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Inventory No.35995 Author: Page, Caroline
19th Century Life at Lord's Mill
Published 2012 Honley Civic Society (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780957263819 Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £7
28pp.
West Yorkshire Kirklees Huddersfield Honley Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.28368 Author: Page, David J.
Sharow Millennium Star Commemorative Book
Published 2002 Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape: Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
275 pages. a very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Sharow Ripon Local History

Inventory No.29969 Author: Palliser, D. M.
A Brief History of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York
Published 1998 Type:
Edition:Revised Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
12pp. Excellent clean copy
Merchant Adventurers York Local History

Inventory No.31623 Author: Palmer, Barbara D.
The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Subject List of Extant & Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama (Early Drama, Art & Mu)
Published 1990 Western Michigan Univ Medieval Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 091872032x Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
Excellent copy

Inventory No.30844 Author: Palmer, Simon
Saltaire: A Picture Storybook
Published 1995 Salts Estates Ltd. (Shipley, W.Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951695045 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Front cover lightly faded to bottom left hand corner. Sign by Jonathan Silver. A nice clean bright copy.
CHILDREN BOOKS JUVENILE NONFICTION POETRY Yorkshire

Inventory No.20007 Author: Palmer, Simon; Illustrator: Palmer, Simon
Saltaire : A Guide
Published 1996 Salts Estates (Saltaire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951695053 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3
Previous owners address label in top corner of title page, else looks unread.
West Yorkshire Saltaire Local History

Inventory No.31090 Author: Palmer,Tom
The Bradford Wool Exchange: An Oral History of the Building and Its Role in Bradford
Published 1997 Waterstone's Booksellers Bradford (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953189309 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers.
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Yorkshire Bradford Wool Textiles History Social Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.25453 Author: Parker, Colonel John. [edited and Transcribed by]
The Parish Register of Thirsk in the County of York, North Riding 1556-1721. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section. Volume XLII
Published 1911 Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Ex-society library in brown cloth library binding with stamps and labels. Label on spine. Contents clean, and clearly legible.
Yorkshire North North Riding Thirsk Local History Family History Genealogy Parish Register Registers Society

Inventory No.36329 Author: Parker, James
Illustrated Rambles History from Hipperholme to Tong. Including the Opening of the Bradford Exhibition By Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales: Opening of the Cartwright Hall By Lord Masham, and the Lister Family; Life Of Dr. Cartwright.
Published 1904 Percy Lumb, Humphries & Co. Ltd. (Bradford.and) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Disbound
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £20
Complete text but lacks boards and prelims, suitable for binding
Wibsey Bank Bankfoot Bank Foot Low Moor Royd's Hall Judy Brig Norwood Green Wike Wyke Oakenshaw Whitechapel Hipperholme Coley Shelf Lightcliffe Bailiffe Bridge Kirklees and Robin Hood Bierley East Bierley Hunsworth Birkenshaw Battle of Adwalton Moor Drighlinton Tong Dudley Hill Bolling Hall Neville Hall Rooley Hall Ripley's Dyeworks Burnett Field Bradford Yorkshire Local History Family History Genealogy Topography West Yorkshire

Inventory No.26019 Author: Parsons, Malcolm
Yorkshire and the History of Medicine
Published 2002 William Sessions Limited (York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1850722730 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Society bookplate inside cover else very nice clean copy, appears unread
Yorkshire History Medicine

Inventory No.32511 Author: Patchett, Arnold N.
Some Yorkshire Bridges of Beauty and Romance
Published 1992 The Pentland Press (Durham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872795862 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Very Good + Price: £10
Lovely clean copy in slightly edge-worn d/w
Yorkshire

Inventory No.31566 Author: Patchett, Arnold N.
Some Unique Yorkshire Towns
Published 1997 Pentland Press (Durham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1858214998 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine. Price: £5
Yorkshire

Inventory No.31568 Author: Patchett, Ernest
A Life Memories of a Young Life in the Yorkshire Dales
Published 1999 The Pentland Press (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1858217040 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £10
Lovely clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.31567 Author: Patchett, Ernest; Patchett, Alice
A Life Story Full of Fun, Laughter and Some Tears
Published 1999 The Pentland Press (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1858216656 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £15
Lovely clean copy
North Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.34329 Author: Paul hanson
From Bradford to Ilkley a collection of panoramic Photographs
Published 1989 Paul Hanson Graphics Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 095146650x Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean bright copy.
West Yorkshire

Inventory No.36058 Author: Payne, Brian; Payne, Dorothy
Leeds as it Was in Photographs Volume One
Published 1974 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0902907522 Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Slightly sunned, small (address?) label removed from title page else decent copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local history

Inventory No.20873 Author: Pearce, Cyril; Edited By
Old West Riding. Vol. 6; No. 2. Winter 1986. A Collection of Original Articles.
Published 1986 Old West Riding Books (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Local History

Inventory No.36709 Author: Pearson, Gordon
Tides of Misfortune: Maritime Memories from Hull and Grimsby
Published 1995 Highgate Press (Markham) Ltd (Beverley, North Humberside, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1899498044 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Covers slightly rubbed but contents clean and sound
Yorkshire Lincolnshire History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.7784 Author: Pearson, Lynn F.
Building the North Riding. A Guide to Its Acrchitecture and History
Published 1994 Smith Settle. (Otley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1858250331 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good + Price: £7.5
Illustrated with photographs, some in colour, drawings and map. pp. viii, 161.
Yorkshire North Riding Architecture History Local Family Genealogy

Inventory No.23260 Author: Pearson, Richard; Illustrator: The Author (Photographs)
Richard Pearson's Welton Sketchbook
Published 1996 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 1872167896 Size:Landscape A5 Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
East Riding East Yorkshire Welton Local History

Inventory No.25118 Author: Pedley, F. Lyndon
St Margaret's Church, Horsforth Jubilee Souvenir 1883-1933
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12.5
Front hinge has been repaireed, gift inscription on ffep, stain on back cover but decent copy of scarce item. With original photograph 8" x 5.75" of interior of church during service for institution of new vicar (but no date)
West Riding West Yorkshire Leeds Horsforth Church Local History

Inventory No.27108 Author: Peel, Bernard
Glusburn Institute A Part of Our Heritage
Published 2008 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
North Yorkshire Skipton Glusburn Local History

Inventory No.36842 Author: Pepper, Barrie
Old Inns and Pubs of Leeds
Published 1997 Alewords (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951904728 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7
Owner's sticker inside else nice clean copy. With invitation to book launch and associated newspaper cuttings
West Riding West Yorkshire Leeds Pubs Public Houses Inns Beer Ale Local History

Inventory No.8255 Author: Perry, Jennifer
York-Oswaldkirk Turnpike Trust, 1768-1881
Published 1977 North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, N.Yorkshire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0906035023 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers/plastic Spine
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Yorkshire North Riding York Oswaldkirk History Local Family Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.34633 Author: Perry, Karen; Edmondson, Lee; Moore, Bryn
The Brooksbank Legacy. Our Story 1911-2011
Published 2001 Jeremy Mills Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 09781906600594 Size:Landscape: Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £25
Very faint crease to cover, otherwise a very nice clean, bright copy. 197 pages with numerous photographs and illustrations
West Yorkshire Calderdale Halifax Elland Education School

Inventory No.30993 Author: Petch, James A.; Buckley, Francis; Woodhead, T. W.
Early Man in the District of Huddersfield with an Appendix on the Nature and Making of Graving Tools
Published 1924 The Tolson Memorial Museum (Huddersfield) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Limp Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Kirklees Huddersfield Climate Tolson Museum Local History Topography

Inventory No.36818 Author: Pevsner, Nikolaus
Yorkshire: The North Riding
Published 1966 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £15
Names on ffep else nice clean copy in chipped d/w which doesn't quite fit the book
ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANNING TRAVEL Yorkshire North Riding History Local Family Genealogy topography

Inventory No.36817 Author: Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hutchinson, John
Yorkshire: York and the East Riding
Published 1974 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0140710434 Size:12mo Binding:Leatherette
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
Slight edgewear to d/w, owner's sticker on ffep else nice clean copy
Yorkshire York East Riding East Yorkshire Architecture Local History Family Genealogy

Inventory No.36816 Author: Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid
Yorkshire: The West Riding (Buildings of England)
Published 1993 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0140710175 Size:12mo Binding:Leatherette
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Very small abrasion on spine of d/w which has been supported with tape on reverse, owner's sticker on ffep else very nice clean copy
Yorkshire west Riding History Local Family Genealogy Topography Buildings architecture

Inventory No.30038 Author: Phillips, Alan.
Sixty Years of Leeds Bradford Airport.
Published 1994 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1872167640 Size:Square Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Covers faded- lettering on spine illegible- else nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Bradford Yeadon Airport History Transport Air Airport Aircraft

Inventory No.31320 Author: Phillips, George Searle.
Walks Round Huddersfield.
Published Elaine Beardsell. (Holmfirth.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 0950978329 Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Facsimile reprint of the 1848 edition published by Bond and Hardy; and all other booksellers.
West Yorkshire West Riding Huddersfield Local History Topography

Inventory No.34949 Author: Pickles, Ken
Kit-Bag Verses 1918-2018
Published 2018 Ken Pickles (Addingham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5

Inventory No.34946 Author: Pickles, Ken
Twixt Both Ends of a Candle: a Collection of Poems By the Wharfedale Beekeeper
Published 1991 K. Pickles (Addingham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £6

Inventory No.36289 Author: Pickup, Peter
The History of the Bradford Cricket League: 1903 to 1988
Published 1988 Fairhaven Books (Pudsey, Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951414003 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Name and date written on titlepage, fading to spine and down side edges, else lvery good
Bradford Local History Wesy Yorkshire

Inventory No.36186 Author: Pinder, Kathleen
Ben Rhydding Methodist Church 1909-2009
Published 2008 Ben Rhydding Methodist Church (Ilkley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £3.5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire Bradford Ilkley Ben Rhydding Local History Church Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.22258 Author: Pitt, Gwyneth
University of Leeds Review Volume Thirty 30 1987/8
Published 1987 The University of Leeds Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0853161550 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Crease across top corner, very good clean copy

Inventory No.36914 Author: Pixton, Bob; Hooper, John
Great Provincial Stations: Leeds Termini
Published 1998 Challenger (Nottingham.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1899624279 Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.5
Cover slightly sunned, else nice clean copy
Leeds Railway Stations

Inventory No.29288 Author: Platt, George Moreton and Morkill, John William; Illustrator: J. A. Symington and J. W. Morkill
Records of the Parish of Whitkirk
Published 1990 MTD Rigg. (Guiseley, Leeds) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £20
Burgandy cloth with gilt titling and decoration. First published 1892 in an edition of 200 copies. This facsimile edition reprinted March 1990 in an edition of 300 copies. pp. 238. Excellent copy, as new
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Whitkirk Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.28955 Author: Plowright, Alan
John Henry's Journeys. Two Long - Distance Walks in the Yorkshire Dales in 1879
Published 2009 Moorfield Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
Signed by author on title-page. Walks from Skipton to Richmond and Pateley Bridge to Sedbergh in 1879. A very nice clean copy.
Yorkshire North Yorkshire Dales

Inventory No.33017 Author: Pomeroy, Vivian T.; Illustrator: Marjory Hart
The Legends of Lumb Lane
Published Lightning Source (Milton Keynes.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Although obviously a print on demand reprint, this is quite decent, legible with wide margins in excellent clean condition
West Yorkshire West Riding Bradford Lumb Lane Novel

Inventory No.34273 Author: Porritt, Arthur; Ogden, John
Halifax as it Was
Published 1973 Hendon Publishing (Nelson, Lancashire) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Landscape A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4.25
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.35193 Author: Powell, Richard A.
Historic Yorkshire
Published 2009 History Press (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 9780752449265 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £5
Initials on titlepage, writing inside back cover, otherwise very nice clean copy, almost like new
Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.23266 Author: Preedy, Bob
Remembering the Old Cinemas of Humberside
Published 1988 Preedy, R. E. (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First American Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Pictorial card covers. Numerous photographs. An excellent copy.
East Yorkshire Humberside Hull Cinema

Inventory No.36843 Author: Preedy, Robert E.
Leeds Cinemas Remembered
Published 1980 The Author (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Landscape Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
56pp. Ownership label on titlepage, contents very good. With relevant newspaper cuttings
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Cinemas

Inventory No.28599 Author: Preston, David
Menston Village Schools 1622-1995. To Commemorate the Centenary of the Present School
Published 1994 The Author (Ilkley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
pp. 72. Illustrated with photographs. Lovely clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Menston Local History

Inventory No.25944 Author: Price, A. C.
The Story of Leeds
Published 1912 J. W. Bean & Son (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Society bookplate on fep else very good
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History

Inventory No.31819 Author: Priory Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert Bolton Abbey
Parish Magazine June 2004 Celebrating 850 Years of Worship at Bolton Priory
Published 2004 Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
North Yorkshire Craven Dales Bolton Priory History

Inventory No.36370 Author: Pritchard, F. C
The Story of Woodhouse Grove School
Published 1978 Woodhouse Grove School (Bradford.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7.5
Based on official records and in particular on the Minutes of the Woodhouse Grove Commitee of Management and, later, of the Governing Body. Very nice clean copy in very good, slightly chipped d/w
Yorkshire Bradford Leeds Education Local Family Genealogy History School Methodism Wesleyan

Inventory No.26618 Author: Proudlock, Noel
Giggleswick School Chapel
Published 1997 J.N.D.Proudlock (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0951718517 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £12.5
Excellent copy
Yorkshire Dales Settle Giggleswick School Local History

Inventory No.36112 Author: Pullan, Margaret; Fisher, Elizabeth
The Monuments of the Parish Church of St. Peter-At-Leeds
Published 2007 The Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781905981526 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £9.5
Very nice clean copy
West Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Local History Church History Architecture

Inventory No.23186 Author: Pupils of St. Nicholas Primary School, Hull; Haden, John
Ending the Slave Trade with William Wilberforce of Hull
Published 2007 Barny Books (Grantham) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781903172872 Size:A5 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Fine Price: £7

Inventory No.24728 Author: Purvis, J. S.
Select XVI Century Causes in the Tithe from the York Diocesan Registry. Record Series Vol. CXIV Being the Second Volume for the Year 1947
Published 1949 The Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Brown cloth, gilt. Cloth a little rubbed. Neat signature to ffep. Endpapers shaded. Notes in green pen on rear endpaper. Notes and underlining in pencil and some in ink within text. Nice clean copy.
York Yorkshire North

Inventory No.20489 Author: Purvis, Rev. J. S.
The Archives of York Diocesan Registry
Published 1952 St. Anthony's Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Marks on cover but contents very good
York History

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