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THE FINDING OF NINA
Written by Christine R. Shand.
Stock no. 1325261
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1899. Almost very good condition.

Red decorated cloth, gilt title to spine. 96 pages plus 8 page book list. B/w frontis. Spine and corners bumped. Covers a bit grubby. Prize inscription in ink to front free-endpaper, small margin tear to same page. Endpapers and contents are browned. Front joint is cracked showing webbing. Grubby fingermarks to contents.

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EVA AND HER PLAYFELLOWS A BOOK OF ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE YOUNG
Written by C.M. Smith.
Stock no. 1325259
Published by Dean & Son. Circa 1862. Good condition.

Blue embossed cloth with gilt decoration. Cream endpapers. 4 hand-coloured plates (including the title-page). 255 pages. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped, wear to top of spine. Covers scuffed. Glue marks to joints. Some hinges pulled.

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PHOEBE'S FORTUNES
Written by Mrs Robert O'Reilly.
Stock no. 1325258
Published by Strahan & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1890. Good condition.

Blue decorated cloth with gilt title labels. B/w engravings. 343 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth slightly grubby/scuffed. Prize plate to front pastedown. One gather of pages is almost detached (the staples have rusted). Some foxing to contents.

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NIGHTLIGHT TATTOO
Written by M.T. Candler. Illustrated by John Benison.
Stock no. 1325256
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth covers with red title to spine and vignette of toy soldier to front. B/w text illustrations. 197 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, slight fading to lower cover edges. Foxing to textblock. A couple of pages have slightly ragged edges where they have been opened after the binding process. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, slightly grubby and edge rubbed.

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THE GLORY OF BYZANTIUM AND EARLY CHRISTENDOM
Written by Antony Eastmond.
Stock no. 1825578
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Gold coloured cloth with dark blue titles. All edges gilt. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780714848105. A few scuff marks to boards. Contents clean.

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MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STAINED GLASS IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Written by Paul Williamson.
Stock no. 1825575
Published by V&A Publications. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The stained glass collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest in the world. This book represents a treasury of medieval and Renaissance imagery. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 1851774033. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded, minor scuffing to rear panel.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
Written by J.K. Rowling.
Stock no. 1825569
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fifth in the Harry Potter series. Pictorial boards. 766 pages. ISBN: 0747551006. Light vertical crease to spine. Tiny nick to lower front board joint. Lower board and spine lightly bumped. Page edge browning else cotnents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and slightly edge-creased.

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ROAD TRANSPORT GWENT
Written by Paul Heaton.
Stock no. 1825562
Published by P.M. Heaton Publishing. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition.

The first in a series of photographic records dealing with road transport in South Wales and the Border Country. Features firms operating in Gwent, Monmouthshire. Included are fleets involved in a wide range of activities from tippers to steel haulage, furniture removals, livestock transport and heavy haulage. Large format. Green and red pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. 112 pages. ISBN: 1872006175. Lower corners lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, else a nice copy.

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NEWPORT EAST OF THE RIVER (IMAGES OF WALES)
Written by Rachael Anderton.
Stock no. 1825560
Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

A pictorial journey around the east side of the River Usk in Newport, South Wales. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0752424629. Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed. Large gift inscription in felt-tip pen to half-title page. Else contents clean.

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MERLIN'S MAN
Written by Lansdale Humphreys.
Stock no. 1825559
Published by P.M. Heaton Publishing. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Love, War and Adventure in the Life of a Welsh Seafarer (Richard Humphreys). Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 187200606X. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf worn else a lovely copy.

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NEWPORT WEST OF THE RIVER (ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS SERIES)
Written by Alex Dawson.
Stock no. 1825558
Published by The Chalford Publishing Company. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

A fascinating collection of photographs of Newport vividly illustrating the enormous changes that have taken place on the west side of the river Usk in the last hundred years. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 0752403389. Corners lightly rubbed, light creasing and scuffing to rear cover. Name in ink to title page. Else contents clean.

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TRAVELS IN GWENT
Written by Alan Roderick. Illustrated by Bozena Roderick.
Stock no. 1825554
Published by Handpost Books. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0951521322. Large inscription in ink across the top of the front endpaper, also written over plain white labels. Other than that, a fine copy. Price-cut white dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and a little scuffed.

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