Bookshop Auction of canal books

navvies Bookshop

A chance to pick up sought-after specialist waterways books while helping canal restoration, as the WRG book auction returns after a long absence

WRG book auction

We have recently been donated a number of good canal books for fund-raising and have decided that the best way to sell them is to auction them through Navvies - with all the proceeds going to help fund WRG. The reserve prices suggested are the minimum that we would accept and are considerably less than you might see from a specialist book dealer. You are invited to make your bids (in multiples of 50p). Simply list down the Lot Number (the number on the left hand side) and the price you are prepared to pay for each book that you are bidding for. The bidder offering the highest price for each lot gets the book at the price bid. In the event of two equal highest bids, the first one received wins. All proceeds go to WRG so you can afford to be generous. All bids should be sent by email to enquiries@wrg.org.uk (please make subject of the email ‘WRG book auction’) no later than 31 January 2022. Successful bidders will be notified shortly afterwards. Postage and packing is extra, at cost. The winning bids (but not the identity of the bidders) and the total raised will be published in a future issue of Navvies.

Lot Title/author Reserve Hard/paper EditionCond Date 1 Canal Mania: 200 Years of Britain’s Waterways - Anthony Burton £5.00 Hardback N/A Fair 1993 2 Liquid History - Arthur Bryant £5.00 Paperback N/A Worn 1960 3 The Narrowboat Builder’s Book - Graham Booth £5.00 Paperback 3rd Good 1999 4 The Inland Waterways Manual - Emrhys Barrel £3.00 Hardback N/A Good 1993 5 Simple Boat Electrics - John Myatt £4.00 Paperback N/A Good 1997 6 A Right Good Crew - Emily Kimbrough £7.00 Hardback N/A Fair 1959 7 Journey Without End: A Voyage Through England’s Waterways - David Bolton £2.00 Hardback N/A Good 1987 8 Ramlin Rose: The Boatwomans Story - Shella Stewart £6.00 Hardback N/A Good 1993 9 A Thames Companion - Mari Prichard & Humphrey Carpenter £2.00 Hardback N/A Good 1975 10 Canal Cruising - John Hankinson £1.00 Hardback N/A Fair 1967 11 Canal Boats and Boaters - D. J. Smith £2.00 Hardback N/A Good 1973 12 Slow Boat Through France - Hugh McKnight £1.50 Hardback N/A Good 1991 13 Narrow Boats: Care And Maintenance - Nick Billingham £2.50 Hardback N/A Fair 1997 14 Historic Waterways Scenes: London & South-East England - Martyn Denney £3.00 Hardback N/A Good 1980 15 Diesel Boat Engine Manual - Peter Bowyer £1.50 Hardback 3rd Good 1994 16 The Great Days Of The Canals - Anthony Burton £3.00 Hardback Unk. Good 1995 17 Exploring Britain’s Canals - Paul Atterbury £3.50 Hardback N/A Excel.1994 18 Southern Inland Waterways - Derek Pratt £3.00 Hardback 1st Good 1982 19 Barging Into France - Gerard Morgan-Grenville £3.00 Hardback 1st Good 1972 20 The Canals of England - Eric De Mare £3.00 Hardback 2nd impFair 1956 21 Canal & Inland Cruising - John Gagg £4.00 Hardback 1st Good 1989 22 Rivers, Lakes and Canals: Exploring Britain - Reader’s Digest £1.50 Hardback 1st Good 1984 23 The Ballinamore & Ballyconnell Canal - Patrick Flanagan £10.00 Hardback 1st Good 1972 24 Inland Waterways of Great Britain and Ireland - LA Edwards £10.00 Hardback 2nd Good 1962 25 British Waterways: South Eastern Division - 1960 £10.00 Paperback N/A Good 1960 26 Voyage Into England - John Seymour £15.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1966

27 The Canals of North West England - Volume 2 - Charles Hadfield and Gordon Biddle £15.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1970 28 The Canals of The West Midlands - Charles Hadfield £10.00 Hardback 1st Good 1966 29 The Leicester Line: A History of the Old Union and

Grand Union Canals - Philp A. Stevens £5.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1972 30 The Canals of the North of Ireland - W. A. McCutcheon £35.00 Hardback 1st Fair-gd1965 31 The Canals of North West England - Volume 1 - Charles Hadfield and Gordon Biddle £10.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1970 32 The Grand Canal of Ireland - Ruth Delany £15.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1973 33 The Canals of South Wales and The Border - Charles Hadfield £15.00 Hardback 1st Good 1960 34 The Canals of The East Midlands (Including part of London) - Charles Hadfield £10.00 Hardback 1st Good 1966 35 The Bude Canal - Helen Harris & Monica Ellis £7.00 Hardback 1st Good 1972 36 Land of Time Enough:

A Journey through the Waterways of Ireland - Raymond Gardner £20.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1977 37 The Oxford Canal - Hugh J Compton £15.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1976 38 British Canals: Is their Resuscitation Practicable? - Edwin A. Pratt £2.00 Hardback 1st Poor 1906 39 The Lost Canals of England and Wales - Ronald Russell £8.00 Hardback 1st Good 1971 40 London’s Lost Route to Basingstoke - P. A. L. Vine £15.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1968 41 The Grand Western Canal - Helen Harris £12.00 Hardback 1st Good 1973 42 Inland Waterways of Europe - George Allen - 1963 £5.00 Hardback 1st Poor 1963 43 Inland waterways of France - E. E. Benest £2.00 Hardback 3rd Fair 1971 44 Voyage In A Bowler Hat - Hugh Malet £10.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1960 45 Through England’s Waterways - Montague & Ann Lloyd £8.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1948 46 Canals, Cruises and Contentment - Austin E. Neal £25.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1910 47 Thomas Telford - L. T. C. Rolt £5.00 Hardback 2nd Fair 1959 48 Green And Silver - L. T. C Rolt £30.00 Hardback 1st Good 1949 49 The Canals of Eastern England - John Boyes and Ronald Russell (Signed copy) £10.00 Hardback 1st Good 1977 50 The Birmingham Canal Navigations Volume 1 - S. R. Broadbridge £15.00 Hardback 1st Good 1974 51 Waterways To Stratford - Charles Hadfield and John Norris £15.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1962 52 The Somersetshire Coal Canal and Railway - Kenneth R. Clew £10.00 Hardback 1st Good 1970 53 Sailing Through England - John Seymour 1956 £12.00 Hardback 1st Good 1956 54 The Thames & Severn Canal - Humphrey Household £14.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1969 55 London’s Lost Route to the Sea - P. A. L. Vine £15.00 Hardback 1st Good 1965 56 The Nutbrook Canal Derbyshire - Peter Stevenson £15.00 Hardback 1st Excel.1970 57 The Canals of The South of Ireland - V. T. H. & D. R. Delany £30.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1966 58 In the Wake of the Gods: On the Waterways of Ireland - Hugh Malet £25.00 Hardback 1st Good 1970 59 The Canals of Scotland - Jean Lindsay £25.00 Hardback 1st Good 1968 60 The Canals of Southern England - Charles Hadfield £7.00 Hardback 1st Fair 1955 61 My Holidays on Inland Waterways - P. Bonthron £10.00 Hardback 3rd Good 1919 62 The Dorset & Somerset Canal - Kenneth R. Clew £12.00 Hardback 1st Good 1971 63 Complete set of Waterways World magazine, issue1 on £1.00 (*) see below regarding collection 64 Complete set of Navvies from issue 61 onwards £1.00 (*) see below regarding collection (*) Buyer to arrange collection from their choice of Chesham, Lancashire or Oxford page 39