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[9454] Anon. Hook Norton 2000 AD - The Millennium Book. Hardback. Fine Small oblong format. 74pp. Illustrated. A record of this North Oxfordshire village at the Millenium. £10.00

[14437] Anon. Borough of Banbury 1554-1954. Banbury: Cheney & Sons, 1954. First Edition. Card covers. Very Good 35pp. Illustrated with photographs. Folding coloured map of The Borough of Banbury. No innscriptions. Printed cover with coloured arms of Banbury. Souvenir of the Quater-centenary of the granting of the Charter of Incorporation to the Borough of Banbury by Queen Mary on January 26th. 1554. This year, 2008, marks the 400th anniversary of the Charter granted by James I on 28th June 1608. £30.00

[14390] Anon. Kelly's Directory of Berkshire Bucks and Oxon [with new map] 1903Oxfordshire 1895 with large map engraved expressly for this work. London: Kelly's Directories, 1903. Sixth Edition. Hardback. Very Good Berkshire with a plan of Reading. The preface states ' The Maps [Bucks and Oxon in one and Berks. separately] are sold at the following prices : - Plain Sheet 2/- On Rollers 4/- In Case 5/-'. This copy has the map of Berkshire tipped in but not the Bucks and Oxon map. No inscriptions. Red cloth with gilt title to the spine and Royal arms on the front board. A very good solid copy. £200.00

[14389] Anon. Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire 1895 with large map engraved expressly for this work. London: Kelly & Co., 1895. Hardback. Very Good xii, 1p. Index to Advertisers. 407pp. 40pp. adverts. Large folding map of the county, two tears on the right-hand side, repaired with no loss. Name/date [17-5-95] on front endpaper. Red cloth with gilt title to the spine and Royal arms on the front board, pages slightly browned. A very good solid copy. £150.00

[2526] Anon. Northampton Charities - Report of the Special Committee Appointed By the Town Council on 4th May 1908. County Borough of Northampton, Paperback. Good+. 95pp. Some annotations. Plain wrappers. £12.00

[1117] Banks, F.R,.. Warwickshire and the Shakespeare Country. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: B0000CKLLH. 376pp.Maps and plans. The Penguin Guides New Series. No inscriptions. Pages browned o/w VG £3.00

[2892] Beckinsale, R.P.. Companion into Gloucestershire. London: Methuen, 1939. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. xiv,269pp. Illustrated. Map. No inscriptions. Ochre cloth. £5.00

[6335] Bennett, Stanley G.. An Extraordinary Mixture. Gloucester: Stanley Bennett, 1972. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. 118pp. Illustrated. Most of the items in this book appeared in the Gloucester Journal and Citizen. Signed by the author. TLS signed letter from the author dated 29th March 1972 loosely enclosed. Green cloth, black lettering. £25.00

[13432] Betjeman, John. An Oxford University Chest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0192812734. xiii, 192pp. Illustrated with photographs [mostly by L. Moholy-Nagy] and line drawings [mostly by Osbert Lancaster]. No inscriptions. £3.00

[3209] Brierley, Frank. In The Nick of Time - Prison Poems. Northampton: Frank Brierley, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good 52pp. Inscribed by the author "To Iris Best Wishes Frank". Brierley is described as Northamptonshire's "Pirate of the High Street ". Printed wrappers. £8.00

[3856] Camp, John. Portrait of Buckinghamshire. London: Robert Hale, 1975. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Fine in very good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0709132328. 240pp. 36 photographs by Ronald Goodearl. Map. No inscriptions. Yellow-green cloth gilt. £5.00

[14236] Clark, Ted. Banbury in Old Picture Postcards. Zaltbommel: European Library, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. ISBN: 902882037X. Small oblong format. 78pp. 2 page introduction and 76 illustrated pages each with accompanying text. No inscriptions. Green cloth, front board illustrated with a view of Banbury High Street decorated for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration. £20.00

[12868] Delderfield, Eric. The Cotswolds - Some Stories of the Lovely Villages and Churches. Exmouth: Raleigh Press, 1965. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: B0000CKYDH. 123pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00

[3021] Delderfield, Eric. The Cotswolds - Some Stories of the Lovely Villages and Churches. Exmouth: Raleigh Press, 1965. Second Edition. Paperback. Good. ISBN: B0000CKYDH. 123pp. Illustrated. Names on both covers, marked. £3.00

[3360] Ellacombe, Canon. In A Gloucestershire Garden. London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Second Edition. Hardback. Very Good. ISBN: 0712600272. 302pp. 2pp advert. 32 pp. catalogue dated April 1896. 8 plates. 12 designs illustrating the twelve months facing the first page of each chapter. Name on ffep. Decorated red cloth gilt, teg, slightly rubbed on extremities. £35.00

[9890] Ford, E.B. and Haywood, J.S.. Church Treasures in the Oxford District. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0862990513. xiv, 114pp. 19 illustrations Map. Foreword by A.L. Rowse. No inscriptions. Illustrated covers. £8.00

[14438] Gibson. J.S.W. [editor]. Burial Register of Banbury, Oxfordshire Part Three 1723-1812. Banbury: Banbury Historical Society, 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0900129174. Banbury Historical Society Volume 18. 176pp. No inscriptions. £30.00

[12656] Gretton, Mary Sturge. Burford Past and Present. London: Faber & Faber, 1946. New and Revised Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 158pp. Illustrated. Bookplate of Cheltenham Ladies' College on endpaper. Fawn cloth gilt. £10.00

[2896] Hare, Kenneth. The County Book Series : Gloucestershire. London: Robert Hale, First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. [1949]. xii,224pp. 49 plates. Folding map. Inscription dated 1949 on endpaper. Decorated green cloth gilt, spine dulled. . £4.00

[790] Hyett, Francis A.. Gloucester in National History. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1924. Third Edition. Hardback.. Very Good. No dustwrapper. xv, 282pp. 9 illustrations Folding map of Gloucester in 1610. Additional chapter since the Second edition (1907) on Gloucester in the Great War. £8.00

[9182] Jarvis, Lieutenant-Colonel J.B.. Chronicle of 1st Green Jackets, 43rd and 52nd and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Volume LXV January to December 1963. Hardback. Very Good Illustrated. Green cloth gilt, rubbed. £6.00

[9184] Jarvis, Lieutenant-Colonel J.B.. Chronicle of 1st Green Jackets, 43rd and 52nd and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Volume LXVI January to December 1964. Hardback. Very Good Illustrated. Green cloth gilt, rubbed. £6.00

[9186] Jarvis, Lieutenant-Colonel J.B.. Chronicle of 1st Green Jackets, 43rd and 52nd and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Volume LXVII January to December 1965. Hardback. Very Good Illustrated. Green cloth gilt, rubbed. £6.00

[14426] Jones, Francesca; Gilmour, Lauren Adams; Henig, Martin. Treasures of Oxfordshire. Oxford: Famos, 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+ ISBN: 090687131X. 4to. 96pp. Many colour illustrations. A selection of about 100 treasures from Oxfordshire's Museums, Oxfordshire Record Office and the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies. No inscriptions. Illustrated cover. £10.00

[12750] Keates, Jonathan illustrated by William Bird. Drawings and Sketches of Oxford. Salamander Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0907540317. No inscriptions. £5.00

[13858] Kibble, John. Wychwood Forest and Its Border Places. Charlbury: Wychwood Press an imprint of Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1999. 2nd Impression. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 190227900X. viii, 116pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Illustrated cover. £5.00

[2517] King, Edmund (editor). A Northamptonshire Miscellany. Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Society, 1983. First Edition. Hardback.. Fine. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0901275476. Northamptonshire Record Society Volume XXXII for the year ended December 1982. 167pp. 8 illustrations. Contains three items - Estate Records of the Hotot family, The Daventry Tithing Book and Militia Lists for Nassaburgh 1762. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £10.00

[13360] Mais, S.P.B.. It Isn't Far From London. London: Richards Press, 1948. Reprint. Hardback. Fine in Good+ dustwrapper 352pp. 16 illustrations. Map endpapers. First published in 1930. "This is a walking book , which will introduce Londoners to beauties denied to the motorist - delightful bits of Berks, Bucks and Oxon, Sussex and Surrey ... ". No inscriptions. Dustwrapper worn at spine end. Green cloth gilt. £5.00

[12393] Mee, Arthur. The King's England - Oxfordshire. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. 5th Impression. Hardback. Good. No dustwrapper. x, 415pp. With 231 places and 163 pictures. Map endpaper. No inscriptions. Red cloth. £6.00

[12017] Mee, Arthur (editor). The King's England : Oxfordshire. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper 212pp. Illustrated. Map. New edition revised and edited by E.T. Long. Illustrated with new photographs by A.F. Kersting. Name on endpaper. Blue cloth gilt. £6.00

[9418] Murray, D.L.. Folly Bridge. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 335pp. Map endpapers. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Red cloth, spine sunned. £3.00

[4181] Nicholas, Michael. Muse at St. Matthew's - A short history of the artistic traditions of St. Matthew's Church, Northampton. Paperback. Good. ISBN: 0950031208. 4to.pamphlet. Photographs by Ralph Meakins. Cartoons by Stephen Meakins. £6.00

[12867] Ottewell, Gordon. A Cotswold Quiz Book. Cheltenham: Barn Owl Books, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0950905712. 44pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £10.00

[6210] Paul, John. Grasshoppers & Crickets of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire. Oxford: Pisces Publications, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0950824569. 96pp. Illustrated by Charlotte Matthews. No inscriptions.. £6.00

[14384] Pevsner, Nikolaus and Sherwood, Jennifer. The Buildings of England : Oxfordshire. London: Penguin Books, 1975. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0140710450. 936pp. 121plates. 3 maps. The copy of Robert Bolton, Vicar of Bloxham, Oxfordshire. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed on edges, price intact. Black leatherette gilt. £14.00

[9871] Pickering, Michael. Village Song and Culture - A study based on the Blunt Collection of song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire . London: Croom Helm, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. ISBN: 0709900597. 187pp. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper. Black cloth gilt £35.00

[12773] Pinnell, Miss with the help of the children of Sapperton School. Village Heritage. London: Alan Sutton, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 086299263X. Oblong 4to. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt. £6.00

[586] Plaisted, Arthur H.. The Romance of a Chiltern Village. Medmenham, Buckinghamshire: The Village Bookshop, 1958. First Edition. Hardback.. Fine in near fine d/w ISBN: B0000EF0P6. 214pp. Illustrations and Plans. Map endpapers. Arthur H. Plaisted was Vicar of Medmenham. No inscriptions. £16.00

[14436] Potts, William. A History of Banbury - The Story of the Development of a Country Town. Banbury: Banbury Guardian, 1958. First Edition. Hardback. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: B0016RTKHK. xvi, 253pp. 51 illustrations. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Blue cloth gilt. £30.00

[14335] Potts, William. A History of Banbury - The Story of the Development of a Country Town. Banbury: Banbury Guardian, 1958. First Edition. Hardback. Good+ / No dustwrapper. ISBN: B0016RTKHK. xvi, 253pp. 51 illustrations. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt, spine dulled/marked., contents VG. £10.00

[9892] Pringle, Roger [editor]. Poems of Warwickshire. Kineton: Roundwood Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0906418054. xii, 149pp. Jacket design by John Lawrence. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper. Green cloth gilt. £6.00

[12678] Rowse, A. L.; Hedgecoe, John. Shakespeare's Land: A Journey Through the Landscape of Elizabethan England. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0877014620. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £10.00

[12866] Ryland, Peter. Cheltenham Walks and Rides: Six short tours in Cheltenham, originally prepared for the Cheltenham Society. Cheltenham: Borough of Cheltenham Libraries and Arts Committee, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0902679015. 28pp. Folding map. Illustrations by Peter Reardon. Additional research by Nancy Pringle. No inscriptions. £12.00

[12677] Sampson, Aylwin. Scene Together - A Further Selection from the Series on People and Places First Published in the "Gloucestershire Echo" . Adlestrop: Windrush Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 090007597X. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £6.00

[12863] Shurey, Richard. Shakespeare's Avon from Source to Severn. Manchester: Whitethorn Press, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 095060559X. 79pp. Illustrated. Map of river. No inscriptions. £5.00

[7050] Simpson, Alan and Mary. Compton-Land Revisited - New looks at an Old Puzzle . Little Compton Historical Society, 1994. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No dustwrapper. Volume II in a series of publications in honor of Carlton C. Brownell. Oblong format. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Colour map by Louis W. Luedtke of 'Compton-Land in England' showing the locations of Comptons in the counties loosely enclosed. Foreword by Nate Atwater. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt. £25.00

[8767] Sutton, Alan and Hudson, John. Cotswold Images. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. ISBN: 0862995116. Oblong 4to. 192pp. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations. Map. Dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Red cloth gilt. £6.00

[13359] Thomas, Sarah edited by June Lewis. The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas 1860-65. Moreton-in-Marsh: Windrush Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0900075384. 180pp.The diary of a Victorian lady, daughter of a Baptist Minister, while living in Fairford, Gloucestershire. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Cream cloth gilt. £5.00

[4180] Thornton, John R.. The Shoemaker in Art - Catalogue of an Exhibition March 26 - April 22 1961 Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton. Northampton: Museums and Art Gallery Committee, 1961. Paperback. Good+. 24pages. 2 illustrations. £6.00

[14439] Trinder, Barrie. Victorian Banbury. Banbury: Banbury Historical Society, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Fine / Very Good+. ISBN: 0850334330. Banbury Historical Society Volume 19. 4to. xii, 235pp. 33 plates. 18 drawings in the text. Map. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Red cloth gilt. £10.00

[14421] Tyzack, Charles. Wychwood and Cornbury. Charlbury: Wychwood Press an imprint of Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author. Fine ISBN: 1902279042. 168pp. Illustrated. Signed by tthe author on the title page with no further inscription. Illustrated covers. £10.00

[5932] Utechin, Patricia. Epitaphs from Oxfordshire. Oxford: Robert Dugdale /Friends of Oxfordshire Churches, 1980. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in Very Good d/w ISBN: 0950388068. 79pp. Illustrations by Clare Roberts. Foreword by John Piper. No inscriptions. Red cloth gilt. £8.00

[12632] Various. Brass Rubbings from Shakespeare's Countryside: A Selection of the More Interesting Rubbings from Monumental Brasses from Churches in the Environs of Stratford-Upon-Avon. Stratford-on Avon: Edward Fox & Son Ltd, 1970. Limited edition of 1250 copies. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0950165808. Folio. 28pp. Map of the district. 13 brass rubiings, each with a tissue guard, from 11 churches with an accompanying drawing of each church and text description. Card covers £50.00

[14296] Verey, David (editor). Cotswold Churches. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+ ISBN: 090438778X. 189pp. Illustrated. No ibnscriptions. £5.00

[3323] Waters, Rev T.. Thornbury Church. Paperback. Good. Reprinted from the transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 10pp. Plan. Wrappers chipped. £4.00

[12872] Whiteman, Robin. The Cotswolds. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0297794671. 160pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00

[2893] Williams, Ethel Carleton. Companion into Oxfordshire. London: Methuen, 1951. Fourth Edition. Hardback. Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: B0000CHWB1. ix,268pp. 15 plates. Endpaper map. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt, boards damp marked on fore-edge, contents VG £3.00

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