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Book sizes: Folio over 12"x15", 8vo - over 7¾"x9¾", 4to - over 9¾"x12",
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Inventory No.14211 Author: Calderdale Libraries Staff
Memory Lane Calderdale Voices Recollections of Sowerby Bridge
Published 1990 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A4 Binding:Comb Binding
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £9
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Sowerby Bridge Local History Family History Genealogy Memories

Inventory No.25151 Author: Callaghan, Dave
The Leeds Rugby League Story
Published 1992 Breedon Books. (Derby) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1873626142 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £8.5
Nice clean copy, d/w slightly creased on top edge
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Sport Rugby League Loiners Rhinos

Inventory No.36844 Author: Campbell, Marie
Curious Tales of Old West Yorkshire
Published 1999 Sigma Leisure (Wilmslow) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1850587035 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Owner's sticker inside else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding

Inventory No.32485 Author: Carpenter, David
Ilkley: The Victorian Era
Published 1993 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
With three fold-out maps. Crease across bottom corner of p. 23, reading crease to spine else nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.23955 Author: Carter, Paul
Bradford Poor Law Union: Papers and Correspondence with the Poor Law Commission October 1834- January 1839 Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Volume CLVII
Published 2004 Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902122959 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
M and LFS stamps on endpapers but under flap of d/w, else very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Poor Law

Inventory No.26549 Author: Cathey, W. N.
The History of Silsden Fire Brigade 1881-1981
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
46pp. Small address label on titlepage else nice clean copy of unusual item
West Yorkshire Bradford Keighley Silsden Local History Fire Brigade

Inventory No.36992 Author: Cattell, Alan
Bingley and Surrounds Forgotten Moments from History
Published 2011 Overt Marketing (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780957114302 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Very nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Bingley Local History Family History Genealogy Photographs

Inventory No.16609 Author: Centrepoint Writing Group, Leeds
Hatches, Matches & Dispatches in Belle Isle
Published 1991 Centrepoint Writing Group Belle Isle (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0947780750 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Cover faded otherwise very good clean copy of unusual item
West Yorkshire Leeds Belle Isle Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35998 Author: Chadwick, Stanley
Railway Wonder: Development of Town Part One The Authentic Story
Published 1984 Huddersfielder Publications Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
Library labels on front cover and titlepage else clean copy. 30pp.
West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.27926 Author: Chaffer, Kenneth
Victorian Village Guiseley Yorkshire, an Intimate View
Published 1988 The Author (Darley Head, Harrogate) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £50
Red cloth, gilt titling to spine. pp. 173 with numerous illustrations, charts and fold out maps.
West Yorkshire West Riding Guiseley Leeds Local History Genealogy Topography Industry

Inventory No.34175 Author: Chapman, Stanley D.
A Jubilee Sketch Book
Published 1987 Published Privately Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Paperback. 50 illustrations with description. A few marks to front cover, otherwise a nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire Calderdale Kirklees

Inventory No.24936 Author: Chappell, Ian
A Century at the Homestead. A History of North Leeds Cricket Club
Published 1992 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Ex-library Price: £12
With stamps and labels but a clean copy that has the original covers rebound by the library.
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Family Genealogy Cricket

Inventory No.33022 Author: Charlesworth, Diane
The Huddersfield Canals Towpath Guide
Published 1981 Huddersfield Canal Society Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
80pp. Very slight wear to cover, neat name inside else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Kirklees Local History Huddersfield Canal

Inventory No.23748 Author: City of Bradford
Municipal Markets: a Brief Description with Historical Notes Relating Thereto
Published 1930 (Bradford) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
With photographs and street plan. Slightly rubbed but very good clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History

Inventory No.18641 Author: Civic Trust
Haworth a Study of the Historic Village
Published 1964 Civic Trust Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £15
Map in pocket is browned with age, some rust marks from staples, decent copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Haworth Local History Bronte Photographs

Inventory No.30295 Author: Clarke, E. Kitson. Editor
Miscellanea, Volume IV, Consisting of the Parts Published in 1900, 1902, and 1903. The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume XI
Published 1904 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £22
Quarter vellum with blue paper covered boards and red leather, gilt title label to spine. An ex historical library copy with some stamps, inked numbers and issue label to endpapers Boards a little worn on edges. Pages untrimmed, but internally a very nice clean and bright copy with all plates and pedigrees, though the fold-out paper plan of Leeds is torn, but repairable. Contents listing: The family of Leathley or Lelay. By W. Paley Baildon. Testamenta Leodiensia. [a.d. 1531-7. In 2 pts]. By G. D. Lumb. Justice's note-book of Captain John Pickering, 1656-60. By G. D. Lumb. Lay subsidies, wapentakes of Aggbrigg and Morley, anno 1545 Plan of Leeds, 1806. By John Rawlinson Ford. Some Civil War accounts, 1647-1650. By Ethel Kitson and E. Kitson Clark. Churchwardens' accounts, Methley. By E. Kitson Clark. A "Waterloo" map of Leeds. By Edmund Wilson. The life and funeral sermon of the Rev. Richard Stretton, M.A., first minister of Mill Hill chapel, Leeds, 1672- 1677. By G. D. Lumb. Survey of the manor of Leeds, 1612. By H. T. Kelsey.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30294 Author: Clarke, E. Kitson. Editor
Miscellanea, Volume III, Consisting of the Parts Published in 1897, 1898, and 1899. The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume IX
Published 1899 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £22
Quarter vellum with blue paper covered boards and red leather, gilt title label to spine. An ex historical library copy with some stamps, inked numbers and issue label to endpapers Boards a little worn on edges. Pages untrimmed, but internally a very nice clean and bright copy with all plates and pedigrees. Contents listing: A Leeds law-suit in the 16th century. By Edmund Wilson. Duchy of Lancaster depositions, 2 Elizabeth, no. 12. [Transcripts, relating to the above.] Asolf or Essolf, a Yorkshire minor lord of the twelfth century. By Richard Holmes. Adam Fitz Peter, of Birkin: the charter-history of a long life. By Richard Holmes. Ordination of the south chapel in Birkin church. By Richard Holmes. Abstract of the Leeds manor rolls, 1650-1662, probably made at the time for the steward's use, and annotated by him. By G. D. Lumb. Testamenta Leodiensia. [a.d. 1514-31.] By G. D. Lumb. (3 articles) The Roman milestone found at Castleford. By F. Haver-field. Musters in Skyrack wapentake, 1539. Pts. 2 and 3. By W. P. Baildon. Notes on Ralph Thoresby's pedigree. By A. S. Ellis. Lay subsidy, wapentake of Skyrack, 30 June and 20 October 1545. Lay subsidy, wapentake of Skyrack, 12 February 1545/6. Survey of the river Aire from Leeds to Weeland. [Naming owners of land along the river, 1699.] wo old plans of Leeds. By Edmund Wilson. The Leeds mace, made by Arthur Mangey, 1694; and clipping tools supposed to have been used by Mangey. By E. Kitson Clark. Trial at York for counterfeiting, of Mr, Arthur Mangy, of Leeds, 1 August 1696. Annotated by C. M. Atkinson. Bramhope. By W. T. Lancaster. Observations out of the mannour booke of Leeds. By G. D. Lumb. Lay subsidies, wapentakes of Aggbrigg and Morley, anno 1545
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30293 Author: Clarke, E. Kitson. Editor
Miscellanea, Volume II, Consisting of the Parts Published in 1892, 1893, and 1895. The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume IV
Published 1895 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £22
Quarter vellum with blue paper covered boards and red leather, gilt title label to spine. An ex historical library copy with some stamps, inked numbers and issue label to endpapers Boards a little worn on edges. Pages untrimmed, but internally a very nice clean and bright copy with all plates and pedigrees. Contents listing: Testamenta Leodiensia. [a.d. 1496-1524.] By W. Brigg (2 articles) Return of the hearth-tax . . . Skyrack, a.d. 1672. Pt. 2. By J. Stansfeld. Possessions of Kirkstall abbey in Leeds. By W. T. Lancaster. Charters relating to possessions of Kirkstall abbey in Allerton. By F. R. Kitson and others. (2 articles) Pampocalia. By N. Bodington. Chartae Leodinenses; with notes on the Reame family and the Leeds chantries of the B.V.M. By Thomas Marshall. Note on a Roman altar in the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. By N. Bodington. Armour. By W. Kerr Smith. A brawl in Kirkgate, 13 Edw. II. By E. K. Clark. Some notes on the early history of Arthington. By W. T. Lancaster. The Pawson inventory and pedigree. By C. B. Nordiffe. The foundation of Kirkstall Abbey. By E. K. Clark. Paulinus de Leeds. By Richard Holmes. Extracts from the Leeds Intelligencer, 1754-8. By Charles S. Rooke. Musters in Skyrack wapentake, 1539. By W. P. Baildon. Adel. By W. T. Lancaster.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.36830 Author: Clarke, Mike
Images of England The Aire and Calder Navigation
Published 1999 Tempus Publishing Ltd Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752417150 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Owner's sticker inside else nice clean copy
West Riding West Yorkshire Canals Aire Calder

Inventory No.34994 Author: Clarke, Roger
A Penny for Going: a History of Saltaire and Its Regeneration Told Through Its Shops
Published 2011 Nemine Juvante (Saltaire) Publications. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780954584016 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Cease across bottom corner of front cover else nice clean copy, signed "Best wishes, Roger" on titlepage
West Yorkshire Bradford Shipley Local History Saltaire

Inventory No.33706 Author: Clayton, Brian
Wakefield's Postal History
Published 1981 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
27pp. Includes list of staff in 1981.
West Yorkshire Wakefield Local History

Inventory No.36860 Author: Clough, Robert T.
The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales. Their Architectural Character, Construction and Place in the European Tradition.
Published 1962 The Author. (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £10
No 960 of edition of 1000 copies.Boards rubbed and marked, lettering on spine slightly faded, name and address inside (twice) decent reading copy
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Industrial History Lead Mining Industrial Architecture

Inventory No.36806 Author: Clough, Robert T.
The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales. Their Architectural Character, Construction and Place in the European Tradition.
Published 1962 The Author. (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Fair Price: £15
No 497 of edition of 1000 copies .Corners bumped, small Ex Libris sticker on ffep, library stamp under flap of d/w else decent copy in rather scruffy d/w, chipped, torn and mended with tape
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Industrial History Lead Mining Industrial Architecture

Inventory No.32655 Author: Coates, D. M.
Bradford City Tramways 1882-1950
Published 1984 Wyvern Publications (Skipton.) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Trams Tramways Transport Public Local History

Inventory No.34502 Author: Cole, Don
Cookridge the Story of a Yorkshire Township Part One and Part Two
Published 1993 D&j Thornton (Leeds) Type:2 Volumes
Edition:Second Impression ISBN: Size:A5 Booklets Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Part one 090733900x, 48pp. Part Two 0907339034 48pp. Both nice clean copies but both have small green address label on titlepage
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Cookridge Family History Genealogy Local History

Inventory No.30666 Author: Cole, Don
Rectors, Squires, Stewards in a Yorkshire Parish. Their Homes and Lives Through Three Centuries in Adel and Cookridge
Published 1985 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4
Nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Adel Cookridge Family History Genealogy Local History

Inventory No.31154 Author: Colne Valley Society
The Valley. The Story of the Land and People of the Upper Colne Valley
Published 2000 Colne Valley Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Faint sign of label removal on front cover. Small address label on inside of front cover. pp. 45. Illustrated. Includes errata slip. Clean copy.
West Yorkshire Kirklees Colne Valley Local History

Inventory No.31354 Author: Cragg, George G.
Grimshaw of Haworth
Published 1947 The Canterbury Press (London, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Fair Price: £4.5
Very nice clean copy in rather ragged d/w
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford Haworth Local History Church History Nonconformity

Inventory No.23874 Author: Crapp, H. C; Whitehead, Thos Compiled By
History of the Congregational Church at Eccleshill. Published to Commemorate the Jubilee (1888-1938) of the Erection of the Present Buildings, Sunday School Opened July, 1888. Chapel Opened July, 1889
Published 1939 Watmoughs (Idle, Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Leather
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £50
Subscription Copy. Original blue leather, gilt. Leather rubbed and bubbled on rear board. Neat gift inscription on ffep. Numerous illustrations. Errata slip tipped in at rear. pp. 108.
West Yorkshire Bradford Eccleshill Congregationalism Non Conformist Congregational Church History

Inventory No.17696 Author: Croft, D. J.
A Century of Public Transport in Bradford 1882-1982
Published 1982 City of Bradford Metropolitan Council Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734022 Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
West Yorkshire Bradford Yorkshire Local Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.25031 Author: Crossley E. W. [transcribed and Indexed by]
The Parish Registers of Halifax, Co. York. Volume II (2) Marriages and Burials 1538 to 1593
Published 1914 The Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £30
Re-bound in black cloth,gilt. A very nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Register Local Family Genealogy History

Inventory No.33122 Author: Crump, W. B.
Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages
Published 1988 Kirklees Leisure Services (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0900746327 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £15
Produced for Kirklees Leisure Services by The Old Hall Press, Burton Salmon, Leeds. Number 696 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. pp. 150.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Genealogy Transport Roads Highways

Inventory No.20776 Author: Crutchley, Geo. W.
John Mackintosh a Biography
Published 1921 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Illustrated with photographs. pp. 231 plus index. Name on ffep, spine bumped and slightly faded, nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Local History

Inventory No.36238 Author: Cudworth, William.
Rambles Round Horton: Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive
Published Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Name, date etc inside, small spah mark on back cover else very good clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Great Horton Little Horton Family History Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.34562 Author: Cudworth, William.
Historical Notes on the Bradford Corporation, with Records of the Lighting and Watching Commissioners and of Highway Surveyors
Published 1881 Thomas Brear (Bradford.and London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Original Green Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £33
Hinges cracked, a little wear to top and bottom of spine, else clean bright copy with only slight spotting- mainly to tissue guards
West Yorkshire Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography Industrial Industry

Inventory No.34935 Author: Cullingworth History Group
Cullingworth "A Glimpse of the Past"
Published 2002 Cullingworth History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £15
82pp. Lovely clean copy.
West Yorkshire Bradford Keighley Local History Cullingworth Family History Genealogy

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