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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Smith, Ray Campbell.
Fresh Watercolour: Bring Light and Life to Your Painting
(David and Charles, 1991, England).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-F5529
Keywords: 0715397915, ray smith, ray campbell smith, watercolours, watercolour, fresh watercolour, watercolourist, watercolouring, composition, technique, subjects, perspective, art, landscape, waterscape, waterscapes, artist, artists, artistic, mountains, RSA, BSP, society painters, british, britain, england, english, UK, great britain, great british, paintings
Price £8.00.
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Showler, Brian & Sinfield, Adrian, eds.
The Workless State: Studies in Unemployment
(Martin Robertson, 1981).
Foreword by Peter Townsend. Paperback. Spine creased, light soiling to edges, otherwise good. xvii + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A6512
Keywords: 0855203404, unemployment, employment, work, labor, labour, twentieth century, poverty, men, politics, political economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, Keynes, government, society, tax, taxation, history
Price £7.00.
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Hobson, O. R.
A Hundred Years of the Halifax:
(Batsford/Clowes, 1953).
Hardback. Boards soiled, in torn dustwrapper, otherwise good. x + 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A12743
Keywords: B0000CIFPZ, Halifax, building society, societies, banking, money, finance, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £12.00.
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Madams, Julia P.
The Story Re-Told: An Intermediate Text-Book on Co-operation
(Co-op Union Ltd, 2nd edit., 1921).
Hardback. Dark blue cloth slightly marked/mottled interior good, illustrated. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A3439
Keywords: B000KZKRB2, C.W.S., Co-operative Wholesale Society, CWS, co-operation, Robert Owen, co-operative, Christian Socialism, Co-operative Movement, Christian Socialist, Rochdale Pioneers, New Lanark, Julia Madams, utopia, cooperation
Price £11.00.
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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
Price £60.00.
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Krejci, Jaroslav.
Social Change and Stratification in Postwar Czechoslovakia:
(Macmillan, 1972).
Hardback. Some moulding to boards, internally good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A3613
Keywords: 0333134958, social, society, stratification, postwar, Czechoslovakia, Czech, class, status, history, socio-economic, economic, wealth, income, occupations
Price £5.00.
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Owens, W. R., ed.
Seventeenth-Century England: A Changing Culture. Volume 2: Modern Studies
(Ward Lock Educational/Open University, 1980).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. iv + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-A11337
Keywords: 0706240898, seventeenth century, 17th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, civil war, history of science, Royal Society
Price £6.00.
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Fellows, Margaret and Gault, Ian.
The Parr Family and Grappenhall Heyes:
(Friends Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden, 2012).
With many photographs. Paperback. Slight bending to covers, otherwise very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A16125
Keywords: B00JKKE8C2, stored with booklets, Cheshire, Parr family, Warrington, history, Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden, banking, country estates, Parrs
Price £18.00.
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Ellison, Norman.
The Wirral Peninsula:
(Robert Hale, rpt, 1962).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings and stamps, otherwise a good solid copy. x + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A14501
Keywords: B0000CJ5DG, Wirral, The Wirral, Cheshire, Merseyside, Thurstaston, Dee, West Kirby, Hoylake, Parkgate, Bebington, The Wirral Peninsula
Price £8.50.
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