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Let Chester remember…. NEAR FINE COPY

TEAPE-FUGARD T. C. · 0 · Island Books

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[Privately Printed], [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. A history of faith and practice in Chester.

Social Life in Bygone Colchester from the Revolution to the Municipal Reform Act. Being a Series of Sketches contributed to 'The Essex County Telegraph'. A RARE SURVIVAL

RICKWORD George · 1925 · Island Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)

The Essex County Telegraph, Colchester, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and 6 plates; original brown grained wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, upper wrapper lettered in black with small mounted photograph, yapped edges, staples very lightly rusted else...

Thirty Walks around Ilfracombe. Containing valuable Information and Maps. NEAR FINE COPY

WOOD Edwin · 1934 · Island Books

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[Privately Printed], Ilfracombe, n.d. [c.1934]. 8vo., First Edition, with 10 maps (one double-page and 9 full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE. Not recorded by Brockett.

The Gentry of Bedfordshire in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. NEAR FINE COPY

NAUGHTON Katherine S. · 1976 · Island Books

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Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1976. 8vo., First Edition, with double-page map in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Department of English Local History. Occasional Papers. Third Series. Edited by Alan Everett. Number 2.

Buckfast Abbey Church. What to see. What it means. By a Monk of Buckfast. NEAR FINE COPY

BUCKFAST ABBEY CHURCH · 0 · Island Books

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[Catholic Records Press, Exeter], [1939]. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs and full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Brockett 7930.

The Story of Cirencester Parish Church [St. John Baptist]. Originally written J.S Sinclair. Revised in 1945 by W.I. Croome. NEAR FINE COPY

SINCLAIR Archdeacon J. S. · 0 · Island Books

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British Publishing Company, Gloucester, [c.1964]. Sm. 8vo., with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With trade advertisements.

Clovelly. A Guide Book. [Fifth Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

RUTHVEN Angela · 0 · Island Books

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Chas. Challacombe, Exeter, [1946]. 8vo., Fifth Edition [First Edition thus], with 5 illustrations ( a number full-page) and a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers in green and black, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at backstrip else a very g...

A Find of Palimpsest Brasses at Dinton, Buckinghamshire. NEAR FINE COPY

RUTTER David C. · 1949 · Island Books

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Monumental Brass Society, 1949. 8vo., with several illustrations (a number full-p[age) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Reprinted from Monumental Brass Society Transactions Vol. VIII, Part VI.

Southend before the Norman Conquest. Being the Second (Revised) Edition of the Archaeology of Rochford Hundred and South East Essex. NEAR FINE COPY

POLLITT William · 1953 · Island Books

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Public Libraries and Museum Committee, County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, Southend, 1953. 8vo., with frontispiece and 22 plates; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Bonser, 5748; O'Leary, 1926; Powell, p.270.

Polperro Official Guide. Published under the Authority of the Lansallos Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY

POLPERRO · 1966 · Island Books

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Stratton-Briggs, Looe, n.d. [c.1966]. 8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

Ancient Stone Crosses of England.

RIMMER Alfred · 0 · Island Books

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Garnstone Press, [1973]. 8vo., with 72 wood-engravings in the text; cloth, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed high quality facsimile of the original edition of 1875.

Lost Cities.

COTTRELL Leonard · 0 · Island Books

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Hale, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 40 plates on 24, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. Cottrell describes the los...

The Place-Names of Staffordshire. Part 1. Cuttlestone Hundred [This volume only].

OAKDEN J.A. · 1984 · Island Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

English Place-Name Society, 1984. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. English Place-Name Society, vol. LV. Scarce, especially in this condition.

Basset Down. An Old Country House. Foreword by Charles Morgan.

ARNOLD-FORSTER Mary · 0 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

Country Life, [1950]. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 37 plates on 32 and 2 pedigrees (one folding), endpapers very faintly spotted; cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, backstrip faded (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy. This classic accou...

History of Lee and its Neighbourhood. [Eltham, Lewisham, Blackheath, Charlton, Greenwich. Facsimile Re-issue].

HART F.H. · 1971 · Island Books

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Conway Maritime Press, [Greenwich], 1971. 8vo., Second Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1882, and now uncommon in its own right. Benn...

Manchester of Yesterday.

STEVENS T.H.G. · 0 · Island Books

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John Sherratt, Altrincham, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 25 plates on 17; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy.

Over the Hills to Glory. Radicalism in Banburyshire 1832-1945.

HODGKINS J.R. · 1978 · Island Books

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Clifton Press, [Southend, 1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

A Corner of Kent; or, some Account of the Parish of Ash-next-Sandwich, its Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities. FIRST DEDICATED HISTORY OF THE PARISH

PLANCHE J.R. · 1864 · Island Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,290)

Robert Hardwicke, 1864. 8vo., First Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece, title-vignette, 10 plates, a map, a plan and 5 woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece with two short tears (without loss) at margin, frontispiece and title lightly age-soiled; original coar...

Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks. [Antiquary's Books]. NEAR FINE COPY IN SERIES BINDING

WARD John · 0 · Island Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,858)

Methuen, [1911]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations, maps, plans and diagrams in the text; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in blind, gilt back, fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy. Wi...

English Church Furniture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

COX J. Charles · 0 · Island Books

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Methuen, [1907]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 50 plates on 29 and very numerous line illustrations in the text, free endpapers browned; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multple frame border enclosing title all...