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Our list of West Yorkshire books is given by the initial letter of the author's surname

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.25810 Author: Ramsay, Jack
Made in Huddersfield the Post-Industrial Pennine Landscape
Published 1989 North of Watford Publishing (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871939003 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Special Huddersfield Edition of 2000 copies hardback only. Clean unmarked copy
Pennines Huddersfiels West Yorkshire Social History Topography Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.35680 Author: Rank, Carol
City of Peace Bradford's Story
Published 1997 Bradford Libraries (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734511 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean copy
Bradford West Yorkshire Peace Local History

Inventory No.28059 Author: Ratcliffe, Roger
The Bradford Book: The First Ever Handbook/Survival Guide to the Bradford Area
Published 1990 Aire Press & Publishing (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871774012 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Very good clean copy
west Yorkshire Bradford

Inventory No.36330 Author: Raw, David
Bradford Pals: a Comprehensive History of the 16th ,18th & 20th (Service) Battalions of the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment
Published 2005 Pen & Sword (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0850523508 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
Writing in red pen on endpapers, Christmas card illustrating 1914 truce attached to ffep, decent copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Family History First World War 1 I Local History

Inventory No.15474 Author: Rayner, Simeon
The History & Antiquities of Pudsey
Published 1986 MTD Rigg. (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Leather, Marbled Board
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £24
Slight wear to corners but very nice clean copy of de luxe edition
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Pudsey History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.34271 Author: Reach, Angus Bethune; Aspin, C.
The Yorkshire Textile Districts in 1849
Published 1974 Helmshore Local History Society Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0950072575 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Originally published in the Morning Chronicle in 1849. Name stamped inside, clean copy otherwise, small crease on front cover
West Yorkshire West Riding Industrial Textile Industry Local History Family History Genealogy Leeds Bradford Halifax Dewsbury Huddersfield

Inventory No.35676 Author: Reardon, Barbara; Twentyman, Mary
Yellow Poppies:the Dead and Those Who Received Honours as a Result of the 1916 Low Moor Munitions Explosion
Published 2014 Low Moor Local History Group (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
Lovely clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History Low Moor Explosion Family History Genealogy First World War I 1

Inventory No.37125 Author: Redmonds, George
Huddersfield & District Under the Stuarts: Seventy Years of Law and Disorder
Published 1985 Gr Books (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950852635 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
54pp. Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Kirklees Woodsome Paddock Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.37123 Author: Redmonds, George
The Heirs of Woodsome and Other Essays in Local History
Published 1982 Gr Books (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
64pp. Picture from newspaper attached inside front cover, nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Kirklees Woodsome Paddock Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.37122 Author: Redmonds, George
Old Huddersfield 1500-1800
Published 1981 The Author (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Name inside front cover and two newspaper articles about the author tipped in
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Kirklees Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36076 Author: Redmonds, George
Honley People, Places & Place-Names
Published 2019 GR Books (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781916014909 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Cover
Book / wrapper condition:New Price: £10
88pp.
West Yorkshire Huddersfield Local History Honley Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.35976 Author: Redmonds, George
Yorkshire Surnames Series Part Three: Halifax & District
Published 1990 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950852686 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
pp. 104. Slight fading to edge of cover else as new
West Yorkshire West Riding Halifax Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33417 Author: Redmonds, George
Surnames Around Huddersfield Their Origins, History and Distribution as Published in the Huddersfield Examiner
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
pp. 55 Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Names Surnames Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.26720 Author: Redmonds, George
Changing Huddersfield
Published 1985 Kirklees Metropolitan Council (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0900746173 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Local History Photographs

Inventory No.37124 Author: Redmonds, George Edited By
Slaithwaite Places and Place-Names
Published 1988 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950852643 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
52pp. Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Slaithwaite Colne Valley Place Names Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36678 Author: Redmonds, George Edited By
Yorkshire Surnames Series Part One: Bradford & District
Published 1990 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950852651 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
pp. 64. Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36051 Author: Redmonds, George Edited By
Photographs of Old Lepton Lascelles Hall & Rowley
Published 1983 G. R. Books (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0950852619 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £12
26pp. Paper covers laminated by library. Laminate creased but contents very good. Decent copy despite library stamps and labels on titlepage and inside cover.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Almonbury Local History Lepton Photographs Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.28284 Author: Reid, Pat and Ivan
See How We Grow! A Commemorative Book for the Golden Jubilee of the Opening of the Sunday School Building at Menston Methodist Church
Published 1983 Menston Methodist Junior Church Type:
Edition:Fifth Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
72 pages.
West Yorkshire Menston Local History Nonconformist

Inventory No.31557 Author: Rhodes, Clifford
Tempus Fugit: The Adventures of a Solicitor's Articled Clerk
Published 1992 Meredith,Ray & Littler Ltd (Salford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951818317 Size:9 Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Huddersfield

Inventory No.27567 Author: Rhodes, G. A.
Leeds' Visible History : Industry, Enterprise & Endeavour
Published 1993 Templar Publishing (Tockwith) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952101505 Size:Landscape Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Bottom corner creased else very good
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.37100 Author: Rhodes, Jos.
Half a Century of Co-operation in Keighley 1860-1910 Keighley Industrial Co-Operative Society Limited Jubilee History
Published 1911 Printed for the Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Original red cloth, blind stamped decoration with gilt titling and decoration. Page edges red. Wear to top of spine, which is slightly faded, else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Keighley Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33604 Author: Rhodes, Stanley
Life on the Buses
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
102pp. Personal account of working on the buses.
Buses Transport West Yorkshire Bradford Bingley Keighley Local History

Inventory No.36095 Author: Richardson, C.
The Bradford Region: Studies in Its Human Geography
Published 2002 Bradford Libraries and Information Service Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734626 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
West Yorkshire Bradford Geography

Inventory No.37147 Author: Rigg, Martin
Round and About Aireborough Vol VI A Final Glimpse of the Past
Published 1995 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Clean bright copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Aireborough Leeds Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.37145 Author: Rigg, Martin
Round and About Aireborough Vol III Another Glimpse of the Past
Published 1990 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean bright copy with no inscriptions
West Riding Aireborough Leeds West Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.37143 Author: Rigg, Martin
Round and About Aireborough Vol II A Further Glimpse of the Past
Published 1989 M. T. D. Rigg (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Bump at top of spine else clean crisp copy
Aireborough Leeds West Riding West Yorkshire Local Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.21883 Author: Riley, Edward; Illustrator: Swift, Ian D. Photography
Calderdale Then and Now
Published 1980 Halifax Courier Ltd. (Halifax) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Numerous photographs with text description.
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Local History

Inventory No.35466 Author: Riley, Edward and Hardcastle, Rayner
The Way We Were
Published Halifax Courier Ltd. Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale Halifax Local History Photographs

Inventory No.32048 Author: Riley, Edward; Hardcastle, Rayner
Yesterday Once More
Published 1983 Halifax Courier Ltd. (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Very nic clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Calderdale History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.36815 Author: Rinder, Albert
A History of Elland
Published The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9.5
Illustrated with photographs. pp. 81.Covers slightly rubbed, owner's sticker inside else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Elland Local History Calderdale

Inventory No.20948 Author: Rishworth, Marjorie
From Yorkshire to West Africa and Beyond
Published 2004 The Author Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6.5
Nice clean copy, no marks or inscriptions. Dust jacket is slightly creased on top edge.
West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Addingham Local History

Inventory No.31005 Author: Roberts, Bill J. A. G.
School's Out Memories of Gomersal First School and Its Predecessors
Published 2004 Type:Ex-Library
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £8
Stamps and labels inside, small piece missing at bottom of spine but clean readable copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Kirklees Gomersal Local History Memories Family History Genealogy Education Schools

Inventory No.32297 Author: Robertson, Alexander (intro.)
A Walk in the Light: The Penistone Line
Published The Author Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
80pp, Very good
West Yorkshire Walks South Yorkshire Penistone Railway Lines

Inventory No.37071 Author: Robinson, A. H.
Bradford Cathedral, A Historical Description
Published 1984 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
24 pages. Covers slightly sunned else nice clean copy.
West Yorkshire Bradford

Inventory No.35391 Author: Robinson, A. H.
Bradford's Public Statues
Published Bradford Art Galleries and Museums (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
29 pages. Illustrated with photographs with descriptive text. Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Local History

Inventory No.36912 Author: Robinson, Percy.
Leeds, Old and New. A Picturesque Sketch of the History of the City from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Published 1926 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Hard Cover
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Corners and spine a little worn, owner's sticker on ffep, decent copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.17419 Author: Robinson, Percy.; Illustrator: Robinson, Percy.
Relics of Old Leeds.
Published 1993 Old Hall Press. (Burton Salmon.) Type:
Edition:Reprint. ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Decorative Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Fine/No Jacket Price: £7.5
First printed in 1896. This is a facsimile reprint of that edition. Printed in the letterpress from etched plates by Premier Graphic of Leeds. Illustrated by twenty full-page plates and numerous blocks in the letterpress. All reproduced from drawings by the author. Red cloth, gilt titling with illustration on front board. A record of disappearing buildings of architectural or artistic merit in the ever advancing tide of modern improvement.
West Yorkshire Leeds Architecture Topography Genealogy Local Family History

Inventory No.28640 Author: Rogers, Joseph; Rogers, David
Civilians in Silsden 1939-45
Published 2009 Danercon (Harrow) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780956350206 Size: Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Crease across top corner of back corner else excellent unmarked copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Keighley local History Silsden Second World War 2 II

Inventory No.22760 Author: Rowley, Allen
Leeds: a Look Down Memory Lane. A Third Collection of Pictorial Memories from the Archives of the Yorkshire Evening Post
Published 2003 Great Northern (Ilkley) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0954400259 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £7.5
Endpapers wavy as though from damp else very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Leeds Local History Family History Genealogy Photographs

Inventory No.33012 Author: Rumsby, John H.
"Yours for Eternity" a Romance of the Great War
Published 2014 Hudderfield Local History Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780950913490 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £15
Excellent copy
West Yorkshire Huddersfield Local History First World War 1 I

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