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NOBLE Joseph
The Gazetteer of Lincolnshire, Historical, Topographical and Antiquarian; containing a complete List of every Town, Village and Hamlet in the County, arranged and divided into Wapentakes [with Population and list of Parliament]. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with a folding engraved map as frontispiece, the map moderately foxed and with one neat repair on verso (some mild offsetting to title); original printed boards, very neatly rebacked to style, covers moderately age-soiled, corners bruised else a very good, crisp copy with virtually no trace of the usual textual foxing. VERY SCARCE. Anderson, p.168.
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WHITBREAD & CO. LTD
Whitbread's Brewery incorporating The Brewer's Art. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial boards, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HARDY W.M.
Old Swanage, or Purbeck Past and Present. A Collection of Articles, topographical, historical, antiquarian, biographical and anecdotal. [Facsimile reissue].
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous plates and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1908, and now very scarce in its own right.
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COPPER Bob
A Song for every Season. A Hundred Years of a Sussex Farming Family. [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with 15 plates on 8, and illustrations and musical scores in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1971. The well-known folk-singer's account of his family farm at Rottingdean was awarded the Robert Pitman Literary Prize.
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EUSTACE G. W.
Arundel: Borough and Castle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontspiece, 56 plates on 31 and illustrations in the text; original red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, small slight tears in covers else a very good, clean copy. Still the best all-round history, detailed and comprehensive.
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GRIFFIN (ed.) Penny
St. Hugh's. Hugh's. One Hundred Years of Women's Education in Oxford.
8vo., First Edition, with 53 plates on 16; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at fold-ins.
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HEYWOOD H. C. L.
Southwell Minster Village Cathedral. A Commentary for the Visitor. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with 12 plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, small nick in upper wrapper else a very good, clean copy.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Road Map of Oxford and Swindon. Sheet 28. Layers. alf Inch to One Mile. [Ellis Martin cover]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on paper measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 56.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The Half Inch series was first issued in 1919 with striking 'motorist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1935 revision; the covers are the green and brown variant with green sheet name. Browne, 12.2.a
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POLLITT William
Southend before the Norman Conquest. Being the Second (Revised) Edition of the Archaeology of Rochford Hundred and South East Essex. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and 22 plates; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Bonser, 5748; O'Leary, 1926; Powell, p.270.
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RICHARDSON L.
A Handbook to the Geology of Cheltenham and Neighbourhood. Handbook to the Geology of Cheltenham and Neighbourhood.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates and a large folding coloured map in pocket at end, endpapers browned original brown cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its label scar and press-marks on front free endpaper only. SCARCE
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THORNE James
Rambles by Rivers. The Thames. [Sole Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
2 vols. in 1., 12mo., First Edition, with 29 wood-engraved illustrations (many full-page) in the text, title remargined, some mild and occasional age-soiling to text; original pebble-grain cloth, boards elaborately blocked in blind, primrose endpapers, uncut, very neatly rebacked, boards moderately age-worn else a very good, bright, firm copy. THE SOLE EDITION OF THIS DELIGHTFUL EXCURSIONARY ACCOUNT. The same author also produced equally elusive surveys of the Adur, Arun, Avon, Dove, Duddon, Lea, Mole and Wheddon. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Anderson, p.39.
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WARD John
Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks. [Antiquary's Books]. NEAR FINE COPY IN SERIES BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations, maps, plans and diagrams in the text; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in blind, gilt back, fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.Published in the valuable and authoritative Antiquary's Books series. Bonser 2873.
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WATKIN Absalom
The Diaries of Absalom Watkin. A Manchester Man 1787-1861 .
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates and facsimiles on 12; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Watkin helped to write the Peterloo Protest and to draw up Manchester's petition in favour of the Great Reform Bill.
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GOWERS E.S.
Across the Low Meadow. Halling. A Village on the Medway. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chipped at extremities. SCARCE
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MCCANN T. J.
Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Includes all known references to cricket in Sussex in the 17th century. Sussex Record Society, Vol. 88. VERY SCARCE
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MEW Frederick
Back of the Wight. [Yarns of Wrecks and Smuggling. Third Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece and 9 plates; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped with minor loss at edges. Classic account of shipwrecks and smuggling, first published in 1934 and continuously expanded.
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CALKIN J. Bernard
Prehistoric Pokesdown. Being an Account of some of the Antiquities in the Druitt Museum, Christchurch. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with plates; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, vol. XL, 1951.
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STOKE POGES
Stoke Poges Church . NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with photographs in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SCHOFIELD A.H.
The West Sussex Coast and Downs. Report of the Arundel, Littlehampton, East Preston and District Joint Town Planning Advisory Committee.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps, free endpapers lightly browned; pictorial boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy
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MORGAN] [R.T.
St. Mary Redcliffe Bristol. A Short Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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STOOKS] [C. S.
The Parish Church of Yateley. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. SCARCE.
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ACKROYD Peter
London. The Biography. [Second Impression].
Roy. 8vo., Second Impression], with 33 coloured plates on 16, 32 monochrome plates on 16, 3 full-page maps (2 double-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Splendid account enlivened by the author's infectious belief in the close relationship between past and present. Published a month after the first edition.
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CHESTER
Chester Cathedral. Seventh Edition Illustrated. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Seventh Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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CHICHESTER
The City of Chichester. The Sole Official Guide issued by the Corporation of Chichester. The Sole Official Guide issued by the Corporation of Chichester. 13th Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Thirteenth Edition, with plates and a folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, covers lightly creased else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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BARRATT T.J.
The Annals of Hampstead. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, illustrations and maps throughout; original decorative blue cloth, upper boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, covers mildly age-marked and scuffed at extremities, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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JELLICOE Ann
Devon.. A Shell Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, gilt back, very good, clean copy in dustwapper.
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BESSBOROUGH Earl of
A Place in the Forest; being the Story of Stansted in Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 54 illustrations (5 full-page), a double-page map and 2 double-page pedigrees in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CHICHESTER
The City of Chichester. The Sole Official Guide issued by the Corporation of Chichester. The Sole Official Guide issued by the Corporation of Chichester. 18th Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Eighteenth Edition, with plates and folding map; original orange wrappers blocked and lettered in gilt, a a near fine copy.
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TREVOR-ROPER Hugh
Christ Church Oxford. The Portrait of a College. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with 22 plates on 18 and a double-page plan; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Revised and enlarged edition of the first edition of 1950. Cordeaux & Merry, 6966 (recording the first edition).
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DUNDAS Antonia
The South Downs. A Painted Year. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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COLLINS Barbara
Discovering Deal. (Historic Guide). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with plates; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. SCARCE.
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IVATT Ian
Food for Thought. Wartime in Steyning. SIGNED COPY
4to., First Edition, with facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. VERY SCARCE
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FIELD D.
Up and Down the Valley [Winson]. Growing up in the Cotswolds in the 1920s. 325 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured title-vignette, numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text, and endpaper maps; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, mounted coloured illustrations on upper board, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 325 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT OF SERIES).
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HERON-ALLEN Edward
Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 59 plates and illustrations (one in colour) and 3 folding maps in pocket at end; original ivory holland, backstrip with paper label, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUTTON W. H.
Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country. With Illustrations by Edmund H New. FIRST POCKET EDITION
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and a folding map coloured in outline; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip lightly chafed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy.
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NORWAY A.H.
Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. [Pocket Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE POCKET EDITION
Sm. 8vo., with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and a folding map coloured in outline, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition. Brockett, 50140; Spielmann & Jerrold 20.
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ROSCOE E.S.
Between Thames and Chilterns, being Literary and Historical Studies of the Country of Milton, Penn, Gray, Burke and the Disraelis. [Revised and Enlarged Edition].
8vo., Best Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and facsimiles;, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, crisp copy.
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HOLLINGSHEAD J.
The Story of Leicester Square with numerous Illustrations by Faustin, Howell Russell, Phil May and Others. IN FULL MOROCCO
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled and in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, original wrappers (soiled) preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SCARCE
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ROBERTSON Dora H.
Sarum Close. A Picture of Domestic Life in a Cathedral Close for 700 Years and the History of Choristers for 900 Years. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of Cape's original edition of 1938. VERY SCARCE.
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HENREY Robert
London. Water-Colours by Phyllis Ginger. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 14 coloured plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. Nice copy of this post-war survey by the author of the wartime trilogy.
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DICK C.H.
Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. FIRST POCKET EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S CALF
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text and large folding map; publisher's limp brown calf, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt top, brown silk marker, a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the scarcer titles in this much sought-after series. Spielmann & Jerrold, 60.
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SIMPER Robert
Woodbridge and Beyond. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with photographs in the text, neat signature on title; original pictorial wrappers, covers lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. Steward, 7997.
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RICE-OXLEY L.
Oxford Renowned. Illustrated in Colour and Monotone by A.B. Knapp-Fisher. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 11coloured plates, 8 monochrome plates and front endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with publisher's chipped price-label on backstrip. Revised and updated version of the original edition of 1925. VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Cordeaux & Merry 424.
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BESSBOROUGH Lord
Enchanted Forest. The Story of Stansted in Sussex.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece,` very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text, 2 pages of pedigrees and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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SYMONDS John
Heroes of Over. A Cambridgeshire Village in Two World Wars. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SCARCE.
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WHITE Leslie R.
The Holmsley Story. [A History of a New Forest Airfield in War and Peace]. Fourth Edition. FINE COPY
8vo., Fourth Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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WHITEHOUSE (ed.) J. H.
Bembridge. An Historical and General Survey by Members of Bembridge School. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, plate and illustrations and maps in the text, title mildly spotted,, small blind stamp on title; original boards, upper board and backstrip with printed paper labels, uncut, neatly recased, a very good, bright copy.
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WORTH R.N.
Tourist's Guide to North Devon and the Exmoor District. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fourth Edition, with folding map as frontispiece; original terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, covers very lightly age-marked else a remarkably bright, clean copy.
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HASSALL Arthur
Christ Church Oxford. An Anthology in Prose and Verse selected by Arthur Hassall, with 26 Plates in Colour reproduced from Paintings by Arthur Garratt and from Portraits in Christ Church Hall. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folio, First Edition, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original captioned guard present), and 25 fine coloured plates mounted in gilt frames (all original captioned guards present), free endpapers lightly browned; original pale blue boards, ivory buckram back lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, firm copy. Cordeaux & Merry 6957.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
Guide to Exeter and South Devon from the Axe to the Teign. Twelfth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Twelfth Edition, with folding plan as frontispiece, plates and 9 maps and plans (7 folding); original series binding of red cloth wrappers printed in black, radial corners, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With advertisement endpapers and 8pp (front) and 12pp (rear) of trade advertisements.
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