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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.32339 Author: Eagles, J. B.
John Benson Pritchett: First Medical Officer of Heath for Huddersfield
Published 1984 Huddersfield Local History Workshop Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950913405 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3.75
Nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire Huddersfield Local History

Inventory No.12535 Author: Eaglestone, Joyce
The Story Tellers
Published 1990 Bradford Libraries and Information Service (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734243 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £3.5
WYAS stamp on titlepage, otherwise very nice clean copy
West Riding Bradford Local History West Yorkshire Genealogy Family History

Inventory No.31865 Author: Easdown, Martin
Piers of Disaster: The Sad Story of the Seaside Pleasure Piers of the Yorkshire Coast
Published 1996 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167810 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5.75
Very good clean copy
Yorkshire Coast Seaside Local History Piers Photographs

Inventory No.33542 Author: East Bowling History Workshop
East Bowling Reflections No. 2
Published 1980 East Bowling History Workshop (Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
46pp. Nice bright copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History East Bowling Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33541 Author: East Bowling History Workshop
Don't Look Back Love and Other Stories of the Second World War 1939-1945
Published 1989 East Bowling History Workshop (Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
98pp. WYAS stamp inside and sign of label removed from front cover else very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Education East Bowling Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.22511 Author: East, G. C.
The Constables of Claro a History of Policing in Harrogate and District
Published 1996 The Author. (Harrogate.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952906708 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Name written on titlepage and 380 stamped on it, otherwise lovely clean copy
Harrogate North Yorkshire Local History Police Constabulary

Inventory No.36315 Author: East, Malcolm E. G.
"When I Was a Lad" and "A Working Man": Paintings and Drawings of Dewsbury in the 50s and 60s and My Working Life Above and Below Ground
Published 2016 Eastfield Publishing (Dewsbury) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780995558304 Size:Landscape: Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
Clean unmarked copy, very slight wear to corners
West Riding Yorkshire Kirklees Local History Dewsbury Mining

Inventory No.36299 Author: Eaton, Dan
At the Going Down of the Sun...The Men from Clayton Who Died Int the Two World Wars
Published 2007 The Author (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781904499183 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £15
Excellent copy,as new
West Riding Yorkshire Bradford Local History Clayton Family History Genealogy First World War 1 I Second 2 II

Inventory No.21686 Author: Eccles, Clarissa; Eccles, Robert; Peaston, A. Elliott. Compiled By; Illustrator: Monica M. Clay
The Story of Northgate Chapel, Halifax. Foundation November 169, Commemoration November 1946
Published 1946 The Chapel (Halifax) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Original pictorial card covers, lightly rubbed and with small sign of staining from staples. Signed by all 3 compilers. pp. 23. Loosely inserted is the one page programme of events, this in VG+ condition. A very nice copy of this hard to find item.
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Local History Northgate Chapel Nonconformist

Inventory No.35461 Author: Eccleshill Local History Group
More Childhood Memories
Published Eccleshill Local History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952071878 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Name inside front cover, else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Eccleshill Local History Fagley Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35460 Author: Eccleshill Local History Group
Childhood Memories
Published Eccleshill Local History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 095207186x Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Crease across bottom corner of back cover, name on title page else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Eccleshill Local History Fagley Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35450 Author: Eccleshill Local History Group
Undercliffe Remembered
Published 2000 Eccleshill Local History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952071851 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
pp. 80.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Undercliffe Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.31388 Author: Eddleston, John J.
Murderous Leeds: The Executed of the Twentieth Century (Murderous Britain)
Published 1997 Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1859830846 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £5
Excellent clean copy in like d/w
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History True Crime Murder

Inventory No.31569 Author: Edwards, June; Marsh, David; Allen, Christopher
Leeds the Postcard Collection
Published 2014 Amberley (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781445638188 Size:9 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
Lovely clean copy, looks like new
West Yorkshire Local History Leeds Postcards

Inventory No.32244 Author: Elliott, B. J.
Transport in South Yorkshire 1830-1970. Pamphlet No. 6
Published 1972 University of Sheffield Type:
Edition:Fir ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Pictorial card covers. School stamp on one page and inside front and rear covers but not offensive. pp.36. Illustrated including centre fold map.
South Yorkshire Local History Railways Transport Industrial History

Inventory No.36368 Author: Ellis, Edna
A Ripon Record 1887-1986
Published 1986 Phillimore (Chichester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0850336007 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £9
Numerous illustrations. Street maps as endpapers. pp. xv, 217. Stamp of Cathedral Choir School on ffep else nice clean copy
North Yorkshire North Riding Ripon Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.28930 Author: Ellis, Norman
South Yorkshire Railway Stations on Old Picture Postcards (Yesterday's Yorkshire)
Published 1994 Reflections of a Bygone Age (Keyworth, Nottingham.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0946245886 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
37 pages. 51 photographs with text description and a full page sketch map of the lines. A very nice clean copy.
South Yorkshire Railways

Inventory No.26097 Author: Ellis, Norman
Trams Around Dewsbury and Wakefield
Published 2004 Wharncliffe Books. (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903425409 Size: Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5.5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshiretransport Trams Dewsbury Local History Wakefield Family History Genealogy Photographs

Inventory No.35987 Author: Ellis, Norman.
Low Moor....the Beginnings of a Journey
Published 1996 Low Moor Local History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952742705 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Low Moor Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.21855 Author: Ellis, Norman.
Bygone Halifax and District
Published 1993 M. T. D. Rigg Publications (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6
Nice clean copy with no inscriptions
West Riding West Yorkshire Halifax Calderdale Local Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.30558 Author: Ellis, Norman. [Edited By Peter tuffrey].
West Yorkshire Railway Stations.
Published 1989 Bond Publications (Doncaster.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872062008 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Clean copy
Yorkshire Transport Railway Stations History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.36911 Author: Ellwood, J. K. [compiled by]
Life in Old Skipton : A Photographic Recollection
Published 1982 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852067062 Size:Landscape: Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3.5
Very good clean copy
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Skipton Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.31715 Author: Ellwood, J. K. [compiled by]
Life in Old Skipton : A Photographic Recollection
Published 1982 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852067062 Size:Landscape: Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Very good clean copy, handsomely rebound in green cloth, gilt
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Skipton Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.31430 Author: Ellwood, Ken
Skipton Through Time
Published 2009 Amberley (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781848685475 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Excellent clean copy, almost as new
North Yorkshire Dales Skipton Local History Photographs

Inventory No.23148 Author: Elsom, Kenneth F.
Postcards of Hull
Published (Hull) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951683810 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Covers slightly rubbed, contents very good
East Yorkshire Riding Bridlington History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.36066 Author: Emsley, Kenneth
Historic Haworth Today. a Illustrated Guide to the Historic Buildings and Families of Haworth, Stanbury, Oxenhope and the Worth Valley Railway
Published 1995 Bradford Libraries (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734413 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Very nice clean copy
Yorkshire Haworth Stanbury Oxenhope Worth Valley History Architecture Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.33555 Author: England, R. Ede
Official Handbook to the Services Operated By the West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. And the Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways Co. Ltd., With a Convenient Descriptive Guide to the Places Visited, Arranged Alphabetically
Published 1932 British Publishing Co. (Gloucester) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
128pp. with folding map. Nice clean copy
West Riding Yorkshire Transport Trams Buses

Inventory No.33133 Author: England, R. Ede
The Yorkshire (Woolen District) Electric Tramways Limited Official Handbook
Published The British Publishing Company Limited Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Soft Card Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Original soft card covers a little rubbed. Undated but circa 1930s. 72 pages with illustrations. A very nice clean bright copy of this hard to find item.
West Yorkshire Transport Local History

Inventory No.29550 Author: Etherington, Bob
Honley National School 1816-1952
Published 2016 Honley Civic Society (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £15
72pp.
West Riding West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Honley Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.12378 Author: Exwood, Elisabeth. [edited by]
The Parish Register of Collingham, 1579-1837. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section. Volume CXLI
Published 1978 Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £11.5
Yorkshire North Parish Register Registers Society Myton Upon Swale History Archaeological Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.34753 Author: Eyre, Samuel Robert; Palmer, J.
The Face of North-East Yorkshire
Published 1973 Dalesman (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 085206201x Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Neat name inside else very good clean copy
North Yorkshire North Riding

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