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The CENTRAL COLLEGE (Kayes’) 1942 Prospectus

I got the date from the Grand Variety programme. A very well illustrated, plenty of the pupils, 40 page booklet in vg+ condition. The price includes postage to any UK address usually by Royal Mail.

£5.00

The Story of Huddersfield – Roy Brook

published by MacGibbon & Kee 1968 1st edition Fine book in Fine dj no stamps or inscriptions. 394 pages with index photographs, in text illustration, fold out sections. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

And the Glory – The Huddersfield Choral Society 1836 – 1986 – R A Edwards

A very clean HB with fine dj – ffep missing and a blanked out stamp so probably ex-library Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Two Issues of “The Almondburian” King James Grammar School

Tw booklets No. 39 and No. 41 April and December 1927about 36 pages with local adverts. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

At Your Service One Hundred Years of The Huddersfield Corporation

A 72 page booklet (not illustrated) published late 60’s. I worked for Kirklees in the 70’s and recognise many of the departments described, but I am sure that one of my colleagues when I was a councillor, Peter McBride, will remember the whole of this history. There are copies of this available on the net, but not as cheap as the £5.00 I am asking.

At Your Service One Hundred Years of The Huddersfield Corporation

£7.50

BIG Ears in the Kingdom of Kirklees

“A jaundiced look at our Lords and Masters – Yorkshire Politicians and Bureaucrats through the eyes of Big Ears” 94 page illustrated book soft bound. Through the post to UK addresses or sometimes by bicycle if in the Spen Valley

£9.00

Churches and Chapels of Kirklees – A Ronald Bielby

Published in 1978 by Kirklees Libraries and Museum Service this 116 page book is well illustrated. This is a clean tight copy with no inscriptions. Through the post to UK destinations.

£7.50

HUDDERSFIELD OFFICIAL HANDBOOK (1960)

Now there are Handbooks and Town Guides, but this is something on a different level, published by Pyramid Press Limited (London) in 1960 (undated but the mayor who signed off this book served a959-1960). 272 glossy pages with advertisements from most of the prominent businesses of the time. A 30 page history well illustrated and fold out maps of the town. 10X7, this copy has tape (neatly) to the spine and page edges of the cover, does not detract from the quality. Through the post to UK destinations

£15.00

Pennine Journey by William B Stocks

Being the History of the Railways, Tramways and Canals in Huddersfield and District. Printed and Published by THE ADVERTISER PRESS LTD> Huddersfield 1958. Card covers 98 pages tight clean copy no inscriptions. Posted to UK address

£7.50

The Charter Our Right! Huddersfield Chartism Re-Considered (2018) edited by John A. Hargreaves

https://undergroundhistories.wordpress.com/the-charter-our-right-book-review/ 128 pages published by Huddersfield Local History Society, still in print though ABE, Amazon and Waterstones don’t have a copy. I am offering this copy, through the post to any UK address for £10.00

£10.00

A Pictorial History of the Huddersfield & District Police Force – By Steve Holberry

Print City. Soft Cover, 200x210mm. Huddersfield Police Force from the earliest records to the present day. 82pp plus covers. Illustrated in black and white. Very Good. Price below includes UK P&P

£15.00

Huddersfield Norman Culley, 1939. Blue cloth with printed title to front cover. Not dated, but the drawings are dated 1938 and 1939. With 25 pencil drawings. The collage distorts the illustrations as most are landscape format. A nice tidy copy for £10.00

The Second Book of Huddersfield – A Sketch Book

£12.50

Guide to the Calder and Hebble Navigation and the Huddersfield Broad Canal

The book is not dated and credits no author but credits members of Inland Waterways Association. Later additions credit David Taylor and this addition has a dedication to Alan and Jean Taylor so I suspect he had a part in writing this. Though undated as this copy is pre-decimal it is earlier than copies I have seen for sale. 28 pages with maps drawings and photographs. I can supply through the postal system for the combined price of £7.50 to UK locations.

£7.50

Colne Valley Labour Party – Souvenir Centenary History

Colne Valley Constituency Labour Party, 1991. Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 84pp with illustrations. Colne Valley Division Labour Union was formed in 1891 – the second oldest independent labour party organisation after Bradford; a founder of the ILP in 1893.Tom Mann was its first parliamentary candidate and Victor Grayson its first MP. Delivered to any UK address for £20.00

£20.00

Slavery in Yorkshire

This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explores the links between Richard Oastlers extraordinarily influential campaign against child labour in Yorkshire after 1830 and the remarkably successful campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade led by Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce before 1807. With contributions from D. Colin Dews, Dr John Halstead, Dr John A. Hargreaves, Dr Janette Martin, Professor Edward Royle and Professor James Walvin, it evaluates the distinctively Yorkshire context of both movements and offers a re-assessment of Oastlers contribution to their success. It reveals how Oastlers associations with both evangelical Anglicanism and Nonconformity, especially Methodism, stimulated and sustained his involvement in the ten-hour factory movement and examines the role of the regional press, local grass-roots organisation and Oastlers powerful oratory in helping to secure a successful outcome to the campaign. In a foreword, the Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal, a leading figure in both the regional and national commemoration of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 2007, commends this wide-ranging historical study with its broad perspective as an important contribution to making us all more informed on the whole theme of slavery today. Delivered to UK Address £15.00

£15.00

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary – CARNIVAL AND GALA WEEK -1928

Official Souvenir Handbook 48 pages mainly adverts with a few hospital related photographs. Posted to any UK address £5.00

£5.00

Local Transport 1870 – 1940 Kirklees Camera

62 pages of local transport photographs good quality. Posted to UK addresses

£7.50

History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry by W B Crump

1935 132 pages with illustrations. County Borough of Huddersfield The Tolson Memorial Museum Publications. To any UK address

£9.00

ANGELS, DANES and NORSE in the District of HUDDERSFIELD by WG Collingwood

Published in 1921 soft cover 64 pages with illustrations Posted to any UK address

£8.50

BRADFORD – Thornton – Wike – Horton

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History of the Bradford Property Trust Limited 1928 – 1978 by John Brennan

Watmoughs BRADFORD 1978 – a 56 page copy in fine condition. The price includes postage to any UK address usually by Royal Mail.

£6.00

Rambles Round Horton by William Cudworth

First printed in 1886, this undated reprint by Mountain Press has 246 pages it is a fine copy in a fine dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.50

Rail Centres: Leeds/Bradford by Stephen Batty

The Usual Ian Allen Quality 160 pages well illustrated well written and well indexed. Quality paper and quality reproduction of photographs. A fine hard back and a fine (clipped) dj Through the post to any UK destination £9.00

£9.00

A Century of Public Transport in Bradford 1882-1982 by DJ Croft

24 page Occasional Local Publication No. 4 Bradford MC 8X6 illustrated Posted to any UK Address

£5.00

Thornton in Times Past by Alan Whitworth

48 pages mainly illustrations with explanatory text published 1987. The quality of the reproduction of the photographs is much better than illustrations in other books in the same series. A couple of places a previous owner has underlined text. The price includes UK P&P

£6.50

WIKE – “Where they’re all alike”

60 pages well illustrated undated Price below includes UK P&P

£12.50

Written by Geoff J Mellor in 1983 , printed in Huddersfield, this is 64 soft covered publication that attempts to list, in most cases with photos the sixty or so cinemas the city (including Shipley) has possessed. Not all at the same time.

A good solid reference work.

The Chartist Risings in Bradford

D.G. Wright. Bradford Libraries and Information Service, 1987. £3.00

Since the publication of AJ Peacock’s Bradford Chartism 1838-40, in 1969, there has been a great need of a continuation of the story, particularly to include the events in the tumultuous year of 1848, when Bradford played a crucial part in ‘the greatest mass movement of working class political and social protest in British history’. This opinion was emphasised but never elaborated upon some twenty years ago by FC Mather in his Historical Association pamphlet on Chartism, in which he stated that ‘the Bradford District of the West Riding was perhaps the most outstanding centre of physical force Chartism in England in the spring of 1848’. Until now it has only been possible to follow the story in newspapers of the period or in doctoral theses and so the appearance of David Wright’s booklet is to be greatly welcomed.

Few historians are better qualified to write upon this subject than Dr Wright, who for over twenty years has made a special study of the social and political history of nineteenth century Bradford, and the booklet does not disappoint. In particular he treads a judicious path between the importance of local details and the wider implications of regional and national events. Most important of all he gives full consideration to the effect Anglo-Irish relationships had upon Bradford’s volatile population during a period of great industrial unrest.

Almost thirty years ago Asa Briggs in Chartist Studies urged historians to recognise that the all-embracing concept of the six points of the Charter motivated different social groups in different times and places with differing degrees of intensity. Dr Wright has produced a model essay on the Briggs pattern in which he analyses Chartism in Bradford, from its roots in the Great Strike of 1825 to the Anti-Poor Law agitation in the late 1830s and on to the first rising in January 1840. But it is in the later events that the author breaks new ground, looking in detail at the Plug-drawing riots of 1842 and the more menacing threats to law and order in 1848. Of particular interest is the changing composition of both the Chartist leadership and its supporters during the whole period. At first the movement was dominated by men with English names, often hand-weavers from the outer townships, especially Horton, but after 1840 it took on an Irish tinge, being increasingly dominated by the bete-noir of the Bradford middle classes, the hard drinking, wife-beating George White, and his fellow-Irishman, John Smyth.

In retrospect Chartism seems to have been a dismal failure, but that point of view fails to do justice to important and enduring aspects of the movement that were without violent intent, notably the Temperance Chartists and those bodies concerned with Adult Education, Co-operation and Social Christianity. It also forgets the powerful radical political heritage which Chartism bestowed on the West Riding, for the radical tradition was nourished by memories of the stirring events of the 1840s. It is no coincidence that towards the end of the century the West Riding became the most important centre of Independent Labour Party activity, with Bradford always to the fore.

J.A.J.

The Chartist Risings in Bradford – D G Wright

74 page booklet Pub 1987′ The price below includes postage in UK

£7.50

Roger of Manningham or The Wild Boar of Undercliffe

1900 (or there about, not the 2020 reprint) Princess Theatre, Bradford, Book of Words 32 page programme with adverts. Complete but tape on the spine. Price is for the item posted to UK address.

£5.00

Textile Voices = Mill Life This Century – Olive Howarth – Bradford Heritage Unit

84 pages well illustrated To any UK abode £7.50

£7.50

Bradford by Joseph Fieldhouse

2nd revision paperback published in 1981 (first published in 1972) 216 pages with illustrations and index. A fine paperback copy. Delivered to your UK address

£7.50

Yorkshire Dales

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MY LIFE AND YOUR CHILDREN@S LAUGHTER by Marjorie Belle Stevenson

Nidderdale. Self published signed first edition soft cover in fine condition. Autobiography of a Yorkshire woman, her upbringing on a farm, experiences in the depression and Second World War, and her life running a cafe at a popular beauty spot, How Stean Gorge. 70pp illustrated with black and white photographs Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

A Walk around Kettlewell (A walk back in time with pictures history and tales of the village. by Colin Hare

Seems to have been published privately first in 2002 and then reprinted in 2003. The author hales from Buckinghamshire, but we can’t hold that against him, in his favour he was at one time a motorcyclist. However he has compiled an interesting book on Kettlewell History, well illustrated. This is a fine copy of the reprint. Much more than the short title implies. Well worth a read. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

KINGSDALE The Valley of the Vikings by Frederic Riley

Gleanings From a Yorkshire Valley Published in Skipton by The Craven Herald Ltd. Undated but has an inter war feel, I have found mention of this publication but none for sale. 34 page booklet, the cover is dusty contents very bright No stamps labels or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£25.00

Appleby-In-Westmorland and WARCOP by Michael Ffinch

Published by Titus Wilson & Sons, Kendal in 1984 1st edition. must have been a short run as I can’t find another for sale. This is a fine copy. No stamps labels or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Dalesman “Other” publications (not the magazine)

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Explore Yorkshire by Car 1. The Dales

Dalesman 1977 second edition in fine condition NOTE this is for #1 only Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

Explore Yorkshire by Car 2. The North Yorkshire Moors

Dalesman 1977 fine copy NOTE #2 only Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

Exploring the Lake District by Malcolm Boyes

Exploring the North Yorkshire Moors by Malcolm Boyes

Exploring the Yorkshire Coast by Barry Mitchell

Lakeland A to Z

Matlock

Peak District Walks by John N Merrill

Roman Derbyshire by Tom Garlick

Shepherd’s Crooks and Walking Sticks by David Grant and Edward Hart

Walking in Airedale

Walking in the Bronte Country

Walking on the Norfth Yorkshire Moors

Walks in Lower Wharfdale by Geoffrey White

Walks in Nidderdale by Geoffrey White

Walks in Upper Wharfedale by Mike Obst

Walks North of York by Geoffrey White and Geoffrey Green

Yorkshire Mysteries and Oddities

Various editions mostly in at least vg condition priced between £2.50 and £5.00

Yorkshire Dialect (other dialects may exist) inc. Clock Almanack by John Hartley

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Holroyd’s Collection of Yorkshire Ballads

First published in London in 1892 this fine copy was published by EP Publishing in 1974. 318 pages, no stamps labels or inscriptions no dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

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 Puddin’ A collection of the most popular Dialect Stories from the pen of John Hartley

What appears to be a later copy from Watmoughs Limited 380 pages so probably from same blocks as other copy. This binding is slightly faded but intact. Name and Xmas 1948 on front free end paper. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

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 Original Illuminated Clock Almanack by John Hartley

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

£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

YORKSHIRE Past & Present

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Baines’s Yorkshire

This is the 1969 reprint by David & Charles of the 1822 original both over 600 pages – History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York the books are fine with no inscriptions or stamps. The djs are vg+ unclipped’ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£30.00

Yorkshire Past & Present: A History And Description Of The Three Ridings Of The Great County Of York, From The Earliest Ages To The Year 1870; With An Account Of Its Manufactures, Commerce, And Civil And Mechanical Engineering. By Edward & Thomas Baines.

A fascinating collection on ‘Yorkshire, Past and Present’ by the English journalist and historian Thomas Baines. An informative history of the historic county of Yorkshire in Northern England from the ‘earliest ages’ till the text’s publication in the late nineteenth century. Baine’s comprehensive study not only explores the topography of the area and its points of interest, but also details an account of its manufactures, commerce, and civil and mechanical engineering. This two volume set written by Thomas Baines was published in four parts. Volume I division I and II, and volume II division I were published approximately in 1870. Volume II, division II, detailing the history of Yorkshire to a later date than the other volumes (1875) was published later than the earlier volumes due the author’s state of health, as explained in the errata slip inserted to the volume. This copy also features an ‘Account of the Woolen Trade of Yorkshire’ by the author’s brother, Edward Baines junior, a nonconformist English newspaper editor and Member of Parliament. All volumes are undated. Illustrated with engravings of Yorkshire scenes, individuals and buildings.

On offer for £150

Bains Yorkshire Past and Present

The tops of the spine and a couple of the hinges need some attention, but this is not an ex-library copy it is not littered with stamps and stickers like many copies of this prestigious book that are on offer. All the plates are intact and most still have tissue paper protection. A fascinating collection on ‘Yorkshire, Past and Present’ by the English journalist and historian Thomas Baines. An informative history of the historic county of Yorkshire in Northern England from the ‘earliest ages’ till the text’s publication in the late nineteenth century. Baine’s comprehensive study not only explores the topography of the area and its points of interest, but also details an account of its manufactures, commerce, and civil and mechanical engineering. This two volume set written by Thomas Baines was published in four parts. Volume I division I and II, and volume II division I were published approximately in 1870. Volume II, division II, detailing the history of Yorkshire to a later date than the other volumes (1875) was published later than the earlier volumes due the author’s state of health, as explained in the errata slip inserted to the volume. This copy also features an ‘Account of the Woolen Trade of Yorkshire’ by the author’s brother, Edward Baines junior, a nonconformist English newspaper editor and Member of Parliament. All volumes are undated. Illustrated with engravings of Yorkshire scenes, individuals and buildings. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£125.00

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Yorkshire’s Ruined Abbeys by B. Wade

Just to prove that the obsession with broken churches is not new, this publication was written about 1938. Approx. 7″ X 5″ 168 pages by Burrow & Co. London. 81 illustrations from photographs and drawings, 11 plans and 24 Coats of Arms. Of a size that fits in the pocket whilst rambling round Yorkshire. This copy has no stamps or inscriptions, only fault is a bit of foxing on Half Title. A very nice book.

£5.00

Horne’s Guide to Whitby and District 1974

Published by Horne and son “Whitby Gazette” 1974 vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 1898 VOL XIV

Green cloth with Gilt lettering and decorations, Blind Blocked front and back 554 pages with 9 illustrations places featured Pocklington, Pontefract, Hull, Cavalry, Wragby, Richmond, York, Burnsall. 64 pages the Domesday Book for Yorkshire and much much more. This is a very tidy clean book that weighs nearly 1kg

£25.00

About Yorkshire by Thomas and Katherine MacQuoid – Published 1883

358 pages with an index with 67 illustrations. The contents are bright and not foxed, the spine is in good order but the front board is water stained (the only defect on this hansom book). This book weighs just under 1kg. so postage is pricey. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

Flamborough – Village and Headland edited by Robert Fisher.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1894. Various Writers and Edited by Robert Fisher. A well illustrated edition with chapters including Geology, dialect, Birds, the church, botany, folk lore etc. Published in the original blue cloth covers. Quite a nice and rare example. Must be described as a Hansom book. There is a neat dedication on ffep otherwise no stamps or marks.

£55.00

The History and Antiquities of Knottingley in the Parish of Pontefract

The History and Antiquities of Knottingley in the Parish of Pontefract. With Historical Notices of the Neighbouring Villages of Birkin, Brotherton, Fryston & Ferrybridge. By FORREST, C. originally published by H. Williams & Knottingley: W.S. Hepworth, 1871 this reprint was published in 1992. This copy is fine with no stamps and inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

The Story of the East Riding of Yorkshire by H. B. Browne

Published by A Brown & Sons, Hull in 1912 with one hundred and seventy illustrations , 352 pages, map on rear endpapers, blue cloth illustrated. A very clean tight copy no stamps or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.50

Movie Makers and Picture Palaces – GJ Mellor

An interesting and definitive history of the film industry in Yorkshire, regarded as ‘The Cradle of the Industry’ by many in the profession. Includes history of film making and film making pioneers, film equipment used, important films made, and the development of cinema in the region. Soft covers, p.324, illustrated with b&w photographs. Very good condition. Posted to any UK location

£12.00

On the Trail of the Luddites by Lesley Kipling & Nick Hall Illustrations by Eric Richardson

56 page illustrated booklet published by the Pennine Heritage Network in 1982 Through the post to any UK destination £7.50

£7.50

Tramways in West Yorkshire by H Brearley – Locomotion Papers No. Thirteen

44 page illustrated booklet. Price through the post in UK

£7.00

The Beautiful and Historic Villages of Yorkshire (1907)

Published by The Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury, Albion Street, we think in 1907 villages of Yorshire090

. Hard back binding in publisher’s original black paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the front cover. Landscape 8vo. 6½” x 8¼”. Contains 119 printed pages with map, captioned monochrome photograph to every right hand leaf and good descriptive text opposite

Villages of Yorkshire

Hard back binding in publisher’s original black paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the front cover. Landscape 8vo. 6½” x 8¼”. Contains 119 printed pages with map, captioned monochrome photograph to every right hand leaf and good descriptive text opposite

£10.00

Pennine Journey by William B Stocks

£7.50

York a Survey 1959

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1959 Local Executive Committee on the occasion of the meeting of the British Association in York 1959 first edition hardback, 198 pages; Very Good, clean and sound copy, burgundy boards have gilt titling and crest, no dj; Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Literary Visitors to Yorkshire by Alan Hindle

128 pages soft cover. Published by Hesketh 1980 well illustrated, index. vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Folk Tales from the North York Moors – Peter N Walker

Robert Hale – Soft Cover – 1990 176 pages vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Ghosts & Legends of Yorkshire – Andy Roberts

Jarrod 1992. 128 pages, illustrated vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

The Great Skipton Show by Roger Mason

Readers Union 1980 a fine book in a near fine dj. 190 pages, illustrated. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Nowt so Queer as Folk – Derrick Boothroyd

A book of reminiscence about Yorkshire and Yorkshiremen published 1976 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.50

DEWSBURY & THORNHILL

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The Archive Photographs Series DEWSBURY – Norman Ellis

A fine copy 1996 – 128 pages mostly photographs but a decent amount of text. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Trams Around Dewsbury & Wakefield – Norman Ellis

Published 2004. 144 pages. More than just a collection of interesting photos (though it is that) well written text. fine copy. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

MP For Dewsbury – by Christopher J James

M P for Dewsbury – Christopher J James

Published by the author 1970. This is fine book in a near fine dj. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£17.50

Dewsbury as it Was and Spen Valley a landscape of hamlets, written by Christopher Scargill and Richard Lee (I worked with Richard at Metro in the early eighties before it was sold off for a bargain price).

Dewsbury as it was 011 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

Dewsbury As It Was by Christopher Scargill and Richard Lee

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. The Price below includes UK P&P

£9.00

96 (Dewsbury) Squadron Air Training Corps 25 Years 1941 – 1966

52 page booklet telling the history of 96 ATC well illustrated. By post to UK addresses £6.00

£6.00

BIG Ears in the Kingdom of Kirklees

£9.00

The Father of the Brontë’s – His Life and Works at Dewsbury and Hartshead by W W Yates

The book is as good as new but for a few passages highlighted by a previous owner. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

DALESMAN MAGAZINE

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The Dalesman was first published in March of 1939 as “The Yorkshire Dalesman”. From March 1939 to November 2020 At the moment I have every issue in stock along with other “Dalesman” publications I have a total of 1206 items in stock offered for sale.

The Dalesman is still going strong and is the UK’s best selling regional magazine, I would obviously claim it is the best regional magazine as it is about the best County in England or indeed the world.

They make excellent Birthday or anniversary presents, much better than a Birthday card for Yorkshire Lads and Lasses.

The Index for Number one includes; Dales Folk by Ella Pontefract, Historian wanted for Kettleswelldale by C J Cutcliffe-Hyne, A Yorkshire Climbing Nursery by Godfrey Wilson, The Man of the Dales by W Riley, Past and Present in the Dales by M’Duke Miller, Do you know the Hill Brunillo? by Lettice Cooper, Adult Education in Craven, What Town Planning Means by F R Birkhead, It was still raining by Leonard Cooper, The Vacant Wine-Red Moor by Donald Boyd, The “Three Peaks”, Stories of Craven’s Grand Old Man by Norman Thorner and Public Access to Mountains by A Creech Jones MP.

I do have an ambition to list all the idiocies in a searchable data-base, but as I say, that is an ambition.

I do have a copy of number one with half the front page missing (cover) I am willing to sell that for £5 with a photocopy of the missing piece.

Dalesman Number one April 1939

Not one of the recent reprints

£10.00

Dalesman Magazine – Back Issues

Please specify the year and month. Any but number 1. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

I now have 1,206 “Dalesman publications” catalogued (large numbers of “Cumbria” yet to do) please contact me if you are looking for anything in particular.

If you are interested in any of the above titles and want more information please let me know and I can either answer your questions, send a PayPal invoice or make any other arrangement. Note that the price shown above does not include shipping.

It was in sequence but then I found Ice Age

Yorkshire & nearly Yorkshire

May 4, 2021April 29, 2021notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

Just a few of the titles available for £2.50, granted Snowdonia is not near Yorkshire but you can get there in a couple of hours, traffic permitting that is.