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Inventory No.4631 Author: Dalby, Ken.
Headingley Test Cricket 1899-1975.
Published 1976 Olicana books Ltd. (Otley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0903116030 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £3
West Riding West Yorkshire Leeds Headingley Cricket

Inventory No.4835 Author: Dalby, Ken. [George Hirst.]
Exodus in Quest of Silver 1921-1984. The Headingley Story. Volume 5.
Published The Author. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950992100 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £8
Cup stain to front of d/w.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Rugby League Sport Headingley Rhinoes

Inventory No.4834 Author: Dalby, Ken. [George Hirst.]
Rugby Cavalcade 1920-1982. The Headingley Story. Volume 4.
Published The Author. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Small mark on front of d/w.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Rugby League Sport Headingley Rhinoes

Inventory No.12478 Author: Dewhirst, Ian
The Story of a Nobody : A Working Class Life, 1880-1939
Published 1980 Mills & Boon (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0263064360 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
D/w slightly faded
Bradford West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History

Inventory No.12156 Author: Dewhirst, Ian
A History of Keighley
Published 1974 Keighley Corporation (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Leatherette Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Nice clean copy
West Riding Bradford West Yorkshire Keighley History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.11815 Author: Dewhirst, Ian
A History of Keighley
Published 1974 Keighley Corporation (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Leatherette Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Lacks ffep, otherwise clean and sound
West Riding Bradford West Yorkshire Keighley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10296 Author: Dewhirst, John; Halfpenny, Richard
City Memories an Illustrated Record of Bradford City A. F. C.
Published 1997 True North Books (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1900463164 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Jacket Price: £7
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Photographs Football Soccer Sport

Inventory No.12412 Author: Dimes, Francis G.;Mitchell, Murray;Nunney, James
The Building Stone Heritage of Leeds
Published 1996 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870737105 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £20
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Architecture

Inventory No.12373 Author: Dixon, John and Phillip
Journeys Through Brigantia. Volume One: Walks in Craven, Airedale and Wharfedale
Published 1990 Aussteiger Publications (Barnoldswick) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872764010 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.7
Underling in first two introduction chapters. Numerous drawings and maps of walks.
West Yorkshire West Riding North Yorkshire North Riding Craven Airedale Wharfedale Brigantia Walking Rambling

Inventory No.6559 Author: Dobson, E. Philip
The Garnett Story 1831-1962. The History of a Yorkshire Worsted and Woollen Business Through Four Generations
Published 1962 William Sessions Limited (York.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Leatherette Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £14.5
Dust wrapper chipped with closed repaired tears.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Apperley Bridge Idle History Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11822 Author: Dodd, E. E
Bingley: A Yorkshire Town Through Nine Centuries
Published 1985 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Near Leeds) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £20
Both book and d/w would be near fine but for two holes in the front, obliterating the final D of the author's name.One hole almost penetrates the front board, the other is not so deep. This sounds terrible but we did not notice it at first as book is otherwise so nice and bright.
West Yorkshire Bingley Airedale History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography West Riding

Inventory No.11824 Author: Dodd, E. E.
Bingley: A Yorkshire Town Through Nine Centuries.
Published 1958 Harrison. (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £22
Dustwrapper is chipped with very slight loss.
West Yorkshire Bingley West Riding History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.12451 Author: Dodd, Edward Ernest
A History of the Bingley Grammar School 1529-1929
Published Percy Lumb, Humphries & Co. Ltd. (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £19
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Bingley Local History Grammar School History Education Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11240 Author: Doughty, Martin. Edited By
Building the Industrial City. Themes in Urban History
Published 1986 Leicester University Press. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0718512383 Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Name on inside of front cover. Spine on d/w faded. pp.212.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Housing Social History HOUSING. GREAT BRITAIN. HISTORY. 19TH CENTURY. 0 7185 1238 3

Inventory No.12503 Author: Draper, William H.
Adel and Its Norman Church
Published 1908 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £100
Original vellum covered bevelled boards with gilt titling and decoration. Vellum a little dusty. Names on f.f.e.p. Light spotting to endpapers. A limited edition of 100 copies this being number 75.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Local History

Inventory No.7018 Author: Duncan, Joan E. [edited by]
Aunt J; Jessie Millar Wilson M.B.E. Wartime Memories of a Lady Y.M.C.A. Volunteer in France 1915-1918
Published 1999 The Author. (Ilkley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £5
Inscribed by author With best wishes to Dorothy and Ken
West Yorkshire Bradford West Riding Ilkley History Local History Family History Genealogy First World War I

Inventory No.12402 Author: Dury, Georgina. Compiled By
Chronicles of Families Connected with Kirkstall Forge
Published 1931 Privately Printed Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £350
Two Volumes in one. Cream vellum boards with gilt lines round edges. Black leather, gilt title label laid on spine. Year in gilt at bottom of spine. Boards are a little rubbed. Endpapers spotted. Page edges spotted. Reproduced and presented by Bernard Fawcett Butler, Hugh Myddleton Butler, Basil Harding Butler of Kirkstall forge, 1929. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Butlers and Beecrofts establishing themselves at Kirkstall Forge. pp.ix, 196, 160 plus pedigrees. A very unusual item, looks as if typed and pedigrees copies hand written. A very scare history of the families and of Kirkstall Forge.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Kirkstall Forge Local History Family History Genealogy Beecroft Butler

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