Surplus books and pamphlets
The surplus publications listed below are on sale until the end of June 2022 on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in acquiring any of the publications listed, please email library@stalbanshistory.org to make arrangements for viewing, payment and collection.
Please Note: As these publications all come from a reference library, many have the external labels, internal stamps and handwritten reference numbers you might expect. They are in reasonable condition considering their age, except where stated. They are listed in price order, most expensive first.
Ed. Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The Hamilton Papers: Being Selections from Original Letters in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon relating to the years 1638-50
The Camden Society, London 1880. Hardback £10
Worthington G. Smith
Dunstable Its History & Surroundings
Elliot Stock, London 1904. First Edition inc 2 maps. Hardback £10
L Glasscock
The records of St. Michael's Parish Church, Bishop's Stortford.
Elliot Stock, London 1882. First Edition. Hardback £6
Eileen A Gooder
Latin for Local History: an Introduction
Longmans, Green and Co, London 1967. Third Impression. Hardback £5
Ed. Chris Holland
Coventry and Warwickshire 1914-1919: Volume 1
Warwickshire Great War Publications, 2012. Softback £5
Frank Salisbury
Portrait and Pageant. Kings, Presidents, and People
John Murray, London 1944. First edition. Hardback £5
Edward Giles and Richard Thrale
Historic Sandridge. The Story of a Hertfordshire Parish
First edition 1952. Hardback £5
Second impression, 1969. Softback £2
Gorhambury
Privately Published. Softback, cover damaged/missing? £4
The Laporte Rose Window Saint Albans Cathedral
Laporte Plc, Luton 1989. Softback £4
John Wolstenholme Cobb
Two lectures on the history of Berkhamsted.
Nichols and Sons, London 1883. Second edition. Hardback , signed by author. £4
Beryl Carrington and Robert Richardson
Yesterday's Town: St. Albans. Two Centuries of Town and City
Barracuda Books, Buckingham Limited edition 1986. Hardback with dustcover £4
Clive Birch and John Armistead
Yesterday's Town: Chesham, a medley of memory and fact in the eye of the past
Barracuda Books, Buckinghamshire 1977. Second edition. Hardback with dustcover £4
James Brabazon, 5th Earl of Verulam
The Bacon Family, its links with Gorhambury, St. Michael's, and St. Albans 1560-1880
St. Albans City Council, 1961. Softback £4
Ed. Keith Grieves
Sussex in the First World War
Sussex Record Society, Lewes 2004. First edition. Hardback with dustcover £4
Anne Wheeler and Tony Stevens
Around St Albans (Images of England)
Tempus Publishing Limited, Gloucestershire 2001. First Edition. Softback £4
Nikolaus Pevsner (Revised by Bridget Cherry)
Hertfordshire.
Penguin Books, London 1977. Second edition. Hardback Two copies, one with dustcover
Also second edition reprinted by Yale University Press 2002, with dustcover £3 each
Verulamium Since the Romans
St. Albans Museums, 1989. Softback. 2 copies available £3 each
David Buttery
Portraits of a Lady: An Illustrated Life of Frances, Countess of Warwick
Brewin Books, Warwickshire 1988, reprinted 2000. Softback £3
Reginald L. Hine
The story of the Sun Hotel, Hitchin (1575-1945)
Wm Carling & Co, Hitchin 1946. Second edition. Softback £3
Rosalind Niblett
Verulamium. The Roman City of St. Albans.
Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire 2001. Softback £3
David Hicks
Battle of Barnet, Quincentenary 1471-1971
Borough of Barnet, 1971. Softback £3
R.E.M. Wheeler
Summary of the Verulamium Excavations 1932
St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1933. Softback. £3
5th Earl of Verulam
Gorhambury. The Historic Hertfordshire Home of the Grimston Family
English Life Publications, 1987. Softback. £3
St. Albans: The story of the city and its people
St. Albans City Council, 1963. Third Edition, inc fold out maps. Softback £2
J Andre
Heraldry and Sussex Monuments.
Offprint from Sussex Archaeological Collections, Volume 37, 1889. Softback, front cover missing £2
Ed Kate Owen
The Antiquaries Journal volume 90, 2010
Cambridge University Press, 2010. Softback £2
J.J.Scarisbrick
The Dissolution of the Monasteries - The Case of St Albans
Friends of St. Albans Abbey, 1994. Softback. Two copies available £2 each
The Official Guide to the St Albans Rural District
Burrow, 1969. Softback £2
Keith Branigan and Rosalind Niblett
The Roman Chilterns
Chess Valley Archaeological and Historical Society, 2003. Softback £2
Peter Hurford
The Organs of St. Alban's Abbey
Tythings Court Press, 1962. First Edition. Softback £2
Percy C. Birtchnell
A Short History of Berkhamsted
Self Published, Berkhamsted. Enlarged and revised edition 1972. Hardback £2
Knebworth - the Story of Our Village
The Knebworth branch of the WEA, 1967. Third edition. Softback £2
R.E.M. Wheeler
The Preliminary Excavations of Verulamium 1930
St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1930. Softback £2
R.E.M. Wheeler
Summary of the Verulamium Excavations 1931
St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1932. Softback. £2
Alvey
Growth in the population of St. Albans from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
Offprint from The Local Historian, August 2000. Softback. Two copies available £2 each
W.A. Bettesworth
The Way about Hertfordshire (Way About series of Gazetteer Guides No 7)
Iliffe and Son, London, 1894. Repaired softback copy, map missing £2
David J. Parker
Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939
University of Hertfordshire Press, 2007. Softback £2
Roy Pinnock
The Guiding Stars. Concerning a small Hertfordshire Village (Lilley)
Home Counties Newspapers Ltd, 1970. Softback. Signed by author £2
Ed. Robert Runcie
Cathedral and City: St Albans Ancient and Modern
Martyn Associates, 1977. Softback. Signed by Martin Biddle £2
Nat Alcock et al
Recording Timber-framed Buildings: An Illustrated Glossary
Council for British Archaeology, 1989. Softback. Damaged by overprinting £1
John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Nikolaus Pevsner
A Dictionary of Architecture
Penguin Books, 1977. Second edition reprint. Softback. £1
Sam Mullins
St. Albans: In Old Photographs
Alan Sutton Publishing, Stroud 1994. Softback, loose page £1
A G Dickens
The English Reformation
Fontana Press, 1986. Revised edition. Softback £1
Charles Robert Swift
A Short Account of Christ Church St Albans
Self published? Undated. Softback £1
Know St Albans. Coaching Days in and around St Albans
Undated Softback. One of series by HCC teachers led by Pam Payne £1
Tom Scott
Moor Park Golf Club Official Handbook
Temple Publicity Services, undated softback £1
The Rt Rev Bishop Watts
Kensworth Church
SPCK, 1951. Softback £1
John Forrester
Guide to the Parish Church of All Saints, Leighton Buzzard
The British Publishing Company, Gloucester. Undated softback £1
Leighton Buzzard Beds. Official Guide to the Urban District
The Home Publishing Company, Croydon. Undated softback with foldout map £1
William Davison
The Story of the Parish Church of St Mary, Luton Bedfordshire
The British Publishing Company, Gloucester 1938. Softback £1
Peter Watkinson
The Abbey Gateway
Undated softback £1
J.W. Grover
Verulam and Pompeii Compared
Softback 1870, with maps and fresco illustration. Poor condition £1
Jo Askham
Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Remembering St Albans Asylums
Undated softback £1
Rev Arthur Cross
Links with the Past. Bedford St Peter de Merton
C.F. Timaeus, Bedford 1905. Softback £1
Francis W. Buckingham
Church of All Saints Houghton Regis
Index Publishers, Dunstable 1937. Softback £1
B. Gerish
A Handlist to the Surnames represented by inscriptions in the Hundred of Odsey, Herts
Waterlow and Sons, Dunstable, 1909. Softback £1
John C. Rogers
The Parish Church of St Michael, St Albans. A Short Illustrated History
H.A. Richardson, St Albans, 1952. Softback
Also two copies of revised 1965 edition £1each
Illustrated Twopenny Guide to St Albans Abbey
Cartmel and Sons, St Albans. Undated softback £1
The Parish Church of St Peter, St Albans
The British Publishing Company, Gloucester, 1956. Softback £1
C. Toll
St Paul’s (Bedford) in 1875 and year by year since
Paper read at a Meeting of Men in 1915, published by request. Softback, poor condition. £1
James Neale
Notes on the Abbey Church of St Alban
Leicestershire Architectural Society, 1876. Softback, including foldout drawings £1
City and District of St Albans Official Guide
The British Publishing Company, Gloucester. Undated softback, poor condition £1
Wheathampstead and Harpenden. No 1 The Settlement of
Harpenden and St Albans WEA, 1973, Softback £1
The Story of Harpenden and Wheathampstead. No.6 The Schools
Harpenden and St Albans WEA, 1976. Softback £1
John D Amess
Stevenage Communications Guide for 1800-1847
Stevenage Museum, 1975. Softback £1