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HARRIES D. C.
Caldey. Monastery Isle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, staples mildly rusted else a very good, clean copy.
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HATFIELD
The Story of Hatfield Parish Church [St. Etheldreda], Hertfordshire. Tenth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with full-page photographs and a full-page plan in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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HELLYER Roger
A Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch Third Edition Maps in Colour. England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 12 plates in monochrome; laminated boards, a near fine copy. Includes a bibliography of all of third edition coloured maps
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HOWES Rev. A. P.
Guide to Bolton Abbey and Woods. Revised and Corrected by the late Rev. C.F. Tomlinson. 23rd Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Twenty-Third Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and a double-page map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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ILFRACOMBE
History and Legend of Chambercombe Manor. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with armorial title and 4 full-page photographs in the text; original wrappers lettered in black, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. A scarce survival. Not recorded by Brockett.
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HUTCHINGS Monica
The Visitors' Brief Guide to Somerset (Mendip and Avalon). No. 17 of the Grey Guide Series. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and a double-page map in the text; original coloured pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINGS Richard J.
This Island. A Guide to Romantic and Historic Landmarks of the Isle of Wight. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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MURRAY'S HANDBOOK
A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon, including all British India, The Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Protected Native States. Tenth Edition. SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY IN SIGNED HATCHARDS BINDING
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, on India Paper, with 38 folding coloured maps, 11 full-page maps and plans (a number coloured), numerous illustrations, plans and tables (several full-page) in the text, and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear, some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries, endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS, upper board lettered in gilt, back with five shaped raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames, laid paper endpapers, red, yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands, red buckram pocket, a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD (this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards). A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION.
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JOHNSON A.
Byzantium. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, maps and plans (several full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Published to accompany the two major BBC series 'The Byzantine World' and 'Byzantine Art' broadcast in the same year.
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LITTLE GIDDING
Little Gidding. An Illustrated Guide. BRIGHT COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 9 photographs and facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
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LUDLOW
Historic Ludlow. For Health, Pleasure and Recreation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition[?], with numerous full-page photographs (one double-page) and a large folding street map on japon; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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LYNTON. LYNMOUTH. LORNA DOONE COUNTRY
Lynton, Lynmouth and the Lorna Doone Country. Homeland Handbook No. 37. A Handbook for Visitors and Residents. With a Chapter upon the Fishing by W. Riddell. [Sixteenth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Sixteenth Edition, with frontispiece, 3 plates, and 18 photographs (several full-page) and a full-page plan in the text but wanting the folding town plan, small neat contemporary signature on front wrappers; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip rubbed but sound, a good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. The folding map is often missing. First published in 1904. Not recorded by Brockett
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MATTHEWS W.
The New History, Survey and Description of the City and Suburbs of Bristol, or Complete Guide, 1794 [with] Matthews's New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1793-4. [Facsimile re-issue].
2 works in 1 vol., sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and a large folding street plan, fore-edges lightly browned; original boards, cloth back, paper label on upper board, neatly rebacked with original endpapers preserved, boards slightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy
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MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE
A Guide to Middleton-in-Teesdale and District. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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MIDHURST
Midhurst: Queen's Path. Nature Notes. The Old Town. An Illustrated Historical Guide. [Foreword by E.W. Knight]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with illustrations and 2 full-page maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and blue, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
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NEWNAM W. E.
The Story of Farnham. Illustrations by Philip Sheail. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations and plans in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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NEWTON ABBOT
Official Guide to Newton Abbot. The Ideal Centre. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. With numerous trade advertisements (several illustrated).
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OBORNE
St. Cuthbert's Old Church, Oborne, Dorset. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 8vo., with photographs in the text; photographs wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Redundant Churches Fund, Third Series, No.164. SCARCE.
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OLIVER R.
A Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch Fifth Edition. Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch Fifth Edition.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; laminated card covers, a near fine copy. Includes much new material, particularly relating to the Fifth (Relief) Edition.
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OLIVER R.
A Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch New Popular Edition. Guide to the Ordnance Survey One-Inch New Popular Edition.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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OSBORN J. Lee
The Homeland Handbooks. Volume 91. Worthing with its Surroundings. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, 3 sepia-toned plates, numerous illustrations in the text and a double-page street plan, fore-edges and first and last few leaves lightly age-marked; original series binding of photographic wrappers printed in yellow and red, sewed as issued, sewing a little loose (but binding entirely sound), a good, clean copy. Homeland Handbooks, vol. 91. With numerous trade advertisements, many illustrated, at front and rear. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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OTLEY
Official Guide to Otley. Historic Market Town. Issued by Authority of Otley Town Council. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear.
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ALDEN & COMPANY
Alden's Oxford Guide. With Notes on the District and Rivers, Key Plan of the University and City, Map of Central Oxford and numerous Illustrations. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., with numerous illustrations from half-tones (some full-page) and a map in the text, and a folding map at end; original printed wrappers, joints rubbed and upper cover a little browned else an unusually clean, sound copy of a work hard to find in this state. For many years the standard visitor's guide and packed with fascinating views and advertisements.
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PAGDEN Florence
History of Alfriston. [Tenth Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with frontispiece and 4 plates; original printed wrappers, covers very lightly spotted else a near fine copy. A lovely copy of Pagden's well-known guide and the first separately published account of the village. It was first issued in this form in 1895.
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POMPEI
Ricordo di Pompei, 32 Vedute. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with 32 glossy plates arranged concertina style, and folding into cloth covers, double-page city plan on paste-downs and coloured illustrated title mounted on upper board, a near fine copy. Each plate is captioned on obverse in Italian with an extended caption on reverse in Italian, French, English and German.
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POLPERRO
Polperro Official Guide. Published under the Authority of the Lansallos Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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ROBERTS Henry D.
The Book of Brighton (Official Guide). Seventeenth Edition, revised. Published for the Publicity Committee of the Brighton Corporation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventeenth Edition, with a large folding map as frontispiece (some folds neatly repaired) very numerous colour and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean, firm copy. Deceptively detailed guide with very numerous period trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DANIELS (ed.) G.
A Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 12.
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KING, ed. Moses
King's Handbook of New York City. An Outline History and Description of the American Metropolis. With over Eight Hundred Illustrations from Photographs made expressly for this Work. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title in red and black, over 800 photographs (many full-page) and a full-page map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial tan cloth gilt, upper board board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and brown, gilt back, brown top, very neatly recased, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the best nineteenth-century guide to the city, extensive in scope and comprehensive in detail. A second edition was issued in the following year; the original edition is very scarce, especially in this condition.
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DARTMOOR
The Dartmoor Guide including the River Dart. Sixth Edition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
8vo., Sixth Edition, with numerous photographs and 7 maps (one double-page and 6 full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout. Bright copy of one of the least common guides to the moor. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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DARTMOUTH
The Story of St. Petrox Church. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition,; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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CHELTENHAM SPA
[Official Guide to] Cheltenham Spa. The Centre for the Cotswolds, the Wye and Severn Valleys and Shakespeare Country. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and a full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. With very numerous trade advertisements throughout, and a folding map of Cheltenham town centre loosely inserted.
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ROBINSON K. W.
Wild Lochaber. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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THOMAS COOK & SON
The Traveller's Handbook to Switzerland including French Savoy and the Italian Lakes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a large folding coloured map as frontispiece, 2 large folding coloured maps, 7 double-page coloured maps and plans and a full-page coloured map; original series binding of plum limp cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, radial corners, boards lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 64pp of trade advertisements at end. Nice copy of the best Thomas Cook traveller's handbook to Switzerland. Uncommon in this condition.
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FAKENHAM
Fakenham Official Town Guide 1992. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and 2 folding street plans; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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FAKENHAM
The Church of St. Margaret, Felbrigg. With Notes on the Church of St. Andrew, Metton. With Notes on the Church of St. Andrew, Metton. Third (revised) edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with a folding plate as frontispiece, and 2 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The first two editions were published in 1935 and 1959. In this edition the inscriptions on the famous brasses are printed with most of their contractions expanded. Darroch & Taylor 4123.
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DUFTY A. R.
Kelmscott. An Illustrated Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in red and black, with coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text, and folding plan; original patterned wrappers, printed in red, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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NEVE A.
The Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Skardo etc. Eighteenth Edition. [Edited by E.G. Tilt]. FIRST POST-WWII EDITION
Sm. 8vo., Eighteenth Edition; original red cloth, upper board lettered in black, covers moderately age-soiled (but text remarkably clean and crisp), a very good, clean copy. Neve was surgeon to the Kashmir Medical Mission. His famous Guide, first published in 1887 and severally revised and updated, remained the definitive handbook for over five decades. This is the first edition after WWII, following the seventeenth issue of 1942.
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HEATHERSLAW MILL.
Heatherslaw Mill, Ford, Northumberland. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a good, clean copy.
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WARD LOCK
Guide to Switzerland. SPLENDID COPY
Sm. 8vo., with a folding coloured map as frontispiece, 38 photographic plates on 24, 4 folding coloured maps and 6 folding town plans in blue and black; original red cloth gilt, gilt back, edges sprinkled in red and blue, radial corners, silk marker, a near fine, virtually spotless copy. Scarce in this condition.
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BEVAN G. Phillips
Tourist's Guide to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Revised and edited by R.N. Worth. Seventh Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with folding map as frontispiece and 2 plans (one folding), some occasional underlining towards rear of text; original terracotta cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett, p.204.
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PARIS
Plan de Paris par Arrondissement. [Pocket Guide] SPLENDID COPY. SPLENDID COPY
Sm. 8vo., with 22 double-page maps coloured in outline and a large folding coloured map, all on japon, street directory tabbed by initial letter, some very age-browning; original red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in silver, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Lovely copy of a beautifully constructed, comprehensive and detailed pocket plan. The double-page maps comprise Paris, the Metro, 20 individual arrondissements, three arrondissements with detailed insets, and the Bois de Boulogne. The large coloured map depicts Paris by arrondissement (obverse) and metro lines and autobus routes (reverse). The two parallel tabbing systems (streets & localities, and maps) enable one to pinpoint any given location simply and easily. Very scarce in this condition.
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SHEPPARD] [Rev. Martin
A Short Guide to the Churches of St. Mary de Haura, New Shoreham, and St. Nicolas, Old Shoreham, West Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and plans in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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PELTOR Rev. L. F.
Kilburn, Yorkshire. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with several photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy.
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GLASTONBURY
A Guide to Glastonbury and its Abbey. A short History of the Abbey Ruins and other notable Buildings: together with Ground Plan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 4 plates, and illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-browned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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ENGLEHEART Francis
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nayland. [Second, revised, edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Revised and updated version of the first edition of 1964. Steward, 7426.
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OXFORD
The Oxford University and City Guide, on a New Plan. Containing a full Description of the Colleges, Halls, Public Buildings, Libraries, Gardens, Walks, Pictures and Statues, in Oxford [with] a Guide to Blenheim. IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL CLOTH
12mo., New Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 8 steel-engraved plates and an engraved folding map, some negligible age-staining; original ribbed red pictorial cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, back with five flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, lemon endpapers, very neatly recased with original endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Slatter & Rose was first published in 1818. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL. Anderson, p.242; Cordeaux & Merry 310.
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PENN] [Arthur
St. Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale. Compiled by the Vicar and published by the Parochial Church Council. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Impression, with 10 plates on 6 and a full-page plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in simpler form in 1957.
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OSSETT
Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Handbook, 1890-1950. Issued by Authority of Ossett Corporation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (several full-page) throughout. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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PATERSON'S GUIDE
Paterson's Guide to the Rhine and its Provinces.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 tinted and monochrome maps (6 double-page and 6 full-page) on japon, and a large folding map at end, endpapers browned; original red limp cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, radial corners, very neatly recased, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Scarce.
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