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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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Chilling True Tales of Old Preston
Price: £7.00 | |
Johnson, Keith
VG p99
Owl Books
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Common English Proverbs
Price: £5.00 | |
Johnson, A
Five hundred common proverbs, with their literal and applied meanings. Cover a little worn and sunned, very ocasional pencil annotation, generally VG. p122
Longmans Green & Co.
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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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Hants and Dorset Ghosts
Price: £5.00 | |
Farquharson-Coe, A
Stapled booklet, good p32
James Pike Ltd
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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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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
Price: £5.00 | |
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 Anatomy of Puck
Price: £80.00 | |
Briggs, K M
An examination of Fairy Beliefs among Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors VG, name to ffep, in slightly chipped, edge-worn and sunned but good DJ p284
Routledge & Kegan Paul
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The Avebury Monuments, Wiltshire
Price: £5.00 | |
Vatcher, Faith de M, and Vatcher, Lance
Detailed descriptions of the prehistoric sites of Windmill Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbury Hill and Avebury itself, with plans and diagrams and a fold-out map of the area. Stapled booklet, VG p43
HMSO
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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 Life and Songs of George Maynard
Price: £6.00 | |
Stubbs, Ken
A brief biography of this traditional singer, with examples of his ballads, including musical notation. Stapled booklet, good p17
English Folk Dance and Song Society
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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 Morris Book Part III
Price: £5.00 | |
Sharp, Cecil J and Macilwaine, Herbert C
'With a description of dances as performed by the Morris Men of England', part 3 only. Brown paper cover missing from back, edge-worn at front, gilt on top, some age-mottling, good p101
Novello and Company
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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 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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