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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.16050 Author: Waite, Alison
Exploring the Yorkshire Ouse
Published 1987 Countryside Publications. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861572696 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3.5
nice clean copy
Rivers North Yorkshire North Riding East Yorkshire East Riding Ouse

Inventory No.10419 Author: Walker, J. E. S.
Hull and East Riding Clocks and Watches and Their London Origins Including a Directory of Their Makers Before 1900
Published 1982 Hornsea Museum. (Hornsea, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950795615 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull Local History

Inventory No.16395 Author: Walker, W. Foot
The Walls and Gates of Hull
Published 1981 Malet Lambert Local History Reprints (Hull) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Reprinted from Humberside, the magazine of theHull literary Club vol. XVI no.1 This is a photocopied reprint.
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Local History

Inventory No.16391 Author: Watkin, J. R.; Whitwell, J. B.
Changing Faces Man in Humberside from the Stone Age to AD 1500
Published Humberside County Council Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0904451305 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £2
62pp.
East Riding Yorkshire Humberside Hull Local History Archaeology

Inventory No.6621 Author: Weddall, G. E [edited by]
The Registers of the Parish of Howden, Co. York. Part II. Vol. II, 1543 - 1702. Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Volume XXIV
Published 1905 Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £24
Wrapper chipped and torn round edges. Most pages uncut, therefore untidy around the edges. Contents very clean, bright and tight.
Yorkshire Parish Register Registers Archaeological Society Howden East Riding History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.15974 Author: White, Col. W. Lambert. Compiled By; Lock, Major F. H. Edited By
Records of the East Yorkshire Volunteer Force (1914-1919)
Published 1920 Eastern Morning and Hull News Co., Ltd (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £70
In the top corner of the inside of the front board is an address label 1.5 by 4 cms. Included is a presentation letter for service with the ERVF signed by the compiler and dated 1920.
East Yorkshire East Riding Local History

Inventory No.16436 Author: Whitehouse, John
Cottingham's Care of Its Poor to 1834
Published 1970 Cottingham Local History Society (Cottingham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
19pp. Cottingham Local History Series: No. 1
East Riding East Yorkshire Cottingham Local History

Inventory No.16372 Author: Whitehouse, John
Cottingham Past and Present
Published 1972 Cottingham Local History Society (Cottingham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Stapled Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
23 photographs with text description. Cottingham Local History Series: No. 2.
East Riding East Yorkshire Cottingham Local History

Inventory No.16371 Author: Whitehouse, John
A Short History of Cottingham
Published 1979 The Parochial Church Council (Cottingham) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Stapled Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
pp. 44. Illustrated.
East Riding East Yorkshire Cottingham Local History

Inventory No.10445 Author: Whittaker, F. Garth
Edward Marsden: The Story of a Company
Published 1978 EP Publishing (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0715812599 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Dust Wrapper Price: £12
green cloth with gilt titling to front and spine. Presentation copy "Percy, with best wishes Garth" on f.f.e.p. Illustrated with photographs. pp. 67.
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull Local History

Inventory No.16397 Author: Wildridge, T. Tindall
The Arms of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull
Published 1980 Malet Lambert Local History Reprints (Hull) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £2.5
Originally published 1887. This is a photocopied reprint. 13pp.
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Local History

Inventory No.7977 Author: Wildridge, T. Tindall
The Hull Letters Printed from a Collection of Original Documents Found Among the Borough Archives in the Town Hall, Hull, 1884, During the Progress of the Work Indexing. Period: The Reign of Charles I. Until His Imprisonment 1625-1646
Published 1886 Wildridge and Company (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £35
Original maroon boards with gilt decoration and titling to spine. Boards worn on edges and corners. Spine rubbed and front hinge split half the length. Front hinge cracked. Signature and date of Historian/Author J. R. Heathcote on reverse of f.f.e.p. Autograph of author mounted on title page. Internally very clean and bright.
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10376 Author: Wilkinson, Alan
From Corner Shop to Corner Shop in Five Generations : A History of William Jackson and Son Plc
Published 1994 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167659 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
East Riding East Yorkshire Hull Shops William Jackson Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.16444 Author: Wilkinson, Penny
That's Entertainment
Published 1989 Hull City Museums & Art Galleries Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0904490157 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Name inside front cover, nice clean copy
East Riding Yorkshire Local History Hull

Inventory No.15259 Author: Wilson, R.; Collinson, G. A.
East York Volunteer Infantry 1859-1908
Published 1982 Fineprint (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Owner's address sticker inside front cover, nice clean copy otherwise
East Riding Yorkshire Volunteer Infantry Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.16493 Author: Woodward, Donald
Trafalgar: 21 October 1805. A Hull Man's Account of the Battle
Published 2005 Hull Trinity House Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0904775585 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Very nice clean copy
Hull East Yorkshire East Riding History Battle Trafalgar

Inventory No.16410 Author: Woodward, Donald
Descriptions of East Yorkshire : Leland to Defoe
Published 1985 East Yorkshire Local History Society (Beverley) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0900349395 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Name inside front cover, 39 (no. in series) in tiny letters on front, nice clean copy otherwise
East Riding Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.17631 Author: Wrigglesworth, Edmund
Brown's Illustrated Guide to Hull
Published 1972 EP Publishing (Wakefield) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0854098321 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £12
East Yorkshire East Riding Hull Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.16419 Author: Wright, Ann
Folk Lore of Holderness
Published 1978 Hedon and District Local History Society (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0946289425 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Name inside front cover, clean otherwise
Yorkshire East Riding Holderness Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.15283 Author: Wright, Trevelyan
Voices of Hull Real Life Stories from the Hull City Play
Published 1992 Humberside Leisure Services (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0904451526 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
East Riding Yorkshire Hull Play Drama

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