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Corduroy. (With illustrations in colour and black and white by the late Harry Becker).

By: BELL, Adrian.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London: Bodley Head, 1948.:

Seller ID: 44669

First illustrated edition. A de luxe illustrated edition with completely revised text and illustrated in colour and line by Harry Becker. "Although Becker died in 1928, it is felt that in him has been found an ideal illustratior for Adrian Bell, an example, indeed, of how two men, devoted to the expression of the same thing in different media, may fulfil a perfect collaboration, even though collaboration, as such, did not take place with the knowledge of either." 23cms x 17.5cms. Pp.199, colour frontispiece + further colour and black & white line illustrations by Harry Becker. Green ...
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Orwell Park.

By: BENCE-JONES, Gillian.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Privately published, 1995.:

Seller ID: 44939

"Orwell Park, which stands on the banks of the River Orwell in Nacton village Suffolk, is an independent preparatory school for children between the ages of 3 and 13 years. Originally it was the private home of a notable historical naval celebrity." The author's family were the last residents in Orwell Park before it became a school. Pp.136, occasional black & white photos, ink annotation to p.40. Paperback. G+.
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The Great Hospital In Norwich. A Short Account Of Its History And Buildings by The Rev. F. W. Bennett-Symons, Chaplain of the Hospital and Vicar of St Helen's, Norwich

By: BENNETT-SYMONS, Rev F.W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: [London] : The Journal Of The British Archaeological Association, 1925 . 0:

Seller ID: 43200

First edition. A very good original pamphlet. pp.20. 10.0" x 6.5" . Brown card covers with black printed titles. Covers lightly rubbed with one horizontal crease. Clean text throughout. Title page with pink library stamp: "Norfolk County Library Withdrawn From Sale". G+ .
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Watercolours of Norfolk Past.

By: BENSLEY, Mick.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Loggerheads, Nr. Market Drayton: S.B.Publications, 1990. 1870708407:

Seller ID: 38608

ISBN: 1870708407

"Thirty-four timeless watercolours...Commencing at King's Lynn, the paintings offer a wide variety of bygone scenes from North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, the Norfolk Broads, Norwich and ending of the Suffolk border. Many seascapes are featured reflecting Norfolk's strong maritime heritage." Landscape format. 22cms x 27cms. Pp.72, 34 colour watercolour plates accompanied by verse by David Corran to facing pages. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.
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To the Poor and The Friends of the Poor: A few Thoughts, Occasioned by some late addresses To The King. Also a form, or a sketch of an Address, Recommended to the signature of every honest, Humane Man in the Kingdom both Rich and Poor by T. Bentley.

By: BENTLEY, T. [ Thomas Bentley, 1740? -1819? ] .

Price: £20.00

Publisher: [ London: Thomas Bentley, 1792 ]. 0:

Seller ID: 43085

Facsimile booklet well bound in cloth boards. pp.8 . 8.8" x 6.0" . Typed title-page: "To the Poor and The Friends of the Poor. Thomas Bentley, Sudbury, 1792." Clear English text throughout. The document ends: "(Signed for many) Thomas Bentley. Sudbury 16th July, 1792." Well-bound in dark brown cloth covered boards. Spine with gilt title: "Sudbury Poor". An interesting hard-to-find pamphlet. ** "Thomas Bentley (1740? - 1819?). Born at Sudbury, Suffolk about 1740. Originally a crape measurer. In 1769 he had a shop on Market Hill as a draper. He became a religious fanatic burning all the pict...
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Eighteenth Century Sudbury.

By: BERRY, Allan W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ipswich: Suffolk Books, 1992. 0860552020:

Seller ID: 39060

ISBN: 0860552020

1st edition. "The petty crimes and mishaps, the pressing concerns of ordinary men, the goods for sale, the social occasions, the jobs to be done - these crowd into the advertisement columns, if not into the letters from Town. This book brings together the surviving glimpses of life of one small town, Sudbury in Suffolk, as revealed in the pages of the Ipswich Journal during the second half of the eighteenth century." Pp.94, 1831 map + 9 photos of engravings,. Paperback. VG.
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Suffolk Country Town: A Sudbury Miscellany.

By: BERRY, Allan W.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sudbury: Sudbury Freemans Trust, 1997. 0953061000:

Seller ID: 33955

ISBN: 0953061000

1st edition. "A collection of fascinating tales about Sudbury, the town made famous as Eatonswill in Dickens's Pickwick Papers....Among the author's subjects are Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, beheaded in the Peasant's Revolt, the weaving trade,...Thomas Gainsborough, the scandal of an absconding 19th century banker, local poets, and the freemen of Sudbury. All the essays in this book were previously published as pamphlets ..." Pp.285, foreword by Ronald Blythe, 37 b/w illustrations + a double page map of Sudbury(c.1910), owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperback. VG.
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Changing March.

By: BEVIS, Trevor.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: March: Westrydale Press, 1988. 90168029X:

Seller ID: 40628

ISBN: 90168029X

A look at the history of the Cambridgeshire town of March. Landscape format. 21cms x 29.5cms. Pp.62, black & white aerial and other photos + line drawing illustrations by the author throughout. Red card covers. VG.
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Snippets from Old Peterborough.

By: BEVIS, Trevor.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: March: Privately published by T.A.Bevis, 1994. 0901680559:

Seller ID: 40921

ISBN: 0901680559

"Little bits of history are tucked away in every nook and cranny of towns and villages, in streets, museums, libraries, churches, humble and great houses. Legend and fact mingle, mouldering in darkened corners, in minds and then put away. Here are a few snippets linking our tumultuous and wearying times with the leisurely, homely pace of yesteryear." Pp.42, several black & white photos and line drawings throughout. Paperback. VG.
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The Wisbech Martyrs. William Wolsey and Robert Pygott. Executed at Ely October 16th, 1555.

By: BEVIS, Trevor.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: March: Trevor Bevis, 1993. 0901680478:

Seller ID: 41415

ISBN: 0901680478

"At Wisbech two quite ordinary men, convinced of the truth, steadfastly refused to recant. They lit their candles and their earthly lives ended in the consuming flames in the shadow of the grey bulk of Ely cathedral." Pp.18, black & white frontispiece + some figure illustrations. Paperback. Scarce. VG.
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Groton, Suffolk. A Short Illustrated Guide.

By: BIRD, Rev. A.B.

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Hadleigh: Groton Parochial Church Council, 2010.:

Seller ID: 44873

6th edition, revised and updated by Susan Edwards, Churchwarden of Groton. 15 pages, 3 black & white photos. Green card covers. VG.
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Sudbury & District News 1875-1930.

By: BIXLEY, Steven R.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Little Waldingfield: Steven R.Bixley, 1981.:

Seller ID: 45507

A collection of quaint old newspaper stories gleaned from the archives of the Suffolk Free Press and the author's own library. Also contains advertisements and pictures gathered from the Sudbury area. 24.5cms x 16.5cms. Pp.48, words and pictures in sepia. Paperback, a little spotted. G+.
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Ipswich School. A History in Photographs from the 1850s to the 1980s.

By: BLATCHLY, John and GRIMWADE, Stuart.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Ipswich: The Old Ipswichian Club, 2009.:

Seller ID: 46711

Photographs selected, restored and captioned by John Blatchly and Stuart Grimwade, illustrating buildings, pupils, teachers, teams and events from when Ipswich School was re-established in Henley Road in the early 1850s. "The schools photographic collections are amazingly rich, made more useful by the assiduous naming of members of teams and other groups by George Notcutt, following on from his father Stephen Abbott Notcutt (IV) who was the real founder of the Old Ipswichian Club..." Landscape format. 16cms x 23cms. Pp.144, illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Sepia illustrat...
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Word From Wormingford. A Parish Year. With Illustrations by John Nash.

By: BLYTHE, Ronald.

Price: £22.00

Publisher: London: Viking,1997. 0670873470:

Seller ID: 3378

ISBN: 0670873470

"...Ronald Blythe, author of the world-famous Akenfeld, gives us a beautifully observed calendar of a year in the Church and in the country." Pp.245, signed by author to title page, occasional black & white illustrations by John Nash throughout, owner's illustrated bookplate to inside front board, owner's name to front free endpaper Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.
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Geology of the Country Around Woodbridge, Felixstowe and Orford.

By: BOSWELL, P.G.H.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London: HMSO, 1972.:

Seller ID: 37803

2nd impression of original 1928 edition. "Re-issue of the present memoir provides interesting geological and physiographical background material on various changes in the coastline between Aldeburgh and Harwich Harbour, certain of which were influenced by man's activities." Pp.vi/83, 2 pages of black & white photos + 15 figures/maps in the text, owner's initials to front free endpaper. Bright orange cloth, dustwrapper with illustration of Orford Castle, has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.
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Churchwardens' Accounts of Cratfield 1640-1660.

By: BOTELHO, L.A. (editor).

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Woodbridge: Suffolk Records Society / The Boydell Press, 1999. 0851157599:

Seller ID: 45065

ISBN: 0851157599

1st edition. Suffolk Records Society Vol. 42. "The unusually full set of churchwardens' accounts edited here offers a detailed view of life in an East Anglian village during the English civul wars....The introduction recreates the demographic, economic and social structure of early modern Cratfield, and the volume concludes with a number of appendices, including short biographies of those named in the accounts." Pp.xii /177, inscribed by Lynn A Botelho to front free endpaper, 3 maps. Green cloth, dustwrapper has 1cm tear to top edge. VG/G+.
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Senescali Sudwoldienses Being Lives of the High Stewards of Southwold 1505-1989.

By: BOTTOMLEY, Alan and CHADD, Margaret.

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Southwold: The Southwold Press, 1989.:

Seller ID: 46344

Brief history of the title of High Steward followed by short biographies of holders of the office of High Steward of Southwold through the ages. 25cms x 19cms. Pp.viii/41, 8 portrait illustrations/photos + armorial shields of each of the High Stewards. Stiff yellow card covers. VG.
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Memories of the Air War in East Anglia.

By: BOWMAN, Martin.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Wellington: Halsgrove, 2009. 9781841149387:

Seller ID: 44832

ISBN: 1841149381

1st edition. A Nostalgic Tribute to the US 8th Air Force in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire & beyond. "The author chronicles the lives of ordinary people, of the airmen and others who were involved in the desperate struggle to free Europe from Nazi tyranny." 22cms x 23.5cms. Pp.128, black & white and colour photos and illustrations throughout, signed by the author to title page. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.
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Sir Robert de Bures. A Soldier of Edward I.

By: BRENNER, Bernard & Madeline H.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Falls Church, Virginia: Privately published, 1981.:

Seller ID: 46113

Story of the man beneath the de Bures memorial brass in All Saints' Church, Acton, Suffolk. "Among the thousands of brasses which survive today after nearly seven centuries in English churches, none brings back the color and panoply of its medieval day with greater impact than the memorial to Robert de Bures. This six and a half foot image of a knight in full mail armor has often been called the finest military brass in existence." Pp.38. Cream card covers, darkening to spine and top edge. G+.
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Twenty-Nine Years in the Licence Trade - Our Story.

By: BRIGHT, Fred & Doreen.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Privately published, 2008.:

Seller ID: 43021

Memoirs of former pub landlord Fred Bright, who along with his wife Doreen ran the Swan, Long Melford (Suffolk) for 8 years (1983 to 1991), and before that the Napier Arms, the Three Pigeons, and the Conservative Club all in Halstead, Essex. The book is full of photos covering nearly 30 years of village life. 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.54, black & white and colour photographs throughout, signed by both Fred and Doreen to inside front cover. Paperback, minor crease to lower front corner. VG.
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