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A BRIDPORT CAMERA
Written by John Sales.
Stock no. 1326503
Published by Dovecote Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Bridport's character as a bustling market town is superbly documented by the more than 150 b/w photographs, many of which have never been published before. Cardwraps. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0946159351. Minimal rubbing to corners and slight sunning to spine. Contents fine.

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THE BOOK OF THE MARTYRS OF TOLPUDDLE 1834-1934
No author listed. Illustrated by David Low; J.F. Horrabin; W.G. Easton.
Stock no. 1826743
Published by The Trades Union Congress General Council. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

The story of the Dorsetshire labourers who were convicted and sentenced to seven years transportation for forming a trade union. Large format. Three-quarters green/blue calf leather, blue cloth boards, colour frontis, colour plates, b/w photos and illustrations. Top edge gilt. Top & tail of spine & corners worn, base of spine has some discolouration. Some staining to rear board. Text block browned. Some foxing and a few grubby marks throughout. Name in ink and also in pencil to front endpaper. Remains of dustwrapper included, loosely inserted.

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DORSET A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Michael Pitt-Rivers.
Stock no. 1826368
Published by Faber & Faber. 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth. B/w photos. New edition. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and lightly browned.

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SWANAGE PAST
Written by David Lewer; Dennis Smale.
Stock no. 1826317
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 2nd 2004. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second edition, revised and incorporating extra information. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1860773117. Last couple of pages have a corner crease to lower corner. Else fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine and lightly creased at top edge of spine.

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WIMBORNE MINSTER: THE HISTORY OF A COUNTRY TOWN
Written by Jude James.
Stock no. 1826072
Published by Dovecote Press. 1983. Very good condition.

Orange cardwraps. B/w photos. Reprint. Spine faded. Corners rubbed. Rear copver a little scuffed. Strong smell of tobacco present else a clean copy.

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DORSET SPORTING RUNS
Written by Rodney Legg; Chris Copson.
Stock no. 1826060
Published by Halsgrove. 1st 2001. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Huntsmen writing on hunting through the best of hunting country. Drawing on original and exhilarating accounts, the author presents a fascinating panorama of a Dorset which remained largely unaltered well into the twentieth century. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1841140821. Front joint between board and contents not glued down meaning front board can pull out of place but binding is still tight. Top edge of text block grubby. Corner crease to one or two pages. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly rubbed at corners and lightly creased across top edge.

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THE WEYMOUTH HARBOUR TRAMWAY
Written by J.H. Lucking.
Stock no. 1824115
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Countless summer visitors, as well as passengers for the Channel Islands and France, have come to know Weymouth as 'the place where the trains run through the street'. This comprehensive study provides a full account, from arly unfulfilled proposals in the 1840s, through the line's horse-drawn bneginnings in the 1860s and long years of commercial importance, to the almost complete decline following the withdrawal of freight traffic in 1970. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0860933040. Top corners of boards bumped. Lower board edges browned and with red pen marks to corners and lower text block. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, tiny nick to top 1/3 of spine and corners rubbed.

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THE BIRDS OF DORSET
Written by E.D.V. Prendergast; J.V. Boys.
Stock no. 2140707
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive account of the birdlife of dorset. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715383809. Foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine and edges with some marks and foxing; small tear hole on spine, repaired to verso with sticky tape.

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A VILLAGE HERITAGE: THE STORY OF BLANDFORD ST. MARY
Written by T.F. Almack.
Stock no. 1823599
Published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd.. Circa 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a much loved village in Dorset. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. Tape marks to endpapers and dustwrapper flaps. Text block lightly browned.

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DORCHESTER 1854: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A COUNTY TOWN SEEN THROUGH ITS LOCAL NEWSPAPER
No author listed.
Stock no. 2137691
Published by Dorchester Community Play Research Group. 1ST 1985. Very good condition.

A portrait of the Dorchester of 1854 from the chroniclers of the time. Large format. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. B/w photos. ISBN: 0951068717. Light wear to cover edges.

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WEYMOUTH THE ENGLISH NAPLES
No author listed.
Stock no. 2137656
Published by Hood & Co. Limited. Circa 1890. Good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Front joint cracked. Covers marked. A few page corner creases. Some grubby margin marks.

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THE MARN'LL BOOK
Written by Ernest Roscoe.
Stock no. 2137651
Published by The Blackmore Press. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Some particular history, some general topography, a number of photographs, and some maps, of the Blackmore Vale. Large format. Light green/grey cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Light, uneven fading to boards. Gilt still bright. Dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn, some loss, browning to spine and spine edges. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some foxing.

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