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A Cotswold Village
Price: £18.00 | |
Gibbs, J. Arthur
Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire - a gentle classic. Red cloth, gold lettering and decoration, rather worn, gilt on top, some age-mottling, name to half title, small tear to title page edge, some edge-wear, generally VG p431
John Murray
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Antiquities of Penwith
Price: £5.00 | |
Pool, P A S
Undated, but contemporary. The Land's End Peninsula - quoits, barrows, stone circles, longstones, the holed stone, hill forts, fougous etc Sapled booklet, VG p16
Penwith District Council
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Echoes of Other Days - some leaves of Northern Lore
Price: £7.00 | |
Lumley, D
Second edition. Historical anecdotes from Northumberland, illustrated with photographs. Blue cloth, spine faded, age-mottling to page edges and to prelims, name plate to front paste-down, o/w p159
Northumberland Press Limited
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Edge of the Unknown
Price: £5.00 | |
Williams, Michael
Psychic phenomena in Cormwall. Good. p94
Bossiney Books
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Exploring Historic Britain
Price: £5.00 | |
Gaunt, Arthur
For 'Britain' here read England - abbeys, castles, windmills, crosses, inns, almshouses and more, and the curious tales associated with them. Red cloth cover just a little worn, slight age-mottling to prelims, no inscriptions, generally VG, no DJ. p94
Southern
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Further Legends and Traditions of Cheshire
Price: £9.00 | |
Woods, Frederick
Signed by the author. Good but noticeable creasing to spine, in scrumpled and chipped DJ p81
Shiva Publishing
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Ghost Trails of Northumbria
Price: £5.00 | |
Kristen, Clive
Five 'tour and explore' trails linked by supernatural themes. Photography by Duncan Elson and illustrations by Mark Nuttall. VG, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound. p104
Casdec
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In the Footsteps of Borrow and Fitzgerald
Price: £8.00 | |
Adams, Morley
Undated. A cycle tour of East Anglia around the turn of the last century, seeking places associated with the Gypsy linguist and the translator of the Rubaiyat. Blue cloth covers worn and marked, contemporary names to ffep, tipped-in portrait frontis and all plates present, tight and sound, good. p262
Jarrold & Sons
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Jersey - Witches, Ghosts and Traditions
Price: £5.00 | |
Hillsdon, Sonia
Jersey folklore and witch trials. VG p141
Jarrow Colour Publications
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Juliana
Price: £15.00 | |
Strunk, William
The Old English life of Saint Juliana Grey and maroon decorated cloth, VG, no inscriptions p133
D C Heath
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Lancashire Idylls
Price: £5.00 | |
Wrigley, Ammon
Tales from the fells. Ex-lib, in library binding, tight and sound, good. p126
George Allen & Unwin
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Legends of Cornwall
Price: £5.00 | |
Jones, Sally
'The Land of Legend' VG p100
Bossiney Books
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More Surrey Tales
Price: £5.00 | |
Alexander, Mathew
Folktales and traditions from Surrey. VG, inscribed by previous owner on half title page p96
Countryside Books
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North Country Calendar - part one, January to June
Price: £5.00 | |
Poulson, Joan
Old customs, rhymes, games, work, herbs and country lore through the seasons, illustrated with line drawings and old photographs. Stapled booklet, illustrative covers a little worn, no inscriptions, good. p40
Hendon Publishing
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Piers the Plowman ( Piers the Ploughman )
Price: £5.00 | |
Langland, William
The 14th century English classic, edited by Walter W Skeat Slight bumping to corners, spine worn top and tail, hinges starting. Very occasionaly annotated. Name to ffep. p195
Clarendon
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Price: £5.00 | |
Stone, Brian trans.
A masterpiece of English Medieval alliterative poetry, in a translation true also to metre. Good - slight shelf wear, bumped at base of spine, pages slightly yellowed around the adges of the text block. p144
Penguin Classics
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Somerset Places and Legends
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Gibbs, Ray
A sequel to the author's 'The Legendary XII Hides of Glastonbury'. VG p131
Llanerch Publishers
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Somerset Remembers - recollections of country people
Price: £5.00 | |
SFWI
Covers a little worn, pages yellowing, good. p125
Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes
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Stories of the North Cornish Coast
Price: £6.00 | |
Bray, Donald
Smugglers and saints, wrecks and mermaids. Covers very slightly worn, generally VG. p152
Truran
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Supernatural in Cornwall
Price: £5.00 | |
Williams, Michael
Undated (1970's). Current hauntings, and some earlier tales. Good - cover a little worn, pages yellowed p116
Bossiney Books
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Price: £5.00 | |
Pyle, Howard
A fine retelling of the traditional tales. VG in VG, slightly edge-worn, DJ p192
Collins
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The Country Dance Book parts 5 & 6
Price: £8.00 | |
Sharp, Cecil J
A facsimile reprint of parts V and VI of Sharp's classic collection of dances, the first containing the Running Set collected in Kentucky, and the second more dances from Playford's The English Dancing Master. Ex-lib, missing ffep, o/w clean, tight and sound, good in slightly sunned good DJ. p136
EP Publishing
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The Dillen
Price: £5.00 | |
Hewins, George
A 'storyteller of genius in the old oral tradition'. Cover a little worn, generally VG p178
OUP
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The Lake District at Work - past and present
Price: £10.00 | |
Marshall, J D and Davies-Shiel, M
Industrial archaeology from the earliest days, illustrated with b/w photographs and a coloured frontis. Large inscription to ffep, some grubby marks to pages, good in good, edge-worn DJ, not price-clipped. p112
David and Charles
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The Lost Journal of Robyn Hood, Outlaw
Price: £15.00 | |
Ryan, David Stuart
A novel. VG in VG DJ, not price-clipped p187
Kozmik Press
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The Midlands in Legend and History
Price: £6.00 | |
anon.
Undated - 1930's? A children's reader, with tales and songs. Decorative cover worn and marked, pages yellowed and creased, good. p119
McDougall's Educational Co.
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The Pace Egg - the Midgley Version
Price: £10.00 | |
Harwood, H W and Marsden, F H eds.
Second edition. The text and music of the Mummers Play performed at Easter in Midgley, West Yorkshire. With an introductory study by the editors, and a photograph from 1934 of the performers. Stapled booklet, good. p24
David Bland
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The Place-Names of Berkshire - parts One, Two and Three complete
Price: £60.00 | |
Gelling, Mary
Vol LI of the English Place-Name Society 1973-4. The classic study. Ex-academic-library, minimal marking, covers marked and worn, all vols internally clean, tight and sound, good, no DJs, all maps present Part 2, missing A(b)II, IV, VI in Part 3, but the other maps all present. p
Cambridge Univ Press
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The Place-Names of Oxfordshire - parts One and Two complete
Price: £25.00 | |
Gelling, Martha
Vol XXIII of the English Place-Name Society 1945-46. The classic study, based on material collected by Doris Mary Stenton. Ex-academic-library, minimal marking, covers marked and worn, both vols internally clean, tight and sound, good, no DJs, vol 2 missing both maps. p
Cambridge Univ Press
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The Poems of Cynewulf
Price: £10.00 | |
Kennedy, Charles W translated and edited
The Anglo-Saxon poet, translated into English prose. Ex-lib, number to spine, label to front paste-down and some marginal stamps. Covers worn to spine and corners, pages yellowed, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p347
George Routledge and Sons
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The Vale of the White Horse - Land and People
Price: £5.00 | |
Stebbing, Nancy
Undated - late 70's? Museum publication No. 9, giving the history of the man-made landscape of the Vale. Stapled booklet, good p32
Oxfordshire County Council Museum Services
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