Local History Books

Ramsgate: Graham Cumming Ltd. [A brief history of St Mary's, Barnes, London.] 5 illustrations, 12mo, pp (16). pamphlet with card covers. . (more information)

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London, 2000. NEW. Well illustrated, square 8vo, pp 132, a very good copy. {Postage within the Uk will be no more than £3.50} [Based on The Thames Landscape Strategy : Hampton to Kew. Beautifully illustrated, it gives account of many individuals influential in the landscape movement : Garrick, Pope, Walpole, Turner etc.]. (more information)

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London: Methuen & Co., 1919. Third edition, illustrated by E.H. New, small 12mo, pp xiv, 274, folding map, cloth faded and slightly worn, slightly wrinkled. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter. . (more information)

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London, 1825. ("Including biographical anecdotes of the most distinguished persons interested in that edifice; with an essay on epitaphs in which its principal monumental inscriptions are recorded.") 9 engraved plates, extra engraved title page, (all rather foxed), pp xvi,220, contemporary brown half calf, rubbed and a little dry, corners worn. . (more information)

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Lewes: W.E. Baxter, 1897. Small 8vo, pp 295, very weak internally, original cloth-backed wrappers, browned, chipped and a little worn. VERY SCARCE. . (more information)

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Epsom: Pullingers Ltd. [1954 ?]. Two plates and a frontispiece, 12mo, pp 35, very occasional foxing, original boards a little browned and slightly marked, inscribed on front endpaper "Ronald Wells with the author's compliments, New Year 1954". [A brief account of Epsom as a watering place, including accounts by Defoe and Fiennes.] . (more information)

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Privately Published (printed By E.& E. Plumridge Ltd, Linton, Cambs.). [POSTAGE on this WITHIN THE U.K. will be no more than £1.30] Undated, circa 1980s, iIllustrated with 5 black-and-white plates, slim 8vo booklet, pp (iv) 15 , softcover, card wrappers very slightly marked on upper cover, otherwise a good clean copy. (A history of the house and grounds of Lilies, a country seat in Weedon. near Aylesbury, Bucks, and home of the antiquarian bookseller Peter Eaton.) . (more information)

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Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1952. 2 VOLUMES. pp viii, 210; viii, 219, a good set in slightly worn dustwrappers. Inscriptions on front free endpapers. . (more information)

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Bristol: The Garland Press. (Published c.1949 ?). Illustrated by Horace Wright, pp (4), 40, pictorial boards, corners slightly bumped, otherwise a good copy in a frayed dustwrapper. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter. . Illus. by Wright, Horace. (more information)

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Jarrold & Sons, 1989. Well illustrated, pp (28), paperback, traces of small price label on upper cover otherwise a good copy. TOGETHER WITH A COPY OF THE SAME AUTHOR's "The Shakespearian Properties - The Birthplace, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Mary Arden's House, Hall's Croft, New Place". well illustrated, pp (28), paperback, good copy, 1990. TOGETHER WITH A COPY OF : Richard Shurey's "Shakespeare's Avon from Source to Severn". well illustrated, pp 80, card covers, good copy, 1981. TOGETHER WITH A COPY OF : Michael St. John Parker's "William Shakespeare". well illustrated, pp 28, paperback, good copy. 1993.. (more information)

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Arundel Press, 1932. Illustrated with black and white photographs, 12mo, pp 64, paperback, grey wrappers, good copy.. Illus. by Allison, W.B.. (more information)

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Paisley: J. & R. Parlane, 1913. With plates from photographs, largely of Paisley and district, large 8vo, pp 80, edges uncut, olive-green cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, unlettered spine, very slightly worn. Presentation copy from the author (Aunt Lizzie).. (more information)

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Cowbridge: D. Brown and Sons, 1986. Well illustrated in black and white, 8vo, pictorial boards, a very good copy. [Oystermouth, the Mumbles railway, the lighthouse, iron ore, oysters, paddle steamers etc.]. (more information)

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London & Buckingham, 1909. Illustrated, 8vo, pp 127, green cloth, slightly marked and very slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. . (more information)

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Borough of Twickenham Local History Society, 1973. Map and two illustrations, small 8vo, pp 56, paperback, very good. . (more information)

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Llandysul: Gomerian Press, 1968. Illustrated, pp 192, a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter. . (more information)

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London: Longmans, 1904. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xx,320, mid-green buckram slightly faded and marked, a little weak internally, bookplate of Jim Russell, (designed by FELIX KELLY). . First Edition. (more information)

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London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1963. Illustrated, very tall 8vo, pp 96, paperback, very slightly worn. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter. A-Z of towns and villages including history, buildings of interest, churches etc. Postage within the UK should be no more than £2.40. . (more information)

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East Lulworth: Lulworth Heritage Ltd, 1987. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 148, paperback, together with ten large folding maps, all contained in a double folding folder with laminated pictorial cover. VERY SCARCE. . (more information)

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London: Parish Register Society, 1903. (PRIVATELY PRINTED). 2 line drawings, 8vo, pp. xxxix, 268, EX-LIBRARY, original wrappers worn and repaired with sellotape, spine has been permanently covered with thick brown tape and titles written on to tape-covered spine, shelf number on spine, all edges uncut, accession numbers written on front cover and front endpaper, library stamp on all edges, library sticker on rear endpaper. . (more information)

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David & Charles, 1972. Illustrated, 8vo, pp 227, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. . (more information)

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Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1919. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 64, (very browned), original wrappers, upper cover gashed and lacking a piece, lacking part of spine (which is also a little weak). Very scarce. . (more information)

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London: Severn House, 1985. EX-LIBRARY - A few text illustrations, 8vo, pp xii, 210, slight sunning and faint foxing to top edges, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is showing only the slightest signs of rubbing, neat library stamp on front free endpaper and verso of title page, also neat inscription on front paste-down endpaper, otherwise very clean internally). . (more information)

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Oxford and London: James Parker & Co., 1866. Illustrated with 29 plates and a few text engravings, 8vo, pp viii, 91, original plum cloth, faded and a little worn, traces of tape stain to binding, an ex library copy from a College reference library, stamp on fore, top and bottom edges, neat stamps on verso of free front endpaper, shelf number on spine, bookplates of two original owners ( Evelyn Philip Shirley and Bernard Wallis). . (more information)

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Lewes, 1959. 2 plates, 8vo, pp xiv, 302, upper cover very slightly bumped and very slightly marked otherwise a very good copy in the original brown cloth. . (more information)

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London: The Studio, 1920. Well illustrated with 8 colour plates and over 90 monochrome plates, small quarto, pp 167, original cloth, slightly marked and worn, very slightly bowed. . (more information)

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Bath: Kingsmead Reprint, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1921 original. Illustrated, thick 8vo, pp xii, 585, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.. (more information)

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London: Privately Published, 1996. Well illustrated with monochrome photos, square format 12mo, pp. (iii), 99, wrappers, very good clean copy. (This is a personal photographic record of people and events in Kew covering the author's life, mainly taken by the author, including some taken from her parents' old negatives and prints, starting from the 1920's). . (more information)

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London: Staples Press, 1951. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 96, cloth very slightly worn, in a faded dustwrapper which is rather frayed and lacking part of its spine. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter. . (more information)

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London: Staples Press, 1950. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 80, a bright copy in slightly worn and frayed dustwrapper. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter. . (more information)

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