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ST. JOHN Michael
A Tale of Two Rivers. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Well-written and illustrated account of the author's childhood and adolescence in Oxfordshire and Scotland during the 20s and 30s. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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SWEET W. H.
Exeter. Sketches by W.H. Sweet with Plan. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a title-vignette, and 24 fine full-page illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at upper margin. A lovely copy. The charming illustrations are given a brief caption and their locations are keyed to the full-page plan. Scarce in the dustwrapper. Brockett 69490.
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WARWICKSHIRE
Victoria History of the County of Warwick. Edited by W.B. Stephens. Volume VIII. The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick. 1400 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition, dedication and title in red and black, with a frontispiece, 76 plates on 33, and 2 illustrations, 19 maps and plans (12 full-page and 2 coloured in outline) and numerous tables in the text; decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled. 1400 COPIES WERE PRINTED.
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SOUTH WALES
The Second Industrial Survey of South Wales. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous charts and tables (many full-page) in the text, and 2 folding maps on japon in pocket at end of second volume, wanting 3 (of 5) maps; original green cloth, gilt backs, uncut, covers mildly age-stained, a firm, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers browned at backstrips, moderately age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at heads and tails of backstrips. Sold from an institution with its inscription on front panels of dustwrappers and stamps on front free endpapers. The set comprises Vol. 1: Industries; Vol. 2: Facilities; Vol. 3: Development. Volume one wants both maps; volume two wants one map (of 3). The maps are often missing. An exhaustive and detailed assessment of South Wales and its industrial potential immediately prior to the outbreak of WWII. Complete sets are scarce.
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WALKE Bernard
Twenty Years at St. Hilary. Hilary. [Third Edition]. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, upper board lightly faded at upper edge else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Twenty Years at St. Hilary. [Third Edition]
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BRANDON Peter
The Making of the English Landscape. The Sussex Landscape. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head of backstrip. Published in Hodder's much sought-after series 'The Making of the English Landscape' edited by W.G. Hoskins. Scarce in this condition.
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COOK W.V.
The Story of Sussex. Illustrated by George Fossick. With a Chapter on Sussex Architecrure by O.H. Leeney...
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and a full-page illustration in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
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GLOVER Judith
The Place Names of Sussex.
8vo., First Edition; grey cloth, gilt back, grey top, a near fine copy in price-clipped, mildly sunned and browned dustwrapper.
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MEE Arthur
The King's England. Hertfordshire. London's Country Neighbour. FIRST EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous sepia-toned plates, many line illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, fore-edges lightly mottled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at heads of backstrip. One of the original twenty-six volumes in this famous series. The first edition is uncommon in this condition.
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ST. ALBANS
History of Verulam and St. Alban's. Containing an Historical Account of the Decline of Verulam and Origin of St. Albans, and of the Present State of the Town, the Abbey and other Churches. [Sole Edition]. VERULAM IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
12mo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 2 engraved plates (one with original tissue guard present), an engraved folding plan and decorations in the text, frontispiece and title mildly spotted; ORIGINAL BOARDS, green paper back with printed paper label, label browned and chipped (but largely legible), joints moderately rubbed (but binding wholly sound), else a remarkably crisp, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Anderson, p.129; Upcott , p.625.
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THORNE James
Rambles by Rivers. The Thames [with] The Avon [with] The Duddon, Mole, Adur, Arun, Wey, Lea, Dove. FINE SET IN FULL CALF FOR AN OLD ETONIAN
4 vols. in 2., 12mo., First Edition, with very numerous fine wood-engraved illustrations (many full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary full tan calf, sides with double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in gilt, backs elaborately tooled and ruled in gilt with green leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, gilt dentelles, doublures tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, a near fine set in splendid period binding. A beautiful set, presented by William Windham to W Wilbraham Ford on the latter's leaving Eton at Christmas 1864. Windham's signed holograph inscription appears on a blank preliminary of the Thames volume; Ford's signature appears on blank preliminary of the second volume. The two Thames volumes are bound as one, as are the Avon and Adur volumes . A SPLENDID AND ELEGANT SET. Anderson, p. 36.
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QUILLER-COUCH (ed.) L.M.
Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men, 1559-1850.
8vo., on laid paper; cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, gilt top, hinges weak but sound, covers a trifle marked else a good, sound copy. Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXII
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VINCENT W.T.
The Records of the Woolwich District. ORIGINAL EDITION
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, with plates and maps; marbled boards, calf backs, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, covers lightly worn at extremities, corners bruised else a very good, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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COLE H.N.
The Story of Aldershot. A History of the Civil and Military Towns. [Second and Best Edition, with a Foreword by the Earl of Malmesbury]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with 208 plates on 128, several illustrations and head- and tail-pieces in the text, a full-page facsimile and a full-page map; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Cole's standard history was first published for the Festival of Britain celebrations in 1951. This edition continues the history through to 1980 (detailing the all-important governmental changes of the 70s) and adding a number of new plates. Scarce, especially in this condition..
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WILLIAMSON Henry
Tales of a Devon Village.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. This work, together with 'Life in a Devon Village', includes substantially rewritten elements of the author's earlier 'The Village Book' and 'The Labouring Life'. Gretton 31; Matthews A31.
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CAMERON D.K.
The so-called 'Crofter' trology complete. Comprising: 'The Ballad and the Plough', 'Willie Gavin, Crofter Man' and 'The Cornkister Days'.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of second volume; cloth, gilt backs, all very good, clean copies in the dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises 'The Ballad and the Plough. A Portrait of the Life of the Old Scottish Farmtouns' (1978), 'Willie Gavin, Crofter Man. Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle' (1980) and 'The Cornkister Days. Portrait of a Land and its Rituals' (1984). David Kerr Cameron's masterly study of the old Scottish rural way of life is carefully structured. In the first volume he tells of the larger farms or 'farmtouns'; in the second he examines the more numerous smallholdings or crofts. In his final volume he broadens the focus to include the life of the fields, the seasons and rituals, and the culture of the agrarian background in general. In its scope, its detail and its rigorous objectivity the trilogy is unique. A handsome set of an important contribution to the agricultural history of Scotland.
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CLAYTON Robert
Portrait of London.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and 3 double-page maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's notable 'Portrait' series.
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MEE Arthur
The King's England. Kent. Fully revised and edited by C.R. Councer. Illustrated with new Photographs by A.F. Kersting. REVISED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and a double-page map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York. Volume V. The Central Area. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece, title in brown and black, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and plans and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; original series binding of red buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, red top, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WARREN C. Henry
The Good Life. An Anthology of the Life and Work of the Countryside, in Prose and Poetry. Drawings by Alexander Walker. NEAR FINE COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (a number double-page) in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DODSON] [K.M.
Birth of a Parish. Christ Church, Brockham.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Very scarce.
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BILLSON C.J.
Leicester Memoirs. With an Illustration and Plan of the Grey Friars Mansion House and a Plan of the Newarke House by Albert Herbert.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 full-page plans in the text; cloth, gilt back, covers a little age-marked and backstrip lightly sunned else a good, tight copy of a scarce work.
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DARE P.M.
Charnwood Forest and its Environs.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 11 plates, 3 plans in the text and a large folding map; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy of an uncommon work.
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HORSHAM
Horsham Then and Now. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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SMITH Tony
Kettering Revisited. Pictures from the Past. [Foreword by Tony Ireson]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title, very numerous full-page photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Already scarce, especially in this condition.
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LOFTHOUSE Jessica
Lancashire Villages.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, and a double-page map in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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IRISH REPUBLIC
Poblacht na h Eireann. [Facsimile reissue.] PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC
Single leaf 8vo., printed on one side, a fine copy. High quality facsimile reissue of the document proclaiming the birth of the Irish Republic. Signed by Thomas J Clarke, Sean Mac Diarmada, P.H. Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Joseph Plunkett, it was read by Padraig Pearse outside the GPO in Dublin's Sackville Street at the start of the Easter Rising of 1916.
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BERGIN, T.
Salford. A City and its Past. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates, and illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1975.
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COOPER Lettice
The County Books. Yorkshire West Riding. NEAR FINE COPY IN 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 price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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COURCY J.W. de
The Liffey in Dublin. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and plans in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The original edition of this detailed and comprehensive gazetteer is already very scarce, especially in this condition.
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CARPENTER (ed.) Christine
The Armburgh Papers. The Brokholes Inheritance in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex c. 1417-c.1453. Chetham's Manuscript Mun. E.6.10 (4). Edited with an Introduction.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Carefully edited collection of 15th century letters from a recently discovered MS in Chetham's Library, Manchester. For intrinsic interest and historical significance they have been compared with the Paston and Stonor correspondence
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GRAHAM Frank
Northumbria's Lordly Strand. The Northumbrian Coast from Berwick to Tynemouth. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations, maps and plans (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the area. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HARDY C.
Francis Frith's Around Southport. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HUDSON John
Britain in Old Photographs. Altrincham. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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ICELY H.E.M.
Blockley through Twelve Centuries. Annals of a Cotswold Parish. [Fourth Edition].
8vo., Fourth Edition, with a double-page map as frontispiece, a coloured plate, 64 monochrome plates on 40 and a double-page pedigree; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. First published in 1974. A revised edition appeared in 1984 which was itself reissued in a limited edition in 1988. This edition is updated to 1996.
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JERROME Peter
Petworth Time out of Mind. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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KING Cecil
On Ireland. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARMAN Christian
The Man Who Built London Transport. A Biography of Frank Pick.
8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32; original brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley 8612.
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KNIVETON] [G.N.
The Isle of Man Steam Railway. Official Guide.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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KNIVETON] [G.N.
The Manx Electric Railway. Centenary Year 1993.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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BAINBRIDGE Cyril
Pavilions on the Sea. A History of the Seaside Pleasure Pier. [Foreword by Lord Delfont]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BRUMHEAD D.
A Walk Round Castlefield. FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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BUNTING F.T.
Coventry's Blitz.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Well-illustrated account of the infamous Luftwaffe raid on 14 November 1940; photographs from the newspaper's own collection, many appearing here for the first time.
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CROSBY Alan
Britain in Old Photographs. Preston.. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. First published in 1995.
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GODALMING
Six View Letter Card of Godalming. FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., with 6 sepia-toned photographs in collotype; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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HARDY C.
Manchester at War [1939-1945]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1986, this is a good collection of contemporary photographs covering most aspects.
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HAYES C.
Greetings from the North Wales Coast. A View of the North Wales Coast in Old Photographs and Picture Postcards.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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HUDSON John
Britain in Old Photographs. Heywood. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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NELSON Elizabeth
Britain in Old Photographs. Carlisle. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. First published in 1997.
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PARAVICINI F. de
Early History of Balliol College.
8vo., First Edition, free endpapers mildly browned; cloth lettered in black, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Scarce. Cordeaux and Merry, 6695.
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