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Inventory No.19806 Author: Babb, James R.; Illustrator: C. D. Clarke
River Music : A Fly Fisher's Four Seasons
Published 2001 The Lyons Press (Guilford, Connecticut) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0709075529 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £10

Inventory No.18919 Author: Bagnall, C. L; Wharton-Tigar, E. C. Compiled By
British Cigarette Card Issues 1888-1919. Handbook Part I. For Use with Catalogue of Comparative Values Part I
Published 1981 The London Cigarette Card Co. (Somerton, Somerset) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Name in top corner of ffep.

Inventory No.18920 Author: Bagnall, Dorothy; Wharton-Tigar, E. C. Compiled By
British Cigarette Card Issues 1920-1940. Handbook Part II. With Additions and Corrections to Part I. And Research on UK Silk Inserts for Use with Catalogue Part II
Published 1978 The London Cigarette Card Co. (Drayton) Type:
Edition:Second Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Name in top corner of ffep.

Inventory No.19869 Author: Baker, Micheal; Illustrator: Gwyneth Cole
The Mountain and the Summer Stars : An Old Tale Newly Ended
Published 1970 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: 0575001267 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £5
Spine sunned and stain on rear of dust jacket.
Children's

Inventory No.20069 Author: Bakewell, Joan; Drummond, John; Illustrator: Lawson, Andrew
A Fine and Private Place : A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions
Published 1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0297774328 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
D/w slightly chipped

Inventory No.13172 Author: Baldwin, Marshall W.
The Mediaeval Church
Published 1968 Cornell University Press. (Ithaca, NY) Type:
Edition:Thirteenth Printing ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3

Inventory No.19715 Author: Balfour, Robert Arthur
Life, a Sail, a Changing Sea
Published 1995 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167764 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.19487 Author: Ball, T. Frederick.
Queen Victoria: Scenes and Incidents of Her Life and Reign
Published 1886 S. W. Partridge & Co (London) Type:
Edition:Fourth Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Gift inscription on ffep, slight wear to spine but clean bright copy

Inventory No.19546 Author: Balsdon, J. P. V. D.
Roman Civilization
Published 1969 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0140210768 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
A very nice clean copy.
ITALY_HISTORY

Inventory No.18938 Author: Bannerman, Helen
The Story of Little Black Sambo
Published 1959 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:24mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £8
Pictorial boards rubbed and worn on edges/corners. Name on inside of front board. Some pages creased where corners folded.

Inventory No.20195 Author: Baren, Maurice
How it All Began in the Lake District
Published 2002 Dalesman Publishing Co Ltd (Skipton, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1855681951 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
Cumbria Lake District Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.18879 Author: Barker, George
At Thurgarton Church A Poem with Drawings
Published 1969 Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.18954 Author: Barlee, N. L.
Similkameen
Published 1978 Type:
Edition:Second Printing ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
Original soft card covers rubbed and with stain in bottom corner. Sign of label removal in top corner. . Staples rusting. 96 pages with numerous illustartions.

Inventory No.18953 Author: Barlee, N. L.
The Guide to Gold Panning in British Columbia. Gold Regions, Methods of Mining and Other Data
Published 1979 Canada West Publications Type:
Edition:Second Edition First Printing ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Original soft card covers worn. Staples rusting. Scribbles to inside and outside of rear cover.

Inventory No.17596 Author: Barnard, John; Bell, Maureen
The Early Seventeenth-Century York Book Trade and John Foster's Inventory of 1616
Published 1994 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 1870737067 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Very slightly faded to spine.
York Book Trade

Inventory No.20156 Author: Barnes, Julian
Arthur and George
Published 2005 Jonathan Cape (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0224077031 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.18331 Author: Barstow, Stan
Just You Wait and See
Published 1986 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0718126955 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Hospital library plate on ffep.

Inventory No.19909 Author: Barwick, Idris James
In the Shadow of Death : The Story of a Medic on the Burma Railway 1942-1945
Published 2005 Pen & Sword (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1844152464 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10

Inventory No.19031 Author: Bates, H. E.; Illustrator: Ardizzone, Edward
My Uncle Silas
Published 1947 The Reprint Society (London) Type:
Edition:Book Club ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Faint bubble to cloth on front board.

Inventory No.20351 Author: Bath, T.
The Gardeners' and Poultry Keepers' Guide and Illustrated Catalogue of Goods Manufactured and Supplied By T. Bath & Co., Ltd.
Published T. Bath & Co., Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £10
No date but circa 1930s from hire purchase form at rear. Original wrappers very worn. Staples are rusting. 194 pages.
Gardening Horticulture Allotments

Inventory No.18008 Author: Bauckner, A.; Hosl, I.
Schrift Und Urkunde Im Geschichtsunterricht
Published 1914 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
Ex-college library with number written in a couple of places and discreet stamps on fep and back of titlepage. Rubbed outside, contents very good

Inventory No.20143 Author: Beable, W. H.
Epitaphs Graveyard Humour & Eulogy
Published 1925 Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £5
Boards a little scuffed but decent copy

Inventory No.18553 Author: Beare, Geraldine; Delaney, Frank; Illustrator: Eccles, David
Short Stories from the 'Strand'
Published 1992 Folio Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Slipcase, Very Good Price: £6
Slipcase a little rubbed, book lovely and clean
Strand Magazine

Inventory No.20250 Author: Beare, Geraldine; Heald, Tim; Illustrator: Eccles, David
Adventure Stories from the 'Strand'
Published 1995 Folio Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Slipcase, Very Good Price: £5
Slipcase a little rubbed, book lovely and clean
Strand Magazine

Inventory No.20010 Author: Beaumont, Norman E; Curran, James F; Hughes, J. P.
Early Days of Berwick and Its Surrounding Districts Beaconsfield, Upper Beaconsfield, Harkaway, Narre Warren and Narre Waren North
Published 1980 Rotary Club (Berwick, Australia) Type:
Edition:Third Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Inscription on inside of front cover.

Inventory No.19895 Author: Becchetti, Luca
L' Archivio Segreto Vaticano
Published 2009 VdH Books Type:
Edition: ISBN: 9789088810060 Size:Large 8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £30
Italian text. Square 8vo. Very heavy volume but no additional postage for uk customers.

Inventory No.19849 Author: Beck, Keith M.
The West Midland Lines of the GWR
Published 1983 Ian Allan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0711012113 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £8
Railways Trains Steam

Inventory No.15361 Author: Beckett, J. V.; Jones, Clyve
Financial Improvidence and Political Independence in the Early Eighteenth Century: George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 65, No.1, Autumn 1982
Published The John Rylands University Library of Manchester Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.20298 Author: Bedford, Faith Andrews
The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson
Published 2000 David R. Godine (Boston.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1567921116 Size:Landscape: Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.20505 Author: Beeton, Mrs. Isabella
Mrs. Beeton's All-About Cookery with Over 2,000 Practical Recipes
Published Ward, Lock & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Olive boards, 640pp. + adverts. Pleasant gift inscription dated 1928

Inventory No.18934 Author: Bellamy, Edward
Looking Backward. 2000-1887
Published Frederick Warne & Co (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Original wrappers grubby, spotted and torn on spine. ffep spotted. Text clean and bright.

Inventory No.15330 Author: Bellamy, J. G.
The Northern Rebellions in the Later Years of Richard II Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 47, No. 2, March, 1965
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3

Inventory No.19926 Author: Belsey, James; Harrison, David
Images of Bristol Victorian Photographers at Work 1850-1910
Published 1987 Redcliffe Press (Bristol.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0948265264 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.18441 Author: Benson, F. A.
Voltage Stabilization
Published 1965 Macdonald (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £20
Dustwrapper chipped and with small closed tears.

Inventory No.9994 Author: Bentley, Iris with Penelope Dening
Let Him Have Justice the True Story of Derek Bentley, Hanged for a Crime he Did Not Commit
Published 1995 Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0283062282 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Unusually good copy of surprisingly scarce book
TRUE CRIME MURDER HANGING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Inventory No.19011 Author: Bentley, Phyllis
Quorum
Published 1950 Victor Gollancz Ltd. (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £5
Blue cloth rubbed. Signed on title page.

Inventory No.18310 Author: Bentley, Phyllis; Illustrator: Stobbs, William
The New Venturers
Published 1973 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0575016930 Size:8vo Binding:Hard
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Original cloth, gilt. Small round red sticker on front and rear endpapers. Dustwrapper faded to spine and a little rubbed and chipped.
CHILDREN'S FICTION

Inventory No.18309 Author: Bentley, Phyllis; Illustrator: Stobbs, William
Gold Pieces
Published 1968 Macdonald (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0356023770 Size:8vo Binding:Hard
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12.5
Original cloth, gilt. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and chipped.

Inventory No.14422 Author: Bentley, Phyllis
Freedom, Farewell !
Published 1968 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0575000678 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Good+ Price: £4
Dust wrapper price clipped, a little chipped, and with clear tape along top and bottom edges.

Inventory No.20511 Author: Benveniste, Asa
Cortege
Published 1966 Privately Printed Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Single poem
Poetry

Inventory No.20510 Author: Benveniste, Asa
Poems of the Mouth
Published 1966 Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £8
No. 315 of limited edition of 450 copies. Very nice bright copy
Poetry

Inventory No.17246 Author: Besant, Walter
All Sorts and Conditions of Men. An Impossible Story
Published 1884 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Leather, Marbled Edges
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Foxing to prelims but text clean and clear

Inventory No.20115 Author: Besant, Walter; Rice, James
The Golden Butterfly
Published 1887 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:Yellowback ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £20
Rather worn, as yellowbacks tend to be, front hinge just starting to split but decent copy. Photographs on request
Yellowback

Inventory No.18250 Author: Bewick, Thomas; Bain, Iain. Editor; Illustrator: Bewick, Thomas
My Life
Published 1981 Folio Society (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Yellow paper boards with illustration to front board. Brown cloth spine with gilt titling. Illustrated with engravings and colour plates.
Beswick Art Wood Engravings

Inventory No.19537 Author: Birch, William A.
The Founding of Schools at Shade and Early Education in the District of Todmorden
Published 2004 Shade Primary School (Todmorden.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12
Lancashire Shade Local History

Inventory No.20220 Author: Birmingham And Midland Society For Genealogy And Heraldry Staff
Registers of St. Michael's, Coventry Warwickshire. Part 4. Marriages 1742-1837
Published 1995 Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870331842 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Sign of label removal to front cover. Name at top of 1st page. A very nice clean copy. Marriages printed 1752-1837 inked alteration to 1742.
Warwickshire Coventry Family History Local History

Inventory No.20219 Author: Birmingham And Midland Society For Genealogy And Heraldry Staff
Registers of the Church of Holy Trinity, Coventry Warwickshire. Part IV. Banns 1653-1661; Marriages 1653-1745; Burials 1653-1674
Published 1994 Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870331842 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Sign of label removal to front cover. Name at top of 1st page. A very nice clean copy.
Warwickshire Coventry Family History Local History

Inventory No.20218 Author: Birmingham And Midland Society For Genealogy And Heraldry Staff
Registers of the Church of Holy Trinity, Coventry Warwickshire. Part III. Baptisms 1653-1745
Published 1993 Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870331699 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Sign of label removal to front cover. Name at top of 1st page. A very nice clean copy.
Warwickshire Coventry Family History Local History

Inventory No.20217 Author: Birmingham And Midland Society For Genealogy And Heraldry Staff
Registers of the Church of Holy Trinity, Coventry Warwickshire. Baptisms 1561-1653
Published 1989 Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870331141 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Sign of label removal to front cover. Name at top of 1st page. A very nice clean copy.
Warwickshire Coventry Family History Local History

Inventory No.20018 Author: Birtill, George
Over the Five Barred Gate
Published 1967 Guardian Press (Chorley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £5
Original pictorial card covers rubbed and grubby. Text and photographs very good. Inscription on inside of rear cover.
Lancashire

Inventory No.13528 Author: Blandford, Percy W.
Your Book of Knots
Published 1970 Faber & Faber (London) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0571051308 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £4
Ffep removed, library stamps but clean
Knots

Inventory No.20339 Author: Bolehill W. I.
Our Village- Our History
Published 1985 Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951038206 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Decent copy of scarce item
Derbshire Local History Bolehill Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.19967 Author: Bolt, Robert; Illustrator: Robertson, Mark
The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew
Published 1995 Jonathan Cape (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0224036769 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7

Inventory No.18317 Author: Bone, Florence
Blackthorn Spring
Published Stanley Paul (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Original cloth, gilt. Board edges marked. Name neatly written on fep. Dustwrapper bright but rubbed and a little chipped.

Inventory No.19209 Author: Booth, Michael R.
Prefaces to English Nineteenth-Century Theatre
Published Manchester University Press (Manchester) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0719008131 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
ENGLISH LITERATURE

Inventory No.18719 Author: Booth, T. J.
Model Railway Kit Building
Published 1989 Patrick Stephens. (Wellingborough.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1852600322 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good + Price: £5
Top corner of ffep cut off, otherwise VG+
Modelling Railways

Inventory No.19831 Author: Borrow, George
Romano Lavo-Lil. Word-Book of the Romany or, English Gipsy Language with Specimens of Gypsy Poetry, and an Account of Certain Gypsyries or Places Inhabited By Them, and of Various Things Relating to Gipsy Life in England
Published 1909 John Murray (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £10
Original green cloth, gilt. Boards and spine a little worn. Front endpaper has been repaired where a piece was cut out. Tape on hinge of half title. A nice clean copy.
Gypsy Gypsies Romany

Inventory No.17490 Author: Botha, C. Graham
Our South Africa Past and Present. A Graphic and Entertaining Story Dealing with Men and Matters Concerning South Africa from Its First Discovery By the Great Portuguese Navigators Up to the Present Day
Published 1938 United Tobacco Cos. (Cape Town) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £10
Boards and spine worn and rubbed. Gift inscription on half title. Maps as endpapers. All 200 illustrations present. All pages clean and bright.

Inventory No.19837 Author: Bott, Caroline G.
The Life And Works of Alfred Bestall : Illustrator of Rupert Bear
Published 2003 Bloomsbury (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 074756194x Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7

Inventory No.18776 Author: Bowman, Hank Wieand; Cary, Lucian
Antique Guns
Published 1977 Arco Publications (New York, New York, U.S.A.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0668003286 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
D/w rubbed and chipped with small closed tear, very good clean copy
Guns Antiques Collecting

Inventory No.19720 Author: Brackenbury, Mark
Normandy and Channel Islands Pilot : Calais to St. Malo
Published 1995 Adlard Coles Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:Ninth Edition ISBN: 0713641940 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean copy
NAUTICAL CHARTS NORMANDY (FRANCE)_DESCRIPTION AND

Inventory No.17480 Author: Bradshaw, Rita
Gilding the Lily
Published 2009 Headline (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780755342372 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £5

Inventory No.20098 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Summer Term at The Chalet School
Published 2004 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417280 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £55
New copy but title page slightly creased across bottom corner

Inventory No.20097 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
A Chalet Girl from Kenya
Published 2006 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417914 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £50
New copy but last few pages creased across bottom corner

Inventory No.19941 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Janie Steps in
Published 2003 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417183 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £40

Inventory No.19940 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Heather Leaves School
Published 2002 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0953626997 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £50

Inventory No.19738 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
The Chalet School Does It Again
Published 2002 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417043 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £60

Inventory No.18589 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Janie of La Rochelle
Published 2003 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417108 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £34

Inventory No.18394 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Tom Tackles the Chalet School
Published 2004 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417345 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £60

Inventory No.18393 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
A Thrilling Term at Janeways
Published 2005 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417604 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £23

Inventory No.18392 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
The New Mistress at the Chalet School
Published 2006 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417833 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £45

Inventory No.18389 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Monica Turns Up Trumps
Published 2003 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417132 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £23

Inventory No.18388 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
The Lost Staircase
Published 2004 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417426 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £38

Inventory No.18383 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Changes for the Chalet School
Published 2005 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417590 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £50

Inventory No.18381 Author: Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
Carnation of the Upper Fourth
Published 2007 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 9781847450302 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £27.5

Inventory No.19145 Author: Bridges, Harold
As I Remember: 90 Years in the 1900s, 1900-90 - 47 Years in Road Transport, 1921-86
Published 1992 The Author. (Burrow, Via Carnforth) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951971301 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Nice clean copy
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Lancashire Transport History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.19567 Author: Briggs, Asa
Friends of the People. The Centenary History of Lewis's
Published 1956 B. T. Batsford Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £10
Nice clean copy.
Retail History

Inventory No.20280 Author: British Legion
Their Finest Hour. Spenborough
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Soft Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20

Inventory No.9228 Author: Brockbank, Elisabeth; Illustrator: The Author
Richard Hubberthorne of Yealand. Yeoman - Soldier - Quaker 1628-1662
Published 1929 Friends' Book Centre (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Original brown paper covered boards with colour illustration laid on. Boards a little rubbed. Spine hinges wearing through. Internal contents very good but lacks folding map at rear, this folding map is the same as the map illustrated on the front endpapers.
Yealand Quakers Quaker Friends History

Inventory No.17150 Author: Brome, Vincent
Four Realist Novelists. Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, Richard Whiteing, William Pitts Ridge. Writers and Their Work: No. 183
Published 1965 Longmans Green & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Covers lightly rubbed.
Literature

Inventory No.19959 Author: Bronte, Charlotte; Bell, Currer
Jane Eyre an Autobiography
Published 1991 Ebor Publications (Ilkley) Type:3 Volumes in Slip-case
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Blind Stamped Cloth.
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £50
Facsimile of first edition, 1847

Inventory No.20021 Author: Brooks, J. Barlow
Lancashire Bred an Autobiography
Published The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Jacket Price: £5
Original blue cloth, gilt. A little rubbed and darkened to spine. Slightly cocked, but a nice clean copy.
Lancashire

Inventory No.20494 Author: Broughton, Rhoda
Not Wisely, But Too Well
Published 1871 Tinsley Brothers (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £10
Lacks spine and front board almost detached (mended with tape)

Inventory No.19022 Author: Brown, Basil; Goodman, John E.
High-Intensity Ultrasonics; Industrial Applications
Published 1965 Iliffe Books (London) Type:
Edition:Fireside Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £5
Inscription on ffep. Dust jacket rubbed, chipped and torn at head of spine.
Industrial History

Inventory No.17802 Author: Brown, David Jo
Acid Bird
Published 1982 Arc and Throstle Press (Todmorden.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Pictorial red card covers fading around the spine. Large scrawl of a signature on title page said to be the author.
Poetry

Inventory No.18772 Author: Brown, F. A. S.
Nigel Gresley Locomotive Engineer
Published 1975 Ian Allan (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0711005915 Size:A4 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Crease across top of back cover, top corner of ffep has been cut off, otherwise very good
Railways

Inventory No.18325 Author: Brown, Rev. John; Cooke, Rev. Henry
The Self-Interpreting Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments According to the Authorized Version
Published 1861 Blackie and Son (Glasgow.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Folio Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £50
Black leather, gilt decoration and raised bands. Boards and spine rubbed on edges. All edges gilt. Some spotting. Text block and illustrations very good. Our price includes courier delivery for UK customers only. An introduction:marginal references and illustrations; a summary of the several books; an analysis of each chapter; a paraphrase and evangelical reflections upon the most important passages; and numerous explanatory notes. A biographical sketch of the venerable author. The text is more fully elucidated by upwards of eight thousand explanatory and critical notes; and introductory and concluding observations on each book.

Inventory No.18792 Author: Bruce, Charles
How Frank Began to Climb the Ladder
Published W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell. (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Decorated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Prize label on ffep, clean crisp copy

Inventory No.18395 Author: Bruce, Dorita Fairlie
The Best Bat in the School and Other Stories
Published 2004 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 1904417485 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £48

Inventory No.15176 Author: Bruce, Dorita Fairlie
Dimsie Head Girl
Published Spring Books (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0903445832 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6
Slight fading to edges of boards, clean copy with no inscriptions in pictorial d/w with several closed tears

Inventory No.12957 Author: Bruce, Dorita Fairlie
Nancy at St. Bride's
Published 2003 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417086 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £20

Inventory No.19904 Author: Bruce, George
Collins Dictionary of Battles
Published 1995 HarperCollins (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0004707265 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.20342 Author: Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
Ludgate Nature-Study Readers. The Frank Buckland Reader
Published George Philip & Son Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
No date. Lacks title page. Original green cloth with black titling and decoration. 248 pages with frontispiece and numerous illustrations.

Inventory No.18007 Author: Buckley, H.
Perspective a Treatise for Art Students
Published 1940 Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Ex-library with labels and stamp, boards marked but contents very good

Inventory No.15398 Author: Buczacki, Dr. Stefan.
Fauna Britannica
Published 2002 Hamlyn (London, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0600598675 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12
Small puncture and stain on rear d/w. Puncture has indented the book but not through the cloth.
ZOOLOGY NATURE WILDLIFE SOCIAL SCIENCE

Inventory No.19553 Author: Bunker, B.
All Their Yesterdays.
Published 1973 The Author. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £5
Inscription on fep. Dust jacket rubbed chipped and with cup ring on rear.
Holmesfield Derbyshire Local Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.20373 Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Making of a Marchioness
Published 2007 Persephone Books (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 9781903155141 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Book 29. With a new preface by Isabel Raphael and new afterword by Gretchen Gerzina. Looks unread.

Inventory No.13143 Author: Burns, Robert; Beattie, William; Meikle, Henry W.
Selected Poems
Published 1986 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0140585354 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £2.5
Inscription inside front cover
POETRY (POETIC WORKS BY ONE

Inventory No.17664 Author: Burns, Vera; Campbell, W. J.; Turner, D. H. L.
The Heritage Park Story
Published 1977 Type:
Edition:Second Printing ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Calgary Canada

Inventory No.19897 Author: Burroughs, William
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Published 1970 Cape Goliard Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0206617658 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £150
Card covers a little sunned to edges.

Inventory No.19915 Author: Burton, Reginald
Railway of Hell
Published 2002 Leo Cooper Ltd (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:Revised and Extended Edition ISBN: 0850528720 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Good+ Price: £5
Boards and d/w damp-stained though not immediately obvious

Inventory No.17650 Author: Bury, Adrian; Cammell, Charles Richard
World-Famous Paintings
Published 1958 The New Educational Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy in chipped and torn d/w

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