By IJ Rousseau

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Greenhill Books: 1990

Seller ID: 031522

ISBN: 0947898875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxv + 355pp, index, 2 plates, maps. Burgundy boards, light wear, foxing mainly to top edge of pages, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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Training with Wolves: The Untold Story of Wolverhampton Wanderers Trainer Jack Davies

By: Davies, Merv / Gibbons, Tim / Foreword by Bert Williams MBE

Price: £15.00

Publisher: West Midlands, Geoffrey Publications: 2019

Seller ID: EX0005

ISBN: 1999671937

Binding: Softback

Condition: New

160pp, bibliography, illustrations, some in colour. Softback, new book.
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Poems

By: De Candole, Alec

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1919

Seller ID: 030152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

x + 316pp, frontispiece. Blue boards, spine dulled, minor marks, corner bumps, foxing to contents, mainly to endpapers and edges, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges rough cut, Christmas gift dedication to front endpaper dated December 1919, overall a Good copy. The author was killed on September 3, 1918. This book contains practically all of his poems, in chronological order, so as to show the development of his thought. Privately published at CUP.
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Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man

By: de Ruggiero, Paolo

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Barnard Castle, Pen & Sword Military: 2013

Seller ID: 031158

ISBN: 1783462701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

296pp, index, notes, bibliography, 7 maps, 19 plates. Black boards, a new copy in dustwrapper. RRP £25.00.
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Richard III: A Source Book (Sourcebook) (Sutton History Paperbacks)

By: Dockray, Keith

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 031312

ISBN: 0750914793

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xlii + 141pp, index, bibliography. Softback, light reading wear only, a VG copy.
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Flight to Freedom

By: Donnet, Lt-General Avi e.r. Baron Michael, CVO, DFC, Croix De Guerre (Belgium), FRAeS

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Kent, Wingham Press Ltd: 1991

Seller ID: 031483

ISBN: 1873454074

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

124pp, index, 6 appendices, 36pp plates, frontispiece. Blue boards, a VG copy in (slight fading to spine and edges) dustwrapper.
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MTB 102. 1936 - 1986. Part I: Reminiscences of MTB 102 By Commander CWS Dreyer; Part II: Vosper Torpedo Boat - MTB 102 - A Profile

By: Dreyer, Commander CWS

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Norwich, 102 Trust: 1986

Seller ID: 021670

Binding: Spiral Bound

Condition: Very Good

73pp single-sided pages, drawings, chronology. Spiral-bound softback, general light wear, a VG copy, Includes a '102 Trust' newsletter, a double-sided facts sheet and a 7"x5" print.
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Branch Line to Burma

By: Durnford, John / Foreword By Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald: 1958

Seller ID: 030085

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

207pp, map. Green boards, very slightly sprung, foxing mainly to edges, a near VG copy in a Good (edge chipped with small loss mainly to spine head, nor price-clipped) dustwrapper (designed by Toothill). The personal story of a young Artillery officer, serving with a Scottish yeomanry regiment, who spent 3 years of his life enduring and surviving life as a prisoner-of-war.
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Paintings of Tresco

By: Dyer, Ted / Heather, Lesly

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Falmouth, Beside the Wave Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 031090

ISBN: 0952211629

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

48pp, colour illustrations. Softback, a VG copy.
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Kismet: A Flight Engineer's Story

By: Edgar M Childs D.F.M. (Jumbo)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Em Childs: 2001

Seller ID: 022389

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

29pp. Booklet, reproduction quality not the best, in VG condition. Signed 'Best Wishes, EM Childs' to verso of front cover. Memoirs of a Flight Engineer on Lancasters in WW2, in the Pathfinder Force.
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Image for A Special Flame: The Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Based on the Proceedings of an International Symposium Jointly Organised By The Elgar and RVW Societies

A Special Flame: The Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Based on the Proceedings of an International Symposium Jointly Organised By The Elgar and RVW Societies

By: Edited By John Norris and Andrew Neil / Articles By: Kennedy, Michael / Fereman, Lewis / Anderson, Robert / Lucas, Claire-Louise / Darnborough, Jonathan / Adams, Byron / Pope, Michael / Cobbe, Hugh / McGuire, Charles / Connock, Stephen

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Elgar Editions: 2004

Seller ID: 031519

ISBN: 0953708292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 186pp, index, references, a collection of 11 articles. Red cloth boards, gilt titling and decoration, a VG copy, no dustwrapper, presumably as issued.
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Michael Graves: Buildings and Projects 1982 - 1989

By: Edited By Karen Vogel Nichols, Patrick J Burke and Caroline Hancock. Essays By Robert Maxwell and Christian Norberg-Schulz

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Architecture Design and Technology Press: 1990

Seller ID: 031114

ISBN: 1854545531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

351pp, fully illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans, some in colour. Brown boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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Andrew Marvell: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Death

By: Edited By RL Brett

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 022748

ISBN: 0197134351

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

vii + 128pp, index, notes. Black boards, light wear and ageing, pencilled annotation, a near VG copy in a VG (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. A collection of 4 essays.
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Managing a Legend: Stirling Moss, Ken Gregory and the British Racing Partnership

By: Edwards, Robert / Foreword By Martin Brundle

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Yeovil, Haynes / Foulis: 1997

Seller ID: 031466

ISBN: 0854299882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

368pp, index, bibliography, 2 appendices, illustrations. Green boards, bumping to upper corner and spine head (4mm nick), light ageing to contents, a near VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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Tamworth's Forgotten Hero; Samuel Parkes VC

By: Elkin, Peter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cheshire, Wonderworks Studios Limited: 2004

Seller ID: 030742

ISBN: 0952876078

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

155pp, illustrations. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title plus a letter and signed compliments slip. The story of the second man in the British Army to be awarded the Victoria Cross, at The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Hank Williams: The Biography

By: Escott, Colin (With George Merritt and William MacEwen)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Little Brown & Co: 1994

Seller ID: 019351

ISBN: 0316249866

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 307pp, index, discography, sources, map, 16pp plates. Quarter-bound in black over tan boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in (colour fading to spine) dustwrapper.
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Studies in Jazz Series No.31: Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb and All the Other Ticklers

By: Fell, John L / Vinding, Terkild

Price: £30.00

Publisher: USA, Scarecrow Press: 1999

Seller ID: 022728

ISBN: 0810835630

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 237pp, index, bibliography, 5 appendices. Black boards, VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms

By: Festing, Sally

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Viking: 1995

Seller ID: 022221

ISBN: 0670843032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxiii + 343pp, index, bibliography, references, 69 illustrations. Black boards, slight ageing to contents, a VG copy in (slight edge creasing, minor surface loss to one edge) dustwrapper.
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Nina Fowler: Works. Curated By James Birch

By: Foreword By Barry Miles

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Dadiani Fine Art: 2014

Seller ID: 021483

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

36pp, illustrated catalogue, some in colour. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Catalogue produced for an exhibition 25 November 2014 - 31 January 2015.
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Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike

By: Fotheringham, William

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Yellow Jersey Press: 2012

Seller ID: 018193

ISBN: 0224074482

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 308pp, index, bibliography, 16pp photographs. Pictorial boards, light ageing to contents, overall a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: A Personal Memoir

By: Fox, Levi

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997

Seller ID: 022674

ISBN: 0711710015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Signed personalised dedication from the author to front endpaper, loose signed slip of paper, plus a signed photograph with gift dedication to verso.
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: A Personal Memoir

By: Fox, Levi

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997

Seller ID: 022761

ISBN: 0711710015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author to front endpaper.
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Richard Florsheim: The Artist and His Art

By: Freundlich, August L

Price: £12.50

Publisher: USA, AS Barnes and Co Inc: 1976

Seller ID: 031482

ISBN: 0498016366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

63pp + plates, some colour, catalogue, bibliography, 2 appendices. Blue boards, slight edge fading, light ageing, a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped, rubs, minor loss) dustwrapper.
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Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria Quartet: Art for Love's Sake

By: Friedman, Alan Warren

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, University of Oklahoma Press: 1970

Seller ID: 022407

ISBN: 0806108711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxv + 222pp, index, bibliography, appendix. Mauve boards, light ageing and wear only, a VG copy in (colour fading to spine and edges) dustwrapper.
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