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CARDIFF NOTES PICTURESQUE AND BIOGRAPHICAL
Written by J. Kyrle Fletcher. Illustrated by B.T.A. Griffiths.
Stock no. 1325731
Published by J. Kyrle Fletcher. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, b/w plates. Some foxing to contents. Spine is slightly bumped and faded.

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SEVERN BRIDGE
Written by Samuel Baldwyn Rogers.
Stock no. 1325708
Published by Merlin Bookshop. Circa 1974. Nearly fine condition.

Facsmile of the 1845 'Memoranda Relative to a Magnificent Toll-Free Stone Bridge Across the River Severn...Between the New Passage in Gloucestershire and the Black-Rock in Monmouthshire. Small card wrap booklet. 8 pages. ISBN: 0904376001. Staples rusty. Some very slightly fading to spine and cover edges.

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SOUTH GLAMORGAN: A COUNTY HISTORY
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1826108
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Stewart Williams. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807199. Light shelf wear to base of spine. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and scuffed.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES
Written by D. Emrys Evans.
Stock no. 1325627
Published by University of Wales. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

This historical sketch throws much light on the character and problems of a university. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers partly browned. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some loss and heavily foxed.

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MEMOIRS OF THE SIRHOWY BRANCH 1868 - 1960
Written by W.W. Tasker.
Stock no. 1325580
Published by Treowen Press. 1st 1994. Very good condition.

Including Staff and Locomotive Records. Card wraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0952480301. Spine slightly faded, some very slight creasing to lower corner of front cover. Contents fine.

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SUDBROOK PULP MILL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1825640
Published by The Wiggins Teape Group. 1st 1958. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. brown patterned boards. B/w photos. Boards browned and rubbed at corners. Contents clean. Includes a letter regarding the opening of the Mill.

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BRITISH RAILWAYS PAST AND PRESENT No. 26 SOUTH WALES PART 1: GWENT AND ROUTES TO DOWLAIS AND MERTHYR
Written by Don Gatehouse; Geoff Dowling.
Stock no. 1325324
Published by Past and Present Publishing Ltd.. 1996. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Over 260 photographs in colour and b/w. ISBN: 1858950821. Some slight rubbing to cover edges. Pale page edge browning else contents clean.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART I OF VOLUME IV)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1825630
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

Very large format. Cloth spine. Paper boards with black titles. Part I of Volume IV. From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Containing the following parishes and hamlets in the hundred of Caldicot: Chepstow, St. Arvans, Penterry, Mounton, Mathern, St. Pierre, Runstone, Portskewet, Sudbrook, Caldicot, Ifton, Caerwent, The Chace or Forest of Wentwood. Boards rubbed and worn at corners, boards marked, spine grubby. Name in ink to front pastedown. Front joint starting to crack but binding is tight. Scattered foxspots (pale) throughout and a few instances of grubby fingermarks to margins. Newspaper cutting pasted to rear pastedown. Some pencil annotation.

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A HISTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNDRED OF CALDICOT (PART III OF VOLUME IV)
Written by Joseph Bradney.
Stock no. 1825629
Published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. 1st 1933. Very good condition.

Very large format. Cloth spine. Paper boards with black titles. Part III of Volume IV. From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Containing Title, Indices of Names and Places, Addenda and Corrigenda (Together with 5 plates to be intserted in Parts I and II). Colour folding map frontis showing the Hundred of Caldicot. Boards waterstained, marked and browned. Score mark to rear board and slight surface paper damage to top rear corner. Boards slightly bowed. A few fingermarks and foxspots to contents. Frontis map is beautifully clean and bright.

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KILVERT'S DIARY 1870-1879
Written by Francis Kilvert; William Plomer.
Stock no. 1325314
Published by Century Hutchinson Ltd.. 1st thus 1986. Very good condition.

Life in the English Countryside in Mid-Victorian Times. An Illustrated Selection Edited and Introduced by William Plomer. Red cloth, gilt title to spine and elaborate onlay to front. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0712693978. Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean.

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BRADSHAW'S GUIDE TO THE RAILWAYS OF WALES VOLUME SEVEN
Written by John Christopher; Campbell McCutcheon.
Stock no. 1325313
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2015. Fine condition.

Covering the South Wales Railway, the Great Western Railway, the Cambrian lines and the Chester & Holyhead Railway as well as the many branch lines. Cardwraps. 96 pages. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781445638515.

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POWYS (BUILDINGS OF WALES)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Robert Scourfield; Richard Haslam.
Stock no. 1825603
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red vinyl, gilt titles. Buildings of Wales series. Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Breconshire. B/w illustrations and colour photos. 656 pages. ISBN: 9780300185089. Small bump to lower front corner and to vertical front edge. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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