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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.31738 Author: Salmon, Norman
Ilkley Gammar School 1607-1957
Published The Author Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
Original pink card covers bound in green cloth, gilt
West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Family History Genealogy History Education

Inventory No.35194 Author: Sands, Leslie.
Tuppence for the Rainbow the Story of a Bradford Lad
Published 1990 Bradford Libraries and Information Service (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734227 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Initials on ffep, writing on rear endpaper, covered by flap of d/w else very nice clean copy in like d/w
West Riding Bradford West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.34228 Author: Schofield, Isobel.
The Heritage of Huddersfield.
Published 1996 Breedon Books. (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1859830498 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7.5
Slight edgewear to d/w but decent copy, no inscriptions
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield History Local Family Genealogy Topography Architecture Industry

Inventory No.24796 Author: Scottorn, J. J.; Weatherley, H. F.
A Short History of South Parade Baptist Church 1779-1979
Published 1979 (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Stiff Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Excellent copy
Nonconformity West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.34355 Author: Scruton, William
Pen & Pencil Pictures of Old Bradford
Published 1968 Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Cover sunned to edges as is the spine., otherwise a very nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.30547 Author: Scruton, William
Pen & Pencil Pictures of Old Bradford
Published 1985 Amethyst Press (Otley.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Clean crisp copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.17784 Author: Scruton, William.
Bradford Fifty Years Ago: A Jubilee Memorial of the Bradford Corporation, and a Literary and Pictorial Record of Bradford During the Fifty Years of Its Incorporation
Published 1897 G. F. Sewell (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Green Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £40
Slight wear to top and bottom of spine. New endpapers fitted. A very good clean copy.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.21647 Author: Sellers, H. B.
Memoranda from a Note Book on the Yorkshire Penny Bank
Published 1899 Samuel Moxon and Son (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £40
Being a series of three addresses delivered to the staff, during the winter of 1898. Illustrated with photographs.Very nice copy bound in red leather with gilt decorations, marbled endpapers. Small bookplate inside, hinge between titlepage and frontis has been mended with white tape.
West Yorkshire Local History Calderdale Halifax

Inventory No.24791 Author: Shack, Dave
Elland Road E:males
Published 2003 Parrs Wood Press (Manchester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903158516 Size:A4 Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £8
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds United Football Sport

Inventory No.24585 Author: Shackleton, E.
A Living Inheritance: The Story of the Ancient Yorkshire Township of Longwood
Published 1988 Kirklees Metropolitan Council,Cultural Services (Huddersfield, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900746351 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. pp. 88.
West Yorkshire West Riding Longwood Local History Kirklees Huddersfield Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.35406 Author: Sheeran, George; Illustrator: Beesley, Ian
Leeds the Architectural Heritage a First Selection
Published 1993 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310409 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
Very nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Leeds Architecture Buildings Local History

Inventory No.25662 Author: Sheeran, George
Good Houses Built of Stone: The Houses and People of Leeds/Bradford 1600-1800
Published 1986 Allanwood Books (Stanningley, Pudsey) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0947963030 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Bradford Local History Architecture Genealogy

Inventory No.36823 Author: Shelton, Tony
Leeds' Golden Acres; The History of a Park and Its People
Published 2000 Age Concern (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Owner's sticker on titlepage else very good clean copy, signed on titlepage
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Golden Acres

Inventory No.34403 Author: Shepherd, Derek
Two Schools at Woodend
Published 1996 The Windhill Memories Group (Windhill, Shipley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Card covers a little worn, shading to endpapers. Nice clean copy. pp.120.
West Yorkshire West Riding Woodend Windhill Shipley Bradford Local History

Inventory No.37048 Author: Shepherd, Val
Historic Wells in and Around Bradford Covering Bradford Metropolitan Area, Parts of Leeds, Kirklees, Calderdale and North Yorkshire
Published 1994 Heart of Albion Press (Loughborough) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872883311 Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Faint creases to bak cover else clean bright copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Topography Wells

Inventory No.36333 Author: Shepherd, Valerie
Holy Wells of West Yorkshire and the Dales
Published 2002 Lepus Press (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872883311 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
58pp. Name on titlepage else very good clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Topography Wells North Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.31000 Author: Sheridan Walker, Sue [Edited and Calendared by]
The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from October 1331 to September 1333. Volume III for the Year 1982
Published 1983 Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean unread copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.34079 Author: Shipley Community History Group
Shipley Fowk Talking
Published Shipley Community History Group Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Covers slightly rubbed but contents very good. 45pp.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.32990 Author: Shooter, Marjorie
Brighouse and Clifton Remembered
Published 2006 AuthorHouse Type:
Edition: ISBN: 1425928749 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
Inscribed To Elaine & Donald by author, very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Calderdale Brighouse Local History Family History

Inventory No.36990 Author: Sigsworth, Eric M.
Black Dyke Mills A History. With Introductory Chapters on the Development of the Worsted Industry in Nineteenth Century
Published 1958 Liverpool University Press. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dustwrapper Price: £12
Slightly bumped and rubbed, name on ffep else very good solid copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Queensbury Black Dyke Mills Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.25242 Author: Sigsworth, Eric M.
A Respectable Life : Leeds in the 1930s
Published 1995 Highgate of Beverley (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 189949801x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.20359 Author: Simpson, Henry Trail; Illustrator: W. Lloyd Ferguson
Archaeologia Adelensis, or a History of the Parish of Adel in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Being an Attempt to Delineate Its Past and Present Associations, Archaeological, Topographical, and Scriptural
Published 1879 W. H. Allen (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £20
Original cloth, gilt. Boards and spine worn. Spine hinge split and repairs have been started but not finished. Contents are very good with some additional photographs laid in at the front and rear of the text. A good reading/working copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Local History Family History Genealogy Topography ADEL. LEEDS. YORKSHIRE. WEST RIDING. ARCHAEOLOGY. TOPOGRAPHY. SPIRITUAL. W. LLOYD FERGUSON. LEEDS AND DISTRICT

Inventory No.35475 Author: Simpson, John
The Journal of Dr. John Simpson of Bradford 1st of January to the 25th of July 1825 Together with Name Index to the Journal Transcribed By Brian Jones
Published 1981 City of Bradford Metropolitan Council (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734006 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
Clean unread copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Diary

Inventory No.36043 Author: Simpson, Mary
Kirkstall Abbey Its Story, Its Monks, Its Architecture
Published W. H. Bean & Co. (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £4
Boards a little rubbed, name on ffep, decent copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Kirkstall Local History

Inventory No.33532 Author: Skinner, Julia
Did You Know? Bradford a Miscellany
Published 2008 Francis Frith Collection. (Salisbury.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 9781845893958 Size:12mo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Local History Photographs

Inventory No.34225 Author: Smith, A. H.
The Place Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part VIII Eight Index (Including the East and North Ridings ) Volume XXXVII
Published 1961 Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy in rubbed dust jacket.
West Yorkshire West Riding History Local History Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.20697 Author: Smith, A. H.
The Place Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part VIII Eight Index (Including the East and North Ridings ) Volume XXXVII
Published 1961 Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good/Good Price: £7
Ex-library with stamps and label. Nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding History Local History Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10892 Author: Smith, Adrian [edited by]
Music Making in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Published 2000 R. H. Wood (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953988503 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
West Yorkshire West Riding History Local History Family History Music Genealogy

Inventory No.34560 Author: Smith, Chris
The Bradford City Fire Brigade Commemorating Over 200 years' Service to the City of Bradford Including the Centenary of the Low Moor Explosion
Published West Yorkshire Police Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781999723705 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Slipcase, Very Good Price: £40
Excellent copy in very good slipcase, slightly scratched on spine
West Yorkshire Bradford Fire Brigade Local History Low Moor Explosion

Inventory No.31765 Author: Smith, Maggie; Coates, Colin
Salt's Mill: The Owners and Managers 1853 to 1986
Published 2016 Amberley (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781445657530 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
Lovely clean copy, looks new
West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Saltaire Local History Salt's Mill Family History Genealogy Photographs

Inventory No.35831 Author: Smith, Tim; Wainwright, Martin
Bradford in Focus
Published 2003 Tim Smith Photos Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0954642406 Size:Landscape: Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Lovely clean bright copy which appears unread. Numerous colour and black and white photographs.
West Yorkshire Bradford Social History Culture Photographs

Inventory No.35598 Author: Smith, Trevor; Smith, Duncan
South and West Yorkshire Curiosities. A Guide to Follies and Strange Buildings, Curious Tales, and Unusual People
Published 1992 The Dovecote Press (Wimborne) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0946159998 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4.5
South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Follies Architecture Local History

Inventory No.32249 Author: Smith, Una Stothard
Crow Lane
Published Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Ex-library. Card covers rubbed. Library stamps to title-page and inside of rear cover, otherwise a clean copy.
West Yorkshire Crow Lane Milnsbridge Hudderfield Local History

Inventory No.31383 Author: Smith, William
Morley: Ancient and Modern Large Paper Copy
Published 1886 Longmans Green & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £42
Large Paper edition. Original decorated front board, a little rubbed, new rear board, spine and endpapers, all very skilfully done. Handsome volume despite these repairs. Name inside and slight foxing.
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Morley Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.34280 Author: Speak, Harold; Forrester, Jean
The Chantry Chapel of St. Mary on-the-Bridge Wakefield
Published The Authors (Ossett.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Owner's name stamped inside front cover else very good
West Riding West Yorkshire Wakefield Local History

Inventory No.33608 Author: Speak, Harold; Forrester, Jean
An Outline History of Wakefield
Published 1971 The Authors (Ossett.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Wakefield Local History

Inventory No.27574 Author: Speakman, Colin
Public Transport in West Yorkshire 10 Years of achievement- a Personal History
Published 1985 Metro Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951020102 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Cover slightly sunned else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Local History Transport

Inventory No.36098 Author: Spencer, Colin Marsden, Bill Woolrych, Frank J. Monahan, Diana L.
A Century of Change 100 Years of Hebden Bridge and District
Published 1999 Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953721701 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Hebden Bridge Halifax Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.1572 Author: Sprittles, Joseph. Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society: 1969: Volume LII, No. 115. Links with Bygone Leeds.
Published 1969 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £4
Original wrappers. Corner torn off rear cover.
Leeds West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby

Inventory No.26361 Author: Stavert, W. J.
The Parish Register of Bingley in the County of York, 1577-1686. Yorkshire Parish Register Society Vol. 9
Published 1901 The Yorkshire Parish Register Society. (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Re-bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. Society bookplate to fep. A very nice clean sound copy.
West Yorkshire Bingley Local History Family History Geneaology

Inventory No.32356 Author: Stocks, William B.; Illustrator: John P. Hanson
Pennine Journey Being the History of the Railways, Tramways and Canals in Huddersfield and District
Published Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Spiral Bound
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
A scanned reprint of the 1960 edition, though size increased to make text larger and easy to read. Illustrated, the photographs are clear, the etched drawings at the start of chapters a little dark. In all a nice copy which someone took a lot of trouble to produce
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Industrial Genealogy

Inventory No.31881 Author: Strong, Ruth
Israel Roberts 1827-1881. An Autobiography
Published 2000 Pudsey Civic Society. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1898082048 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Lovely clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Pudsey Farsley Stanningley Local History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.36825 Author: Strong, Ruth.
The Moravians at Fulneck 1744 to the Present Day
Published 1993 Fulneck Museum (Pudsey, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952232707 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Shading to back cover, owner's sticker on titlepage else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Pudsey Fulneck Moravians Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35901 Author: Strong, Ruth.
Pudsey in Old Picture Postcards
Published 1985 European Library,The Netherlands (Zaltbommel, Netherlands.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9028830502 Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Pictorial Boards.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Corners rubbed. small round mark on rear board (where label removed?) else very good clean copy
Postcards Photographs Photography West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Pudsey History Local History Family History Genealogy topography

Inventory No.35657 Author: Styles, John
Titus Salt and Saltaire. Industry and Virtue
Published 1994 Salt's Estate (Saltaire) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0951695002 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Lovely copy. Illustrated. pp. 43.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Saltaire Local History Sir Titus Salt

Inventory No.19346 Author: Suddards, Roger W. [edited by]; Illustrator: Barrie Birch and Trevor Skempton
Titus of Salts
Published 1976 Watmoughs. (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0903775050 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Corners bumped.
West Yorkshire West Riding Saltaire Shipley Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography Sir Titus Salt

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