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MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUSES PART I MEDIEVAL HOUSES
Written by Cyril Fox; Lord Raglan.
Stock no. 1828856
Published by National Museum of Wales. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Study of Building Techniques and Smaller House-plans in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. B/w architectural drawings. 114 pages including index plus photos to rear. Light rubbing to board edges. Browning and foxing to endpapers and text block. A few scattered foxspots. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn with a few small closed tears and a tiny chip.

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SWORD AND PLOUGHSHARE: THE STORY OF THE DE BOHUNS AND CALDICOT
Written by T.T. Birbeck.
Stock no. 1828855
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The early history of Caldicot and surrounding community. Limited to 600 copies. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 180 pages. ISBN: 0900278153. Three pale foxspots to top front edge of spine. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly worn at horizontal edges.

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INNS AND TAVERNS OF THE CHEPSTOW DISTRICT
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by T.T. Birbeck.
Stock no. 1828854
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. 8 b/w illustrations plus plan of Chepstow Inns. 103 pages including index. 8.5 x 5.5". SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to front endpaper. Top corner of boards bumped. top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Text block & endpapers browned with some foxing. Grubby finger marks to page 14. The list of Chepstow Inns and their Landlords has some marked with a biro 'x' next to the name. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and edge-worn.

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SWORD AND PLOUGHSHARE: THE STORY OF THE DE BOHUNS AND CALDICOT
Written by T.T. Birbeck.
Stock no. 1828853
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The early history of Caldicot and surrounding community. Limited to 600 copies. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 180 pages. ISBN: 0900278153. Minor mark to rear board. Base of spine lightly shelf worn. Pale foxing to endpapers. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, has some foxing to verso and flaps, lightly worn at horizontal edges with a few tiny closed tears (no loss).

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MEMOIRS OF MONMOUTH-SHIRE 1708
Written by Nathan Rogers. Illustrated by Linda Waters.
Stock no. 1828852
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st thus 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

First published in 1708, this edition limited to 100 copies 1978. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 95 pages. ISBN: 0906134021. Minor foxing to text block else a lovely copy. White pictorial dustwrapper with green titles is lightly edge-rubbed.

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THE UNFORTUNATE VALENTINE MORRIS
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1828851
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth. Limited to 1000 copies. B/w illustrations. Valentine Morris was born in the island of Antigua in 1727 but lived for 30 years at the Piercefield, part of which is now Chepstow racecourse. Light scratch mark to front board (minor). Endpapers browned, minor foxing to text block and some page margins else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed, a little grubby, a little worn at top of spine.

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HENRY MARTEN AND THE LONG PARLIAMENT
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1828850
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first English republican and a leading opponent of Charles I and later of Oliver Cromwell. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 79 pages. ISBN: 0900278188. Heavy knock to top front board corner which is impacting the top corner of contents (very minor). Pencil erasure mark to top of front endpaper. Previous owner's address label to front pastedown. Contents clean. Green & white dustwrapper is grubby & scuffed, rubbed at corners, top front corner repaired with a white label to front and masking tape to rear.

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THE STORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE VOLUME TWO
Written by Arthur Clark.
Stock no. 1328496
Published by Monnow Press. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the Civil War to present times. Maroon boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. 215 pages includes index. ISBN: 0950661805. Some erased pencil markings to front free-endpaper. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and there is a light stain across the top 1.5" of rear panel.

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THE CHURCHYARD YEWS OF GWENT
Written by J. Daryll Evans.
Stock no. 1328495
Published by Archangel Press. 2nd 2007. Nearly fine condition.

Second Edition. Card wraps. B/w photos. A fascinating study. 174 pages. ISBN: 9781905037018.

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GOWER (NN 99)
Written by Jonathan Mullard.
Stock no. 1328471
Published by Collins. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 99. Green boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9780007160679. Light foxing, mainly at top edge of textblock. Tiny crease to lower edge of wrapper spine.

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 8
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1328470
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 090080761X. Spine bumped. Slight damp staining to cover edges. Dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST: THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF A FEMALE INDUSTRIALIST
Written by Victoria Owens.
Stock no. 1828606
Published by Pen & Sword. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When impoverished artistocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Charlotte championed Welsh culture and translated the Mabinogion into English. She also taught herself John's business from the inside. When John died in 1852, she replaced him as head of the ironworks. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber, her sons' tutor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526768810. Lower corners of boards bumped else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bumped corners.

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