ALFRED HAMBROOK'S MID KENT: THROUGH TIME
Written by Andrew Ashbee.
Stock no. 1826391
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Alfred N. Hambrook was a stationer and printer whose shop in Snodland High Street served the community for around fifty years from 1901. His postcards of Snodland and district are well known and he produced a great number of other views with his brother. This book concentrates on an area of mid Kent all within about a dozen miles of Snodland. Hambrook was a good photographer and his images show a way of life and a landscape now much changed by the trappings of modern society. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 9781848689343. A lovely copy.

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SURREY: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Bruce Watkin.
Stock no. 1826369
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571096093. Light mottling to edges of boards, more so to rear board, else boards clean and bright. Contents clean. Price-cut green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH NORFOLK (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1826348
Published by Penguin. 1990. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black vinyl covers, gilt titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 0140710248. Reprint. A lovely copy, yellow pictorial dustwrapper is slightly grubby and lightly rubbed across top edge.

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THE JOURNAL, ESSAYS, THE JOURNEY FROM ESSEX
Written by John Clare; Anne Tibble.
Stock no. 1826345
Published by Carcanet New Press. 1st thus 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Introduced and edited by Anne Tibble. Anne Tibble provides biographical and critical commentary and raises once again the question of Clare's supposed 'madness', applying the works included here to a fresh interpretation of his larger work. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0856353442. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded and scuffed.

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"... A FINER PLACE TO LIVE": A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF CRAWLEY IN HAMPSHIRE
Written by David S. Dunbar.
Stock no. 1826340
Published by Crawley Local History Group. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Crawley is a small village and parish some 4 miles west of Winchester. This book tells the story of its people and buildings, and ends with an extended look at the people of Crawley in the year 2000. A fascinating and readable insight into the evolution of a small community over two thousand years. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w and colour photos. SIGNED by the author (with best regards) to free front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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GORING AND FERRING: PAST AND PRESENT
Written by John Vaughan.
Stock no. 1826333
Published by Photrack. 1st 1993. Very good condition.

A Photrack Local History Book. Situated on the Coastal Plain in West Sussex some 3 miles west of Worthing, just over 13 miles west of Brighton and 16 miles east of Chichester are the 'villages' of Goring and Ferring. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0952219018. Heavy, uneven fading to boards. Small split to front edge of spine. Corners lightly bumped. Contents clean.

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THE WORTHING ROAD AND ITS COACHES
Written by Henrey Smail.
Stock no. 1826313
Published by Aldridge Bros. 2nd 1944. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 2nd edition. Endpapers show the road from London to Worthing in strip map form. The Worthing Pageant Series. Boards grubby and lightly marked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few marks mainly to margins.

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MURRAY'S BERKSHIRE: ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE
Written by John Betjeman; John Piper.
Stock no. 1826310
Published by John Murray. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Orange boards with white and black titles and vignette. B/w photos. Folding map to front. Edges lightly rubbed, corners lightly worn. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge worn with a few chips and tears, a little browned.

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THE ISLE OF WIGHT: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Pennethorne Hughes.
Stock no. 1826295
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1967. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Colour frontis and b/w photos. A nice, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly browned.

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KENT: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Pennethorne Hughes.
Stock no. 1826294
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth boards, navy blue title to spine. Colour frontis, b/w photos. ISBN: 0571090915. Boards nice and bright. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is creased on front flap, faded to spine, lightly rubbed at corners and light remains of a label to front panel.

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EAST SUSSEX: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by W.S. Mitchell.
Stock no. 1826293
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards, dark blue title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571107516. Light rubbing to lower board edges, minor pale marks to rear board. Foxing to prelims. Half-title page has a grease stripe (pale) about 2" wide from top to bottom at gutter edge. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is lightly marked on front flap (again, very minor) and lightly scuffed.

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READING: OUR TOWN 1950-2001
Written by Harold Hill.
Stock no. 1826073
Published by Breedon Books Publishing Co.. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An illustrated record of the massive redevelopment that transformed Reading over the 50 years. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 185983275X. A few light 'spots' to front pastedown else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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