OPIUM AND GOLD
Written by Peter Butler.
Stock no. 1828527
Published by Alister Taylor. 1st 1977. Almost very good condition.

The story of the Chinese goldminers in New Zealand. A story of racism and repression which is highly relevant to contemporary New Zealand. Large format. Black pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0908578024. Covers scuffed, edge-rubbed, creased at corners, remains of small label to top front. Base of contents block starting to come away from cover (glue is drying out). Contents are clean.

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THE IRONSTONE QUARRIES OF THE MIDLANDS: HISTORY, OPERATION AND RAILWAYS PART IX LEICESTERSHIRE
Written by Eric Tonks.
Stock no. 1828456
Published by Runpast Publishing. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 1870754085. Previous owner's library label to front pastedown else a fine copy. Blue dustwrapper is faded to spine, rear panel lightly browned.

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WORKERS' HOUSING IN WEST YORKSHIRE 1750-1920
Written by Lucy Caffyn.
Stock no. 1828414
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council. ISBN: 0113000022. Spine lightly faded, rear cover a little grubby. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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COAL MINING IN LUNESDALE
Written by Philip John Hudson.
Stock no. 1828309
Published by Hudson History. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

An introductory study into the hsitory of coal mining in the valle of the River Lune and its tributaries in North West England. White & blue cardwraps. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0953364305. SIGNED by the author to front endpaper (no dedication). Two diagonal marks to lower edge of text block. Bookplate to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean.

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THE EARLY IRON INDUSTRY OF FURNESS AND DISTRICT
Written by Alfred Fell.
Stock no. 1828308
Published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

Cass Library of Industrial Classics No. 21. Facsimile of original edition published in 1908. An Historical and Descriptive Account from the Earliest Times to the End of the 18th Century with An Account of Furness Ironmasters in Scotland, 1726-1800. Burgundy cloth boards, Black title label with gilt title to spine, gilt title to front. Spine lightly faded. Corners lightly rubbed. Initials and date in ink to front endpaper. Text block slightly grubby.

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THE IRON INDUSTRY OF THE WEALD
Written by Henry Cleere; David Crossley.
Stock no. 1828301
Published by Merton Priory Press. 2nd 1995. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition, revised, edited by Jeremy Hodgkinson. The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex was the leading ironmaking centre of Great Britain. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1898937044. Initials and date in ink to front endpaper else a lovely copy. Red dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and lightly faded to spine.

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THE BOMFORD STORY
Written by Theo Sherwen.
Stock no. 1327932
Published by Bomford & Evershed Ltd.. 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Century of Service to Agriculture. Privately published. Colour and b/w photos. Red boards, tilt title to spine. The story of the company in Worcestershire who served agriculture with farm equipment. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Slight foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at top edges.

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GRIMSBY FISH: THE STORY OF THE PORT AND THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE DEEP WATER INDUSTRY
Written by Charles Ekberg.
Stock no. 1828182
Published by Barracuda Books. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the fishing industry in Grimsby, the men who made it, and the ships that worked it, of the great companies, the disputes, the tragedies and the triumphs. Red imitation leather boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. A few minor grubby marks to margins. Slight odour present. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine, rear panel is a little creased and has a minor score mark to spine edge.

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THE GENERAL MACHINIST
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327804
Published by Ward, Lock & Co.. 1891. Good condition.

"Being a practical introduction to the leading departments of mechanism and machinery, the communication of motion or the transmission of force by belt, rope, wire rope, and pulley gearing - toothed-wheel and frictional gearing. Together with details of the component and essential parts of mechanism - shafts, pedestals, hangers, clutches, etc etc. And the methods of fitting up machines - screws, bolts, riveting etc etc." Profusely illustrated with detail diagrams and sketches, including 4 fold-out plate to the rear of the book. Brown cloth, gilt titles. 204 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers a bit damp stained. Ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper (Mayfield Grove). Foxing to first few pages, plates at rear are lightly browned.

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THE WATER-SPINNERS
Written by Chris Aspin.
Stock no. 1828020
Published by Helmshore Local History Society. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

A new look at the early cotton trade. A history of the cotton mill, the thousands who laboured for long hours, the nimble fingers of young children that kept the water-frames that spun the thread constantly in motion. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, illustrations and maps. ISBN: 0906881137. Light vertical crease to spine, spine lightly faded. Text block a little grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper.One instance of annotation in ink to margin of page 253 else contents clean.

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THE RURAL INDUSTRIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES I
Written by Helen E. Fitzrandolph; M. Doriel Hay.
Stock no. 1327705
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1926. Good condition.

Vol 1: Timber and Underwood Industries and Some Village Workshops. A Survey made on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute Oxford. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Red ink(?) stain to rear cover edges. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to contents.

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THE NORTH WALES QUARRY HOSPITALS AND THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF THE QUARRYMEN
Written by Edward Davies.
Stock no. 1827792
Published by Gwynedd Archive Services. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The quarry hospitals of Dinorwig, Bethesda and Ffestiniog. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 311 pages. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 0901337838. Minor bump to top of spine. Minor mark to rear board. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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