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Inventory No.30858 Author: J.D.C.A. Prideaux
Welsh Narrow Gauge Railway. A Pictorial History
Published 1976 David & Charles Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0715371843 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £7
Light spotting to endpapers and prelims. Dust jacket rubbed and fadded, else clean copy.
Wales Railways

Inventory No.33842 Author: Jack Miner
Jack Miner His Life and Religion
Published 1969 Jack Miner Migratory Bird Foundation (Ontario, Canada.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £10
Cloth torn at bottom of spine, long inscription ( to Lord Mayor of Leamington) on ffep

Inventory No.36262 Author: Jackson, Michael
Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion
Published 1993 Dorling Kindersley (London) Type:
Edition:Third Impression ISBN: 0863186580 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Scrape marks near bottom of spine else very good

Inventory No.37022 Author: James Paradis; Postlewait, Thomas
Victorian Science and Victorian Values
Published 1985 Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0813511070 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
Excellent clean copy which appears unread

Inventory No.36493 Author: James, Henry
Italian Hours
Published 1986 Century (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0712695710 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.36433 Author: James, Henry; Putt, S. Gorley
An International Episode And Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Published 1985 Penguin Books. Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0140432272 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Pages browning slightly else nice clean copy

Inventory No.37016 Author: James, Montague Rhodes (Translated by)
The Apocryphal New Testament
Published 1983 Clarendon Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0198261217 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £20
Small address sticker on fep else book is clean and bright in slightly rubbed d/w

Inventory No.35933 Author: Jamieson, David; Davidson, Sandy
The Love of the Circus
Published 1990 Chartwell Books (New Jersey) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 155521648x Size:4to Binding:Decorated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £12
Lettering on spine of d/w faded else very nice copy
Circus

Inventory No.37152 Author: Janaway, Christopher
The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Published 1999 Cambridge University Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0521629241 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Excellent clean unread copy

Inventory No.36766 Author: Janaway, Christopher
Schopenhauer (Past Masters)
Published 1994 Oxford University Press Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0192876856 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean and bright

Inventory No.34908 Author: Jarratt, Jim
Ivory Towers and Dressed Stones: Vol. 1: Lancashire : Exploring the Follies, Prospect Towers and Other Curiosities of Northern England
Published 1994 Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 185284146x Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Birthday greetings inside else would be VG+
Lancashire Follies Architecture

Inventory No.24355 Author: Jarred, Martin & Malcolm MacDonald
Leeds United: a Complete Record 1919 - 1989
Published 1989 Breedon Books Sport (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 090796950x Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
White cloth, no lettering on spine. D/w price-clipped and very slightly creased, very good clean copy. Heavy so international orders will need extra postage
Football

Inventory No.36158 Author: Jekyll, Gertrude
Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
Published 1990 Antique Collectors' Club (Woodbridge) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0907462170 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12.5
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.36416 Author: Jenkins, Roy
Gladstone
Published 1996 Papermac. (London) Type:
Edition:Corrected Edition ISBN: 0333662091 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Pages starting to brown slightly, mark from paperclip on front cover, else nice clean copy

Inventory No.36789 Author: Jenkinson, Denis
From Chain Drive to Turbocharger: The A.F.N. Story
Published 1985 Guild Publishing (London) Type:
Edition:Book Club ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
Slight edgewear to d/w else very good

Inventory No.36440 Author: Jenkyns, Richard
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
Published 1981 Basil Blackwell. (Oxford) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0631129340 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.35954 Author: Jennings, Frank
Sawdust in My Shoes
Published 1972 Boydell Press (Ipswich.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £16
Nice clean copy, d/w chipped and torn with loss
Circus

Inventory No.27023 Author: Jennings, Paul; Spiegl, Fritz
Mozart's Overture; The Magic Carpet, Arranged as a Tourists' Guide
Published 1969 Oxford University Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Soft Card Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Pictorial soft card covers a little faded around spine. Musical score. pp. 12.
Mozart Music

Inventory No.34299 Author: John o' Gaunt; Illustrator: Furnival
Your Lancashire. 1952 Guild Year Edition
Published 1952 Lancashire Evening Post Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:24mo Binding:Soft Card Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Some spotting to covers. Pages age toned but still a nice clean copy.
Lancashire

Inventory No.37019 Author: John, Angela V.
By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines
Published 1984 Routledge & Kegan Paul (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0710201427 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Excellent clean bright copy

Inventory No.34125 Author: Johns, Captain W. E.
Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.
Published 1954 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Small closed tear on edge of spine at back, pages browning but covers unusually clean and bright

Inventory No.34535 Author: Johnson, Alan
The Long and Winding Road
Published 2016 Bantam (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780593076033 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Excellent clean copy in like d/w

Inventory No.34536 Author: Johnson, Alan SIGNED COPY
Please, Mister Postman
Published 2014 Bantam (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780593073414 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Excellent clean copy in like d/w

Inventory No.36877 Author: Johnson, Brian.
The Secret War
Published 1978 British Broadcasting Corporation (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0563174250 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Owner's sticker on ffep else clean unmarked copy in very good d/w

Inventory No.34896 Author: Johnston, F. R.
Sketchmaps of Industrial Lancashire, 1700-1850
Published 1969 Eccles & District History Society (Manchester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900999039 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
43pp. Slightly rubbed on back but surprisingly clean and bright for a 50 year old pamphlet

Inventory No.35920 Author: Johnston, Franklin R.
The Lost Field Notes of Franklin R. Johnston's Life and Work Among the American Indians
Published 1998 First Glance Books (California) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1885440057 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £15
Lovely clean copy

Inventory No.36961 Author: Jonas, Hans
Memoirs Edied By Christian Wiese
Published 2008 Brandeis University Press (Waltham, Massachusetts) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1584656395 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean copy, spine of d/w looks as if it may be faded- hard to tell

Inventory No.35109 Author: Jones, A.E.
Trams and Buses of West Yorkshire
Published 1985 Ian Allan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0711014701 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.95
Clean copy

Inventory No.36465 Author: Jones, John
Dostoevsky
Published 1985 Oxford University Press Type:
Edition:First Paperback ISBN: 0192818686 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Clean tight copy

Inventory No.34132 Author: Jones, M. G; Medhurst, C. E.
Lady Betty Hastings
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
24 pages including covers. Nice clean copy.

Inventory No.36945 Author: Jones, Ray
The Lighthouse Encyclopedia: The Definitive Reference
Published 2004 Globe Pequot Press (Guilford, Connecticut) Type:
Edition:First Edition Third Printing ISBN: 0762727357 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Excellent clean unmarked copy

Inventory No.28712 Author: Jones, Robin
Mallard 75: Celebrating Britain's Greatest Steam Moment. All Six Surviving A4s Reunited in York
Published 2013 Mortons Media (Horncastle) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781909128156 Size:4to Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Fore edge of cover and 1st page creased at edge, else a very nice clean copy.
Railways

Inventory No.35866 Author: Jonson, Ben
The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume Two. (Everyman's Library) No. 490
Published 1970 J. M. Dent. (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0460004905 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Volume 2 only. Nice clean bright copy.

Inventory No.35030 Author: Jourda, Pierre
Le Gargantua De Rabelais
Published Editions A.-G. Nizet (Paris.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Uneven shading to covers, some pages untidily cut, very good copy else

Inventory No.36705 Author: Joyce, James; Burgess, Anthony
A Shorter Finnegan's Wake
Published 1966 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.35298 Author: Judge, Arthur W; Dommett, Captain W. E; Garrard, Major A; Phillimore, John
Modern Motor Cars Their Conctruction, Maintnance, Management, Care, Driving, and Running Repairs. With Special Sections on Cycle Cars, Commercial Cars , and Motor Cycles. 3 Volume Set.
Published Caxton Publishing Co. Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:New and Revised Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £25
3 volume set in red cloth, gilt. Cloth worn and faded to spine. In volume 2 signatures pulled, In volume 3 signatures pulled and a little loose. Numerous illustrations within text in each volume and all listed plates and colour models present. A nice slightly worn but clean set.

Inventory No.36966 Author: Jung, Peter
The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I Parts 1 and 2 (Men-at-Arms)
Published 2003 Osprey Publishing (Oxford) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1841765945 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean bright copies

Inventory No.36967 Author: Jurado, Carlos Caballero
The Condor Legion: German Troops in the Spanish Civil War: 131 (Elite)
Published 2006 Osprey Publishing (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1841768995 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Clean and bright, looks new

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