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Inventory No.13589 Author: G. B. S.
Matrimony Made Easy
Published Dow & Lester (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £4
Would be Very Good+ except that some of the answer pages have been filled in. Name on fep. Nice little book with coloured titlepage

Inventory No.17673 Author: GIbbs, Henry James; Edwards, John William
The New Code, 1876 of the Education Department with Notes, Analysis, Appendix, and Index and an Introductory Sketch of the Administration of the Grants for Public Elementary Education (1839-1876)
Published 1876 Longmans Green & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Spine worn, front hinge cracked,inscription on fep, decent working copy

Inventory No.15060 Author: Gammelgaard, Lene
Climbing High : A Woman's Account of the Everest Tragedy
Published 2000 Pan Books (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0330392271 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
Slight wear to corners and faint reading crease but very nice clean copy
MOUNTAINEERING ACCIDENTS EVEREST, MOUNT (CHINA

Inventory No.17433 Author: Gardam, Jane; Illustrator: McMullan, James (Jacket)
The Summer after the Funeral
Published 1973 Hamish Hamilton. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0241024137 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £25
Dustwrapper rubbed on edges.
Children's

Inventory No.11603 Author: Gardner, Adelaide
Introductory Studies in Theosophy
Published 1948 Theosophical Publishing House (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Pages browning at edges. pp. 72.
Theosophical

Inventory No.16103 Author: Garlick, Tom.
Ambleside Roman Fort
Published 1975 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852063040 Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean copy of surprisingly scarce item
Lake District Ambleside Cumbria

Inventory No.14744 Author: Garner, Lawrence
The Buildings of Shropshire Volume 3 III The Georgian and Regency Legacy 1730-1840
Published 1990 Swan Hill Press (Shrewsbury) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 185310129x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Very nice clean copy
Shropshire Architecture Buildings Local History

Inventory No.14743 Author: Garner, Lawrence
The Buildings of Shropshire Volume 2 II The Tudor and Stuart Legacy 1530-1730
Published 1991 Swan Hill Press (Shrewsbury) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853100919 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
Shropshire Architecture Buildings Local History

Inventory No.10390 Author: Garnett, Emmeline.; Illustrator: Kay, B.
Dragon Farm
Published 1952 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6

Inventory No.9299 Author: Garratt, Morris
Sure Coffers: Some Sources for the History of Religion in the North-west
Published 1987 LA Local Studies Group NW (Cheadle,Cheshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951222503 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Lancashire Cheshire History Local

Inventory No.15108 Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth C.
Cranford
Published 1985 The Black Swan Press (Wantage) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0905475062 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7
Nicely produced edition of old favourite in excellent condition
ENGLAND_FICTION BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION

Inventory No.11801 Author: Gaunt, Arthur
Exploring Historic Britain
Published 1947 Southern Editorial Syndicate Limited (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good Price: £4
Small neat inscription on ffep, d/w chipped and torn
Britain History Topography

Inventory No.15329 Author: Gazley, John G.
The Reverend Arthur Young 1769-1827 : Traveller in Russia and Farmer in the Crimea 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: £6

Inventory No.16048 Author: Gerin, Winifred
Elizabeth Gaskell a Biography
Published 1976 Clarendon Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0198120702 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Bronte

Inventory No.15102 Author: Gerin, Winifred
Charlotte Bronte: The Evolution of Genius.
Published 1967 Clarendon Press. (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Spine of d/w faded, book is discreetly ex-library with marks on endpapers and reverse of titlepage where stamps etc have been erased
BRONTE. CHARLOTTE

Inventory No.11659 Author: Gerin, Winifred
Emily Bronte
Published 1972 Clarendon Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £15
Lovely clean copy in unusually bright but price clipped dustwrapper.
Emily Bronte

Inventory No.13522 Author: Gibson, Charles
Knots and Splices
Published 1979 Granada (London) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: 0583130283 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Knots

Inventory No.16108 Author: Gibson, Leslie Irving
Lancashire Castles and Towers
Published 1977 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852063970 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
Lovely clean copy but faint smell of damp
Lancashire Local History

Inventory No.13129 Author: Gillie, Christopher
A Preface to Forster
Published 1983 Longman (Harlow, Essex) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0582353157 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £4
Dust wrapper a little rubbed.
FORSTER, E. M. (EDWARD MORGAN),

Inventory No.17611 Author: Gilson, Major Charles
The Sword of Freedom. A Tale of the English Revolution
Published 1943 OUP (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £5
Neat gift inscription on ffep. Dustwrapper a little chipped and slightly faded on spine. A very attractive copy.

Inventory No.16758 Author: Gleick, James
Isaac Newton
Published 2003 Fourth Estate Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0007163177 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £4
Very nice clean copy
NEWTON, ISAAC, SIR, 1642-1727 PHYSICISTS_BIOGRAPHY

Inventory No.14495 Author: Gliddon, Gerald
VCs of the First World War 1914
Published 1997 Budding Books (Stroud, Gloucestershire) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1840150068 Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £5
D/w is not clipped but price has been crossed out in red pen

Inventory No.17329 Author: Glover, Janet R.
The Story of Scotland
Published 1961 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Blue Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £4.5
Clean crisp copy
Scotland History

Inventory No.12698 Author: Goaman, Muriel; Illustrator: Ismena Mermagen
Judy's and Andrew's Puppet Book
Published 1952 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £4.5
Previous owners name/date on endpaper.

Inventory No.17227 Author: Golding, Arthur L.
The Electric Guide. Fifth Edition. Tells and Shows How to Do Electric Repairs Alterations or Installations Safely
Published British Patents (London) Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
No Date. Pictorial card covers a little worn. A few hand written notes inside rear cover. pp.79. Numerous illustrations.

Inventory No.12507 Author: Goldwater, Robert
Gauguin
Published 1985 Thames & Hudson (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0500080240 Size:4to Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £4
With 97 illustrations, 40 in colour. This is a concise edition of the 1957 edition.
GAUGUIN, PAUL, 1848-1903

Inventory No.13111 Author: Good, Ronald
The Philosophy of Evolution
Published 1981 Dovecote Press (Wimborne) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950351865 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £3
EVOLUTION

Inventory No.17764 Author: Goodall, Mike
Worth Valley Revival The Keighley and Worth Valley Light Railway Since 1961
Published 1983 The Keighley and Worth Valley Preservation Society (Haworth.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 090243828x Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
62pp.

Inventory No.15238 Author: Goodman, Jonathan
Who He? Goodman's Dictionary of the Unknown Famous
Published 1984 Buchan & Enright (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907675301 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £4
Small tear to d/w at top of spine, very good otherwise
BIOGRAPHY_DICTIONARIES

Inventory No.14416 Author: Goodyear, R. A. H.
Who is This Woman? A Play in Three Acts
Published Waterfront (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition:Third Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
pp. 44. Excellent copy.

Inventory No.14415 Author: Goodyear, R. A. H.
Sunshine Sammy. a Play in Three Acts
Published 1939 Watmoughs (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition:Revised and Reprinted ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Third edition pp.48. Excellent copy.

Inventory No.17603 Author: Gordon, Phil
Phil Gordon's Poker Box Set Little Blue Book Little Green Book and Little Black Book
Published 2006 Simon Spotlight (New York, New York, U.S.A.) Type:3 Volumes in Slip-case
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1416936428 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £24
New condition- still in publisher's cellophane wrap
Poker

Inventory No.11981 Author: Gorn, Elliott J.
The Manly Act : The Lives and Times of the Great Bare Knuckle Champions
Published 1998 Robson Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860515826 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Lovely clean copy
Boxing Sport

Inventory No.13619 Author: Gough, Lionel [selected by]; Surtees, R. S.; Sassoon, Sigfried
Hunting Scenes from Surtees
Published 1953 Rupert Hart-Davis. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. Spine faded and splitting slightly at the bottom
Hunting Field Sports

Inventory No.16764 Author: Gould, Stephen Jay
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox : Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Published 2003 Jonathan Cape (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 022406309x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
SCIENCE_SOCIAL ASPECTS SCIENCE AND STATE

Inventory No.16841 Author: Graham, Billy
The Journey : How to Live by Faith in an Uncertain World
Published 2006 W Publishing Group (Nashville) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0849991455 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
CHRISTIAN LIFE RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Inventory No.13479 Author: Graham, James; Oliver, George A. S.
The Foreign traders' Correspondence Handbook
Published 1905 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Name on ffep, nice copy

Inventory No.16756 Author: Grant, Michael
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Published 2003 Phoenix (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1857999754 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
ROME_HISTORY

Inventory No.16261 Author: Gray, Alice
Nettie's Mission: Stories Illustrative of The Lord's Prayer
Published James Nisbet & Co. (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £6
Corners bumped, spine worn, front hinge starting to split, two names on fep, aeg, text clean

Inventory No.17524 Author: Gray, Thomas; Illustrator: Westall, R.
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Embellished with Engravings from the Designs of Richd Westall R. A.
Published 1821 (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £5
Brown leather, gilt. Boards and spine very worn. Binding a little slack. Some spotting throughout. Marbled endpapers and page edges.

Inventory No.11800 Author: Greatorex, Harry N.
Melville's Derby Legacy The Story of the Grand Theatre
Published 1985 Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907969127 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £25
Derby Grand Theatre History

Inventory No.17080 Author: Green, Chris
Guarding the Gospel: Bible, Cross and Mission : Meeting the Challenge in a Changing World
Published 2006 Zondervan (Grand Rapids Michigan.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0310267412 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
EVANGELICALISM

Inventory No.17477 Author: Green, Hannah; Parker, Sophia
The Other Glass Ceiling : The domestic politics of Parenting
Published 2006 Demos (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 1841801585 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6

Inventory No.15628 Author: Green, Roger; Lewis, David
The Advertising Art of Printed Pot-lids
Published 1979 Old Bottles and Treasure Hunting (Bridgnorth) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950591114 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Mark on front cover where price label has been removed, otherwise nice clean copy

Inventory No.14483 Author: Greenall, R. L.
Daventry Past
Published 1999 Phillimore (Chichester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1860771084 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £4.5
GREAT BRITAIN_HISTORY

Inventory No.12791 Author: Greenfield, Robert
The Excavation of Barrow 4 at Swarkeston, Derbyshire
Published 1960 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Offprint from Journal of the derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Derbyshire Local History Archaeology

Inventory No.15777 Author: Greenhalf, Jim
Blue on Blue
Published 2005 Redbeck Press (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1904338305 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3
pp.79.
Poetry Poet

Inventory No.15776 Author: Greenhalf, Jim
Grassington's Reflex
Published 2007 Redbeck Press (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1904338313 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £3
pp.65.
Poetry Poet

Inventory No.15774 Author: Greenhalf, Jim
In the Hinterland
Published 2003 Redbeck Press (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 190433816x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
pp. 63.
Poetry Poet

Inventory No.17067 Author: Greenman, Bill
Discover Your Purpose! Design Your Destiny! Direct Your Achievement
Published 1998 Destiny Image (Shippensburg) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0768420091 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Looks unread.
FATE AND FATALISM SELF-ACCEPTANCE_RELIGIOUS ASPECTS_CHRISTIANITY

Inventory No.17013 Author: Grenz, Stanley J.
Renewing the Center : Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era
Published 2000 Baker Academic (Grand Rapids Michigan.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0801022398 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good Price: £8.5
D/w a little rubbed
EVANGELICALISM THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL_HISTORY POSTMODERNISM

Inventory No.16554 Author: Grimm, Jacob W.; Grimm, Wilhelm K.; Lewis, Naomi; Illustrator: Postma, Lidia
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Published 1985 Hutchinson (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0091615305 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £7
FAIRY TALES

Inventory No.17083 Author: Gromacki, Robert Glenn
The Modern Tongues Movement
Published 1980 Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. (Phillipsberg, New Jersey) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: 0875523048 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Covers a little sunned, very good clean copy

Inventory No.17065 Author: Gros, Jeffrey; Rempel, John D.
The Fragmentation of the Church and Its Unity in Peacemaking
Published 2001 William B. Eerdmans (Cambridge) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0802847455 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
CHRISTIAN UNION PEACE_RELIGIOUS ASPECTS

Inventory No.13104 Author: Grose, D.
The Flora of Wiltshire
Published 1979 EP Publishing (East Ardsley, Wakefield) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0715812653 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good + But Price Clipped. Price: £5
Flora Wiltshire Botany

Inventory No.12357 Author: Grundy, Bill
That Man : A Memory of Tommy Handley
Published 1976 Elm Tree Books. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0241893445 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Good/Very Good Price: £3
An ex-library copy with stamps and label removed.
Comedy Comedian Radio Entertainer

Inventory No.11670 Author: Guerber, H. A.
Greece and Rome
Published 1992 Bracken (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0946495866 Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £3.5
Page edges browning. Illustrated. pp. 395.
Myths Legends

Inventory No.11692 Author: Guest, Charlotte; Illustrator: Jo Nathan
Mabinogion Tales
Published 1991 Llanerch Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0947992731 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
Wales Welsh Mythology Hergest

Inventory No.11691 Author: Guest, Lady Charlotte; Illustrator: Jo Nathan
Mabinogion. The Four Branches
Published 1990 Llanerch Type:
Edition: ISBN: 094799243x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4
Wales Welsh Mythology Hergest

Inventory No.13119 Author: Gulliver, Doris
Dame Agnes Weston
Published 1971 Phillimore (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900592273 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £3

Inventory No.17158 Author: Gwynn, Stephen
Mrs. Humphry Ward. Writers of the Day
Published Nisbet & Co. Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Half Cloth with Marbled Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Dust Wrapper Price: £12
Original blue cloth, black titling. A little rubbed around the edges. Sign of label removal on fep and name on ffep. Pages browning. Frontispiece.
Literature

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