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Inventory No.31743	Author: Bailey, Benson
Ilkley, Bolton Abbey, and the Pearls of Craven or Sketches of the Prettiest Sots in That Interesting District
Published 1862 J. Harrison & Son (Bingley.)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+			Price: £20
Rubbed and bumped with paper missing from part of spine, ffep torn with piece missing, contents very good
West Yorkshire Ilkley Local History Topography North Yorkshire Dales Bolton Abbey Craven

Inventory No.30856	Author: Bains, Stephen
The Yorkshire Mary Rose. The Ship General Carleton of Whitby
Published 2010 Blackthorn Press			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £15
pp.169. Clean copy looks unread.
North Yorkshire Whitby Local History Shipping

Inventory No.32957	Author: Bairstow, Martin
Railways Through Airedale and Wharfedale
Published 1985 The Author (Pudsey, Leeds)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0951030221	Size:8vo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £5
Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Airedale Wharfedale Transport Trains

Inventory No.31808	Author: Baker, John C.
A Dales Fishing Story: The Appletreewick, Barden & Burnsall Angling Club from 1873 to 1973
Published 1973 The Author (Horsforth)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:A4	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fair			Price: £15
111pp. Covers very rubbed and pages loose
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Fishing Local History Appletreewick Barden Burnsall Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.23439	Author: Banks, F. R.
Youth Hostel Pennines (Footpath Guides No. 63)
Published 1948 The Saint Catherine Press Ltd (London)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:24mo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good			Price: £4.5
Nice clean copy in like d/w
North Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.22492	Author: Barker, Malcolm
Essence of the Yorkshire Coast
Published 2006 Great Northern (Ilkley)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 1905080397	Size:8vo	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good +			Price: £7.5
Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Coast Whitby Scarborough Filey Kingston Upon Hull Bridlington Goole East Riding Local History Family History Genealogy Seaside

Inventory No.24762	Author: Barker, Rosalin
The Book of Whitby
Published 1990 Barracuda Books (Buckingham.)			Type:
Edition:Limited Edition	ISBN: 0860234622	Size:4to	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good +			Price: £14
No. 71 of limited edition.Corner bumped but nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Coast Whitby Local History Family History Photographs Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.28132	Author: Beadle, Harold L.
Methodism in Richmond from 1750 to 1950. Its Early Societies, Meeting Houses, and Chapels of 1807, 1841, 1861 and 1939
Published 1984 Richmond Methodist Church (Richmond)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £15
Pictorial card covers a little rubbed. gift inscription to inside of front cover. Name to top edge of title-page. Nice clean copy.
North Yorkshire Richmond Local History Nonconformity

Inventory No.31561	Author: Beastall, T. W.
A North Country Estate the Lumleys and Saundersons as Landowners, 1600-1900
Published 1974 Phillimore. (London.)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0850331803	Size:8vo	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good			Price: £7.5
Nice clean copy, d/w slightly rubbed and with sign of small label on front
Lumley Saunderson Earl Scarborough Durham Lincolnshire Yorkshire Skegness Sandbeck Local Family History Genealogy North Yorkshire North Riding

Inventory No.30364	Author: Beck, Howard M.
Gaping Gill: 150 Years of Exploration
Published 1984 Robert Hale (London)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0709015526	Size:8vo	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good +			Price: £20
Excellent unmarked copy
North Yorkshire Dales Caving Potholing

Inventory No.31424	Author: Bedford-Payne, Bronte; Illustrator: Francis, David
People and Places in Upper Wharfedale
Published 2007 Summers Barn Publishing			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 9780955416606	Size:8vo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £20
Clean bright copy, contains signed postcard from author acknowledging order
North Yorkshire Dales Wharfedale Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33475	Author: Beer, Gordon
Villagers of Starbeck
Published The Author (Harrogate.)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN: 0951407414	Size:A5 Booklet	Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £6.5
80pp.Very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Harrogate Starbeck Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.25008	Author: Beer, Malcolm S.; Crawshaw, Howard M.
Music at Ripon Cathedral 657-2008
Published 2008 The Chapter, Ripon Cathedral			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 9780953197934	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £4
Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Ripon Local History Church Music

Inventory No.32934	Author: Benham, Philip
An Illustrated History of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Published 2006 Oxford Publishing Company (Horsham, Surrey)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 9780860936220	Size:4to	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine			Price: £12
Lovely clean copy
North Yorkshire Moord Railway

Inventory No.31698	Author: Binns, Donald
Skipton-in-Craven in the 20th Century
Published 1999 Trackside Publications (Skipton)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 1900095092	Size:8vo	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £12
Smartly rebound in red cloth, gilt. Very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Skipton Local History Photographs

Inventory No.30590	Author: Binns, Donald
Steam in Airedale
Published 1984 Wyvern Publications (Skipton)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0907941117	Size:8vo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £3.5
Cover faded along edge of spine and covered in adhesive film, nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Railways West Yorkshire Leeds Bradford Shipley Keighley Skipton

Inventory No.25276	Author: Binns, Donald
Historic Railway Photographs - Vol. 1 Around Hellifield Settle Junction - Long Preston - Hellifield
Published 1999 Trackside Publications (Skipton)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 1900095106	Size:8vo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £10
Nice clean copy
Railways North Yorkshire Dales Hellifield Skipton

Inventory No.22755	Author: Binns, Donald
The Railways of Craven
Published 1974 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN: 0902907433	Size:Landscape:	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £4.5
Slight scratches on back cover but nice clean copy- no inscriptions
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Railways Transport

Inventory No.22173	Author: Binns, Donald
Skipton-in-Craven in the 20th Century
Published 1999 Trackside Publications (Skipton)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 1900095092	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £7.5
Very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Skipton Local History Photographs

Inventory No.26027	Author: Bisset, Anna B.
York Clergy Ordinations 1662-1699
Published 1998 Univerity of York			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:4to	Binding:Laminated Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £10
Society bookplate inside cover else very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire York Church History Local History

Inventory No.31110	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
A Thousand Miles in Wharfedale and the Basin of the Wharfe Being a Description of a Tour By a Party of Artists Along Its Banks and Tributaries from Cawood to Camfell
Published (Leeds)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:4to	Binding:Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+			Price: £10
Boards a little rubbed and spotted, binding slack, decent reading/working copy
Wharfedale North Yorkshire Dales Topography Local History

Inventory No.30975	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Wensleydale and the Lower Vale of the Yore, from Ouseburn to Lunds Fell
Published Edmund Bogg (Leeds)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Limp Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+			Price: £8
Externally a bit scruffy- small split on spine, rubbed and bumped, contents very good
North Yorkshire North Riding Wensleydale Local History Topography

Inventory No.30916	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
The Golden Vale of Mowbray
Published 1909 Elliot Stock (London)			Type:
Edition:Cheap Edition	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good			Price: £5
Original blue decorated cloth. decoration and title in black. 96 illustrations and 3 maps. pp. 7 (adverts), 272, 1 (errata, 6 (adverts).Boards very worn, spine repaired with tape, contents very good
North Yorkshire North Riding Mowbray Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.30915	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Regal Richmond, and the Land of the Swale
Published 1909 Elliot Stock (London)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Original Blue Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Fair			Price: £6
Spine damaged (see image) else reasonable condition, suitable as reading/ working copy
North Yorkshire Dales Richmond Swaledale Richmondshire Local History Topography

Inventory No.30914	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
By the Banks of the Wharfe Through Cravenland, Ilkley, to Kettlewelldale
Published 1923 James Miles (Leeds)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £7
Red mark on front cover, covers worn on edges else very good clean copy
North Yorkshire Craven Ilkley Kettlewell Local History Topography

Inventory No.24930	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Beautiful Wensleydale, and By the Banks of the Yore, from Shunner Fell to Myton Meadows
Published 1925 James Miles (Leeds)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £7
Cover slightly chipped but very good clean copy
North Yorkshire North Riding Wensleydale Local History Topography

Inventory No.21327	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Picturesque Fell Land Round About Grassington, Skipton, Burnsall, and Kettlewell
Published 1904 Edmund Bogg (Leeds)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+			Price: £10
69pp. + adverts and folding map. Lacks rear cover but very good else
North Yorkshire Dales Craven Skipton Wharfedale Local History Topography

Inventory No.20135	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Picturesque Fell Land Round About Grassington, Skipton, Burnsall, and Kettlewell
Published 1922 Rhodes & Sons (Leeds)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Fair			Price: £10
69pp. + adverts and folding map. School stamp on titlepage, rebound in laminated binding with hand-written titles
North Yorkshire Dales Craven Skipton Wharfedale Local History Topography

Inventory No.14460	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Regal Richmond, and the Land of the Swale
Published 1909 Elliot Stock (London)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+			Price: £10
Rather rubbed, spine repaired with tape, good reading copy
North Yorkshire Dales Richmond Swaledale Richmondshire Local History Topography

Inventory No.8496	Author: Bogg, Edmund.
Richmondshire and the Vale of Mowbray. In Two Volumes. This Being Vol. 1. The Vale of Mowbray.
Published 1982 G. H. Smith (Easingwold)			Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint	ISBN:	Size:4to	Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £8
Previous owners name in top corner of title page.
North Yorkshire Dales Richmondshire Richmond Swaledale North Riding Mowbray Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.33702	Author: Boothman, Mrs. T.
Book of Recipes and Quotations. Linton Parish Bazaar in the Town Hall, Grassington on Tuesday & Wednesday 29th & 30th November, 1938
Published 1938 Craven Herald (Skipton)			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £8
36 pages. nice clean copy.
North Yorkshire Craven

Inventory No.30288	Author: Brigg, John J.
The King's Highway in Craven
Published 1968 S. R. Publishers Ltd (Wakefield)			Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint	ISBN: 0854095284	Size:8vo	Binding:Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £18
A facsimile reprint of the 1927 second edition which has a set of maps included in text. Grey paper covered stiff card boards with cloth spine. Small bookplate on fep else nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Local History Keighley Kendal Turnpike Road

Inventory No.32152	Author: Brittain, Colin
Into the Maelstrom: The Wreck of HMHS Rohilla
Published 2002 Tempus (Stroud)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0752423843	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £6.5
North Yorkshire Coast Local History Whitby Shipwreck Rohilla

Inventory No.26759	Author: Broadhead, Ivan E.
The Yorkshire Ouse Walk. From Source to the Sea - with Tales of the Riverbank
Published 2009 Meridan Books (Halesowen)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £8
Lovely clean copy.
North Yorkshire East Riding East Yorkshire River Ouse Local History

Inventory No.17592	Author: Bromley, Judith; Illustrator: Bromley, Judith; Nicholls, Robert
Come down to the Wood : A Year in the Life of a Dales Woodland
Published 2003 Great Northern (Ilkley)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0954400240	Size:8vo	Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good +			Price: £10
Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Botany Trees

Inventory No.15120	Author: Bromley, Judith
Come down to the Wood : A Year in the Life of a Dales Woodland
Published 2003 Great Northern (Ilkley)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0954400240	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £7
Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Botany Trees

Inventory No.31534	Author: Brook, Florence Foster; Foster, Florence
Beckermonds in Langstrothdale
Published 1962 William Kempner (London)			Type:
Edition:Reprint	ISBN: 0953657019	Size:8vo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £15
First published 1950. 36pp. Staples rusting. With folding family tree. Very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Wharfedale Langstrothdale Local Histoey Beckermonds

Inventory No.31501	Author: Brooks, David; Illustrator: Gray, E. M.
The Story of Richmond in Yorkshire
Published 1946			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £10
Boards a little rubbed else very good clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales Richmond Local History

Inventory No.30360	Author: Brown, George H.
On Foot Round Settle: Also a Chapter on the Plants of the District By R. F. T. And F. P. L.
Published 1896 J. W. Lambert (Settle)			Type:
Edition:First Thus	ISBN:	Size:12mo	Binding:Original Green Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £24
pp.246 plus folding map and 9 illustrations. writing on fep else very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire West Riding Settle Local History Topography Craven

Inventory No.32322	Author: Brown, Harold; Illustrator: Easton, W. E.
A Walk Around the West Side of Whitby
Published			Type:
Edition:	ISBN:	Size:A5 Booklet	Binding:Paper Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+			Price: £4
Bottom corner crumpled else very good clean copy
North Yorkshire Coast Whitby

Inventory No.21358	Author: Brunskill, Elizabeth
The Parish Register of Bishopthorpe, 1631-1837
Published 1986 Privately Printed for the Parish Register Section			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £9
North Yorkshire Ainsty York Bishopthorpe Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.19767	Author: Buckden Parish Council
Buckden 2000 Parish Millennium Book
Published 2000 Buckden Parish Council (Buckden)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:4to	Binding:Leatherette Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine			Price: £30
North Yorkshire Buckden Local History Wharfedale

Inventory No.9292	Author: Buckrose, J. E
Rambles in the North Yorkshire Dales
Published 1913 Mills & Boon. (London)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good			Price: £10
Original green cloth with illustration laid on front board. Bookplate of J. B. Kitson on f.e.p. Small holes on f.f.e.p.(where name has been rubbed out?) slight damp marks along bottom edge of rear board but generally nice bright copy
North Yorkshire North Riding Dales History Topography Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.19614	Author: Burns, Tom Scott
A North Yorkshire Moors Selection
Published 1994 M. T. D. Rigg (Leeds.)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 1899458026	Size:4to	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good +			Price: £10
Slight bump at bottom of spine else very nice clean unmarked copy in excellent d/w
North Yorkshire North Riding Moors Local History Topography Genealogy

Inventory No.31521	Author: Burton, Peter
Six Inches of Bath Water: One Hundred Years of Scarborough College in Memories and Photographs 1898-1998
Published 1998 Michael Russell (Norwich)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 085955239x	Size:8vo	Binding:Cloth Covered Board
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good +			Price: £7
Excellent copy, very slight creases to top edge of d/w
North Yorkshire Coast Local Historyscarborough College History Education Family History Genealogy Photographs

Inventory No.30004	Author: Burton, Thomas; Raine, James (Edited and Enlaged by)
The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hemingborough in the County of York
Published 1888 Sampson Brothers (York)			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Original Blue Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Fair			Price: £20
Yorkshire Archaeological Society Extra Volume. Spine very worn with loss, university bookplate on fep, contents very good so OK for reading/working copy
North Yorkshire Local History Hemingborough Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.29396	Author: Burton-in-Lonsdale Millennium History Group
Glimpses of Burton's Past
Published 2000 Burton-in-Lonsdale Millennium History Group			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN:	Size:8vo	Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +			Price: £8
pp. 60. Illustrated. A very nice clean copy.
North Yorkshire Burton in Lonsdale Local History

Inventory No.32014	Author: Butler, L. A. S. Edited By
The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth Century: Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia' the Yorkshire Parishes 1714-1725: Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia', the ... (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series)
Published 1990 Yorkshire Archaeological Society			Type:
Edition:First Edition	ISBN: 0902122568	Size:	Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good			Price: £8
Excellent copy in slightly edge worn dust jacket.
North Yorkshire Richmond Local History

Page last updated 18.04 on Thursday, 14 February 2019, by Michael Compton.