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SOME YORKSHIRE GOLF COURSES.
Leeds: The Apsley Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vii),132, green cloth lettered in black, 29 monochrome illustrations, plus pictorial adverts; light foxing to edges and endpapers, lower corners of front board just lightly bruised, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to extremities, with creasing and small areas of loss, and has 4.5cm closed tear to foot of front flap-fold, and 1cm closed tear to head of rear flap-fold, good+ and now in a protective cover.
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SPRINGTIME IN THE BASQUE MOUNTAINS.
London, Grant Richards. 8vo.,pp.xx,297, blue cloth, green lettering, b/w plates, figures and maps; author’s presentation copy with signature to title page, lightly rubbed to extremities and lightly toned to spine, foxing to endpapers and frequently foxed to margins occasionally affecting text and illustrations, o/w very good. No dust-jacket.
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STRATFORD-ON-AVON AND BROADWAY VILLAGE.
London: The British Art Company Ltd. 8vo.,pp. xvi(plates), text unpaginated, card wrappers with inlaid plate, 16 colour plates; ownership ink stamp to inlaid image on front wrapper and to title page, plate xvi loose, lightly toned to margins, o/w very good.
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THE ANNALS OF HAWICK
A.D.M.CC.XIV.- A.D.M.DCCC.XIV, With An Appendix, Containing Biographical Sketches, and Other Illustrative Documents.
Edinburgh, Thomas George Stevenson. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo., pp.xii,398, uncut, textured green cloth, gilt, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title; pp.187-90 8cm closed tear repaired from fore-edges to centre of pages and margin trimmed, title and frontispiece foxed and toned, occasional light foxing throughout, slight wear to upper corners of boards, otherwise a very good copy, which is bright and vg externally.
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THE CAVES OF YORK: Topographical Draughtsmen, Artists, Engravers and Copper-Plate Printers.
York: City of York Art Gallery, 1934. Small 8vo., pp.48, printed wrappers; small ink ownership autograph to front wrapper (ex libris A.G. Dickens), light marking to pale wrappers, a very good copy.
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THE CHANGING PLAN OF HULL 1290-1650: A guide to documentary sources for the early topography of Hull.
Kingston upon Hull City Council, 1290. 4to.,pp.184, paperback, with ringbinder spine, b/w figures; rubbing and toning to covers, toning to margins and ownership autograph to front cover, a very good copy.
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THE ELDORADO OF THE ANCIENTS.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp. x, 447, b/w illustrations throughout, 2 colour folding maps, terracotta cloth, gilt embossed decoration, gilt top edge, uncut; slight foxing and darkening to endpapers, small tear to front endpaper, soiling to extremities, some wear and darkening to spine, o/w a very good copy with bright contents.
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THE EVE OF THE GREEK REVIVAL.
British Travellers’ Perceptions of Early Nineteenth- Century Greece.
London: Routledge, 1990. 8vo., pp.xvii,289, black hardcover, silver lettering, 6 b/w maps; light soiling to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly shelf-worn, else very good.
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THE FAWKES'S OF YORK IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: Including Notices of the Early History of Guye Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot Conspirator.
Westminster: J.B. Nichols and J.G. Nichols, 1850. Pocket 8vo., pp.67, printed wrappers; wear to paper wrappers at head and foot of spine, light tobacco odour, else very good.
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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF HAREWOOD, In the County of York, With Topographical Notices of its Parish and Neighbourhood.
London/Leeds: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co./J. Buckton, 1859. 4to., pp.312, uncut, textured green-brown cloth with decorative blindstamped borders, engraved frontispiece, b/w engraved plates; light foxing, small engraved heraldic ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small dashes marked to margins of text, with occasional pages with underlining, rubbing to extremities, with split to cloth for 2.5cm at head of upper joint, partial sunning to cloth, overall very good.
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THE HISTORY OF SELBY, ANICENT AND MODERN; Containing the Most Remarkable Transactions, Ecclesiastical, Ciil, and Military, From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Period: Interspersed with Portions of General History, Connected with the Subject. With: The History of Cawood, its Castle and Church: Containing the Most Remarkable Transactions, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military. The Monuments, Inscriptions, &c. in the Church and Castle. The Selby Directory for the Year 1800, Containing an Alphabetical List of the Principal Inhabitants. With: A List of the Principal Inhabitants Residing at Cawood, July 1800.
York: Edward Peck, 1800. Two titles bound as one, 12mo., pp.x,162,40,(xii),(vii),(iv) List of Subscribers, 5 raised bands, contrasting red title label, gilt, small decoration in blind to compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges red, engraved folding plate of Selby Abbey after a drawing by the author; ex library, with pictorial bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, Reference Library bookplate to front free endpaper, pocket to rear paste-down endpaper, and acquisition no.s to front free endpaper verso and title verso, but with no stamps to the contents, handwritten gold acquisition no. to foot of spine, extremities rubbed, else very good.
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THE ITINERARY OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,94 (English text),(90) Hebrew text, blue cloth, gilt, folding colour map as frontispiece, manuscript facsimile plates; ex Reference library, with stamps to prelims and sporadically throughout, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and small label to foot of spine, heavy foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, a good copy of this scarce title.
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THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF THOMAS GENT, HISTORIAN AND PRINTER.
Pocket 8vo., pp.(xxiv), printed wrappers; a very good, clean copy of this scarce pamphlet.
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HENRY CLARKE OF JAMAICA, 1828-1907.
Ilford: Frank Cass, 1994. 8vo.,pp. xvi,155, paperback; author’s presentation copy with inscription to half title page, a very good copy.
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THE LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS OF THE COUNTRY TOWN OF LANCASTER AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS.
Lancaster: Lancaster Guardian Limited. 8vo., pp.135,v, printed paper-covered boards, b/w portrait of author; mildly ex library, with 2 inkstamps to front paste-down endpaper (o/w unmarked), watermarking to front board, light wear to extremities, contents clean, a very good copy.
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THE MAHDI OF ALLAH. A Drama of the Sudan. The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed.
London/New York: Putnam, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,318, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 14 further b/w plates and 2 b/w maps; foxing to fore-edges, some foxing throughout, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tears and light wear to edges, as well as loss to head of spine.
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THE MERCHANT TAYLORS OF YORK A History of the Craft and Company from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. Borthwick Texts and Studies 33.
York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York. 8vo., pp.viii,210, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour plates; very slight bump to fore-edges, a very good copy indeed. (No dust-jacket.)
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THE MIDLAND HOTEL.
Morecambe’s White Hope.
Lancaster: Palatine Books, 2008. Second edition, 4to., pp.vii,216, black hardcover lettered in silver, colour and b/w illustrations; 4 loose postcards included, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF DUNDEE.
Compiled from Original and Authentic Documents and Records in the Archives of the Town, and other sources; and Embellished by Plans of Ancient and Modern Dundee and Barbour; Engraved Views of Public Buildings; and Fac-Similes of Historical Documents hitherto unpublished.
Dundee: Dundee Advertiser Office, 1873. Tall 8vo., pp.xvi,327, textured pictorial red cloth, gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and maps (including folding plates); ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, two 1cm closed tears and small nick to headband, rubbing, light wear and surface soil to cloth, internally clean, a good+ copy.
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THE OGRE.
Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent.
Sheffield: Vertebrate Publishing, 2017. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,178, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout, endpaper maps; very good indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing and slight peeling of laminate to extremities, but otherwise very good.
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