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CAMERON A.D.
The Caledonian Canal. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; ivory cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MURRAY, ed. Peter
[Lacock]. A Village in Wiltshire. A Collection of Memories, Records and Photographs that gives a Picture of Life in the Village of Lacock during the First Half of the 20th Century. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with double-page photograph as frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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CHESTER.
Chester Official Guide. 30th Edition. Issued by the Chester Corporation. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., Thirtieth Edition, with numerous photographs (the majority full-page) throughout and folding map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout.
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TAYLOR W.T.
Hexham Abbey 674-1972. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and folding plan; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA.
A Guide to the Town of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with photographs and double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout.
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WARWICK-HALLER Sally
William O'Brien and the Irish Land War. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE.
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DE SALIS Henry Rodolph
Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. A Handbook of Inland Navigation for Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders and Others. Compiled, after a Personal Survey of the Whole of the Waterways, by Henry Rodolph de Salis. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE INLAND NAVIGATOR'S BIBLE
8vo., green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, green endpapers, a near fine copy. High quality facsimile reissue of the original De Salis edition of 1904.
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DAVISON Mark
Surbiton Bombed. [Second World War Air Raids in Surbiton, Tolworth and Berrylands]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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DAVISON Mark
Surbiton Memories. and more Tales of old Tolworth and Berrylands NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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DAVISON Mark
Hook remembered. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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CASSIDY G.E.
Kew as it was. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., Third Impression, with numerous photographs throughout and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1982.
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DAVISON Mark
Tolworth Remembered. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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DAVISON Mark
Chessington Remembered. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with numerous photographs throughout and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1999.
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RICHMOND, SURREY.
Richmond, Surrey, as it was. A Selection of Victorian and Edwardian Photographs compiled and annotated by the Historical and Arachaeological Section of the Richmond Society. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with numerous photographs throughout and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1976.
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WRIGHT Mariateresa
Vintage Richmond, Surrey. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with numerous photographs throughout and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1978.
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TWICKENHAM.
Bygone Twickenham. Written and compiled by Members of the Borough of Twickenham Local History Society NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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BECKETT Stephen
In Living Memory. Photographs of Tower Hamlets. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Fine collection of evocative photographs from the late Victorian period onwards. SCARCE.
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HUTTON Edward
Highways and Byways in Wiltshire. With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen. BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on half-title; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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DYER James
The Story of Luton. With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon The Lord Hill of Luton. [Third Edition, extensively revised]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., Best Edition, on laid paper, with 37 plates on 16 and numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, neat signature on front paste-down; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first separate history of the town for forty years, the work was first published in 1964 to mark the achievement of County Borough status. The work was minimally altered for a second edition in 1966, but wholly revised and expanded (though with fewer plates) by two of the original three authors for this third and best edition.
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RICHMOND UPON THAMES.
The Heritage of Richmond upon Thames in the Year of Her Majesty's Jubilee. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; printed silver wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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WHEELER Hazel
Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice. Life in a Yorkshire Village Shop. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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ROMIG Keith
Leyton and Leytonstone. The Archive Photographs series. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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SOMERS Phoebe
A Time there was. Memories of Rural Life in Sussex. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wrappers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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LEFF Vera
The Story of Tower Hamlets. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wrappers lightly chafed edges else a good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
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SAMPSON June
The Story of Kingston. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; pictorial boards, purple cloth back lettered in gilt, a fine copy.
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CANNAN Joanna
The County Books. Oxfordshire. 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. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of The Dukeries. Popular Edition. Sheet 46 Scale: One Inch to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 29 ins (approx. 59 x 74 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.5 cms), small signature and stamp on front wrapper; original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1923. This is the 1932 reissue. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'cyclist on hillside' in dark red and black with location map. Browne, 11.2.a.
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MILWARD Richard
The Rectory. Wimbledon's Oldest House. NEAR FINE COPY
4to. First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, colour and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) and illustrations in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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FOSBROOKE Rev. T.D.
The Wye Tour, or Gilpin on the Wye. With historical and archaeological Additions, especially Illustrations of Pope's Man of Ross and copious Accounts of Ross, Goodrich Castle, Monmouth, The Buck Stone, Tintern Abbey, Lancaut [and many other localities]. GILPIN IN PERIOD BOARDS
Sm. 8vo., with engraved plate and full-page map but WANTING PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE; period boards, uncut, expertly recased with new backstrip to style and printed paper label, a remarkably well-preserved, clean, crisp copy. We have seen another copy of this work annotated to the effect that this may be the first book bearing a Ross imprint.
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ROLT L.T.C.
The Inland Waterways of England. [Second Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, and numerous plates in monochrome and very large folding map; handsomely bound in burgundy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of a waterways classic, first published in 1950.
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BETJEMAN John
Victorian and Edwardian London from old Photographs. Introduction and Commentaries by John Betjeman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout, signature on front paste-down; brown tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Peterson A36.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey One-Inch Map. Chichester. New Popular Edition. Sheet 181. Full revision 1930. Roads 1947 with later corrections. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY ON LINEN
Folding coloured map on linen measuring 32 x 27 ins (approx. 81 x 69 cms) folding in 24 panels to 8.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 21 x 13 cms), original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy First issued in 1945. The cover is Ellis Martin's Red border 'Medallion' Royal Arms in letterpess. Browne 96.2.a.1.
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BEVAN G. Phillips
Handbook to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Sixth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SIXTH EDITION
8vo., Sixth Edition, with 2 plans (one folding) and large folding map, small neat contemporary signature on half-title; original brown cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, backstrip a little faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp of trade advertisements (many illustrated) bound in at end. First published in 1876, 'Bevan' is probably the best of the later nineteenth century pocket or 'portmanteau' guides to the county. These were deliberately condensed, both in size and content, to provide ultimately portable information for those visiting by rail and road. A seventh and final edition appeared in 1891 by which time the larger and weightier guides were beginning to dominate. Bennett, p.204.
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GOLDING Claud
The County Books. London. The City. BRIGHT, CLEAN 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 very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series, edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
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COLVILLE Robert
The County Books. London. The Northern Reaches. BRIGHT, CLEAN 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 very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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JAMES Godfrey
The County Books. London. The Western Reaches. 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 price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at fold-ins. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
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IRESON Tony
Northamptonshire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; 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.
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BERRY Claude
The County Books. Cornwall. Foreword by A. L. Rowse. BRIGHT, CLEAN 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 very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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GIBBS J. Arthur
A Cotswold Village. Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece, 18 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; olive cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Gibb's classic account, centred round Ablington near Bibury, was first published in 1898. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Austin, 7124 (recording the first edition).
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SEYMOUR] [Francis Jane
A Hundred Years of Bray and its Neighbourhood from 1770 to 1870. By an Old Inhabitant. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; original green holland, upper board lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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REES Vyvyan
South-West Wales. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. A Shell Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text and photographic endpapers, small signature on front free endpaper verso; original green cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in green and red, case lightly shaken else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at extremities. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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COULCHER Patrick
Unto the Hills. The History and Wildlife of the South Downs. [Foreword by Denis Healey]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monchrome plates, and illustrations and maps in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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WILDMAN W.B.
A short History of Sherborne from 705 AD. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE BEST EDITION
Roy. 8vo., Fourth and Best Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 13 plates and large folding plan on japon, title lightly spotted, some light and occasional marginal spotting to text; green buckram, vellum back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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WARNE, ed. Heather
Wivelsfield. The History of a Wealden Parish. Researched by Wivelsfield History Study Group and edited by Heather Warne. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs, illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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BAKER-GABB Richard
Hills and Vales of the Black Mountain District. on the Borders of Brecon, Monmouth and Hereford. NEAR FINE COPY IN HALF MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, and plates; attractively bound in green half crushed morocco, vellum boards, upper board with mounted illustration (repeated from text), back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fifth compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a firmly bound and elegant copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1913.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Clacton-on-Sea and Harwich. Sheet 98. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 56 x 76 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin was issued in 1921. This is the 1932 revision. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
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AUDEN Thomas
Shrewsbury. A Historical and Topographical Account of the Town. Illustrated by Katharine M. Roberts. Second Edition [revised by Henrietta M Auden]. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, tight copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First published in 1905; this edition is revised by the author's daughter. ELUSIVE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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HARROD Wilhelmine
Shell Guide to Norfolk. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) and double-page coloured map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Revised version of the first edition of 1957. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FORBES Duncan
Hythe Haven. The Story of the Town and Cinque Port of Hythe. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text, small neat signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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CANDOLE Henry de
The Story of Henfield. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1947.
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