Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh

The Crime Club - 1950

This book is a Third Impression

First published 1939

Publishers: Crime Club/Collins 1950

Hard backed

One of Marsh’s most tightly-knit jobs. Victim a famous K.C., poisoned with KNC in the private taproom of a Devon inn while taking part in a demonstration of darts-throwing; plenty of good circumstantial detail leads to supposition of impossible crime. Alleyn, called in both by publican and by local police, does a splendid and fast (24 hours) job of discovering murderer, whose identity is a masterly demonstration in diverting suspicion from the most likely person. Method ingeniously simple, and hence convincing: a very neat job. Virtuoso display of logic at the end, including a delightful false solution propounded by a most amusing Chief Constable. (Review by Hacklehorn)

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a very dark & dusty, no missing pages. The front cover discoloured. All pages are readable, some discoloured. Some hand writing to inside of front & back cover. Inside front cover also has a Billingham Institute Library sticker. The patina only adds to this very interesting book!

284+ pages

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Death Plays Solitaire by R.L. Goldman - 1945

Publishers: T.V. Boardman

Hard backed

184 pages

The story opens with Rufus assigned to witness the electrocution of Dan Hillyard, a bank robber and murderer of a policeman. It closes with Reed’s return to the death house on a similar assignment. Between the two events is a circuitous trail beset with excitement and adventure, peopled with plausible, lifelike characters, that make this story something more than an average thriller.

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, no missing or torn pages. The dust cover is damaged and the hard backing is discoloured. All pages are readable. The patina only adds to this very interesting read! This book is currently selling elsewhere for approximately £35+ …….if you can find it, so this is a rare opportunity to buy a genuine original for very little money!

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False World, Goodnight by Mary Leigh – c1946

Publisher: Macdonald & Co

Blue hardback, 208 pages

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, no missing or torn pages. All pages are readable. Front cover is coming away slightly from the inside. Faded sellers stamp on the inside front cover – previous owners inscription also on inside of front cover!

Mary Leigh (née Brown 1885-1978) was an English political activist and suffragette

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For Prince Charlie by Kate Whitehead

First Edition 1929

‘Though most of the characters in this story are based on history dealing with 1745 rebellion, and with some of the incidents connected with Henry Baker and his wife; yet for the purposes of this story we should like it to be made quite clear that the Graham family are all purely fictitious characters, as well as Henry Macdonald, and are included to lend additional interest to the points we want to bring out in the story’

Original First Edition book published in 1929.
This is not a newly published copy, but the actual 1929 publication by Epworth Press

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, some marks & there is a (ex) library sticker on the inside cover (corner torn), none of the pages are loose and all pages readable and in great condition. Small tear on spine of blue cloth cover (15mm) where it has previously been folded. The patina only adds to this intriguing book! This book is currently selling elsewhere for approximately £40+ each…….if you can find them, so this is a rare opportunity to buy a genuine original for very little money!

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Green Apple Harvest by Sheila Kaye-Smith

1920

Publisher: Cassell and Company, London
Original book from 1920
Novel, 310 pages
Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is coming away slightly! A few pages are marked, but all readable. Previous owners hand writing on the inside front cover dated Xmas 1920

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Life Comes to Mary Willand

by Constance M. Evans - 1944

Publishers: Mills and Boon

Hardcover: 220 pages

Size: 19cm x 13cm x 2.2cm thick

Fiction, Original book from 1944 (1st Edition 1943)

Part of the Mills & Boon Collect of great novels and currently seems to be unavailable! Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is very little dark & dusky. Cover is strong & attached but stained! Pages are dark with time, but all readable. Price scribbled on the inside front cover! Old, well used book that need a good home!

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Magnificat by Rene Bazin - 1932

Publisher: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd

First Edition 1932

Hardcover: 244 pages

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is marked and has a damaged sticker! A few pages are slightly marked, but all readable. Rear cover is a little loose! Childs Pencil scribble & writing to inside front cover! Cancelled/covered over library sticker (1951) is on inside of front cover with some pencil markings. Book is generally in good used condition with only the cover & inside front cover let it down. Cheapest on the market?

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Midwinter by John Buchan – believed 1946

Certain Travellers in Old England

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons

Original book - Believed from 1946

Novel

285 pages

It is 1745 and the Jacobite Rebels are marching south into England. In Midwinter John Buchan tells the thrilling tale of Alastair Maclean, close confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, as he sets out on a dangerous and secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the west of England.

Authbio: John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He wrote adventure novels, short-story collections and biographies. His passion for the Scottish countryside is reflected in much of his writing. Buchan's adventure stories are high in romance and are peopled by a large cast of characters. Richard Hannay, Dickson McCunn and Sir Edward Leithen are three that reappear several times. Alfred Hitchcock adapted his most famous book The Thirty-Nine Steps for screen.

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. A little spine damage to the top. Pages are general in great condition & all readable. Pencil writing to inside of front and back cover (previous owner’s name)! Book is generally in good used condition. Cheapest on the market?

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Murder Incognito by Michael Dare - 1947

Publisher: Partridge Publications Ltd.

Hardcover: 192 pages

Size: 19cm x 13cm x 1.5cm thick

Fiction

A truly great book! I have seen this book for sale elsewhere for upwards of £27, so grab a bargain & enjoy this great story of murder & intrigue!

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty.

Cover is secure. Some pages are dull but all are in excellent condition.

The whole book is in great condition for its age!

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Over the Hills by Jeffrey Farnol - 1943

Wartime 'Romances edition'

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London

Original book - Believed from 1943

314 pages

A Romance of the Fifteen being the Narrative of Adam (called Thursday) with particulars of his Adventures his Joys and Sorrows his Friends and right-beloved Enemy

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is marked and coming away. Pages are general in good condition & all readable. Pencil writing to inside of front cover (previous owner’s name etc.)! Previous library stamp on inside of front cover! Book is generally in good used condition with only the cover letting it down! Cheapest on the market?

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Random Harvest by James Hilton - 1948

First Edition 1941

Publisher: Pan Books, London

Original Paperback 1948

248 pages

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a dark & dusty. Cover is marked and coming away. Pages are general loose but there & all readable. Great story, great read. Cheapest on the market?

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The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffrey Farnol 1930

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd

Original Book Believed 1930

Novel, 376 pages

Size: 12cm x 18cm x 4cm thick

John Barty, ex-champion of England and landlord of the “Coursing Hound” sat screwed round in his chair with his eyes turned to the door that had closed after the departing lawyer fully five minutes ago, and his eyes were wide and blank, and his mouth (grim & closed-lipped as a rule) gaped, becoming aware of which, he closed it with a snap, and passed a great knotted fist across his brow……….

This is a great story not to miss!

A truly great read! I have seen this book for sale elsewhere for upwards of £32, so grab a bargain & enjoy!

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty.

Cover is slightly damaged! A few pages are marked, but all readable. Previous cancelled library stickers inside the front cover with first lending-out dated 1944.

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The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn by Russell Thorndyke, 1950

This book is a reprint in Collection Edition from 1950

First published May 1938

Publishers: Rich & Cowan

Hard Cover

Amazing reading……………

This is the fifth in chronological sequence of Russell Thorndike's seven highly entertaining novels about the Reverend Doctor Syn, the apparently harmless vicar of Dymchurch in Kent who led a secret life as a pirate and smuggler.

A Welsh stranger comes to Dymchurch in Kent to advise the vicar, Doctor Syn, that they they are the last two survivors of a Tontine, and therefore joint heirs to an enormous fortune.

What neither of them know is that an unscrupulous villain is planning to murder Doctor Syn and marry the Welshman's pretty niece so as to get the whole fortune for himself. But the would-be-murderer does not realise that the apparently harmless clergyman has a few secrets of his own ...

All of the Thorndike novels were reprinted several times but are now out of print, except "Doctor Syn" which was republished in 1998 by the Romney Bookshop

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, no pages are marked but there is an old Ch1ain Libraries Ltd sticker inside the front cover and one small library stamp stating 26th June 1951. All pages are readable and in good condition. The patina only adds to this intriguing book! This book is currently selling elsewhere for approximately £30+ …….if you can find it, so this is a rare opportunity to buy a genuine original for very little money!

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The Bay by L. A. G. Strong - 1942

Publishers; The Book Club, London

Original Hard covered 1942

320 pages

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is very dark & dusty. Cover is marked and coming away at the back! A pages are ‘sun scorched’ around the edges, but all readable. One page is loose at the end. Ex-library sticker is on inside of front cover with stapled pocket & some stampings. Old book, old condition but a great read & very cheap!

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The Haunted Island by E. H. Visiak - 1946

Illustrated by Jack Matthews

Publisher: Peter Lunn, London

Hard backed original book from 1946

A Pirate romance and Strange Story of Incredible Adventures in a South Sea Island ruled by a Wizard

Being the History of an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure; His Combustible; His Skeleton Antic Lad; Of his Wisdom; Of his Poesy; His Barbarous Cruelty; His Mighty Power; Of a Volcano on the Island. And of the Ghostly Terror

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a dark & dusty. Cover is stained and is coming away very slightly! A few pages are marked, but all readable. Great illustrations

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The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square by Mrs. De la Pasture - 1916

Publishers: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London

Hardcover: 312 pages

Original book from 1916

“It’s delightful to breathe the air, breathed by the people Grosvenor Square!”

December in London, 1902……………

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is slightly stained! A few pages are very slightly marked, but all readable. Book is in good condition with only the cover letting it down! Coloured hand drawn illustrations at beginning of book. I do not think you will find this book cheaper anywhere else!

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The Looted Gold by John F. C. Westerman

Publishers: Ward, Lock & Co

Hardcover: 256 pages

Believed to be from 1932

Declutching his engine and throttling it down until it was just “ticking over” Hugh Francis idled his machine at a height of 2,000 feet above the little township below him, and lowering the partly opened window by his side, leaned out to pick a suitable landing-place on the sun-baked space.

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is slightly marked! A few pages are very slightly marked, but all readable. One page is loose at the beginning. Cancelled/covered over library sticker (1951) is on inside of front cover with some pencil markings. Book is generally in good used condition!

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The Night Club by Bindle - c1947

Publisher: Herbert Jenkins Ltd

Popular Print Edition

Hardcover: 320 pages

Size: 19.4cm x 13cm x 3.5cm thick

Fiction, believed 1947

Further episodes in the career of the Cockney Furniture remover; ‘the mirth-provoking Bindle’

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark, dusky & stained. Cover is coming away! A few pages are marked/bent, but all readable. Previous owners hand writing (in pencil) on the inside front cover. I have seen this book for sale elsewhere for upwards of £25, so grab a bargain & enjoy this great story!

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Three Stories of Romance by Warwick Deeping, Gilbert Frankau & Ethel Mannin

Original Book Believed 1936

(First edition 1930)

Publisher: Daily Express Fiction Library

Hardcover: 189 pages

Size: 16.2cm x 11.4cm x 2 cm thick

Three love stories included in this volume are each of them excellent examples of the work of the respective authors under whose names they appear.

There is probably no severer test of the ability of a novel-writer than the short story. In order to succeed in this form of fiction, it is necessary to arrest the immediate attention of the reader. The story must be concise and yet complete. In short, to achieve a satisfactory result the writer must be a master of his (her) art. Those to be found among the greatest literary figures of their day……..

The following three love stories are set on the sunny shores of the blue Mediterranean.

Romance Story 1

The Martyrdom of Elsie Parsloe, the young wife of the elderly and morose Dr. Jacob Parsloe, takes place in a “castle” beyond Genoa where the Professor isolates his young bride. Their Villa Pineta, with its romantic half-wild garden, its pines, ilexes, cypresses and, its classic temple half hidden by arbutus and box, overlooks another villa on the opposite cliff and “thereby hangs a tale”.

Romance Story 2

The Judas Tree, which at the time of this happening was just in bloom, sheltered a mysterious house that stood high above the Route Nationale amid vineyards and grey-green olives, with a triangle of blue Mediterranean pinched between red cliff fangs. It is here the owner unburdens himself of his extraordinary love story.

Romance Story 3

In the picturesque little Italian seaside town of Rapallo that Ishbel Hedley hears the strains of Forbidden Music. Author Miss Ethel Mannin, whose books have a tremendous hold on the public, is undoubtedly one of the most famous women writers of the day. Her story is a joy to read!

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is strong! A few pages are marked, but all readable. A truly great book! I have seen this book for sale elsewhere for upwards of £28, so grab a bargain & enjoy these three great romance stories!

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You Can’t Gag the Dead by Milton Propper

1941

Publishers: Herbert Jenkins Limited, London

Original book from c1941

Novel, 252 pages

Size: 12cm x 18cm x 4cm thick

When Jeffrey Scott was found brutally murdered in an empty house, the suspects were ready-made. For all these had a motive in common – the Weber Estate.

There was Lionel Weber, the owner of the house who lied from the start, and Michael Keating, cousin to the murdered man, who talked too little and too much. Then there was the man who, with documentary proof, swore that he was Jeffrey Scott and that the victim was an impostor, and finally the hard-faced women who claimed to be the dead man’s wife.

Tommy Rankin called in to tackle a bewildering intricate problem, complicated by the suicide, some years before of Stephen Weber, and was baffled time and again until his patient, brilliant detection brought to light the design of an almost perfect crime.

A truly great read! I have seen this book for sale elsewhere for upwards of £260, so grab a bargain & enjoy!

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a dark & dusty. Cover is strong! A few pages are marked, but all readable. Previous cancelled library stickers inside the front cover. A Few small library stamps throughout the book! This book is very, very rare!

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Harmsworth Popular Science Encyclopaedias, Volumes 1 to 7, c1913

Complete set of this well renowned and rare Popular Science Encyclopaedias

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the volumes are dark & dusty, some pages loose, some marked & some slightly cut, but all pages readable and the information contained is absolutely fascinating!

Single volumes are currently selling for approximately £50 each…….if you can find them, so this is a rare opportunity to buy a complete set for very little money! Is this the last chance to buy the whole set?

Harmsworth Popular Science was a fortnightly (14 days) series of magazine publications forming an encyclopaedic series of science and technology articles published in the early years of the 20 century, and completed about 1913, in the dying days of the British Empire

It was humanist and modernist in tone, and supported the then-fashionable ideas of eugenics and free market economics. Britain (especially Birmingham was then considered by the British people to be "the workshop of the world" and the magazine duly celebrated British technical and cultural innovation from Darwin to Marconi

Hard Back Edition

……..completed in seven volumes. This edition was edited by Arthur Mee and published in London by the Educational Book Company.

Volume 1 contains a foreword entitled "The Story of This Book" which outlines the various groups:

• Group 1 THE UNIVERSE "The Making of worlds" which speculates about the place of Earth in Creation
• Group 2 THE EARTH "The Earth we live on" which starts with a molten ball of iron...
• Group 3 LIFE "Life takes possession" which is Darwinian in tone
• Group 4 PLANT LIFE "The Earth Alive" which has a pre-creationist style ""The Hand that made..."
• Group 5 ANIMAL LIFE "The forerunners of Man" From fossils to speculation about earlier intelligent life forms
• Group 6 MAN " Man Appears" speculated about the origin and evolution of human brains
• Group 7 HEALTH "Man Builds up Strength" covers sanitation, diet and modern medicine such as X-ray
• Group 8 POWER "Man finds Power" Covers steam, and 'new' central generation of electricity
• Group 9 INDUSTRY "Man Uses Power" Britain. the workshop of the world theme
• Group 10 COMMERCE "Man Buys and Sells" The dawn of world trade "America sells cotton..."
• Group 11 SOCIETY "Man organizes society" foresees "The Federation of the World"
• Group 12 EUGENICS "Man Creates The Future" discredited by Nazi Human breeding programs, this section is full of hope that "our children (will pass through) the Gates of Dawn"

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Jump for Joy – Pat Smythe – 1955

Forward by Lieutenant-Colonel M. P. Ansell, C.B.E., D.S.O.

Publisher: The Companion Book Club, London

A great book, very interesting, show jumping in a bygone age with old style values. Very refreshing to read (M. J. Gearing)

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is stained by sunlight! A few pages are marked, but all readable. Book is general in good condition. Previous owner’s hand written note in pencil on the inside cover. Includes 48 great black & white show jumping photographs

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Kings and Queens in World History

by R. J. Unstead – 1966

Publisher: Odhams

Hardcover: 272 pages

Including:

Akhnaten of Egypt

Alexander the Great

Julius Caesar

Charlemagne

Alfred the Great

Harold, the Last of the English

Montezuma, King of the Aztecs

Mary, Queen of Scots

William the Silent

Elizabeth of England

Queen Christina

Charles, the King’s Escape

Thus, kingship, with its loneliness, splendour and power for good and evil, is a fascinating subject. What kind of people were they who possessed this godlike power? What did they do with it and what did it do to them? It was with questions like these in mind that I came to write these stories about Kings and Queens in World History – R. J. Unstead

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. Cover is slightly stained! A few pages are marked, but all readable. Cancelled library stickers on inside of front cover which has been repaired many years ago with cello tape. Book is general in good condition.

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Kings and Queens of England

Illustrated Souvenir, Liverpool - 1953

An exhibition organized by the Libraries, Museums of Arts Committee of the Liverpool City Council in honour of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool – May 6th to August 31st, 1953

Superb catalogue of the Kings and Queens exhibition provides a complete text to the exhibition. The present volume adds a pictorial record of it – not complete, but holding enough to convey the theme and quality of the show. Like the exhibition, it devotes the bulk of its space to Royal portraiture, and follows this section with two others. The first illustrates a selection from the coins and personal Royal relics etc. assembled by the City Museums. The second contains a similar selection from the documents and printed materials assembled by the City Libraries. It has been thought right to give the souvenir the benefit of a complete series of portraits of all English sovereigns and their consorts from Henry VII onwards.

Diamond jubilee next year, so time read-up on the Kings and Queens of England in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II a year after her Coronation.

Unbelievable black & white photographic record of portraits, busts, relics, coins and documents etc

Complete souvenir, no pages loose, slightly rusty staples A little dull as found in the attic, but no damage to pages and fully readable. Superb black & white photographs. Generally great condition for year! A different world!

Original Souvenir from 1953,

66 pages

Size 19cm x 25cm

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Latin Prose Composition

for Middle Form Schools - 1956

ABy M. A. North, and the Rev. A. E. Hillard

Authors of ‘Greek Prose Composition’

M. A. North, M. A., Late Assistant Master at Clifton College

Rev. A. E. Hillard, D. D., Late High Master of St. Paul’s School

28th Impression, 13th Edition

Hardcover: 300 pages

Size: 18cm x 13cm x 2cm thick

A truly great teaching & learning book! I have seen this book for sale elsewhere for upwards of £27, so grab a bargain & enjoy!

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty. A few pages are dull & very slightly marked, but all readable. Previous owners hand writing on the inside front cover and a scribble on the inside back cover, but book in great condition for year

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Memories of a Labour Leader:

The Autobiography of John Wilson, J.P., M.P. 1910

With an introduction by the Dean of Durham and an appreciation by the Bishop of Durham

Original book published in 1910. This is not a newly published copy, but the actual 1910 publication.

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, some marked & there is a hand written note on the inside cover, none of the pages are loose and all pages readable and in great condition. The patina only adds to this intriguing book! This book is currently selling elsewhere for approximately £50+ each…….if you can find them, so this is a rare opportunity to buy a genuine original for very little money!

The Man

John Wilson (1837 – 24 March 1915) was an English coal miner, trade unionist, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for more than 25 years.

The Book

Wilson, John (1910) Memories of a Labour Leader: The Autobiography of John Wilson, J.P., M.P. London: T. F. Unwin.

…………at that time there was one law for the employer and another for the workman. It was criminal for a workman to do that which his employer could do with impunity. He could arrange with his colleagues to reduce wages, and lock men out if the terms were not accepted, and turn them into the street to compel acceptance. There was no law to interfere with him. Let the workman want a higher price for his labour, he was liable to find the machinery of the law ranged against him, and there was a class connection, if not an open compact, between the magistracy and employers."

His early life

Born at Greatham, near Hartlepool, his mother Hannah died when he was four. After his father, Christopher (b. 1807 at Greatham), died of cholera when Wilson was ten, he worked in the mines, spent four years as a merchant seaman, and return to Durham as a miner in 1860. Married in 1832 to Margaret (née Firth), the couple emigrated to the United States in 1864, where Wilson worked the mines in Pennsylvania and Illinois. They returned to Durham in 1867; the first two of their five children had been born in America.

Wilson was one of the founders in 1869 of the Durham Miner’s Association (DMA), which led to him being denied employment, but in 1878 he became a fulltime union organiser, rising to become the DMA's general secretary in 1896.

Political career

The Reform Act 1867 had extended the vote to working-class men in urban areas, allowing the election in 1874 of Thomas Burt and Alexander Macdonald as Liberal-Labour Members of Parliament (MPs).

The Representation of the People Act 1884 extended the same qualifications to the county constituencies, enfranchising many miners for the first time. Wilson was elected at the 1885 general election as Liberal–Labour MP for the new Houghton-le-Spring constituency, but lost his seat when the Liberal Party split at the 1886 general election over Irish Home Rule.

He returned to House of Commons in 1890, at a by-election for the Mid Durham constituency following the death of William Crawford, a Liberal-Labour MP who was also Secretary of the Durham Miners' Association.

In Parliament, Wilson impressed as an effective speaker. However, he followed a different political path to many of his mining colleagues. The Liberal–Labour movement had consisted of local electoral pacts between trades unions and the Liberal Party, whereby trade union-sponsored MPs (who received no salary) were politically allied to the Liberal Party, but the movement declined after 1885. The formation in 1893 of the resolutely socialist Independent Labour Party was followed in 1900 by the Labour Representation Committee, which in 1906 changed its name to the Labour Party. The Labour movement no longer depended on the Liberal Party, and the alliance was effectively over when the MPs sponsored by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain joined the Labour Party after the January 1910 general election.

However, Wilson did not join the Labour Party. A primitive methodist, he was a Liberal by conviction rather than by convenience, an admirer of Gladstone who believed in free trade when much of the rest of the Labour movement was following a socialist path.

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Our Friend the Dog in Verse: An Anthology 1947

Compiled by A. Llewelyn Pratt

Forwarded by Capt. V. M. Deanne

Publishers: The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Hardcover: 113 pages

Size: 18.5cm x 12.3cm x 0.7cm thick

Original book from 1947 (First edition 1946)

I would like to appeal to the present and future poets – those lords of our language – who, by their gift of musical adjustment of phrases, can enhance the beauty of truth tenfold, to give us more poems about dogs; for the dog can supply more material for verse than the Nightingale, the Skylark, or the horse, and should be wore wept, more honoured, and more sung.

The ancestor of the dog, believed by many to be the wolf (Canis Lupus), was a most ferocious enemy of man, for, driven by hunger, he would tear living flesh from men’s bones and slake his thirst in their blood – yet can in time be transfigured, by some mysterious influence, into the dog who will die of a broken heart on being bereaved of the presence of man. What human devotion can match that of Grey Friar’s Bobby, the Scotch terrier, who fro fifteen years slept through the rigours of the Scottish winters on his dead master’s grave? – or the case I know, of a terrier who, after witnessing his master’s suicide in a wood near an Indian cantonment, was found several days later nearly dead of hunger and thirst but gallantly driving of the swarm of vultures who sought their carrion? – or lastly, the Guide Dog, who gives freedom of movement to the Blind and guards his footsteps lest haply he should bruise his foot against the kerb?

May this book redound to the credit of the author, the poets, the Blind, and the Friend of Man, his dog! – Captain V. M. Deane, Chairman, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

A truly great book for all dog lovers!

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusky. A few pages are marked, but all readable. Previous owners hand writing on the inside front cover, but generally in great condition for its age!

“I walk in darkness…….but not alone”

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Tartans of Scotland by James D. Scarlett 1972

Publisher: Lutterworth Press London

Great reference book that starts with ‘Some Facts and Some Fancies’ then individually explains the whole outfit. Discusses Highland Dress, The Clans and then Tartans. The book then continues to describe 50+ Tartans from Anderson to Wallace.

Book finishes by showing which areas the Tartans are from with a map of Scotland (and into what is now known as England…ha-ha)

Try & find your name in the ‘What is my Tartan’ which lists approximately 500 surnames! Great book & very interesting read!

Complete book, no pages loose, staples a little rusty. Shiny colourful cover even though it was found in the attic, no damage to pages and fully readable. Colour images of Tartans etc. Great condition for year!

Original booklet from 1972

41 pages

Size 17cm x 17cm

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Tennyson for the Young by Alfred Ainger

1899

With introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger

Publishers: MacMillan & Co., London

Hardcover: 120 pages

Size: 15cm x 10cm x 1cm thick

Original book from 1899

It is hoped that this volume may be found acceptable in the schoolroom, as well as in the hours of leisure and recreation; but it is distinctly not intended as a schoolbook, nor as an indirect instrument for studying grammar, the English language, or the Lives of the Poets.

The Editor’s aim will have been attained if it proves utterly impossible to make out its content material for an examination paper. With this end in view, studiously avoiding criticism or presumptuous praise, he has limited the Notes to just so much matter as may give the young reader  a few facts about the poems and their origin, and explain the few(very few) words or allusions that are likely to be unfamiliar. It is the Editor’s earnest wish, as far as these poems are concerned, to remove English Poetry from the list of subjects the thought of which suggests preparing a lesson. For it is from such unfortunate association that the enjoyment of the masterpieces of English Poetry and Prose by young people is at this moment in danger……..This service the poetry of Lord Tennyson pre-eminently rendered to the Editor of this little volume, and he would fain to make others sharers of his experience. – A. A., Clifton, August 1891

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusky. Cover is coming away and stained! A few pages are marked, but all readable & good condition. Previous owners hand writing on the inside front cover with a Stockton School Board - Higher Grade School stamp. A superbly compiled book and a great way into the poems of Lord Tennyson. A compelling read! Old, well used book that need a good home!

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The Modern Romans

The Decline of Western Civilization,

Booklet from 1972

Released by the Ambassador College Editorial Department

Contents:

Lessons of history Ignored

The Home; Foundation of Greatness or Decadence

The Failure of Ancient and Modern Education

Religion in Confusion

A Mad Craze for Pleasure

The Economy of Trouble

Political Paralysis

Militarism – and a “Calculated Risk”

The Unseen Hand” in History

The booklet starts:

ROME FELL – a fact of history!

But WHY?

The reasons have never been fully understood.

The lessons have not been learned.

Yet the same basic mistakes that toppled the once mighty Roman Empire are now being repeated in America, Britain and the Western World

YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND!

This booklet contains a shocking message – a warning for our day. And unless our peoples and nations WAKE UP and immediately alter course, we will suffer the same CRASHING DOWNFALL!

If you wish to broaden your mind then you should be reading this…….incredible stuff

Complete booklet, no pages loose, rusty staples with cover starting to come away. A little dull as found in the attic, but no damage to pages and fully readable. Three colour photographs, one great picture of two VW Beetles being loaded into a ship at dock. Generally great condition for year! Booklet contains many excellent quotes!

Original booklet from 1972

95 pages

Size 13cm x 21cm

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Sunday Telegraph Colour Supplement

The Pope in the Holy Land

January 12th 1964

Superb original 18 page full colour supplement of The Popes visit to the Holy Land.

Over 50 photographs with writing & descriptions.

The whole Christendom ‘journeyed’ with Pope Paul VI to the holy Land. No other pilgrim could have so universally recalled to men’s minds the historical truths of the Christian religion, or so dramatically set forth their meaning in the modern world……..in the Land of his redemption the Pope was a stranger, the half-understood quest of rulers of other faiths. But so, in that same country was his master; and so, in this life, are all followers of a Saviour who had nowhere to lay his head.

Contents include:

For Strangers and Pilgrims, The Annunciation by Beato Angelico, The Nativity by Maestro di Moulins

Bethlehem ‘while bells ring out over the barbed wire’

Nazareth of Galilee

Banks of the River Jordan

Mount Tabor and its basilica

Gethsemane

Via Dolorosa

Stations of the Cross

Church of Holy Sepulchre

Chapel of the Primacy, Sea of Galilee

Amman, Kingdom of Jordan

President Shazar (meeting)

Pope Paul at the Damascus Gate

Plus many more photographs; a fantastic piece of history!

Complete supplement, centre page loose, rusty staples. Folded in half and a little dull as found in the attic, but no damage to pages, only stains from the rusty staples. All pages fully readable and photographs undamaged.

Original thin paper supplement from 1964,

18 pages

Size 26cm x 36cm

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The Royal Line of Succession

with Genealogic Tables

by Patrick W. Montague-Smith - 1965

Editor: Debrett’s Peerage

Publishers: Pitkin Pictorials Ltd

Contents:

The Sovereign and the Order of Succession

Sovereigns from 1066

The Royal Coat of Arms

Preface

The Relationship of the Queen to Duke of Edinburgh

The House of Cerdic – Part I

The Houses of Cerdic and Denmark – Part II

The Houses of Normandy – Blois and Anjou – Part I

The House of Anjou – Part II

The House of Tudor

The Houses of Stuart and Orange

The House of Hanover

The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

The House of Winsor

Descent of the Royal Family from Kings of Scotland

Descent of the Royal Family from Sovereign Princes of Wales

Descent of the Royal Family from Kings of Ireland

Direct line of Descent of the Queen Elizabeth II from the year 802

The contents list above shows the detail that this booklet goes into!

Fantastic amount of knowledge and history crammed into a great booklet. See all the family-trees that link to the present Royal family.

Diamond jubilee next year, so time read-up on the Royal Line of Succession and search the family trees! Maybe your family name is in there & you didn’t know?

Unbelievable black & white photographs and diagrams etc.

Complete booklet, some pages loose, rusty staples. A little dull as found in the attic, but no damage to pages and fully readable. Generally great condition for year! Amazing amount of incredibly interesting information!

Original booklet from 1965,

26 pages

Size 18cm x 23cm

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The Story of Queen Elizabeth II

told in pictures – 1953

Booklet reproduced from authentic photographs of incidents in the life of Her Majesty the Queen

Publishers: Thomas Hope and Sankey Hudson Ltd, Manchester

Approximately 90 black and white photographs depicting the Queen’s life story from 1927 when a year old Princess poses in her perambulator (pram) to 1952 after her Coronation! Photographs are incredible and include childhood outings, father’s coronation, girl guides, war service, many Royal visits, South Africa, royal Wedding 1947, Mini ‘ghost’ car, Canada, Washington, Kenya and Coronation etc.

Previous owner’s inscription on inside front cover page states ‘……..a present from London June 1st 1953’

Diamond jubilee next year, so see the Story of Queen Elizabeth II told in pictures! Unbelievable black & white photographs

Complete booklet, all pages loose, rusty staples. A little dull as found in the attic, but no damage to pages, only stains from the rusty staples. All pages fully readable.

Original booklet from 1953,

32 pages

Size 16cm x 21cm

Postage includes padded envelope delivery

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The Story of Sir Francis Drake

The Children’s Heroes Series

By Mrs. Oliver Elton

Pictures by T. H. Robinson

Edited by John Lang

Publishers: T. C. & E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh

Original price: 8d (on front cover)

Wonderful book writing with children in mind!

NOW VERY RARE (Believed published around 1940’s/50’s)

Contents:

Philip of Spain

“The Troublesome Voyage”

Nombre de Dios

Fort Diego

The Golden Mule-Trains

Home Again

Round the World

Sir Francis

Cadiz

The Great Armada

Expedition to Lisbon

The Last Voyage

List of Colour Pictures;

Queen Elizabeth knighting Drake on Board the golden hind at Deptford (missing)

Drake carrying to Court the News of his Voyage

Drake wounded at Nombre de Dios

The Maroon Chief showing the Atlantic & Pacific Ocreans from the tree-tops

Sir Francis Drake

Drake at bowls on Plymouth Hoe

Fighting the Great Armada

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, one picture/page seems to be missing but none of the other pages are missing or torn. All pages are readable.

Size: 11cm x 14cm

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Vic-Wells: A Ballet Progress"

by P.W.Manchester – Illustrated - 1943

This book is a Second Edition from 1943

First published November 1942

Publishers: Victor Gollancz

Hard backed with dust jacket

A very interesting read about an onlooker’s insight into the Vic-Wells Ballet Company.

Includes Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpman, Pamela May, Michael Somes, Mary Honer, June Brae, and the Russian Ballet Classics.

Having spent many years in the under stair cupboard, the book is a little dark & dusty, no missing or torn pages. The dust cover is damaged but the hard backing is in great condition. All pages are readable and include numerous superb black & white photos of major ballet stars and ballets. The patina only adds to this very informative book!

8" x 5½" hardback, 110 pages

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Yorkshire and the Wars of the Roses

by Winifred I. Haward - 1970

Publisher: Dalesman Publishing Co.Ltd, Yorkshire

Contents:

A Struggle for Power

The Tables Are Turned

Life and Industry

Ruler of the North

The Roses are Combined

Interesting booklet on the ‘Struggle for Power’ between two branches of the royal house, the descendants of Edward III’s third son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and those of his fourth son, Edmund, Duke of York. The names ‘Lancaster’ and ‘York’ refer to the titles of the rival contestants and little to do with the counties of Lancashire & Yorkshire!

Read on & clear your mind for the truth & challenge Shakespeare’s writings……..fascinating

Complete booklet, no pages loose, slightly rusty staples A little dull as found in the attic, but no damage to pages and fully readable. Superb black & white photographs, maps and drawings. Generally great condition for year! History told as it should be!

Original booklet from 1970,

29 pages

Size 14cm x 22cm

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Ripon One-Inch to One Mile

Ordnance Survey Map – 1955

National Grid Seventh Series – Sheet 91

Original Map from 1955

Complete Folded Map. Cover is a little dull as found in the attic, but map in excellent undamaged condition. No rips or tares. A great piece of history from the area of North Yorkshire!

Folds out to 70cm x 84cm + Cover

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