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COLLINS Brian
Old Crumlin to Pontyminster in Photographs. Volume Two. Foreword by Councillor J H A Roberts. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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ATHOLL Justin
Prison on the Moor. The Story of Dartmoor Prison. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Brockett 1820; Somers Cocks p.62.
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ADAM Frank
The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands. Revised by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney. Fifth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Fifth Edition, with frontispiece, plates, 112 coloured plates of tartans and large folding coloured map at end; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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BRENT Judith A.
Alciston Manor in the Later Middle Ages. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with folding map; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from Sussex Archaeological Society vol. CVI. SCARCE.
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FAWSLEY Lady Knightly of
Politics and Society. The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley, 1885 to 1913. Edited by Peter Gordon. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates'; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. [Northamptonshire Record Society, Vol. 40].
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GREENFIELD Florence M.
More About Old Storrington. A Pictorial Companion to 'Round About Old Storrington'. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WADE G.W.
[The Little Guide]. Monmouthshire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 5 plates and plans, large folding coloured map at end, and front endpaper map; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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JESSUP Ronald F.
The Little Guide. Sussex. Based on the original Guide by F.G. Brabant. [Tenth Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, sepia-toned plates and large folding coloured map at end; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1900.
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TUDOR Thomas L.
The Little Guide. Derbyshire. Revised by E. Carleton Williams. [Fifth Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED BRIAN COOK DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, sepia-toned plates and large folding coloured map at end; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With delightful dustwrapper illustration by Brian Cook. First published in 1903, with fifth revised edition by Williams following in 1950. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BISHOP John George
The Brighton Chain Pier: In Memoriam. Its History from 1823 to 1896, with a Biographical Notice of Sir Samuel Brown, its Designer and Constructor, and an Appendix. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BINDING
4to., First Edition, with double-page spread as frontispiece, and photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. The Chain Pier was almost entirely destroyed by a storm in 1896. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FOAKES Grace
My Part of the River. With Drawings by Dinah Dryhurst. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Personal reminiscence of London's East End and Docklands immediately post-WWII.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey One-Inch Map of Bournemouth. New Popular Edition. Sheet 179. Scale: One Inch to to One Mile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 30 x 27 ins (approx. 76 x 69 cms) folding in 24 panels to 8.25 x 5.0 ins (approx. 21 x 13 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous New Popular Edition One Inch series began publication in 1940 with evolving typographical cover artwork by Ellis Martin which became the first post-war standard design. This is the 1954 issue with Red Border/Royal Arms/letterpress. Browne 96.1.a.2.
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ELLERAY D. Robert
Worthing. A Pictorial History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; brown boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BURTON Anthony
The Canal Builders. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with title-vignette and plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1972.
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WILSON Lawrence
Portrait of the Isle of Wight. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map in the text; original series binding of blue tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SITWELL William
The Border from a Soldier's Point of View. With Drawings by Robert Bertram. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 13 plates and a large folding coloured map in pocket at end (map worn at some folds), armorial endpapers lightly spotted; green cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly worn else a very good, bright, clean copy. A valuable chronological record of the histories of Northumberland and Cumberland so far as they affect the Border. The work contains an alphabetical list of most of the castles, peles and towers with a short notice of each, together with an account of the principal Border battles and a summary of the Border Laws.
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HEWITT, ed. James
Eye-Witnesses to Ireland in Revolt. Edited by James Hewitt. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition; with 26 plates on 16; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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COFFEY Thomas M.
Agony at Easter. The 1916 Irish Uprising. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JERROME Peter
Petworth. From the Beginnings to 1660. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; black cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FIRTH J. B.
Highways and Byways in Derbyshire. With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and numerous illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text, free endpapers faintly spotted; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ALMACK T.F.
A Village Heritage. The Story of Blandford St. Mary. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 11 plates on 11, a folding pedigree and 3 folding maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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HILLIER George
A Day at Arundel. Comprising the Antiquities of the Castle, Ecclesiastical Associations, and Neighbouring Beauties. Second Edition. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
16mo., Second Edition, with numerous charming wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original printed boards, expertly rebacked to stye, primrose endpapers, boards age-worn (but all lettering legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of G.W. Eustace on front paste-down.
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BAKER Thomas
History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press by John E.B. Mayor, Fellow. BRIGHT, CRISP, LARGELY UNOPENED COPY
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with titles in red and black, original terracotta cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, black endpapers, LARGELY UNOPENED, a very good, bright, clean crisp copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at end of second volume. COMPLETE COPIES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PEARCE, ed. Ernest Harold
The Register of Thomas de Cobham, Bishop of Worcester 1317-1327. Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, on laid paper; strongly bound in navy buckram, gilt back, red sprinkled top, uncut, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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MARTIN E.W.
The Shearers and the Shorn. A Study of Life in a Devon Community [Okehampton]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a double-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Brockett, 46800
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BETJEMAN John
Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide. Editors John Betjeman, John Piper. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and folding map coloured in outline; strongly bound in green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp,clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on title verso only. The second of Murray's Architectural Guides. The series was commissioned by Jock Murray as a successor to Betjeman and Piper's pre-war Shell Guides. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Peterson A17; Stapleton 77.
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MERCER Doris
The Deepdene, Dorking. With an additional Chapter of the Deepdene Park Residential Estate. Maps and Plans drawn by Beryl Higgins. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, small blot on front cover else a near fine copy.
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DAVIS J.C.
Bowden to Harborough. The Story of the Town of Market Harborough and its Two Villages. Great Bowden and Little Bowden. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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St. MARY THE VIRGIN, HORSHAM.
A Pictorial Guide to the Parish Church History of St. Mary the Virgin Horsham, 1231-1951. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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RUSSELL John
Shakespeare's Country. Second Edition, revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 120 fine tinted monochrome plates on 72, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps in green; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in black, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's notable series 'The Face of Britain' with striking Brian Cook dustwrapper. Issued three months after the first edition. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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CITY OF YORK.
The Register, or Rolls, of Walter Gray, Lord Archbishop of York. With Appendices of illustrative Documents. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present); original series binding of dark green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, buttermilk endpapers, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled, small pull at headband else a very good, bright, crisp copy. Surtees Society, Vol. 56. This copy was previously held by West Sussex Record Office Library, and Chichester Cathedral Library with neat label and stamp on front paste-down.
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CITY OF YORK.
The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York. With an Appendix of illustrative Documents containing some Account of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Canterbury, without Micklegate-Bar in the Suburbs of the City. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present); original series binding of dark green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, buttermilk endpapers, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, crisp copy. Surtees Society, Vol. 57. With the nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of William Henry Charlton of Hesleyside on front paste-down. This copy was previously held by West Sussex Record Office Library, and Chichester Cathedral Library with neat label and stamp on front paste-down.
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BAIGENT Francis Joseph
The Registers of John De Sandale and Rigaud De Asserio, Bishops of Winchester (AD. 1316-1323).. With an Appendix of contemporaneous and other illustrative Documents. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates (all original tissue guards present); blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, case slightly shaken else a very good, bright, crisp copy. Sold from the West Sussex Record Office Library with neat label on front paste-down. SCARCE.
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SHIFFNER ARCHIVES.
The Shifner Archives. A Catalogue edited by Francis W. Steer. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and folding pedigrees; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, backstrip sunned and rubbed with short tear else a bright, clean copy. Sold from the West Sussex Record Office Library with neat label on front paste-down. Loosely inserted is a T.L.s to the editor from the Registrar, National Register of Archives, containing a suggested correction.
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MORRIS William Alfred
The Medieval English Sheriff to 1300. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1927.
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NICHOLSON Tim
The Birth of the Modern Ordnance Survey Small-Scale Map. The Revised New Series Colour Printed One-Inch Map of England and Wales 1897-1914. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and monochrome illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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STOKES A.G. Folliott
From Devon to St. Ives. The Cliife, the Coves, the Moorland and some of the Birds and Flowers. Photographs by Alex Bagbie. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and large folding map on japon, endpapers lightly browned; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green and black, uncut, a very good, bright copy.
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PRICE Bernard
Sussex. People. Places. Things. With a Foreword by Christopher Fry. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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STIFF Rev. Neville G.J.
The Church in Dorking and District. With various Notes and Comments. A Simple Record chiefly relating to the Parish Church of St. Martin, Dorking. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly spotted, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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THOMAS F.G.S.
The King holds Hayling. An Account of Hayling Island from the Earliest Times. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations in the text, full-page map and coloured endpaper maps (lightly spotted); blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper, the latter with crude repair at head of backstrip. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HAM Joan
Sullington. Domesday to D-Day. NEAR FINE COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Splendid, signed, copy of the well-known local historian's scarcest work. EXTRELELY SCARCE.
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LONDON.
Index to the Streets and Places contained in the Map of London published in the Post Office Directory for 1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S WALLET WITH RETAINER
8vo., Index of 68pp facing large folding coloured map mounted on linen, measuring 30 x 44 ins (approx. 76 x 112 cms) folding in 36 panels to 7.5 x 5.5 ins (19 x 14 cms); the whole housed in publisher's red cloth wallet, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt with black retaining band (stretched through use and somewhat loose), a very good, bright, clean copty The map (scale: 4 inches to 1 mile) extends to Hampstead and Hackney in the north, Bromley and Greenwich in the east, Kennington and Walham Green in the south, and Brondesbury and Kensal Green in the west. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ROSS GAZETTE
The Wye Tour. Comprising Historical and Geological Notes on the River from Plinlimmon to Chepstow. Together with a History of Ross and its Vicinity. To which is added an Accountof the Life of John Kyrle, the 'Man of Ross'. NEWLY BOUND IN BOARDS
8vo., with folding map as frontispiece and illustrations in the text,former owner's annotations on map and title verso and Preface; attractively bound in modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a bright, clean copy.
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WARD C.S.
Thorough Guide. North Devon (including West Somerset) and North Cornwall. From Exmoor to the Scilly Isles with a Description of the various Approaches. Sixth Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Sixth Edition, with coloured and monochrome maps and plans (a number folding) and coloured front endpaper map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, coves lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright,clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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WORTH R.N.
Tourist's Guide to Somersetshire: Rail and Road. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with folding map as frontispiece and full-page plan; original terracotta cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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CARACCIOLI] [Charles
The Antiquities of Arundel, the Peculiar Privilege of Its Castle and Lordship. With an Abstract of the Lives of the Earls of Arundel from the Conquest to the Present Time. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN NEAR CONTEMPORARY BINDING
8vo., First Edition; late eighteenth century half calf, cloth boards, backstrip with later red leather label lettered in gilt, corners lightly bruised, a very good, bright, clean crisp copy in wholly unrestored near contemporary binding. The author was Master of the Grammar School. COPIES IN PERIOD BINDINGS ARE SCARCE. Anderson, p.278; Upcott pp.1243-44.
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GASCOIGNE Bamber
Images of Richmond. A Survey of the Topographical Prints of Richmond in Surrey up to the Year 1900. 275 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous reproductions in the text; pale yellow buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and blue, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 275 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO.148).
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SMITH John
Fittleworth. A Time of Change 1895-1918.. Photographed by John Smith (1852-1925). Based on his 'Notes for a History of Fittleworth' (made by him between 1895 and 1916). Compiled by his Great-niece Angela Brookfield and re-photographed by Kiki Claxton. FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous sepia-toned photographs (a number full-page) throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Compiled by the author's great-niece Angela Brookfield and re-photographed by her grand-daughter Kiki Claxton. Fifteen albums having been kndly lent by Peter Smith, John Smith's great-grandson in 2005. EXTREMELY SCARCE due to very small print run.
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IVATT Ian
The Race. A 100 Year History of the Steyning Walking Races 1903-2003. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
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JAMES N.D.G.
Plain Soldiering. A History of the Armed Forces on Salisbury Plain. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and plans in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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