THE PLEASURE BOATMEN OF EASTBOURNE
Written by Ted Hide.
Stock no. 1831617
Published by S.B. Publications. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

A record of the families, individuals and boats involved in serving Eastbourne in its rise to become a premier seaside resort over the years. It reflects the hard open-air life that produced some remarkable characters and how Eastbourne's coastline was developed together with some interesting incidents that occurred along its fine seafront. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 9781857703337. A few scuffs to covers else a decent copy.

UNFORGOTTEN EXMOOR: WORDS AND PICTURES FROM A VANISHED ERA VOLUME ONE
Written by David Ramsay; et al.
Stock no. 1831616
Published by Rare Books And Berry. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This collection of reminiscences of Exmoor people, in their own words and family photographs, chronicles a world which is barely recognisable today. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 128 pages including index. ISBN: 9780955711985. Yellow pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and a little scuffed. Else a lovely copy.

NEWTON'S APPLE: ISAAC NEWTON AND THE ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC RENAISSANCE
Written by Peter Aughton.
Stock no. 1831611
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson; The Windrush Press. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Peter Aughton illuminates the life and genius of Isaac Newton—the man whose ideas fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the universe—against the vibrant backdrop of the English Scientific Renaissance. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 215 pages including index. ISBN: 0297843214. A few minor knocks to horizontal board edges. Minor spotting to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE I: THE COTSWOLDS (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; David Verey; Alan Brooks.
Stock no. 1831609
Published by Yale University Press. 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Extensively revised and expanded. The celebrated architecture of the Cotswold villages - stone-built manor houses, cottages, and medieval churches - is covered in full. Longer entries describe market towns such as Cirencester, Fairford and Chipping Camptden, with their great wool churches, almshouses, and charming civic buildings. Black vinyl covers, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, diagrams and illustrations. 826 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300096040. Reprint. Text block slightly dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

YELLS, BELLS & SMELLS: THE STORY OF THE DEVONS, HAMPSHIRES AND DORSETS IN THE SIEGE OF MALTA 1940-43
Written by Christopher Jary; et al.
Stock no. 1831608
Published by Semper Fidelis Publications. 1st 2017. Slightly better than very good condition.

In the Second World War three battalions from three distinguished regiments from Wessex were brigaded together to defend Malta during one of the most vicious and protracted sieges in the history of warfare. The story of those regiments, who became so strongly identified with the island they they adopted her name in their title: 231 Malta Brigade. Yellow cardwraps. B/w photos. xiii and 200 pages including index. ISBN: 9780992903350. A few minor scuffs to covers, contents clean.

OXFORDSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Jennifer Sherwood.
Stock no. 1831607
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oxford's unique collection of university and college buildings both old and new form a major part of this book. The city itself with its medieval walls and castle and ancient churches is also fully described. Black vinyl covers, gilt titles. B/w photos. 948 pages including index. ISBN: 0300096399. Headbands have become unglued from outer spine. Top edge of text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-pworn and is scuffed to rear panel.

JAMES WATT: CRAFTSMAN & ENGINEER
Written by H.W. Dickinson.
Stock no. 1831597
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1935. Almost very good condition.

This book examines the career of James Watt as a craftsman and engineer, rather than offering a purely narrative biography. Watt began his life as a maker of mathematical instruments, and throughout his working life enjoyed the challenge of such skilled work. Red cloth, gilt titles. 12 b/w plates and numerous b/w illustrations. xvi and 207 pages including index. Spine sunned/browned iwth some foxing. Boards are faded, grubby and foxed. Text block browned with foxing, foxing bleeding on to page margins. Endpapers a little browned and grubby. A few foxspots to contents.

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE STEAM ENGINE
Written by H.W. Dickinson.
Stock no. 1831596
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1938. Almost very good condition.

This volume details the steam engine as the most dynamic factor in the Industrial Revolution, freeing humanity from their age-long dependence upon the power of water, wind, and animals, or of their own muscles. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 11 b/w plates plus b/w illustrations. xvi and 255 pages including index. Spne is heavily sunned/faded with a few marks and light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Fading to edges of rear boad and a few marks. Text block browned with some foxing. Endpapers browned, some foxing present to contents.

HOARDS, HOUNDS AND HELMETS: A CONQUEST-PERIOD RITUAL SITE AT HALLATON, LEICESTERSHIRE
Written by Vicki Score; et al.
Stock no. 1831591
Published by University of Leicester. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Leicester Archaeology Monograph 21. Survey and excavation between 2001 and 2009 at Hellaton, Leciestershire, revealed a hilltop ritual site with numerous special deposits of metalwork and animal bones, many of them dating to around the time of the Roman invasion in AD 43. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w and colour illustrations. xvii and 302 pages including index. ISBN: 9780956017963. Boards lightly scuffed, lower corners very slightly bumped. Light wear to base of spine. Initials and date in ink to top corner of free front endpaper. Contents clean.

SKARA BRAE: A PICTISH VILLAGE IN ORKNEY
Written by V. Gordon Childe.
Stock no. 1831590
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located along the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney. The site was discovered following a storm exposing the presence of stone structures within the coastal sand dunes. Childe, who would be the first to admit he was better at writing than digging, which he loathed, excavated carefully, acknowledging the work of every digger involved in the process of carefully examining and cataloguing the site. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos. xiii and 208 pages plus plates to rear. Top edge brown. Spine lightly faded to top & tail, a few minor marks to boards. Text block slightly grubby. Foxing present, mainly to text block and prelims. A lovely copy overall.

PATTERNS OF POWER IN EARLY WALES
Written by Wendy Davies.
Stock no. 1831584
Published by Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is an exploration of the nature of power in early medieval Wales. Wendy Davies examines the distribution of power, territorial and social, and traces the ways in which contemporaries defined this fundamental concept. O'Donnell Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford 1983. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 103 pages. ISBN: 0198201532. Hinge between half-title page and title page is pulled at top half but binding is tight. Contents clean. Green dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE TOWN OF CHEPSTOW: PART 10 INDEX
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1331417
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1975. Almost very good condition.

Number 23 in The Chepstow Society's Pamphlet Series. Red card wraps. Index only. ISBN: 0900278277. Creasing to cover edges, with some chipping and small tears. Foxing to outer page edges.