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THEN & NOW
Written by Tim Pearce.
Stock no. 555503
Published by The Cheltonian Society. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition.

B/w photos. An anniversary celebration of Cheltenham college 1841-1991.

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BAMBOOS
Written by Alexander High Lawson.
Stock no. 555510
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1968. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. A Gardener's Guide to Their Cultivation in Temperate Climates. ISBN: 0571085024. Name in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper lightly browned and a little edge-chipped.

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OUTLINES OF HISTORY
Written by Thomas Keightley.
Stock no. 555892
Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. Circa 1847. Almost very good condition.

Full blue calf binding. Gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contents near fine. Covers rubbed. School crest in gilt on front and rear covers.

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POEMS
Written by Edward Lysaght.
Stock no. 555894
Published by Gilbert And Hodges. 1st 1811. Very good condition.

Full burgundy morocco binding. Gilt title, decorations and raised bands to spine. Gilt borders to covers. Marbled endpapers. Portrait frontis. Front joint cracked. Light page-edge browning. Corners rubbed.

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THE ROYAL SECRET OF BROCKWOOD
Written by Anthony Corfield. Illustrated by Patricia Hubbard.
Stock no. 555918
Published by Portico D'Abitot Press. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 1871196000. Corners rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Contents fine.

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CHEPSTOW CHURCHWARDENS
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 556329
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1967. Nearly fine condition.

1003 copies printed. Card wrap booklet. Address stamp to inside of front cover.

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A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL MENSURATION IN EIGHT PARTS
Written by A. Nesbit.
Stock no. 556975
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1830. Good condition.

5th Edition. Containing the most approved Methods of drawing Geometrical Figures; Mensuration of Superficies; Land Surveying; Mensuration of Solids; the Use of the Carpenter's Rule; Timber Measure, in which is shewn the Mehod of measuring and valuing standing Timber; Artificer's Works, illustrated by the Dimensions and Contents of a House; Mensuration of Haystacks, Drains, Canals, Marlpits, Ponds, Mill-dams, Embankments, Quarries, Coal-heaps, and Clay-heaps; Conic Sections and their Solids; the most useful Problems in Gauging, according to the New Imperial Measures; and a Dictionary of the Terms used in Architecture. Full brown leather binding. B/w illustrations. xiv and 448 pages. Name in ink to front endpaper (contemporary). Boards rubbed and worn at edges. Joints starting to crack. Text block browned. A few corner creases to contents. Some age browning to contents.

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DISTRIBUTION OF BRYOPHYTES IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by M.F.V. Corley; M.O. Hill.
Stock no. 557050
Published by British Bryological Society. 1st 1981. Nearly fine condition.

A census catalogue of their occurrence in Vice-Counties. Brown card wraps. 160 pages including index. ISBN: 095076390X.

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OLD KARNARVON A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOWN OF CARNARVON WITH NOTICES OF THE PARISH CHURCHES OF LLANBEBLIG & LLANFAGLAN
Written by William Henry Jones.
Stock no. 557152
Published by H. Humphreys. 1st 1889. Very good condition.

Small format. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Black decoration and title to front cover. Frontis is a copy of the 1610 map of Carnarvon. 186 pages plus 6 page booklist. Bookplate of R.J.Thomas to front pastedown. Corners bumped. REDUCED FROM £225.

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THE GIRL WHO DANCED WITH DOLPHINS
Written by Frank Desaix. Illustrated by Debbi Durland Desaix.
Stock no. 557323
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Adrianne dreams of dolphins and discovers her dream may not have been a dream. Large format. Cream cloth spine with gilt title, beige paperboards. Beautiful full-page colour illustrations. ISBN: 0374326266. SIGNED by author and artist. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pictorial wrapper is rubbed at edges with a couple of small closed tears, name on wrapper front flap.

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THE FOUR DONKEYS
Written by Lloyd Alexander. Illustrated by Lester Abrams.
Stock no. 557330
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1976. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Tailor, a Baker and a Shoemaker go the the town fair... Pictorial glazed boards. Wonderfully illustrated in colour throughout. ISBN: 043720412X. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Slight browning to lower edges of front endpapers else contents clean. Pictorial wrapper has browning to lower edge and is chipped at edges with slight loss and slightly grubby to rear.

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