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Pen-Rhys: The Historical Background 1179-1538.

By: A Member of Y Cylch Catholig.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cardiff, Catholic Truth Society.: 1950

Seller ID: M009784

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

A good 28 page stapled A5 booklet with "C21" written in ink on the front cover, otherwise unmarked. Staples rusted and this shows through to the inner gutters - but just holding. 9 chapters, no illustrations other than the cover desgn which is an heraldic map showing the principal Cistercian foundations in Wales. "Penrhys is a meadow on the nose of the forest, Mass bread and holy water". So wrote the Welsh poet Gwilym Tew in the fifteenth century. At that time Pen rhys was one of the holiest places in Wales. Pilgrims came 'over land and sea' (or so the poets said) to worship at...
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Letters from Wales

By: Abse, Joan

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bridgend, Seren (The Book Imprint of Poetry Wales Press): 2000

Seller ID: 113435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Brown boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's lettered/decorated dustjacket. The dustjacket is NOT price clipped. NO Inscriptions or Marks. 336 pp. An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright 'As New' copy. "This fascinating anthology of letters ranges over eight centuries of life in Wales and provides an enthralling commentary on its development. The letters bring Welsh history to life through vivid vignettes of personal experience and all too human opinion. While seemingly devoted to events in Wales the correspondents are also measuring Wales' place in Bri...
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The Collected Poems of Roland Mathias

By: Adams, Sam (Complied and Edited by)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Cardiff, University of Wales Press: 2002

Seller ID: 110007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Maroon red boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's lettered dustjacket. Dustjacket is Not clipped. A little light, negligible, shelfwear to the d/j covers - just a few light smudges/scratches which are only seen if held up to the light. The dustjacket has now been protected in a clear book plastic cover and looks Fine. No Inscriptions or Marks. (xvi) + 383 pp. Black and White Portrait Frontispiece. " Roland Mathias is one of the most important writers to emerge in Wales since the Second World War. He was one of the founders of 'Dock Leaves' in 1949 and bec...
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A Circumstantial Narrative of The Wreck of The Rothsay Castle Steam Packet on Her Passage From Liverpool To Beaumaris, Aug. 17, 1831...

By: Adshead Joseph

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, Hamilton, Adams and Co.: 1833

Seller ID: 119867

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

In full maroon leather with 'ripple effect' leather boards front and back, and gilt & blind tooled borders. 5 raised bands to the spine & decorations to the compartments. The title compartment lacks the title label but the title, indented, can still be just about seen if you look very closely. Wear to the edges, particularly rubbed to the spine edges, and the front inch of the inner spine edge looks as if it has been reglued at some point, but all holding well. The top of the spine lacks a sliver of leather. Otherwise apart from some scuff marks herre and there, and rubbing to the tips of the ...
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Insurrection in Wales: The Rebellion of the Welsh Led by Owen Glyn Dwr (Glendower) against the English Crown in 1400

By: Allday, D. Helen

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Suffolk, T. Dalton: 1981

Seller ID: 107674

ISBN: 0861380010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

NOT PRICE CLIPPED, price ticket to front free flap. Slight creasing to edges of dustwrap. Clean white boards with bright gilt titling to spine. Map to endpapers. Previous owners name written to front endpaper and half title. Hinges sound. xii +182pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Contents include; The first Princes, the Kings of England, Great Omens, The New Prince of Wales, The Welsh King, Castles and Places connected with Glyn Dwr, early rulers - Wales, the Tribal system etc. Index.; 107674; 8vo
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Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times . Second Edition, Revised.

By: Allen, J. Romilly

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1912

Seller ID: 110981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Red boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and front cover. There is slight edge wear to the corners of the boards and the page fore-edges are uiniformly tanned with foxing (brown) spots. The endpapers are also browned. The paper/plates is/are generally Very Clean and the paper uniformly cream. There are NO Inscriptions or other Marks. (xxii) + 315pp. Illustrated with b/w prints. (Plates Collated). Index. Overall, apart from the 'faults' as detailed above, this is a Tight and Bright, Near 'Very Good' copy. "This work is an attempt to give a concise summary as to the origin and develo...
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Welsh Sketches. Third Series

By: ANON

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, James Darling: 1853

Seller ID: 000029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Original blind stamped cloth bound boards with gilt titling and price (1/-) to front board. Spine creased/crumpled. Edges slightly scuffed. Front and rear inner paper hinges splitting. 1853. Name/Writing on half-title and first page. 192 pp. Contents cover Edward the Black Prince, Owen Glyndwr- Prince of Wales, Mediaeval Bardism and The Welsh Church. Overall very clean and tight. ; 000029; 8vo
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The Episcopal Registers of St David's 1397 - 1518 (3 volumes)

By: ANON

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion: 1917

Seller ID: 000301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

No Jacket. First Edition. Small 4to. Cymmrodorion Record Series. From the original registers, in the Diocesan registry of Carmarthen with a translation and a general index by R F Isaacson formerly of the Public Record Office. Red cloth bound boards with blind stamps on front boards and gilt titling to spine. Spines are patchily faded but all three are similarly affected. OTHERWISE VERY GOOD++ COPIES. Very lightly mottling to page edges.; Cymmrodorion Record Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall
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History of Kidwelly Castle

By: Anon

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Llanelly, James Davies & Co: 1889

Seller ID: 001937

Binding: Paper Wraps

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Covers have repaired internally near spine with tape. Name/Writing on inner front cover. Covers grubby, worn, creased. Spine reinforced with tape. Rusting staple. 16 pp. Internally clean and bright.; 001937; 8vo (slim booklet)
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Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society. Volume 5

By: Anon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Aberystwyth, Cambrian News: 1927

Seller ID: 004299

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

In the original publisher's stiffish light mustard brown coloured paper covers. Contents include; The Sculptured Stones of Cardiganshire, The Introduction of Metal into Wales, Old Aberystwyth, Some of the Remains of the Lost Goidelic Language of Cardiganshire, Twm Shon Gati (Twm Sion Catti) etc. NO INSCRIPTIONS. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Rough cut pages. Covers slightly worn to edges, slight stain to top edge of front cover. 109pp. Illustrated in black and white. ; 004299; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall
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GEIRIAU WILLIAM MORGAN. DETHOLION O FEIBL 1588.

By: Anon

Price: £19.50

Publisher: London, Cymdeithas Gelfyddydau Gogledd Cymru: 1988

Seller ID: 48049

ISBN: 0950068624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Wedi eu golygu (?Edited by...) gan Bedwyr Lewis Jones a Gwyn Thomas. Large 4to, Original Bright Red Cloth. FINE IN Very Good (with a few closed tears) D/W. Welsh Text. Limited Edition of "tri chan copi o'r gyfrol hon" (? 300 or 3000 copies?) this is copy No 90. Printed on Parilux Gwyn 170gsm paper by Gwasg Gomer. I'm fairly certain this is a sort of 'Extracts from' 'Geiriau' meaning 'words', so in effect 'William Morgans words' (?). The book has a facsimile page from the bible tipped in as a Frontispeice, but the rest of the book consists of various 'extracts from' sections of...
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Welsh Dylan. An Exhibition to Mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the Poet's Death

By: Anon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Welsh Arts Council: 1973

Seller ID: 106150

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Sepia illustrations/photographs. Illustrated card covers, corners bumped/creased. NO INSCRIPTIONS, internally some light foxing spots/thumbing, overall CLEAN AND BRIGHT.; 106150; 8vo Square
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Llyfrau Plant Children's Books in Welsh 1900-1991

By: Anon

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth:

Seller ID: 106558

ISBN: 090715882x

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Text in Welsh and in English. 302pp, covers clean, NO INSCRIPTIONS. "This work attempts to list the first edition of all children's and school books in the Welsh language...the following categories of materials have been included within the scope of the work: fiction, poetry, collections of songs, plays, information books, textbooks and title with miscellaneous contents. Serials, music scores...and basic painting books..." Excellent copy, CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT; 106558; Tall 4to / Small Folio
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Domesday 1086 - 1836 - 1986 Domesday Book and Other Surveys in Wales. Llyfr Domesday Ac Arolygon Eraill Yng Nghymru

By: Anon

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Aberystwyth, The National Library of Wales: 1986

Seller ID: 106571

ISBN: 0907158188

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

Apart from remains of price ticket to rear cover, covers are clean. 36pp+, NO INSCRIPTIONS, UNUSED, MINT, text in English and Welsh, Illustrated in colour and black/white, maps, photographs of MSS etc. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. "...examines the significance of Domesday Book for the history of medieval Wales and the border shires but also displays subsequent surveys of land and people throughout the centuries to the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 and the decennial censuses of modern times."; 106571; 4to
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THEY LOOK AT WALES an Anthology of Prose and Verse

By: Anon

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Cardiff, UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS: 1941

Seller ID: 106745

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Paper covers slightly sunned to edges, light creasing to corners, few small spots, NO INSCRIPTIONS, light foxing to title page, 126pp, internally excellent, CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Contents include; Land; people; history; language; literature; general etc; 106745; 8vo
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Baronia De Kemeys from the Original Documents at Bronwydd Printed for the Cambrian Archaeological Association.

By: ANON

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, J Russell Smith and J H & J Parker:

Seller ID: 107540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

No date (c 1880's) Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titling to spine, very slight staining to covers, corners and head/tail of spine bumped, edges of covers knocked (indentation to front/rear cover at edge). Spine has been reglued. Inner hinges good. 136pp. Black/white illustrations. Large fold out map of the Lordship of Kemeys with Heraldic shields to top/middle left. 1 large fold out pedigree of 'Thomas Davies Lloyd Esq of Bronwydd in Co. Cardigan from the emblazoned pedigree on vellum at Bronwydd, 1859, drawn up in 1677, and brought down to 1861.' (three small tears to edges of pedig...
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Pontardulais Cricket Club Centenary 1876-1976

By: Anon

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Pontardulais Cricket Club: 1976

Seller ID: 107581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Clean dark blue boards with bright gilt titling to spine. Hinges sound. 171pp. Numerous black/white illustrations. Advertisements. Contents include; Facts in the first quarter century; a glimpse into the early history of Club and Village life; Recollections; memorable moments; hockey; rugby; soccer; cricket history etc. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 107581; 8vo
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Twenty-Four Costumes of Wales

By: Anon

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Germany, Made in Germany: (1880)

Seller ID: 114019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth-covered boards with a untitled plain cloth spine. The front board has the title, decorative borders and an heraldic 'Welsh Dragon' tooled in gilt on the front cover, the gilt a little dulled in places. The rear board has blind stamped decoration. The edges and corners are slightly rubbed here and there. NO date or publisher shown other than 'Made in Germany' on the bottom of the front board. This type of publication was usually sold as a gift 'souvenir' and invariably printed abroad and could be any date from the 1850s to the 1890s - often with the name of the gift shop on the rear ...
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Image for The Cambrian Directory, Or, Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories. with a Chart, Comprehending At One View, the Advisable Route-Best Inns-Distances-And Objects Most Worthy of Attention.

The Cambrian Directory, Or, Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories. with a Chart, Comprehending At One View, the Advisable Route-Best Inns-Distances-And Objects Most Worthy of Attention.

By: Anon (Attributed To Allen Cliff, Of Worcester)

Price: £140.00

Publisher: Salisbury, J. Easton,: 1800

Seller ID: 113860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

FIRST Edition. Near contemporary/or contemporary half green leather (spine and corners) blind stamped decoration to the spine, with marbled boards. A burgundy coloured title label to the spine with bright gilt titling, plus gilt banding and decoration to the spine. Base colour to the spine has drkened to a browny-green with age but all very clean and clear. Extremities a little rubbed, and 2 names, and an address, to the plain front free endpaper, both from a local Carmarthenshire family named White - and the book was also bound by the family as indicated by a small binders label at the end 'B...
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Books About......A 'Dig for Victory' Exhibition (pamphlet)

By: Anon (Newport Library)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Newport, Wales, R. H. J. Ltd. , (Newport Library): 1943

Seller ID: 114681

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

In the original lettered paper wraps. Near Fine - apart from very Rusty staples - but holding tight. First Edition. 8vo. 8 pp pamphlet.. Not Illustrated. Part of the 'Dig for Victory' campaign during 2nd World War. The 'Dig for Victory Exhibition' was held in the Great Central Hall on 24-27 February 1943. " The object of the exhibition was to encourage increased production of vegetables, etc... And to show how best old methods could be applied".." This Pamphlet Advises people on the best 'self-help' books, etc. The Leaflet is entitled - 'Books About..Vegetables, Wild Foods, Fruit, ...
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