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TALARGOCH MINE
Written by J.A. Thorburn.
Stock no. 2120642
Published by Northern Mine Research Society. 1986. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. British Mining Series No. 31. 64 pages. ISBN: 0901450308. Top 1" of spine is torn with some chipping. Small nick to base of spine. Page edge browning.

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THE NON-FERROUS MINES OF THE SOUTH WALES AREA
Written by J.R. Foster-Smith.
Stock no. 2120641
Published by Northern Mine Research Society. 1981. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. British Mining Series No. 18. 54 pages. ISBN: 0901450154. Cover edges are browned, with a little creasing.

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PORTRAIT OF A VILLAGE
Written by Francis Brett Young. Illustrated by Joan Hassall.
Stock no. 2120396
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1937. Very good condition.

Black cloth, gilt titles and vignette. B/w wood engravings. Story of Monks Norton in Worcestershire. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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PORTSKEWETT AND SUDBROOK LOCAL PLAN
Written by G. Griffith; T.G. Davies.
Stock no. 2120395
Published by Monmouth District Council. 1st 1987. Very good condition.

Large format. Spiral bound cardwraps. Draft plan, approved by Monmouth District Council, as a basis for consultation and public participation in preparing the Portskewett/Sudbrook Local Plan. Fold-out maps/plans. Covers are a bit browned with a few grubby marks. A few mis-folds to fold-out pages.

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SWANSEA PORCELAIN
Written by W.D. John; et al.
Stock no. 2120379
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Some light fade marks along cover edges. Wrapper is unevenly browned/faded with some edge-creasing and a few grubby marks.

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A HEREFORDSHIRE MISCELLANY
Written by David Whitehead; John Eisel.
Stock no. 2119833
Published by Lapridge Publications. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition.

Commemorating 150 years of the Woolhope Club. Edited by Whitehead and Eisel with 21 contributors. B/w photos. Green cloth, gilt titles. Limited edition. List of subscribers to rear. ISBN: 1899290087. This is Copy No. 651. Some light wear to cover edges.

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FRAMPTON ON SEVERN AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Written by Rose Hewlett; Jean Speed.
Stock no. 2119811
Published by The Frampton On Severn Village Hall Management Committee. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The evolution of village life including the manorial system and open-field farming, law and order, poor relief, education, entertainment, the importance of the church vestry and later of the parish council. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and maps. ISBN: 0953633993. Some light wear and bumping along cover edges. Contents are excellent. Wrapper is edge-creased and faded to spine.

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NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGY OF A FINE CITY
Written by Brian Ayers.
Stock no. 1811565
Published by Amberley. 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Revised and Updated. An overview of the history and development of the city, beginning with its pre-urban days, through the fundamental changes brought by the Normans, the thriving medieval commercial centre, and on to post-medieval industrialisation, war-damage and post-war development. Cardwraps. B/w photos and colour plates. ISBN: 9781848683723. A nice copy.

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OFFA'S DYKE
Written by J.H. Hewlett.
Stock no. 2119733
Published by Simpkin, Marshall. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Beige cloth spine and brown boards. B/w photos. Browning to covers and pages. Wrapper is badly torn and chipped, with loss and scuffing and foxing.

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A COTSWOLD VILLAGE SCHOOL FROM VICTORIAN TIMES
Written by Michael Boyes.
Stock no. 1811455
Published by The Rissingtons Local History Society. 1st 1997. Nearly fine condition.

An account of the development of education in one rural village - Great Rissington - of which much of this account could apply equally to other small villages in the Cotswolds and elsewhere. Cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 095306610x. A nice, clean copy.

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OUR VILLAGE
Written by Mary Russell Mitford. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson; Alfred Rawlings.
Stock no. 2119098
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1910. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth, gilt titles and gilt shepherd vignette to front cover. 16 tipped-in colour plates by Rawlings. Numerous b/w illustrations by Thomson. Top edge gilt. Covers are unevenly browned. A few chips and nicks at cloth; with a little fraying in places. Plate to opposite page 27 is MISSING (mounting card and tissue-guard are still present, but plate no longer there). Some foxing and page browning.

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RICHMOND AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM THE OLDEN TIME
Written by Richard Crisp.
Stock no. 2118593
Published by Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1866. Almost very good condition.

Leather spine and corners; raised bands to spine; gilt title. With Memoirs and Notes. 7 b/w plates, including frontis. Scuffing and wear to leather on spine and corner edges. A few marks to covers. Grubby marks to a few pages; mostly to prelims. Some pencil annotation to a few pages.

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