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
Tiverton, Devon: Halsgrove, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 160pp, with a certain amount of text, but largely taken up with captioned monochrome photographs. Contents fresh and unmarked. A4 size, bound in maroon cloth, spine titled gilt. In the pictorial jacket, which is slightly bent at the head of the spine. All..... More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, n.d. [1935?]. Hardcover. xii, (9-) 457pp, with 48 illustrations from photographs by the author, and with map endpapers. Contents fresh, clean, and unmarked. Top edge blue, faint foxing to closed fore-edge. 19.5x13cms, in the original binding of blue cloth, firm and clean, spine titled..... 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
Bury St. Edmunds: Printed at the 'Free Press' Works, 1889, 1890, 1891. First editions. Paperback. Each 'Hundred' has between 13 and 53 pages, and is issued stapled in grey printed paper covers, 18x12cms. Each is in good to very good condition, unless otherwise stated, staples rusting. 1889: Cosford Half Hundred..... 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
Chester: John Poole, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], lxxxviii, 1-430; [ii], 431-994. With the original marbled endpapers, bearing the handwritten ownership label of John Clough of Lostock Gralam. Structurally sound and attractive set, with foxing or soiling affecting most pages, sometimes heavily. Offsetting to a few pages, and early owner's..... More
Norwich: Norfolk Record Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Vol I: xix, 178pp; Vol II: xiv, 179-313; each with a photograph frontis. Contents mostly clean, with some pencil underlining and one or two ink marginalia. There is occasional spotting to the fore-edge margins, and a few pages at the beginning and..... More
![Reminiscences of Southwold during the two World Wars. [with the author's signature]. A. Barrett...](/pictures/thumb/19870091.jpg?v=1603516377)
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
Southwold: [self-published], 1986. First edition. Softcover. 65pp, illustrated. Signed by the author to the title page. A very fresh unread copy, with no markings or soiling. A5, in pictorial brown card covers, faintly rubbed, sharp and square, plain brown spine sunned, and some very light scuffs to the edges. More
East Molesey, Surrey, UK: [self-published], 1995. First edition. Softcover. Stapled booklet: [vi], 51pp, illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a centrefold map of troop dispositions in coastal Suffolk on the night of 7th September 1940. An account of military activities in the area during the second world war: includes a bibliography..... More
![The Beauties of Scotland. [Complete in 5 volumes] Containing a clear and full account of the...](/pictures/thumb/18050080.jpg?v=1598191922)
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
![Haworth, Oxenhope & Stanbury from old maps. [Signed copy]. Steven Wood](/pictures/thumb/20140080.jpg?v=1597171899)
Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2014. First edition. Softcover. 128pp, richly illustrated in colour and monochrome. Signed by author inside front cover. Contents very fresh, like new. Landscape format, c.16.5x24.5cms, in thin card pictorial covers, fresh, clean, and uncreased. Brilliant copy. 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
St. Albans Museums Service, n.d. [c.2009]. Softcover. A4 stapled booklet: 56pp, illustrated in colour and monochrome. Contents clean and unmarked. Gift inscription to inner surface of front cover. In pictorial green thin card covers: clean, but front cover severely creased to its leading edge. An otherwise very good copy. Scarce..... 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
[Norwich]: Archant, [2012]. Softcover. 114pp. A4 size glossy softcover collection of captioned photos, some in colour, from the archive of the EADT and the Star, and from the collection of David Kindred. Some advertisements, and a couple of short articles. Contents clean and bright. Thin pictorial card covers also bright..... 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
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
![At the Yeoman's House. [Inscribed Copy]. Ronald Blythe](/pictures/thumb/20120061.jpg?v=1593301395)
London: Enitharmon Press, 2012. Reprint. Hardcover. 127pp, illustrated with photographs. Title page inscribed 'with kind wishes/ Ronald Blythe/ February 2nd 2013'. 'The whole book is a poem: sheer delight.' (The Spectator). 'This is a production of old age, gentle but not soft, both tough-minded and charitable.' (TLS). Unread mint copy..... 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: 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
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
[publisher not stated], 2004. Paperback. [iv], 128pp. Paperback. Pages clean, in glossy cream card covers illustrated and titled in green. The front cover is wrinkled and the surface is damaged, and the first few pages are slightly wrinkled. Otherwise perfectly good. Scarce title. More
Ipswich: W.E. Harrison, The Ancient House, n.d. [1925]. First edition. Hardcover. vi, [1], 270pp, with a colour frontis, many monochrome plates, and a folding map of Wingfield Parish at the back. The extensive appendices include 140pp listing Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the Church since 1538. Contents very clean, a...... More
