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BRECKNOCK & ABERGAVENNY AND MONMOUTHSHIRE CANALS
Written by R. Alan Stevens.
Stock no. 1327155
Published by Goose and Son. 1st 1974. Good condition.

Green card wraps. B/w photos. Towpath Guide No. 2. ISBN: 0900404264. Covers are edge rubbed. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to front cover. Spine is marked. "History Dept" written in biro to inside front cover. Page browning and foxing throughout else contents clean.

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MONMOUTH AND THE RIVER WYE IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Written by Andrew Helme.
Stock no. 1327154
Published by Alan Sutton. 1st 1989. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. From Goodrich to Brockweir. ISBN: 0862994810. Minimal rubbing to corners. Small mark to margin of preliminary pages and to textblock.

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SAINTS AND SAILING SHIPS
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1327142
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Vale Series Vol. IV. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Spine slightly bumped. Bookplate to front pastedown. Faint foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge worn.

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MOUNTAINS AND OREFIELDS: METAL MINING LANDSCAPES OF MID AND NORTH-EAST WALES
Written by Nick Jones; Mark Walters; Pat Frost.
Stock no. 1327029
Published by Council For British Archaeology. 1st 2004. Very good condition.

CBA Research Report 142. Large format. Cardwraps. B/w photos, diagrams and maps. 192 pages. ISBN: 1902771478. Some light creasing to page corner tips else contents clean. Lower corners and spine bumped and worn, damp damage to base of textblock.

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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAY
Written by Peter Johnson.
Stock no. 1827607
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 2nd 2009. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition, revised. The restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and the Ffestiniog Railway at Porthmadog and with it the return of steam trains to Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass is a momentous achievementin the story of Britain's heritage railways. Here we revisit the railway and bring its intriguing story up to date. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9780860936268. Minor bumping to base of spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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TREUDDYN: PAST & PRESENT DDOE A HEDDIW
Written by Philip Lloyd.
Stock no. 1827604
Published by Pwyllgor Mileniwm Truddyn Millennium Committee. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition.

History of a village in North Wales, Flintshire. Large format. Green pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 187242497X. Spine and spine edges faded else a nice, clean copy.

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CHEPSTOW URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. NEW CATTLE MARKET, STATION ROAD
Written by J.N. Jefferies.
Stock no. 1827469
1st 1921. Very good condition.

Planning for the New Cattle Market. 'General Conditions, Specification, Schedule of Prices, and Form of Tender, for the work required to be done in removing the present cattle market near the shipyard and erecting and completely finishing the New Cattle Market, Station Road, Chepstow, and all other works incidental thereto, for and on behalf of the Chepstow Urban District Council. Large format. Staple bound carwraps. An interesting piece of local history. Uneven browning to covers. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. A few minor marks to contents but generally clean.

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THE VALLEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2: THE TIME OF OUR LIVES
Written by C.M. Kelly.
Stock no. 1827467
Published by Valley & Vale. 1st 1997. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. A People's History of the Garw, Llynfi and Ogmore Valleys. ISBN: 189898607X. Slight lean to spine. Edges lightly rubbed. A few minor marks to title page else contents clean.

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LANDSLIDES IN SOUTH WALES VALLEYS
Written by George Knox.
Stock no. 1827465
Published by The South Wales Institute Of Engineers. 1967. Almost very good condition.

Excerpt from Proceedings, Volume XLIII, nos. 2 and 3, 1927/28 with discussion. Pages 161-281 of said Proceeedings. Greem cardwraps. A few b/w photos and charts. Name in ink to front cover. A few grubby marks to covers. Glued binding is drying out but currently pages are holding although some hinges are weak. A few minor fox spots present.

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DAVID MORGAN 1833-1919: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MASTER DRAPER IN SOUTH WALES
Written by Aubrey Niel Morgan.
Stock no. 1827463
Published by The Starling Press. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Biography of David Morgan, the founder of David Morgan Limited, department store in Cardiff. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0903434318. Light fading and vertical crease to spine. Text block browned. Endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and foxed, price-cut to front and rear flap.

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THE BOOK OF CARDIFF
Written by Christopher J. Evans.
Stock no. 1827462
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Conference Souvenir Cardiff 1937. 'Presented to the delegates at the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers'. Edited by Chris. J. Evans. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, vignette to front. B/w photos. Boards grubby & stained, spine lightly faded, shelf-worn at top & tail. Text block browned, some scattered foxing present to contents.

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FAR OFF THINGS
Written by Arthur Machen.
Stock no. 1326910
Published by Three Imposters. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first volume of the author's autobiography, describing his childhood in the Gwent countryside, and his early years as a struggling writer in London. This annotated limited edition (250 copies) is published to mark the authors 150th anniversary. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Green endpapers. 176 pages. B/w photos. Foreword by Catherine Fisher. ISBN: 9781847716552. This is copy no. 134. Minimal bumping to spine. Fading to base of spine. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges.

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