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Puffin .-James (Richard) A Book of Insects

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illustrations by James Holland, [1945?] Johnston (Arnrid) Animals of the Countryside, [1946?]; Animals of North America, [1946?] Chopping (Richard) Butterflies in Britain, [1943] Boulenger (E.C.) Wonders of Sea Life, illustrations by Peggy Jeremy, [1947] Stebbing (Hilary) Extinct Animals, [1946] Chadwick (Paxton) Wild Flowers, [1949]; Life Histories, number 46 of 100 copies signed by Lee Chadwick, John Miles, and G. Fisher, Penguin Collectors' Society, 1995, all but the first three apparently first editions, all but the first and fifth with illustrations by the author, the first four and eighth auto-lithographed, the fifth and sixth in original pictorial boards, the remainder in original pictorial wrappers, oblong 4to(8)

***The books are number 5, 7, 28, 29, 51, 55, and 81 of the series. Life Histories is numbered 116. .

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