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Inventory No.11645 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.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.12462 Author: Carpenter, David
The Lords of Ilkley Manor The Road to Ruin The Middeltons of Stockeld 1763-1947
Published 1999 The Author (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Family History Genealogy

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: £18
D/w faded on spine
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.12453 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: £20
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

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.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.12562 Author: Claridge, W.
Origin and History of the Bradford Grammer School, from Its Formation to Christmas, 1882
Published 1882 J. Green (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £18
Original brown blind stamped and gilt decoration. Corners and head and tail of spine rubbed. Front hinge cracked. WYAS stamp on f.f.e.p. Small neat name written on reverse of frontispiece. Numerous sketch illustrations. pp. 59, LIII.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Education

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.12470 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:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £3
WYAS stamp on titlepage and small label with class no on front cover, nice and clean otherwise
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History

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.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 Local History

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.12463 Author: Cowling, E. T.
Rombalds Way a Prehistory of Mid-Wharfedale
Published 1946 William Walker & Sons. (Otley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Small Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £25
D/w rubbed with small closed tear on back
West Yorkshire West Riding Ilkley Moor Rombalds Way Wharfedale Local History Topography

Inventory No.12057 Author: Coy, Steve
Scars and Strikes. The History of Frickley Colliery 1903 to 1933
Published Mrs. L. M. Coy (South Elmsall) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
No date. Reading creases to spine. Very heavy additional postage will be asked for outside of the UK.
West Yorkshire Frickley Local History Family History Genealogy Mining Miners Mines

Inventory No.12549 Author: Cragg, George G.
Grimshaw of Haworth.
Published 1947 The Canterbury Press, (London, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £4.5
Very good in lightly rubbed and chipped dustwrapper. Forword by Rt. Rev. Thomas Bloomer, D.D. Bishop of Carlisle. A study of Eighteenth Century Evangelicalism.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Haworth Local History Church History Nonconformity

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.11030 Author: Crutchley, Geo. W.
John Mackintosh a Biography
Published 1921 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £3.5
Boards and spine worn and bumped. Church school inscription on f.f.e.p. Illustrated with photographs. pp. 231 plus index.
West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax 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.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: £10
Reprint of the 1886 edition.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Little Horton Great Horton Local History Family History 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.12705 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: £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. 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.12696 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.12434 Author: Cudworth, William.
Round About Bradford: A Series of Sketches (Descriptive and Semi-Historical) of Forty-Two Places Within Six Miles of Bradford
Published 1968 Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £18
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Topography Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12433 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:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £60
Rebound in scarlet cloth, reference library labels on endpapers, stamps on reverse of titlepage but unusually called for map is actually present
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12432 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: £68
Spine and corners rubbed, unusually called for map is actually present
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

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:Good+ Price: £45
Spine and corners rubbed, lacks map,
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12428 Author: Cudworth, William.
Manningham, Heaton, and Allerton (Townships of Bradford) Treated Historically and topographically
Published 1896 W. Cudworth (Bradford.and London) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £55
Ex-library with labels on endpapers. Rebound in blue cloth with leather spine, gilt titling including class no. Sound copy except for map which is torn with slight loss- photocopy included.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

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.12426 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:4to Binding:Quarter Leather.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £125
Quarter calf, red title label to spine, gilt, pages untrimmed, t.e.g. Large paper edition, published by subscription. With 40 illustrations and 2 maps. Original green cloth bevelled boards bumped and rubbed on corners. Leather spine rubbed Inner hinges cracked. Inscription to f.f.e.p. Shading to endpapers. Contents clean. Includes signed letter from William Cudworth.Very good copy of scarce item. A very heavy volume.
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: £48
Unusually bright, tight, clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Little Horton Great Horton Family History Local History Genealogy Topography

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 Family History Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.8806 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:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £35
Library bookplates on front endpapers, date label on rear endpaper, stamps on reverse of titlepage and other small stamps. Pleasantly rebound in green library cloth, a solid tight copy.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family 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.5504 Author: Cudworth, William.; Illustrator: "Ant"
Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches
Published 1884 John Morgan (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Decorated Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £20
Illustrated boards are a little rubbed, spine has darkened with wear to edges. The internal contents are very clean and bright.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Dialect Local History

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: £85
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

Inventory No.5083 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:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Blind Stamped Red Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £48
Boards and spine a little worn and rubbed. A nice tight/bright and clean copy.
West Yorkshire Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography Industrial Industry

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