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Inventory No.19892 Author: Caffyn, Lucy
Workers' Housing in West Yorkshire, 1750-1920
Published 1986 H.M.S.O. Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: 0113000022 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £35
Spine slightly faded.
West Yorkshire West Riding Architecture Local History Family History Genealogy Social History

Inventory No.14211 Author: Calderdale Libraries Staff
Memory Lane Calderdale Voices Recollections of Sowerby Bridge
Published 1990 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Comb Binding
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Sowerby Bridge Local History Family History Genealogy Memories

Inventory No.12449 Author: Cardwell, J. Stewart
Keighley : A Pictorial History
Published 1997 Phillimore (Chichester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1860770622 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Keighley Local History Family History Genealogy Photographs

Inventory No.12454 Author: Carpenter, David
Ilkley: The Victorian Era
Published 1986 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870071018 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
D/w faded on spine
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.18042 Author: Carpenter, Stella H.
The Manor of Wibsey. The Town & District
Published 1992 Bradford Libraries (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734291 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Pictorial card cover. pp. vii, 44. Illustrated.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Wibsey Local History

Inventory No.14148 Author: Cartwright, Brian
Pitch Battles Galore. Rendered Accounts, Incidents, and Stories from Sport, Through a Groundsman's Work and Eyes
Published 1999 Ediprint (Halifax) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
pp.144.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Hunslet Batley Rugby League

Inventory No.17911 Author: Cartwright, Joyce
Behind the Tower. A History of Seacroft Hospital
Published 1989 Leeds Eastern Health Authority (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
16 pages. Illustrated.
West Yorkshire Leeds Seacroft Local History

Inventory No.16609 Author: Centrepoint Writing Group, Leeds
Hatches, Matches & Dispatches in Belle Isle
Published 1991 Centrepoint Writing Group Belle Isle (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0947780750 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Cover faded otherwise very good clean copy of unusual item
West Yorkshire Leeds Belle Isle Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.3469 Author: Chadwick, Stanley
A Bold and Faithful Journalist: Joshua Hobson 1810-1876
Published 1976 Kirklees Libraries and Museums Service (Huddersfield.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950256838 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3.5
West Riding West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Local History Journalism Hobson Joshua

Inventory No.12204 Author: Chartres, John and Katrina Honeyman, Editors
Leeds City Business 1893-1993: Essays Marking the Centenary of the Incorporation
Published 1993 Leeds University Press (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0853161577 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Damp stain on bottom2" of front board, showing on fep, rest of book nice and clean
West Yorkshire Leeds Business History Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.18644 Author: City of Bradford Local Government Board
Lands Required for Waterworks and Street Improvement Purposes Book of Reference
Published 1904 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Cover darkened with age and slightly chipped.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Waterworks Local History

Inventory No.18641 Author: Civic Trust
Haworth a Study of the Historic Village
Published 1964 Civic Trust Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £15
Map in pocket is browned with age, some rust marks from staples, decent copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Haworth Local History Bronte Photographs

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.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: £9
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.19900 Author: Clay, John William
The Registers of Elland, Co. Yorkshire. Vol. I. 1559 to 1640
Published Privately Printed for the Author (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Half Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £75
Blue paper boards in half vellum. Title label to spine in maroon leather/gilt. Light shading to endpapers. Most pages uncut. A handsome volume.
West Riding West Yorkshire Elland Local History Calderdale Local History Parish Register

Inventory No.18646 Author: Clayton Methodist Church
Recipes & Quotations
Published 1954 Clayton Methodist Church (Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Clayton

Inventory No.4157 Author: Clinton, Tom
Laugh? I Nearly Went to Bradford
Published 1991 Bradford Libraries and Information Service (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734278 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fine/Non as Issued. Price: £6
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History

Inventory No.14116 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
Dust wrapper chipped on top edge and has been discreetly repaired. Top and bottom edges have been strengthened with tape. Limited edition of 1000 copies this being number 35 and signed by the author. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. pp.xxiv, 118. Together with signed autograph letter from the author to Mr. Batty about the book.
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Industrial History Lead Mining Industrial Architecture

Inventory No.18924 Author: Cockcroft, Janet. Dr.
Not a Proper Doctor. The Life and Times of an Off-Cumden in Halifax
Published Pennine Heritage (Hebden Bridge) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Corners bumped. A nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Local History

Inventory No.20360 Author: Cole, Don
Rectors, Squires, Stewards in a Yorkshire Parish. Their Homes and Lives Through Three Centuries in Adel and Cookridge
Published 1985 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
40pp. A nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Cookridge Family History Genealogy Local History

Inventory No.19356 Author: Cole, Don
Tracks and Roads in a Yorkshire Parish. Adel, Eccup, Breary, Cookridge, Arthington
Published 1996 Impressive Characters (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951801627 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
A nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Cookridge Arthington Eccup Local History

Inventory No.19355 Author: Cole, Don
A House and Its Occupants in a Yorkshire Parish.The Nunnery at Arthington
Published 1998 Impressive Characters (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951801635 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
A nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Cookridge Arthington Eccup Local History

Inventory No.19354 Author: Cole, Don
Farming, Farmers and Farms in a Yorkshire Parish. Adel, Cookridge, Eccup, Arthington, Breary
Published 1991 Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951801600 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
A nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Cookridge Arthington Eccup Local History

Inventory No.19287 Author: Cole, Don
Going to School in a Yorkshire Parish. The Story of Education in Adel, Cookridge, Arthington, Eccup
Published 1985 Impressive Characters (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3.5
A nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Cookridge Arthington Eccup Local History

Inventory No.16619 Author: Cole, Don
Cookridge the Story of a Yorkshire Township Part One
Published 1980 D&J Thornton (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 090733900x Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
48pp.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Cookridge Family History Genealogy Local History

Inventory No.14314 Author: Collins, Herbert C.
South Pennine Park : A New Recreational Area
Published 1974 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852062443 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £2.5
Price-clipped.
South Pennines West Riding West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Dales Pennines Haworth Lothersdale Locla History Topography

Inventory No.18075 Author: Collyer, Dr.; Turner, J. Horsfall
Pictorial Guide to Ilkley
Published 1900 J. Horsfall Turner (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
16pp. Reprinted from "Ilkley Ancient and Modern". Eighty illustrations.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley

Inventory No.19916 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/Good+ Price: £5
Nice clean copy in somewhat rubbed d/w
West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Biography

Inventory No.19945 Author: Cooper, Wallace.
Echoes from Rawdon's Past
Published 2007 The Author Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Very good clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Leeds Bradford Rawdon Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.19345 Author: Costigan, Arthur
Memories of Briggate Windhill: People and Places
Published North East Windhill Community Association (Shipley) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
32pp.WYAS stamp inside and label with class no. on front.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Windhill Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.18637 Author: Costigan, Arthur
Windhill Wesleyan Mission 1835 - 1961
Published North East Windhill Community Association (Shipley) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Comb Binding
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
38pp.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Windhill Local History Family History Genealogy Wesleyan Church History Nonconformity

Inventory No.20103 Author: Cradock, H. C.
A History of the Ancient Parish of Birstall, Yorkshire
Published 1933 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £50
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Kirklees Birstall Batley Huddersfield Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.17696 Author: Croft, D. J.
A Century of Public Transport in Bradford 1882-1982
Published 1982 City of Bradford Metropolitan Council Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734022 Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
West Yorkshire Bradford Yorkshire Local Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.17832 Author: Crossland, H. Mr. And Mrs. Editors
We are 200. Being the Story of the Great Horton Wensley Methodist Sunday School, Bradford Published on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary 1766-1966
Published 1966 The Sunday School (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Staped card covers slightly marked on spine. 48 pages. Illustrated with 4 photographs.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Great Horton Local History Methodism Methodists Nonconformity

Inventory No.18675 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 582 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.20193 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: £10
Original red pictorial boards. Spine faded. Minor foxing. Name/date on ffep.
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Dialect Local History

Inventory No.12429 Author: Cudworth, William
Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp, the Yorkshire Mathematician and Astronomer, and Assistant of Flamsteed; with Memorials of His Family, and Associated Families
Published 1889 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Small Binding:Quarter Leather,Marbled Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £95
White leather rather rubbed, untidy signature on titlepage, contents nice and clean, tight copy
Abraham Sharp Mathematics Astronomy History Science West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Horton Local History Family History Genealogy

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: £12
Original red pictorial boards. Spine slightly faded. Minor foxing. 120pp. Illustrated. Very good.
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Dialect Local History

Inventory No.20535 Author: Cudworth, William.
Round About Bradford: A Series of Sketches (Descriptive and Semi-Historical) of Forty-Two Places Within Six Miles of Bradford Volume One and Volume Two
Published 1968 Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £20
Volume 1 has slight damp stain at back, otherwise very good, volume 2 torn and creased at front, decent set for refernce use
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford History Topography Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.19525 Author: Cudworth, William.
Rambles Round Horton: Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive
Published Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Spine creased and slightly faded. A little shelf wear, but a nice copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Great Horton Little Horton Family History Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.12431 Author: Cudworth, William.
Round About Bradford: A Series of Sketches (Descriptive and Semi-Historical) of Forty-Two Places Within Six Miles of Bradford
Published 1876 Thomas Brear (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £38
Spine and corners rubbed, lacks map,
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12427 Author: Cudworth, William.
Manningham, Heaton, and Allerton (Townships of Bradford) Treated Historically and topographically
Published 1896 W. Cudworth (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £95
Presentation copy from the author
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.11370 Author: Cudworth, William.
Rambles Round Horton: Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive.
Published 1886 Thos. Brear (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £40
Unusually bright, tight, clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Little Horton Great Horton Family History Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.8805 Author: Cudworth, William.
Historical Notes on the Bradford Corporation, with Records of the Lighting and Watching Commissioners and of Highway Surveyors
Published 1881 Thomas Brear (Bradford.and London) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Blind Stamped Red Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £36
Boards and spine a little worn and rubbed. Library bookplate on fep, front hinge weak
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography Industrial Industry

Inventory No.5087 Author: Cudworth, William.
Histories of Bolton and Bowling (Townships of Bradford) Historically and Topographically treated
Published 1891 Thomas Brear (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £65
Boards and spine a little worn and rubbed at corners, reference numbers on spine and rear board but this is not an ex-library copy, small white mark on front board, marbled endpapers. A nice bright, tight and clean copy.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Bolton Bowling Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

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