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READING THE RUINS: MODERNISM, BOMBSITES AND BRITISH CULTURE
Written by Leo Mellor.
Stock no. 2134010
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards with gilt title to spine. From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions - the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to World War II, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. ISBN: 9781107009295.

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LONDON AND THE CIVIL WAR
Written by Stephen Porter; et al.
Stock no. 2134008
Published by Macmillan Press Ltd. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, with gilt title to spine. A collection of essays from different authors about London and the Civil War. ISBN: 0333622790. Page edge browning.

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HOSPITABLE ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTIES: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG AMERICAN 1875-1876
Written by Richard Henry Dana.
Stock no. 2133991
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. 1921. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles. Spine is browned. Splash and other marks to covers. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some page corners creases. Foxing to outer page edges.

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MEMORIALS OF OLD CHELSEA
Written by Alfred Beaver. Illustrated by Alfred Beaver.
Stock no. 1820342
Published by S.R. Publishers Ltd.. 1st thus 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in 1892, this edition is republished. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations by the author. ISBN: 0854097104. Text block a little dusty, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and is scuffed to rear panel.

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INNS AND TAVERNS OF CHEPSTOW AND THE LOWER WYE VALLEY PART 4
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1319535
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1976. Nearly fine condition.

Card wrap blue booklet. 500 printed. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900278323. Staples are rusty.

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CHEPSTOW THEATRES
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1319528
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

Pink card wrap booklet. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900278293. Staples rusty. Contents fine.

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WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES: LONDON DISASTERS 1830-1917
Written by Wendy Neal.
Stock no. 2133920
Published by Hisarlik Press. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1874312001. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

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A MONTH IN LONDON
Written by Jeffrey Tayler.
Stock no. 2133865
Published by Harvey And Darton. 1st 1832. Good condition.

The American Mr. Hazelford voyages across the Atlantic to "inform himself of the real progress of England in the grand improvements of the age". Author is Jeffrey Taylor although no author named. Small format. Dark green cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine. Frontis and illustrated title page plus 4 other b/w plates. 182 pages plus booklist. Rebacked with original spine covering laid down. New endpapers. Corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly marked. Foxing to frontis and title page. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins. Pages lightly browned. A few corner tips creased.

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WOMEN AND THE LAW (OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON LABOUR LAW)
Written by Sandra Fredman.
Stock no. 1820283
Published by Clarendon Press. 2001. Good condition.

Sixth title in the series. Black pictorial glazed boards. ISBN: 0198763220. Book has been dropped on spine, as a result, front joint is broken and the spine is cocked. Pale foxing to text block. Contents themselves complete, clean and tight.

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OLD MANOR HOUSES
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1319359
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

12 tissue-guarded colour plates plus tinted illustrations. Colour pictorial endpapers. Grey cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby with a few light marks. Front joint cracked, rear joint just starting to crack. Some light foxing and fingering but contents generally clean.

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SIR SAMUEL MORLAND: DIPLOMAT AND INVENTOR 1625-1695
Written by H.W. Dickinson.
Stock no. 1319272
Published by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1970. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The life and inventions of a public servant in England. Light green cloth spine with gilt title. Green cloth boards. B/w plates. xvi and 133 pages including index plus 12 plates to rear. ISBN: 085270061X.

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