Creaking Shelves Books

Somersetshire Dialogues: Or, Reminiscences of the Old Farm House at Weston-Super-Mare

Wilson, C.E. Edited By Ernest E. Baker · 1882

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,858)

C.Robbins, 1882. Soft Cover. after a brief introduction there filows two dialogues between London visitors ( they be people from Lunnun) and some Soersetshirerustics accaomadaed in a Farm house in Weston Suprr Nmre whenn all other accomadaion was booked - in 1826. Amusing full...

Roma and Gypsy-Travellers in Europe: Modernity, Race, Space and Exclusion (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series)

Angus Bancroft · 2005

£410.00 (€491.44 | $541.67 | ¥86,470)

Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. Hardcover. This is the first account of Roma and Gypsy-Travellers from a pan-European perspective.With a comparative focus on Britain and the Czech Republic, it considers their contemporary experiences and needs in the context of their relati...

Towards Economic Freedom : An Outline of World Economic History

Corke, Helen · 1937

£82.00 (€98.29 | $108.33 | ¥17,294)

Methuen & Co, 1937. Soft Cover. From the Preface: 'This little book endeavours to present the fundamentals of economics in their historical perspective, and to reduce economic theory to its simplest terms. The common human need for food, clothing, shelter, is evident to the le...

Prize Essay on the State of Society and Knowledge in the Highlands of Scotland, Particularly in the Northern Counties, at the Period of Rebellion in 1745, and of Their Progress Up to the Establishment of the Northern Instituition for the Promotion of Scie

Anderson, John · 1827

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

William Tait, 1827. Hardcover. xxii23-176p.A bookcatalogue bound in in prelims. Book clean and tight in fairly modern quarter leather and brown cloth. Gllt titling on spine. Intermnally the book is very clean and tight; some light marginal (and critical!) notes randomly throug...

Walker's County Maps - Buckinghamshire

1841

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

Longman and Co,, 0. . A scarce fold out hand coloured map of Buckinghamshire,.Map is 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 folding to 3 1/2 x 5 . The map is sectioned into fifteen parts and is mounted on linen. There is a titlepage with local information to the front pastedown. With a key, scale, r...

Old London: Cornhill, Threadneedle Street and Lombard Street, Old Houses and Signs

Rogers, Kenneth · 1935

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)

The Whitefriars Press, 1935. Hardcover. 122p 13 plates as called for. Very detailed work. Privately printed. No marks or signtures but paper toned and a small label part removed at top of front pastedown. Original plum boards with gilt titling show some edges and corner wear. ...

Map Addict - a Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey

Parker, Mike · 2010

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Collins, 2010. Soft Cover. 330p story of an obsession with maps. and the Ordnance Survey. light reading wear only. See scans. (ISBN: 9780007351572).. Very Good

North and West: A Discovery of the Landscape of the North and West Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Noble, Robin · 2000

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Scottish Cultural Press, 2000. Soft Cover. 122p+(2). More than a guide book focussing on Scotland north and west of the Great Glen with a very personal slant - and with particular reference to Assynt - and the Quirang near where the author lives. Clean and unmarked. See scans....

Finger Print Clues. Notes on Fingerprint Clues Left by Criminals at Places Where Crime Has Been Committed. -

Collins, Charles S. · 1925

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

HMSO, 1925. Soft Cover. 24p. This pamphlet has been prepared for the information of Police who may have occasion to engage in the investigation of crime . in the hope that it may assist them to take full advantage of any finger print clues which may have been left at the scene...

Church End Yateley a Short History of the Historical Core from MILL Lane to the Hall Lane Roundabout

2003

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

The Yateley Society, 2003. Soft Cover. First Edition, produced for the exhibition Yateley Village Design Framework Ideas Day held at Yateley Manor School, in 15th Nvenmber 2013. Clean and unmarked stapled booklet; 39p. Index of landmarks and church end persons. See scans . Fine

A Contribution Towards an Investigation of the Changes Which Have Taken Place in the Condition of the People of the United Kingdom. From the Harvest of 1839 to the Harvest of 1847; and an Attempt to Develop the Connexion. In the Prices. Of Food

Danson, J.T. of the Middle Temple · 1848

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Pubd. By Author, 1848. Sewn Pamphlet. 40p sewn pamphlet as originally published. Outer wrapper dusty and two transvers folds . otherwise VG and unmarked. See scans. . Good +

The War Years 1939-1946

Lachecki, Bartholomew · 2010

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Published By Author, 2010. Hardcover. 55p. Outline map. Apparently privately published narrative of the prolonged escape of a young Polish couple Lachecki and his wife to be - Louise - who decided to leave Krakow Poland at the time of the German occupation in 1939. They ended ...

Climbing Guide to Dartmoor and the Cheesewring Quarry

Tim Dennell; etc. · 1993

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Wide Blue Yonder, 1993. Soft Cover. 40p diagrams. Clean and unmarked; staples as new. Moss CDO72. See scans. (ISBN: 0951651617).. Near Fine

Island of Rhum: A National Nature Reserve

Hamish M. Brown · 1972

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Cicerone Press, 1972. Soft Cover. 66p; photosdiagrams, maps. Much background information and many routes listed. Some wear and signature of previuos ownner on title page. Moss SCO46. See scans. (ISBN: 0902363050).. Good

Prevention of Accidents to Staff Engaged on Signal and Telegraph Installation and Maintenance

1938

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

GWR, SR, LMS and LNER, 1938. Soft Cover. Published jointly by the GWR, SR, LMS and LNER in November 1938. It begins Every year some 200 railwaymen are killed.. 43p with some dramatic posed photographs of accidents about to happen and rescue from live rails and etc. Sobering! N...

Holes: Scotland's Salmon Sewage Scandal

Dr James Walter Merryweather · 2014

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Blue-Skye Books, 2014. Soft Cover. Pre-publication Edition - specially prepared for the Community of Sleat, Isle of Skye - (Hurriedly prepared to coincide with planning applications for three fish farms intended for Loch Slapin and Eishort, Isle of Skye) 100p ill photographs, ...

On University Libraries- Privately Printed No. 121 of 250.

Koch, Theodore Wesley · 1924

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Privately Printed, 1924. Soft Cover. 56p limited edition. Begins with a history of the Bodlein librray and apprently focuses on the Bodlein, Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Harvard and Columbia Universities. Place of pubication uncertain - cover states Evanston Illinois USA whilst ti...

Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science - Seession of 1905-1906 - (Front Wrapper Missing)

1905

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

, 1905. Soft Cover. p.xl-lii+553-670+mlist of members and index for Vol.XI. Articles on the Flora of McNab's Island, the Birds of Prince Edward's Island, the Grignard Synthesis, Oil fields of Eastern Canada, the frost and droughtof 1905, Eels in water pipe and their migration,...

Exploring Mysterious Kathmandu

Hoag, Katherine · 1978

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Avalok Publishers, 1978. Soft Cover. 75p with mapos and sketches. Locally produced book in card coversSl. edges wear angside spine but clean and unmarked. See scans . Very Good

Barra: From the End of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commission (Sheffield Environmental & Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides)

Keith Branigan; Patrick Foster · 1995

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. Hardcover. From the fly-leaf: 'For the past six years a team of archaeologists, historians and environmental scientists from the University of Sheffield have been exploring the island of Barra, attempting to learn more of its history and its way...