RNLI MOTOR LIFEBOATS
Written by Nicholas Leach.
Stock no. 1829472
Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st 2005. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The History and Development of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's motor lifeboats. Large format. B/w photos and diagrams. 160 pages includes index. ISBN: 1843062011. Bump to top of spine at both front and rear edge. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased at top of spine where bumping has occurred.

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THE RUINED ABBEYS OF BRITAIN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Frederick Ross. Illustrated by A.F. Lydon.
Stock no. 1829434
Published by William Mackenzie. Almost very good condition.

Two volumes. Very large format. 14.5 x 11". Dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Bevelled edges. Elaborate red and gold vignette to front covers. All edges gilt. 12 superb colour plates. Numerous b/w text illustrations. Tintern Abbey is the colour frontis and first subject of volume I. Undated. Spines worn to top & tail with board beneath cloth exposed. Corners are rubbed. A few marks to boards. Joints starting to crack. Vertical crease to front endpaper of volume I. Plate opposite page 48 (The Cistercian Abbey of Melrose) and page 124 (The Premonstratensian Abbey of Dryburgh) are missing. Some hinges are pulled but binding tight. Plates are lovely and bright with some minor marks to margins. Scattered foxing throughout both volumes.

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MAUD
Written by Maud Berkeley; Flora Fraser; Elizabeth Longford.
Stock no. 1829418
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Diaries of Maud Berkeley, a remarkable Victorian middle class woman. Adapted by Flora Fraser. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour illustrations. 192 pages. ISBN: 0436256770. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine. Lingering musty odour present.

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MAP OF ROMAN BRITAIN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1829411
Published by Ordnance Survey. 3rd 1956. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. Third Edition. 43 pages with folding colour map to rear. Scale: 16 miles to one inch. Covers lightly browned, edge-worn, small closed tear to front spine edge, a little loss to lower front corner. Name in ink crossed out to top of title page. Top corner of page 43 torn away and a little of the lower corner of same page (not affecting text). Blank verso of page 43 is spattered with different coloured paint spots and a grubby mark. Verso of map is grubby, map is a little browned especially on folds, lower half of map is grubby and has a few paint splashes near the Bristol Channel. Still a tidy working copy.

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF OLD BIDEFORD: VOLUME NINE
Written by Peter Christie.
Stock no. 1829400
Published by Edward Gaskell Publishers. 1st 2016. Very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos of times-gone-by. 158 pages. ISBN: 9781906769703. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Light waving to contents else contents clean.

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TWO VILLAGES
Written by R.F. Bidgood.
Stock no. 1829391
2nd Very good condition.

2nd Edition. The story of Mortehoe and Woolacombe. Grey pictorial card wraps. Staple bound booklet. B/w photos. 64 pages plus folding map to rear. Undated. Spine browned. Staples rusting but still firm. Small previous owner label to inside front cover. Text block browned. Contents clean.

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THE "NIGHTINGALE" SCANDAL
Written by Stanley Thomas. Illustrated by John Dyke.
Stock no. 1829390
Published by Gazette Printing Service. 1st 1959. Very good condition.

Lundy & North Devon in the 18th century. An account of the career of a merchant of the 18th century; a man no better and, perhaps, no worse than his contemporaries, who traded from a small port in Devonshire, but whose name became known throughout the land, Thomas Benson. Pictorial cardwrap booklet with staple binding. A few b/w drawings. 75 pages. Edges lightly rubbed, spine lightly faded to rear. Staples are rusting with some bleeding but still firm. Tiny foxspots to text block.

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THE SAXON CONQUEST OF SOMERSET AND DEVON
Written by H.M. Porter.
Stock no. 1829381
Published by James Brodie Ltd.. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author's attempt to solve the many obscure problems surrounding the origins of Somerset and Devon. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 87 pages including index. Includes 2 page letter from the author to the recipient. Fading to rear board. Foxing and browning to text block. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few closed tears, is a little scuffed and is grubby to rear panel.

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THE GLOSTERS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF A COUNTY REGIMENT
Written by Christopher Newbould; Christine Beresford.
Stock no. 1829373
Published by Alan Sutton. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Gloucestershire Regiment was formed nearly 300 years ago, and is perhaps best known as the only regiment of the British Army which is permitted to wear its badge at the back of the cap as well as the front. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. vii and 143 pages including index. ISBN: 0750900415. Front joint pulled but binding tight. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and is lightly scuffed.

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LONDON: PORTRAIT OF A CITY
Written by Roger Hudson.
Stock no. 1829366
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Compiled by Roger Hudson. From Romans through to the Nineties. Brown cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 272 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with a minor bump to one corner.

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ENGLISH JOURNEY
Written by J.B. Priestley; Margaret Drabble.
Stock no. 1829363
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Being a Rambling but Truthful Account of What One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933. Introduced by Margaret Drabble. Black cloth, b/w photos to front cover and contents. 348 pages includes index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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CHEPSTOW A POEM
Written by Edward Davies; Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1329117
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1967. Very good condition.

1011 copies printed. Card wrap booklet. 19 pages. Staples are rusty. A few tiny foxspots to textblock.

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