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THE LEEDS & LIVERPOOL CANAL: A HISTORY AND GUIDE
Written by Mike Clarke.
Stock no. 1827642
Published by Carnegie Publishing Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Illustrated history of England's longest and most successful inland waterway. Dark green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0948789409. Text block lightly browned with some foxing. Else a clean copy. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. There is a slight musty odour present.

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THE PEOPLE ALONG THE SAND: THE SPURN PENINSULA & KILNSEA A HISTORY, 1800-2000
Written by Jan Crowther.
Stock no. 1827641
Published by Phillimore. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Spurn Head is a 3.5 mile sand and shingle peninsula stretching between the North Sea and the River Humber. This social history of Spurn and Kilnsea has an emphasis on how the landscape of this very unusual area has impacted upon the people who have lived there or been associated with it. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781860774195. A lovely copy.

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THE CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND: THE NORTH AND EAST ANGLIA
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Priscilla Metcalf; et al.
Stock no. 1827635
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2005. Very good condition.

Bright pink spine with gilt title, grey cloth boards. B/w photos. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is heavily scuffed and marked to one end and also has a few marks to plain side. Overall still a nice copy.

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THE CANALS OF NORTH WEST ENGLAND VOLUME II
Written by Charles Hadfield; Gordon Biddle.
Stock no. 1827602
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Canals of the British Isles series. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715349929. Boards nice and bright. Top edge of text block has some foxing. Minor browning to endpapers else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned.

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A REGIONAL HISTORY OF THE RAILWAYS OF GREAT BRITAIN VOLUME X THE NORTH WEST
Written by Geoffrey O. Holt.
Stock no. 1827488
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1978. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715375210. Light rubbing to horizontal edges of boards. Text block browned and grubby. Foxing to endpapers. A few grubby marks to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly worn at base of spine and is scuffed.

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BLACKPOOL TRAMS 1968-1985
Written by Nick Meskell.
Stock no. 1326984
Published by Train Crazy Publishing. 1st 2022. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781907648366. This is copy no. 474. Some very slight rubbing to edges of wrapper.

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BLACKPOOL TRAMS 1950-1967
Written by Nick Meskell.
Stock no. 1326983
Published by Train Crazy Publishing. 1st 2019. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781907648304. This is copy no. 806. Dustwrapper is just a little rubbed to top rear corner and ever so slightly creased along top edges.

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THE LAKE DISTRICT (NN 53)
Written by W.H. Pearsall; Winifred Pennington.
Stock no. 1827267
Published by Collins. 1st 1973. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series 53. An excellent book for general naturalists, walkers, botanists, geologists, zoologists, archaeologists and historians, covering the natural and human history of The Lake District and surrounding areas, from pre-history to the present day on the evidence of the archaeologist, the historian and the conservationist. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0002131331. Ex-lib with usual library stamps, and marks to endpapers where labels have been removed. Boards clean. Contents browned. Pencil annotation to page 275. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has had mylar cover removed leaving glue stain (clear) to verso.

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LAKELAND (NN 92)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1326720
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The wildlife of Cumbria. New Naturalist series no. 92. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 000711303X. Foxing to top edge of textblock else a fine copy in a fine wrapper.

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COLERIDGE AMONG THE LAKES & MOUNTAINS
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Roger Hudson.
Stock no. 1827047
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

From his Notebooks, Letters and Poems 1794-1804. Selected and edited by Roger Hudson. Colour pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. A light crease to margin of first few pages (very minor). Contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little grubby and lightly faded, one corner bashed.

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THE GREAT AGE OF STEAM ON WINDERMERE
Written by George H. Pattinson.
Stock no. 1326188
Published by The Windermere Nautical Trust. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The history of Windermere with anecdotes provides a feast for any lovers of fine boats and the steam era. Blue boarsd, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0907796001. Spine bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINING DISTRICTS OF ALSTON MOOR, WEARDALE AND TEESDALE, IN CUMBERLAND AND DURHAM
Written by Thomas Sopwith.
Stock no. 1826860
Published by W. Davison. 1st 1833. Good condition.

Comprising descriptive sketches of the scenery, antiquities, geology, and mining operations, in the upper dales of the rivers Tyne, Wear and Tees. Lead mining. Cloth boards with title label to spine. Colour map of the area to frontis. Boards unevenly faded, browned, and grubby, bumped at corners, spine edges fraying, title block obliterated. Front joint split, rear joint just starting to split. Front hinge between title page and frontis is split at top & tail. Pencil writing and erasure to front pastgedown, inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Endpapers are browned and grubby. Text block browned. Initials to title page. Foxing and some grubby marks throughout. Rear hinge split.

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