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Inventory No.12417 Author: H., And J., And B. M. W.
Recollections: Sixty Years Ago and Onwards
Published 1930 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Levisham Leeds West Yorkshire North Yorkshire West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11138 Author: Haigh, A.
Railways in West Yorkshire. A New Edition
Published 1978 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0852064594 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £3
West Yorkshire Railways Transport Local History

Inventory No.7324 Author: Haigh, E. A. Hilary.
Huddersfield a Most Handsome Town. Aspects of the History and Culture of a West Yorkshire Town.
Published 1992 Kirklees Cultural Services. (Huddersfield.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900746513 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £30
This volume is very heavy (2kg+) and extra postage will be asked for above the ABE standard.
Huddersfield West Yorkshire Topography History Social Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.7323 Author: Haigh, E. A. Hilary.
Huddersfield a Most Handsome Town. Aspects of the History and Culture of a West Yorkshire Town.
Published 1992 Kirklees Cultural Services. (Huddersfield.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900746513 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £42
This volume is very heavy (+2kg) and extra postage will be asked for above the ABE standard.
Huddersfield West Yorkshire Topography History Social Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.12177 Author: Haigh, E.A.Hilary
Huddersfield : Snapshots in Time
Published 1993 Kirklees Cultural Services. (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: 0900746440 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9
Date written in top corner of f.f.e.p.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10822 Author: Hall, David
Far Headingley Weetwood and West Park
Published 2001 Far Headingley Village Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Revised and Enlarged Edition ISBN: 095393120x Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £33.5
Leeds West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12245 Author: Hall, John
Memorials of John Hall, of Shipley; Selected from His Diary; with a Brief Account of His Character & Death
Published 1870 James Hanson and Son (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition: Price: £75
Original green wrappers, complete, but grubby, creased and torn. Contents clean. pp. 28. A good copy of this scarce item.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Shipley Local History Autobiography

Inventory No.12472 Author: Hansen, Astrid
Wilsden
Published 2001 Astrid Hansen. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Non as Issued. Price: £15
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Wilsden Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11238 Author: Hansen, Astrid
Sharp to Blunt the Story of Horton Hall, Bradford and Some of Its Occupants
Published 2000 Bradford Libraries (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734588 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Non as Issued. Price: £8
West Riding Bradford Little Horton Hall West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.5133 Author: Hansen, Astrid
One Small Corner: A History of Bradford Diocese
Published 1994 The Bradford Diocesan Board of Finance (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902279084 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5.5
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Diocese Cathedral Church History Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11025 Author: Hargreaves, John A.
Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. Volume 14: New Series: 2006
Published 2006 The Society (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Local History

Inventory No.11024 Author: Hargreaves, John A.
Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. Volume 2: New Series: 1994
Published 1994 The Society (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Local History

Inventory No.12195 Author: Harrison Brett Staff
A Century of Leeds
Published 1999 Sutton Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0750924209 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £11.5
Leeds West Yorkshire Local History Family History Photographs Genealogy

Inventory No.12193 Author: Harrison, Ada and Stanford, Derek.
Leeds in the News
Published 2001 Budding Books Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1840151986 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Leeds West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.9651 Author: Harrison, J. F. C.
James Hole and Social Reform in Leeds. Publications of the Thoresby Society. Monographs III. No. 100.
Published 1954 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Covers a little worn on edges.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Social History Family History Genealogy James Hole

Inventory No.12530 Author: Harrison, Winifred
Day's Awake Childhood Memories Bingley
Published 1997 Bradford and Bingley Building Society (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951548093 Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Small ownership sticker on titlepage
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Bingley Local History Family History Genealogy Memories

Inventory No.12117 Author: Hartley, Marie and Ingilby, Joan
Fifty Years in the Yorkshire Dales
Published 1995 Smith Settle. (Otley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1858250536 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £18.5
Yorkshire Dales North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding

Inventory No.10518 Author: Hartley, Marie and Joan Ingilby
Life and Tradition in West Yorkshire
Published 1976 J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870071530 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £16
Flap of d/w crumpled, spine faded, inscription on reverse of titlepage
West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10517 Author: Hartley, Marie and Joan Ingilby
Life and Tradition in West Yorkshire
Published 1976 J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1870071530 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £19.5
Slight spotting on boards but very nice copy with no inscriptions
West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10516 Author: Hartley, Marie and Joan Ingilby
Life and Tradition in West Yorkshire
Published 1990 Smith Settle. (Otley.) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1870071530 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £12
West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12581 Author: Hartley, W.
Fifty Years of Co-Operation in Bingley Ajubilee Record of the Bingley Industrial Co-Operative Society, Limited
Published 1900 The Society (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Bingley Local History Family History Genealogy Co-Operative

Inventory No.10554 Author: Heap, Ann Brears, Peter
Leeds Describ'd Eyewitness Accounts of Leeds 1534-1905
Published 1993 Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1873626169 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12174 Author: Heywood, Malcolm; Heywood, Freda; Jennings, Bernard
A History of Todmorden
Published 1996 Smith Settle (Otley) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 1858250579 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Date written on f.f.e.p.
West Yorkshire West Riding Todmorden Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.6723 Author: Hinchliffe, Gerald
A History of King James's Grammar School in Almondbury
Published 1963 The Advertiser Press. (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good but Repaired Price: £12.5
Dust wrapper is chipped and torn with tape repairs.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Almondbury Education Genealogy

Inventory No.12586 Author: Hird, Douglas
History of Spen Valley 1780's - 1980's
Published 1985 The Author. (Dewsbury) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
Inscribed To Jill & Roger by author
Local History Family History Kirklees West Yorkshire West Riding Spen Valley Cleckheaton Gomersal Liversidge Genealogy

Inventory No.1493 Author: Hird, Horace
Bradford Remembrancer
Published 1972 McDonald Book Co. (Bradford, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £7.5
Spine slightly faded dustwrapper. 26 essays on people, or incidents in their lives which are worthy of remembrance.
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.3567 Author: Hird, Horace.
Bradford Remembrancer.
Published 1972 McDonald Book Co. (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £7.5
First Edition. Dustwrapper faded. 26 essays on people, or incidents in their lives which are worthy of remembrance.
Yorkshire West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.3566 Author: Hird, Horace.
Bradford Remembrancer.
Published 1972 McDonald Book Co. (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £15
First Edition. Spine slightly faded on dustwrapper. 26 essays on people, or incidents in their lives which are worthy of remembrance. With letter and postcard from the author.
Yorkshire West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.3565 Author: Hird, Horace.
Bradford Remembrancer.
Published 1972 McDonald Book Co. (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £7.5
First Edition. Dustwrapper faded. 26 essays on people, or incidents in their lives which are worthy of remembrance.
Yorkshire West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.3564 Author: Hird, Horace.
How a City Grows.
Published 1966 The Author. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £6
Historical notes on Bradford and its Corporation. D/w spine faded but very nice copy with publicity flyer for book included.
Yorkshire West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Topography

Inventory No.3563 Author: Hird, Horace.
How a City Grows.
Published 1966 The Author. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Historical notes on Bradford and its Corporation. D/w faded.
Yorkshire West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Topography

Inventory No.12594 Author: Hobson, Oscar R.
A Hundred Years of the Halifax the History of the Halifax Building Society 1853-1953
Published 1953 Batsford (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Calderdale Banking Local History

Inventory No.12143 Author: Hodgson, H. R
Fifty Years of Co-Operation in Great Horton and District. Being the Jubilee History of the Great Horton Industrial Society Ltd. 1859 to 1909
Published 1909 Co-operative Printing Society Limited (Manchester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Original blue/lilac cloth with gilt titling and decoration. Front boards a little faded on edges. Spine faded and worn at foot. Illustrated with photographs and fold out map. pp.191 plus adverts.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Great Horton Locaal History Industrial History

Inventory No.5499 Author: Hodgson, H. R [Compiled by]
The Society of Friends in Bradford: A Record of 270 Years. Also: A Transcript of the Bradford Registers 1650-1926, and Notes on Several Meeting and Burial Places in the District
Published 1926 Percy Lumb, Humphries & Co. Ltd. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £38
Boards a little rubbed, top corner cut off f.f.e.p. A nice bright, tight and clean copy.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Quaker Quakers Quakerism Society Friends Religion Local History Family History Genealogy Nonconformist

Inventory No.12479 Author: Holdsworth, Peter.
The Rebel Tyke. Bradford and J. B. Priestley.
Published 1994 Bradford Libraries. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0907734367 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/No Jacket Price: £8
Essential reading for all interested in Priestley's life and work ... and any Bradfordian who wants to know what really brought about that long and uneasy 'family' squabble with his home town.
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Priestley.

Inventory No.11760 Author: Holdsworth, Peter.
Domes of Delight: The History of the Bradford Alhambra.
Published 1989 Bradford Libraries (Bradford) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734189 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Very Good Price: £3.5
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Theatre Alhambra Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11759 Author: Holdsworth, Peter.
Domes of Delight: The History of the Bradford Alhambra.
Published 1989 Bradford Libraries (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734189 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5.5
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Theatre Alhambra Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12548 Author: Holmes, Robert [edited by]
Keighley, Past and Present; or, an Historical, Topographical, and Statistical Sketch of the Town, Parish, and Environs of Keighley, Including Riddlesden, Marley, Hainworth, and Some Other Places in the Contiguous Parish of Bingley.
Published 1994 MTD Rigg. (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Keighley Bingley Riddlesden Marlet Hainworth History Topography Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12477 Author: Holmes, Robert [edited by]
A Known Nowt's Better Than an Unknown Nowt
Published 1999 The Author (Keighley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953545008 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Addingham Ilkley Bradford West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.5760 Author: Holmes, Robert [edited by]
Keighley, Past and Present; or, an Historical, Topographical, and Statistical Sketch of the Town, Parish, and Environs of Keighley, Including Riddlesden, Marley, Hainworth, and Some Other Places in the Contiguous Parish of Bingley.
Published 1994 MTD Rigg. (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £9.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Keighley Bingley Riddlesden Marlet Hainworth Local History Topography Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12588 Author: Holroyd, Abraham
Saltaire and Its Founder
Published 2000 Piroisms Press (Bradford) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0953860108 Size:16mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Saltaire Local History Family History Genealogy Titus Salt

Inventory No.12547 Author: Holroyd, Abraham. Ed.
Collectanea Bradfordiana: a Collection of Papers on the History of Bradford, and the Neighbourhood.
Published Saltaire.: Abraham Holroyd. 1873 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £38
First Edition. Original green cloth, gilt. A good bright copy. Engraved vignette of ' Bradford from the No rth' frontispiece with a 'Plan of Bradford, made about the year 1700' on the title page. Pp. vi, 184. Collated and edited, with notes by Abraham Holroyd. Alfred Brown's copy with his signature tipped in.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12406 Author: Holyoake, George Jacob
The Jubilee History of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society, from 1847 to 1897. Traced Year By Year
Published 1897 Central Co-Operative Offices (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £16
Original light brown cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Boards and spine rubbed with small puncture on spine. Endpapers shaded. pp.xii, 260, with illustrations.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Co-operative Local History

Inventory No.12262 Author: Hoole, Les
Wakefield Trinity RLFC : Fifty Great Games
Published 2004 Breedon Books (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1859834299 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £9
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local Histroy Rugby League RUGBY FOOTBALL SPORTS_GREAT BRITAIN

Inventory No.10341 Author: Hopwood, W. Arthur; Casperson, Frederic P.
Meanwood : Village, Valley, Industry and People
Published 2004 M. V. A. Publications Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0954794613 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Meanwood Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9591 Author: Horsforth Village
Horforth History Guides. No.1. North Horsforth. No. 2. The Inns, Taverns and Public Houses of Horsforth. No. 3. Woodside and Its Industries. No.4. Transport and Communication. No. 5 the Green. No. 6. Horsforth Mixture
Published Horsforth Village Publications (Horsforth) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £24
All in very nice condition. 1 to 5 have the signature of Don Cole on the inside of front cover.
West Yorkshire West Riding Horsforth Leeds History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9201 Author: Howard, Iva
Shadwell and Its People
Published 1978 Shadwell Womens' Institute (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers/ring Binder
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/None as Issued. Price: £20
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Shadwell Local History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.5106 Author: Huckle, Eileen and John
The House of Uttley: The Story of a Pennine Family
Published 1991 Jade (Oldham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951809806 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £5
Foreword by Roger Uttley, O.B.E.
West Riding Bradford Keighley West Yorkshire Utley Airedale Uttley Local History Family History Genealogy History Topography

Inventory No.5105 Author: Huckle, Eileen and John
The House of Uttley: The Story of a Pennine Family
Published 1991 Jade (Oldham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951809806 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £5
Foreword by Roger Uttley, O.B.E.
West Riding Bradford Keighley West Yorkshire Utley Airedale Uttley Local History Family History Genealogy History Topography

Inventory No.12607 Author: Hughes, Harry
St. Paul's (Wesleyan) Methodist Church Jubilee Souvenir Methodism at Brighouse
Published 1935 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £50
Original light brown cloth, gilt. An excellent copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Brighouse Local History

Inventory No.10141 Author: Hughes, Rev. Joseph
The History of the Township of Meltham Near Huddersfield in the West Riding of the County of York from the Earliest Times to the Present
Published 1866 John Russell Smith (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £60
Boards and spine somewhat rubbed, inscription on verso of frontis, decent copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Kirklees Huddersfield Meltham Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10150 Author: Hulbert, Charles Augustus
Annals of the Church and Parish of Almonbury, Yorkshire
Published 1882 Longmans (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £150
Spine has been repaired with new endpapers. Some spotting inside but sound copy of scarce item.
West Yorkshire West Riding Kirklees Huddersfield Almonbury Local History Family History Genealogy

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