Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1991, 1992, 1997. c.20x21cms, and 48pp each. Vol 1 is staple-bound, the other two are perfect-bound: Vol 3 has a colour cover. All are inscribed at the first opening, Vol 2 by the author; also one of the photos in Vol 2 has a handwritten note beside..... More

Hardcover. Typescript, A4 printed on one side, 198pp, and presumably never published. I assume that there may be other carbons or copies of this document. There are some short comments from the copier, and some corrections in the text. The pages were initially unbound, and the first leaf is somewhat..... 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

London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [c.1895]. First edition. Hardcover. 194pp, with a portrait frontis. Contents clean, on good paper, with some foxing to the endpapers, prelims and final pages, only a few odd spots in the text. 26.5x17cms, top edge gilt, fore-edge spotted, in the original binding of maroon cloth..... More

London: Elliot Stock, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. [x], 173pp, illustrated with a frontis map and nine photographs (all called for?). Endpapers tanned. Most pages and plates are clean; a few openings are decidedly soiled, others have occasional thumbing or a small (. 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

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807. Reprint. Hardcover. Vol I: v, (i), 254, 827; Vol II: [ii], 695, (i), [28] (index). All plates and maps (some folding) present except the map of 'Turkey in Europe and Hungary', referred to in a Note at the end of the list of..... More