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Worcester St Johns Cycling Club 1888 - 1988. A History

By: Alma, Roger

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Roger Alma: 1988

Seller ID: 019961

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 81pp, black and white photographs. Privately produced publication, blue plastic covers and clear acetates to front, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy. Reproduction of some of the photographs is variable, some are contrasty and lack detail, the result of the copying process. Scarce publication.
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Golden Jubilee: The Story of Midland Red 1904 - 1954

By: Anon

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Birmingham, The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd: 1954

Seller ID: 021725

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

24pp, map, illustrated with photographs of Directors, employees, buses and premises. Card covers, edge rubbing/creasing/browning, corner crease to first page, overall general light ageing and wear, a Good tight copy of this commemorative brochure.
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Diamond Jubilee: Midland Red 1904 - 1964

By: Anon

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Birmingham, The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd: 1964

Seller ID: 021726

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

28pp, map, illustrated with photographs of Directors, employees, buses and premises. Card covers, slight edge rubbing/creasing/browning, overall general light ageing and wear, a Good+ tight copy of this commemorative brochure.
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The Book of Pershore

By: Barrett, Philip / Wilson, Marshall

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Buckingham, Baron Books: 2000

Seller ID: 031258

ISBN: 0860236633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

144pp, index, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, illustrated. Laminated pictorial boards, as new.
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The Book of Pershore

By: Barrett, Philip / Wilson, Marshall

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Buckingham, Baron Books: 2000

Seller ID: 031809

ISBN: 0860236633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

144pp, index, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, illustrated. Laminated pictorial boards, as new.
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There's Always Something! 70 Years at Norval Farm in the Vale of Evesham

By: Bomford, Tony

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Evesham, AL Bomford: 2002

Seller ID: 021387

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

114pp, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Signed by the author: 'Enjoy It, Tony' on title page. Farming and country life on a farm in South Littleton in the Vale of Evesham.
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The River Severn: A Journey Following the River from the Estuary to Its Source

By: Bradford, John Leslie

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Redditch, Hunt End Books: 2004

Seller ID: 020723

ISBN: 0951948199

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

162pp, photographs throughout, most in colour. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Flat signed by the author on the title page.
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Voices from the Past: Pershore 1900 - 1935

By: Bramford, Margaret

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Malvern, MARgaret Bramford: 2015

Seller ID: 020272

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

69pp, illustrated. Softback, slight creasing to front cover and early pages, a near VG copy, the latest title from Margaret Bramford featuring more recollections from Pershore.
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This Was MY Pershore, in the 1930s

By: Bramford, Margaret

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Malvern, Margaret Bramford: 2009

Seller ID: 021787

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

160pp, illustrations. Memories of Pershore and the surrounding villages from the 1930s, by the well-known local author. A VG copy.
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Pershore, Where D'Ye Think!

By: Bramford, Margaret

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Malvern, Margaret Bramford: 1996

Seller ID: 031302

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

252pp, b+w illustrations. An entertaining account of life in a small market town in Worcestershire, in the 1920s and 1930s, as recalled by Pershore folk themselves, with occasional glances backward to even earlier times. Softback, a few reading creases, slight spine fading, a VG copy. Flat signed by the author to title page.
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Victorian Worcester: A Biography

By: Carpenter, Jeff

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Worcester, Brockhill Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 017746

ISBN: 0955257107

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

156pp, index, references, illustrations including 8 in colour. Softback, laminate lifting slightly at edges otherwise light wear only, a near Very Good clean tight copy. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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Victorian Worcester: A Biography

By: Carpenter, Jeff

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Worcester, Brockhill Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 017747

ISBN: 0955257107

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

156pp, index, references, illustrations including 8 in colour. Softback, laminate lifting at one corner otherwise light wear only, a near Very Good clean tight copy. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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Overbury and Conderton: Book of the Year 2000

By: Carr, Jane / the Millenium Book Project Team

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Overbury, The Millenium Book Project Team: 2000

Seller ID: 030570

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, photographs and illustrations throughout, many in colour. Large format softback, a VG copy.
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The Worcestershire Hunt

By: Compiled from Original Sources By Thomas Read Quarrell

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Worcester, Phillips & Probert Ltd: 1929

Seller ID: 032045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

xvi + 145pp, folding coloured map at rear, 5 appendices, illustrations. Large hardback, buckram, white spine over blue/red boards, gilt titling, some marking mainly to bottom section of boards/spine and small section at top of front board. General light ageing to contents which are VG and bright, overall a Good+ copy in a Poor (tears mainly to upper half of front panel, some marking, small losses mainly to spine head/tail and corners, now in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Scarce, especially in dustwrapper.
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Reminiscences of an Eckington Lad

By: Cooke, Doug

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Douglas Cooke: 2006

Seller ID: 022737

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, illustrated. Softback, a VG copy. Reminiscences from Eckington in Worcestershire.
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Malvern Between the Wars: A Reminiscence

By: Covins, Frederick

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Malvern, Book Production Services: 1981

Seller ID: 022565

ISBN: 0950783900

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

90pp, black and white photographs. Landscape format hardback, pictorial boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy. Personalised gift dedication from the author to title page.
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Chapels and Meeting Houses in the Vale of Evesham

By: Cox, Benjamin G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Evesham, Vale of Evesham Historical Society: 1982

Seller ID: 032122

ISBN: 0907353029

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

18pp, illustrated. Orange card covers, a VG clean tight copy.
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The Parish Register of Cropthorne, Worcestershire 1557 - 1717

By: Crisp, Frederick Arthur (Publisher) / with the Permission of The Rev. Herbert Wilkinson

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Printed at the Private Press of Frederick Arthur Crisp: 1896

Seller ID: 030104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

150pp, index. Quarter-bound in white over grey boards, gilt spine titling, generally a little grubby, small label to spine, a few edge rubs, bump to spine base. Foxing to contents, mainly endpapers and edges, top edge gilt, other edges rough cut, overall a Good copy. Limited edition of 50 copies, this is NO.27 and is signed by the publisher, FA Crisp.
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Pershore People

By: Daniels, Janet / Freeman, Marion

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pershore, Janet Daniels & Marion Freeman: 2004

Seller ID: 021713

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

80pp, illustrated. This book describes the lives of some of the people of Pershore's past, many of whom were just ordinary folk. From the Perrott family to cholera victims, the authors have tried to bring to life the stories behind certain individuals who have become part of the history of Pershore. Includes articles on The Bedford and Coventry families and Judge John Perrott. A VG copy.
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Pershore at Play

By: Davis, Dr. Bob

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Malvern, Aspect Design: 2009

Seller ID: 021786

ISBN: 1905795297

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

142pp, illustrated, bibliography, references. Softback, a Vg copy. Signed and dated by author on title page.
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Guy Fawkes: The Real Story of the Gunpowder Plot?

By: Edwards, Francis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1969

Seller ID: 017487

ISBN: 0246639679

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

265pp, index, notes, 8pp plates. A previous owner had affixed a dustwrapper protective cover to the boards and front endpaper with sellotape. As a result, the boards/both pastedowns/both endpapers/dustwrapper all have residual glue marks. Hence book and wrapper are graded as Good only. Red boards, small mark to 2 pages, light ageing only, in a complete dustwrapper, now in a new removeable protective sleeve! Glue marks aside, this would be a VG copy.
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Pollarded Trees and Their Historical Significance: A Study in Wichenford Parish

By: Field, Jane

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, Gatepiece Books: 2009

Seller ID: 019443

ISBN: 0956343708

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

163pp, index, 7 appendices, 2 drawings, 34 photographs, 40 maps plus loose colour map showing the distribution of oak, ash, lime and alder pollards within the Wichenford Parish (2008). Large format softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Eckington: The Story of a Worcestershire Parish. With Adventures in Illustration By the Author.

By: Fletcher, AW

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1933

Seller ID: 031335

Condition: Good+

xiii + 166pp, plates, illustrations in text, facsimile map to rear, appendix. A first edition rebound in relatively modern boards, untitled green buckram spine over patterned boards, new endpapers and facsimile map to rear, general ageing to contents, occasional mark, overall a Good+ copy in a VG facsimile dustwrapper. Extremely scarce local history.
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Burcot Millenium 2000 AD

By: Fowler, Rae (Researched and Written by)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, The Burcot Village Hall Committee: 2000

Seller ID: 022395

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

48pp, illustrations throughout, most in colour. Large format softback, a VG copy.
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Pershore Through Time

By: Freeman, Marion

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Stroud, Amberley Publishing: 2010

Seller ID: 021493

ISBN: 1848684754

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, captioned then and now photographs and prints throughout. Softback, an excellent clean tight copy.
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A History of Worcestershire Agriculture and Rural Evolution

By: Gaut, RC

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcester, Littlebury & Co Ltd: 1939

Seller ID: 021875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

xvi + 490pp, indexes, bibliography. Brown boards, spine dulled, a few marks, dated owner's name, 2 sets of initials, to front endpaper, Some foxing, mainly to endpapers and edges, Overall a near VG copy without dustwrapper.
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Halt. Major Gray Ahead. An Anthology, Fifty Years After the End of World War II, of Memories of the Late Lt. Colonel HM Gray OBE TD, Schoolmaster, Housemaster & Commandant of OTC & JTC at Bromsgrove School And Some of Those Around Him

By: Gillibrand, Patrick (Editor)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bromsgrove, Bromsgrove School: 1995

Seller ID: 022600

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

78pp, photographs. Large format softback, inked telephone number (?) to front cover otherwise light wear only, a VG copy. Limited edition, this is No.100/500.
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The Nature of Worcestershire: The Wildlife and Ecology of the Old County of Worcestershire

By: Green, GH / Westwood, Brett / Adlam, Brian

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Buckingham, Barracuda Books: 1991

Seller ID: 021788

ISBN: 0860234878

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192pp, subscriber's list, index, bibliography and references, illustrated. Written and edited by GH Green and Brett Westwood, with a chapter on the background to the county by Brian Adlam. This is copy no.163 and is signed by all 3 authors on title page. Green boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Old Worcester : People and Places (SIGNED)

By: Gwilliam, Bill

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bromsgrove, Halfshire Books: 1993

Seller ID: 020265

ISBN: 095135258X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

208pp, index, references, illustrations, maps, 8pp colour plates. Red boards, originally privately published in 2 volumes in 1977, this is the new illustrated edition single volume, revised and updated. Fascinating history of Worcester, considered in eight districts. Signed personalised dedication from the author to title page.
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Worcestershire's Hidden Past (SIGNED)

By: Gwilliam, Bill (Foreword By Henry Sandon)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, Halfshire Books: 1991

Seller ID: 020266

ISBN: 0951352555

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vii + 214pp, index, references, illustrations. Blue boards, light ageing to contents, owner's details neatly to front endpaper, very slight spine twist, overall a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. Signed personalised dedication from the author to title page.
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History of the Masonic Province of Worcestershire

By: Hall, Ralph / Preface By Ray Sheppard

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcester, Worcestershire Masonic Study Circle: 1989

Seller ID: 031425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

368pp + subscription list at rear, illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt titling to front, plain spine, slight fading to spine, light ageing, a VG copy, no dustwrapper presumably as issued. This is copy 177/800, with the subscriber's name to title page. Extremely scarce.
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A Malvern Bibliography. An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Books Published About Malvern, 1725 - 1987

By: Hall-jones, Roger

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Malvern, First Paige: 1988

Seller ID: 031579

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

72pp, illustrated, index, 133 books detailed. Softback, light wear and ageing, a VG copy.
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Wyre Piddle: The Passing Years

By: Hammond, Catherine M

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Catherine M Hammond: 1981

Seller ID: 031250

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64pp, illustrated. Booklet, a VG copy. Uncommon. Signed by the author on title page.
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Mixed Memoirs: An Account of His Life and Business

By: Harris, Leslie G / Revised and Extended By Andrew D Harris

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bromsgrove, L G Harris & Co Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 030077

ISBN: 0954419308

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

296pp, photographs, some in colour. Softback, light wear, a VG copy. The story of Leslie Harris and his company, which became the UK's leading paint brush makers, based at Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove.
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Wood Norton Hall: A Victorian Royal Mansion

By: Hodges, John Richard

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcester, John Richard Hodges: 2014

Seller ID: 019816

ISBN: 0955405793

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 282pp, 22 colour plates, fully illustrated. Softback, a VG copy. A detailed history of the Hall, owned in recent times by the BBC but now restored to its former glory as a hotel. In 1872 it was purchased as a hunting lodge by the Duc d'Aumale and was later rebuilt in 1897. Signed by the author on title page.
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Chateau Impney: The Story of a Victorian Country House

By: Hodges, John Richard

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Worcester, John Richard Hodges: 2014

Seller ID: 030916

ISBN: 0955405726

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xv + 378pp, 20 colour plates, fully illustrated. Softback, a VG clean tight copy. Signed by the author on title page. Fascinating history of Chateau Impney near Droitwich, built between 1869 and 1875 for John Corbett, the 'Worcestershire Salt King'.
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The Malverns (Images of England)

By: Iles, Brian

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Stroud, Tempus Publishing Ltd: 2005

Seller ID: 020889

ISBN: 0752436678

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

128pp, captioned black and white photographs throughout. Light wear only, a VG copy. Flat signed by the author on title page.
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The Swan Theatre Worcester: Fifty Years of Passion, Optimism, Hard Work and Creativity

By: Jaeger, Chris / Foreword By Rufus Norris, Director of the National Theatre

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Worcester, Worcester Repertory Company: 2014

Seller ID: 030632

ISBN: 0957608691

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

162pp, illustrated. Softback, a VG copy.
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Inta's Hills in the Lost Countryside

By: Jenkinson, Robert C

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, RC Jenkinson: 1993

Seller ID: 031962

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

256pp, illustrated. Softback, Creasing/rubbing to covers, spine colour faded, contents VG, overall a Good copy. Flat signed by author on dedication page. Author relates some of his experiences as an Army Medical Officer during WWII and after as a GP in the more peaceful surroundings of the Worcestershire countryside.
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The Alice Ottley School: The Record of a Century 1883 - 1983

By: Jones, MJ Williamson / Garrood, A

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Worcester, The Alice Ottley School: 1983

Seller ID: 031954

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

62pp, reference section, illustrated. Blue cloth boards, minor marks to front, a VG copy, no dustwrapper, possibly as issued.
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De Gaulle and the Free French in Bewdley 1942 - 1944

By: Knowles, Nigel

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Bewdley, Star and Garter Publishers: 1999

Seller ID: 020497

ISBN: 0951913093

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 213pp, references, illustrated. Softback, a VG clean tight copy. Signed dedication from the author to title page.
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De Gaulle and the Free French in Bewdley 1942 - 1944

By: Knowles, Nigel

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Bewdley, Star and Garter Publishers: 1999

Seller ID: 031337

ISBN: 0951913093

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 213pp, references, illustrated. Softback, a VG clean tight copy. Signed personalised dedication from the author to title page.
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Victorian Workhouse: A Study of the Bromsgrove Union Workhouse 1836 - 1901

By: Land, Neville

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Studley, Brewin Books: 1990

Seller ID: 021878

ISBN: 0947731695

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 120pp, index, bibliography, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, small owner's label to 1/2 title page, slight sunning to spine and adjacent edges, overall a VG copy. 'Best wishes from Neville Land, 12.2.96' to 1/2 title page.
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The Nation in the Parish or, Records of Upton-on-Severn; with a Supplementary Chapter on the Castle of Hanley

By: Lawson, Emily M / Lawson, Robert

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Houghton & Gunn: 1884

Seller ID: 020219

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

xv + 209pp + xli. Errata slip. 14 full page illustrations by Charles Cattermole and George R Clarke. Glossary of more than 800 local words and phrases by Robert Lawson at rear. Green pictorial boards, some edge rubs, general foxing to contents, a VG tight copy. Edition not stated but likely to be a first edition though it was published in different coloured boards.
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The Nation in the Parish or, Records of Upton-on-Severn; with a Supplementary Chapter on the Castle of Hanley

By: Lawson, Emily M / Lawson, Robert

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Houghton & Gunn: 1884

Seller ID: 020220

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xv + 209pp + xli. Errata slip. 14 full page illustrations by Charles Cattermole and George R Clarke. Glossary of more than 800 local words and phrases by Robert Lawson at rear. Brown pictorial boards, some edge rubs, a few marks, general foxing to contents, owner's label to front pastedown, front hinge slightly weak, a Good+ copy. Edition not stated but likely to be a first edition though it was published in different coloured boards.
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Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club

By: Messenger, Michael

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Elgar Editions: 2003

Seller ID: 020397

ISBN: 0953708276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 440pp, index, sources, references, 2 appendices, illustrations. Gilt on green boards, an excellent copy in dustwrapper.
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Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club

By: Messenger, Michael J

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Elgar Editions: 2003

Seller ID: 020883

ISBN: 0953708276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 440pp, index, sources, references, 2 appendices, illustrations. Gilt on green boards, a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper.
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A Workingman's Castle: The 600-year History of The Fleece Inn from Peasant Prefab to National Treasure

By: Mowbray, Christopher

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Mercia Shires: 2015

Seller ID: 030917

ISBN: 1910673048

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

85pp, bibliography, black and white illustrations. Softback, VG. The story of the pub in the village of Bretforton, near Evesham, now owned by the National Trust.
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''It's the Only Wish I've Got' - The Story of The Elgar Birthplace

By: Neill, Andrew

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Worcester, Elgar Foundation Enterprises Limited: 2006

Seller ID: 031477

ISBN: 0954855337

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 80pp, index, footnotes, 6 appendices, illustrated. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Eastham Within Living Memory

By: Opperman, Averil Douglas (Compiled and Written by)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, Averil Douglas Opperman: 2000

Seller ID: 020069

ISBN: 0951199587

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

188pp, photographs, 16pp in colour, map, appendices. Softback, light wear only, a farm on the map is highlighted otherwise a clean tight copy. A record of village life in the 1900s.
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