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The Charm of Surrey. SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY

HOME Gordon · 1929 · Island Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

1929. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 23 plates, all by the author, in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a very good copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO W.H. OGILVIE, WHOSE POEM 'THE OLD ROADS' HOME HAS INSERTED AN AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK.. WITH O...

Etchings of Views in the Vicarage of Leatherhead. llustrations by Harriet Dallaway. Introduction by Francis J. Steer. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

DALLAWAY James · 1975 · Island Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Kohler & Coombes, Dorking, 1975. Roy. 8vo., with facsimile title in colour, 14 facsimile plates and an illustrations in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Dallaway's scarce work was first published in 1821. Based on an origi...

The Penny History of England for the Agricultural Labourer. Special Edition published by the Land Values Depot, 113 Botchergate, Carlisle. NEAR FINE COPY

WILKINS Alderman W. G. · 0 · Island Books

£46.00 (€55.15 | $60.78 | ¥9,707)

James Peach, Derby, [1902]. 8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Splendid example of a scarce pamphlet providing 'education for the masses'. IN VIRTUALLY UNMARKED CONDITION THIS IS A RARE SURVIVAL. Apparently not recorded by the British L...

Official Guide to Newton Abbot. The Ideal Centre. NEAR FINE COPY

NEWTON ABBOT · 0 · Island Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

British Publishing Company for Newton Abbot Town Council, [c.1976]. 8vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. With numerous trade advertisements ...

Wimbledon - has it a History?. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

BOAS Guy · 1954 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

John Evelyn Society, 1954. 8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece; original wrappers. Published for the John Evelyn Society for Maintaining the Amenities of Wimbledon (formerly the John Evelyn Club for Wimbledon). The first edition appeared in 1947

The Story of Sussex. Illustrated by George Fossick. With a Chapter on Sussex Architecrure by O.H. Leeney...

COOK W.V. · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Combridges, Hove, [1920]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and a full-page illustration in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.

The Royal Manor of Richmond with Petersham, Ham and Kew. With Illustrations in Colour by Arthur G. Bell. NUMBERED SUBSCRIBER'S COPY

BELL Mrs. A.G. · 1907 · Island Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

George Bell, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece (captioned tissue guard resent), title in red and black, and 9 coloured plates (all captioned tissue guards present); cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, edges a little spotted else a very good, clea...

Appendicia et Pertinentiae; or, Parochial Fragments of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex. SPLENDID COPY IN HALF CALF

WARTER J. W. · 1853 · Island Books

£86.00 (€103.10 | $113.64 | ¥18,149)

Francis & John Rivington, 1853. 8vo., First Edition, title in red and black attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt back, laid endpapers, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a bright, crisp, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. This ...

A Pilgrimage in Surrey. BRIGHT, CLEAN, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY

OGILVY James S. · 1914 · Island Books

£94.00 (€112.69 | $124.21 | ¥19,837)

Routledge, 1914. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispieces, titles in red and black, 92 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of postcards, cuttings and other illustrations...

Croydon Pre-Historic & Roman. SIGNED SUBSCRIBER'S COPY

ANDERSON J. Corbet · 1874 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

[Privately Printed, 1874]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with title and first page of text in red and black, 8 plates (all original blank guards present) and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, two blank preliminaries mildly browned; original decorative terracotta cloth, s...

Westward, Look . . ! Twenty-One Stories of Devon Pioneers and Pilgrims in New England. Published to mark the 350th Anniversary of the Sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers in the 'Mayflower'. NEAR FINE COPY

DAVEY F. A. · 1970 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Town & Country Press, Bracknell, 1970. Oblong 4to., with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Uncommon. Brockett 16950.

Old Leigh. NEAR FINE COPY

BRIDE H. N. · 1954 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Public Libraries and Museum Committee, County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 7 full-page photographs in the text; original printed wrappers lettered in black, a near fine copy. Museum Handbook No. 12. SCARCE IN THIS EDITION. Powe...

Annals of Ashdon. No ordinary Village.

GIBSON Robert · 1988 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Essex Record Office, [Chelmsford, 1988]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Essex Record Office Publication, No. 99.Deceptively detailed account across a thousand years.

Records of Yarlington: being the History of a Country Village. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE BEST EDITION

ROGERS T.E. · 1902 · Island Books

£74.00 (€88.71 | $97.78 | ¥15,616)

Elliot Stock, 1902. 4to., Second and Best Edition, on laid paper, with full-page pedigrees in the text, free endpapers mildly spotted; original cloth, boards with double frame border in blind enclosing title and author in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, some light age...

The Early History of Elswick. A Lecture delivered before the Elswick Foremen and Draughtsmen's Association, January 21 1909.

COCHRANE Alfred · 1909 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Mawson Swan & Morgan, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1909. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 19 full-page illustrations from photographs and maps in the text, patterned endpapers lightly browned; original cloth gilt, a very good, clean copy. Much information regardin...

Companion into Sussex. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

WYMER Norman · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Methuen, [1950]. 8vo., First Edition, with blue-toned frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates on 14, and front and rear endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at joints and extremities. Publis...

A History of the County of Stafford.. Edited by M.W. Greenslade and J.G. Jenkins. Volume II with Index to Volumes I and II. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

STAFFORDSHIRE. · 1967 · Island Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1967. Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, 32 plates on 11, 2 illustrations (one full-page) and 19 maps and plans (9 full-page) in the text; decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, ...

Sarum Close. A History of the Life and Education of the Cathedral Choristers for 700 Years. A L ROWSE'S COPY

ROBERTSON Dora H. · 0 · Island Books

£46.00 (€55.15 | $60.78 | ¥9,707)

Jonathan Cape, [1938]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 7 plates; cloth, gilt back, small dent in backstrip (just affecting author's surname) else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF A L ROWSE, AND CARRIES HIS SIGNATURE ON FRON...

History of the Borough and Foreign of Walsall, in the County of Stafford. FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED HISTORY

GLEW Edward Lees · 1856 · Island Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

JR Robinson, The Bridge, Walsall, 1856. 8vo., First Edition; pale rose cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, pink endpapers, a remarkably fresh, clean copy. With 8pp of local trade advertisements bound in at end. This scarce work, the first specific history of the to...

Memories of Winchmore Hill.

REGNART H.G. · 1952 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Meyers Brooks, Enfield, 1952. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece. 16 full-page monochrome photographs and a smaller illustration in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, boards very mildly faded else a very good, clean, crisp ...