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WHO'S WHO IN NEWPORT
Written by Samuel D. Williams.
Stock no. 1821920
Published by The Williams Press Limited. Circa 1920. Very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Adverts to front and rear. B/w photos. A few marks to boards. Light browning to endpapers.

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MONMOUTH AND ITS BUILDINGS
Written by Keith Kissack.
Stock no. 1821908
Published by Logaston Press. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition.

A pictorial history of the development of Monmouth, showing buildings both present and which have gone, along with a range of details - amongst them doorways, ironwork, windows, fanlights, tiles, glass, stairways, timber framing, brickwork, porches and verandahs. Pictorial card wraps. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 1904396011. Faint score marks to rear cover. Minor mark to lower edge of text block. Contents fine.

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A VISIT TO UNCLE WILLIAM IN TOWN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1821827
Published by J. Harris. 1st 1818. Good condition.

A Description of the Most Remarkable Buildings and Curiosities in the British Metropolis. Small format. Red cloth spine, plain boards. 66 b/w copper-plate engravings. Top & tail of spine worn, base of spine frayed. Boards grubby and illustrations/titles faded. corners worn. Text block browned with slight shave to lower edge (not affecting contents. Endpapers missing. Contemporary name in ink to top of title page. Joints cracked. 2 pages of plates (6 plates) missing. Top 1.5" of introduction page missing (cut out). Contents are stained and grubby, some damp staining.

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NAPOLEON'S DRAGOONS AND LANCERS (MEN-AT-ARMS)
Written by Emir Bukhari. Illustrated by Angus McBride.
Stock no. 1821819
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

White pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations & 8 colour illustrations. ISBN: 0850450888. Pages lightly browned else a nice, clean copy.

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THE SWISS AT WAR 1300-1500 (MEN-AT-ARMS)
Written by Douglas Miller. Illustrated by G.A. Embleton.
Stock no. 1821815
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition.

White pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos & illustrations, colour illustrations in the centre. ISBN: 0850453348. Spine lightly browned. Binding glue visible to front and rear. Contents clean.

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THE CONQUISTADORES (MEN-AT-ARMS)
Written by Terence Wise. Illustrated by Angus McBride.
Stock no. 1821814
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition.

White pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos & illustrations, colour plates. ISBN: 0850453577. Light browning to covers, light rubbing to cover corners. Contents clean.

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CHEPSTOW THEATRES
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1821808
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st thus 1975. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pink card wrap booklet. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900278293. Pink covers lightly creased at corners, slightly faded at spine. Contents fine.

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HISTORY OF SPANISH ARCHITECTURE
Written by Bernard Bevan.
Stock no. 1821797
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, plans and fold-out maps. A few minor marks to boards which are otherwise nice and bright. Small tear and crease to gutter edge of prelims at margins. Contents are clean.

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FIFTY DAYS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Written by Hywel Williams.
Stock no. 1321071
Published by Folio Society. Circa 2008. Nearly fine condition.

Black cloth spine with gilt title, decoration to boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Still in original shrinkwrap. Looks as through there may be some slight dust to spine of book beneath slipcase.

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MORE THAN A BOOKSHOP: ZWEMMER'S AND ART IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Written by Nigel Vaux Halliday.
Stock no. 1821737
Published by Philip Wilson Publishers. 1st 1991. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Zwemmer's bookshop, art gallery and publishing house has a central place in the history of British art in the twentieth century. A unique source of information on modern art, supplemented in 1929 by the opening of the Zwemmer Gallery specialising in contemporary art. Zwemmer's was a meeting place for a cross-section of the art world - artists, collectors, academics and laymen - attracted by a range of books covering all arts of all periods. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations and a few colour. ISBN: 0856674095. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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AN ALBUM OF 'SENTINEL' WORKS PHOTOGRAPHS No. 1 STANDARDS & SUPERS
Written by Joseph L. Thomas; Anthony R. Thomas.
Stock no. 1821690
Published by Woodpecker Publications. 1st 1992. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

An album covering the Simpson-Bodman and Simpson-Bibby waggons, the Glasgow and Shrewsbury built standards, and the Super-Sentinel waggons with their tractor and stationary engine derivatives, the last of which was made in 1930. Large format. Glazed illustrated boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0863171818. SIGNED by the author, Anthony R. Thomas, (Best Wishes) to half-title page.

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THE ENGLISH INTERIOR 1500 TO 1900
Written by Ralph Dutton.
Stock no. 1821626
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Four centuries development of the English interior. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Board corners bumped. Browning to front endpapers. Foxing to text block. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, 2" missing from base of spine, Messy repair to verso of dustwrapper with now yellowed tape.

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