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BYGONE STEYNING BRAMBER AND BEEDING
Written by Aylwyn Guilmant.
Stock no. 1327772
Published by Phillimore. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A powerful, pictorial evocation of the changing face of the three places during the last century. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850336694. Minimal bumping to spine. Tiny mark to top edge of front cover. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper (new publisher's price sticker above) has minimal edge creasing.

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THE HISTORY OF KENT COUNTY CRICKET VOLUME ONE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827985
Published by Kent County Cricket Club. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Being a reprint of the original text of 1907, edited by The Right Hon. Lord Harris, including Appendices A.B.C.D. & E, the last published in 1910. Blue cloth boards, black titles. Pale foxing to top edge of text block. Boards bright and clean. Contents clean.

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THE HISTORY OF KENT COUNTY CRICKET VOLUME TWO 1910-1984
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827983
Published by Kent County Cricket Club. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Being a reprint of Appendices F.G.H. & I. first published between 1924 & 1985. Blue cloth boards, black titles. Boards clean and bright. Some minor marks to text block. Contents clean.

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SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CAISTER CASTLE
Written by Dawson W. Turner.
Stock no. 1827724
Published by Whittaker & Co.. 1st 1842. Almost very good condition.

Full title is: Sketch of the History of Caister Castle, Near Yarmouth; Including Biographical Notices of Sir John Fastolfe and of Different Individuals of the Paston Family. Edited by Dawson Turner. Cloth boards with blind tooling and borders to both sides. Gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Pedigree of Paston family folds-out to rear. Spine browned, worn & frayed at top & tail. Boards a little marked. Some scattered foxing mainly to margins.

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ROMAN COLCHESTER
Written by M.R. Hull.
Stock no. 1827718
Published by The Society Of Antiquaries Of London. 1st 1958. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XX. Large format. Brown cloth boards. B/w photos, illustrations and plans, some fold-out. A few minor foxspots to text block. Contents are clean.

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HISTORY OF SANDHURST THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE
Written by Sam Chesterman; Kitty Dancy.
Stock no. 1327416
Published by Sam Chesterman. Circa 1986. Very good condition.

Green cardwraps. 178 pages. ISBN: 0951205005. A few light marks to rear cover and also a patch of surface paper damage (removal of a label?). Foxing to textblock.

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HISTORIC HASTINGS
Written by J. Manwaring Baines.
Stock no. 1827703
Published by Cinque Port Press Ltd.. 1st thus 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Amended and revised edition. Red boards, gilt titles. 438 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0948869003. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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THE CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND: THE SOUTH-EAST
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Priscilla Metcalf; et al.
Stock no. 1827634
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2005. Very good condition.

Bright pink spine with gilt title, grey cloth boards. B/w photos. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed on one end and one side, spine has a few ink splashed. Still a nice copy.

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BALDOCK: THE EXCAVATION OF A ROMAN AND PRE-ROMAN SETTLEMENT, 1968-72
Written by I.M. Stead; Valery Rigby.
Stock no. 1827620
Published by Society For The Promotion Of Roman Studies. 1st 1986. Slightly better than very good condition.

Britannia Monograph Series No. 7. The excavations at Baldock, Herfordshire, described in this reort were carried out by the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, Department of the Environment. They were prompted by the discovery of a rich La Tene III burial which was found while constructing a road on a housing estate and whose finds had been disperssed before the archaeologists were notified. Large format. Cardwraps. B/w sketches and illustrations. Text block slightly browned. Covers slightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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EDWARDIAN WORTHING
Written by Rob Blann.
Stock no. 1326522
Published by Rob Blann. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Eventful era in a lifeboat town. Large format. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 194 pages. ISBN: 0951627716. SIGNED by the author to front free-endpaper. Spine and corners bumped, some small dents to cover edges. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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THE BOOK OF WATFORD
Written by J.B. Nunn.
Stock no. 1826988
Published by J B & L V Nunn. 2nd 2003. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. From small and insignificant beginnings Watford grew to have a printing and engineeering impact way beyond that which could be expected of a small market town. This book is a 'portrait' of the town and presents a wide and varied picture of life through past decades. Large format. Green cloth boards wtih gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 0953691810. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded at spine edges and has a few minor grubby marks.

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ALFRED HAMBROOK'S MID KENT: THROUGH TIME
Written by Andrew Ashbee.
Stock no. 1826391
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Alfred N. Hambrook was a stationer and printer whose shop in Snodland High Street served the community for around fifty years from 1901. His postcards of Snodland and district are well known and he produced a great number of other views with his brother. This book concentrates on an area of mid Kent all within about a dozen miles of Snodland. Hambrook was a good photographer and his images show a way of life and a landscape now much changed by the trappings of modern society. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 9781848689343. A lovely copy.

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