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Inventory No.33973 Author: Dabell, John A.
St. Wilfred's Church Hickleton: The Building Development of a Parish Church
Published 1999 St.Wilfred's Parochial Church Council,Hickleton (Doncaster.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953600807 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
67pp. Very good clean copy
South Yorkshire Local History Doncaster Hickleton Church

Inventory No.35132 Author: Dalby, Ken.
The Headingley Story 1890 - 1955. Volume 1. Rugby.
Published The Leeds Cricket, Football & Athletic Co. Ltd. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
177pp. Slight wear at head of spine else very good clean copy
Yorkshire Leeds Rugby League Sport Headingley Rhinoes

Inventory No.36242 Author: Dalgety, Margaret; Downey, Stuart
Clayton (Images of England)
Published 2005 Tempus Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752437011 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Clayton Local History Photographs

Inventory No.28005 Author: Dalton, H.W.
Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds: His Work for the Church and the Town, 1837-1848. Publication of the Thoresby Society Volume LXIII, No. 134
Published 1990 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Offprint ISBN: 0900741252 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
pp.27-79.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.37004 Author: Dalton, Harry W.
Anglican Resurgence under W. F. Hook in Early Victorian Leeds. Church Life in a Nonconformist Town, 1836-1851. Second Series, Volume 12
Published 2002 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900741600 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6.5
Clean unread copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Nonconformist CHRISTIAN SECTS

Inventory No.31583 Author: Danks, William
The Church on the Moor: Sermons Preached in S. Margaret's, Ilkley
Published 1886 Hamilton, Adams, and Co. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Green Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Lettering dulled on spine though nice and bright onfront board, hinges cracked, some spotting, decent copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Ilkley Church History Sermons

Inventory No.26455 Author: Darbyshire, Rev. Hubert Stanley: Lumb, George Denison
The History of Methley. Publications of the Thoresby Society, 1934. Volume XXXV
Published 1934 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £20
Original wrappers worn and chipped, Ref No. to front cover. pp 272. With plates and 2 fold-out maps.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Methley Local History Family History

Inventory No.33611 Author: Davenport, Steve
Working Voices from Castleford: Smawthorne and Glasshoughton Peopletalk About Work Holidays and History
Published 1992 Yorkshire Art Circus (Castleford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0947780807 Size:A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
60pp. Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Wakefield Castleford Glasshoughton Local History Smawthorne Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.19888 Author: Davids, Shirley; Moore, Geoff
Haworth in Times Past
Published 1983 Countryside Publications. (Chorley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861571223 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
pp. 48
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Haworth Local History Family History GenealogyTopography

Inventory No.35432 Author: Davies, Peter; Honley Civic Society
Pagodas and Potato Salad: a History of Honley Cricket Club
Published 2010 Honley Civic Society (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780956007445 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6.5
32pp. Unused copy
West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Local History Honley Sport Cricket

Inventory No.23744 Author: Davies, Peter; Honley Civic Society
Home Soil: Exploring and Celebrating the Cricket Grounds of Calderdale
Published 2003 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1899147330 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Name in pencil on titlepage, mark on back cover, else nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Kirklees Huddersfield Dewsbury Sport Cricket Local History Photographs

Inventory No.15183 Author: Davies, Peter; Light, Rob
180 Not Out : A Pictorial History of Cricket in Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury and District Volume 2: North Kirklees
Published 2006 Sigma Books (Newbury, Berks.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1905291051 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Kirklees Huddersfield Dewsbury Sport Cricket Local History Photographs

Inventory No.34376 Author: Davis, Mark
Murder By Gaslight in Victorian Bradford
Published 2013 Amberley Publishing (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781445622811 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History True Crime

Inventory No.35985 Author: Davy, Roger
Waste Matters: Faces from a Yorkshire Textile Mill Still Run By One Family After More Than a Century
Published 2010 Caroline Branningan (Richmond) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780956296566 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £15
Very nice clean copy, no inscriptions

Inventory No.33591 Author: Dawson, Kathleen
Saltaire Mills
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
No publication details. 17pp.
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Saltaire Shipley Titus salt

Inventory No.13720 Author: Dawson, Paul
Wakefield Revisited. Images of England
Published 2003 Tempus Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752424912 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/None as Issued. Price: £4.5
Name inside front cover,
HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.31441 Author: Dawson, W. H.
Loose Leaves of Craven History (First Series)
Published Edmondson and Co. (Skipton) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Cloth Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £60
Preface dated 1891.Spine slightly worn, front hinge cracked, decent copy of scarce item
Yorkshire Dales Craven Skipton Local Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.27331 Author: Dawson, W. Newton
History on Your Doorstep Facts and Thoughts Around and About Toothill, Rrastrick, Brighouse, Almondbury, Huddersfield and Halifax
Published 1973 The Ridings Publishing Co. (Driffield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £13
Nice clean copy in faded d/w
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Kirklees Huddersfield Halifax Brighouse Family History Genealogy Local History

Inventory No.23158 Author: Day, H.
Horse Farming Through the Seasons
Published 1994 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1872167284 Size:Square Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £4.5
A little rubbed but decent copy
East Riding East Yorkshire North Yorkshire Farming Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.23145 Author: DeVerell, Liz; Watkins, Gareth
Wilberforce and Hull
Published 2000 Kingston Press (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1902039076 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Local History Slave Trade Wilberforce

Inventory No.24378 Author: Deans, Patricia E. ; Markham, John
Beverley: Britain in Old Photographs
Published 1995 Alan Sutton Publishing (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0750907584 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Very nice clean copy
Yorkshire East Riding Beverley History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.24376 Author: Deans, Patricia E.; Markham, John
Beverley: Britain in Old Photographs
Published 1998 Universal Books (Hoo, Rochester, Kent) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1840131861 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Fingerprints inside front cover else VG+
Yorkshire East Riding Beverley History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.36054 Author: Dewhirst, Ian
You Don't Remember Bananas...a Pennine Half- Century
Published 1985 The Ridings Publishing Co. (Driffield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0901934314 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.37095 Author: Dewhirst, Ian SIGNED COPY
In the Reign of the Peacemaker: Keighley and District in Edwardian Photographs
Published 1993 Hendon Publishing Co Ltd (Nelson, Lancashire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860671488 Size:Square Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Keighley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.36986 Author: Dewhirst, Ian SIGNED COPY
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
Nice clean copy
Bradford West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History

Inventory No.36230 Author: Dewhirst, John
A History of Bradford City in Objects. The Dfinitive Rord of Mmorabilia from a Hundred Seasons of Leagu Football, 1903-2014. Volume on in a Nw Series Revisiting th Lub's History
Published 2014 Bantampast Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Nice clean opy, name inside front cover. Together with annotated copy of programme for 30th anniversary commemoration of the Bradford City fire.

Inventory No.24457 Author: Dickens, A. G.; Markham, John
The East Riding of Yorkshire with Hull and York.
Published 2002 Highgate Publications (Beverley) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1902645332 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Excellent copy
Yorkshire East Riding Hull York History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.31626 Author: Dickinson, Cynthia
Memories of Crofton
Published 2013 Crofton Local History Group (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £15
Clean bright copy
West Yorkshire Wakefield Local History Crofton Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33602 Author: Dickinson, J. M.; Keavey, J.
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway On Either Side of The Abbey Line : A Lineside Guide
Published 1999 Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Skipton) Type:
Edition:Sixth Edition ISBN: 0902426060 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
24pp. Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Craven Skipton Embsay Railway

Inventory No.28381 Author: Dicks, J. W.; Illustrator: Blackburn, Harold.
U. D. S. The Old Society the First Hundred Years.
Published 1964 Hudderfield Examiner. (Huddersfield.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Very good clean copy
Union Discussion Society Huddersfield Yorkshire History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.29795 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:Very Good + Price: £5
pp. 112. Illustrated. Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Architecture

Inventory No.27420 Author: Dinsdale, Ann
Old Haworth
Published 1999 Hendon Publishing Co Ltd Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0860671526 Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Haworth Local History Photographs Bronte

Inventory No.31395 Author: Dixon, J. H.
Chronicles and Stories of the Craven Dales
Published Simpkin Marshall & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Red Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £55
Slight wear to spine and corners, abrasion on fep else unusually nice copy of scarce item
North Yorkshire Dales Craven

Inventory No.29350 Author: Dixon, Mike
Ilkley History & Guide
Published 2002 Tempus (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752415077 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Faint creases on back cover else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Photographs Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.25102 Author: Dixon, Mike; Radick, Gregory
Ilkley (Archive Photographs)
Published 2001 Tempus (Stroud) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0752415077 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Photographs Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.31817 Author: Dobson, Alan
A History of the Ancient Chapel of Bramley from 1200 and of the Church of St. Peter 1863-1963
Published 1964 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
88pp. Covers slightly rubbed else very good clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Bramley Church History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35710 Author: Dodd, E. E.
Bingley: A Yorkshire Town Through Nine Centuries
Published 1985 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Near Leeds) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £12.5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bingley Airedale History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography West Riding

Inventory No.31403 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: £45
Original cloth, gilt. pp.195 and illustrated with photographs and 2 foldout plates. Slight wear to extremities, bookplate (attractive) on fep, foxing to prelims and page edges else very good clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Bingley Local History Grammar School History Education Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.23157 Author: Dodsworth, Ted
Wings Over Yorkshire: Pioneer Aviators and Their Flying MacHines A Pictorial Survey
Published 1988 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907033679 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Nice clean copy, covers bright and crisp
Aviation Flying East Riding Yorkshire Hull Barnsley South Yorkshire Local History Photographs

Inventory No.19407 Author: Dodsworth, Ted
Early Days on the Road : A Photographic Record of Hull and the East Riding
Published 1992 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0907033520 Size:Square Octavo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Faint crease across bottom corner of front cover but nice clean copy
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Transport

Inventory No.33922 Author: Don Warters
Leeds United: The Official Club History
Published 1979 Wensum Books (Norwich) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0903619326 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy apart from long, effusive annotation on ffep, d/w sunned, chipped and price-clipped
Football Leeds United

Inventory No.31487 Author: Dowling, Roger; Hargreaves, John A.
King James's School in Almondbury: An Illustrated History 1608 - 2008
Published 2008 Old Almonburians' Society (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780955731402 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12
Lovely clean unread copy
West Riding Yorkshire Huddersfield Local History Almondbury Family History Genealogy Education History Schools

Inventory No.34561 Author: Downsbrough, Elizabeth
Bingley's Historic Pubs
Published 2011 The Downsbrough Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 190554667x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £15
Excellent copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Bingley Local History Family History Genealogy Pubs Public Houses

Inventory No.34321 Author: Dowson, Ann
Looking for the Past in Holme on Spalding Moor
Published 1995 The Author Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Plastic Cover in Sleeve
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Self published of 28 sigle sided pages. Nice clean copy.
East Riding

Inventory No.35206 Author: Drinkall, Margaret
Murder & Crime: Leeds
Published 2012 History Press (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780752466378 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
Lovely clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds True Crime Murder Local History

Inventory No.26377 Author: Drinkall, Margaret
The Leeds Book of Days
Published 2013 History Press (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780752479620 Size:12mo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Nice clean copy
Leeds West Yorkshire

Inventory No.35625 Author: Duckett, Bob. [Edited by]
Aspects of Bradford: Discovering Local History
Published 1999 Wharncliffe Books. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 187164755x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
Nice clean copy
HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN Yorkshire Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.34357 Author: Duckett, Bob. [Edited by]
Aspects of Bradford 2: Discovering Local History
Published 2000 Wharncliffe Books. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871647827 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4.5
HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN Yorkshire Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.31326 Author: Duckett, Bob; Waddington-Feather, John
Bradford : History and Guide
Published 2005 Tempus (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 075243702x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
Clean unmarked copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Photographs Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.17720 Author: Dudley Hill Local History Group
Dudley Hill. Further Memories of Dudley Hill
Published 1992 Dudley Hill Local History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
West Yorkshire Bradford Dudley Hill Local History Family History Photographs Genealogy

Inventory No.23162 Author: Dunne, Audrey
The Stage in My Life. The Virgin Tales of a Theatrical Landlady
Published 1994 Hutton Press Ltd (Beverley, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167632 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6
Excellent copy
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull Local History Family History Genealogy Theatre Drama Stage History

Inventory No.24017 Author: Dyson, Peter; Grady, Kevin
Blue Plaques of Leeds : The Stories Behind the Famous People and Places of Leeds
Published 2001 Leeds Civic Trust Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0905671228 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Architecture Buildings Local History

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