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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.10832 Author: COOPER, Wallace.
Bygone Guiseley.
Published 1995 MTD Rigg. (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 1899458093 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £10
Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Guiseley History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10350 Author: Caffyn, Lucy; West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council
Workers' Housing in West Yorkshire, 1750-1920
Published 1986 H.M.S.O. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0113000022 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £40
Spine and back cover slightly faded but very nice clean copy with no inscriptions
West Yorkshire West Riding Architecture Local History Family History Genealogy Social History

Inventory No.9140 Author: Callaghan, Dave
The Leeds Rugby League Story
Published 1992 Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1873626142 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £7
Dust wrapper has 2cm closed tear on rear.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Sport Rugby League Loiners Rhinos

Inventory No.7796 Author: Cartwright, B. F; Beevers, Harry
The Gallant Youths. Official Handbook of the Batley C. A. & F. C.
Published Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Non as Issued. Price: £35
Light crease at bottom right front corner. Mark on page edge, page 1. pp. 96. Numerous photographs and drawings. No date but the Fixture list for 1971-72 printed. A very good copy of a scarce item
West Yorkshire West Riding Batley Local History Rugby League Sport Genealogy

Inventory No.10097 Author: Chaffer, Kenneth
Victorian Village Guiseley Yorkshire, an Intimate View
Published 1988 The Author (Darlet Head, Harrogate) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £45
Red cloth, gilt titling to spine. Block stamped in gilt on front M. SMITH. pp. 173 with numerous illustrations, charts and fold out maps. A
West Yorkshire West Riding Guiseley Leeds Local History Genealogy Topography Industry

Inventory No.8986 Author: Charles, John
King John the Autobiography
Published 2003 Headline Book Publishing Ltd (London, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0755312082 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good Price: £5
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds United History

Inventory No.10142 Author: Clark, David.
Colne Valley: Radicalism to Socialism the Portrait of a Northern Constituency in the Formative Years of the Labour Party 1890-1910
Published 1981 Longman (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0582502954 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £25
Spine of d/w slightly faded
West Riding West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Colne Valley Socialism Labour Party Political History Politics Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.7382 Author: Clarkson, Henry.
Memories of Merry Wakefield an Octogenarian's Recollections: Being Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Impressions During the Greater Part of the Nineteenth Century
Published 1889 W. H. Miles. (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £45
Original green decorated bevelled boards, gilt. Boards worn on corners and edges. Mark on rear board. Endpapers shaded. Spine worn at head and tail. Contents very clean and bright.
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.4621 Author: Clarkson, Henry.
Memories of Merry Wakefield.
Published 1969 S. R. Publishers Ltd (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Good Price: £13.5
D/w rubbed. A County History Reprint. Reprinted from the Second Edition originally printed in Wakefield by W. H. Miles, 1989.
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.10794 Author: Clay, J. W. And Crossley, E. W. [editors]
Halifax Wills: Being Abstracts and Translations of the Wills Registered at York from the Parish of Halifax. Part I. 1389 to 1514. Part II. 1515 to 1544, with Appendices A. And B.
Published 1904 Privately Printed for the Editors (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £75
Green cloth a little rubbed, spine lightly faded. Gilt titling to spine bright. Spotting to endpapers. pp. iv, 222.
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Local History Family History genealogy

Inventory No.10344 Author: Clayton, Ian; Rhodes, Ann; Lumb, Tony [edited by]
This is Featherstone: At Home, at Work and at Play
Published 1990 Art Circus Education (Glasshoughton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0947780602 Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
pp. 104. with numerous photographs.
West Yorkshire West Riding Featherstone Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.10234 Author: Clough, Robert T.
The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales. Their Architectural Character, Construction and Place in the European Tradition.
Published 1962 The Author. (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £70
Previous owners name and date on f.f.e.p. Dust wrapper chipped on top edge. Top and bottom edges have been strengthened with tape. Limited edition of 1000 copies this being number 800 and signed by the author. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. pp.xxiv, 118.
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Industrial History Lead Mining Industrial Architecture

Inventory No.9808 Author: Coates, D. M.
Bradford City Tramways 1882-1950
Published 1984 Wyvern Publications (Skipton.) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £4.5
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Trams Tramways Transport Public

Inventory No.7370 Author: Coldwell, Mildred; Illustrator: Ellis, Barbara
The Gate Hangs High a Spen Valley Childhood
Published 1987 Kirklees Leisure Services (Huddersfield.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900746289 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £5
Illustrated with photographs and drawings. pp. 135.
West Yorkshirewest Riding Kirklees Spen Valley Huddersfield Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.10505 Author: Cooper, Lettice
Yorkshire West Riding. The County Book Series
Published 1955 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £3
Boards sunned. Name on f.e.p. Illustrated and with folding map.
Wesy Yorkshire West Riding Local History Topography

Inventory No.10504 Author: Cooper, Lettice
Yorkshire West Riding. The County Book Series
Published 1955 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Good+ Price: £4
Dustwrapper rubbed, chipped and with some loss on top edge. Illustrated and with folding map.
Wesy Yorkshire West Riding Local History Topography

Inventory No.10503 Author: Cooper, Lettice
Yorkshire West Riding. The County Book Series
Published 1955 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Good+ Price: £4
Gift inscription on f.f.e.p. Dustwrapper rubbed, chipped and price clipped. Illustrated and with folding map.
Wesy Yorkshire West Riding Local History Topography

Inventory No.4502 Author: Cooper, Lettice
Great Men of Yorkshire (West Riding)
Published 1955 The Bodley Head (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £4.5
Dust wrapper price clipped and a little faded on spine.
West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Biography

Inventory No.4630 Author: Crompton, A. and Matthews, B.
Soils of the Leeds District [sheet 70] Memoirs of the Soil Survey of Great Britain, England and Wales.
Published 1970 (Harpenden.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good/Fair Price: £11.5
Ex-library with minimal stamps. Library ref: to spine. Front board has been stained with paint? splash. Dust jacket is chipped and torn, but complete, and is marked on the front were a label has been removed. Internal contents are near fine as is the map in the rear pocket. This survey, covering 216 sq. miles of the West Riding to the North and East of Leeds, stretches from the Pennine foothills into the Vale of York.
Yorkshire West Riding Geology Geological Soil

Inventory No.10188 Author: Crump, W. B.
Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages
Published 1968 S.R. Publishers for the Tolson Memorial Museum (East Ardsley, Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0854095209 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £10
d/w a little rubbed, otherwise book very nice and clean
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Genealogy Transport Roads Highways

Inventory No.7326 Author: Crump, W. B.
Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages
Published 1988 Kirklees Leisure Services (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0900746327 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £20
Produced for Kirklees Leisure Services by The Old Hall Press, Burton Salmon, Leeds. Number 630 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. pp. 150.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Genealogy Transport Roads Highways

Inventory No.4622 Author: Crump, W. B.
Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages
Published 1949 The Tolson Memorial Museum (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Stiff Card Covers, Cloth Spine
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Jacket Price: £10
Maps as endpapers. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Fold out map of The Standedge Roads.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Genealogy Transport Roads Highways

Inventory No.10855 Author: Cudworth, William
Rambles Round Horton
Published Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Reprint of the 1886 edition.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Horton Great Little History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.1075 Author: Cudworth, William
Yorksher Speyks and Bradfurth Dialect Sketches.
Published 1906 W. H. Clough. (Bradford, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Decorated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/None as Issued. Price: £15
Original red pictorial boards. Spine slightly faded. Minor foxing. 120pp. Illustrated. Very good.
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Dialect Local History

Inventory No.10455 Author: Cudworth, William.
Worstedopolis: a Sketch History of the Town and Trade of Bradford.
Published The Old Bradfordian Press, 1997 Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3.5
Facsimile of the 1888 edition. A unique and invaluable insight, for the casual reader or the serious researcher, into bradford ten years before it became a city. Lacks map.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History genealogy

Inventory No.10167 Author: Cudworth, William.
Worstedopolis: a Sketch History of the Town and Trade of Bradford.
Published The Old Bradfordian Press, 1997 Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Facsimile of the 1888 edition. A unique and invaluable insight, for the casual reader or the serious researcher, into bradford ten years before it became a city. Contains the intricately detailed and highly unusual map that was printed with the original book.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History genealogy

Inventory No.9581 Author: Cudworth, William.
Histories of Bolton and Bowling (Townships of Bradford) Historically and Topographically treated
Published 1891 Thomas Brear (Bradford.and) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £75
Boards and spine worn and rubbed at corners, labels removed from spine and front endpaper but this is not an ex-library copy,very small tear to marbled endpapers. A nice bright, tight and clean copy.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Bolton Bowling History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9577 Author: Cudworth, William.
Rambles Round Horton: Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive
Published Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 1853062383 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £6
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Horton Great Little History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.6733 Author: Cunnane, Martin
Wakefield District Harriers and Athletic Club: The First 100 Years
Published 1995 Yorkshire Sport Publication (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952520001 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Previous owners name on f.e.p.
Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Sport Athletics History Local Family Genealogy

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