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YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT
Yarmouth Parish Church, Isle of Wight. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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LODGE Eric
The Yorkshire Dales. Official Guide with Map. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and a large folding map coloured in outline; original coloured pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BENFIELD T. C.
City and County of the City of York. Official Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 pages of arms in gilt, silver and colours, numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text, a folding coloured street plan and a full-page map coloured in outline; original coloured pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements, many illustrated, at rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WOOLLEY A.R.
The Clarendon Guide to Oxford. New [Fourth] Edition.
8vo., with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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WINBOLT S. E.
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Penguin Guides 10. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 8pp of coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. No. 10 of the Penguin Guides, edited by L. Russell Muirhead.
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WINBOLT S.E.
The Roman Villa at Bignor Sussex. With a Plan of the Villa. New Edition.
8vo., with a full-page illustration, a full-page plan and a double-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Winbolt's guide was first published in 1925, with the updated edition following in 1930. Bonser 5092 (recording the updated edition).
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WAY R. H.
A Brief History of Denham Parish and Church. [Third Thousand]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Thousand; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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WARWICKSHIRE
A Guide to Warwick, Kenilworth, Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, and the various Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood. Thirty-Eighth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with wood-engraved frontispiece and 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, covers a little age-marked else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements, including detailed displays of the King's Schools, Warwick.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Lake District. Twenty-Third Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Twenty-Third Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, 60 photographs (several double-page and many full-page), 3 maps in the text and 3 folding coloured maps, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and title; original series binding of limp red cloth covers printed in black, radial corners, upper hinger tender (but binding wholly sound), an unusually bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements, numerous trade advertisements at front and 40pp of advertisements at end. The wartime issues are uncommon, especially in this condition.
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WALLACE COLLECTION
A General Guide to the Wallace Collection. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Sixth Edition, with 2 plans in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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VIZARD P.E.
A Guide to Hampstead. (New and Revised Edition).
Sm. 4to., Best Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 7 plates, endpapers lightly spotted; marbled boards, cloth back gilt, backstrip lettered in MS, uncut, covers age-marked, short split in upper joint but binding entirely sound, internally a very good, clean copy. Delightful period guide withy numerous trade advertisements. This, the second edition, is thoroughly revised with much new matter. VERY SCARCE
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WALLIS (ed.) A.
Bemroses' Guide to to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall etc.. With Walks round Matlock-Bath, List of Wild Flowers, Ferns, and Mosses, found in the Neighbourhood, Table of Distances, etc. Edited by Alfred Wallis. SPLENDID COPY IN HALF MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition [?], with a folding county map as frontispiece, 8 plates and 16 woodcuts in the text, some light age-staining to wrappers and preliminaries; handsomely bound in dark brown half morocco, marbled boards,gilt back, original pictorial wrappers preserved (front wrapper clipped at corners and mounted), a most attractive copy. With numerous period trade advertisements (a number illustrated) at front and rear. RARE.
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RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION
Ramblers Tynedale. Ten Walks in the South West of Northumberland around Tyne, North Tyne & South Tyne Dales. Ramblers Association. Northern Area. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and inner wrapper maps, neat signature on title; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Nice copy of an uncommon guide written and illustrated in the Wainwright style.
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TOMLINSON W.W.
Comprehensive Guide to the County of Northumberland. Tenth Edition.
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with 3 folding maps, and large folding map in pocket at end; cloth lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, backstrip moderately sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front, rear and in the text. With pictorial bookplates on front endpapers. Very nice copy of one of the most detailed guides to the county.
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THOMPSON T. W
Hawkshead Church, Chapelry and Parish [Fifth Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with 9 full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1956.
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BURY
A History of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Bury. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs and a full-page plan in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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FINDON
A Short History of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Findon. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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TAYLOR Canon
St. Just in Penwith Church Guide. Six Hundredth Anniversary. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers lightly faded at backstrip else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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SCARFE Norman
Suffolk. A Shell Guide. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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STEYNING.
Steyning. Official Guide. Issued by Authority of the Steyning Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and full-page street map in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
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STEER F. W.
Guide to the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Burpham. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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STEER F. W.
Guide to the Church of Coombes. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, and a plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With a coloured postcard of the church loosely inserted.
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SMITH R.J.L.
A Guide to Cathedrals and Greater Churches. Guide to Cathedrals and Greater Churches.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with very numerous full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. A very useful guide, with a good general survey of each cathedral or church featured. Includes essays on Christianity in English History, Important Dates in the Development of the Church in Britain, visitor facility chart, visitor information and extensive ecclesiological glossary.
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SMITH A. M.
Coventry.A Guide and Memento. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 7 charming full-page coloured illustrations in the text and coloured map on rear inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, printed in gilt and colours, sewed as issued, wrappers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. A delightful little guide book with striking illustrations. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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SINCLAIR Archdeacon J. S.
The Story of Cirencester Parish Church [St. John Baptist]. Originally written J.S Sinclair. Revised in 1945 by W.I. Croome. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With trade advertisements.
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SIDMOUTH
Sidmouth By-Paths. Eighth Edition 1934. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Eighth Edition, with 2 large folding maps coloured in outline; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Early editions are scarce, especially in this condition. Brockett 65970 (recording the 1929 and 1939 editions)
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SELHAM
St. James Church, Selham. James Church, Selham. A Church Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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SCORE G. F.
Guide to Wimborne Minster: its Monuments and Curiosities. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with frontispiece and 5 plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean copy. A very nice copy of a standard guide first published in 1893.
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RYE
Adams Illustrated Guide. Rye and District. by Jim Foster. [Thirteenth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
12mo., Thirteenth Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and large folding map; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear.
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RUTHVEN Angela
Clovelly. A Guide Book. [Fifth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fifth Edition [First Edition thus], with 5 illustrations ( a number full-page) and a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers in green and black, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. Ruthven's guide was first published in 1926. This, the first post-WWII issue, is appropriately updated. Brockett 63530 (recording the first edition).
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SALTER T.F.
The Angler's Guide, being a complete practical Treatise on Angling: containing the whole Art of Trolling, Bottom and Float-Fishing, Fly-Fishing, and Trimmer-Angling, for Sea, River and Pond Fish; founded on Forty Years' Practice. The Fourth Edition.
8vo., Fourth Edition, with a wood-engraved frontispiece, a wood-engraved plate and 33 woodcut illustrations (5 full-page including a map of the Thames) in the text, frontispiece and title mildly age-stained, some very light and occasional spotting to text; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with six flat gilt rules, second compartment lettered in gilt, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, fore-edges a little dusty else a most attractive copy in period binding. The engraved plate shows hooks baited for trolling; the full-page engravings depict an epitaph in Stepney Church, sniggling apparatus, mackerel and bank-fishing. The work includes a glossary of terms. The first edition of this angling classic appeared in 1814. Second and third editions, respectively expanded, appeared in the following year. 'This edition contains a new method of fishing for salmon in the River Lea, which has been attended with much success, and called by the author dragging or snatching for salmon'. (Author's Preface). SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. Westwood & Satchell, p.186.
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BROWN R.H.
Footpath Guides No. 25. Hampshire Highlands. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy in unclipped cartographic dustwrapper.
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ERWOOD (ed.) P.M.E.
The Railway Enthusiast's Guide [1960].
8vo., with numerous plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped and lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Ottley 7811
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HUGHES Pennethorne
The Isle of Wight. [A Shell Guide].
4to., with a coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges
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NEWSOME Joan
A Companion to Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. Companion to Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, illustrations throughout and endpaper plans; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SMITH J.C.D.
A Guide to Church Woodcarvings. Misericords and Bench-Ends.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean 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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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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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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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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WINBOLT S.E.
Bell's Pocket Guides. The Chilterns and the Thames Valley (from Iffley to Staines). With Illustrations from Photographs by Edgar Ward.
8vo., First Edition, with 58 plates (a number double-page), and front and ear endpaper maps; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at headband. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Scarce in this condition.
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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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CHELTENHAM SPA
Cheltenham Spa. Home of Health, Beauty and Entertainment. Official Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and a folding map; original pictorial wrappers, a a very good, bright, clean copy. With 48pp of trade advertisements at rear. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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RIBTON-TURNER C.J.
Kenilworth Castle and Town. With Plan and Illustrations. Section II. Shakespeare's Land. Thirteenth Edition.
Sm. 8vo., Thirteenth Edition, with numerous sepia-toned photographs, and a full-page plan in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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MASH] [N.B.
SS Peter & Paul Swaffham. Pictorial Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly creased at edges else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1960.
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WARD LOCK LTD
A Handbook to Switzerland. Ninth Edition - Revised.
Sm. 8vo., Ninth Edition, with a folding coloured map (one small tear) as frontispiece, 59 plates on 48 and 12 folding maps (5 coloured); original series binding of red cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, radial corners, red and blue sprinkled edges, a very good, clean copy. With the small trade stamp of Robert of Geneve on front paste-down.
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TYDEMAN Richard
Without a City Wall. A Short Guide to St. Sepulchre without Newgate London. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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KELLY (ed.) E.R.
County Topographies. Wiltshire. With Map engraved expressly for the Work. Edited by E.R. Kelly.
8vo., with folding engraved map, small neat signature on front free endpaper, end papers lightly spotted; original red pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, red edges, backstrip midly faded else a very good, bright, firm copy. Very scarce, especially in this condition. This edition not recorded by Goddard.
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COFFIN A.I.
Botanic Guide to Health, and the Natural Pathology of Disease, Twenty-Ninth Edition. 'BY OURSELVES CORRECTED'
8vo., Twenty-Ninth Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original orange cloth, boards and backstrip elaborately blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in black, primrose endpapers, covers moderately age-soiled, backstrip sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), case slightly shaken (but binding wholly sound), a good, clean copy. 'This edition has been by ourselves revised and corrected, and those errors and technicalities which were published in the former have been carefully corrected and expunged' (Preface).
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