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privately published, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Schooldays, high days and holy days... wartime, story-time and playtime... From the thrill of Brigg Fair to the fear of the whey-faced new 'Grammar-gog', the formative years of John Rhodes are collected in this entertaining and personal account of growing up in North Lincolnshire in the 1930s and 40s. The light-hearted and fond remembrances of Yeller-belly Years chart the author's transition into adulthood against the backdrop of the 'inimitable beauty' of the county of his birth. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. i + 205. No Dust Jacket as published. Previous owner's gift inscription, lavish, in ink, to pre-title page. Orange titles spine. illustrated by b/w. photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Lincolnshire; Eastern England; History; England; 1930s to 1950s; Genealogy… Read More

Collins, London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. In this book, the first New Naturalist Monograph on a species of bird, Dr. Stuart Smith, author of How to Study Birds, has concentrated the result of years of observation and research on the Yellow Wagtail. Dr. Smith writes from his own experience of practical field-studies, his continual hobby and spare-time occupation. Most field-workers have their "own" bird, or birds, and Stuart Smith's favourite is Motacilla flava flavissima, the Yellow Wagtail of the British Isles, a subspecies, practically confined to these islands, of a species which is widely distributed in the Old World. The British Yellow Wagtail in particular, and the Yellow Wagtail species in general, have been deserving of study and monography for many years. Dr. Smith's middle chapters, on territory, display and reproduction, are based on many hours of careful observation in the field, and much careful deduction therefrom. His… Read More

Barracuda Books Limited, Buckingham, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Good. b/w. map end-papers; Diarists and drinkers, rebels and revellers, painters and princes - all have known Stortford, and have left their impressions. These open the pages of this fascinating album of the past. Here sober men also preached temperance: men like Joseph 'Jesus' Crisp, who opposed ale for paupers; Avery Rolf, who proposed drink on prescription, and Alfred Slaps Barrett, whose son Ted played trombone abed. Fishmonger Billy Peck went shopping barefoot and bowler hatted, and Brother Xavier braved an inferno for the sake of a smoke. Sarah Death wore white stockings and her friend's dog wore black. Kathleen Hill rode to hounds - and to fires on a motorbike: she saved a suffering horse by driving its owner instead. Thunderstorms threatened builder-dowser Bacon, so he was tied to his own scaffolding, while Gerald Scott got 3s and four ginger beers for enticing the Duke… Read More

Blackie & Son, London, No date circa 1930's. Presumed First Edn. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: E. W. Haslehust. A volume in Blackie's Beautiful England series, illustrated by colour frontis. & eleven further colour plates all by water-colour landscape painter, E. W. Haslehust; plus a b/w. plan of York Cathedral. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages. Dust Jacket has chunk missing from top of back cover, but is otherwise intact, with both flaps; now in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Green titles spine & front. Illustrator: E. W. Haslehust. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; York; Yorkshire; Art; England; Genealogy & Local History. Inventory No: 4725. .

N. T. Leslie, Hull, Yorkshire, 1974. Second Impression of first edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. facsimile second impression of a book, first published in 1869 by William Boyne in a limited edition of only 150 copies for private distribution, lists in detail over 550 rare and antiquarian books, pamphlets and tracts, 28 maps and plans, and over 800 prints of views and portraits all relating to Yorkshire. Nowhere else can the collector, local historian, librarian or bookseller find gathered together in one book details of the wealth of information that was published over a two hundred year period about the cities, towns, villages and, above all, the people, of Yorkshire. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii + 304. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. maroon cloth; illustrated by b/w. portraits and engravings with woodcuts of borough… Read More

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. from the 34-page introduction: "The Guild or Fraternity of Masters and Pilots, Seamen of the Trinity House of Kingston upon Hull is one of the oldest and most interesting corporations in England, Its history is too long to be written as the introduction to the first of its longer records to be published. I propose to confine myself in the present introduction to such particulars of the history and functions of the guild as will help the reader more fully to understand the record now set before him. Although sometimes regarded, even in Hull, as a sort of “branch office" of the London Trinity House, the Hull Trinity House is, and always has been, an independent body, which, although its charter of incorporation is later than that of the London Trinity House, may well claim to be the elder of the two, Long before its formal incorporation, the Hull… Read More

A & C Black, London, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Chapters include: 'Across the Moors from Pickering to Whitby'; 'Along the Esk Valley'; 'The Coast from Whitby to Redcar'; 'The Coast from Whitby to Scarborough'; 'Scarborough'; 'Whitby'; The Cleveland Hills'; 'Guisbor0ugh & the Skelton Valley'; 'From Pickering to Rievaulx Abbey'; 'The Dale Country as a whole'; 'Richmond'; 'Swaledale'; 'Wensleydale'; Ripon & Fountains Abbey'; 'Knaresborough & Harrogate'; 'Wharfedale'; 'Skipton, Malham & Gordale'; 'Settle & the Ingleton Fells'; Concerning the Wolds from Filey to Spurn Head'; 'Beverley'; 'Along the Humber'; 'The Derwent & the Howardian Hills'; 'A Brief Description of the City of York'; and 'The Manufacturing District'. ' Size: 8vo - over… Read More

Thornton Gallery, Snape, Bedale, North Yorkshire, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Near Fine. Harry Turnbull was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Ernrnanuel College, Cambridge. For many years he was engaged upon the preparation of reference material on a variety of subjects. In 1970 he and his wife opened the Thornton Gallery at Snape, situated at the entrance to Wensleydale, and they have specialised in the work of Yorkshire painters, and more particularly artists who were active in the first half of the 20th century. Every December they hold an exhibition of Yorkshire artists, and the idea of preparing the present book arose from the paucity of published information about so many of the artists featured in the exhibitions. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 68 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine.… Read More

Oliver & Boyd, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Front Cover illustration shows a panorama of Upper Airedale from the brink of Malham Cove, Yorkshire. Here for the first time we have the whole of Yorkshire revealed within the cover of a single book. The author, a Yorkshireman who knows his county intimately, takes us on a conducted tour, and describes the haunting beauty of the dales, the windswept moor, the majestic hills of the Pennines, the grandeur of the coast, quaint village and historic churches, modern holiday resorts, the strange pothole country, the ceaseless activity of the great industrial and manufacturing centres, and the rich farmlands of the Wolds and the Plain of York. Added to this, Mr. Bolton, whose photographic skill is well known, has included a selection of his loveliest pictures A book which will appeal to the motorist, the cyclist, the rambler, the tourist, and all who would know more of this splendid county. Size: 8vo -… Read More

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. lengthy (46 page) & detailed introduction to the contents of this volume which include: "A Calendar of the Early Judgments of the Hull Trinity House"; "A Calendar of Early Orders from the Oath & Bond Book of the Hull Trinity House"; "East Riding Muster Roll, 1584"; Appendix I: "List of Elder Brethren of the Hull Trinity House, 1582-1630" & Appendix II: "Summaries of Musters for the East Riding Wapentakes". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 46 + 134 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers foxed, text block clean. book now in archive acetate film protection. Gilt titles spine with society's device in gilt to front cover. brown cloth. Includes index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Archaeology; Genealogy &… Read More

Transworld Publishers Ltd./Corgi Books, London, 1968. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. This work. was written by a man named as Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who never denied that he had been born as Cyril Hoskin, but claimed that his body was now occupied by the spirit of Lobsang Rampa. The book is written as a course of instruction in psychic development & metaphysics for "those who are sincerely interested in knowing the things that have to be known." Whatever his origins & experiences, it cannot be denied that Lobsang Rampa's books did much to arouse interest in Tibetan Buddhism when they were first published in the 1950's. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 221 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages browned with age. no Dust Jacket as published.. White titles spine. light wear to edges. illustrated by a few b/w.drawings & diagrams. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Magic,… Read More

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1962. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. gilt titles spine, one of the 'Young Man's Guide' series of career books illust. by photo's. & drawings, booksellers label inside front cover, price-intact D/J. designed by Peter Edwards with white lettering front & spine over illust of pylons has only a suggestion of edge-wear, 216 pages including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Electronics; science & Technology. Inventory No: CHD00131. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1909. Reprint. Hardcover (Marbled boards & black cloth spine. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Tissue-guarded b/w. frontis. portrait of the author & one further photo. illustration showing first page of the original manuscript. "The Young Visitors' is a short "society novel" written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. The notebook containing the novel was rediscovered by her in adult life and sent by a friend to Frank Swinnerton, the English novelist, critic, editor and essayist. Published in 1919 by Chatto and Windus, with its original misspellings and an arch introduction by "Peter Pan" author J. M. Barrie, it was an immediate bestseller. Its child's view of high society (dukes and earls having ;levies' and residing in the 'Crystall Pallace') and its heavily romantic plot make it an engaging and enduring popular work. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 86 pages. Spine has… Read More

Cedar/Mandarin Paperbacks, London, 1997. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. green & black titles spine; cover illust. by Yvonne Chambers; "loneliness is a problem which most of us face some of the time - and which some of us face, or feel we are facing, most of the time. With people increasingly living and working alone, loneliness is likely to affect more and more of us over the next few years. , Yet it does not only concern those who are physically on their own - it is just as easy to feel emotionally alone. People in stable, relationships, surrounded by family and friends, active in large workplaces, may still feel extremely isolated. You may feel lonely when you think you are not properly understood, loved or considered, or when your self-esteem is low. You may lose people you love and care about, or your circumstances may suddenly change, in ways over which you seem to have little control. You may even feel lonely if you are afraid of these things happening. In this… Read More