SHIRE PURCHASE

Some of the more unusual titles published by Shire Books, an excellent UK publisher specialising in hobbies, history, travel, nature and other non-fiction:

The Algonquin Birchbark Canoe
Ambulances
Ants of Great Britain
Ayrshire and Other Whitework
The Bean
Betel Chewing Equipment of East New Guinea
Biscuit Tins
British Tea and Coffee Cups
Brochs of Scotland
Ceramic Water Closets
Charcoal and Charcoal Burning
Church Misericords and Bench Ends
Dairying Bygones
Deserted Villages
Discovering English Folk Dance
Duck Decoys
The Ford Cortina
Gothick Cornwall
Icehouses
Land Snails of the British Isles
Nutcrackers
Old Farm Dogs
The Organ
Pargeting
Parish Boundaries
Polynesian Backcloth
Road Rollers
Scottish Doocots
Sentimental Jewellery
Snuff
Thimbles and Thimble Cases
Umbellifers of the British Isles
The Victorian Ironmonger
Wrought Iron