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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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THE PET BUBBLE BOOK
Written by Ralph Mayhew; Burges Johnson. Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.
Stock no. 557364
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1917. Almost very good condition.

The sixth Bubble Book. Small format. Pictorial paperboards. 3 rhymes with accompanying gramophone records. Colour illustrations. All records present and complete but untested. Covers grubby. No tears.

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THIRD BUBBLE BOOK
Written by Ralph Mayhew; Burges Johnson. Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.
Stock no. 557366
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1918. Very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial paperboards. 3 rhymes with accompanying gramophone records. Colour illustrations. Covers slightly grubby. Bookplate to front pastedown. All records present, complete but untested. Split to side of two of the record pockets otherwise contents very good.

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THE WORLD OF THE NURSERY
Written by Colin White.
Stock no. 557415
Published by E.P. Dutton. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. This book brings to life in a stimulating and thought-provoking manner the child's world of yesterday and today, reviving half-forgotten memories and renewing lost dreams. ISBN: 0525242600. Spine bumped, corners rubbed. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is slightly rubbed at edges.

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ALBUM ABERHONDDU
Written by T. Stephens.
Stock no. 557446
Published by Joseph Williams. 1st 1898. Slightly better than very good condition.

Bright red pictorial cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Text in Welsh. Name in ink to front endpaper. Spine faded.

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