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Inventory No.10782 Author: Jackson, Ashley
Ashley Jackson's Yorkshire Moors A Love Affair
Published 2000 Dalesman Publishing Company (Skipton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1855681803 Size:Landscape: Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £14.5
Very nice clean copy
Yorkshire

Inventory No.10781 Author: Jackson, Ashley
My Brush with Fortune an Autobiography
Published 1982 Secker & Warburg (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0436220350 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good + Price: £4
Lacks titlepage

Inventory No.7534 Author: Jackson, Philip H.
A Guiseley Miscellany of Information Up to and Including That of 1837. a Genealogical Abstract and Index of the Non-Conformist Registers with Details of Many Other Families
Published 2001 The Author. (Bristol.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers/ring Binder
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12
Yorkshire West Riding Guiseley Leeds History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.10895 Author: Jackson, Richard. [publisher]
Jackson's Handbook for Tourists in Yorkshire and Complete History of the County
Published 1891 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £20
Front hinge weak, rear hinge repaired, spine and front board worn and dulled, internally clean and sound.
Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10067 Author: Jackson, Richard. [publisher]
Jackson's New Illustrated Guide to Leeds and Environs.
Published 1990 Old Hall Press. (Burton Salmon.) Type:
Edition:Reprint. ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Embossed Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Fine/No Jacket Price: £15
First published in 1889. This is a facsimile reprint of that edition. Numerous illustrations. Deep red embossed cloth boards with gilt titling. An informative guide to the centre and surrounding district which made up the City of Leeds.
West Riding West Yorkshire Leeds Topography Genealogy Local Family History

Inventory No.2433 Author: Jackson, Richard. [publisher]
Illustrated Guide to Leeds and Environs.
Published 1990 Old Hall Press. (Burton Salmon.) Type:
Edition:Reprint. ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Embossed Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Fine/No Jacket Price: £7
First published in 1889. This is a facsimile reprint of that edition. Numerous illustrations. Deep red embossed cloth boards with gilt titling. An informative guide to the centre and surrounding district which made up the City of Leeds.
West Yorkshire Leeds Topography Genealogy Local Family History

Inventory No.11819 Author: James, David
Bradford: Town and City Histories, Historical Editor: Stephen Constantine. Illustrated from the Archives and with Contemporary Photographs By Ian Beesley, Andrew Caveney and Tim Smith
Published 1990 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310050 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Non as Issued. Price: £10
Slight fading to spine.
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Social Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.11220 Author: James, David
Class and Politics in a Northern Industrial Town: Keighley 1880-1914
Published 1995 Ryburn Publishing. (Keele.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310662 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £9
Foreword by Asa Briggs.
West Yorkshire Keighley Social Political Industrial History Local History Family History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.8628 Author: James, David; Illustrator: Beesley, Ian
Victorian Bradford the Living Past
Published 1987 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310034 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7.5
BRADFORD WEST YORKSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHS

Inventory No.8825 Author: James, David and Ian Breesley
Victorian Bradford the Living Past
Published 1987 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310034 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Non as Issued. Price: £4.5
Front cover yellowed by sunlight, otherwise at least Very Good+
Yorkshire Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography Photography

Inventory No.5160 Author: James, David and Ian Breesley
Victorian Bradford the Living Past
Published 1987 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310034 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £7.5
Yorkshire Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography Photography

Inventory No.5159 Author: James, David and Ian Breesley
Victorian Bradford the Living Past
Published 1987 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310034 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Non as Issued. Price: £7.5
Yorkshire Bradford History Local Family Genealogy Topography Photography

Inventory No.11818 Author: James, John
The History and Topography of Bradford, (in the County of York,) with Topographical Notices of Its parish. Centenary Edition 1967. Two Volumes
Published 1967 Mountain Press (Queensbury, Bradford.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £19.5
Spine of d/w slightly faded but very good clean copy with no inscriptions
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Local History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.11890 Author: Jarratt, Jim
Ivory Towers and Dressed Stones: Vol. 2: Yorkshire : Exploring the Follies, Prospect Towers and Other Curiosities of Northern England
Published 1994 Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1852841478 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6.5
Yorkshire Follies Architecture

Inventory No.11594 Author: Jeffrey, Percy
Whitby Lore and Legend
Published 1985 Caedmon of Whitby (Whitby) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Whitby North Yorkshire North Riding Cleveland Yorkshire Coast Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10271 Author: Jeffrey, Percy
Whitby Lore and Legend
Published 1971 Horne & Son Ltd (Whitby) Type:
Edition:Third Edition. ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £8.5
Whitby North Yorkshire North Riding Cleveland Yorkshire Coast Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.8131 Author: Jemison, Barbara; Illustrator: Phil Parkinson
The Spell of Yorkshire and Other Poems
Published 1992 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167438 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Non as Issued. Price: £5
Yorkshire Poetry Poems

Inventory No.11526 Author: Jennings, Bernard
A History of Nidderdale
Published 1967 The Advertiser Press. (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £20
Edges and d/w lightly spotted but good clean copy with no inscriptions
Yorkshire North Riding Nidderdale History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.11448 Author: Jennings, Bernard
A History of Nidderdale
Published 1983 The Nidderdale History Group (Pateley Bridge) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: 0900657804 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £16
Yorkshire North Riding Nidderdale History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9380 Author: Johnson, Alan Campbell
Viscount Halifax a Biography
Published 1941 Robert Hale (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+/No Jacket Price: £5
Boards rubbed. Name on f.f.e.p.
Yorkshire Halifax

Inventory No.10525 Author: Jones, A. E.
Roads and Rails of West Yorkshire, 1890-1950
Published 1984 Ian Allan (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0711013470 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7
Dust wrapper creased, and repaired internally with tape, at top of spine.
West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Transport

Inventory No.9372 Author: Jones, E. Alan
Yorkshire Gypsy Fairs, Customs and Caravans, 1885-1985
Published 1986 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907033431 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £14.5
Gypsies Gypsy Local History Yorkshire Social History Folk Lore

Inventory No.11149 Author: Jones, E. Alan with Foreword By Fiona Scott
Yorkshire Gypsy Fairs, Customs and Caravans from 1885 to the Present Day
Published 2002 The Appleby Fair Company (Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire) Type:
Edition:Revised and Enlarged Edition ISBN: 0907033431 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £25
Reprinted in larger format with new chapter and photographs
Gypsies Gypsy Local History Yorkshire Social History Folk Lore

Inventory No.11817 Author: Jones, Marjorie
Count Up to Ten an Account of a Bradford Childhood in the Twenties
Published 1987 Bradford Libraries and Information Service (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907734138 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Non as Issued. Price: £3.5
Blue sticker with class no on spine, WYAS stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean and tight
Bradford Local Family History Genealogy West Yorkshire

Inventory No.9199 Author: Jowitt, J. A.
Mechanization and Misery. The Bradford woolcombers' Report of 1845
Published 1991 Ryburn Publishing. (Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1853310123 Size:4to Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/None as Issued. Price: £15
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Textile Local History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.11898 Author: Joy, David
Yorkshire's Farm Life
Published 1994 Dalesman (Skipton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1855680696 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4.5
Farming Agriculture Yorkshire

Inventory No.11483 Author: Joy, David
Steam on the Settle and Carlisle
Published 1981 Dalesman Books (Clapham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0852066481 Size:Oblong 12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Corners rubbed but clean with no inscriptions
Yorkshire Dales Transport Railways Steam Trains Settle Carlisle

Inventory No.11473 Author: Joy, David
Uphill to Paradise. The Story of Hole Bottom Hamlet and Jerry and Ben's
Published 1991 Privately Printed (Hebden Bridge) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
North Yorkshire Wharfedale Hole Bottom Hebden Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.10622 Author: Joy, David
Yorkshire Legends
Published 1993 Dalesman (Skipton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 185568067x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3.75
Yorkshire Folk-lore Legends

Inventory No.10236 Author: Joy, David
The Hidden Places of North Yorkshire
Published 1989 Maps Marketing Ltd. (Plymouth.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871815150 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £3
Illustrated with numerous drawings and maps. Including large folding colour map at rear. pp. 216
North Yorkshire North Riding Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.9010 Author: Joy, David
Painters of the Dales
Published 1997 CPRE (Skipton, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 090689980x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Yorkshire Dales

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