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NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1828690
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black covers, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 514 pages. ISBN: 0300096402. Name & year in ink to front endpaper (neat). Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to top and bottom of inside flaps and lightly scuffed.

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JERRY THE STORY OF AN EXMOOR PONY
Written by Eleanor Helme; Nance Paul. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1328179
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1953. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards. Black title to spine. B/w drawings. 160 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Page browning and slight foxing else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper has a few edge tears and some old tape marks on verso.

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WEST COUNTRY FARMS: HOUSE-AND-ESTATE SURVEYS, 1598-1764
Written by Nat Alcock; Cary Carson.
Stock no. 1828362
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This major innovative study explores the significance of a unique type of document that has hitherto been almost unknown to scholars. House-and-estate surveys - which add details of the village's houses, outhouses, and farm buildings to the standard evidence of an estate survey - survive for South-West England for the period from the end of the 16th to the mid-18th century. Large format. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and colour photos. ISBN: 9781842172995. Previous owner's initials and date in ink to top corner of front endpaper. Else a lovely copy.

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STEEP HOLM: THE STORY OF A SMALL ISLAND
Written by Stan Rendell; Joan Rendell.
Stock no. 1826272
Published by Alan Sutton. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Steep Holm is a small uninhabited island in the Bristol Channel five miles west of Weston-super-Mare with a long and fascinating history. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0750903236. Text block slightly grubby else a nice, clean copy.

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THE BRISTOL-RADSTOCK-FROME LINE
Written by Colin G. Maggs.
Stock no. 2140663
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Locomotion Papers No. 237. ISBN: 9780853617266. Light wear to cover corners.

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SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST COUNTRY
Written by Ken Wakefield.
Stock no. 2138841
Published by Crecy Publishing Limited. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The history of Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport 1930-1957. Yellow cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0947554653. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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A BATH CAMERA 1850-1950
Written by Simon Hunt.
Stock no. 2137662
Published by Dovecote Press. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 0946159106. Small bumps to top and tail of spine. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few marks and faded along some edges.

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SOMERSET SHELL GUIDE
Written by C.H.B. Quennell; Peter Quennell.
Stock no. 2137638
Published by The Architectural Press. 1st 1936. Almost very good condition.

Spiral bound, card wraps. B/w photos. Some browning to covers. A bit of creasing/wear to cover edges and corners. Surface paper damage with a bit of loss to front cover. Contents are still very good - just odd margin mark.

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NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 2137632
Published by Penguin. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Paperback edition. B/w photos. No. BE13 Some grubby marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is a little edge-chipped with a few marks.

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BATH & BRISTOL
Written by Stanley Hutton. Illustrated by Laura A. Happerfield.
Stock no. 2137410
Published by A. & C. Black. Circa 1915. Almost very good condition.

A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. 3000 copies printed. Grey cloth, green titles and borders. 20 tissue-guarded colour plates. 2 folding maps. REPRINT! Spine is browned. Marks to covers; bumping. Front joint is a bit cracked. Margin tear to plate guard page 101. Blue mark to verso of plate page 176. Some foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges.

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CHILDREN AT THE CHANTRY
Written by Eleanor J. Owen. Illustrated by Hester Martin-Harvey.
Stock no. 1823551
Published by The Mendip Press. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

White card wraps. B/w plates. A childhood at the Chantry in Somerset. A few light foxspots to cover. Original glassine wrapper present but torn with a large amount of loss to rear. Slight mustiness present.

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INNOVATION AND DISCOVERY: BATH AND THE RISE OF SCIENCE
Written by Peter Wallis; et al.
Stock no. 1823336
Published by The Bath Royal Literary And Scientific Institution; The William Herschel Society. 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited by Peter Wallis with contributions by numerous authors. Georgian Bath. Cardwraps. B/w illustrations throughout, a few colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780948975967. Reprint with minor corrections. Light rubbing to corners of covers. Contents clean.

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