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A MANOR BOOK OF OTTERY SAINT MARY
Written by Catherine Durning Whetham; Margaret Whetham; W.C.D. Whetham.
Stock no. 2116763
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1913. Very good condition.

Red brick cloth with gilt title to spine. Note on the history of the dependent Manor of Cadhay by W.C.D. Whetham. Bumping to corners. A few marks/spotting to covers. Foxing to prelims and outer page edges.

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THE GREATER ABBEYS OF ENGLAND
Written by Abbot Gasquet. Illustrated by Warwick Goble.
Stock no. 2116754
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth covers. Gilt decorative and text. A fascinating insight into the English monastic life exquisitely illustrated in colour. Top edge gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine, with a couple of chips to cloth at top. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing. A few page edges have tears, with a bit of loss, where at one time pages were uncut and they have not been cut neatly.

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MEMORIALS OF OLD YORKSHIRE
Written by T.M. Fallow.
Stock no. 2116734
Published by George Allen & Sons. 1909. Very good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles. B/w photos. Spine is faded and bumped; a little fraying to cloth at top. Corners are bumped and worn. Some foxing. All plates present.

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CATHEDRALS
No author listed.
Stock no. 2116479
Published by Great Western Railway Company. 1st 1924. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Card wraps. With 74 illustrations by photographic reproductions and 74 drawings. 1" tear to base of spine. Cover edges are browned and creased. Foxing throughout. Wrapper is unevenly browned and foxed, with tears and chips; some bits of loss along edges.

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METRO MEMORIES
Written by Dennis F. Edwards; Ron Pigram.
Stock no. 2116316
Published by Bloomsbury Books. 1st thus 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An armchair odyssey through the countryside served by the Metropolitan railway. Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 1870630955. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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A HISTORY OF THE SHIP LETTERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Alan W. Robertson.
Stock no. 2115920
Published by Pardy & Son Ltd.. Circa 1955. Almost very good condition.

An edition on Art Paper Limited to 600 copies. Large format. Blue cloth 'folders'. One volume contains sections A-D, next volume contains Section E (the catalogue) and third volume contains Supplement No. 4 (Section E, Part 4). Many b/w photos. SIGNED by author to Volume containing sections A-D. This is copy no. 353. Ex-lib. with some old library stamp marks etc. Covers have some uneven fading and a few marks. Foxing to outer page edges; some page browning.

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GLAMORGAN HISTORIAN VOLUME THREE
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1606455
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is edge torn and repaired to verso with tape, with large repaired tear across bottom of rear panel, some loss.

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GLAMORGAN HISTORIAN VOLUME SIX
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1606453
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1969. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Numerous photographs, plans, drawings and engravings plus 16 pages of colour plates of Swansea porcelain. Pale blue cloth. 270pp includes index. 9 x 5.5". Spine bumped, with slight creasing. Wrapper is worn at top and tail of spine, with small tear at base, and creasing to front flap.

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 4
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1606434
Published by Stewart Williams. 1983. Very good condition.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807504. Inscriptions to verso of font endpaper and top of title page.

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BOX 1299
Written by Ernest George Spater.
Stock no. 2115834
Published by Eagle Star. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of the contents of a box owned by the Swansea agency of the Palladium Life Assurance Society. B/w illustrations. 37 pages. Author not name in book but British Library confirms Spater. Some uneven fading to cover edges. Rust marks from staples to front pastedown and endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Old compliments slip stapled to front flap of wrapper - now showing rust marks. Wrapper has some tears and chips; minimal loss, as tears have been repaired to verso with brown paper tape.

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AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD
Written by Jane Pettigrew.
Stock no. 1403355
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Between 1901 and the outbreak of the first world war, Britain enjoyed what was often referred to as The Golden Age and this time of greater wealth and freedom encouraged a more enlightened attitude to the upbringing of the Edwardian child. Oblong format. B/w photos. Colour & b/w illustrations. 160 pages. ISBN: 0316888656. Spine and corners a little bumped.A little fading to board edges. A few marks to boards. Greasy mark to front pastedown. Contents are clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is a little edgeworn . Browning to spine and wrapper edges. Small tear to front panel.

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