Ammon Wrigley (74 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown faux leather cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Previous owner's ink inscription on front end paper. Otherwise very clean and tidy throughout. A collection of stories and songs collected by the prolific Lancashire author, of life in the Pen…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1920. First Edition. 8vo. 298pp. Original illustrated cloth stamped in black, lightly worn and soiled, owner's name, upper corner of one leaf creased, no dj. Few illustrations. Saddleworth is a civil parish in Oldham in greater Manchester, Engla…

Condition: Good. 1937. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains fi…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover blue cloth bds, a little general light age-marking, spine a little lightened, Good, no dust jacket, b/w frontis. of the author, contents clean and tight, pp126 + advert pge to rear. The book includes: The Three Bonnie Lasses; Joe O' Th' Pinfold's Poncake; Hurly; Nan O' Ratchers; Springtime;…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. R E Greenwood, Uppermill, no date. Hard cover. Book condition : Near fine, like new, appears unread. Jacket has shelf wear. Facsimile of original first published in 1916. With Photographs and illustrations by John Houghton Hague and the author. Book will be sent…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A reprint of the 1901 publication, updated to 1974 and with revised and additional illustrations. Limited to 1700 copies this is copy 46/250 hardback versions. Well bound in fawn coloured cloth with attractive gilt titling and black panel to upper board. Text pages and illustrations are all clean…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. 1st edition thus. 8vo. 95 pages. Contains further notes on occasions and local events in the Saddleworth area up to the present time. Illustrated with some good black and white photographic plates. Inscription on inside front cover. In original attractive pictorial brwon textured car…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Good sound copy of a used book.Brown/tan HB covers. 224 pps. No marks in text. Edges sl rubbed. No date- circa 1925. Great vintage book about Northern England rural life, dialect, habits, hunting songs and humour, A treasure trove of Yorkshire rural life, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition. No date but C1920s. 8vo. 224 pages. Poetry and prose, some in dialect. Good portrait of Ammon Wrigley by Sam Fitton as a frontispiece. In original handsome binding - paper covered decorative boards with tan cloth spine. Near Fine. An attractive item - very clean and un…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 288 pages including list of subscribers. 8vo. A substantial book of poetry and prose (mainly prose), much in dialect by this well-known Saddleworth author. Attractively illustrated with 17 plates. Date and inscription on front end paper and different name and address on…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. 106 pages. 8 good black and white plates. This is a detailed autobiography of this gifted Saddleworth writer, artist and archaeologist who was at one time described as "an unschooled millworker" in national newspapers of the day. A fascinating account. In original…