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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.12554 Author: Manning, Rev. Wm.
The History of Congregationalism in Eccleshill, from the Opening of the Chapel in Chapel Street in 1823 to the Centenary Services Held in the Chapel in Victoria Road in 1923
Published 1923 Watmoughs (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £25
Original red cloth, gilt. Boards and spine worn. Bookplate to f.e.p. has paper stuck over it. Lacks f.f.e.p. Binding a little loose. Illustrated with photographs. pp. 175.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Eccleshill Local History Congregationalism Nonconformist

Inventory No.12120 Author: Manning, Rev. Wm.
The History of Congregationalism in Eccleshill, from the Opening of the Chapel in Chapel Street in 1823 to the Centenary Services Held in the Chapel in Victoria Road in 1923
Published 1923 Watmoughs (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £80
Original red cloth, gilt. Spine faded. Illustrated with photographs. Subscribers edition. pp. 175.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Eccleshill Local History Congregationalism Nonconformist

Inventory No.10523 Author: Markham, Leonard; Illustrator: Don Osmund
Tales from West Yorkshire
Published 2001 Countryside Books (Newbury, Berks.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1853061905 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
West Yorkshire West Riding Tales Folk Lore

Inventory No.12536 Author: Mason, Kate
Addingham from Brigantes to Bypass A History
Published 1996 Addingham Civic Society (Addingham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Ilkley Addingham Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10014 Author: Mauchline, Mary
Harewood House
Published 1974 David & Charles (Newton Abbot.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0715364162 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £4.5
Harewood House Leeds West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Buildings Architecture

Inventory No.12543 Author: McKinlay, Robert A.
The University of Bradford : Origins and Development
Published 1991 The University of Bradford (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1851430482 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
West Riding West Yorkshire University Bradford Local History Education

Inventory No.10362 Author: Mellor, Sam [edited by]
Biographies, Sketches, and Rhymes By the Calder Valley Poets
Published 1916 Edward Mortimer (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale

Inventory No.9618 Author: Merrall, Tom
A History of Hellifield
Published 1949 J. W. Lambert & Sons (Settle) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £150
Original yellow cloth with black titling. Cloth a little worn and with a mark on front board. Some spotting to page edges.
West Yorkshire West Riding Craven Dales History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9617 Author: Merrall, Tom
A History of Hellifield
Published 1949 J. W. Lambert & Sons (Settle) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £200
Original yellow cloth with black titling. Very bright with no marks or inscriptions. Dust wrapper is the original heavy yellow paper with armorial plate to front and titling to spine. Dust wrapper is a little grubby and chipped but this is one of the nicest copies we have come across.
West Yorkshire West Riding Craven Dales History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.12538 Author: Mills, Helen; Baldwin Heather
Bingley Images of England
Published 1995 Chalford (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752403117 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Bingley Local History Family History Photographs Genealogy

Inventory No.11998 Author: Mitchell, R.
Brighouse: Birth and Death of a Borough
Published 1976 The Ridings Publishing Co. (Driffield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £40
West Yorkshire West Riding Brighouse Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12190 Author: Mitchell, W. R.
A History of Leeds
Published 2000 Phillimore (Chichester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1860771300 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £7
Leeds West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12264 Author: Mitchinson, K. W.
Saddleworth 1914-1919. The Experience of a Pennine Community During The Great War
Published 1995 Saddleworth Historical Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
West Riding West Yorkshire Lancashire Saddleworth Local History

Inventory No.12580 Author: Mombert, Otto
The Second Book of Wool Rhymes
Published Percy Lumb, Humphries & Co. Ltd. (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Wool Rhymes

Inventory No.11020 Author: Monck, Nugent.; Illustrator: Haydn Jensen.
Kirkstall Abbey Miracle Play " Robert, King of Sicily " July 4th to 16th 1927. Produced By Nugent Monck, Presented By the Leeds Civic Playhouse.
Published 1927 Henry Jenkinson Ltd. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Small Binding:Pictorial Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Original soft card with illustration laid on. Edges chipped as cover is larger than pages. Loosely inserted is supplement to the offical programme.
Yorkshire West Yorkshire Leeds Kirkstall Abbey

Inventory No.12393 Author: Moore, Major R. W.
A History of the Parish Church of Leeds, from the Earliest Known Period Down to the Present Time. Also, an Account of the Old Pillar or Cross, Found in the Walls of the Late Ediface
Published 1877 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £15
Original red cloth bevelled boards with blind stamp decoration and black decoration and titling. All edges rubbed. Inscriptions on f.f.e.p. Illustrated.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.12210 Author: Mortimer, Jean and Russell
Leeds friends' Minute Book 1692 to 1712. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Volume CXXXIX for the Years 1977 and 1978
Published 1980 The Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Original light brown cloth, gilt. Corners slightly rubbed. Underlining in introduction pages xiii to xxx. pp. li, 269.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy Quaker Quakerism Nonconformist

Inventory No.12361 Author: Myers, Gerald
Mother Worked at Avro : The Story of Avro (Yeadon) and Its Contribution to the War Effort
Published 1995 Compaid Graphics (Preston, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951796577 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Slight damp stain on bottom edge
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Bradford Yeadon Avro Airport Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12394 Author: Myers, James.
Eventide Review of Primitive Methodism in Otley Circuit
Published 1920 Rhodes & Sons (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £29
Original cloth with black titling and decoration. Shading to endpapers. Illustrated. Consisting of over 200 Paragraphical Sketches of old-time Quarterdays, Noted Officials, Ministers, and people; also interesting incidents, anecdotes, and occurances of Antiquity, with Ordination Charge, and Special Serom in War Time, none of which have been published before.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Otley Local History Methodism Nonconformist

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