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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.15475 Author: La Page, John
The Story of Baildon
Published 1985 MTD Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Leather.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £30
Facsimile reprint of the first edition published in 1951.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Baildon Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.14544 Author: La Page, John
The Story of Baildon
Published 1985 MTD Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Blue Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £30
Facsimile reprint of the first edition published in 1951.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Baildon Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.12389 Author: Lang, Rev. C. G.
Church and Town for Fifty Years (1841-1891). A Memorial of the Festival Holden in the Parish Church of Leeds, July 12th-19th, 1891
Published 1891 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £30
Original blue decorated cloth, gilt. All edges red. Engraved frontispiece. Fold out colour facimile of document. Title page starting to detatch from frontispiece by 1cm at bottom.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.16676 Author: Laurence, Alastair
Horsforth History Guides No. 3 Woodside and Its Industries
Published 1985 Horsforth Village Publications (Horsforth) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0947904026 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Name inside front cover, clean copy otherwise
West Yorkshire West Riding Horsforth Leeds Family History Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.13744 Author: Lawn, W. E.
Tong. A Short Historical Account of the Hall, Church and Village
Published Co-operative Youth Centres Ltd. (Carlisle.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
pp. 15.
West Yorkshire West Riding Tong Bradford Local History

Inventory No.4039 Author: Leach, Arthur Francis
Early Yorkshire Schools. Volume II. Pontefract. Howden. Northallerton. Acaster. Rotherham. Giggleswick. Sedbergh. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Vol. XXXIII for the Year 1903
Published 1903 Yorkshire Archaeological Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Jacket Price: £30
Bookplate on fep.
North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire East Riding Archaeology Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.13747 Author: Leach, Trevor M.
Trams and Buses of Keighley in Old Photographs
Published 1999 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860671542 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6
West Yorkshire West Riding Keighley Local History

Inventory No.10305 Author: Leach, Trevor M.
Twopenny Single to Starbeck Early Public Transport in the Harrogate Area the Origins of the West Yorkshire Road Car Company Ltd
Published 2000 West Yorkshire Information Service (Keighley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950786527 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £16
Harrogat North Yorkshire West Yorkshire Road Car Transport History Buses Local History

Inventory No.15810 Author: Lee, Joseph
Guide and History of Leeds
Published Arthur Wigley (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £7.5
Original colour printed card covers, rubbed on edges and slightly cocked. Illustrated with plates, sketches and folding map. pp. 146.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.10060 Author: Lees, Frederic Arnold
The Flora of West Yorkshire with a Sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in Connection Therewith
Published 1978 EP Publishing (East Ardsley, Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0715813390 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £6
Book slightly rubbed but nice and clean, d/w creased on back corner with closed tear.
West Yorkshire Flowers Plants Flora Botany West Riding

Inventory No.12194 Author: Lennon, Patricia; Joy, David
Grand Memories : The Life and Times of the Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds
Published 2006 Great Northern Books Ltd (Ilkley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1905080204 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Grand Theatre History West Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.13079 Author: Lewis, Brian; Dyke, Mel; Clayton, Ian
Wash in the Calder, Rinse in the Aire : The Aire and Calder Navigation: Wakefield to Knottingley
Published 1994 Yorkshire Arts Circus (Castleford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1898311056 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9
Last page creased across corner.
West Yorkshire West Riding River Aire River Calder

Inventory No.17301 Author: Lingard, D.; Nicoll, C.; Nicoll, J.
Low Moor in Times Past
Published 1983 Countryside Publications. (Chorley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861571169 Size:Square Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/None as Issued. Price: £7
pp. 48
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Low Moor Local History Family History GenealogyTopography

Inventory No.17817 Author: Lingard, Philip
First Bus in West Yorkshire : The History of Ezra Laycock of Cowling
Published 1975 Turntable Publications (Sheffield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902844288 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
pp. 55. Illustrated with photographs and sketch map on centre-fold.
West Yorkshire West Riding Cowling Local History Transport

Inventory No.14418 Author: Linstrum, Derek
West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture
Published 1978 Lund Humphries. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0853314640 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £48
Slight reading crease to spine otherwise near fine
West Yorkshire West Riding Architecture Local History

Inventory No.9517 Author: Linstrum, Derek
Historic Architecture of Leeds
Published 1969 Oriel Press Limited. (Newcastle Upon Tyne.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0853620563 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £3
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds History Architecture

Inventory No.14701 Author: Lister, Derek A. J.
Bradford's Own
Published 2007 Sutton Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1904408413 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £10
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.14700 Author: Lister, Derek A. J.
Bradford Born and Bred Growing Up in the 1940s and '50s
Published 2008 Bank House Books (New Romney) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1904408413 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £20
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10148 Author: Lockwood, Ernest
Colne Valley Folk the Romance and Enterprise of a Textile Stronghold
Published 1936 Heath Cranton (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £35
Very nice clean copy with no inscriptions.Pictorial d/w is chipped with slight loss but it is most unusual to find a copy in d/w.
West Yorkshire West Riding Kirklees Huddersfield Colne Valley Local History Family History Genealogy Textile History

Inventory No.17726 Author: Lonsdale, Ralph
A Boyhood in Woodend
Published North-East Windhill Community Association (Windhill, Shipley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
40pp.
West Yorkshire West Riding Windhill Shipley Bradford Local History

Inventory No.11379 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds from 1722 to 1757. Eleventh and Twelfth Books, Eleventh Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1722-11734. Twelfth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1735-1757. Thoresby Society Publication, Volume XX
Published 1914 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Ex library in library binding. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Label on endpaper and a few stamps in text. Looks as if unread and is a handsome looking volume.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Parish Registers Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby Society

Inventory No.11378 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds from 1612 to 1639. Third and Fourth Books, Third Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1612-1619. Fourth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1619-1639. Thoresby Society Publication, Volume III
Published 1895 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Ex library in library binding. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Label on endpaper and a few stamps in text. Looks as if unread and is a handsome looking volume.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Parish Registers Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby Society

Inventory No.11377 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds from 1695 to 1722. Ninth and Tenth Books, Ninth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1695-1713. Tenth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1713-1722. Thoresby Society Publication, Volume XIII
Published 1909 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Ex library in library binding. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Label on endpaper and a few stamps in text. Looks as if unread and is a handsome looking volume.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Parish Registers Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby Society Armley Chapel Hunslet Chapel

Inventory No.11376 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds from 1667 to 1695. Seventh and Eighth Books. Seventh Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1667-1680. Eighth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1680-1695. Thoresby Society Publication, Volume X
Published 1901 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Ex library in library binding. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Label on endpaper and a few stamps in text. Looks as if unread and is a handsome looking volume.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Parish Registers Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby Society

Inventory No.11375 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds from 1639 to 1667. Fifth and Sixth Books. Fifth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1639-1653. Sixth Book, Baptisms; Marriages; Burials, 1653-1667. Thoresby Society Publication, Volume VII
Published 1897 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Ex library in library binding. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Label on endpaper and a few stamps in text. Looks as if unread mand is a handsome looking volume.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Parish Registers Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby Society

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