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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.

HANDO'S GWENT
Written by Fred J. Hando; Chris Barber. Illustrated by Fred J. Hando.
Stock no. 1831386
Published by Blorenge Books. 1st thus 1987. Very good condition.

A Centenary Tribute to Fred Hando Artist/Historian of Gwent. Edited by Chris Barber. Brown pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 200 pages. ISBN: 0951044451. Covers grubby, old price-label to rear cover. Rear cover a little creased from reading. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

LOWER WYE VALLEY
Written by Nigel Barry; et al.
Stock no. 1330980
Published by Climber's Club. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour photos. Climbing Guide to the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean Volume 1. ISBN: 9780901601797. Plastic covers seem to have shrunk a little causing some slight waving to covers. Some page corner tips creased.

AN EARLY VICTORIAN SEVERN BRIDGE
Written by Samuel Baldwyn Rogers.
Stock no. 1330906
Published by Merlin Bookshop. Circa 1974. Very good 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 are rusty.

ABOUT CHEPSTOW
Written by Ivor Waters; C. Gordon Jolliffe. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1330582
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. Preface by Jolliffe. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. SIGNED by the author by means of a dedication to front free-endpaper. Spine slightly bumped. Some slight rubbing to edges. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge creased and a little browned to spine.

THE RIVER HOBBLER'S APPRENTICE: MEMORIES OF WORKING THE SEVERN AND WYE
Written by Alan Butt.
Stock no. 1329715
Published by The History Press. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

A vivid insight into the forgotten world of the river hobbler, a unique trade and one which he learnt at the end of its days. The river hobbler paid no taxes and made a living by working whatever was available on and around the river. Cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9780752451381. Spine faded to rear edge. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Minor crease to vertical edge of prelims. Contents clean.

CHEPSTOW PACKETS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 1329713
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1983. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Limited to 195 copies. 140pp inc.index. Numerous b/w illus. throughout. Pull out map of Chepstow as it was. 9 x 5.75". ISBN: 0906134218. Pale foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased with a faded spine. Odd foxspot. Also includes letter SIGNED by author to a previous owner, which has become creased to edges.

THE PORT OF CHEPSTOW
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 1329712
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st thus 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This revised edition was limited to 300 copies. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0906134420. Light wear to spine and corners. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks; browned to spine.

CHEPSTOW ROAD BRIDGES
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1329710
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1980. Slightly better than very good condition.

White cardwrap booklet. 500 copies printed. B/w illustrations. 19 pages. ISBN: 0906134099. Light crease to top corners of front cover and first few pages.

CHEPSTOW PARISH RECORDS
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1329492
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Limited to 1245 copies. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 7 b/w illustrations. SIGNED by C. Gordon Jolliffee (writer of foreword) by means of a lengthy inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed.Some light brown marks to gutter of front endpaper. Textblock is slightly foxed. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss to top of spine and is faded to spine.

CHEPSTOW PACKETS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 1329487
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1983. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Limited to 195 copies. 140pp inc.index. Numerous b/w illus. throughout. Pull out map of Chepstow as it was. 9 x 5.75". ISBN: 0906134218. A fine copy in dustwrapper which is slightly edge creased.

CHEPSTOW A POEM
Written by Edward Davies; Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1329117
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1967. Very good condition.

1011 copies printed. Card wrap booklet. 19 pages. Staples are rusty. A few tiny foxspots to textblock.