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Chrysanthemums and How to Grow Them for exhibition. With Instructions for Timing and Stopping for Northern and Southern Growers; Selections of the Best Varieties of Japanese, Incurved, Anemone, Reflexed, and Pompon.
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [c.1904].
Third edition. 94 + [10] adverts, with illustrations in the text. Contents clean and in good order, with creases to some corners. 8vo, in the original orange boards printed in black and red with green cloth spine. Slight soiling and small red stain to boards, and a tiny amount of fraying to spine ends. Good firm copy. Very Good.
Price: £45.00
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The Handbook for Girl Guides; or How Girls Can Help to Build up the Empire.
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, n.d. [1912].
First edition. 472pp + (8pp) ruled pages for memoranda (unused): illustrated with photographic plates and text illustrations in line. Some foxing to endpapers and back endpaper replaced. Corner clipped from border of photo facing p385. Occasional minimal foxing or marks, contents otherwise clean. In the original blue pictorial boards blocked in black and white, bright and firm, spine ends rubbed. An exceptionally good copy. Very Good+.
Price: £180.00
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Simple Gardening (School Gardening): A Handbook for Beginners.
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [1917].
Reprint. 108pp, with many illustrations in the text and a photo frontis: the last 4 pages are advertisements. First issued in 1913 as 'School Gardening: A simple book for teaching boys and girls in elementary schools the rudiments of practical horticulture.' A few pages have some foxing, but contents otherwise clean. In the original printed green card covers: firm and clean with minor knocks and scuffs.
Price: £45.00
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Dan Dare's 'Anastasia' Jet Plane. Make your own 18¼" model: no cutting - just press out. A Presso Book. By Permission of Eagle.
[Leicester]: [Brockhampton Press], [1955].
First and only edition. Construction kit, components printed in colour on four card pages ready to press out. Interspersed with a 7-page Dan Dare story (illustrated in line either by, or in the style of, Frank Hampson) and a page of Inter Planet Space Fleet Badges and Insignia (also in line). Slight browning to edges of text pages, contents otherwise remarkably fresh and unmarked. Long landscape quarto (c.10 x 15ins), in card covers with original red cloth spine. Pictorial front cover predominantly bright red, back cover gives a diagram and further instructions for assembling the model - and flying her ! All exceptionally fresh, bright and clean. Fine.
Price: £120.00
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