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Inventory No.29235 Author: Fairbank, David; Ulyatt, Mike
The Pen-pushers of High Street A Centenary History of the Hull Zingari Cricket Club
Published 1996 The Club (Hull) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 1872167799 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Hull East Riding Yorkshire Zingari Cricket Sport Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.31538 Author: Fairfax-Blakeborough, J. And R.
Yorkshire Village Life, Humour and Characters
Published 1977 EP Publishing (East Ardsley, Wakefield) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0715812343 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Nice bright copy in very good d/w
Yorkshire Humour

Inventory No.24253 Author: Farsley Urban District Council
Byelaws Made By the Urban District Council of Farsley with Respect to New Streets and Buildings in The Urban District of Farsley
Published 1925 Tom Stillings & Sons (Pudsey, Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Original paper wrappers smartly rebound in light brown cloth with leather label on front. Name on front of wrapper else nice clean copy
West Riding Yorkshire West Yorkshire Leeds Pudsey Farsley Local History Byelaws

Inventory No.36233 Author: Faull, Margaret L. And Marie Stinson
Yorkshire (Domesday Book) Parts One and Two
Published 1986 Phillimore. (Chichester.) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0850335310 Size:8vo Binding:Limp
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Pencil name inside both vols else nice clean set
Yorkshire Domesday Book Local History

Inventory No.29097 Author: Fawcett, Ralph S.
The Bridlington Life-Boats: a History of the Bridlington Station
Published 1985 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Excellent clean copy
Life Boats Bridlington East Riding Yorkshire Coast Local History

Inventory No.23928 Author: Fenn, Lois
The Magic Mooncat
Published 2003 Crow's Nest Books (Grantham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0954288408 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £8
Small stain on back of d/w which is slightly creased on top edge
East Riding Hull

Inventory No.37079 Author: Ferrett, Mabel
Humber Bridge: Poems
Published 1986 Littlewood Press (Hebden Bridge) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0946407150 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
54pp. Slightly sunned, especially on spine, else nice clean copy

Inventory No.28279 Author: Fewster, J. M. Compiled By
The Baker Baker Papers, Volume I. List of Documents Relating to Boulby Alum Works
Published 1964 Durham College Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Folio Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £50
Plain covers with stringed spine. 92 pages, single sided text of documents held and concerning the Boulby Alum Works in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Boulby Alum Industrial History Durham Elemore North Yorkshire

Inventory No.35057 Author: Field, Mike
Dewsbury Festival Historical Pub Walk
Published 1999 Dewsbury Matters Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Small address label inside else very good clean copy
West Yorkshire Kirklees Local History Dewsbury Pubs

Inventory No.21869 Author: Fieldhouse, Harry
Old Bradford Illustrated
Published 1889 Percy Lund & Co. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £36
Boards and spine a little rubbed, name stamped inside, slight foxing to prelims, nice clean copy. Together with original hand bill for the book, slightly worn on outside edge with small closed tear.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.32483 Author: Fieldhouse, Joseph
Bradford
Published 1987 Watmoughs (Bradford) Type:
Edition:Third Revised Edition ISBN: 0903775093 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Clean tight copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.26699 Author: Fieldhouse, Joseph; Illustrator: Paul Shardlow
Bradford
Published 1972 Longman. (London, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0582150795 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £3
School stamp on titlepage else nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.21818 Author: Finney, J. E.
Otley Into the 80's (A Consultative document)
Published 1976 Leeds City Council (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
37 page report into proposed improvements around the town.
Otley Local History West Yorkshire

Inventory No.25588 Author: Finnigan, Robert E. And Bradley, George T. [Edited By.]
The Cathedral Church of St. Anne Leeds, a History and Guide
Published 1988 Universe Publications (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0949005436 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Cover slightly faded but very good clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30255 Author: Firth, G.
Poverty and Progress: Social Conditions in Early and Mid Nineteenth Century Bradford
Published 1979 Bradford Libraries & Information Service Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0950144290 Size: Binding:
Book / wrapper condition: Price: £15
History pack in blue pictorial folder. A collection of 20 (copy) documents from the archive and local studies collection plus the introduction booklet by G. Firth. Shading to some of the documents but a clean set..
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History

Inventory No.36155 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford Charity & the Public Purse a History of Bradford Hospitals from 1780
Published 2001 Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Very nice clean copy
Bradford West Riding West Yorkshire Hospitals Local History Medicine Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35640 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford and the Industrial Revolution: An Economic History 1760-1840
Published 1990 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310107 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5.5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Industry Industrial History Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.29526 Author: Firth, Gary
Bingley in Old Picture Postcards
Published 1984 European Library. (Zaltbommel, Netherlands.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9028829598 Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
75 photographs with text. Rubbed on corners but clean with no inscriptions
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Bingley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.25101 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford (Archive Photographs)
Published 1995 Chalford (Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752403214 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Nice clean copy
HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS

Inventory No.24461 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford As It Was
Published 1978 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860670341 Size:Landscape: Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.14585 Author: Firth, Gary
Mid-Airedale a Pictorial Past
Published 1986 Countryside Publications. (Chorley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861572149 Size:Square Octavo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
48pp.
Airedale Shipley Saltaire Bingley Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36831 Author: Firth, Gary (compiled by)
The Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Yorkshire : Images of England
Published 1999 Tempus Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752416316 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Owner's sticker inside else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Liverpool Canal Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36638 Author: Firth, Gary (compiled by)
Shipley and Windhill (Archive Photographs)
Published 1996 The Chalford Publishing Company (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752406159 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Spine slightly sunned else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Shipley Local History Windhill Local History

Inventory No.34745 Author: Firth, Gary (compiled by)
Victorian Yorkshire at Play : A Pictorial History of Yorkshire Sports and Pastimes
Published 1989 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860671259 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Small crease across top corner of front cover else nice clean copy
Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.33004 Author: Firth, Gary (compiled by)
J. B. Priestley's Bradford: Images of England
Published 2007 Tempus Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0752438654 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Lovely clean copy, looks new
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History genealogyENGLAND_SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS GREAT

Inventory No.30727 Author: Firth, Gary (compiled by)
Salt and Saltaire. Images of England
Published 2001 Tempus (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752416308 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Saltaire Local History Sir Titus Salt

Inventory No.35971 Author: Firth, Gary.
Bygone Bradford: The Lost World of J. B. Priestley.
Published 1986 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852068786 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography J. B. Priestley Christopher Pratt

Inventory No.33586 Author: Firth, Gary.
Bingley History Trail.
Published 1977 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860670147 Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
West Yorkshire Bradford Bingley History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.34006 Author: Firth, Gary; Hagerty, James; Laybourn, Keith
Yorkshire at Play: A Guide to Historical Sources and their Uses
Published 1982 University of Leeds, School of Education Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900960388 Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Edges faded else very good
Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.33640 Author: Fletcher, Elsie M.
The Story of Menston Parish Church
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy
Menston Ilkley Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History

Inventory No.32367 Author: Fletcher, Elsie M.
The Story of Ilkley in Roman Times
Published Craven Herald Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Card covers a little rubbed but nice clean copy. 53 pages, illustrated.
West Yorkshire Ilkley Local History Archaeology

Inventory No.36906 Author: Fletcher, J. S.
The Story of the English Towns,pontefract
Published 1920 SPCK (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Presentation copy from the Mayor of Pontefract. Owner's sticker on ffep, spine darkened, decent copy
West Yorkshire Pontefract Local History

Inventory No.26542 Author: Fletcher, J. S.
The Making of Modern Yorkshire
Published 1918 George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12.5
Some wear to spine, pages yellowing but decent copy, small address label on ffep which also has top corner cut off
Yorkshire Local History Restoration Family History

Inventory No.35405 Author: Fletcher, Raymond
The Boulevard Voices
Published 2003 Tempus (Stroud) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0752421905 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Slight shelfwear, very good copy
Hull Rugby League

Inventory No.35377 Author: Forbes, Ian
Images of Industry. North Pennine Lead Miners in the Regency Period
Published 205 Friends of the North Pennines Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780993411700 Size:Landscape: Binding:Pictorial Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £150
Very light signs of use, though bottom corner of front board bumped. The collection of 42 watercolour and 21 pen and ink sketches of lead mining on Alston Moor, gathered together for publication in one volume. Lovely cleanbright copy.
North Yorkshire Northumberland Alston Moor Pennine Lead Mining

Inventory No.33115 Author: Ford, Cyril; Honley Civic Society
Honley in the Great War
Published 2014 Honley Civic Society (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780957263857 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12.5
40pp. New copy but some shelfwear
West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Local History Honley

Inventory No.35713 Author: Forshaw, Chas. F. Ed.
Holroyd's Collection of Yorkshire Ballads. With Some Remarks on Ballad Lore By W. J. Kaye, M. A. And a Life of Abraham Holroyd by William Scruton.
Published 1974 EP Publishing (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped. Price: £15
Nice clean copy
Holroyd, Abraham Scruton, William Kaye, W. J. Yorkshire Ballads

Inventory No.26620 Author: Forshaw, Chas. F. Ed.
The Poets of Keighley, Bingley, Haworth and District; Being Biographies and Poems of Various Authors of the Above Neighbourhood.
Published 1893 Thornton and Pearson. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Rebound in maroon cloth with gilt titles. Small address label on ffep.
POETRY. BRONTE. YORKSHIRE. POETS. POEMS.

Inventory No.22756 Author: Foster, Barry. [Edited by]
Cricket in the Dales. A Celebration of the Golden Anniversary if the Dales Council Cricket League, 1955-2005
Published 2004 The Dales Council Cricket League Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0954837207 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Clean copy with no inscriptions
Yorkshire Cricket

Inventory No.27161 Author: Foster, J
Elementary Education in Nineteenth Century Skipton
Published 1976 J. Foster (Long Preston) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Soft Card Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Stapled soft card cover lightly spotted. Name to endpaper. Some corners creased but a nice clean copy.
West Riding North Yorkshire Skipton Local History Fir

Inventory No.33621 Author: Fox, Hildebrand Lane
Chronicles of a Wharfedale Parish Being Chapters from the History of Catholic Life in and Around the Village of Clifford on the West Riding of Yorkshire
Published 1909 The Abbey Press. (Fort-Augustus) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
22 pages. Very nice clean copy.
North Yorkshire Clifford Local History Catholic Religion

Inventory No.15614 Author: Fox, John D.
The Life and Poems of John D. Fox
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8

Inventory No.26764 Author: Fox, Michael; Fox, Peter
Pennine Passage A History of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Published Huddersfield Canal Society (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951427008 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Corners turned.
West Yorkshire Canals Huddersfield Local History Topography

Inventory No.35174 Author: Francis Frith Collection
Huddersfield: a Quiz & Miscellany (So you think you know?)
Published 2005 The Francis Frith Collection. (Salisbury.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1845892380 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine But Price Clipped Price: £5
Excellent copy
West Yorkshire Local History Huddersfield Kirklees

Inventory No.34294 Author: Frank, A. Stanley; Flintoff, Robert J; Green, James; Patterson, James
Notes on the Hole of Horcum
Published T. Buncle (Arbroath) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Reprinted from The North Western Naturalist, for June 1937, pages 125 to 140. Inscription to top edge of cover and 1st page. Fold-out map tipped in at front.
North Yorkshire

Inventory No.35434 Author: Frank, Peter
Yorkshire Fisherfolk a Social History of the Yorkshire Inshore Fishing Community
Published 2002 Phillimore. (Chichester.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1860772072 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7.5
Very nice clean copy
Yorkshire Fishing Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.36832 Author: Fraser, Bryan
Normanton The Second Selection (Images of England)
Published 2001 Tempus Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752422960 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Owner's sticker inside else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Local History Wakefield Normanton Photographs Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.30998 Author: Fraser, Constance M.; Emsley, Kenneth
The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from October 1664 to September 1665
Published 1986 Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0902122517 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
Clean unread copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.30984 Author: Fraser, Constance Mary
The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from October 1688 to September 1689
Published 2004 Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903564352 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £9
pp. 211. Clean unread copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.29409 Author: Freeman, John. [Transcribed and idexed.] Preston, Cyril. [Edited By.]
Parish Register of Arksey - Volume 2 1736 - 1837. Parish Register Series CLXVII.
Published 2003 Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902122916 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
South Yorkshire Parish Register Registers Archaeological Society Arksey

Inventory No.29408 Author: Freeman, John. [Transcribed.] Preston, Cyril. [Edited By.]
Parish Register of Arksey - Volume 1 1557 - 1735. Parish Register Series CLXVI.
Published 2001 Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902122916 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
pp. xvi, 284. Introduction by Brian Barber.
South Yorkshire Parish Register Registers Archaeological Society Arksey

Inventory No.30265 Author: Freethy, Ron
Yorkshire 1939-1945. The Secret War
Published 2010 Countryside Books (Newbury, Berks.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
pp. 160. Illustrated. A clean unmarked copy.
Yorkshire 9781846742187

Inventory No.35791 Author: Friedman, Terry. Thoresby Society.
Church Architecture in Leeds 1700-1799 Publications of the Thoresby Society Second Series Volume 7
Published 1997 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 090074149x Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Nice clean copy, appears unread
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Architecture Church History Local History

Inventory No.35965 Author: Frith, Francis; Hardy, Clive
Francis Frith's Leeds a Pocket Album
Published 2004 Frith Book Company Ltd. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1859378722 Size:16mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.29527 Author: Frostick, Elizabeth
The Story of Hull and Its People
Published 1990 Hull City Museums & Art Galleries (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167020 Size:Square Octavo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Very nice clean copy
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36175 Author: Fryer, Geoffrey; Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society; Yorkshire Naturalists' Union
The Freshwater Crustacea of Yorkshire: A Faunistic and Ecological Survey
Published 1993 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952163810 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Spine sunned else near fine
Freshwater Crustacea Yorkshire Zoology

Inventory No.23686 Author: Fuller, Howard B.
Bottoms Up: a Walking Guide to Hull Pubs
Published 1993 Highgate Publications (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0948929731 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
nice clean copy
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Public Houses Pubs

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