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Inventory No.33051 Author: LIFE Magazine
The Classic Collection
Published 2008 Life Books Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1603200304 Size:Folio Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £12
Very slight edgewear to d/w else nice clean copy

Inventory No.33235 Author: Lallemand, Henri
Cezanne Visions of a Great Painter
Published 1999 Todtri (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1880908158 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Gift inscription inside else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34239 Author: Lambert, Janet
Transect Through Time: The Archaeological Landscape of the Shell North Western Ethylene Pipeline (English Section)
Published 1996 Lancaster Imprints Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0901800740 Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Please note there is a publishers error in the binding, pages 181 to 196 have been bound between pages 204-205, otherwise a clen bright copy with 7 microfiche in rear pocket.

Inventory No.23219 Author: Lamming, Douglas
In Lincolnshire Long Ago
Published 1994 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167608 Size:A4 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.33826 Author: Landstrom, Bjorn
Sailing Ships in Words and Pictures from Papyrus Boats to Full-Riggers
Published 1969 Allen & Unwin (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Tear at top of spine else very good

Inventory No.32532 Author: Larson, Erik
Thunderstruck
Published 2006 Doubleday (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780385608459 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £9

Inventory No.33192 Author: Le Fleming, S. H.
The Manuscripts of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., Of Rydal Hall
Published Type:
Edition:Print on Demand ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Please note this is a Print on Demand copy which we have in stock. Looks unread.

Inventory No.33213 Author: Le Pard, Gordon
Dorset Then and Now from the Air
Published 2011 Dorset Books Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781871164817 Size:Square Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7.5
Clean and bright

Inventory No.34059 Author: Lea, J. Henry
The English Ancestry of the Families of Batt and Biley
Published David Clapp & Sons (Boston) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £15
Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, April, 1897. Wrappers worn and torn, with loss and loose. YAS stamps to covers and title-page. Pages untrimmed but very clean. pp. 26.

Inventory No.33440 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Eleventh
Published 1796 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £30
Spine renewed, rather worn and battered but contents very good, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on ffep

Inventory No.33439 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Twelfth
Published 1796 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33438 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Eighth
Published 1795 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33437 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the Seventh
Published 1796 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33435 Author: Leach, Thomas
Modern Reports of Select Cases Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. Volume the First
Published 1793 G. G. J. And J. Robinson (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition, Corrected ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
Spine darkened and a little worn, "HOME OFFICE" stamped on front board else very good clean copy

Inventory No.33882 Author: Leader, Darian
Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?
Published 1996 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0571176194 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Pages browning else nice clean copy, spine of d/w a little faded

Inventory No.23211 Author: Leahy, Kevin; Williams, David
North Lincolnshire : A Pictorial History
Published 1996 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167802 Size:Square Octavo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Faint creases to cover but clean and bright
North Lincolnshire Local History Family History Genealogy Old Photographs

Inventory No.32730 Author: Leaming, Barbara
Churchill Defiant Fighting on 1945-1955
Published 2010 Harper Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780007257904 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £9
Clean tight copy

Inventory No.32997 Author: Lear, Linda
Beatrix Potter: a Life in Nature
Published 2007 Allen Lane (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780715995602 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy, d/w very slightly creased on bottom edge

Inventory No.33961 Author: Lees, J. A.
Peaks and Pines: Another Norway Book
Published Johan Grundt Tanum Forlag (Oslo) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Covers slightly rubbed and faded else very good

Inventory No.33136 Author: Lehmann, John
Holborn. An Historical Portrait of a London Borough
Published 1970 Macmillan Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £8
Dust jacket rubbed, chipped and price clipped. Maps as endpapers and illustrated within text.
London History

Inventory No.34037 Author: Levi, Primo
Other People's Trades
Published 1989 Summit Books (New York) Type:
Edition:First U.S. Edition ISBN: 0671611496 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12
D/w sunned, with mark on front where label removed, else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34036 Author: Levi, Primo
A Tranquil Star
Published 2007 W. W. Norton (New York) Type:
Edition:First U.S. Edition ISBN: 9780393064681 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34035 Author: Levi, Primo
The Mirror Maker
Published 1990 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0413630609 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8.5
D/w sunned else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34034 Author: Levi, Primo
The Sixth Day
Published 1990 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0718133323 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £9
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34033 Author: Levi, Primo
If Not Now, When?
Published 1986 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0718126688 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) note on ffep, pages browning slightly else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34032 Author: Levi, Primo
The Wrench
Published 1987 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0718128311 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) pages browning slightly else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34031 Author: Levi, Primo
The Periodic Table
Published 1985 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: 0718125157 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £20
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34030 Author: Levi, Primo
Moments of Reprieve
Published 1986 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0718127269 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34029 Author: Levi, Primo
The Drowned and the Saved
Published 1988 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0718130634 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7.5
Name on fep (under flap of d/w) pages browning slightly else nice clean copy

Inventory No.32679 Author: Lewer, david; Dark, Robert
The Temple Church in London
Published 1997 Historical Publications Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0948667486 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy.
London Inns of Court Knights Templars Inner Middle

Inventory No.33344 Author: Lewinski
The Naked and the Nude: History of Nude Photography
Published 1987 Weidenfeld & Nicolson Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0297791494 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £25
Very slight edge-wear to d/w else very good clean copy

Inventory No.32285 Author: Lewis, Brian; Fisher, Janet; Fisher, Derek
Hotwells and the City Docks ON OLD POSTCARDS (Bygone Bristol)
Published 2001 Bygone Bristol Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1899388281 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
EXCELLENT CLEAN COPY

Inventory No.32888 Author: Lewis, J. R.
The Victorian Bar
Published 1982 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0709005334 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy in spine-faded d/w
Law

Inventory No.33050 Author: Lewisohn, Mark
The Complete Beatles Chronicle: The Only Definitive Guide to the Beatles' Entire Career
Published 2005 Hamlyn (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0600610012 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Reading crease to spine, else very good clean copy

Inventory No.30269 Author: Liddle, Peter
Gallipoli, 1915. Pens, Pencils and Cameras at War
Published 1985 Brassey's (UK) Ltd Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0080311725 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7
Bumped at top of spine but a clean unmarked copy.

Inventory No.33281 Author: Lightoller, Commander
Titanic and Other Ships
Published 2007 Historia Press (Hull) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 9781906187026 Size:12mo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £15
Limited edition, this being copy no. 726, reprint of 1935 ed. Excellent unread copy

Inventory No.28581 Author: Line, Paul Leslie
A Guide to Liverpool, 1928. Armchair Time Travellers Street Atlas
Published 2011 Mapseeker Archive Publishing Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 9781844917440 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £8
Original pictorial card covers rubbed and scuffed. Damp staining to corners of front endpapers. Text, illustrations and maps all in very good condition. Good working copy.
Lancashire Liverpool Local History

Inventory No.32185 Author: Lipscomb, Suzannah
A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England
Published 2012 Ebury Press. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780091944841 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £8
Dent in d/w on spine else nice clean copy

Inventory No.30494 Author: Lipson, E.
The History of the Woollen and Worsted Industries
Published 1965 Frank Cass & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Name on ffep, edge of folding frontis chipped else nice bright copy in slightly edge-worn d/w

Inventory No.30660 Author: Lloyd, David; Klein, Peter
Ludlow An Historical Anthology
Published 2006 Phillimore & Co Ltd (Chichester) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 1860772862 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.30903 Author: Lloyd, David; Moran, Madge
The Corner Shop. The History of Bodenhams from the Middle Ages; Ludlow Research Paper No. 2
Published Studio Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
pp. 52. Covers a little faded. Clean copy.

Inventory No.32163 Author: Lloyd, Lewis
The port of Caernarfon, 1793-1900
Published 1989 L.Lloyd Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0901330841 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Covers slightly sunned, darkning to edg of titlepage else very good clean copy

Inventory No.10925 Author: Lofthouse, Jessica
Lancashire Villages
Published 1973 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0709141653 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Dust wrapper has light fading on spine. Small stain on rear.
Lancashire Local History Topography

Inventory No.32923 Author: Loftie, W. J.
The Inns of Court and Chancery
Published 1908 Seeley and Co. (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Blue Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Slight wear to spine, some spotting throughout, decent copy
Inns Court Law

Inventory No.33293 Author: Lomax, James; Ormond, Richard
John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age
Published 1979 Leeds Art Galleries Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Clean unmarked copy

Inventory No.31690 Author: Loosley, William Robert; Langford, David
An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871
Published 1979 David & Charles (Newton Abbott) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0715377256 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth Spine, Marbled Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Very slight fading to spine of d/w else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.32626 Author: Lovell, Mary S.
The Churchills in Love and War
Published 2011 W. W. Norton (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780393062304 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Bump on top edge else nice clean copy

Inventory No.33949 Author: Lu Xun; Lu Hsun
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk
Published 1976 Foreign Languages Press (Beijing) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Spine slightly faded else very good

Inventory No.33261 Author: Lucie-Smith, Edward
Toulouse-Lautrec
Published 1983 Phaidon (Oxford) Type:
Edition:Revised and Enlarged Edition ISBN: 0714822663 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Excellent clean copy

Inventory No.32925 Author: Ludlow, Edmund; Worden, A. B.
A Voice from the Watch Tower Part Five: 1660-1662 Camden Fourth Series Volume21
Published 1978 Offices of the Royal Historical Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0901050431 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Small mark on front board else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.31305 Author: Lunkah
Whiffs: Anglo-Indian & Indian
Published 1891 A. H, Wheeler (Allahabad) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Half-Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £25
bopund in brown half-leather with black cloth embossed boards. Title of one of the Whiffs written on spine "The Phantom Rickshaw". Boards and spine worn. Marbled endpapers. Black tape to inner hinges. Name to top edge of title-page. Text clean, binding tight. A few pages have small cip on bottom edge. A well worn but clean copy.
India Colonial Rule

Inventory No.33943 Author: Luo Guanzhong; Wu Cheng'en; Li Ruzhen
Excerpts from Three Classical Chinese Novels: 'The Three Kingdoms', Pilgrimage to the West' and 'Flowers in the Mirror'
Published 1984 Panda Books (Beijing) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0835113302 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.32600 Author: Lyall, Andrew. Editor
Irish Exchequer Reports. Reports of Cases in the Courts of Exchequer and Chancery in Ireland, 1716-1734. Volume CXXV
Published 2009 Selden Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780854231263 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good Price: £17
Looks unread.
Irish History Chancery

Inventory No.25887 Author: Lyford-Pike, Margaret; Sutcliff, Rosemary
We Lived in Drumfyvie
Published 1975 Blackie (Glasgow.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0216899729 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6
Clean copy, no inscriptions
Children's Novel

Inventory No.32212 Author: Lynde, John G.
Thirty-four 34 Ways to Cast a Fly
Published 1969 A. S. Barnes (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0498067726 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Fair Price: £10
Slightly bumped, d/w ragged with 4" closed tear across front

Inventory No.33210 Author: Lynn, Vera
Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Won the War
Published 1990 Sidgwick & Jackson (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0283060638 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Slight edgewear to d/w else nice clean copy

Inventory No.31731 Author: Lysons, Daniel; Lysons, Samuel
Magna Britannia: Berkshire (Classical county histories)
Published 1978 EP Publishing Ltd (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0715813137 Size:4to Binding:Rexine
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £12.5
Nice clean copy

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