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Inventory No.19951 Author: Haigh, Philip A.
The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses
Published 1995 Alan Sutton (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0750909048 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Faint smell of smoke,excellent copy otherwise

Inventory No.18777 Author: Hainson, Margaret; Illustrator: Copley, Heather
A Christmas Acorn
Published 1963 The Bodley Head (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £3
Boards faded round edges, neat signature on ffep, d/w rubbed and chipped

Inventory No.20271 Author: Hall, R. A.
The Viking Kingdom of York
Published 1976 Yorkshire Museum Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Card covers. Name on inside of front cover. pp. 32. An account written to celebrate the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of the Viking kingdom of York in conjunction with a special exhibition organised by Elizabeth Hartley in the Yorkshire Museum, 10th June-25th September, 1976.

Inventory No.20212 Author: Hall, Spencer T.
Pendle Hill & Its Surroundings
Published 1995 Landy Publications (Blackpool.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 1872895247 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
First published 1877. Bookplate inside front cover, otherwise near fine

Inventory No.19929 Author: Halle, Simon; Haywood, John
The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History : From Earliest Times to the Present Day
Published 2001 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0140295186 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £9

Inventory No.19928 Author: Hamilton, James
Turner's Britain
Published 2003 Merrell Publishers (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 185894211x Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7

Inventory No.17170 Author: Hannon, Paul
The Coast to Coast Walk : 190 Miles Across Northern England
Published 1994 Hillside Publications (Keighley) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: 1870141180 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Pocket sized book of 152 pages. Illustrated with sketch maps and photographs.
Walking Rambling

Inventory No.19986 Author: Hardy, Thomas; Illustrator: Reddick, Peter
The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
Published 1991 Folio Society (London.) Type:
Edition:Fifth Printing ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Lacks slipcase but nice clean copy

Inventory No.19984 Author: Hardy, Thomas; Illustrator: Reddick, Peter
Far from the Madding Crowd
Published 1991 Folio Society (London.) Type:
Edition:Sixth Printing ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Lacks slipcase but nice clean copy. Together with Hardy Society pamphlet No. 6 'The country of Far From the Madding Crowd'.

Inventory No.19985 Author: Hardy, Thomas Introduction By Angela Thirlwell; Illustrator: Reddick, Peter
Under the Greenwood Tree or the Mellstock Quire a Rural Painting of the Dutch School
Published 1991 Folio Society (London.) Type:
Edition:Fifth Printing ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Lacks slipcase but nice clean copy

Inventory No.17996 Author: Harrison, Molly; Royston, O. M.
Picture Source Book for Social History The Twentieth Century
Published 1967 George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Ex-college library with labels and stamps, spine faded, serviceable copy

Inventory No.20396 Author: Harry, Bill
Paperback Writers : The History of the Beatles in Print
Published 1984 Virgin (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0863690211 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.18956 Author: Hartley, John
John Hartley's Original Clock Almanack for 1957
Published 1957 Watmoughs (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
First year of the larger size. Original wrapper worn and creased. A little dusty.

Inventory No.17806 Author: Hartt, Frederick; Egan, Patricia
Botticelli (1444/5-1510). An Express Art Book
Published Beverbrook Newspapers (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Folio Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7
Still in publishers box.

Inventory No.17791 Author: Haslam, Ruby M.; Illustrator: Wilkins, Graeme
The Shell Temple
Published 1974 Regency Press. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Pictorial laminated boards. Black endpapers. A very nice clean copy.

Inventory No.17953 Author: Hawkins, Edw; Introduction
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with Engravings. Part V.
Published 1826 (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £60
Printed by W. Nicol and sold at the British Museum. An ex-college library copy. Re-bound in buff cloth. Boards grubby and with location label to top corner. Inside front board is a pocket, stamp and 2 location numbers written in ink. 1 stamp on reverse of title page. Some light spotting. Text, 44 pages and plates (XIII), all present.

Inventory No.18359 Author: Hayes, James
The Military Papers of Colonel Samuel Bagshawe (1713-62) Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 39, No. 2, March, 1957
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.15349 Author: Hayes, James
The Royal House of Hanover and the British Army, 1714-60 Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 40, No.2, March, 1958
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.18722 Author: Hayman, Ronald
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
Published 1991 Heinemann (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0434314048 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Smear and slight indentation on front board, name sticker on fep under flap of d/w, pages browning slightly, tiny tear to d/w on corner, decent copy
HUGHES, TED, 1930-1998 PLATH, SYLVIA,

Inventory No.20367 Author: Hempill, A.
A Guide to St. Marie's Hallam Cathedral Including a Short History
Published Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Blue card cover and pages. 20 pages plus 4 of photographs (not blue!)

Inventory No.18379 Author: Hensher, Philip
The Northern Clemency
Published 2008 Fourth Estate (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780007174799 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
First edition with 1 on reverse of titlepage, author's signature on titlepage, Topping "Signed First Edition" wrap around band, very nice clean copy, read once

Inventory No.17468 Author: Henty, G. A.
Bonnie Prince Charlie. A Tale of Fomtenoy and Culloden
Published W. Foulsham. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £4
Original blue cloth, gilt. Light spotting to page edges. Colour frontispiece. The Foulsham Henty Library.

Inventory No.19902 Author: Herrmann, Hajo
Eagle's Wings
Published 1991 Guild Publishing (London) Type:
Edition:Book Club ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
D/w edgeworn with small closed tear

Inventory No.19942 Author: Hill, Lorna
Vicki in Venice
Published 2002 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0953626970 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £80

Inventory No.19886 Author: Hill, Lorna; Illustrator: Eve Guthrie
No Castanets at the Wells
Published 1954 Evans Brothers Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
Illustrated front endpapers have been coloured in, other wise a very nice copy.
Children's

Inventory No.19885 Author: Hill, Lorna; Illustrator: Eve Guthrie
Jane Leaves the Wells
Published 1953 Evans Brothers Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £25
Boards a little spotted. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped with loss to head/tail of spine.
Children's

Inventory No.19655 Author: Hill, Lorna
The Secret
Published 2002 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417051 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £60

Inventory No.18406 Author: Hill, Lorna
Dress Rehearsal
Published 2005 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417582 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £30

Inventory No.19313 Author: Hill, Tony
Cherished Number Owners
Published 1988 Hartley Publications (Bradford Upon Avon) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950826685 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Transport

Inventory No.20356 Author: Hindle, George; Illustrator: Francis Lynch
Tales of the Brun in Prose and Verse
Published 1896 Lupton Bros. (Burnley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Original brown decorated cloth. Boards and spine a little worn. Decorated endpapers. 204 pages including subsribers list.

Inventory No.18059 Author: Hirst, F. C.; Wigley, Joyce; Dudley, Dorothy; Illustrator: Wigley, E. J.
Zennor
Published Privately Printed Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
A little creased and rubbed but decent copy
Cornwall Zennor Local History

Inventory No.18854 Author: Hitchcock, George; Illustrator: Brown, Gary H.
The Dolphin with the Revolver in Its Teeth
Published 1967 Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Edges a little ragged with tear at bottom corner of front cover, small grease mark on front, contents in excellent condition

Inventory No.17538 Author: Hocking, Joseph
All Men are Liars
Published 1895 Ward Lock (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Blue Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Signs of wear but very good, no inscriptions

Inventory No.16264 Author: Hocking, Joseph
O'er Moor and Fen a Tale of Methodist Life in Lancashire
Published 1906 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:Fourth Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5.5
Slight wear to spine but nice clean copy of attractive looking book

Inventory No.15590 Author: Hocking, Joseph
All Men are Liars
Published 1897 Ward Lock (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Half Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £4.5
Worn and rubbed, front hinge starting to split, Sunday School label on fep, damp stain on rear endpaper, some spotting to pages but readable copy

Inventory No.17424 Author: Hocking, Silas K.
One in Charity
Published 1894 Frederick Warne & Co (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Slight wear to spine, very good copy

Inventory No.20447 Author: Hockney, David.; Illustrator: David Hockney.
The Blue Guitar. Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By Pablo Picasso.
Published 1977 Petersburg Press. (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902825038 Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Fine/Fine Price: £26
20 etchings inked from a selection of five colours.
Hockney Wallace Stevens Pablo Picasso

Inventory No.14299 Author: Holgate, Ivy
The Key to "Caroline" Publications of the Bronte Society Part 68
Published 1958 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £2.5
Reprinted from the Publications of the Bronte Society, Part 68, 1958. 11pp. Covers rubbed, signed by author inside front cover
Bronte

Inventory No.19924 Author: Hollingsworth, Brian
The Guild of Railway Artists the Great Western Collection
Published 1988 New Orchard Editions (Poole) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1850791309 Size:Landscape 4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £20
D/w slightly crumpled on edges, attractive book

Inventory No.18906 Author: Hollingworth, Brian
Songs of the People : Lancashire Dialect Poetry of the Industrial Revolution
Published 1977 Manchester University Press Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0719006120 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Very Good Price: £4
Label on fep and stamp on reverse of titlepage, lacks ffep but good copy otherwise
ENGLISH POETRY (COLLECTIONS)

Inventory No.19350 Author: Hollo, Anselm; Illustrator: Collings, John
Alembic
Published Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape 32mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Looks unread.
Poetry

Inventory No.18082 Author: Holmes, John M.
Architectural Shadow Projection
Published The Architectural Press. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £10
An ex-college library with ref. nos to fep and ffep. not offensive. Small collage blind stamp to some page edges. Original decorated cloth though very grubby and worn with spine splitting on rear hinge. Text and plates, all present, very good. pp. vii, 58.
Architecture

Inventory No.18865 Author: Holub, Miroslav
Poems Before and After : Collected English Translations
Published 1995 Bloodaxe Books Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: 1852241225 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
POETRY (POETIC WORKS BY ONE

Inventory No.13094 Author: Hool, David
The Tales of Robin Hood
Published 1983 Nottinghamshire County Council Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902751158 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
ENGLISH LITERATURE

Inventory No.19569 Author: Horsler, Val
All for Love : Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison
Published 2006 The National Archives (Richmond) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 190336597x Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £5
Dust jacket has faint indentation mark across front.
MISTRESSES ADULTERY SEX

Inventory No.17648 Author: Horsley, Edith
The 1950s
Published 1978 Bison Books. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861240154 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6.5
Boards slightly faded round edges
WORLD HISTORY

Inventory No.19104 Author: Howcroft, Alfred J
History of the Chapelry and Church of Saddleworth and the Township of Quick. In Commemoration of the Seven Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Church, Celebrated June 20th and 27th, 1915
Published 1915 Hirst & Rennie Ltd. (Oldham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £20
Inscription on f.e.p. Spine has been poorly repaired. Good working copy
Lancashire History Local Family Genealogy Religion

Inventory No.19907 Author: Hudson, John
Sunset in the East
Published 2002 Leo Cooper Ltd (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0850528461 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.19724 Author: Hughes, Emrys; Eames, Aled
Porthmadog Ships
Published 1975 Gwynedd Archives Service (Caernarfon) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Wales Sailing Ships Boats

Inventory No.18793 Author: Hughes, Glyn.
Millstone Grit
Published 1975 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Uncorrected Proof ISBN: 0575017430 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Covers a little rubbed but contents very good

Inventory No.18762 Author: Hughes, Glyn.
Fair Prospects : Journeys in Greece
Published 1976 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0575020903 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + But Price Clipped. Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
GREECE_HISTORY

Inventory No.17642 Author: Hughes, Morris W.
How to Play Roulette, Chemin De Fer Baccarat
Published 1966 W. Foulsham. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £15
Nice bright copy in rubbed and edgeworn d/w

Inventory No.19980 Author: Hughes, Stephen
The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal
Published 1983 The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (Aberystwyth) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 1871184002 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5

Inventory No.8181 Author: Humberside County Archives
South Humberside Area Record Office Summary Guide
Published 1989 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951524003 Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers/plastic Spine
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Ex-archive library with a few stamps and label. A very good clean copy.
Local History Archives Genealogy Humberside

Inventory No.19835 Author: Hunnisett, Basil
Engraved on Steel : The History of Picture Production Using Steel Plates
Published 1998 Ashgate Publishing, Limited (Aldershot) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0859679713 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £15
Engraving History

Inventory No.19112 Author: Hunt, Irvine
The Lakeland Pedlar: Period Photographs and Poems
Published 1976 Pinewood Publications (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:Fifth Impression. ISBN: 0904358003 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £2
Lake District Cumbria History Topography Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.19871 Author: Hunter, Mollie; Illustrator: Elizabeth Grant
The Spanish Letters
Published 1964 Evans Brothers Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £5
Children's

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