Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
Price £150.00.
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Aspin, Chris.
Mr Pilling's Short Cut to China and Other Stories of Rossendale Enterprise:
(Helmshore Local History Society, 1983).
Paperback. Some fading to cover dye, otherwise good+. iv + 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A7116
Keywords: 0906881021, Pilling's, China, Rossendale, nineteenth century, 19th, Bacup, Rochdale, industry, industrial, work, workers, employers, employees, employment, factories, factory, mills, bags, Charter, Chartists, Mr Pilling, the Whitworth Pioneers, China, Chinese, trade, Helmshore, businessman, businessmen, cotton spinners, spinning, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, Lancashire
Price £7.50.
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Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
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O'Brien, P.
Warrington Academy, 1757-86: its Predecessors & Successors
(Owl Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly dented dustwrapper. 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A1889
Keywords: 095143330X, Britain, British, England, English, history, Warrington, Lancashire, education, rational education, Warrington Academy, nonconformity, nonconformists, Dissent, North West, Lucy Aikin, John Aiken, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dissenters, Unitarian, Unitarians, Unitarianism, theology, Joseph Priestley, John Aikin, Lucy Aikin, Anna Laetitia Aikin, Mrs Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Manchester
Price £14.00.
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Martin, Janet D. ed.
The Account Book of Clement Taylor of Finsthwaite, 1712 - 1753:
(Record Society Lancashire Cheshire, 1997).
Number 135 in the Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xxxii + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A14487
Keywords: 0902593382, Clement Taylor, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 18th century, eighteenth century, gentry, Lakeland, Lake District, Finsthwaite, church, Lakes, Windermere, accounts, finance, loans
Price £24.00.
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Taylor, Peter.
Popular Politics in Early Industrial Britain: Bolton, 1825-1850
(Ryburn, Keele UP, 1995).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 253pp. Order No. NSBK-A616
Keywords: 185331059X, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, industrialization, popular politics, Bolton, Lancashire, politics, class, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £6.00.
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Hodson, Patricia M., ed.
The Manchester Ship Canal: a Guide to Historical Sources
(Lancashire Bibliography, 1985).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good. xi + 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A5212
Keywords: 0902217143, Manchester, regional studies, Manchester Ship Canal, North West, industrial, industry, social history, canals, navigation, man-made waterways, navvies, ports, port of Manchester, Ellesmere Port, trade, commerce, commercial, transport, Lancashire, Britain, British, England, English, sources, documents, bibliography, research, bibliographies
Price £16.00.
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Holman, John and Sellers, Ian.
Warrington: a History for Schools
(Padgate College of Education, Warrington, 1972).
Hardback. Red boards worn at edges and frayed at spine, otherwise good. 57pp. Order No. NSBK-A14740
Keywords: B0037WE7NE, Warrington, Cheshire, Lancashire, history, education, parliamentary representation, religion, industry, Boteler, nonconformity
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Morris, R. J, ed.
Class, Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth-Century Towns:
(Leicester UP, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in slightly sunned, lightly soiled dustwrapper. xiii+ 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A5620
Keywords: 0718512502, class, power, society, social structures, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, history, urban, towns, economics, economy, Lancashire, Portsmouth, Liverpool, class, middle class, working class, middle classes, working classes, Unitarianism, religion, Glasgow
Price £38.95.
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Addy, John, ed.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 1, 28 March 1704 - 24 March 1711
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1987, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly faded dustwrapper. xxx + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A10989
Keywords: 0902593161, diary, diaries, Henry Precott, lawyer, LLB, eighteenth century, 18th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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