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TRAVELS IN GWENT
Written by Alan Roderick. Illustrated by Bozena Roderick.
Stock no. 1825554
Published by Handpost Books. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0951521322. Large inscription in ink across the top of the front endpaper, also written over plain white labels. Other than that, a fine copy. Price-cut white dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and a little scuffed.

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LIST OF WELSH ENTRIES IN THE MEMORANDA ROLLS 1282-1343
Written by Natalie Fryde.
Stock no. 1825549
Published by University of Wales. 1st 1974. Nearly fine condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. ISBN: 0708305407. Top of spine lightly creased. Contents fine.

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THE SURVIVORS: A DOCUMENTARY RECORD OF FIFTY OF NEWPORT'S FINEST HOUSES
Written by Rex Moreton.
Stock no. 1825548
Published by Vine Press. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition.

Newport, Monmouthshire. Oblong format. Brown cloth spine, green cloth boards with photographic colour onlay to front. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781904192435. A nice clean copy, couple of imperfections to cloth binding, rear pastedown creased (binding error).

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SWORD AND PLOUGHSHARE: THE STORY OF THE DE BOHUNS AND CALDICOT
Written by T.T. Birbeck.
Stock no. 1825539
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1973. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. The early history of Caldicot and surrounding community. Limited to 600 copies. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900278153. Boards grubby with foxing. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, edge-worn with a few small tears and chips, verso is foxed.

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THE LORDSHIP, PARISH AND BOROUGH OF MONMOUTH
Written by Keith Kissack.
Stock no. 1825537
Published by Lapridge Publications. 1st 1996. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The history of Monmouth. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Grey endpapers, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 1899290036. A lovely copy.

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MONMOUTHSHIRE MEDLEY VOLUME THREE
Written by Reginald Nichols.
Stock no. 1825384
Published by Reginald Nichols. 1st 1978. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. Large folding map. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0950541230. Browning and grubby marks to covers. Browning and foxing to text block and endpapers. Contents otherwise clean. Maps present.

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ANAPHORA IN CELTIC AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
Written by Randall Hendrick.
Stock no. 1324956
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

This book examines the major syntactic structures of two Celtic langues, Welsh and Breton, emphasizing their significance for current views of Universal Grammar. Cream boards. 284 pages. ISBN: 1556080662. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small dent to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Pencil annotations to some pages.

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SHAKESPEARE'S PRINCES OF WALES: ENGLISH IDENTITY AND THE WELSH CONNECTION
Written by Marisa R. Cull.
Stock no. 1825056
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2014. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Spotlightinhg the abundance of princes of Wales - English and Welsh alike - appearing onstage in the late Tudor and early Stuart period. New insights not only into that period's politics and theater, but also in to a title that survives, in continued complexity, to this day. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780198716198. Boards lightly bumped at corners. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

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DICTIONARY OF THE PLACE-NAMES OF WALES
Written by Hywel Wyn Owen; Richard Morgan.
Stock no. 1324736
Published by Gomer Press. 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

An important new standard reference work for scholars of language, landscape and settlement history, and for those general readers who are fascinated by the place-names of Wales. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 506 pages. ISBN: 9781843239017. Reprinted with corrections. Spine and corners bumped. A few small indentations to edge of front cover. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just lightly edge creased.

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF DEATH: THE NEOLITHIC CHAMBERED TOMBS IN WALES
Written by George Nash.
Stock no. 1824744
Published by Logaston Press. 1st 2006. Very good condition.

Describing the 100 chambered tombs wihtin Wales that have significant remains. Oblond format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and plans. ISBN: 190439633X. Cover edges lightly rubbed, rear cover has previous seller's label. Gift inscription in ink to title page else contents clean.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE: HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1824724
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1929. Slightly better than very good condition.

Three volumes. Very large format. Beige cloth spine. Light grey boards. Parts I, II and III of volume IV. B/w illustrations. Boards lightly browned, cloth spines very slightly grubby. Foxing to text blocks. Tape marks at gutter edge of title page and first page of volume I. A few foxspots present. Volume I is first edition 1929, volume II is first edition 1932, volume III is first edition 1933. A very handsome set.

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PENDINE RACES: MOTOR RACING OVER FIFTY YEARS
Written by Lynn Hughes.
Stock no. 1824717
Published by Gomer Press. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

'The finest natural speedway imaginable' is how The Motor Cycle describes Pendine Sands in 1920. The Welsh TT, staged over the August Bank Holiday from 1922, was an exuberant, three-day event. Reliving the Glory Days and recording an episode in our sporting and social histsory in danger of being lost. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1859028306. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded at lower edge and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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