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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
12mo - over 6¾"x7¾", 16mo - over 5¾"x6¾", 24mo - over 5"x5¾", 48mo - over 3"x4".

Inventory No.10894 Author: not given.
More Memories of Halifax
Published 1997 True North Books (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1900463067 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Jacket Price: £7.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Local History Photographs Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10875 Author: not given.
Images of Bradford 1860-1970
Published 1992 Breedon Books (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1873626053 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £14.5
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10785 Author: not given.
Rural Houses of West Yorkshire, 1400-1830
Published 1986 HMSO (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0117011940 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £46
pp. 241 plus folding map.
West Yorkshire West Riding Architecture Local History Family History Genealogy Social History

Inventory No.10706 Author: not given.
Bradford Memories
Published 2001 True North Books (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 190320447x Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10492 Author: not given.
The Yorkshireman: A Journal of Humour, Satire, and Criticism, 1886
Published 1886 Thomas Brear (Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Half-Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £100
Half leather with raised bands to spine, gilt titling and bands to spine. Boards and spine worn, rubbed and damp stained. f.f.e.p. and a number of the following pages damp stained on corners. Text still readable. Volume XXI. No. 494. Saturday, January 2, 1886 through to Volume XXII. No 546. Saturday, December 30, 1886. Including at rear The Yorkshireman Summer Number, Midsummer 1886, and The Yorkshireman Christmas Number, 1886. Pagination does not follow on as original wraps which were numbered have not been bound in. Also No. 495 has not been bound in. A good copy of this scarce item.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.10491 Author: not given.
The Yorkshireman: A Journal of Humour, Satire, and Criticism, 1878, Volume 2.
Published 1878 Thomas Brear (Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £100
Red cloth, gilt titling to spine. Boards and spine rubbed. Volume VI. No. 103. Saturday, July 6, 1878 through to Volume VI. No 128. Saturday, December 28, 1878. Including at rear pages 3 to 30 of the Yorkshireman Christmas Number. A very good copy of this scarce item.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.10438 Author: not given.
The Village Atlas : The Growth of North and West Yorkshire, 1840-1910
Published 1990 Village Press Limited, The Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1855400251 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £25
Inscription on fep, mostly under flap of d/w. Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire North Riding West Riding West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.10294 Author: not given.
Golden Years of Halifax
Published 1998 True North Books (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1900463628 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy with no inscriptions
Halifax West Yorkshire Calderdale West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10293 Author: not given.
Golden Years of Keighley
Published 1998 True North Books (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 190046392x Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + But Price Clipped. Price: £9.5
Faint tobacco smell
Keighley Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10130 Author: not given.
Original, Complete and Only Authentic Story of Old Wilds a Nursery of Strolling Players and the Celebrities Who Appeared There Being the Reminiscences of Its Chief and Last Proprietor, Sam Wild Edited By Trim
Published 1989 The Society for Theatre Research (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0854300481 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Halifax Theatre History Local History

Inventory No.10116 Author: not given.
Pennine Valley. A History of Upper Calderdale. Edited By Bernard Jennings.
Published 1992 Smith Settle. (Otley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 187007193x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £25
Very nice clean copy
Halifax Sowerby Warley Midgley Erringden Wadsworth Heptonstall Stansfield Langfield Todmorden Walsden Yorkshire Topography History Local Family Genealogy West Yorkshire West Riding

Inventory No.10102 Author: not given.
The Time of Our Lives in Heath. A Portrait of a Yorkshire Village at the Millennium
Published 2000 Heath Residents Association Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £10
Small but neat gift inscription on reverse of f.f.e.p. Numerous photographs and drawings. pp.127
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Heath Local History Genealogy

Inventory No.9273 Author: not given.
An Account of the Charitable Trusts and Other Properties in Brighouse, Leeds and Settle Monthly Meeting (Formerly Known as Brighouse Monthly Meeting) of the Society of Friends in the Year 1951
Published (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Photocopy ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
This is a photocopy of the original edition. The pages are therefore side by side and single sided. Bound in black card covers with red plastic slide binding.
West Yorkshire West Riding Brighouse Leeds Settle Quakers Local History Local Family Genealogy Friends Society

Inventory No.9272 Author: not given.
An Account of the Charitable Trusts and Other Properties in Brighouse Monthly Meeting, of the Society of Friends, in the Year 1920
Published Fredk Duffield & Sons (Leeds) Type:
Edition:Photocopy ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
This is a photocopy of the original edition. The pages are therefore side by side and single sided. Bound in black card covers with red plastic slide binding.
West Yorkshire West Riding Brighouse Quakers Local History Local Family Genealogy Friends Society

Inventory No.9249 Author: not given.
Souvenir of the Visit of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales to the Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury. May 30th, 1923
Published Wm. Byles & Sons (Bradford, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £30
A very good copy of this scarce item.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Queensbury Black Dyke Mills Local History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9054 Author: not given.
More Memories of Bradford
Published 1997 True North Books (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1900463164 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/No Jacket Price: £7.5
Sticker on fep, otherwise near fine.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Photographs Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.8526 Author: not given.
Historical Pageant of Bradford. The Living Storyof Bradford's Glory. Book of Words
Published 1931 Percy Lumb, Humphries & Co. Ltd. (Bradford, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:48mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £25
This copy was bound for W. E. Preston a member of the special scenes historical Sub-Committee and has his name in gilt on front board and his bookplate on the f.e.p. Original cream bevelled cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. Boards are badly stained, which spoils an otherwise very good+ copy.
Yorkshire Bradford West Riding Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.8477 Author: not given.
Bradford, A Centenary City. Published to Commemorate One Hundred Years of Bradford's City Status, 1897-1997
Published 1997 City of Bradford Metropolitan Council (Bradford, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953011801 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.8406 Author: not given.
Bradford Children's Hospital Centenary 1883-1983
Published 1983 Bradford Health Authority Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £5
Covers rubbed and creased.
Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.7440 Author: not given.
"For Jesus' Sake" Being an Account of the Life and Ministry, with Sermons of John Booth: Minister of the Gospel, and Pastor of Zoar Particular Baptist Chapel, Bradford, Yorks, for 30 years
Published 1928 C. J. Francombe & Sons, Ltd. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
Page edges spotted. t.e.g. Illustrated with photographs.
Religion Yorkshire West Riding Baptist Bradford History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.6842 Author: not given.
The Halifax County Borough Directory, 1936
Published 1998 Cade Publications (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £24
Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Directory History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.6755 Author: not given.
A Brief History of the Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. With an Address Given at the Centenary Services, Held November 20th, 1877
Published 1878 Yates & Alexander (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £36
2/- written on f.e.p. in felt pen. 2 neat inscriptions on reverse of frontispiece. A very good clean bright and tight copy of a scarce item.
Yorkshire West Riding Hebden Bridge History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.6687 Author: not given.
Whitcliffe Mount School
Published 1957 John Siddall. (Cleckheaton.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £24
A fine bright, tight and clean copy.
Yorkshire West Riding Cleckheaton Education History Local Family Genealogy

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