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WEEK ST. MARY VILLAGE: A COMMUNITY AT LARGE
Written by David M. Martin.
Stock no. 1826055
Published by David Martin. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition.

The village of Week St. Mary, in North Cornwall, has a rich and varied history reaching back some 2,000 years. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780955721908. A lovely copy.

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THE ORNAMENTAL WILDERNESS IN THE ENGLISH GARDEN
Written by James Bartos.
Stock no. 1826037
Published by Unicorn. 1st 2022. Nearly fine condition.

A survey of the designed landscapes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Matt pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781914414350. Minor rubbing to corners else a lovely copy.

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THE BOOK OF KINGSTON
Written by Shaan Butters.
Stock no. 1826035
Published by Baron Birch. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. The story of Kingston in Surrey. ISBN: 0860235629. Light scuffing to boards. Slight grubbiness to text block. Contents clean. Number 346 of a Limited Edition.

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BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE: THE 1914 CAMPAIGN
Written by Andrew Rawson.
Stock no. 1825690
Published by Pen & Sword Military. 1st 2014. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This book concentrates on the British Expeditionary Force's defensive actions during the retreat from Mons through to the advance to the River Aisne, then the first days of trench warfare and its move north to Ypres, where is endured three long weeks of German attacks. Includes many b/w maps. Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 9781473823839. Top of spine bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper has corresponding crease to top of spine (minor).

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AA COMMAND: BRITAIN'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Colin Dobinson.
Stock no. 1825678
Published by Methuen. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences of the Second World War. B/w tables, photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0413765407. A lovely copy with no significant faults.

Price: £105.00 £75.00.

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SUDBROOK PULP MILL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1825640
Published by The Wiggins Teape Group. 1st 1958. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. brown patterned boards. B/w photos. Boards browned and rubbed at corners. Contents clean. Includes a letter regarding the opening of the Mill.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART I OF VOLUME IV)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1825630
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

Very large format. Cloth spine. Paper boards with black titles. Part I of Volume IV. From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Containing the following parishes and hamlets in the hundred of Caldicot: Chepstow, St. Arvans, Penterry, Mounton, Mathern, St. Pierre, Runstone, Portskewet, Sudbrook, Caldicot, Ifton, Caerwent, The Chace or Forest of Wentwood. Boards rubbed and worn at corners, boards marked, spine grubby. Name in ink to front pastedown. Front joint starting to crack but binding is tight. Scattered foxspots (pale) throughout and a few instances of grubby fingermarks to margins. Newspaper cutting pasted to rear pastedown. Some pencil annotation.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART III OF VOLUME IV)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1825629
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1933. Very good condition.

Very large format. Cloth spine. Paper boards with black titles. Part III of Volume IV. From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Containing Title, Indices of Names and Places, Addenda and Corrigenda (Together with 5 plates to be intserted in Parts I and II). Colour folding map frontis showing the Hundred of Caldicot. Boards waterstained, marked and browned. Score mark to rear board and slight surface paper damage to top rear corner. Boards slightly bowed. A few fingermarks and foxspots to contents. Frontis map is beautifully clean and bright.

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THE ESTATE AND HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF SIR DANIEL FLEMING OF RYDAL HALL, WESTMORLAND FROM 1688-1701
Written by Blake Tyson.
Stock no. 1325302
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A complete edition of the text of the second account book covering the last period of Sir Daniel's life before his death on 25 March 1701. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1873124333. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.

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THE CHURCH NOTES OF SIR STEPHEN GLYNNE FOR CUMBRIA (1833-1872)
Written by Lawrence Butler.
Stock no. 1325297
Published by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 1st 2011. Fine condition.

Architectural descriptions of 50 churches in the modern Cumbria which were inspected between 1833 and 1872. An extremely accurate and valuablle record of the fabric and fittings before their removal in restoration or in the total demolition of churches. B/w photos and illustrations. 143 pages. Extra Series XXXVI. ISBN: 9781873124529. Minimal rubbing at corners.

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POWYS (BUILDINGS OF WALES)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Robert Scourfield; Richard Haslam.
Stock no. 1825603
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red vinyl, gilt titles. Buildings of Wales series. Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Breconshire. B/w illustrations and colour photos. 656 pages. ISBN: 9780300185089. Small bump to lower front corner and to vertical front edge. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Bruce A. Bailey; Bridget Cherry.
Stock no. 1825602
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black vinyl covers, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and plans, colour photos. ISBN: 9780300185072. A lovely copy.

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