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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.10442 Author: Waite, Alison
Exploring the Yorkshire Ouse
Published 1987 Countryside Publications. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861572696 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £2.5
North Yorkshire North Riding East Yorkshire East Riding Ouse

Inventory No.3717 Author: Waite, Colin
Reflections of Killinghall Its Past and Its People
Published 2000 Killinghall Parish Council (Killinghall, North Yorkshire) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £16
Slightly affected by damp.
North Yorkshire North Riding Harrogate Killinghall Local History Genealogy Ripon Topography

Inventory No.10266 Author: Walker, Dora M
They Labour Mightily a Tale of Inshore Fishing in War and Peace
Published 1947 A. Brown and Sons. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Rebound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine.
Fishing Whitby North Yorkshire North Riding Cleveland Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10170 Author: Walmsley, Leo
The Golden Waterwheel : An Autobiographical Novel
Published 1973 Cedric Chivers Ltd (Portway, Bath) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0855948248 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £9
Dust wrapper faded on spine.
North Yorkshire North Riding Local history

Inventory No.9961 Author: Wardell, John Wilford.
A History of Yarm an Ancient North Riding Town.
Published 1989 The Author (Yarm.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Good+ Price: £30
D/w rubbed and chipped with small triangular piece missing at top of back.Book nice and clean with no inscriptions.
Yarm North Riding North Yorkshire Topography History Genealogy

Inventory No.3904 Author: Wardell, John Wilford.
A History of Yarm an Ancient North Riding Town.
Published 1989 Conyers School. (Yarm.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Jacket Price: £25
Yarm North Riding Yorkshire Topography History Genealogy

Inventory No.10281 Author: Weston, Capt. W. J.
The North Riding of Yorkshire: Cambridge County Geographics
Published 1919 Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Cloth boards covered in green adhesive plastic. pp. viii, 161. With maps, diagrams and illustrations.
North Yorkshire North Riding Local History Topography

Inventory No.10195 Author: Whellan, T.
History and Topography of the City of York; and the North Riding of Yorkshire; Embracing a General Review of the Early History of Great Britain, and a General History and Description of the County of York. Volume I, II with the Wapentake of Claro
Published T. Whellan & Co (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Jacket Price: £75
Volume I, Green cloth, gilt titling to spine. Previous owners labels to front and rear endpapers. Volume II, Green cloth, gilt titling to spine. Previous owners labels to front and rear endpapers. Spine creased. Hinges cracked and weak. The three volumes in two. Vol I, 1857, Vol II1859. Contents of both volumes very clean and bright.
North Yorkshire North Riding York History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.8922 Author: White, Geoffrey; Illustrator: The Author, A. P. Waterhouse and Geoffrey Green
Walks in Lower Wharfedale (including the Washburn valley). A Dalesman Mini-Book
Published 1980 Dalesman Publishing Co Ltd (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852065868 Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Included is a typed speech, author unknown, given to a group of walkers which included Geoffrey White before they set off on what was a disputed rights of way which included Round Hill, Catholic gate, High Badger Gate and Foldshaw Bridge.
Yorkshire West North Riding Wharfedale Washburn Walking Rambling

Inventory No.10257 Author: Whittaker, Meredith
The Book of Scarbrough Spaw
Published 1984 Barracuda Books (Buckingham.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860232212 Size:8vo Binding:Leatherette
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £15
Original blue marbelled leatherette, gilt titling to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Limited edition this being number 81 and signed by the author. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Subscribers list at back. pp. 196. Included is original flyer, errata slip and letter from Meredith to Athol J. Wallis.
North Yorkshire North Riding Scarborough Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.10764 Author: Wilkinson, A. M.
Ripon College 1862-1962 The First Hundred years
Published 1963 The College (Ripon.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Covers rubbed and creased. Illustrated. pp. 102
North Yorkshire North Riding Ripon Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10248 Author: Willan, T. S.
The Parliamentary Surveys for the North Riding of Yorkshire
Published The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Leatherette
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Extract from The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal [1933]. Bound in dark green leatherette with new endpapers. Page run 224 to 319.
North Yorkshire North Riding Local History

Inventory No.10226 Author: Williams, Mary
Witches in Old North Yorkshire
Published 1992 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0907033547 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued Price: £10
Illustrated with photographs, drawings and map. pp. 66.
North Yorkshire North Riding Local History Folk Lore Witch Craft

Inventory No.9374 Author: Williams, T. Russell
Human Documents. Memories of the Craven Dales
Published Wadsworth & Co (Keighley) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £10
Card covers a little stained by dye from red d/w. Previous owners name on f.f.e.p. Dust wrapper worn, chipped with some loss.
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Yorkshire Craven Dales History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10285 Author: Wood, Peter G
An Alec Wright Pocket Sketch Book
Published 1983 Studio Print (Great Ayton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907922031 Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Boards very slightly faded. pp.111
North Yorkshire North Riding Local History

Inventory No.9521 Author: Wragg, Brian
Life and Works of John Carr of York, The
Published 2000 Oblong Creative Ltd (Wetherby, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0953657418 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £30
Illustrated with numerous photographs. pp. viii, 252. Book weighs over 1kg before packing no additional postage will be asked from UK customers.
York North Yorkshire North Riding Local History John Carr

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