Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Museum Trust, 2000. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Softcover. [vi], 122pp, illustrated with several monochrome photographs. A mass of history and reminiscence lovingly collected by the author. Contents clean and unmarked. A4 size, in glossy card covers, with colour photographs of the Moot Hall on the front, and..... More

King's Lynn, Norfolk: Published privately by the author. 2002. First edition. Hardcover. xi, [ii], 401, [1], and 4 pages for notes. Signed by Purple, 'Best wishes, Jennifer'. Contents very fresh and unmarked. A4 size, bound in untitled green cloth, firm, extremities slightly bumped. In the white pictorial dust jacket, bright..... More

Ipswich: Suffolk Local History Council, 1980. Softcover. 48pp, illustrated with extracts from contemporary documents and a photo. Stapled booklet, with some rusting to staples. Underlining to pp5-13, very little else: pages fresh, 21x15cms, in cream glossy card covers, bright and clean. More

[Nairobi]: [The East African Standard], [1952]. Magazine. 176pp. 29.5x23.5cms/ 11.5x9.25ins. Upbeat glossy magazine for the expats in business, much of it in colour, stuffed with articles and advertisements. Contents clean and fresh, covers firm. Front cover creased two inches in from the margin, rear cover rather soiled. A very nice..... More

Southwold: [self published], 1984. First edition. Softcover. 76pp, illustrated with many monochrome photographs. '..not a history of the two World Wars but a collection of photographs and information to give some idea of Southwold during those dark wartime days.' With the author's signature (or signature stamp?) in blue ink, beside..... More

Edinburgh and London: Thomson Bonar; John Brown; Vernor & Hood; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; et al, 1805. First edition. Hardcover. More than 2,700 pages in total, with c.100 scenic plates, including many of castles and ruins, each volume with an additional engraved title, and Volume I with a folding..... More

London: [publisher not stated], 1906. Presumed first and only edition. Softcover. 93pp, including many plates in colour and monochrome by various artists. Stapled booklet with paper covers in landscape format, 13.2x18.2cms, extolling the charms and facilities afforded by East Anglia, and the East Anglian coast in particular: a mélange of..... More

Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms; and (except Vol IV) London: Whittaker & Co.:, 1864, 1866, 1869, and 1885-7. First edition. Hardcover. A complete set of Tymms' wonderful repository of curious information in the original cloth. Contents in good order, with no ownership names, and generally unmarked, though with marginalia to pp117-166 of..... More

Southwold: Southwold Museum, 2012. First edition. 50pp: large format and richly illustrated, 28x21.5cms, in pictorial card covers. By the scion of the Adnams Brewery family, whose ambitious innovations when he was at the helm largely account for the health of the company today, and the esteem in which it, its..... More

Coggeshall Heritage Centre, 1995. Presumed first and only edition. Softcover. A5 Stapled booklet. 48pp, reproducing c.80 postcards with extensive explanatory captions. Contents clean, upper corners slightly bent. There are diagonal creases to pp23-30, and the bottom corner of the last two pages are creased. In cream card covers: the pictorial..... More

London: Harvill Press, 1998. First printing of UK paperback edition. Paperback. [viii], 296pp, illustrated with photos in the text. Complete number line. Unmarked. An apparently unread copy, with an inch of sunning to the foot of the spine. Fine and square, with french flaps. More

Zaltbommel, Netherlands: European Library, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. [80pp]. Introduction, followed by 76 extensively-captioned photographs. 'This book has been compiled to give the reader a general understanding of Walton-on-the-Naze and its inhabitants during the period between 1880 and 1930.' Contents clean and unmarked. Landscape format, 14.8x20.8cms, in blue pictorial..... More

Exeter: Privately printed for the Editor by William Pollard, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. vii, 230pp. Slight toning of endpapers. Contents clean. Lightly pencilled ownership name 'Geo Crabbe' to title page left in case of interest, ditto an old tipped-in bookseller's listing of the book, also at the title page. Quarto..... More