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Cadbury Lamb
No 12 in the Shire Album of booklets. Published by Shire Publications 1980. Paperback. 32pp, b/w illustrations throughout. A good, clean copy. UK Post & Packaging £1.30

£2.00

A Handful of History
J R S Whiting
Alan Sutton, 1978. Paperback. 200pp. Illustrated. Creasing and rubbing to cover but clean throughout.

A fascinating history of illustrated historical playing cards of the seventeenth and eighteenth century in England. UK Post & Packaging £1.50

£6.00

A History of The Lophams
Michael Friend Serpell
Phillimore, 1980. Hb with unclipped DJ. Maps to endpapers. 325pp. Blk/wht illustrations. Excellent condition, no tears or marks, clean and bright throughout.

The Lophams began as a frontier post between the north and south folk of East Anglia; the original settlement, Lophamford, having disappeared some 250 years ago. UK Post & Packaging £2.80

£15.00

A Journal of The Plague Year 1665
Daniel Defoe
Published by George Newnes, London 1904. Navy cloth boards, discoloured at spine. Clean text.318pp. UK Post & Packaging £1.50

£2.00

A Short History of Thaxted Church
Mark Arman
Published by Thaxted Parochial Church Council. 1985. Paperback. 32pp. Illustrated throughout.

Includes a description of the Architecture, Patrons & the Order of Building between 1340-1510. Illustrated with drawings, photographs & a plan of the church. UK Post & Packaging £1.30

£5.00

Discovering Heraldry
R H Wilmott Illustrated by Sheila Wilmott
University of London Press Ltd, 1964. HB with DJ. 127pp. Colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations to text. Minor ink marks to title page, tape residue to endpaper, otherwise a nice copy.

This book offers a key to the mysteries of heraldry, a fascinating study once its principles are understood. UK Post & Packaging £1.50

£4.00

Illustrated English Social History: Volume One; Chaucer's England and the Early Tudors
G M Trevelyan
Review copy with typed memo inserted. Longmans, Green and Co, London 1949. Hard cloth cover. Col frontispiece. 175pp. B/w illustrations throughout selected by Ruth C Wright. Very good copy, clean throughout.

UK Post & Packaging £2.00

£3.50

Land of Enchantment
Marian Russell
University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Paperback. 163pp. B/w photos. Excellent condition.

Memoirs of Marian Russell along the Santa Fe Trail. UK Post & Packaging £1.50

£10.00

London Through The Ages
F W Tickner
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1935.307pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Green cloth boards, contents clean. A very nice copy. UK Post & Packaging £3.00

£5.00

Tales of Old Inns
Richard Keverne
Collins, London 1939. HB with DJ. 188pp. 70 b/w illustrations, 17 pen & ink drawings and 6 maps. Good clean book with worn DJ.

This book is designed to interest the average reader in the romance and history of some of the most historic hostelries in England. UK Post & Packaging £2.00

£3.00

The Observer's Book of Heraldry
Charles Mackinnon
Published by Frederick Warne & Co, 1968.150pp. With 12 plates in full colour and 118 line drawings. Hb with DJ. Pen on front endpaper and back cover of DJ. UK Post & Packaging £1.50

£2.50

The American Amusement Park
Dale Samuelson
MBI Publishing Company, 2001. HB with DJ. 156pp. Colour illustrated throughout. Book in excellent condition, DJ good. .

Featuring beautiful colour photographs and vintage postcards, this book takes us on a ride through time. UK Post & Packaging £5.00

£8.00

Whitbread's Brewery; Incorporating the Brewer's Art
Whitbread & Co, London
Produced by Adprint for A N Holden & Co, London 1951. 92pp, 8 colour illustrations and more in b/w. Hard cover with unclipped DJ. Clean text, very good copy. UK Post & Packaging £2.00

£2.50

 

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