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THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley; B. Laurie. Illustrated by Arthur Gatlish.
Stock no. 405636
Published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.. 1st thus 1932. Very good condition.

A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby. Abridged by Laurie. Blue pictorial cloth. 8 colour plates. 224 pages. Book: 1 plate is MISSING. Front joint is cracked leading to first gathering being a little loose. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Small burn mark to edge of front and rear cover, affecting some of the textblock edge. Corners bumped. Foxing mainly to page edges.

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FROGS
Written by Gerald Donaldson. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 448814
Published by Windward. 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A charming and amusing collection of tales including the powers and perculier habits of frogs! Cream boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 127 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. ISBN: 0711200378. Top and tail of spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Wrapper slightly unevenly faded with rubbed corners.

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OUR PETS
No author listed.
Stock no. 448837
Published by The Alexandra Publishing Co.. Circa 1900. Good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Full page colour illustrations plus two-tone pictures. 8 pages. Untearable book. Spine a little torn. Corners rubbed. Pages slightly crinkled. A nice example of an early untearable book.

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THE YELLOW COACH
Written by Elisabeth Kyle. Illustrated by Alexy Pendle.
Stock no. 448841
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1976. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. A Long-Ago Children book. A children's story set in historical France. ISBN: 0434949183. Wrapper slightly edge-torn but with little loss.

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MEN OF MONMOUTHSHIRE
Written by Leonard Twiston Davies.
Stock no. 822297
Published by Western Mail And Echo Limited. 1st 1933. Slightly better than very good condition.

Green cloth. B/w photos. Top and tail of spine slightly bumped.

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GLAMORGANSHIRE PLACE-NAMES
Written by Thomas Morgan.
Stock no. 822305
Published by John E. Southall. 1st 1901. Fair condition.

With Names of Mountains, Fields and Historic Places. Grey card wraps. 121 pages + book list. Ex-library with labels on inside of front cover else contents very good. Front cover almost detached.

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GWENT ITS LANDSCAPE AND NATURAL HISTORY
Written by Colin Titcombe.
Stock no. 822257
Published by C. Titcombe. 1st 1998. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Colour photos. Gwent natural history as reflected in the diaries of the author. ISBN: 0953275604.

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WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN SOUTH WALES INCLUDING THE COURSE OF THE WYE
Written by Thomas Roscoe. Illustrated by D. Cox; et al..
Stock no. 822168
Published by C. Tilt and Simpkin and Co.. 1837. Very good condition.

Dark green leather spine and corners. Raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers. 48 plates including frontis and title vignette. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Spine edges lightly rubbed. Corners bumped and rubbed. Frontis and title page heavily browned, a few scattered foxspots throughout but generally a bright clean copy.

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CHEPSTOW PRINTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 822176
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1981. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. ISBN: 0906134129. Dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and has a few marks.

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CHEPSTOW PRINTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 822181
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. ISBN: 0906134129. Some minor foxing to outer page edges and endpapers. Dustwrapper is scuffed and lightly sunned.

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SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CAMBRIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
No author listed.
Stock no. 822241
Published by Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1914. Very good condition.

Held at Dolgelley. Orange paperwraps. B/w illustrations. 42 pages. Contents fine. Covers unevenly faded.

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OLD KING COLE A POP-UP KIT
No author listed. Illustrated by Rowan Barnes-Murphy.
Stock no. 822104
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contents loose inside a green pictorial cardwrap cover. Contents include instructions to make your pop-up and the pieces to do so. ISBN: 0722656084. Covers lightly edge-creased with a tiny closed tear to one edge. Contents complete and unused.

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