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BLACK'S TOURIST'S GUIDE THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF GLOUCESTER, HEREFORD & MONMOUTH
No author listed.
Stock no. 1826389
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1860. Almost very good condition.

Small format. B/w illustrations. Modern brown library binding with gilt title to spine. Ex-lib, Library label to front endpaper. Stamp to verso of frontis, contents clean but browned. Library repairs to hinges using white tape.

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WARWICKSHIRE: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Douglas Hickman.
Stock no. 1826373
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571108318. Boards clean and bright, as are the contents. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has initials and a date in ink to top of front flap, light creasing to lower edge of rear panel, light rubbing to lower corners.

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HEREFORDSHIRE: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by David Verey.
Stock no. 1826372
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. B/w photos. Boards clean and bright. Small name in ink to top of half-title page. Small closed tears (no loss) to top edge of pages 57/59 and 59/60. Else contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, a little scuffed/grubby to rear panel.

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HEREFORDSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1826350
Published by Penguin. 2001. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black vinyl covers, gilt titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 0140710256. Reprint. Tiny, minor brown spot to base of text block else a lovely copy. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is faded at front spine edge and has a damp stain to lower edges, a few small black misprints to front edge of spine.

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THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY VOLUME ONE DUDLEY-WALSALL-LICHFIELD-BURTON
Written by Bob Yate.
Stock no. 1826116
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

(including the Black Country Branches). Oakwood Library of Railway History 154A. Blue cardwraps. B/w photos. 312 pages including index. ISBN: 9780853617006.

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A HISTORY OF THE STRATFORD-UPON-AVON & MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY
Written by R.C. Riley; Bill Simpson.
Stock no. 1825513
Published by Lamplight Publications. 1st thus 2007. Nearly fine condition.

The history of a small proud independent Company in the centre of England, often struggling to remain solvent, but equally resourceful. A journey through time and place with over two hundred photographs, maps and diagrams. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781899246205. A lovely copy.

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PORTRAIT OF A VILLAGE
Written by Francis Brett Young. Illustrated by Joan Hassall.
Stock no. 1323737
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1937. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, gilt titles and vignette. B/w wood engravings. Story of Monks Norton in Worcestershire. Spine bumped. Name and address in ink to half title-page. Large foxspots to preliminary pages, some smaller foxspots to page margins. Dustwrapper is worn and grubby, spine browned with slight loss at top and bottom and also a small hole to centre.

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BOULTON & PAUL AIRCRAFT
Written by Gordon Kinsey.
Stock no. 2138430
Published by Terence Dalton Limited. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a company spanning almost two hundred years and of their achievements within the history of aviation. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ix and 199 pages including index. ISBN: 0861380851. Page edges are lightly browned. Wrapper is a little edge-creased.

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THE COLLIERIES AND COALMINERS OF STAFFORDSHIRE
Written by Richard Stone.
Stock no. 2137946
Published by Phillimore. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9781860774553.

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WORCESTERSHIRE
Written by A.G. Bradley. Illustrated by Thomas Tyndale.
Stock no. 1823538
Published by A. & C. Black. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Original pale blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 24 tissue-guarded colour plates. Folding map to rear. Top edge gilt. A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. viii and 181 pages including index, 2 page publisher adverts for books in same series to rear. Spine browned, red marks to rear cover lower edge and rear edge of spine. Endpapers and prelims browned and fragile. All plates present and lightly browned. Rear joint cracking. Some hinges pulled but binding tight.

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THE BIRMINGHAM JEWELLERY QUARTER: AN ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE MANUFACTORIES
Written by John Cattell; Sheila Ely; Barry Jones.
Stock no. 1823431
Published by English Heritage. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter is remarkable for its dense concentration of converted houses, factories and specialist buildings: a particular combination of structures associated with jewellery and metalworking which does not seem to exist anywhere else in the world. This book describes the development of the Quarter and the various building types in contains. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 1873592485. Small dint to rear spine edge of boards and dustwrapper (as if something heavy was dropped on it). Else a fine copy.

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THE BLACK COUNTRY IRON INDUSTRY: A TECHNICAL HISTORY
Written by W.K.V. Gale.
Stock no. 1823367
Published by The Metals Society. 2nd 1979. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Orange pictorial cardwraps. Fold-out diagrams. ISBN: 0904357236. Spine lightly faded and rubbed to either side. Text block browned and a little grubby. Brown spots to gutter edge of page vii else contents clean.

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