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CORNISH TIMES REFLECTED
Written by Martin Lister.
Stock no. 1201870
Published by Tamara Publications. 1st 1988. Fine condition.

A Further Cornucopia of Cornish Fact and Fantasy. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0951282220. SIGNED by author, with dedication to title page.

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THE STORY OF FOWEY (CORNWALL)
Written by John Keast.
Stock no. 1201849
Published by James Townsend and Sons Limited. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition.

Dark blue cloth with gilt titles. B/w photos and illustrations; some fold-out maps. Spine faded.

Price: £55.00 £41.25.

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GOLDEN JUBILEE
Written by Molly Sibbering Jones.
Stock no. 1201841
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of the Southerndown Ladies Golf Club 1905-1955. B/w photos. Wrapper is grubby with some edge-chipping and small area of surface damage to front panel.

Price: £65.00 £48.75.

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GET ROMMEL: THE SECRET BRITISH MISSION TO KILL HITLER'S GREATEST GENERAL
Written by Michael Asher.
Stock no. 1801595
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2004. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The truth behind the brave but impractical plan to send a commando team deep into the desert to assassinate General Rommel. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. B/w plates. 303 pages including index. ISBN: 029784685X. A nice, clean copy in a pictorial wrapper which is lightly scuffed.

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THAT BOARDING-SCHOOL GIRL
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by R.H. Brock.
Stock no. 1302458
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1935. Very good condition.

Embossed red cloth covers, black title to spine. Colour frontis, 4 b/w illustrations. 190 pages. Spine slightly bumped. A few light marks to covers. Book leans to one side slightly. Prize plate to front endpaper. Light foxing to contents else clean.

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MONMOUTHSHIRE MEDLEY VOLUME THREE
Written by Reginald Nichols.
Stock no. 1701894
Published by Reginald Nichols. 1st 1978. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dark blue cloth. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0950541222. SIGNED by author. Wrapper a bit foxed.

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THE SAILOR'S HANDBOOK
Written by Rosanne Hooper.
Stock no. 1701892
Published by Pan Books. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

The Essential Sailing Manual. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0330269216. Covers are grubby.

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I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU
Written by Joan Collins.
Stock no. 1701831
Published by Penarth Past Oral History Group. 1st 1999. Very good condition.

A Scrapbook of Fifty Years of Change in Penarth, from members of Penarth Past Oral History Group. Part 1: Absent Friends. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0953701409. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some pencil annotation.

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THE HISTORIE OF GREAT BRITAINE UNDER THE CONQUESTS OF THE ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES AND NORMANS
Written by John Speed.
Stock no. 1701800
Published by George Humble. 1623. Very good condition.

Their Originals, Manners, Habits, Warres, Coines and Seales: with the Successions, lives, acts etc. of the English Monarchs. Second Edition. Revised and enlarged. Contents lists 10 books; this binding contains the following: Contents, plus 8 page proeme; Books 5 - 10, plus Summary of the whole and 78 page index table. Very large format. Leather binding with raised bands to spine and black title labels and gilt titles. Contains woodcuts. Leather binding is a modern binding, which is faded to spine. NO frontis. Book reads complete with in itself - but starts at book 5. A rare survivor of this historical book!

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 12
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1701751
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807652.

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THE MOSS ROSE PRESS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Linda Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 1701714
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 150 copies. A complete list of the Chepstow Society and Moss Rose Press publications from 1948 to 1985. Green cloth. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0906134331.

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POEMS OF PASSION AND PLEASURE
Written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Illustrated by Dudley Tennant.
Stock no. 1302412
Published by Gay & Hancock. circa 1912. Very good condition.

Limited edition of 500 copies. 20 splendid tipped-in colour plates, reminiscent of Charles Robinson. Each plate has a captioned tissue guard. 267 pages, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Full vellum binding with gilt titles and decoration. Large, heavy format. SIGNED by Wilcox and Tennant to limitation page, this is copy no. 178. Cover edges and spine are just a little grubby. Silk ties are missing. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Untrimmed page edges are dusty and there is some very light fingering otherwise contents are clean. 1 plate has a very light crease to a lower corner, all others present and fine condition.

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