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OLD COPPED HALL 1258-1748: A MASSIVE OBJECT OF DESIRE
Written by Norah Carlin.
Stock no. 1828817
Published by West Essex Archaeological Group. 1st 2021. Very good condition.

Passing from an Anglo-Norman family through the hands of abbots, monarchs and courtiers, nobles and wealthy families, the thirteenth-century manor house called Copped Hall developed into a magnificent Renaissance mansion. People quarelled and schemed over it for centuries, with sex, violence and murder entering the story of its earliest owners... Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. 158 pages including index. ISBN: 9781910759592. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Tiny closed tear to margin of a few pages. Name in ink to verso of front cover. Else contents clean.

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THE BIRDS OF ESSEX: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY
Written by Miller Christy.
Stock no. 1828260
Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1890. Almost very good condition.

Essex Field Club Special Memoirs Vol II. Red cloth boards, black titles and owl vignette to front. 162 woodcut illustrations, two plans and a frontispiece. Chapters include Hawks & Hawking; Wild Fowl Decoys and Wild-Fowling. SIGNED by author to verso of front endpaper ('with the author's kind regards'). Boards marked, spine faded and frayed at top. Corners a little worn. Joints starting to crack. Text block browned. Foxing to prelims. Hinges pulled but binding tight. A few marks to ontents mainly to margins. Contents are lightly browned.

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ESSEX CARP HUNTERS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
Written by Ben Lofting.
Stock no. 1327563
Published by Calm Productions. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Some of the finest anglers contribute with some of the highlights of their angling careers. Black cloth boards, silver titles. 230 pages. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9780956093592. Minimal bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed.

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THE WRECK OF THE CROMER EXPRESS
Written by J.E. Connor.
Stock no. 1327491
Published by Connor & Butler. 1st 2003. Fine condition.

The Colchester Railway Accident of 1913. Cardwraps. 56 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0947699368.

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THE SHENFIELD TO SOUTHEND LINE
Written by Charles Phillips.
Stock no. 1327490
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition.

Locomotion Papers Number One Hundred and Fifty-Two. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0853613087. Some light rubbing and fading to front cover. Contents fine.

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ROMAN COLCHESTER
Written by M.R. Hull.
Stock no. 1827718
Published by The Society Of Antiquaries Of London. 1st 1958. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XX. Large format. Brown cloth boards. B/w photos, illustrations and plans, some fold-out. A few minor foxspots to text block. Contents are clean.

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THE COLNE VALLEY AND HALSTEAD RAILWAY (LOCOMOTION PAPERS 166)
Written by R.A. Whitehead; F.D. Simpson.
Stock no. 1822890
Published by The Oakwood Press. 2nd 1987. Slightly better than very good condition.

Second Edition. Blue cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0853613591. Front & rear edge of spine lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES VOL V
Written by John Britton; Edward Wedlake Brayley.
Stock no. 2134255
Published by Vernor & Hood. 1st 1803. Very good condition.

Brown leather spine and corners, marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Contains 736 pages + booklist, index. B/w plates. Durham, Essex and Glocestershire (sic). Part of Beauties of England Series. Leather spine has faded, with a few marks. Browning to cover edges; some foxing. Browning and foxing to pages throughout. A few pages have margin edge loss.

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SOUTHEND THEN & NOW
Written by Ken Crowe.
Stock no. 2120996
Published by Southend Museums Service. 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Photographs of Southend and the area c.1880-1960. Compiled by Crowe. Oblong format. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 090069047X. Some light creasing to corners. Contents are excellent.

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ESSEX IN HISTORY
Written by Kenneth Neale.
Stock no. 2110278
Published by Phillimore. 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1860770517. Surface paper damage to front endpaper, where a label or bookplate has been removed. Wrapper has magic tape to flaps, sticking it to pastedowns.

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COLCHESTER
Written by Martin Andrew.
Stock no. 1807152
Published by Frith Publishing. 1st 1999. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Pictorial Memories from the Francis Frith Collection. Around 910 b/w photos of Colchester from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Glazed pictorial boards. 77 pages. ISBN: 184125083X.

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