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Inventory No.14731 Author: Cable, John
Harold Freeman and His Nine Novels
Published 2001 Bloozoo Publishing (Colchester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903649072 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.13588 Author: Cadfryn-roberts, John
The Four Seasons of Sport
Published 1960 The Ariel Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Elephant Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £15
Book and all plates in lovely clean condition, wrapper is very good but there is a hole (about 2.5"x1") on upper part of front cover and bottom right hand corner is missing so that cover underneath is dirty. Flap is creased at top.
Field Sports Hunting

Inventory No.15091 Author: Cadogan, Mary
Women with Wings : Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction
Published 1992 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0333564855 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £4
Affectionate inscription on ffep, nice and clean otherwise
WOMEN IN AERONAUTICS WOMEN IN

Inventory No.11914 Author: Caine, Margaret; Gorton, Alan
Curiosities of Cornwall : A Guide to the Odd, the Whimsical and the Romantic
Published 2001 S. B. Publications (Seaford, East Sussex) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1857702255 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
Cornwall Local History

Inventory No.15240 Author: Caine, O. V.
Face to Face with Napoleon an English Boy's Adventures in the Great French War
Published James Nisbet & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Red Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
a.e.g. Corners bumped, boards a little rubbed, prize label on fep, pages starting to brown but decent copy

Inventory No.13540 Author: Calder, Nigel
Refrigeration for Pleasureboats : Installation, Maintenance and Repair
Published 1991 International Marine (Camden, Maine) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0877422869 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
BOATS AND BOATING

Inventory No.13020 Author: Callaghan, John
Costing for Contracts : A Practical Guide for Voluntary Organisations
Published 1992 Directory of Social Change (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907164811 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5

Inventory No.15650 Author: Campbell, A. Menzies
Those Teeth of Yours a Popular Guide to Better Teeth
Published 1929 William Heinemann (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Spine a little faded, name and address on reverse of ffep but very nice clean copy

Inventory No.14883 Author: Campbell, George
Lectures on Ecclesiastical History Vol I of II
Published 1800 J. Johnson (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Half-Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
One vol only, rather rubbed, lacks prelims

Inventory No.17790 Author: Campbell, Lewis
Aeschylus the Seven Plays in English Verse
Published 1928 Oxford University Press (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £4
Green cloth, gilt. Some underlining. Clean copy.

Inventory No.15027 Author: Campbell, Thomas
Gertude of Wyoming
Published 1857 George Routledge & Sons (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
With thirty-five illustrations, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Binding rubbed and dulled, name on titlepage, very good

Inventory No.18000 Author: Capey, Reco
The Printing of Textiles
Published 1930 Chapman and Hall Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £15
Ex-college library, outside rubbed and unprepossessing, contents clean and sound
Textiles

Inventory No.14452 Author: Carluccio, Antonio
A Passion for Mushrooms
Published 1989 Pavilion Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1851451137 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
MUSHROOMS Cookery

Inventory No.8875 Author: Carmyllie, R. R
Charles Dickens and the "Cheeryble" Grants
Published 1981 The Parochial Church Council of the Parish of St. Andrew (Ramsbottom) Type:
Edition:Enlarged and Revised ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Lancashire Grant Ramsbottom Novel History Local Charles Dickens

Inventory No.17663 Author: Carr, William Guy
Out of the Mists Great Deeds of the Navy in the Last War and Her Role Today
Published Hutchinson (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Gift inscription (dated 1945) on ffep, lacks d/w

Inventory No.11570 Author: Carr-Gomm, Philip and Stephanie; Illustrator: Bill Worthington
; Working with the Sacred Animals of the Druid Tradition
Published 2001 Grange Books (Hoo, Rochester, Kent) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 1840134402 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Bottom corner of rear cover creased.
Druids Druid Celtic

Inventory No.16984 Author: Carson, D.a.
The Church in the Bible and the World : An International Study
Published 1993 Baker Book House (Michigan City, Indiana) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0801025265 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9
Slight fading to covers. Looks unread.
CHURCH AND EDUCATION

Inventory No.14167 Author: Cassiday, Bruce
Roots of Detection: The Art of Deduction Before Sherlock Holmes
Published 1983 Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0804421137 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £8
DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES HISTORY CRITICISM

Inventory No.16566 Author: Casson, Sir Hugh
Monuments (National Benzole Books)
Published 1963 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Covers browned but nice clean copy

Inventory No.14955 Author: Catlow, Richard
The Pendle Witches
Published 1998 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:Sixth Impression ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Nice clean copy
Pendle Witches Lancashire Local History

Inventory No.17997 Author: Caunter, C. F.
The History and Development of Cycles Part I Historical Survey
Published 1953 Her Majesty's Stationery Office. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Ex-college library. Card covers have been laminated with label on spine, labels and stamps inside. Decent reading/working copy
Bicycles History

Inventory No.15659 Author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Jervas, Charles
Don Quixote 2 Volumes in 1 World's Classics
Published 1912 Oxford University Press Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Annotations covering ffep and some elsewhere otherwise very smart copy

Inventory No.13023 Author: Chadwick, Leslie
Accounting & Finance in Practice
Published 1990 Stanley Thornes (Cheltenham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0748704027 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
CORPORATIONS_FINANCE

Inventory No.15360 Author: Challinor, P. J.
Restoration and Exclusion in the County of Cheshire Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 64, No.2, Spring 1982
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4

Inventory No.9294 Author: Champness, John
Lancashire's Early Industrial Heritage
Published 1983 Lancashire County Planning Department (Preston, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Lancashire History Industrial Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.16903 Author: Chant, Barry
Your Guide to God's Power
Published 1986 Sovereign World (Chichester) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: 1852400099 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL

Inventory No.13181 Author: Chaplin, Sid
The Day of the Sardine
Published 1989 Scorpion Publishing Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 090590675x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3

Inventory No.14998 Author: Chapman, Priscilla
Families Today
Published 1969 Fontana (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Lovely clean copy

Inventory No.11241 Author: Chapple, J. A. V.
Documentary and Imaginative Literature 1880-1920
Published 1970 Blandford Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £3

Inventory No.14682 Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey Translated Into Modern English By Nevill Coghill
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Published 2008 Hackett Publishing Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0872207544 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £4
Damp stain to bottom of rear cover and last few pages but text unaffected.

Inventory No.5486 Author: Chesshire, May; Harding, Diana: Powys, John Cowper
An Anthology: Extracts from Letters Written By Miss May Chesshire a West Country Poet to Llewelyn Powys.
Published 1937 Stuart Guthrie (Horsham, Sussex) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Quarter Cloth, Paper Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good + Price: £19.5
Very slight stain on bottom corner of rear board Original glassine dustwrapper slightly chipped with very small tear on bottom rear edge. Quarter light brown cloth with green paper covered boards and decorative title label laid on front board. Set by hand, in bell type, and printed on Unbleached Arnold paper, in an edition of 250 copies, by Stuart Guthrie, at Horsham. Spring, 1937. Uncredited frontispiece. Preface by John Cowper Powys.
Llewelyn Powys May Chesshire Poet Poetry Anthology Letters

Inventory No.17644 Author: Chitham, Edward; Illustrator: Humphreys, Graham
The Black Country
Published 1972 Longman (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: 0582150404 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Poor Price: £4
D/w torn and creased.

Inventory No.8190 Author: Chivers, Liza
Memories of Highgate from a Keeper's Lodge. Occasional Paper No. 3
Published 1982 Hornsey Historical Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Illustrated with a map and 12 photographs. pp 40. A very clean copy.
London Highgate Queens Wood History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.14436 Author: Christie, James
Stephen Holbrook : Out of This World. The Continuing Story of "Britain's Most Gifted Medium"
Published 2004 Mage Publishing (Colton Tadcaster) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0952710919 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3
Inscrided on inside of front cover "To Lynne Love ... (a scribble but was stated to be Stephen Holbrook) xxx.
Esoteric Medium Spiritual

Inventory No.14435 Author: Christie, James
Stephen Holbrook : The Light in the Darkness. The Incredible True Story of One Man's Contact with the World of Spirit
Published 2004 Mage Publishing (Colton Tadcaster) Type:
Edition:Seventh Edition ISBN: 0952710919 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3
Inscrided on inside of front cover "To Lynne Love ... (a scribble but was stated to be Stephen Holbrook) xxx.
Esoteric Medium Spiritual

Inventory No.13464 Author: Chugg, Brian
Devon : A Thematic Study
Published 1980 Batsford (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0713404175 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £4
Nice clean copy
DEVON (ENGLAND : COUNTY)

Inventory No.17030 Author: Chung, Sung Wook
Alister E. McGrath and Evangelical Theology : A Dynamic Engagement
Published 2003 Paternoster Press (Carlisle.) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 1842272020 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
EVANGELICALISM THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL 0801026393

Inventory No.16080 Author: Clare, T.
Archaeological Sites of the Lake District
Published 1981 Moorland (Ashbourne, Derbyshire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861900146 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
LAKE DISTRICT CUMBRIA LOCAL HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY

Inventory No.17958 Author: Clarke, Allen
The Effects of the Factory System
Published 1985 George Kelsall Publishing (Littleborough, Lancashire) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0946571066 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Originally published 1899. Ex-college library with stamp and barcode, and label on spine but clean copy despite this. Covered in adhesive film.
Factory System Industrial Economic History

Inventory No.15028 Author: Clater, Francis; McTaggart, D.
Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor; or, a Practical Treatise on Thediseases of Horned Cattle, and Sheep
Published Milner and Company, Limited (London) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £7
Very worn and rubbed, front hinge just holding, lacks ffep, contents good, working copy
Farming Agriculture Cattle

Inventory No.15831 Author: Clayton, Ian; Daley, Ian; Lewis, Brian Editors
Merging on the Ridiculous. The Fans Responce to the Super League, Volume 1
Published 1995 Yorkshire Art Circus (Castleford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1898311080 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Pictorial card covers a little rubbed. pp. 64. Illustrated.
Sport Rugby League

Inventory No.12629 Author: Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel
Virginia Woolf : New Critical Essays
Published 1986 Vision. (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0854780556 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £9
WOOLF, VIRGINIA, 1882-1941

Inventory No.17787 Author: Clode, Walter. Editor
The Morals of Seneca: A Selection of His Prose
Published Walter Scott (London) Type:
Edition:The Scott Library ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £6
Original green cloth, gilt titling and decoration. Name/date on top edge of title page. Uncut edges, gilt top. A nice clean copy.

Inventory No.17995 Author: Cochrane, Robert
Risen By Perseverance; or, Lives of Self-made Men
Published 1879 William P. Nimmo & Co (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Rather rubbed but contents sound

Inventory No.17956 Author: Cockerell, C. R.
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with Engravings.
Published (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £60
No tile page or index/content page. An ex-college library copy. Re-bound in buff cloth. Boards grubby and with location label to top corner. Inside front board is a pocket, stamp and 2 location numbers written in ink. 1 stamp on reverse of ffep. Some spotting. Text, 32 pages, and plates (XXIII), all present, though the 3 large foldout plates have been bound in in the wrong order.

Inventory No.18005 Author: Cockerell, Sydney and Others
Tributes to Edward Johnston Calligrapher
Published 1948 Privately Printed (Maidstone, Kent.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £8
Ex-college library with labels and stamp, boards a little rubbed, contents very good

Inventory No.9227 Author: Cockin, John
Reflections After Reading, or Sketches, Biographical, Ecclesiastical, and Historical
Published 1843 T. Ward & Co (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £15
Boards rubbed and bumped. Loss to head and tail of spine, hinges wearing through. Internally a bright, tight and clean copy. A scarce item.

Inventory No.16850 Author: Coffey, Ian; Gibbs, Eddie
Church Next : Quantum Changes in Christian Ministry
Published 2001 Inter-Varsity Press (Leicester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0851115446 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
CHURCH RENEWAL CHURCH WORK

Inventory No.17062 Author: Coggins, James R.
John Smyth's Congregation : English Separatism, Mennonite Influence and the Elect Nation
Published 1991 Herald Press (Waterloo) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0836131215 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Looks unread.
PURITANS GREAT BRITAIN_HISTORY_MEDIEVAL PERIOD, 1066-1485

Inventory No.14755 Author: Coles, K. Adlard; Dewhurst, J. D.; Peyton Jones, L.; Woollett, J.
Channel Harbours and Anchorages
Published 1991 Adlard Coles Nautical (London) Type:
Edition:Seventh Edition ISBN: 0713634189 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.18176 Author: Collier, Ron
Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks (Book 2)
Published 1982 Wharncliffe Woodmoor Ltd. (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950789216 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Derbyshire Peak District Aircraft Plane Crashes

Inventory No.11325 Author: Collier, W.F.
Hound and the Horn : Classic Tales of Moorland Hunting
Published 2000 Halsgrove Publishing (Tiverton, Devon, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 1841140511 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £9
Hunting

Inventory No.13594 Author: Collier, William Frederick
Country Matters in Short
Published 1899 Duckworth (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Very nice decorated boards, corners slightly bumped, some wear to top and bottom of spine,, light spotting inside but generally very nice copy
Hunting Field Sports

Inventory No.9650 Author: Colligan, A. W
Living Still. An Account of the Catholic Community in the littleborough-Rochdale Area and in Particular of St. Mary of the Annunciation, Littleborough 1826 to 1870s to 1975
Published 1975 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Pictorial card cover. pp. 72. Numerous illustrations.
Lancashire Littleborough Rochdale Catholic History Local Afmily Genealogy

Inventory No.15370 Author: Collin, Dorothy W.
The Composition and Publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 69, No.1, Autumn 1986
Published The John Rylands University Library of Manchester Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell

Inventory No.11988 Author: Collings, Mark
The One Hundred 100 Greatest Boxers
Published 1999 Generation Publications (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1903009146 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
Sport Boxing

Inventory No.8213 Author: Collins, Martin
Classic Walks in the Peak District
Published 1995 Fraser Stewart Books. (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1856482138 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £4
Derbyshire Peak District Walking Rambling

Inventory No.12298 Author: Collins, Martin; McOwan, Rennie
On Foot Through History. 28 Walks Exploring Britain's Past. Scottish Walks By Rennie McOwan
Published 1991 The Oxford Illustrated Press. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 185509214x Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £3
An excellent copy.
Walking Ranbling Great Britain

Inventory No.13038 Author: Colville, Robert
By Permission of the Master
Published Hutchinson (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £4
Book faded at top of spine, d/w creased and has been repaired
Hunting

Inventory No.17955 Author: Combe, Taylor; Introduction
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with Engravings. Part II.
Published 1815 (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £60
Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. and sold at the British Museum. An ex-college library copy. Re-bound in buff cloth. Boards grubby and with location label to top corner. Inside front board is a pocket, stamp and 2 location numbers written in ink. 1 stamp on reverse of title page. Some light spotting. Stiching visable. Some pages a little grubby and finger marked. Text and plates (XLVI), all present.

Inventory No.17954 Author: Combe, Taylor; Introduction
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with Engravings. Part III.
Published 1818 (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £60
Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. and sold at the British Museum. An ex-college library copy. Re-bound in buff cloth. Boards grubby and with location label to top corner. Inside front board is a pocket, stamp and 2 location numbers written in ink. 1 stamp on reverse of title page. Some light spotting. Text and plates (XV), all present.

Inventory No.17952 Author: Combe, Taylor; Introduction
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with Engravings. Part IV.
Published 1820 (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £60
Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol and sold at the British Museum. An ex-college library copy. Re-bound in buff cloth. Boards grubby and with location label to top corner. Inside front board is a pocket, stamp and 2 location numbers written in ink. 1 stamp on reverse of wrong title page. 2 title pages bound in for Part IV and VI. Text and plates (XXVIII), all present.

Inventory No.17951 Author: Combe, Taylor; Introduction
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with Engravings. Part I.
Published 1812 (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £60
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., and sold at the British Museum. An ex-college library copy. Re-bound in buff cloth. Boards grubby and with location label to top corner. Inside front board is a pocket, stamp and 2 location numbers written in ink. 1 stamp on reverse of title page. Text and plates (XVI), all present, are clean though as there are no tissue guards the plate image has left a faint shadow on the opposite page where the text is.

Inventory No.12681 Author: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
A God and His Gifts
Published 1979 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0575026103 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £4.5
Dust wrapper slightly faded on spine and on front edge. Collectors' Edition. No. 18.

Inventory No.12680 Author: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
Two Worlds and Their Ways
Published 1979 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Third Reissue ISBN: 0575026103 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good Price: £4.5
Dust wrapper slightly faded on spine and on front edge. Collectors' Edition. No. 11.

Inventory No.12678 Author: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
Parents and Children
Published 1979 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0575015780 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £5
Collectors' Edition. No. 8.

Inventory No.17367 Author: Conrad, Joseph; Illustrator: Mosley, Francis
Typhoon The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories
Published 2000 Folio Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Slipcase, Very Good+ Price: £10

Inventory No.12787 Author: Copeland, Robert
A Short History of Pottery Raw Materials and the Cheddleton Flint Mill
Published 1972 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £2.75
Staffordshire Local History Pottery

Inventory No.11809 Author: Corbett, Scott; Illustrator: Richard Rosenblum
Bridges
Published 1979 Four Winds Press (New York) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0590074644 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £3.5
Bridges History

Inventory No.17612 Author: Corbishley, Mike; Dawson, Ian; Gillingham, John; Kelly, Rosemary; Mason, James
The Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland
Published 1996 OUP (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0199100357 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Pictorial boards. Looks unread.
GREAT BRITAIN_HISTORY_JUVENILE LITERATURE IRELAND_JUVENILE LITERATURE

Inventory No.11638 Author: Cornell, James
The First Stargazers : An Introduction to the Origins of Astronomy
Published 1981 Athlone Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0485300044 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £3
An ex-library copy with endpaper removed and front hinge strenthened. Stamps tipexed out. Bookplate to f.e.p. pp. 262. Good reading/working copy.
ASTRONOMY, ANCIENT

Inventory No.13708 Author: Cory, Harper; Illustrator: Parker, W. Neave
Vulpes an English Fox
Published 1940 Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £5
Very good clean copy, no inscriptions, d/w chipped with small tears

Inventory No.15677 Author: Costello, Kieran; Burley, Richard
Charity on Camera in Edwardian Bristol
Published 1997 Breedon Books (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1859831060 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
nice clean copy
Bristol Local History Photographs

Inventory No.12029 Author: Cotes, Peter
J.P. - the Man Called Mitch : A Memoir
Published 1977 Paul Elek (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 023640119x Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £3.5
LITERATURE

Inventory No.15557 Author: Cotterell, Arthur
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & Legends
Published 1989 Guild Publishing. (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Very heavy additional postage will be asked for outside of the UK.
Esoteric

Inventory No.13508 Author: Cottler, Joseph; Jaffe, H.; Illustrator: Butler, Frank
map-Makers
Published 1938 George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Name on fep, very good clean copy
Maps Cartography

Inventory No.15551 Author: Coulson, Helen
Story of the Dandenongs 1838-1958
Published 1982 Longman Cheshire (Melbourne, Australia) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0582714796 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Maps as endpapers. Front endpapers scuffed on top edge, rear endpaper has number 8 written on it.
Australia Dandenongs Local History Family History

Inventory No.7800 Author: Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House
Published 2000 Thames and Hudson. Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0500959935 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Non as Issued. Price: £4
Previous owners signature and date on inside of front cover.
PAINTING CATALOGS ART COLLECTIONS EXHIBITIONS

Inventory No.13124 Author: Coveney, Michael
The Citz : 21 Years of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre
Published 1990 Nick Hern Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1854590332 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £4.5
SCOTTISH DRAMA_HISTORY AND CRITICISM

Inventory No.9696 Author: Cowhig, W. T
Textiles, It Happened Round Manchester
Published 1970 University of London Press Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 034007261x Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Lancashire Manchester Textiles Industrial History

Inventory No.11625 Author: Cox, Harvey
Turning East :The Promise and Peril of the New Orientalism
Published 1979 Allen Lane (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: 0713911808 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £3
Eastern Religion

Inventory No.13715 Author: Cox, Hilda M.; Gidney, F.; Illustrator: Moore, A. A.
Winter Crafts for Wolf Cubs
Published 1935 C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Limp Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Name written on first page, very good
Scouting Wolf Cubs

Inventory No.13468 Author: Cox, JACK
Serve By Conserving
Published 1959 Arco Publications (Ottawa) Type:Ex-Library
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Very Good Price: £4
Ffep removed, stamps on half-title page and reverse of titlepage, clean copy

Inventory No.15341 Author: Cox, Marjorie
Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet, and the Electoral Management of Wigan, 1695-1747 Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 41. No. 1, September, 1958
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Lancashire Wigan

Inventory No.11533 Author: Cram, A.G.; Eilbeck, J. C.; Birkett, W.
Rock Climbing in the Lake District
Published 1987 Constable (London) Type:
Edition:3rd Edition Revised and Extended ISBN: 0094676402 Size:12mo Binding:Pictorial Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Pictorial paperback in protective plasic cover as published.
Lake District Cumbria Climbing

Inventory No.13063 Author: Cramer, James
Police Animals of the World
Published 1968 Cassell (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0304932701 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £5
Book has sign of address label removal on f.f.e.p. Dust wrapper complete but chipped and torn with sign of label removal at top corner.

Inventory No.16701 Author: Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
Published 1998 Folio Society (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition, Sixth Impression ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Slipcase, Very Good+ Price: £4.5

Inventory No.13332 Author: Crascredo; Illustrator: Edwards, Lionel
Country Sense and Common Sense
Published 1928 Country Life (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Small Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Corners bumped and worn, spine relaid, name on ffep, looks a bit scruffy but plates OK
Field Sports Country Life

Inventory No.17610 Author: Creasey, John; Harris, Herbert
John Creasey's Crime Collection : An Anthology
Published 1979 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0575026863 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £5
Anthology Crime Novel

Inventory No.15306 Author: Crichton, R. A.
The Floating World Japanese Popular Prints 1700-1900
Published 1973 Her Majesty's Stationery Office. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Stiff Card Covers with Wrapper
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9
Very good clean copy
Japanese Art

Inventory No.11807 Author: Croad, Stephen; Fowler, Peter
London's Bridges
Published 1983 HMSO (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0117012017 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
London Bridges Architecture Monuments

Inventory No.16350 Author: Crockett, S. R.
Cleg Kelly Arab of the City
Published 1896 Smith, Elder & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
A little worn and bumped but very good clean copy with no inscriptions

Inventory No.5960 Author: Croskell, Thomas
Memoirs of Catholic Manchester
Published 1997 North West Catholic History Society (Wigan, Lancs., United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951461591 Size:8vo Binding:A5 Booklet.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £9
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Lancashire Manchester Catholic Religion History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.7226 Author: Cross, Alfred W. S. And Munby, Allen E.
Practical Notes for Architectural Draughtsman
Published Technical Journals (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Elephant Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £18
Folio folder poor condition. 27 plates in good condition
Architecture

Inventory No.11014 Author: Crowther, Christine
Mulberries for Tea. A Childhood in North Nottinghamshire
Published 1988 Allen Printing Company (Hull) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0948493100 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Nottinghamshire Local History

Inventory No.15029 Author: Cubitt, George
Columbus: Or, The Discovery of America
Published 1854 John Mason (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
Very rubbed on the outside but binding is tight and contents very good. Presentation inscription on ffep, scribble on fep

Inventory No.15369 Author: Culross, Jack L.
Mary Barton: a Revaluation Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester Vol. 61, No.1, Autumn, 1978
Published The John Rylands University Library of Manchester Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Splash mark on back cover, contents very good
Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell

Inventory No.15892 Author: Cunliffe, Hugh
The Story of Sunderland Point from the Early Days to Modern Times
Published 1985 The Author. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Jacket Price: £6
Pamphlet of 88 pages.
Sunderland Point Lancaster River Lune

Inventory No.15343 Author: Cunliffe, Marcus F.
Notes on the dorset-Stanley Correspondence (1871-1873) in the John Rylands Library Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol. 36, No. 2, March, 1954
Published The John Rylands Library (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4

Inventory No.13102 Author: Cunningham, M. C.; Kenneth, A. G.
The Flora of Kintyre
Published 1979 EP Publishing (East Ardsley, Wakefield) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0715813404 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £3.5
Scratch mark on front of d/w, otherwise near fine
Flora Kintyre Scotland Botany

Inventory No.15782 Author: Curtis, Michael
In the Affirmative
Published 2008 Redbeck Press (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1904338420 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
pp. 98.
Poetry Poet

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