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Inventory No.17567 Author: Saddler, Ian
A Mission in Life; The History of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society
Published 1997 Liverpool Victoria Group (Bournemouth) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £4
Liverpool Local History

Inventory No.16151 Author: Sagar, John; Illustrator: Holroyd, John W.
Chapters of Steam
Published 1984 Kingfisher Railway Productions (Southampton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0946184119 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £4.5
Railways Keighley Worth Valley

Inventory No.19931 Author: Saidy, Anthony; Lessing, Norman
The World of Chess
Published 1974 Ridge Press (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0004105893 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6
Name and tape marks on ffep, clean copy otherwise

Inventory No.19913 Author: Sampson, R. W. F.
Spitfire Offensive
Published 2007 Bounty Books (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 9780753715581 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.20293 Author: Sandred, Karl Inge; Lindsrom, Bengt
The Place-Names of Norfolk Parts One, Two and Three
Published 1989 English Place-Name Society Type:3 Volumes
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0904889157 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £60
Very nice set, all three volumes in lovely condition
Norfolk Local History 0904889505 0904889661

Inventory No.20111 Author: Savage, Richard Henry
A Modern Corsair
Published 1897 George Routledge & Sons (London) Type:
Edition:Yellowback ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £20
Rather worn, as yellowbacks tend to be but decent copy. Photograph on request
Yellowback

Inventory No.15339 Author: Sawyer, P. H.
The Place-Names of the Domesday Manuscripts Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 38, No. 2, March, 1956
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.17814 Author: Schofield, John; Vince, Alan
Medieval Towns : The Archaeology of British Towns in Their European Setting
Published 2005 Continuum (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0826461301 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Lovely copy. Weighs more than 1kg but extra postage will not be required for UK orders
CITIES AND TOWNS, MEDIEVAL EXCAVATIONS

Inventory No.19577 Author: Scholey, Arthur; Swann, Donald; Illustrator: Ambrus, Victor
The Song of Caedmon
Published 1971 The Bodley Head (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0370012607 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Top edge of ffep cut off. School stamp on contents page and rear endpaper. Dust jacket a little rubbed with small closed tear at top of spine.

Inventory No.19979 Author: Schullery, Paul
The Orvis Story 150 Years of an American Sporting Tradition
Published 2006 The Orvis Company (Manchester, Vermont) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780979009709 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12.5
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.19009 Author: Scott, Arthur Finley
Every One a Witness. The Tudor Age. Commentaries of an ERA
Published 1975 Purnell Book Services. (London) Type:
Edition:Book Club ISBN: 0727400452 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
GREAT BRITAIN_HISTORY

Inventory No.18939 Author: Scott, George Ryley
Such Outlaws as Jessie James
Published Gerald G. Swan (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Original blue cloth, gilt. Boards and spine worn and faded. Text and illustrations very good.

Inventory No.17672 Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe (Olive Classics )
Published Collins' Clear-type Press (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Leatherette
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Slipcase. Price: £5
Excellent condition still in plastic cover, slipcase rather worn

Inventory No.19629 Author: Scurr, Ruth
Fatal Purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution
Published 2006 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0701176008 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6.5
ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIEN MARIE ISIDORE DE,

Inventory No.19836 Author: Selkirk, Raymond
On the Trail of the Legions
Published 1995 Anglia Publishing (Ipswich.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1897874081 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + But Price Clipped. Price: £20
Please note this book came from a smokers house there is therefore a faint tobacco smell.
Roman History

Inventory No.19830 Author: Sell, Alan P. F.
Church Planting : A Study of Westmorland Nonconformity
Published 1986 H. E. Walter Limited (Worthing) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0854790748 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Looks unread.
Nonconformist

Inventory No.19865 Author: Severn, David; Illustrator: Jillian Richards
The Future Took Us
Published 1958 The Children's Book Club (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7.5
Shading to endpapers. Dust jacket a little rubbed and sun darkened to spine.
Children's

Inventory No.12758 Author: Shakspeare, Shakespeare, William
The Works of Shakspeare, with Photographic Illustrations
Published Suttaby and Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Bound in soft leather with gilt decoration and titling and raised bands to spine. Boards and pages rounded at corners. Boards beginning to fade, spine faded. Decorated endpapers. Owners name to blank paper. One photographic plate faded.

Inventory No.15352 Author: Sharp, Margaret
A Jodrell Deed and the Seals of the Black Prince Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 7, No.1, July, 1922
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.15366 Author: Sharpe, Eric J.
Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester, 1904-1979 Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 63, No.1, Autumn 1980
Published The John Rylands University Library of Manchester Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.18516 Author: Shea, Richard F.
Principles of Transistor Circuits
Published 1953 Chapman and Hall (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £6
Dustwrapper rubbed and chipped.

Inventory No.19717 Author: Shegog, Richard
The Packwood Story 1892-1992
Published 1992 Packwood Haugh School (Shropshire.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951847104 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
Packwood Haugh School Shropshire Local History Education

Inventory No.20158 Author: Shephard, Michael
Chub: How to Catch Them
Published 1956 Herbert Jenkins (London) Type:
Edition:Second Printing ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Fair Price: £5
Slight fading to edge of boards, nice and bright otherwise, d/w chipped and torn with loss on front
Fishing Angling Chub

Inventory No.18004 Author: Sheppard, Richard; Wright, Hilton; Gloag, John
Building for Daylight
Published 1948 George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Small Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £7
Ex-college library with labels and stamp, spine a bit worn, contents very good
Architecture

Inventory No.18505 Author: Shorrock, Paul
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Published 2010 Discovery Walking Guides (Northampton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781904946649 Size:Narrow 8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £9
Six separate walks tackling the 3 peaks, followed by the final challenge of the three in one walk

Inventory No.20354 Author: Silk, Dennis
Siegfried Sassoon and the Great War, the Making of a War Poet
Published 1998 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
In top corner of front cover some notes have been written, else would have been VG+. Signed by the author on title page.
Poetry

Inventory No.19766 Author: Silva, Corinne
Wandering Abroad
Published 2009 Leeds Art Galleries (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780901981837 Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Published to accompany the film installation Wandering Abroad.
Art Leeds

Inventory No.18787 Author: Sitwell, Edith.
The Outcasts
Published 1962 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.19706 Author: Slater, Rev. F. G.
Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester, and North Wales. New Series - Vol. XX
Published 1914 G. R. Griffith, Ltd (Chester.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Wrappers worn and chipped. Pages untrimmed. Text and plates nice and clean.
Cheshire Chester Local History Wales

Inventory No.20296 Author: Smith, A. H.
English Place Name Elements Parts I and II
Published 1956 Cambridge University Press. Type:2 Volumes
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £35
Four maps present in pocket at rear of vol. II
topography Local History

Inventory No.20294 Author: Smith, A. H.
The Place Names of Westmorland Parts One and Two
Published 1967 Cambridge University Press. Type:2 Volumes
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £30
Very nice set, both volumes in lovely condition though spines of dustwrappers slightly faded, five maps present in pocket at rear of vol. 2.
topography Local History Westmorland Cumbria Lake District

Inventory No.20281 Author: Smith, A. H.
The Place Names of Gloucestershire Parts One, Two, Three and Four
Published 1964 Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge.) Type:4 Volumes
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £65
Very nice set, all four volumes in lovely condition, eight maps present in pocket at rear of vol. 4. Only fault is small piece missing from top corner of back of d/w on vol. 4
gloucestershire Topography Local History

Inventory No.19550 Author: Smith, Eric
First Things First : RAF Hornchurch and RAF Suttons Farm, 1915-1962
Published 1992 Ian Henry Publications. (Romford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860254429 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Essex

Inventory No.15169 Author: Smith, John
Chronicon Rusticum - Commerciale or Memoirs of Wool Being a Collection of History and Argument Concerning the Woolen Manufacture and the Woolen Trade in General
Published 1969 Augustus M. Kelley (New York) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £11.5
Originally published 1747. Edges spotted and dusty, very good otherwise
Wool Woolen Woollen Textiles

Inventory No.15325 Author: Smith, Roland
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Increasing Foreign Competition to Lancashire Cotton Textiles 1873-1896 Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 38, No. 4, March, 1956
Published 1956 The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.20079 Author: Smith, Roly;Frith, Francis;Francis Frith Collection; Smith, Roly
Francis Frith's Lake District
Published 2001 Frith Book Co Type:
Edition: ISBN: 1859373569 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £6

Inventory No.14405 Author: Southam, B. C.
Jane Austen : The Critical Heritage, Volume 2 1870-1940
Published 1987 Routledge & Kegan Paul. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0710201893 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £7
AUSTEN, JANE, 1775-1817 ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY

Inventory No.18316 Author: Southwart, Elizabeth
Ern Scar
Published 1925 Herbert Jenkins (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Poor Price: £10
Original bright green cloth with black titling and decoration. Very clean and bright. Dustwrapper well worn and torn with loss.

Inventory No.18835 Author: Southworth, John
Death Valley in 1849 The Luck of the Gold Rush Emigrants
Published 1978 Pegleg Books (Burbank, California) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Covers a little rubbed but contents very good

Inventory No.18251 Author: Speaight, Robert
The Life of Eric Gill
Published 1966 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/Very Good Price: £6
An ex-library copy with usual labels and stamps, Otherwise a very good copy in a very good bright dustwrapper.

Inventory No.17616 Author: Spielman, M. H; Layard, G. S.
The Life and Work of Kate Greenaway
Published 1986 Bracken Books. (London) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0946495793 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £9
Biography

Inventory No.19842 Author: Stamp, Tom; Hoyle, Tony; Raine, M. I; Pile, A.t.; Illustrator: M. I. Raine; A. T. Pile
Miss Raine's Flowers
Published 1984 Caedmon of Whitby (Whitby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0905355261 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8

Inventory No.20398 Author: Stannard, Neville; Tobler, John
The Long and Winding Road : A History of the Beatles on Record
Published 1983 Virgin (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint of Second Edition ISBN: 0907080960 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.20244 Author: Stapylton, H. E. C.
The Eton School Lists, from 1791 to 1850, (every Third Year After 1793) with Short Notes
Published 1863 E. P. Williams (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Leather Spine, Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Poor Price: £10
Boards damp-stained with cloth peeling off boards, front hinge cracked but contents sound so OK for working copy

Inventory No.19547 Author: Steers, J. A.
The English Coast and the Coast of Wales
Published 1966 Collins (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
The Fontana Libary edition.

Inventory No.19965 Author: Steiner, Nancy Hunter
A Closer Look at Ariel : A Memory of Sylvia Plath
Published 1974 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0571104916 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library/Very Good Price: £5
An ex-library copy with tape markes to fep, label removal on ffep, and stamp on title page. Else very clean in a little rubbed dust jacket.

Inventory No.13145 Author: Stevenson, Anne
The Other House
Published 1990 Oxford University Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0192827391 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
POETRY (POETIC WORKS BY ONE

Inventory No.11251 Author: Stevinson, E.
The Open-Air Nursery School
Published 1923 J. M. Dent (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £10
Boards rubbed and worn. Name on f.f.e.p. pp. 79. With 3 full page photographs.
Education Nursery School Rachel McMillan

Inventory No.19074 Author: Storey, David
As It Happened
Published 2002 Jonathan Cape (London) Type:
Edition:Uncorrected Book Proof ISBN: 0224068946 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Corners bumped.
0224062743

Inventory No.18826 Author: Stretton, Clement E.
The Development of the Locomotive A Popular History 1803 - 1896
Published 1989 Bracken Books (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1851702474 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £5
Previously published 1896. d/w rubbed with 1" closed tear on front
Railways

Inventory No.18236 Author: Styring, William
The Poetical Works of William Styring. Volume I.
Published 1947 Watmoughs (Bradford) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £20
Original pink cloth. Bumped on foredge. Name/address written in top corner of fep, under d/w flap. Dustwrapper worn and chipped.
Poetry

Inventory No.20006 Author: Summers, Julie; Huntford, Roland; Rowley, David; Illustrator: Ted Smart
The Shackleton Voyages : A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero
Published 2002 Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0297843168 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £9
Very heavy. Customers outside of the UK will be asked for additional postage.

Inventory No.18655 Author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell
Kingfisher Blue. A Wayfaring Story
Published John Long (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Fair/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Original green cloth. Cloth rubbed. Endpaper removed. Stamp on endpaper. Some spotting.

Inventory No.18653 Author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell
A Bachelor in Arcady
Published 1904 T. Fisher Unwin (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Fair/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Original decorated cloth. Cloth worn and stained on front and rear.Small inscription on half title. Some spotting.

Inventory No.18652 Author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell
Windover Tales
Published 1907 Smith, Elder & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Fair/No Dust Wrapper Price: £15
Original red cloth, gilt. Spine and adjacent 1 inch of boards are covered with selotape. Front and rear endpapers have been glued to boards, otherwise clean.

Inventory No.18651 Author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell
The Open Road. A Romance of High Adventure
Published 1913 Ward, Lock & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Original blue cloth with black decoration. Cloth rubbed. Inscription on ffep. Spotting throughout. The illustrated edition, but as no listing of illustrations so cannot confirm all present.

Inventory No.18650 Author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell
Shameless Wayne. A Romance of the Last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe
Published Wright and Brown (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Original orange cloth, black titling to spine. Cloth rubbed and spine a little faded. Some spotting. A very nice clean copy.

Inventory No.18649 Author: Sutcliffe, Halliwell
Shameless Wayne. A Romance of the Last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe
Published 1900 T. Fisher Unwin (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Original green cloth, gilt. Cloth rubbed and spine a little faded. Page edges browning. A very nice clean copy.

Inventory No.17132 Author: Sutherland, John
Mrs. Humphry Ward : Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian
Published 1990 Clarendon Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0198185871 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7.5
AUTHORS, ENGLISH

Inventory No.20499 Author: Sweet, Matthew
Inventing the Victorians
Published 2001 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0571206581 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.17793 Author: Symonds, John Addington.
Webster and Tourneur. The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi; The Atheist's Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy
Published 1959 Ernest Benn Ltd (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Good Price: £5
Name on ffep. Dustwrapper rubbed, chipped and torn with loss at head of spine.

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