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RYDER T. A.
Portrait of Gloucestershire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 27 plates on 24 and double-page map in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's notable 'Portrait' series.
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SALE Richard
Gloucestershire: People and History.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SAER Sandra
Coldwaltham. A Story of Three Hamlets. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 8, numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SALZMAN (ed.) L.F.
The Town Book of Lewes 1542-1701. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with 4 plates; original buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Salzman's original edition was published by the Sussex Record Society, of which he was a founder member, in 1946. This facsimile re-issue was published to mark his passing in 1971. Scarce in any edition.
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SHORE T.W.
A History of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight. [Facsimile re-issue].
8vo., cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile re-issue of the original edition of 1892, published in Elliot Stock's 'County History' series.
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SIMMONS Jack
The Victorian Railway.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 60 fine photographs on 32 plates, small personal book-label on front free endpaper; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Wide-ranging survey from the foremost authority on the subject. Professor Simmons demonstrates the extent to which the spread of the railways was the most profound social force of the nineteenth century.
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SKINNER Denys
Sussex: People and History.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SMITH Leslie
Stories of Bournemouth and its Hinterland. Hardy Country. Wiltshire Downs. New Forest. Immaculate Centres of Romance. SIGNED COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with two portrait frontispieces, numerous plates and endpaper maps with coloured insets; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE VERSO. With the errata slip. Scarce.
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SMITH J.R.
Bibliotheca Cantiana. Or Antiquarian Kentish Books. Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Published Material, Books, Acts of Parliament, Maps and Ephemera, Relating to the County of Kent up to the Year 1836.
8vo., All Published; decorative blue cloth gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers; a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. High-quality fascimile reissue of the scarce original edition of 1836. A projected second volume was never issued
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STENNING Canon E.H.
The County Books. Isle of Man. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the most difficult titles in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. First published in the previous year. PARTICULARLY ELUSIVE IN THIS CONDITION.
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STEEL David I.A.
A Lincolnshire Village. The Parish of Corby Glen in its historical Context.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and maps (a number fill-page) in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STRUDWICK Ivy Linda
Pulborough. A Pictorial History.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 165 photographs (a number double- or full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEWART A.
A Highland Parish. Or the History of Fortingall. With a Foreword by William J. Watson.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
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STOKES H.G.
English Place-Names. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 63 fine monochrome plates (one double-page) on 32; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With a relevant cutting neatly laid in. A well-illustrated general survey, published in Batsford's notable 'British Heritage' series.
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STREET A. G.
In his own Country. A Selection from the Writings of A. . Street [with Drawings by Lionel Edwards, R.I]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 15 charming plates (one double-page) by Edwards, small stain on fore-edge (not affecting text); original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. With dustwrapper artwork by Charles Stewart. Scarce in the dustwrapper
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SUPPLE B.
The Royal Exchange Insurance. A History of British Insurance 1720-1970, [Foreword by Lord Kindersley].
8vo., First Edition, with a folding coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plates; 14 plates on 10 and numerous diagrams and table in the text; original green buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, green top, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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TANGYE Nigel
The Blue Bays of Cornwall. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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THOMAS Nicholas
A Guide to Prehistoric England. [Illustrated by John Piper].
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper was designed and illustrated by John Piper.
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TODD Malcolm
The Coritani. [Second and Best Edition].
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with photographs, maps and plans in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the sought-after series 'Peoples of Roman Britain', this is the considerably revised version of the original Duckworth edition of 1973.
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TURNER D.
Ordnance Survey Historical Guides. Surrey.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TURNER Graham
The North Country.
8vo., First Edition, with 5 maps (one double-page) in the text and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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TOWNSEND William
Canterbury. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates on 30, and 4 illustrations and 2 plans (one double-page and one full-page) in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a little sunned at backstrip. Published in Batsford's 'British Cities' series with Brian Cook dustwrapper.
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TRENT C.
Motorists' Companion on the Highways of England.
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates and endpaper maps coloured in outline; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Delightful period piece from the earlier days of motor tourism.
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TRINDER Barrie
Victorian Banbury.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, 33 plates on 16, numerous illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text, and decorative endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Banbury Historical Society, no. 19.
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TRISTRAM W. Outram
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. [Facsimile reissue].
Sm. folio, with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of the facsimile re-issue of this coaching classic, first published by Macmillan in 1888. Spielmann & Jerrold 4 (recording the original edition).
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VICKERS J.A.
The Religious Census of Sussex 1851.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TWEEDIE G.R.
Hampshire's Glorious Wilderness. Some Rambles and Reflections in and about the New Forest.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and a folding map; cloth, a very good, clean copy with dustwrapper less fold-ins.
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VALE Edmund
The County Books. Shropshire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very faintly browned at backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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VAUGHAN-THOMAS Wynford
Portrait of Gower. Photographs by Richard Winslade and Others.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and 3 maps (two double-page) in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small tear. Issued in Hale's well-known 'Portrait' series
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WALKER George
The History of a Little Town. [Billericay, Essex].
8vo., with a frontispiece and 2 maps in the text, title a trifle marked and some minor offsetting in text; original cloth, a little faded, original paper labels, former onwership inscription on front free endpaper else a good, sound copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities. Powell, p.152.
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WALKER J.W.
A History of Maidenhead.
8vo., with a frontispiece and 8 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Walker's definitive history was first published in 1909. This good quality facsimile re-issue is of the second, considerably enlarged edition of 1931. Reading catalogue, p.226 (recording the first edition).
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WALLACE Doreen
The County Books. Norfolk. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. Darroch & Taylor 591.
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WARREN C. Henry
Happy Countryman.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title lightly spotted; cloth, a little shaken else a very good, clean copy in unclipped but worn and frayed dustwrapper. A scarce Warren title
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WARWICK Alan R.
The Phoenix Suburb. A South London Social History. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32 and front and rear endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A standard reference on Norwood and the Crystal Palace. THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC STUDY IS NOW SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
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WATKIN Bruce
Surrey. A Shell Guide. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text, and front and rear pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WEBSTER G.
The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD. Second Edition.
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged version of this standard reference, first published in 1969.
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WEBSTER Mary McCallum
Flora of Moray, Nairn and East Inverness. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges.
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WILBERFORCE William
Journey to the Lake District from Cambridge 1779. A Diary written by William Wilberforce. Edited by his great-great-grandson C.E. Wrangham. With a Foreword by the Earl of Birkenhead.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text, small date-stamp on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILLARD Barbara
Sussex.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 34 plates on 30 and a double-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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WINBOLT S.E.
Bell's Pocket Guides. Devon. Illustrated from Photographs by Edgar & Winifred Ward.
8vo.,First Edition, with 57 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps, fore-edges very lightly spotted; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) cover. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Scarce in this condition. Brockett, 79190.
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WINBOLT S.E.
Bell's Pocket Guides. Sussex. With Illustrations from Photographs by Edgar & Winifred Ward.
8vo., First Edition, with 64 sepia-toned plates (a number double-page), and front and rear endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Scarce in this condition.
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WYMER Norman
Companion into Sussex. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with blue-toned frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates on 14, and front and rear endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at joints and extremities. Published in Methuen's much-loved 'Companion' series. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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JEKYLL Gertrude
Old West Surrey. Some Notes and Memories. With 350 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece and very numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, tan endpapers, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1904.
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LUSTED A.
A History of the Ram Inn at Firle. [Sussex].
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. Extremely scarce
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PAGET C.S.
By-Ways in the History of Croydon. [Introduction by J. .Pelton]. IN FULL BUCKRAM GILT
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 11 plates; strongly bound in full red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, original printed wrappers (moderately age-soiled) preserved, a very good, clean copy. Lovely copy of a very scarce account
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WHITE C.A.
Sweet Hampstead and its Associations. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and 66 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original grey decorative cloth, upper board blocked with floral arabesque in gilt enclosing title lettered in gilt, back decorative gilt, uncut, black endpapers, joints very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. One of the scarcer modern histories, well-illustrated and with great detail of personalities and residences.
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EELES Francis C.
The Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Crewkerne. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, signature on front inner wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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PURCHAS A.W.
Some History of Wells-next-the-Sea and District.
8vo., First Edition, with 12pp of plates, 3 full-page maps and tables in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Scarce. Darroch & Taylor, 6791
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FEATHERSTONE T.
Legends of Leicester in the Olden Time. WITH BOY SCOUT LIBRARY BOOKPLATE
8vo., First Edition, with 5 engraved plates, title a little age-soiled, page-edges lightly browning; original dark green diced cloth, boards elaborately blocked with decorative frame border enclosing arabesque all in blind, gilt back, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good clean copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisement bound in at rear, and the blind trade stamp of Browne of Leicester on front free endpaper.WITH THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PICTORIAL BOOKPLATE OF THE BOY SCOUTS LIBRARY ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Includes Bosworth Fight, Falcon Foster, The Lady of Ulverscroft, The Discovery, The Siege of Leicester and The Miser. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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HAMILTON Olive
Royal Greenwich. A Guide and History to London's most historic Borough. Foreword by Sir Arthur Bryant. Cover Drawings by John Bratby.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial white boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. With wrap-around cover artwork by Bratby
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