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Poverty and Progress: a second social survey of York.

ROWNTREE, B. Seebohm. · 1941 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1941. Large 8vo. xx, 540pp, double-sided plates, text plans, figures and tables. Original blue cloth gilt. Spine very lightly sun-faded.

Early Friends in the North.

STEEL, John W. · 1905 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.94 | $42.92 | ¥6,854)

London: Headley Brothers, 1905. 8vo. [viii], 60pp, frontis, plate. Original green cloth gilt. Extremes lightly rubbed.

Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare: The London (Quaker) Lead Company 1692-1905. The social policy and work of the "Governor and Company for Smelting down Lead with Pit Coal and Sea Coal", mainly in Alston Moor and the Penines.

RAISTRICK, Arthur. · 1938 · John Turton

£48.72 (€58.41 | $64.38 | ¥10,281)

London: Friends' Historical Society, 1938. 8vo. 152pp, frontis, plates, folding plan, map, text illustrations, pedigrees and tables. Original brown cloth gilt, front board lettered in black, uncut. Cloth very slightly soiled; eps browned; closed tear to plate margin not enteri...

A memoir of Chirk Castle. From original documents.

CHIRK CASTLE. · 1920 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Chirk Castle: printed by Chas. J Sawyer, London, N.D. (1920's). 8vo. 56[2]pp, 6 plates, title-page device. Original pictorial printed grey embossed card wraps. Wraps very lightly soiled and rubbed.

Lake Sonnets & Poems.

STOCK, H. A. · 1926 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

Bowness-on-Windermere: A W Johnson & Sons, 1926. 8vo. 34pp. Original maroon cloth gilt, uncut. Spine sun-faded; scattered light stains to cloth. * With a two-page inked M.S. poem 'The Shadow of the Cross' loosely inserted; this finishes '6/12/27 H. A. Stock.' We assume this is...

[Seaham Souvenir:] Story of an Air Raid.

DUNCAN, James, Rev. · 1940 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

Sunderland: Thomas Reed & Co, [1940.] 8vo. 32pp. Original printed card wraps, stapled. Wraps lightly spotted and soiled. * Not in COPAC or OCLC.

Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (New Series.) Vol. VI.

NORTH EAST ENGLAND NATURAL HISTORY. · 1923 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

London: Williams and Norgate, 1923-1926. 8vo. [iv], 242pp, lxxxvi pp, plates, text figures and tables. Later quarter blue crushed morocco gilt, matching cloth sides. Spine sun-faded. Ex-reference library with following evidence: Dewey number in gilt to spine tail; 'withdrawn' ...

Mistress Patience Summerhayes' Her Diary, during the seige of Scarborough Castle A.D. 1644-1645.

SITWELL, Florence. · 1885 · John Turton

£44.08 (€52.84 | $58.25 | ¥9,302)

[London: printed by Geo. Witt,] N.D. (c. 1885.) 4to. 74pp, text enclosed within a ruled boarder, frontis with browned tissue-guard, tail-pieces. Original pictorial blue cloth, lettered and decorated in black, brown eps. Extremes lightly rubbed; cloth soiled. * 'With coloured F...

Lectures delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, from November 1858 to February 1859.

1859 · John Turton

£29.00 (€34.77 | $38.32 | ¥6,120)

London: James Nisbet and Co, 1859. 8vo. viii, 442pp, 46pp music, two 8pp publisher's adverts. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth gilt, yellow eps, uncut. * COPAC gives Sheffield as sole location. OCLC: 4 US locations.

The Collier's Wedding, a poem. [With preface, notes, and life of the author, by William Cail.]

CHICKEN, Edward. · 1829 · John Turton

£139.20 (€166.88 | $183.93 | ¥29,375)

Newcastle: printed by T & J Hodgson, 1829 new amended and corrected edition. 8vo in fours. [iv], xv[i], 32pp, title-page vignette, head-piece. Modern quarter-style paper boards, original label laid down to front board, uncut/partly unopened. Ht and title-page soiled; some gath...

Notes on the church, castle, and parish of Shrawardine.

AUDEN, John Ernest, Rev. · 0 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

N.P., N.D. 8vo. 84pp, 2 plates, text pedigrees, drop-head title. Original grey card wraps gilt, yapp edges. Wraps very lightly rubbed; title and last pages browned.

The Rhymed Chronicle of Edward Manlove concerning the lead mines within the wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. The second edition reprinted from the text of the original edition of 1653, ... to which is affixed a glossary of the principal mining and other obsolete terms occuring in the poem, ... and a list, ... of all the causes relative to the Derbyshire lead mines tried in the duchy court of Lancaster ...

TAPPING, Thomas. · 1851 · John Turton

£90.48 (€108.47 | $119.56 | ¥19,094)

London: Shaw and Sons, 1851 2nd edition. 8vo. 40pp, text tables. Original watered green cloth gilt, yellow eps, aeg. Cloth rubbed with slight wear to board corners; cloth partly browned; a few small round 'Middle Temple' ink-stamps; eps lightly soiled. 'Presented by the Editor...

Bachelorism Portrayed. ... By a member of the female society, for the extinction of that useless portion of mankind, OLD BACHELORS.

1865 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

London: W Nicholson and Sons, N.D. 12mo. 19[1]pp including wraps. Original printed decorated yellow paper wraps. Rear wrap very lightly soiled. * BL lists a Wm. Nicholson, Halifax edition [1865?]. This, a Wakefield printing, looks later.

A Productive Mountain Rock: the great limestone.

[EGGLESTONE, William Morley.] · 0 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

[Stanhope, via Darlington: W M Egglestone, N.D. 8vo. 16pp. Disbound from a disparate collection of pamphlets. Light spotting to first couple of leaves.

A personal narrative of the appalling catastrophe at Hartley New Pit, January 16, 1862.

REID, T. Wemyss. · 1862 · John Turton

£104.40 (€125.16 | $137.95 | ¥22,031)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: printed at the office of the Daily Journal by A and J M Carr, [1862.] 8vo. 63pp. Disbound from a disparate collection of pamphlets. Light spotting; very slight vertical crease.

Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield, to several celebrated individuals of the time of Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne, with some of their replies.

CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of. · 1835 · John Turton

£55.68 (€66.75 | $73.57 | ¥11,750)

London: [printed by William Clowes] for subscribers only, 1835. 8vo. [iv], 387[1]pp, engraved portrait frontis. Original green cloth, printed-paper spine label, uncut. Spine label chipped and browned; extremes lightly rubbed; scattered tiny white stains to cloth; light isolat...

The Forest Trees of Britain.

JOHNS, C. A., Rev. · 1882 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

London: SPCK, 1882. 8vo. xi[i], 431[1]pp, 4pp publisher's list, frontis, text illustrations. Original decorated green cloth gilt, black eps. Extremes very lightly rubbed; scattered very light stains to cloth; tiny hole to cloth of upper joint; very occasional very light spotting.

Protection for British navigation and native industry. To the Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool.

GLADSTONE, John. · 1849 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.94 | $42.92 | ¥6,854)

Fasque: N.P., 19th May, 1849. Fo. [1][3]pp single folded sheet, printed in double-columns. Two horizontal folds. Not in COPAC or OCLC.

Regulations for the Militia. War Office, 1880. 'Revised Army Regulations.-Vol. VIII.'

1880 · John Turton

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London: HMSO, 1880. 8vo. vii[i], 251pp, text tables, 'Army Circulars. 1881' [24]pp stab-sewn as issued loosely inserted. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth gilt, ep adverts, green eps, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes very lightly rubbed; occasional very light spotting. * From ...

Responsibility in the Army.

CODRINGTON, A., Lieut.-Gen. Sir. · 1916 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

London: Hugh Rees, 1916. 8vo. 24pp, text figure. Original printed red embossed card wraps, stapled. Front wrap lightly spotted and faded; staples rusted but holding firm; very slight spotting to fore-edge margins of first two leaves. 'With the Author's Compliments' to title-pa...