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Inventory No.32842 Author: Talbot, R. A.
St. Peter's Church, Bramley, Leeds. The Glebe Lands of Bramley, 1709-1949
Published 1949 St. Peter's Church Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £12
An ex-school library copy with a few stamps and name written on top edge of front cover, otherwise very clean. 40 pages plus 4 maps at rear
West Yorkshire Leeds Bramley Local History Church History

Inventory No.33180 Author: Tapp, W. B.
When I Wor (were) a Lad Thornton in the 1880's & 90's
Published 1992 Bradford Libraries (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734340 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Very nice clean copy.
Bradford Thornton Local History Family History West Riding West Yorkshire Genealogy Victorian

Inventory No.34500 Author: Tate, Lynne Stevenson
Aspects of Leeds 3 Discovering Local History
Published 2001 Wharncliffe Books. (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903425050 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good. Price: £5
Small green address label inside else nice clean bright copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.22600 Author: Tate, Lynne Stevenson
Aspects of Leeds Discovering Local History
Published 1998 Wharncliffe Publishing (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 187164738x 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.18665 Author: Tate, Lynne Stevenson
Aspects of Leeds 2 Discovering Local History
Published 1999 Wharncliffe Publishing (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871647592 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.20488 Author: Tate, W. E.
A. F. Leach as a Historian of Yorkshire Education
Published 1963 St. Anthony's Press (York) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Small piece missing from front cover
York Local History

Inventory No.32495 Author: Taylor, Ernest E.
The Valiant Sixty
Published 1988 William Sessions Limited (York) Type:
Edition:Third Edition ISBN: 1850720339 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
Nice clean copy
Nonconformity Local History Quakers

Inventory No.31565 Author: Taylor, Kate [edited by]
This Pious Undertaking: The Chantry Chapel of St.Mary the Virgin, on Wakefield Bridge in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Published 2003 Wakefield Historical Publications. (Wakefield, W.Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0901869457 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4.5
Excellent copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield History Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.31520 Author: Taylor, Kate [edited by]
Wakefield Diocese Ccccclbrating 125 Years
Published 2012 Canterbury Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781848252530 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £9
Clean unmarked copy
West Yorkshire Local History Wakefield Church History Family History Genealogy Church of England

Inventory No.25693 Author: Taylor, Kate [edited by]
Aspects of Wakefield 2 : Discovering Local History
Published 1999 Wharncliffe Publishing (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871647681 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Wakefield Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.26568 Author: Taylor, Rev R. V.
Anecdota Eboracensia; Yorkshire Anecdotes; or, Remarkable Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Yorkshire Men and Women. Compiled from Various Sources, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order; with Brief Biographical Particulars, and a Copious Index. 2nd Series
Published 1883 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Second Series ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9
Small address label on ffep else nice clean copy
Yorkshire Lore

Inventory No.35862 Author: Thack
100 Sketches of Yorkshire. Villages, Towns and Landmarks. Fifth Series
Published 1959 Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Co. (Doncaster.) Type:
Edition:Fifth Series ISBN: Size:32mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Card covers a little rubbed. A very nice clean bright copy.
Yorkshire

Inventory No.34179 Author: Thack
100 Sketches of Yorkshire. Villages, Towns and Landmarks. Sixth Series
Published 1963 Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Co. (Doncaster.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:32mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Card covers a little rubbed. Small tick marks to side of text on a number of the sketches, but a nie clean copy.
Yorkshire

Inventory No.37141 Author: The Aireborough and Horsforth Museum Society
Old Aireborough
Published 1984 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 095091911x Size:Small Binding:Quarter Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £20
A few small spots on boards, d/w has faint scratches but nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Aireborough Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33556 Author: The Aireborough and Horsforth Museum Society
Our Bitter Harvest from Mushroom Picker to Mushroom Picket
Published 1993 Sacked Mushroom Pickers' Support Fund (Goole) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952234300 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £9.5
80pp. Excellent copy
East Riding Yorkshire Goole Local History

Inventory No.35978 Author: The Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society Volume LIII, Part 1 No. 116 Miscellany Volume 15 Part 1
Published 1971 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
The Leeds churchwardens, 1828-1850, by D. Fraser. Poor Law politics in Leeds, 1833-1855, by D. Fraser. The politics of Leeds water, by D. Fraser. Improvement in early Victorian Leeds, by D. Fraser. Thwaite Mill, Hunslet, and Thomas Cheek Hewes, by Stuart B. Smith. Ebor House: a note, by A. Lonsdale.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Churchwardens Poor Law Politics Leeds Water Early Victorian Thwaite Mill Ebor House

Inventory No.35790 Author: The Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society Volume LIX, Part 2 No. 130 Miscellany Volume 18 Part 2
Published 1984 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Society date label inside (1 issue) else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.35581 Author: The Thoresby Society
The Thoresby Miscellany. Second Series. Volume 5
Published 1995 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
Contains: Burt, Steven. Leeds Manor House: the development and changing function of a central site; Strong, Ruth. Textile Communities in the Making: Pudsey and its neighbourhood, 1700-1840; Treen, Colin. Edward Oates and the Making of the Lost American Garden at Meanwoodside, 1834-1864; Elton, Arthur. Leeds Cyclists and Cycle Makers.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.34975 Author: The Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society Volume L, Part 3 No. 114 Miscellany Volume 14 Part 3
Published 1968 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Very slight sunning to cover else excellent clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30039 Author: The Thoresby Society
Extracts from the Leeds Mercury and Leeds Intelligencer, 1777-82, Vol XL, Part 3, No.101 (Introduction and Index)
Published 1955 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £8
Ex-historical society library with markings and issue label, Clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.26463 Author: The Thoresby Society
Kirkstall Abbey Excavations 1950-1954 Vol. XLIII No. 102
Published 1955 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Some light spotting throughout. Pages uncut. Illustrated. pp 82
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Kirkstall Local History

Inventory No.24223 Author: The Thoresby Society
Kirkstall Abbey Excavations 1955-1959 Vol. XLVIII No. 170
Published 1967 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5.5
Covers unevenly faded, decent copy, pages uncut
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Kirkstall Local History

Inventory No.14923 Author: The Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society: 1913: Volume XIX, Part II Testamenta Leodiensia 1546 to 1553
Published 1913 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £6
Has a well-used look about it, covers worn and chipped and spine is disintegrating but as it is sewn binding is holding
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby

Inventory No.36096 Author: The Thoresby Society; Barnes, Guy D.
Publications of the Thoresby Society Volume LIX, Part 1 No. 129 Miscellany Volume 18 Part 1
Published 1985 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
New unused copy, slight shelfwear
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Rulers Housing Headingley Whitkirk

Inventory No.35984 Author: The Thoresby Society; Barnes, Guy D.
The Thoresby Miscellany. Second Series. Volume 1. 1990
Published 1991 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Contains: Mortimer, Jean E. Joseph Tatham's School, Leeds; Mortimer, Jean E. Thoresby's poor deluded Quakers; the suffering of Leeds Friends in the Seventeenth Century; Roberts, Stephen. Joseph Barker and the Radical Cause, 1848-1851; Jenkins, E. W. David Forsyth and the City of Leeds School. Date label (unstamped) attached inside front cover and blind stamp ontitlepage else near fine
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.11409 Author: The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association.
Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period. Part I. The Yorkshire and Topographical Association. Record Series Vol. II
Published 1887 Yorkshire Archaeological and topographical Association Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
Bookplate on fep, hinges weak but nice and bright. Heavy but etra postage not required for UK order
Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.29112 Author: Thirsk, James
Boyhood in Beverley: A Mosaic of the 1920s
Published 2003 Highgate Publications (Beverley) Ltd (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1902645375 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Very slightly faded to spine.
East Riding East Yorkshire Beverley Local History

Inventory No.24872 Author: Thompson, A. Hamilton and Clay, Charles Travis
Fasti Parochiales Vol.I. Being Notes on the Advowsons and Pre-Reformation Incumbents of the Parishes in the Deanery of Doncaster: Part I. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series Vol. LXXXV for the Year 1933
Published 1933 The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Light brown cloth, gilt. Embossed stamp at top of title-page, but a very nice clean copy.
Yorkshire Advowsons Doncaster History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.37171 Author: Thompson, Francis Ogley; Moffat, Hazel
Your Affectionate Brother, Francis Ogley Thompson: A Yorkshire Emigrant's Letters from Canada and the USA 1857-1864
Published 2003 Buttercross Books (Doncaster.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903833396 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.24316 Author: Thompson, James
Leeds Born and Bred
Published 1982 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852067070 Size:A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
88pp. nice clean copy

Inventory No.33846 Author: Thompson, M. A.
Old Chapeltown
Published 1977 Ecclesfield Parish Council (Sheffield) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 09900660619 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy
South Yorkshire Sheffield Local History Chapeltown Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.26763 Author: Thompson, Michael
The Innes Heritage Collection a Collection of Photographs Taken By the Late Donald Innes (1908-1971) in and Around Hull
Published 1994 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167675 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Slightly rubbed on corners otherwise nice clean copy
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Photographs Local History

Inventory No.34330 Author: Thompstone, John D.
St. Peter's, Shipley The First 75 Years
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
32pp.Cover slightly spotted else very good
West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Local History Church History Religion Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36328 Author: Thoresby Society
Extracts from the Leeds Intelligencer, 1791-1796. Publications of the Thoresby Society. Vol. XLIV, No. 103
Published 1938 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Original wrappers darkened on spine and slightly chipped but clean unread copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.35792 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Second Series Volume 4. Miscellany.
Published 1994 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900741341 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Contains: Harrison, Brett. Thorp Hall. 1749-1756: 'dabling a little in Mortar; Cookson, Gillian. Early Textile Engineers in Leeds, 1780-1850; Moorish, P. S. Leeds and Dismemberment of the Diocese of Ripon; Jenkins, E. W. Leeds Grammers School, the Charity Commissioners and the education of girls, 1870-1901. Society date label inside else very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Thorpe Hall Textile Engineers Diocese Ripon Leeds Grammar School Girls

Inventory No.35789 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Second Series Volume 3. Miscellany.
Published 1993 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6
Elton, Arthur: Becoming a City: Leeds 1893. & Sir George Cockburn, 184801927. May, Barbara C: Waggonways and Staiths: the impact of Middleton Colliery on the township of Hunslet, c. 1750-1800. Johnston, Carole, P: The Charity School, the Church and the Corporation: aspects of educational provision for the poor in eighteenth-century Leeds.
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Education Waggonways Staiths Middleton Colliery Hunslet

Inventory No.35645 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Volume XLVI, Part 1. No. 105. Miscellany, Volume 13, Part 1
Published 1959 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Le Patourel, J: Medieval Leeds: Kirkstall Abbey-The Parish Church-The Medieval Borough. Sprittles, J: New Grange, Kirkstall. Jones, H. W: Checklist of the Correspondence of Ralph Thoresby. Pemberton, H: Two hundred year of Banking in Leeds. Ex-Historical Society with writing on front cover, stamp inside and date label (unissued) but very good clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Medieval New Grange Kirkstall Abbey Banking

Inventory No.30893 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Second Series Volume 18. Miscellany.
Published 2008 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900741678 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £6
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Headingly Hall Albert Pawson Robert the Dyer Enclosures

Inventory No.30601 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society; Miscellany Volume 24, Second Series for 2013
Published 2014 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Contains: Early Coal Mining in Leeds 1500-1700 G.D.Newton The Clothier Families of Horsforth 1841-1881 S.M.Chell Joseph Fearn: a Villainous Lord of the Manor of Leeds M.Pullan 150 Years of the Leeds Church Extension Society R.Yates Hours of Distraction and Cheerful Companionship: Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs and the Girls' Clubs Era (1904-1944) H.M.F.Jones Leeds and the First World War D.Thornton
Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30041 Author: Thoresby Society
Miscellany Second Series, Volume 10. The Publications of the Thoresby Society
Published 2000 Thoresby Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900741562 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.28002 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Volume LVI, Part 3. No. 126. Miscellany, Volume 17, Part 3
Published 1981 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Original card covers rubbed on edges where they overlap the pages. Boyle, M. B: Fair befall the Flax Field: aspects of the history of the Boyle family and their flax business. Jenkins, Isobel: The Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education, 1871-91
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Dewsbury Riots Frank Beckwith Vavasour

Inventory No.24277 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Volume LIV, Part 3. No. 122. Miscellany, Volume 16, Part 3
Published 1976 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Original card covers rubbed on edges where they overlap the pages. Grady, K: The provision of markets in Leeds, 1822-29. Copley, J: The theatre in Hunslet lane II. Gosden, P. H. J. H: The early years of the Yorkshire College. Owen, Roger J: The Baptist breach at Bramley. Le Patourel, H. E. Jean: Stank Hall Barn, Leeds. Le Patourel, Obituary: Canon R. J. Wood. Wood, John: Bibliography: Canon R. J. Wood.
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Markets Theatre Hunslet Yorkshire College Baptist Bramley Stank Hall Barn Cannon Wood

Inventory No.24271 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Volume LXIII, No. 134. Miscellany, Volume 19 (in one Part)
Published 1900 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Spence, Richard T: Tithes and Tithe-holders in the Parish of Leeds from the Dissolution to the Reformation. Dalton, H. W: Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds: his Work for the Church and the Town, 1837-1848. Arnold, A. J: Shall it be Leeds or Bradford?: the Origins of Professional Football in the West Riding District
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Tithe Walter Hook Football

Inventory No.24270 Author: Thoresby Society
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Second Series Volume 11. Miscellany.
Published 2001 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900741597 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Wark, Keith R; The Leeds North-Eastern Railwat extension, 1863-1869. Shelton, Tony: Episodes in the History of Golden Acre. Kent, Audrey L. A: An Institution of Great Utility; Leeds Public Dispensary, the early years 1824-1867. Douglas, Janet: Leeds and the Public Patronage of Fine Art, 1809-1888.
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History North East Railway Golden Acre Public Dispensary Fine Art

Inventory No.34983 Author: Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society. Second Series Volume 14. Miscellany.
Published 2004 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900741627 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £5
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Jacobite Rebellions Elite Culture Edward Baines Sunday Schools

Inventory No.24609 Author: Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society: 1954: Volume XLIII, No. 102. Kirkstall Abbey Excavations 1950-1954.
Published The Thoresby Society. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £4
Rear cover damaged, very good else
THORESBY SOCIETY. LEEDS. YORKSHIRE. GENEALOGY. KIRKSTALL ABBEY. LEEDS AND DISTRICT

Inventory No.24282 Author: Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society: Volume XLI, Part I, No. 91. Miscellanea
Published 1946 The Thoresby Society. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £6
Original wrappers rubbed where they overlap the pages. No content page but- Turberville, Arthur Stanley (Completed by Frank Beckwith): Leeds and Parliamentary Reform, 1820-1832.
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.23984 Author: Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society: 1920 Volume XXVI, Part II, Miscellanea
Published The Thoresby Society. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Poor Price: £5
Wrappers detached, contents very good but some school stamps inside
THORESBY SOCIETY LEEDS YORKSHIRE GENEALOGY Masham Farnley Christopher Danby Barwick in Elmet George Plaxton

Inventory No.23982 Author: Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society: 1919 Volume XXVI, Part 1, Miscellanea
Published The Thoresby Society. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £5
Original wrappers rubbed, chipped and with loss..
THORESBY SOCIETY LEEDS YORKSHIRE GENEALOGY Masham Farnley Christopher Danby Barwick in Elmet George Plaxton

Inventory No.22553 Author: Thoresby Society.
Publications of the Thoresby Society: Volume IX, Part 1, Miscellanea
Published 1897 The Thoresby Society. (Leeds.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £5
Original wrappers rubbed, chipped and with loss.. Contains: A Leeds Law-Suit in the 16th Century; Duchy of Lancaster Depositions, 2 Elizabeth. No. 12 [Endorsements on (foldout) Plan: HOLMES, Richard. Asolf or Essolf, A Yorkshire Minor Lord of the Twelth Century. With foldout pedigree;
THORESBY SOCIETY LEEDS YORKSHIRE GENEALOGY Masham Farnley Christopher Danby Barwick in Elmet George Plaxton

Inventory No.20760 Author: Thoresby Society.
Leeds Chapelries Register 1764-1812 Third Book Registers of Headingley and Bramley Publications of the Thoresby Society Vol. XXIX Part II
Published 1925 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £15
Covers chipped with loss, Hunter Archaeological Society stamp inside, some pages uncut
Thoresby Society Leeds Registers

Inventory No.20759 Author: Thoresby Society.
Leeds Chapelries Register: The Registers of the Chapels of Chapel Allerton and Farnley Publications of the Thoresby Society Vol. XXIX Part IV
Published 1928 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £15
Front cover detatched. Pages 353-483
West Yorkshire Leeds Registers Local History Family History Genealogy Thoresby Society

Inventory No.20758 Author: Thoresby Society.
Leeds Chapelries Register 1764-1812 Third Book Register of St. John's Publications of the Thoresby Society Vol. XXIX Part I
Published 1923 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
128pp. Pages uncut

Inventory No.36649 Author: Thornton, David E.
Leeds : The Story of a City
Published 2002 Fort Publications (Ayr) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953657663 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.29303 Author: Thornton, Joan and McGillivray, Linda [edited by]
It Were No Laughing Matter. Calderdale Voices 1930-1945
Published 1987 Yorkshire Arts Circus (Castleford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0947780270 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Very good clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.33538 Author: Thorpe, John; Thorpe, Thomas
Emley and Its Past. Being Extracts from the Almanack Compiled in 1884
Published 1936 E. M. Walker & Son (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Text does not appear to run continuously although there are no pages missing. Nice advert for Marmite inside back cover.
Kirklees West Yorkshire Huddersfield Local History Emley Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.25450 Author: Thwaite, Hartley [transcribed and Edited by]
The Parish Register of Wensley. Volume II: 1701-1837. Vol. CXXX
Published 1967 The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Perish Register Section Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
From Local History Society library with stamps and labels but barely used
North Yorkshire North Riding Wensleydale Wensley Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35990 Author: Tinker, Jane
Steps Along the Way. A History of the Church and Parish of St. James the Great, Woodhall
Published 1999 PCC (Woodhall, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Woodhall Local History

Inventory No.31777 Author: Todd, Barry
Wakefield Theatre Royal and Opera House Official Centenary Souvenir 1894-1994 a Celebration of the First 100 Years
Published 1994 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
56pp. Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Wakefield Local History Theatre

Inventory No.24011 Author: Toomey, Mick
The Fighting Men of Hull
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Crease on back cover else clean crisp copy
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Local History Boxing Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.37130 Author: Top Corner of Half-Title Page and Therefore Frontispiece Cut Off By Some Philistine (presumably to Remove name) Else Very Good Clean Copy
Houses of the North York Moors
Published 1987 Her Majesty's Stationery Office. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0113000146 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Top corner of half-title page and therefore of frontispiece cut off, presumably to remove name, splash mark at bottom of back cover, decent copy else
North Yorkshire North Riding North York Moors Local History Architecture

Inventory No.26232 Author: Towlson, C. W. [editor]
Woodhouse Grove School 1812-1962: A Hundred and Fifty Years of Memories and recollections
Published Wood House School Old Grovian Association (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6
Slight spotting but very good clean copy in edge-worn d/w, no inscriptions
Yorkshire Bradford Leeds Education Local Family Genealogy History

Inventory No.25383 Author: Townend, William [transcribed and Edited by]
The Parish Registers of Crofton, Co: York. 1615-1812. The Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Volume LXII
Published 1918 Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Ex-library with stamps, class number on spine and date label on f.e.p. Solidly bound in brown cloth, contents untouched
Yorkshire West Parish Register Registers Society Wakefield Crofton history Local Family genealogy History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.34049 Author: Trudgill, S. T.
Field Observations of Limestone Weathering and Erosion in the Malham District, North Yorkshire
Published 1985 Field Study Council Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 185153167x Size: Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Reprinted from Field Studies Vol. 6 No. 2 (1985) Pages 201 to 236. Niceclean copy.
North Yorkshire Malham

Inventory No.33598 Author: Turner, Elizabeth
In Days of Poss Tubs and Pigs
Published 1987 Country Endeavour Local History Project (Guisborough) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
100pp. As new
North Yorkshire Cleveland Guisborough Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35321 Author: Turner, J Horsfall [edited by]
Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Volume I; with which is incorporated Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal, Volume I
Published 1888 The Author (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Half-Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £16
Half grrn leather with green cloth boards. Raised band and gilt titling to spine. Leather on corners worn.Marbelled endpapers. Bookplate to fep. Numerous illustrations. pp. 256, 245. A very nice clean copy.
Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.12748 Author: Turner, J Horsfall [edited by]
Yorkshire Notes And Queries. Vol. I.
Published 1888 The Author (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Bound in red cloth, gilt. Fading to spine and front edge of board. Endpapers shaded. Contents very good.
Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.35804 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Historical Notices of Shipley, Saltaire, Idle, Windhill, Wrose, Baildon, Hawksworth, Eccleshill, Calverley, Rawdon and Horsforth
Published 1985 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £17.5
Facsimile of the 1901 edition. Bottom corners slightly bumped else nice copy of de lue edition
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Saltaire Idle Windhill Wrose Baildon Hawksworth Eccleshill Calverley Leeds Rawdon Horsforth History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.21929 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Ancient Bingley: Or Bingley, Its History and Scenery
Published 1897 Privately Printed (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £75
First edition large paper copy. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. 180 illustrations including 3 coloured plates of arms. A handsome copy.
West Yorkshire Bingley Local History

Inventory No.20458 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Idle Upper Chapel Burial Registers and Graveyard Inscriptions: With Notices of the Quaker Burial Ground, Westfield Lane and of the Private Burial Ground, Thackley End
Published Privately Printed (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £50
Original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. pp.146. Boards marked round edges, small label on fep, contents very good, binding sound
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Thackley Idle Local History Family History Genealogy Nonconformity Nonconformist

Inventory No.19856 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Idle Upper Chapel Burial Registers and Graveyard Inscriptions: With Notices of the Quaker Burial Ground, Westfield Lane and of the Private Burial Ground, Thackley End
Published Privately Printed (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £30
Original card covers. Card wearing away on spine else nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Thackley Idle Local History Family History Genealogy Nonconformity Nonconformist

Inventory No.16892 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Halifax Books and Authors.
Published 1906 Privately Printed (Brighouse.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Rebound with black cloth spine over paper covered boards with original wrapper laid on. pp. 262.
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax

Inventory No.12584 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Independency at Brighouse; or, Bridge End Chapel - Pastors and People
Published 1878 J. S. Jowett (Brighouse.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £25
Stains on spine, possibly from glue, otherwise nice bright copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Brighouse Local History Nonconformity Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12555 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
The Old History of Bradford, 1776; with the Memoirs of General Fairfax: the Battles of Leeds and Wakefield; The Sieges of Manchester, Preston &c.; The Sore Calamities at the Taking of Bradford; and the Life of Cromwell
Published 1894 Watmoughs (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £12
Lacks title-page and frontispiece. Blue cloth covered stiff card, gilt. Rubbed on edges. Spine begining to split. Staples rusting. New endpapers. pp. 95.
Yorkshire Civil War

Inventory No.10618 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall
Yorkshire Anthology: Ballads & Songs - Ancient & Modern
Published 1901 T. Harrison (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12.5
Original cloth, gilt. Cloth a little rubbed, top corners bumped. Inscription to front endpaper, else a very nice clean copy.
Yorkshire Poems Poetry Dialect

Inventory No.36241 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall (editor)
Historical Notices of Shipley, Saltaire, Idle, Windhill, Wrose, Baildon, Hawksworth, Eccleshill, Calverley, Rawdon and Horsforth
Published 1985 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Black Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Facsimile of the 1901 edition. Bookplate and name on fep else nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Saltaire Idle Windhill Wrose Baildon Hawksworth Eccleshill Calverley Leeds Rawdon Horsforth History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.33641 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall (editor)
A Day at Bingley
Published J. Horsfall Turner (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £12
20pp. Reprinted from "The Yorkshire County Magazine". Covers detached, pages browning.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley

Inventory No.18018 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall (editor)
Biographia Halifaxiensis: Or, Halifax Families and Worthies. Abiographical and Genealogical History of Halifax Parish. Vol I.
Published 1883 The Author. (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £35
Boards and spine dulled with slight wear to spine, contents very good
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Halifax Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36690 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall.
Ancient Bingley: Or, Bingley, Its History and Scenery.
Published 1897 Thomas Harrison. (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Bookplate on fep, name and address written on ffep, foxing to tissue guard, some spotting in text else very good copy, complete with portrait frontis.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bingley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.24284 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall.
The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with Manorial Notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clinton and Kirklees.
Published 1893 Printed for the Author By Thomas Harrison and Sons (Bingley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Dark Red Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £48
Bookplate on fep, slight wear to spine, front hinge cracked, very good clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Brighouse Rastrick Hipperholme Colet Lightcliffe Northowram Shelf Fixby Clinton Kirklees Local History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.20786 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall.
Haworth Past and Present.
Published 1971 Olicana books Ltd. (Otley.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0903116006 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £10
Bronte Parsonage sticker in front, otherwise clean with no inscriptions
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Haworth Stanbury Oxenhope Local History Family History Genealogy Bronte

Inventory No.32553 Author: Turner, J. Horsfall; Dawson, W. Harbutt
A Day at Skipton
Published J. Horsfall Turner (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
32pp. Reprinted from an article contributed to the " Yorkshire Notes and Queries". Very nice clean copy of unusual item
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley

Inventory No.26773 Author: Turner, Maurice; Jennings, Bernard Edited By
Yorkshire Castles. Exploring Historic Yorkshire
Published 2004 Westbury (Otley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1841030260 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12.5
Reading crease to spine else very nice clean copy.
Yorkshire Castles Tower Houses Fortresses History

Inventory No.36187 Author: Twidale, Graham H.E.
A Nostalgic Look at Leeds Trams Since 1950
Published 1991 Silver Link Books (Kettering) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0947971645 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Local History Leeds Transport Trams

Inventory No.29017 Author: Tyson, Leslie Owen
Mashamshire Collieries: British Mining No. 82
Published 2007 Northern Mine Research Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780901450623 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £18
pp. 160. Illustrated. Nice clean copy.
North Yorkshire Mining Masham

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