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Inventory No.8934 Author: Abram, Wm. Alexander
Memorials of the Preston Guilds, Illustrating the Manner in Which the Guild Merchant Has Been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862
Published 1971 Preston Corporation Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Reprint of the 1882 edition.
Lancashire Preston History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.21220 Author: Adams, W. H. Davenport; Illustrator: Giacomelli, H.
The Bird World Described with Pen and Pencil
Published 1880 Thomas Nelson and Sons (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £12
Original green cloth bevelled boards with gilt and black titling, decoration to front board and spine, plain blind stamped on rear. Faint inscription on dark endpapers. Occasional spotting. A very nice copy, though heavy so additional will be asked for from customers outside of the UK.
Birds Ornithology Art

Inventory No.20272 Author: Addymen, P. V; Rumsby, J.h.
The Archaeological Implications of the Proposed Development in York
Published Council for British Archaeology Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Name on inside of front cover. Include all maps and plans at rear.

Inventory No.21308 Author: Albert, Marvin H.
Broadsides and Boarders
Published 1958 George G. Harrap (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £8
Spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed, sunned and chipped, and with spotting on inside face.
Sailing Ship Warfare

Inventory No.19880 Author: Allan, Mabel Esther
An Island in a Green Sea
Published 1974 J. M. Dent (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Children's

Inventory No.19791 Author: Allan, Mabel Esther; Illustrator: C. W. Bacon
Adventure Royal
Published Blackie and Son Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Photocopy Price: £20
Original light blue cloth, red titling. Boards a little rubbed and faded. Dust jacket is a photocopy of a rubbed and slightly chipped original.
Children's Novel

Inventory No.19883 Author: Allsop, Kenneth.
Silver Flame
Published Percival Marshall (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £10
Light spotting on endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed,chipped and torn.
Children's

Inventory No.17365 Author: Andersen, Hans Christian; Illustrator: Robinson, W. Heath
Fairy Tales
Published 1997 Folio Society (London) Type:
Edition:Fourth Printing ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Red Cloth, Gilt.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Slipcase, Very Good Price: £37.5
Slight rubbing to slipcase, book in lovely condition

Inventory No.20666 Author: Anderson, Doug
One Field at a Time. Life on a Teesdale Farm - A Collection of Stories and Illustrated Memories
Published 2007 D. Allison Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12.5
Looks unread. Illustrated with coloured drawings.
Teesdale

Inventory No.21199 Author: Anderson, Peter M.
A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects
Published 1987 Croom Helm. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0709951167 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £22.5
Nice clean copy, no inscriptions

Inventory No.21088 Author: Anstruther, Ian
I Presume : Stanley's Triumph and Disaster
Published 1973 Geoffrey Bles (London) Type:
Edition:Reissue ISBN: 0713806605 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5

Inventory No.16253 Author: Applin, Arthur
The Children of the Gutter
Published 1908 Grant Richards (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Nice clean copy of unusual item. Boards a little rubbed with spotting to prelims but text nice and clean and generally an attractive book

Inventory No.21004 Author: Arch, Joseph; O'Leary, John Gerard
The Autobiography of Joseph Arch
Published 1966 Macgibbon & Kee. (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £5
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.20295 Author: Armstrong, A. M.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M.; Dickins, Bruce
The Place Names of Cumberland Parts I, II and III
Published 1950 Cambridge University Press. Type:3 Volumes
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £40
Nice clean copies in chipped dustwrappers, folding map present in pocket at rear of vol. III
topography Local History cumberland Cumbria Lake District

Inventory No.21996 Author: Armstrong, Frances
Changed Lots or Nobody Cares
Published Griffith Farran Browne & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Prize label on fep, nice clean copy

Inventory No.15345 Author: Armytage, W. H. G.
Manea Fen : An Experiment in Agrarian Communitarianism 1838-1841 Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 38, No. 2, March, 1956
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
White paint mark on front cover, contents very good

Inventory No.22068 Author: Arnold, Janet
Patterns of Fashion, Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction. Volume 1. C.1660-1860; Volume 2 C.1860-1940
Published 1972 Macmillan (London) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:New Edition Revised ISBN: Size:Large Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £15
2 volume set, ex-library with stamps and labels, but text and illustrations very good.

Inventory No.21166 Author: Ashcroft, M. Y; Jones, E. A.
Monastic Charters and Other Documents Relating to Mediaeval Piety in the North Yorkshire County Record Office. Volumes 1 and 2
Published 2009 North Yorkshire County Council. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0906035694 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £75

Inventory No.13900 Author: Ashworth, Canon James G. B.
A Prospect of Ripon
Published 1975 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Covers slightly rubbed, very good copy

Inventory No.21481 Author: Atkinson, Harold Waring
The Families of Atkinson of Roxby (Lincs.) and Thorne and Dearman of Brathwaite and Families Connected with Them
Published 1933 The Author (Norwood) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £100
Original black cloth, gilt. Wigan Free Public Library Plate on inside of front board. A few embossed stamps to page corners, and one small stamp on rear of title page. pp. 520. errata slip, maps, portraits and plates. Limited edition of 500 copies. Includes especially Atkinson-Busfeild, Barnes, Beavington, Birchall, Edwards, Miller, Neave, Ransome, Rooke, Sessions, Sinclair, Somerford, Stanley, Waring, Wykeham. A handsome looking volume.

Inventory No.21286 Author: Aubel, Hermann;aubel, Marianne
Der Kunstlerische Tanz Unserer Zeit
Published 1930 Karl Robert Langewiesche Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Good+ Price: £8
An ex-art collage copy. Book VG, has ref.no. written on endpaper and stamp on reverse of title page. Collage blind stamp at top edge of a few pages. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped and with re. no. written on top edge of front cover. A very attractive looking copy. All plates present.

Inventory No.19536 Author: Austen, Jane.
Pride and Prejudice
Published 1988 OUP (Oxford) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 019254702x Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Volume II of The Oxford Illustrated edition.
BENNET, ELIZABETH (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION ENGLAND_FICTION

Inventory No.19262 Author: Austin, A. B.
Birth of an Army
Published 1943 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
with 2 folding maps. Boards bumped with faint damp stain at bottom of spine, d/w a little rubbed

Inventory No.21463 Author: Avery, Harold; Illustrator: Brier, E. E.
A Girl at the Helm
Published Thomas Nelson and Sons (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Gift inscription on fep, under flap of d/w, clean copy otherwise in slightly chipped and price-clipped d/w

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