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YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN: THE ANTIQUES AND HISTORY OF CHILDCARE
Written by Sally Kevill-Davies.
Stock no. 1824206
Published by Antique Collectors' Club. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

An enthralling and vividly written account of the history of child-raising over the last four centuries, and the everyday objects which were used. Grey cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour & b/w photos throughout. Colour frontis and colour pictorial endpapers. ISBN: 185149135X. Text block a little grubby. Grubby mark to lower corner of pages 286 & 287 (facing pages). Otherwise contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE WEYMOUTH HARBOUR TRAMWAY
Written by J.H. Lucking.
Stock no. 1824115
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Countless summer visitors, as well as passengers for the Channel Islands and France, have come to know Weymouth as 'the place where the trains run through the street'. This comprehensive study provides a full account, from arly unfulfilled proposals in the 1840s, through the line's horse-drawn bneginnings in the 1860s and long years of commercial importance, to the almost complete decline following the withdrawal of freight traffic in 1970. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0860933040. Top corners of boards bumped. Lower board edges browned and with red pen marks to corners and lower text block. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, tiny nick to top 1/3 of spine and corners rubbed.

HISTORIC HALLAMSHIRE
Written by David Hey.
Stock no. 1824081
Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Landmark Collector's Library Series. Larger format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. History in Sheffield's Countryside. B/w photos. ISBN: 1843060493. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

CARY'S NEW ITINERARY
Written by John Cary; Thomas Hasker.
Stock no. 1824055
Published by J. Cary. 6th 1815. Almost very good condition.

Sixth edition with improvements. Cary's New Itinerary or An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross Throughout England and Wales. With Many of the Principle Roads in Scotland From an Actual Measurement by John Cary Under the Direction and Inspection of Thomas Hasker. Brown leather spine and corners, red title label with gilt title. Raised bands to spine. Green marbled paper boards. Folding map of the UK to frontis plus 6 folding maps. Index to the Direct Roads from London. Coach Directory, list of inns throughout the Metropolis from which mail and other stage coaches depart. Index to Country Seats. 946 pages + 3 page booklist to rear of publications by J. Cary. Rebound with new boards, new leather, new endpapers. Some professional paper repair especially to map of UK which is missing a good portion of the UK (see photo). Text block heavily browned, contents also heavily browned and with foxing, some damp staining to margins, some more so than others, text is legible. All plates present with browning and foxing. Overall a good copy for a book 200 years old.

OLD RHONDDA IN PHOTOGRAPHS
Written by Cyril Batstone.
Stock no. 2140772
Published by Stewart Williams. 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807083. 2nd impression. Some browning/foxing to cover edges. Browning to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

CARDIFF A CITY AT WAR
Written by Dennis Morgan.
Stock no. 2140769
Published by Dennis Morgan. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. The story of Cardiff and its people during the second world war. ISBN: 095344550X. A little bumping to spine. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

ABOUT CHEPSTOW
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 2140667
Published by Newport & Monmouthshire Historical Association; The Chepstow Society. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An interesting account of Chepstow with 9 black and white illustrations and pictorial map. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Preface by C. Gordon Joliffe. SIGNED by Joliffe with lengthy dedication to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with browned to spine.

ABERYSTWYTH YESTERDAY
Written by Howard C. Jones.
Stock no. 2140653
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807385. Bumping to spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with fading to spine and edges.

THE DICTIONARY OF WELSH BIOGRAPHY 1941-1970
No author listed.
Stock no. 2140652
Published by The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Together with a supplement to The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940. Red covers with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0954162609. Wrapper has some light edge-creasing.

THE ROYAL CANAL THE COMPLETE STORY
Written by Peter Clarke.
Stock no. 2140595
Published by Elo Publications. 1st IRELAND 1992. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0951959328. SIGNED by author, with a dedication to previous owner on half-title page. Light wear to cover corners. A few marks to outer page edges.

THE TOWN OF CHEPSTOW PART 8
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 2140452
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1975. Almost very good condition.

Card wrap booklet. 500 printed. St. Kingsmark Ward. ISBN: 0900278250. SIGNED by author on compliments slip that is loosely inserted. Some browning and fading to spine. Creasing to cover edges. Some light browning and foxing.

REFLECTIONS
Written by Trevor Evans; et al.
Stock no. 2140446
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1ST 1998. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Limited to 250 copies. Published to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Chepstow Society 1948-1998. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900278455. This is Copy No. 76. Some light indentation marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.