HALIFAX – BRIGHOUSE – SHIBDEN HALL (home of “Gentleman Jack”) – HEPTONSTALL

Includes a set of four photographs entitled “Hail, Hell and Halifax” by Bill Brandt and J P W Mallalieu. Brant was a German photographer and Mallalieu Labour MP for Huddersfield so I presume Brant took the photographs and Mallalieu provided the text. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

Batsford 1953 1st edition dj chipped Book vg+ No stamps, labels or inscriptions. 190 pages index and illustrations. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

This book has been reprinted many times but this is a first edition published by F King & Sons Halifax in 1920. On quality paper with illustrations. 286 pages with an index with maps on endpapers (though front map does have a private bookplate (George Horsefall Frodsham, Bishop who for some reason felt the need to sign his name on the title page) the red cloth is faded but otherwise a tight clean copy. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

A strange on one this, a 12X9 folder produces (undated) by Calderdale Museums Service. Entrance to the Hall was Adults 15P and Children 8P so after 1971 but I suspect not long after, the telephone number was 52246. To any UK address

A Dialect in Architecture – Some Buildings of the Seventeenth Century in the Parish of Halifax (64 pages well illustrated) Extracts from the Leeds Mercury 1742 – 1760 (31 pages) The book is in much better condition than you would expect for a 98 year old publication, no inscriptions no foxing or decolourization of the pages, covers and binding intact. Through the post to addresses within the UK

60 pages published by Brighouse Civic Trust 1978 85 buildings described many with illustrations. Through post or delivered in UK £3.50

Compiled for Calder Civic Trust by Philip Round. First published in 1972 this is the 1973 fourth (revised) edition. Back cover a bit on the scruffy side, otherwise vg. Through post to Heptonstall (or to any other less lofty, UK location)

Illustrated by Albert T Pile Published by Brighouse Corporation 1953 214 pages and a 18 page index. This is a near fine copy but with no dust jacket. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.