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50 Years Gardening at Harewood.

EP Publishing, 1978. First Edition. Soft Cover, 133pp, illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A light crease to the bottom corner of the first few pages, otherwise internally clean and tight. Life at Harewood House in Yorkshire, the home of Princess Mary, where the author and his father were both Head Gardeners... Very Good.

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Book number: 15718

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Gardening, Harewood, Yorkshire, stately Home

AA 50 Great Walks in Britain Handpicked for Dog Owners.

AA, 2003. Mass Market Paperback, 128pp, illustrated softback covers. Maps of the walks. A very clean copy. 50 short to medium walks for dog owners, in England, Wales and Scotland, produced by the AA in association with Iams dog food... Fine.

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Book number: 14610

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Dog, Walking, Countryside

Agenda The Committee Member's Guide March 1957.

Co-operative Press, 1957. First Edition. Soft Cover, 112pp, blue soft covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on footwear department, Lewis's of Liverpool, and attracting the school leaver. A magazine for Co-op committee members... Very Good.

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Book number: 10721

Keywords: Co-op, Liverpool, Footwear, Personnel, CWS

Agenda The Committee Member's Guide June 1957.

Co-operative Press, 1957. First Edition. Soft Cover, 112pp, orange soft covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on mutuality, changing patterns of consumer expenditure, housing at Bridgwater etc. A magazine for Co-op committee members... Very Good.

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Book number: 10722

Keywords: Mutuality, Consumer, Bridgwater, CWS

Agenda The Committee Member's Guide December 1957.

Co-operative Press, 1957. First Edition. Soft Cover, 104pp, red soft covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on death benefit schemes, furniture sales, Bradford, society and shops and the woman worker. A magazine for Co-op committee members... Very Good.

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Book number: 10724

Keywords: Death Benefits, Furniture, Woman Worker, Bradford

Agenda Co-operative Management Magazine September 1961.

Co-operative Press, 1961. First Edition. Soft Cover, 96pp, colour illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on liquor and wine, catering and Birmingham staff canteen etc. A magazine for Co-op managers.. Very Good.

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Book number: 10725

Keywords: Liquor, wine, Birmingham, CWS

Agenda Co-operative Management Magazine March 1962.

Co-operative Press, 1962. First Edition. Soft Cover, 52pp, colour illustrated card covers. Colour and b + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on laundry and dry cleaning, colour as an aid to sales etc. A magazine for Co-op managers... Very Good.

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Book number: 10726

Keywords: Laundry, CWS

Agenda Co-operative Management Magazine September 1962.

Co-operative Press, 1962. First Edition. Soft Cover, 52pp, colour illustrated card covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on coal, bakery, horticulture and personnel management etc. A magazine for Co-op managers... Very Good.

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Book number: 10727

Keywords: Coal, Bakery, Personnel, Horticulture, CWS

Agenda Co-operative Management Magazine December 1962.

Co-operative Press, 1962. First Edition. Soft Cover, 44pp, colour illustrated card covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Includes articles on St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, consumer protection, Swedish shopping centres, etc. A magazine for Co-op managers... Very Good.

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Book number: 10728

Keywords: Belfast, Consumer Protection, Sweden, Edinburgh

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The Albion Temperance Reciter.

Frederick Warne & Co, 1890. Hard Cover, 176pp, grey cloth covered boards with floral ornament in blue and black. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, several additional religious poems neatly pasted in to the preliminary and end pages, otherwise internally very clean. Poems and prose against the evils of drink... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 14850

Catalogue: Childrens' Books

Keywords: Children, Temperance, Poetry, Alcohol

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The Albion June 1 1831.

Wm Boucher 69 Strand, 1831. First Edition. Unbound, An original full size newspaper of four pages, clean, but with a very little wear to the edges. The contents include advertisements, including full details of a lecture on singing and a concert at Horncastle, the Fifeshire election, the capture of the midnight legislators of Galway and other outrages, including insurgents dressed as females, foreign news, Paganini in Leipzig, Covent Garden, the murder of Richard Taylor, Rochester and market and law news etc. Very rare... Very Good.

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Book number: 16462

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Newspaper, Horncastle, Fifeshire, Rochester, Paganini, Irish History

Algebra: A Specific Subject of Instruction in Public Elementary Schools.

Blackie, Hard Cover, Probably 1880s. 3 parts in one volume, each of 64pp. Green cloth covered boards with black decoration. Previous owner's names and pencil sums to endpapers, otherwise clean. Part of the Blackie's Elementary Textbook series, now Rare... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 12274

Keywords: Algebra, Mathematics, School

S. G.

All's Well That Ends Well.

Nelson, Hard Cover, Ill.: S Spurrier. 240pp, decorated blue cloth covered boards. Colour illustrations. Small spots of light foxing to foredge, prize inscription dated 1915 to inner board, otherwise internally clean. plates. Dulcie's adventures in Brittany... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11493

Catalogue: Childrens' Books

Keywords: Children, Brittany

6 Alphabets and Numerals.

Coats Sewing Group, 1977. Soft Cover, Tall booklet of 10 pages plus the tissue paper patterns. 4 free style designs and 2 counted thread designs for embroidering alphabets and numerals. Complete and unused... Fine.

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Book number: 11541

Catalogue: Sport & Hobbies

Keywords: Embroidery

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The Alternative Service Book 1980 Together with the Liturgical Psalter.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover, 1293pp, blue cloth covered boards with gilt title. Coloured ribbon bookmarkers. Original owner's name cut out from top corner of flyleaf, otherwise clean. The church services authorised for use in the Church of England, including lists of readings, themes etc and the Psalms.... Very Good.

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Book number: 8602

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Church of England, Prayer Book, Church Service, Anglican

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Anecdotes of Eminent Persons Comprising Also Many Interesting Remains of Literature and Biography with Some Original Letters of Distinguished CHaracters in Two Volumes Vol I and Vol II.

Samuel Bagster, 1813. First Edition. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ Tall, A heavy set of two volumes, both of 404pp. Leather covered boards with portions of loss to the spine and covers and cracked gutters. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, a few small spots of foxing, otherwise internally clean. A wide range of anecdotes - Dr Sheridan in his youth. Thomas Sainvitz, verses by Mary Queen of Scots, conjoined twins, the first siege of Corfe Castle, Empress Cathereine of Russia, frogs, drunkards etc... Very Good.

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Book number: 16529

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Sheridan, Pope, Literature, Anecdotes, Collection, Miscellany

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The Annual Register or a View of the History Politics and Literature for the Year 1810.

J Johnson W J and J Richardson R Baldwin Otridge and Sons J Sewell J Nichols F and C Rivington T Payne G and J Robinson et al, 1811. First Edition. Full-Leather, A heavy book of 962pp, plus Contents pages. Leather boards, the front hinge shaky, with some loss to the leather cover to the bottom of the spine. Internally clean and well bound. As well as the events of the year in Europe and at home, including war in Portugal, Bonaparte's marriage, the regency, capture of Guadeloupe etc there are poems, extracts from books, history, inventions and an account of Southey's History of Brazil, Edward Clarke's travels and the travels of Mirza Abu Talebkhan... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 16604

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: History, English Literature, Politics, Regency

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Antiquities of the Cornish Countryside.

Tor Mark Press, 1111. Soft Cover, Probably 1970s. Softback of 30pp, map and many b + w illustrations. VEry clean. A field guide to the prehistoric henges, barrows, menhirs and fogous etc of stone age, Bronze Age and Iron Age Cornwall, with a mini-tour... Fine.

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Book number: 5717

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: henge, barrow, menhir, fougou

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

Ward Lock & Co, Hard Cover, Probably late 19th century. 421pp and publisher's catalogue, illustrated dark red cloth covered boards. Flyleaf probably removed, old price on title page, otherwise a clean copy.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 9636

Catalogue: Literature A - F

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The Arabian Nights A Selection for the Most Part from Lane's Translation.

Oxford, 1939. Hard Cover, Ill.: A B Houghton and Others. 733pp, dark blue cloth coverd boards. Wartime economy dustjacket with a little loss to top of the spine. 46 b + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A selection from Lane's translation with the adventures of Caliph Haroun Alrraschid, Aladdin, Ali Baba etc... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 16061

Catalogue: Literature G - P

Keywords: Fairy Tales, Aladdin, Ali Baba

The Asparagus Recipe Book.

Asparagus Growers Association, Soft Cover, 1980s? 20pp. soft card covers. A clean copy. Recipes for sauces, soup, main courses and side dishes with asparagus... Fine.

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Book number: 11979

Catalogue: Cookery

Keywords: Cookery, Recipe

Bananaman.

Purnell St Michael, 1984. Hard Cover, Ill.: Peter Campbell. Based on the TV series. Unpaginated. Laminated illustrated covers. Colour illustrations by Peter Campbell... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2126

Catalogue: Childrens' Books

Keywords: Peter Campbell, TV

Barbie Annual 1995.

Marvel, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover, Large format. 60pp, laminated boards with a little wear. Colour illustrations. Small clean labels affixed over previous owner's details in 'This Book Belongs To' section, otherwise a clean copy.. Very Good.

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Book number: 2211

Catalogue: Childrens' Books

The Beano Book 1989.

Thomsom, 1988. Hard Cover, Laminated decorative boards, wear to side of spine but no loss. Internally clean. Colour cartoons, including Dennis The Menace... Very Good.

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Book number: 1794

Catalogue: Childrens' Books

Keywords: cartoons

Bedtime Stories.

Birn, 1111. Hard Cover, Probably 1940s. Paper covered boards, a little rubbed to edges, with a picture of a boy and a girl in bed reading, cloth spine. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations. Original owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise clean. Stories, poems etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7061

Catalogue: Childrens' Books

Keywords: children