BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS ‘Acorns’ 3 Staining Rise Staining Blackpool FY3 0BU Tel 01253 886103 Email: [email protected] A CATALOGUE of SECONDHAND LANCASHIRE BOOKS FOR ORDERING PURPOSES PLEASE REFER TO THIS . CATALOGUE AS ‘LJ’ (Updated on 9. 11. 2020) All books in this catalogue are in good secondhand condition with major faults stated and minor ones ignored. Any book found to be poorer than described may be returned at my expense. My integrity is your guarantee. All secondhand items are sent ‘on approval’ to ensure the customer’s satisfaction before payment is made. Postage on these is extra to the stated price, so please do not send payment with order for these secondhand books I( want you to be satisfied with them before paying..Postage will not exceed £5 to a UK address. Pay by cheque or bank transfer. I do not accept card payments. I am preparing to ‘sell up’,and to this end, I offer at least 30% off the stated price to those who will call to see my stock. To those wanting books to be posted, I make the same offer if the order without that reduction comes to £40. Postage to a UK address will still be capped @ £5 If you prefer not to receive any future issues of this catalogue, please inform me so that I can delete your name from my mailing list A few abbreviations have been used :- PENB Published Essay Newly Bound – an essay taken from a learned journal , newly bound in library cloth dw dustwrapper, or dustjacket (nd) date of publication not known. A date is usually given o/w VG otherwise in Very Good condition eps endpapers (flyleaves) f.ep front free endpaper I operate a search service for Lancashire & Cheshire books. Tell me what you seek I take books to gatherings of local/family historians and set up a bookstall. Please let me know of any event you may be involved with which I might attend. 1 BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Abbatt. Quaker Annals of Preston & the Fylde 1653-1900 (1931) 168pp + plates Indexed. £100. -do- A Victorian Quaker Courtship; Lancashire Love Letters of the 1850s 1988 Pbk. 291pp+ folding map. Illus VG £8 Abram. Memorials of the Preston Guilds (1882 – reprint 1971). Pbk 152pp £5,, -do- Bygone Blackburn (1950 – reprint 1989) 204pp + plates & folding map dw VG £30 (Accrington) Accrington Cricket Club : Golden Moments 1846-1995 200pp Illus VG (See Pilkington) £10* (Acts of Parliament) I have a list of Lancashire Acts of Parliament which you can send for, It contains many local Acts, including some for:- Prescot, Liverpool,Stretford, Hulme,Manchester,Everton,Lostock, Tonge, ,Rochdale,Ashton-u- Lyne,St Helens,Aughton (Ormskirk), Nelson,Shaw,Farnworth,Preston,Rainhill,Oldham,Salford,Westhoughton,Bury, ,Lancaster,Darwen,Southport,Bootle,Royton,Wigan,Golborne,Seaforth,Sefton,Bolton,Birkdale, , Middleton,Little Hulton,Chorley,Bury. Ainsworth History & Associations of Altham & Huncoat 1932. 307pp Indexed. List of subscribers. New endpapers. Usual foxing. With the book is a postcard written by Ainsworth to a Huncoat resident in a humourous manner.It may be that the spine is new, with the original one laid onto it. The covers are not new, as they have some wear to the corners.Very scarce £80* (Allerton) The parish of All Hallows, Allerton 1876-1976. Pbk 1976 58pp Illus Signature on half- title £8 Allen & Mattocks. Industry & Prudence; a Plan for Accrington c 1972. 4to 186pp Illus. VG in a frayed dustwrapper. This is a MUST on every Accringtonian’s shelves. £10*.. Alston. Lancashire & the Lune Valley. 19?? Sutton Pbk. 160pp Photos/captions. VG £6 -do- Doris’ Village (Hawkshaw) 1992 Pbk. Illus 63pp VG £5 Ambrose. Liverpool & District Cricketers 1882-1947 (2002) Pbk 32pp VG £5 Anderson. The Orrell Coalfield, Lancs, 1740-1850, 1975, 208pp, illus dw VG, owner's sig fep £30 ‘An Old Stager’ (Aspinall) Liverpool and few years since. 1869 Second edition. New endpapers 187pp £15 Arthur C. The History of the Fylde Waterworks 1861 to 1911 (1911) 383pp + index & plates. Newly rebound with a map in the pocket. A library stamp on obverse of the title page. VG £75* Ashcroft. Atherton & Tyldesley.. 2013. Images of England series. 128pp Photos/captions VG £5 -do- Around Ashton in Makerfield & Golborne. 1997 Archive Photographs series. Pbk 128pp Photos/captions VG £5 Ashmore. The Whalley Abbey Bursars’ Accounts for 1520 (1962) Offprint pamphlet 24pp VG £5 Ashton, Accrington As It Was, 1975, 44pp pbk photos/captions VG £10.. -do-, Economic & Social Investigations in Manchester 1833-1933: a centenary history of the Manchester Statistical Soc, 1934, 179pp, boards £10 2 BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-, Lytham, 1947 (2nd), blue cloth 121pp Illus £20.. -do- Three Big Strikes in the Coal Industry – Pt 3 (of 3) `1925. 508pp No lettering on the spine. Title is printed on the front cover VG Much on Lancashire coalfield 1913-21 £30* -do- The history of St Chad’s Church, Poulton-le-Fylde 1949/ Pbk 74pp £5 Ashworth. Recollections of Richard Cobden & the Anti-Corn Law League (c1876) 295pp Indexed £15 -do- Burnley; a town amidst the Pennines 1984 Pbk 98pp Illus VG £5.. Ashworth & Dalziel. Lancaster & District. 2009 Pbk 160pp Photos with captions. Owners’ signatures ontitle page, o/w VG £8 Aspden Hartley. Fifty Years A Journalist: reflections & recollections of an Old Clitheronian c1930(?) 63pp Ex-library (never issued) £20 Aspin Chris. Haslingden, 1800-1900, a history, 1962, 187pp + plates, index £50*... -do- Surprising Rossendale 1986 Pbk 55pp VG £5. -do- Surprising Lancashire. 1988 Pbk 74pp + photo plates VG £5 -do- Mr Pilling’s Short Cut to China & other stories of Rossendale enterprise 1983 Pbk. 100pp Illus VG £8 -do- Lancashire; the First Industrial Society 1969. 190pp + 49 photo plates. Indexed. Recommended reading . A small inscription on front paste-down. £10 -do- Just a few words; a Helmshore boyhood 2003 45pp dw. VG Signed by author £15 -do- Dizzy Heights; the story of Lancashire’s first flying men 1988 Pbk. Illus 132pp Indexed VG £10 -do- The Water-Spinners; a new look at the early cotton trade. 2003 Helmshore Local History Society. Pbk 508pp VG £30 -do- -do- Hardback, VG in VG dustwrapper £40 -do- The Turners of Helmshore & Higher Mill 1970 Pamphlet 24pp £5 -do- James Hargreaves & the Spinning Jenny 1964. 79p + photo plates. Indexed. VG £20 -do- (ed) Manchester & the Textile districts in 1849. (1972) 122pp. A society’s stamp on thetitle page, o/w VG in VG dustwrapper. A series of 1849 newspaper articles by Angus B Reach. £8 Aspin & Pilkington Haslingden, 1979 Pbk spiral bound 153pp Photos/captions VG £12*. Aspin & Simpson The Spirit of Haslingden & Helmshore: the 20th century in photographs 2004 159pp Photos/captions dw VG £15 -do-- Haslingden & District in Old Picture Postcards 1992 Cloth. 76pics/captions VG £10.. Aspin, Pilkington & Simpson (eds) . Helmshore. 2000 Pbk Landcape format, plastic spiral comb spine.125pp Photos with captions. VG £20.. Ashworth. Tales of Old Lancashire 2007 Pbk 96pp Illus VG £5 Atticus - see Hewitson Atherton Rev Robert (‘Robin o’Bob’s’) Pamphlets written in Standard English & dialect, poetry & prose .a) Empire Songs (c1924) 8pp cover loose b) Sir Harry Lauder on the Ship Canal, or The Poet on Pendle Hill 8pp no cover c) Lancashire Dialect Pieces No 8pp.. d)The Oyster & the Elephant 8pp..e)The Hymn of the Christmas Vision 8pp.. Each £10 Atkinson (ed) The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey….Chetham Soc Vols 9.11.14, Some have new endpapers. Further description on application (See Brownbill) £120* 3 BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- -do- Vol 9 new endpapers. VG £30 -do- -do- Vol 11 Light foxing of prelims. Some wear top spine. Top corner cut off free endpaper £30 -do- -do- Vol 14. Top corner cut off free endpaper. Label removed fromm paste-down, o/w VG £30 -do-, Notes on the Churches of Lancashire by the late Sir Stephen Glynne 18993 Chetham Soc. Newly rebound. A small library stamp on obverse of title page, o/w VG. 127pp Two Indeces. £40.. -do- Rambles & Scrambles in Lakeland. 1933. 62pp + photo plates. VG £6 Axon (ed) Manchester Sessions : Notes of proceedings (various) Mosley & other magistrates Vol 1 1616-23 Record Society Vol 42 1901. 209pp A society’s bookplate, o/w VG £30 Ayre. From ‘Keer to Kent’ ; a look at life in the Arnside/Silverdale area 2001 Pbk 96pp + plates. VG £8 -do- A Handy Guide to Ulverston……1904 Pbk.. 138pp + adverts & maps.Includes the Lakes. VG £20 (Bacup) Jubilee of the Incorpration of the borough….1882 (1932) Souvenir Handbook Newly bound. 54pp + photo plates. VG £40* Bailey (ed) . Inventories of church goods in the churches & chapels of Lancashire, 1552 : Pt 1 – Salford Hundred. Chetham Soc Vol 107 1879. 54pp Many unopened £20 -do- -do- West Derby,Blackburn & Leyland Hundreds. Chetham Soc Vol 113 1888 . Library labels removed. Stamps throughout, o/w VG Bailey & Millington. The Story of Liverpool 1957. Pbk 62pp + photo plates. 1207-1957 £5 Baggoley. Blackburn. Britain in Old Photographs series. 1996 Pbk 126pp VG £6.. -do- Darwen. 2008 reprint, Images of England series. Pbk 128pp photos with captions VG £8 -do- Strangeways; a century of hangings in Manchester 2006 Pbk 176pp Ilus Indexed. VG £6 Bagley, Lancashire Diarists; 3 centuries of Lancashire lives (1975) 210pp & plates dw VG £5.. -do- Lancashire. 1972. 232pp + plates dw VG £5 -do- The Will, Inventory & Accounts of Robert Walthew of Pemberton. 1965. PENB 62pp + pedigree £20 -do- The Story of Merseyside; Pt 1 – From the Romans to the Tudors. 12 talks broadcast on Radio Merseyside1968. 95pp Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears, o/w VG £6 Bagley & Hodgkiss. Lancashire;a History of the County Palatine in Early Maps 1985 Pbk 83pp Ills.VG £8.