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YESTERDAYS NEWPORT
Written by Terry Underwood.
Stock no. 2139277
Published by Terry Underwood. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Book One Photographs of Old Newport up to and including the Year 1920. A pictorial record describing the way we were, where we lived, worked and played; memories of yesterdays contributed by the people of Newport in Gwent. Brown cloth, gilt. Sepia photos. ISBN: 0907143008. Page edge browning; some marks. Wrapper is edge-creased with closed tear to rear panel; a few nicks.

THE WAY WE WERE IN NEWPORT
Written by Terry Underwood.
Stock no. 2139276
Published by Terry Underwood. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Book Two: Photographs of Old Newport up to and including the Year 1950. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 095079080X. Some bumping and wear to covers. Small inscription in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning. Wrapper is price-cut with a little writing to front flap; a few closed tears and chips; minimal loss.

JOURNAL OF A COUNTRY CURATE: SELECTIONS FROM THE DIARY OF FRANCIS KILVERT 1870-79
Written by Francis Kilvert; Peter Waite.
Stock no. 2138387
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

Abridged edition. Selected and with an introduction by Peter Wait. Brown cloth spine, gilt title. Pictorial boards. B/w photos. Map to endpapers. 338 pages. Top edge brown. Some light page browning. Slip case is almost very good - start of splitting along one edge; some fading to edges.

AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN GLAMORGAN VOLUME IV PART II
No author listed.
Stock no. 1322853
Published by HMSO. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Domestic Architecture from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution: Farmhouses and Cottages. An illustrated inventory plus exploration of the social background as well as the agricultural and economic basis for these buildings. B/w photos, diagrams plus over 100 maps. Scarlet cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 661pp includes index. 11.25 x 8.75". ISBN: 0113000200. Spine slightly bumped. Light creasing to wrapper edges.

WALES AT WAR
Written by Phil Carradice.
Stock no. 1823687
Published by Gomer. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition.

Giving voice to ordinary Welsh people who lived through the Second World War, and who have quite extraordinary tales to relate. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 1843233215. A nice copy.

PIERS OF WALES
Written by Martin Easdown; Darlah Thomas.
Stock no. 1823686
Published by Amberley. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and a few colour photos. ISBN: 9781848689206. Glue drying on inside joint where front cover sticks to half-title page, thus the front joint is pulled but binding is tight. Contents clean.

MONMOUTHSHIRE ITS HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY
Written by C.J.O. Evans.
Stock no. 1823679
Published by William Lewis. 1st 1953. Very good condition.

Small format. Red cloth. B/w photos. Cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges else nice and clean. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

DIWYLLIANT GWELEDOL CYMRU: Y GYMRU DDIWYDIANNOL
Written by Peter Lord.
Stock no. 1823675
Published by Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Text in Welsh. Title roughly translates to: The Visual Culture of Wales: Industrial Wales. B/w and colour illustrations. ISBN: 070831497X. Lower edge of text block is slightly grubby. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and a little grubby.

WHEN WALES WENT TO WAR 1939-45
Written by John O'Sullivan.
Stock no. 1823674
Published by Sutton Publishing. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition.

Beginning with a vivid account of the blitz in Wales, and ending with more than fifty personal stories from Welsh people who were touched by the war at both home and abroad. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. Second World War. ISBN: 0750938374. Light imprinting of ink to first couple of pages (printing process) else contents clean.

PRINCES AND PEOPLE OF WALES
Written by John Miles.
Stock no. 2137944
Published by The Starling Press. 2nd 1977. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Second edition. Maroon boards with gilt title to spine and vignettes to front cover. B/w maps. ISBN: 0903434288. A few foxspots. Light browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chi0ps and nicks; some marks; creasing to front flap.

THE SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK (NN 47)
Written by William M. Condry.
Stock no. 1322836
Published by Collins. 2nd 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalists Series. Green cloth. B/w photos. Second edition. ISBN: 0002195259. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some slight fading to spine and some slight spotting to covers. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock and some foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper is covered with clear laminate.

THE COPPER KING: A BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS WILLIAMS OF LLANIDAN
Written by J.R. Harris.
Stock no. 2137905
Published by Landmark Publishing. 2nd 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

2nd edition. Landmark Collector's Library. Red boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1843060922. Some erased pencil inscription to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.