P G Wodehouse books saved from Monmouthshire landfill
"He brought them to us and said these could be something quite special," said the council's re-use and education officer Rebecca Blount about the find.
A book collector from Tintern then helped date the collection to the 1930s, with the dust covers in particular "quite rare".His books included the famous characters Bertie Wooster and valet Jeeves, and were turned into a TV drama starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in the 1990s.
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