Yorkshire Ditties by John Hartley – First Series
“to which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his popular Writings” Published in Wakefield by William Nicholson and Son. Undated but before 1900. Brown cloth with gold lettering brown endpapers. No stamps or inscriptions a very nice copy. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£12.50
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673 – 1915) and Traditional Poems
Published for the Yorkshire Dialect Society by Sidgwick and Jackson 1919. Compiled with an Historical Introduction by F W Moorman (Professor of English Language, University of Leeds. 186 pages, rebound in blue cloth very good condition. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£9.00
Yorkshire Puddin’ Readings and Writings by John Hartley
This copy published by Watmoughs Limited , Idle, Bradford. 380 pages, a tight copy but at some stage the spine must have come off and has been scruffily stuck back on. Owned at one time by Sidney Beaumont Senior (a relative of my grandma). The price includes postage to any UK address.
£20.00
Yorkshire Tales by John Hartley – Second Series
Published in London by W Nicholson and Sons undated but I would guess at about 1900. A nice clean copy Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£7.50
The years I can find are 1869 1871 1878 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1896 1898 1900 1901 1902 1903 1905 1907 1910 1912 1914 1915 1928 so let me know what year you desire.
Clock Almanack
Please specify year P&P in UK free please contact me for oversees prices
£3.50
“Joe Willie’s” and “Throng as Thropp’s Wife” Annual 1957
Published by J W Roberts and Son in Slaithwaite in 1957 this is a 96 page booklet of Yorkshire dialect stories. Though about half the pages are adverts for local businesses, giving a snapshot of business in the valley in the mid-fifties. Well read but complete. It helps to read it out loud but it is nowhere as difficult as the Clock Annuals, in fact it can probably be read and understood by non-Yorkshire folk.
For example;
“Tha should ha’ towld t’company that,” she said, “asteed o’ leeavin’ em all strung up in t’middle on it!”
or in a poem about John Henry;
His wahfe sed he wor musical :
He bowt a big trambooane
He blew it all shapes ivvery neet
- Until he lived alooane !
Joe Willy’s and Throng as Thropp’s Wife Annual 1957
Published by J W Roberts and Son in Slaithwaite in 1957 this is a 96 page booklet of Yorkshire dialect stories. Though about half the pages are adverts for local businesses, giving a snapshot of business in the valley in the mid-fifties. Well read but complete. It helps to read it out loud but it is nowhere as difficult as the Clock Annuals, in fact it can probably be read and understood by non-Yorkshire folk.
£10.00
Yorkshire Brass by a Yorkshire Lass by Kate Glover
Undated 24 pages of Dialect Poetry and Reminiscences decorated by A R Clark. Through the post in the UK
£4.00
On Ilkla Moor Baht’ at.
4 page music sheet produced by Banks County Arcade Leeds Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£2.50
The pages are not numbered but there are 66 illustrations. Given how big Dewsbury is this should be the more common book but isn’t. published 1985. £7.00
Not in Heckmondwike Book Shop 