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THE 'AZARDS O' CHIMUCK SZWIPPIN
Written by Keith Morgan. Illustrated by Doug Eaton.
Stock no. 1327841
Published by The Forest Bookshop. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green card wraps. B/w illustrations. The humourous and romantic character of the Forester. Poems mainly in the Forest of Dean dialect. ISBN: 0950592625. SIGNED by the author to half title-page. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed.

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FOLKLORE AND DIALECT OF THE LOWER WYE VALLEY
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1325937
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1973. Almost very good condition.

1000 copies printed of this edition. Green pictorial card wraps. ISBN: 0900278161. Covers are lightly stained. Staples rusty. Crease to lower corner of front cover, also affects the pages. Date in biro to inside front cover. Foxing to textblock.

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A GLOSSARY OF DIALECT & ARCHAIC WORDS USED IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER
Written by J. Drummond Robertson.
Stock no. 1826400
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. 1st 1890. Very good condition.

Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 217 pages. SIGNED by author on half-title page. A few grubby marks to boards. Some pencil annotations and scattered foxspots to contents. Spine & corners lightly rubbed.

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SOURCES OF LONDON ENGLISH: MEDIEVAL THAMES VOCABULARY
Written by Laura Wright.
Stock no. 1820957
Published by Clarendon Press. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0198239092. A few marks to boards. Small bookplate to top of front pastedown.

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BERNARD SHAW'S PHONETICS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COCKNEY SOUND-CHANGES
Written by Joseph Saxe.
Stock no. 1820953
Published by George Allen & Unwin. 1st 1936. Good condition.

Plain cardwraps with title to spine and front. 86 pages. Covers are browned, stained and marked. Base of spine worn. Edges worn. Joints broken, covers detached. Contents otherwise tightly bound.

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ADVENTURES OF A YORKSHIRE FARMER AND HIS SCAPEGRACE NEVVY
Written by Timothy Goorkrodger.
Stock no. 2133863
Published by F.M. Fetherston. Circa 1885. Good condition.

The adventures of a Yorkshire farmer in London. Brown cloth spine, green boards. Text in dialect. 144 pages. Boards worn at edges with loss of paper covering at corners. Lower corner tip lost from rear cover. Tear to gutter between index and first page. Spine has a couple of black marks. Pages browned.

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WESTCOUNTRY WORDS & WAYS
Written by K.C. Phillips.
Stock no. 1819757
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1976. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

South-west dialects. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 144 pages including index. ISBN: 0715570251. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE VOLUME XIII 1840
Written by Sylvanus Urban.
Stock no. 1710403
Published by William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols And Son. 1840. Good condition.

Library binding. January to June 1840. iv 695 pages, b/w illustrations Includes: The Royal Palace of Greenwich; Dialect of Dorsetshire; Topography of Southport; Ancien ship at Mount's Bay; Shottesbrooke Church, Berkshire; Landslip at Lyme Regis; Penny Postage commenced; Trial of the Newport Chartist Rebels; marriage of Victoria and Albert; Carved Ceiling at Black Boy Inn, Chelmsford; First Stone laid of St. Thomas's Hospital; The New Postage system; Estimates for the erection of Nelson's Column; Huge fire at York Minster; Prices of Hay, Straw, Coal, Candles, Corn, Hops etc; numerous other historical events,obituaries, births, marriages and deaths; Index to names at rear. Ex-library (reference) with minimal stamps and new endpapers. 2 pages 225 & 226 are missing and replaced with loosely inserted photocopies.

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OLD CORNWALL VOL. XIII No. 5 AUTUMN 2005
Written by Terry Knight.
Stock no. 1802408
Published by The Federation Of Old Cornwall Societies. 2005. Fine condition.

A twice yearly publication edited by Terry Knight. Colour cardwraps. Includes articles: Penryn around 1926; Women's Land Army memories; St Erth's POW camp; Reminiscences of Truro; Saving Kelyn (dialcect); Jerome - the Copper mining ghost town; plus many other short items. 64 pages. A fine copy.

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THE WIDOW WOMAN
Written by Charles Lee. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 1202028
Published by James Bowden. 1899. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. A Cornish Tale. 2nd edition. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Spine faded.

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IN CHIMLEY CORNER
Written by Jan Stewer; A.J. Coles.
Stock no. 823911
Published by Herbert Jenkins. 1st 1927. Slightly better than very good condition.

A Devonshire dialect book. Orange cloth and titles. Spine very slightly faded. Free endpapers browned else contents fine. A bright copy.

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DEVONSHIRE COURTSHIP
No author listed. Illustrated by W. Wood.
Stock no. 823450
Published by W. Wood. Circa 1869. Very good condition.

Small format. Yellow pictorial paperwraps. A story written in Devonshire dialect. 74 pages + 2 page booklist. Spine rubbed and slightly chipped.

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