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Inventory No.18264 Author: MacGowan, Tempe
Transforming Uncommon Ground. The Gardens of Vladimir Sitta
Published 2010 Frances Lincoln (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 9780711231283 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £12.5

Inventory No.20232 Author: MacSorley, M. E. Editor
1861 Census of Montgomeryshire Enumeration District of Montgomery Part 1. Surname Index
Published 1999 Powys FHS Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.20456 Author: MacSweeney, Barry
Odes; 1971-1978
Published 1978 Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 085465061x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12

Inventory No.20049 Author: Mackay, James
Pocket Scottish History
Published 2008 Lomond Books. (Broxburn) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 9781842040430 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Lovely clean copy

Inventory No.19936 Author: Mackenzie, John M.
The Victorian Vision : Inventing New Britain
Published 2001 V&A Publications (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1851773274 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9

Inventory No.20509 Author: Macmillan, J. E.; Scot, F. S. A.; Illustrator: Ingham, Arthur
Know Your Perth
Published Perthshire Advertiser Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.19375 Author: Mallory, Clare
Merry Begins
Published 2004 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417396 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £40

Inventory No.18407 Author: Mallory, Clare
Juliet Overseas
Published 2006 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417817 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £42

Inventory No.17427 Author: Mallory, Clare
Juliet Overseas
Published 2006 Girls Gone By Publishers (Bath.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1904417817 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Mint Price: £40

Inventory No.20120 Author: Malster, Robert
Wreck and Rescue on the Essex Coast : The Story of the Essex Lifeboats
Published 1968 D. Bradford Barton Ltd. (Truro) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0851530001 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Fair Price: £20
Library stamp, labels etc and bottom part of ffep cut off but resonable copy of scarce item

Inventory No.17658 Author: Mandell, Richard D.
The Nazi Olympics
Published 1972 Souvenir Press (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0285620436 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Poor Price: £5
D/w ragged and torn with some loss

Inventory No.18370 Author: Mann, Thomas; Lowe-Porter, H. T.
Joseph and His Brothers
Published 1956 Secker & Warburg (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £8.5
Original black cloth a little rubbed. Silver titling on spine rubbing off. Name on endpaper. Page edges untrimmed and a little spotted. Good clean solid volume.

Inventory No.19798 Author: Manning, Jo
My Lady Scandalous : The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliot, Royal Courtesan
Published 2005 Simon and Schuster (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 074326262x Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £8

Inventory No.19765 Author: March, Jenny
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths
Published 2010 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 9780241953587 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8

Inventory No.8850 Author: Marcotte, Elaine
Shrieval Administration of Ship Money in Cheshire, 1637: Limitations of Early Stuart Governance
Published 1975 The John Rylands University Library of Manchester (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3
Reprinted from the "Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester", Vol. 58, No. 1, Autumn 1975.
Cheshire Charles Stuart Charles I History

Inventory No.20216 Author: Markwell, F. C. & Pauline Saul
Tracing Your Ancestors in Warwickshire
Published 1989 Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0905105753 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Card covers a little rubbed. Address label on inside of front cover. A very nice clean copy.
Warwickshire Family History Local History

Inventory No.19132 Author: Marley, Brian
Springtime in the Rockies
Published 1978 Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £20
Faint musty smell, otherwise near fine in very good rexine wrapper
Poetry

Inventory No.18925 Author: Marley, Brian;Benveniste, Asa
Dense Lens
Published 1975 Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0854650415 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
A limited edition of 550 copies. Light stain mark on covers from staples.
Poetry

Inventory No.18189 Author: Marsh, Terry
The Lake Mountains Vol. 2 : Coniston to Helvellyn, Fairfield to Longsleddale
Published 1987 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0340410450 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Nice clean copy
S Lake District Cumbria Mountains Climbing

Inventory No.17667 Author: Marshall, F. J. C.
Keeping Fit for Boys A Health Book for Senior Boys
Published 1943 Blackie and Son Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.15347 Author: Marshall, Peter
Manchester and the Industrial Revolution Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 62, No. 1, Autumn, 1979
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.18961 Author: Martin, Nancy; Illustrator: Ingall
Abwa and Her Picture. A Story of Africa
Published 1946 The Carey Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:24mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £6.5
Pictorial paper covered boards rubbed and dusty. Previous owners name on fep.
Children's

Inventory No.20464 Author: Maskell, Mary
Great Bentley Past Volume Two
Published The Author Type:
Edition: ISBN: 095200030x Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Essex Local History Colchester

Inventory No.20501 Author: Massie, Diane Redfield
The Baby Beebee Bird
Published 1965 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £10
Spotting on reverse of d/w which is slightly chipped. Lovely illustrations by the author

Inventory No.20366 Author: Mathews, Godfrey W.
Notes on the Parish and Church of Harthill
Published Type:
Edition:Offprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Reprinted from the Transactions of the Histoic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Vol. 81. (1929) 13 pages plus 1 of photographs. Inscribed on top edge of front cover "With the authors compliments"

Inventory No.18509 Author: Mathieson, Eric; Illustrator: Marshall, Constance
Plonk and the Forty-nine Cats
Published 1964 Hamish Hamilton. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Bookplate (no name) on fep, small splash mark on d/w but generally clean and bright

Inventory No.18930 Author: Matthias, John;Kinsey, Douglas;Ostergren, Jan;Printz-Pahlson, Goran
Bathory & Lermontov
Published 1980 Kalejdoskop (Sweden) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9185552259 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Small mark on rear of dustwrapper.
Poetry

Inventory No.18536 Author: Mayne, William; Illustrator: Rawlins, Janet
While the Bells Ring
Published 1979 Hamish Hamilton. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 024189932x Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice copy in very nice d/w marred by curry stain on pages 37-38. Signed by Janet Rawlins on titlepage

Inventory No.19927 Author: McKean, John; Baxter, Colin
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Architect, Artist, Icon
Published 2004 Lomond Books. (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0947782087 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12.5
Bottom of spine bumped. D/w slightly torn at top and bottom of spine.

Inventory No.15333 Author: McNiven, Peter
Hand-list of the Jevons Archives in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 66, No.1, Autumn 1983
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6

Inventory No.15327 Author: McNiven, Peter
The Cheshire Rising of 1400 Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 52, No. 2, Spring, 1970
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.18234 Author: Mclachlan, H. John. Compiled and Edited By
The Downing Flavour. Arthur Benjamin Downing (1915-1980). A Memorial Volume
Published 1982 Ruth Downing Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Original dark green cloth, gilt. A couple of small holes to spine and wear to the top/bottom of spine. Included is the Service of Rememberance sheet.
The Inquirer Religion

Inventory No.20472 Author: Mellor, Allan S.; Allengro
Rambles with Allengro (Fifty Miles Round Manchester)
Published 1949 H. Rawson & Co. (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Tape marks on titlepage, very good else
Manchester Peak District Derbyshire Cheshire Walking

Inventory No.20349 Author: Meltzer, David
Ragas
Published 1959 Discovery Books (San Francisco) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Brown card covers with orange design to front. Faint crease down front/rear cover. Staples rusting. Inscription on title page reads from under title " 28 Aug 68 for asa (or asj or asg" then signed under his name followed by small drawing.
Poetry

Inventory No.18860 Author: Meltzer, David
Yesod
Published 1969 Trigram Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £15
Lovely bright purple boards decorated in silver. D/w somewhat rubbed and faded.

Inventory No.20112 Author: Melville, Whyte
Tilbury Nogo
Published Chapman and Hall (London) Type:
Edition:Yellowback ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £15
Rather worn, as yellowbacks tend to be, top of ffep and next 3 pages cut off but decent copy. Photograph on request
Yellowback

Inventory No.19204 Author: Meredith, Anthony
The Demon and the Lobster : Charles Kortright and Digby Jephson, Remarkable Bowlers in the Golden Age
Published 1987 The Kingswood Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0434981141 Size:8vo Binding:Original Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Sport Cricket History

Inventory No.18892 Author: Midwinter, Eric
Old Liverpool
Published 1971 David & Charles (Newton Abbott) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0715353357 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
LIVERPOOL Lancashire Merseyside Local History

Inventory No.20399 Author: Miles, Barry
Paul McCartney : Many Years from Now
Published 1997 Secker & Warburg (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0436280221 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £6
D/w creased round edges

Inventory No.19896 Author: Miles, John
Tumulus
Published 2006 Invisible Inc Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0955135702 Size:Landscape: Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £50
Art Photography

Inventory No.19866 Author: Miles, Patricia; Illustrator: John Gosler, Dust Jacket
Louther Hall
Published 1981 Hamish Hamilton. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0241105951 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7.5
A very nice clean copy.
Children's

Inventory No.20468 Author: Miller, George C.
Peeps at Old Preston
Published 1957 Provincial Newspapers, Ltd. (Preston) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £7
Covers rubbed, contents very good
Lancashire Local History Preston

Inventory No.17621 Author: Mills, Dorothy, A. H.
The Story of Bruges, Ghent and Ypres Retold from the Chronicles of Sir John Froissart
Published 1927 Burns, Oates and Washbourne (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £8
Original soft card covers, creased on edges where they overlap the pages. Covers a little rubbed. Spotting throughout. Name on endpaper. 27 wood engravings.
History

Inventory No.16106 Author: Millward, Roy; Robinson, Adrian
Ullswater and the Eden Valley
Published 1972 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0333130111 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
This booklet forms part of a larger volume, Cumbria, one of the Landscapes of Britain series. pp.105-136
Lake District Cumbria

Inventory No.16105 Author: Millward, Roy; Robinson, Adrian
Borrowdale and West Cumberland
Published 1972 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0333130138 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
This booklet forms part of a larger volume, Cumbria, one of the Landscapes of Britain series. pp.137.168
Lake District Cumbria

Inventory No.16104 Author: Millward, Roy; Robinson, Adrian
North East Cumberland
Published 1974 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0333130103 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
This booklet forms part of a larger volume, Cumbria, one of the Landscapes of Britain series. pp.73-106
Lake District Cumbria

Inventory No.18731 Author: Moon, Gypsy
Done and Been : Steel Rail Chronicles of American Hobos
Published 1996 Indiana University Press (Bloomington) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0253210356 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
TRAMPS

Inventory No.20231 Author: Morgan, Paul
Warwickshire Apprentices in the Stationers' Company of London, 1563-1700. Occasional Paper No. 25
Published 1978 Dugdale Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 085220051x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Sign of label removal on front cover. 46 pages.
Warwickshire Local History

Inventory No.5923 Author: Morrison, Arthur
To London Town
Published 1906 Duffield & Co. (New York) Type:
Edition:First American Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Boards and spine light rubbed. inscription on f.f.e.p. Light staining to edge of endpapers. A very good bright, tight and clean copy.
Fiction Victorian Literature Novel

Inventory No.19613 Author: Morrison, Arthur.
Tales of Mean Streets
Published 1927 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:Tenth Edition. ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Decent copy, no inscriptions
Fiction Victorian Literature Novel

Inventory No.5924 Author: Morrison, Arthur.; Illustrator: F. H. Townsend
The Green Diamond
Published 1908 A. Wessels Company (New York) Type:
Edition:Second American Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
Boards and spine rubbed and a little grubby. Inscription and library stamp on f.f.e.p. and half-title page and rear endpapers.
Fiction Victorian Literature Novel

Inventory No.19719 Author: Morrison, J. S.; Rankov, N. B.; Coates, J. F.
The Athenian Trireme : The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship
Published 2000 Cambridge University Press. Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0521564190 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
SHIPS, WOODEN GREECE_HISTORY GREECE_ANTIQUITIES

Inventory No.19746 Author: Mort, Terry
The Hemingway Patrols Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats
Published 2009 Scribner (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781416597865 Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £6
Very nice clean copy
War Hemingway

Inventory No.18307 Author: Munro, Neil
Para Handy Tales
Published 1955 William Blackwood and Sons. (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition:First Impression ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £10
Original maroon cloth, gilt. Inscription on endpaper. Dustwrapper foxed, rubbed and chipped.

Inventory No.17769 Author: Munton, Alan
English Fiction of the Second World War : A Study
Published 1989 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0571149715 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3
Pages starting to brown slightly otherwise as new
ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURY

Inventory No.18006 Author: Murray, Tony; Mansfield, Roger
Fantasy, Fiction and Fact Studies in Literature and Sociology
Published 1965 Blackie and Son Ltd. (London) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Ffep has been untidily torn out, label on fep, contents very good

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