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Inventory No.16332 Author: Farrar, Kenneth
Don't Move the Goalposts Autobiography of a Design Engineer His Story of Calderdale
Published 1999 The Author Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Covers slightly creased, nice clean copy with Christmas inscription from author
West Yorkshire Calderdale

Inventory No.21869 Author: Fieldhouse, Harry
Old Bradford Illustrated
Published 1889 Percy Lund & Co. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £36
Boards and spine a little rubbed, name stamped inside, slight foxing to prelims, nice clean copy. Together with original hand bill for the book, slightly worn on outside edge with small closed tear.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.21151 Author: Fieldhouse, Harry
Old Bradford Illustrated
Published 1889 Percy Lund & Co. (Bradford.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £10
Rebound in black car cover with title label to front. Pages edges thumbed and a little grubby. 94 pages with 22 pages of adverts, one of which has been partly coloured in. This is the small paper edition.
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.15466 Author: Fieldhouse, Joseph; Illustrator: Paul Shardlow
Bradford
Published 1972 Longman. (London, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0582150795 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + But Price Clipped. Price: £3
Gift inscription on ffep, otherwise nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.21818 Author: Finney, J. E.
Otley Into the 80's (A Consultative document)
Published 1976 Leeds City Council (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
37 page report into proposed improvements around the town.
Otley Local History West Yorkshire

Inventory No.21913 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford Charity & the Public Purse a History of Bradford Hospitals from 1780
Published 2001 Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Very nice clean copy but bumped on bottom edge of rear board.
Bradford West Riding West Yorkshire Hospitals Local History Medicine Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.21837 Author: Firth, Gary; Illustrator: Sowden, John
Street Characters of a Victorian City John Sowden's Bradford
Published 1993 City of Bradford Metropolitan Council (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734405 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £12.5
Bradford West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Victorian Genealogy

Inventory No.20957 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford in Old Picture Postcards
Published 1984 European Library. (Zaltbommel, Netherlands.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9028826424 Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
124 photographs with text. Name on ffep, but nice clean copy otherwise
West Riding West Yorkshire Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.20902 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford and the Industrial Revolution: An Economic History 1760-1840
Published 1990 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310107 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7.5
Slight crease to ffep but very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Industry Industrial History Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.20581 Author: Firth, Gary
Bradford As It Was
Published 1986 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:Fourth Impression ISBN: 0860670341 Size:Landscape: Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Name on title page but very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History

Inventory No.21442 Author: Firth, Gary.
Bygone Bradford: The Lost World of J. B. Priestley.
Published 1986 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852068786 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography J. B. Priestley Christopher Pratt

Inventory No.11357 Author: Fisher, June; Bonney, Anne [compilied by]
'All in a Lifetime' : The Story of a Dalesman As Told to June Fisher
Published 1999 Helm Press (Kendal) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 0953183637 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8.5
West Yorkshire Burton in Lonsdale Local History Family History Genealogy Quaker

Inventory No.18346 Author: Fiske, Mary; Weller, Richard
St. Michael's Church East Ardsley 1881-1981
Published 1981 The Authors Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Decorated blue card covers. 46 pages plus 4 full page photographs.
West Yorkshire West Riding Wakefield Local History East Ardsley Local History

Inventory No.22128 Author: Fraser, Derek
A History of Modern Leeds
Published 1980 Manchester University Press (Manchester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 071900747x Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/Very Good Price: £16
Front hinge split at top and has been messily glued, very good clean copy otherwise
Leeds West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.22123 Author: Fraser, Derek
A History of Modern Leeds
Published 1980 Manchester University Press (Manchester) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 071900747x Size:8vo Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £20
nice clean copy
Leeds West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.12587 Author: Freda, Heywood; Malcolm, Heywood; Brian, Heywood
Cloth Caps and Cricket Crazy : Todmorden and Cricket 1835 to 1896
Published 2004 Upper Calder Valley Publications Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0954714601 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £20
Signed by two of the authors
West Yorkshire Lancashire Todmorden Cricket Local History Family History Genealogy

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