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A Suffolk Boy in East Africa .

By: WILKINSON, Thomas .

Price: £58.00

Publisher: London / New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / Pott, Young, & Co. [no date - 1880?] . 0:

Seller ID: 44444

Early issue variant in publisher's rust-red cloth with two leaves of SPCK adverts at rear. pp.126/[4pp.] 6.0" x 4.0" x 0.5". Boards darkened. Gilt title to spine. Original yellow endpapers, lightly soiled. Gift inscription to front free-endpaper (with recipients name erased): Whittaker Lane Sunday School Class VI. Conduct & Lessons. Christmas 1885." Illustrated with 4 full-page engravings (including frontis). Binding sound and hinges secure. VG. ** Samuel Speare was born in Rickinghall, Suffolk on 15th January 1853. He was the second child of a poor family and had eight sib...
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Audley End. The Restoration of 1762-1797.

By: WILLIAMS, J.D.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Chelmsford: The Essex County Council, 1966.:

Seller ID: 44523

1st edition. "Principally based on the series of 20,000 original bills in the Braybrooke Collection in the Essex Record Office...the author sets the restoration work in the context of the 18th century in general and the contemporary Essex scene in particular; he assesses the life and character of Sir John, his aims and achievements, and his relations with those he employed, including Robert Adam and 'Capability' Brrown." Pp.x/71, 16 black & white plates, minor spots to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper edges slightly rubbed. G+/G+.
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More Norfolk Tales.

By: WILSON, B. Knyvet.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Norwich: Jarrold and Sons, Ltd, 1931.:

Seller ID: 39193

1st edition. Anecdotes and amusing stories with Norfolk dialect. Pp.x/60, black & white frontispiece cartoon + a black & white photo of the Copper Beech Tree at Fritton Old Rectory, clean throughout. Blue cloth, slightly rubbed with fading to lower edges, dustwrapper rubbed with edge tears and small losses. G+/G-.
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Cold War : East Anglia.

By: WILSON, Jim.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Stroud: The History Press, 2014. 9780750956383:

Seller ID: 45124

ISBN: 0750956380

1st edition. "Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself the target of a Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad of not only the British deterrent, but also America's first line of defence. " Pp.159, 12 pages of black & white photos, maps and other illustrations. Paperback, VG.
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Anita's Mucking Ugley Ways Through Messing, Essex.

By: WOOD, P.C.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ipswich: Ipswich Book Company, 1998. 0:

Seller ID: 38104

Walking Lowland Fieldpaths. 125 Miles As A Pedestrian. "Produced by Mapjog in good faith as an accurate record of P.C.Wood's 1997-8 walking route, undertaken to raise donations for The British Heart Foundation." Landscape format. 14.5cms x 21cms. Unpaginated. 45 Walks with pags of sketch maps and photographs by Roy Tover facing direction descriptions + illustrations by Sid Hawker. Cream card covers. VG.
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Essex. A Dictionary of the County Mainly Ecclesiological. In Two Parts.

By: WORLEY, G.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London:G.Bell, 1915.:

Seller ID: 18254

1st ed. Part 1: Parishes in the Archdeaconry of Essex. Part 2: Parishes in the Archdeaconry of Colchester. Pp.14/196. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine,edges rubbed. G+.
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Grave Reports. Some Dead Funny Items Gathered from Local Suffolk Newspapers 1720-1900.

By: WRIGHT, Pip & Joy.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Stowmarket: Privately published, 2007.:

Seller ID: 44259

Reprint. "As soon as local newspapers began to be published in the early 1700s, death and everything that followed it were recognised as newsworthy. Editors were in no doubt that the British fascination with the grave and its occupants would make entertaining reading". Pp.48, occasional black & white illustrations. Paperback. VG.
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