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Inventory No.14401 Author: Labistour, Patricia
An ebbing Tide
Published 2006 Marine Arts Publications (Robin Hood's Bay) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951618490 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
North Yorkshire North Riding Robin Hood's Bay Novel

Inventory No.14400 Author: Labistour, Patricia
For a Keg of Good Brandy
Published 2004 Marine Arts Publications (Robin Hood's Bay) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951618482 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
North Yorkshire North Riding Robin Hood's Bay Novel

Inventory No.20169 Author: Lackey, Clifford
Quality Pays...the Story of Joshua Tetley & Son
Published 1985 Springwood Books (Ascot) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Illustrated with photographs and sketches. pp. 160. Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Tetley Leeds Brewing Beer

Inventory No.10384 Author: Lamplough, E.
Hull and Yorkshire Frescoes: a Poetical Year-book of "Specimen Days"
Published 1888 Printed for Private Circulation By Charles Henry Barnwell (Hull) Type:
Edition:Limited Edition. ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Non as Issued. Price: £14
Original bevelled blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. No. 354 of 400 copies. Signed on half title page. Previous owners name/date on f.e.p. A little rubbed but still a very bright copy.
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull

Inventory No.13010 Author: Lancaster, Margaret Throup
They Were There! 1939-1945 : Experiences of West Craven Residents in the Second World War
Published 1997 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951401238 Size:A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.20165 Author: Lane, Frederick W.; Walmsley Society
Leo Walmsley: a Bibliography
Published 2004 The Walmsley Society Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0953444910 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8

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.10605 Author: Langdale, Thomas
A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire Containing the Names of All Thetowns, Villages, Hamlets, Gentlemen's Seats, &c. In the County of York ...
Published 1822 J. Langdale (Northallerton) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £40
Bookplate on fep, ffep has corresponding mark where plate seems to have stuck to it then been pulled apart.Front hinge has been repaired. Inscription dated 1889 on verso of ffep. and same name written at top of titlepage. Table of distances included but slightly torn. No map however. Nice looking book

Inventory No.18941 Author: Law, Margaret C. D.
The Story of Bradford
Published 1972 S. R. Publishers Ltd (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0854097430 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £6
Very nice clean copy
Yorkshire West Bradford History Local Family 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.6422 Author: Lawrance, N. A. H. Ed.
Fasti Parochiales Vol. III, Deanery of Dickering
Published 1967 The Yorkshire Archaeological Society. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £14
Yorkshire Dickering East Riding Genealogy Topography Local Family History

Inventory No.18071 Author: Le Patourel, John
Ilkley Parish Church
Published 1981 Type:
Edition:Fourth Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
31pp. Nice clean copy
Bradford Ilkley Churches

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: £25
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.11070 Author: Leadman, Alex D. H.
The Battle of Marston Moor: The Battle of Wakefield
Published Type:
Edition:Extract from ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Extract from ?. Pages 287 to 347 and 348 to 360.
Yorkshire York Marston Moor Wakefield Civil War Local History

Inventory No.19315 Author: Ledgard, R. S.
An Abridged and Dubious History of Haworth
Published 2007 Bobtail Press (Haworth.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780951101384 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
pp.40. Illustrated with photographs and sketches. A very nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Haworth Local History

Inventory No.11481 Author: Lee, Brian
Exploring the Yorkshire Dales Scenery and Structure of the Yorkshire Dales
Published 1987 Countryside Publications. (Chorley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861571916 Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Small ownership sticker inside front cover and name written on bottom edge, otherwise as new
Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.15793 Author: Lee, Jeffrey A.; Illustrator: Leslie Coldrick
Around Historic Yorkshire
Published 1978 Midas Books. (Tunbridge Wells.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0859361098 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
pp. 128. Numerous illustrations.
Yorkshire

Inventory No.10626 Author: Lee, Jeffrey A.
Around Historic Yorkshire
Published 1978 Midas Books. (Tunbridge Wells.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0859361098 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £2.5
Yorkshire Local History Topography

Inventory No.18995 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.20549 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:Landscape: Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding River Aire River Calder

Inventory No.13746 Author: Lewis, C. E.; Illustrator: Lewis Crowther, Maps and Photographs
Wharfedale
Published The Church Bookshop (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Blue card covers sunned on fore-edge and sign of label removal at top of front cover. With 6 maps and 8 illustrations.
North Yorkshire Wharfedale Local History

Inventory No.9616 Author: Lewis, Dulcie
Down the Yorkshire Pan. a Nostalgic Look Back to the Good Old Days in North Yorkshire
Published 2000 Countryside Books (Newbury, Berks.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853066451 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/None as Issued. Price: £4.5
Illustrated with numerous photographs. pp. 112.
North Yorkshire North Riding Local History

Inventory No.4095 Author: Leyland, John; Illustrator: Dawson, Alfred; Speed, Lancelot
The Yorkshire Coast and the Cleveland Hills and Dales
Published 1892 Seeley and Co. (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Cloth Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £24
Spine worn at top and bottom and some foxing inside but nice and tight. Inscription.
North Yorkshire Topography Coast Dales Cleveland Hills

Inventory No.20393 Author: Lidster, J.Robin
Robin Hood's Bay in Old Picture Postcards
Published 1983 European Library (Zaltbommel, Netherlands.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9028824782 Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Pictorial Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire North Riding Robin Hood's Bay Fylingdales Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.20153 Author: Lidster, J.Robin
The Scarborough and Whitby Railway
Published 1993 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:Sixth Impression ISBN: 0860670163 Size:Landscape: Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Small crease across bottom corner of back cover, nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Coast Scarborough Whitby Railways Local History

Inventory No.4342 Author: Lincoln, E. F.
The Heritage of Yorkshire (The County Heritage Series)
Published 1967 Oldbourne. (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £3
Yorkshire History Local

Inventory No.8281 Author: Lindley, Pamela [transcribed by]; Preston, Cyril [edited by]
The Parish Register of Wadworth. 1575-1837. Vol. CLXII
Published 1997 The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Parish Register Section Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902122797 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12.5
Yorkshire South Wadworth History Local Family Genealogy

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.12521 Author: Linskill, Mary
Cleveden
Published 1980 Caedmon of Whitby (Whitby) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0905355148 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £9
Very light stain on bottom of d/w spine.
North Yorkshire Novel

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.18898 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: £7
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.18712 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.20236 Author: Lister, Hal
Our Shangri La Malham
Published 2005 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Crease across bottom corner of front cover, Laminate beginning to peel off, clean copy
Yorkshire Dales Malham

Inventory No.12221 Author: Lister, Norman
York Minster and Its Problem
Published 1968 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Appeal brochure produced by York Minster outlining work required following a detailed survey in 1965/6. pp. 36 including covers.
North Yorkshire York Minster Architecture Local History

Inventory No.19774 Author: Lister, Philip
Ghosts and Gravestones of Haworth
Published 2006 Tempus (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752439588 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
West Yorkshire Haworth Local History

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: £25
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.4463 Author: Lockwood, P. H.
Storm and Sunshine in the Dales
Published 1898 Elliot Stock. (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £14.5
Preface by H. G. Hart. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Lacks ffep.Spine worn and faded otherwise very nice, clean and tight.
Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.18214 Author: Lodge, Eric
Yorkshire Walks Around Bradford. Being a Description of Thirty Country Walks Accessible from Bradford, Together with Route Maps
Published 1947 Arthur Wigley (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Pictorial card cover. Covers a little darkened. A nice clean copy.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Walking Rambling

Inventory No.14074 Author: Long, W. Harwood
A Survey of the Agriculture of Yorkshire. County Agricultural Surveys No. 6
Published 1969 Royal Agricultural Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £6
Boards sprung. Dust wrapper grubby and price clipped.
Yorkshire Agriculture 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.18624 Author: Lonsdale, Ralph; Lonsdale, Iris
Yesterday's Windhill
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: £8
48pp.Remains of owner's sticker inside, clean copy, slightly faded
West Yorkshire West Riding Windhill Shipley Bradford Local History

Inventory No.17838 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Rothwell Co. York. Part III. 1763-1812 Baptisms and Burials. Index. Vol. LI.
Published 1914 The Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £30
Ex-library with stamps and labels. Boards rubbed. Rear spine split down full length. Rear board loose. Pages very clean, untrimmed. Good reading/working copy.
Yorkshire West Riding Rothwell Carlton with Lofthouse Middleton Oulton with Woodlesford Thorpe Leeds Wakefield Local History Family History Genealogy

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.8274 Author: Lumb, George Denison. [Transcribed and Edited by]
The Registers of the Parish Church of Kilburn, Co. York. 1600-1812. Vol. LXI
Published 1918 The Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:G+ Price: £30
Original wrappers worn and chipped. Pages untrimmed and some uncut.
Yorkshire North Riding Kilburn History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.20121 Author: Lumb, Tony
Anthony Albert's Irreverent History of Featherstone
Published 1992 Briton Publications (Featherstone, West Yorkshire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952043904 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
Corners slightly rubbed but very nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Wakefield Featherstone Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.19709 Author: Lupton, Harry; Illustrator: Hare, C. W. Photographs
The Old Leyburn Rural District, The End of an Era
Published 1974 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £15
Card covers worn and with top corner cut off. Top edge of contents page cut off. Text and photographs very clean. 54 pages.
Wensleydale North Yorkshire Leyburn Local History

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