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• Nancledra Women’s Institute. Nancledra scrapbook; : 1951.
• Nankervis, Jean; Wicca—A farm in West Cornwall; The author, St. Ives: 1991. ISBN 0 9519161 0 6. This has been republished in an enlarged 2nd edition as Wicca—the story of my farm; The author, Zennor: 1999. ISBN 0 9519161 11 4.£3 new.
• Nankervis, Jean; A History of Zennor: A Parish in West Cornwall; St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company: 2021. ISBN 978-1-9993162-9-7.
• Nicholas, Edith M. St. Just and Pendeen; The author: 1968.
• Nicholls, J. R. Six coastal walks with inland returns in Penwith; Ramblers’ Association: 1987.
• Noall, Cyril. The story of St. Ives lifeboat; W. & J. Jacobs, St. Ives: c1957.
• ———Beloved St. Ives; W. & J. Jacobs, St. Ives: 1958. This is No. 1, Vol. 1 but is thought to the only edition produced. £10
• ———The Penzance library 1818 - 1968; Penzance Library: 1968.
• ———The story of St. Ives; Tor Mark, Truro: 1970. Also 3rd edition with many different pictures Tor Mark, Redruth:1994. ISBN 0-850325-342-X
• ———Levant: The mine beneath the sea; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1970. St. Just. £45
• ———Botallack; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1972. St. Just. £38 Rumoured to be republished soon by Tor Mark Press.
• ———Cornish Seines and Seiners—a history of the pilchard fishing industry; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1972. Mostly St. Ives £28
• ———The St. Just Mining District; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1973. £32
• ———The Book of St. Ives; Barracuda, Chesham Bucks.: 1977. ISBN 0 86023 037 6. £28 Reprinted by St. Ives Library: 2000. £18 new
• ———The illustrated past, Penwith: An Historical Survey of the Land’s End District; Barracuda, Buckingham: 1978. £25
• ———Yesterday’s Town: St. Ives; Barracuda, Buckingham: 1979. ISBN 0 86023 112 7. £18
• ———The St. Ives Mining District (2 volumes); Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1982 & 1997.ISBN 0 907566 33 2 £12 & 185 022 0670.
• ———Geevor; Geevor Tin Mines plc, Pendeen: 1983. St. Just. £40
• ———& Farr, Graham. Wreck and Rescue round the Coast of Cornwall II—The story of the Land’s End Lifeboats; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1965. Volumes I and III cover the North and South coasts respectively.£25 each Now republished by Tor Mark Press.
• ———& Williams, Douglas. The Book of Penzance; Barracuda, Buckingham: 1983. ISBN 0 86023 066 X. £15
• O’Donoghue, K. J & Appleyard, H. S. Hain of St. Ives; World Ship Society, Kendal: 1986 £9 The story of the shipping line and four generations of Edward Hain.
• Oliver, A. S. Boats and boatbuilding in West Cornwall, a study of Cornish fishing craft; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971. A technical history of boat building in the Mount’s Bay and St. Ives.
• Osborn, Joseph G. History of freemasonry in West Cornwall 1765–1828; Rodda, Penzance: 1901. £60
• Packer, J. E. Wandering westward. Primarily about Porthcurno in St. Levan. The Author, Newlyn: 1981 - Revised 1987.
• ———Porthcurno handbook.
• ———Messages under the sea. About the telegraphy station at Porthcurno.
• ———The spies at wireless point; 1991. Rivalry between the telegraphy stations of Porthcurno and Poldhu.
• ———The Porthcurno story; 1996.
• Paris, John Ayrton. A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End: being a sketch of the topography, natural history, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mineralogy and geology of Western Cornwall; T. Vigurs, Penzance:1816. A second edition, with additional material, subtitled “comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of Western Cornwall” W. Phillips, London: 1824. Third edition, unchanged, T. & G. Underwood, London: 1828.
• Parsons, Jack & Nora. Cornish Fisherboy to Master Mariner: four volumes. Part one—Mousehole boyhood and early days at sea, Part two—Mate and master mariner, Part three—Roseau days, Part four—Steam, sail and fishing); Bournmouth Local Studies: 1993–95. ISBN 0-906287-98-7, 1-873887-02-7, 1-8373887-05-1, 1-873887-08-6 The life of Henry Blewett 1836–1891
• Paynter, S. Winifred. Old St. Ives: The reminiscences of William Paynter; James Lanham, St. Ives: 1927.£22
• Pender, John J (or E?). A Mousehole Man’s story; The Author, Mousehole: 1982.
• Pender, Nettie M. Mousehole—History and recollections; The author, Mousehole:1970
• Penhale, J. The mine under the sea; Falmouth: 1962. Probably about Levant mine in St. Just, but I haven’t seen it. £16
• Pentreath, Dolly. In a Cornish township with old vogue folk; T. Fischer Unwin, London: 1893. Dolly Pentreath was, for the purposes of this publication, the pen name of Mary Dickerson. Thanks to Allan J. Hubin for this information.
• Penwith Local History Group [pub.] 1. Ashtown Farm: An Exploratory Local and Natural History Survey; The group, St. Ives: 1992. ISBN 0 903 6866 7 9
• ———2. Three Hundred Years on Penwith Farms; The group, Penzance: 1994. ISBN 0 9524744 0 9. Based on some parts of the Lanhydrock estate with copies of the original estate maps. Available in facsimile on CD-ROM from Belerion Books, Florida:2009.
• ———3. West Penwith at the Time of King Charles II; The group, St. Ives: 1998. ISBN 0 952 4744 1 7
• ———4. In and around Penzance during Napoleonic times; The group, Penzance: 2000. ISBN 0 9534356 2 8.£10 new
• ———5. Newlyn Life 1870–1914: The Village that inspired the Artists; The group, Penzance: 2003. ISBN 0 9534356 4 7.
• ———6. Treasures of the Morrab: A Penzance library that has more than books; The group, Penzance: 2003. ISBN 0 9520661 6 3.
• ———7. West Cornwall in the Twentieth Century: Life in Penwith; The group, Penzance: 2007. ISBN 0 9540249 3 2.
• ———8. West Cornwall Homes and Households 1550-1950; The group, Penzance: 2010. ISBN 0 9540249 5 6.
• ———9. Eigtheenth Century Life in West Cornwall; The group, Penzance: 2015. ISBN 0 9540249 7 0.
• ———10. Women of West Cornwall; The group, Penzance: 2016. ISBN 0 9954940 0 8.
• ———11. Growing Up in West Cornwall; The group, Penzance: 2019. ISBN 978-0-9954940 1 5.
• Penzance Borough Council. To the Worshipful the Mayor, The Right Honourable and Worshipful the Recorder, The Worshipful the Justice and the Aldermen and Commonality of Pensance, The translation of their charter, diligently collated with, and made literally from the original, is respectfully presented by their faithful and obedient, humble servant J. Beard, Town Clerk, Pensance 1st Jany 1825; Penzance Borough Council: [1920s?].
• Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society [pub.]. Transactions (New series); W. Brendon, Plymouth: 1880–99 In multiple volumes, usually 4 years per volume. I have volumes I to III (1880–92). A number of individual editions are available in facsimile on CD-ROM from Belerion Books, Florida:2002. There is an earlier series (1845–65), volumes from which are rare.
• Perry, Margaret E. & Lawrence, Jeffrey E. Mousehole, a brief history; Margaret E. Perry, Newlyn: 1998. ISBN 0 9534356 0 1.
• ———Newlyn, a brief history; Margaret E. Perry, Newlyn: 1999. ISBN 0 9534356 1 X.
• Pool, Anne. Lelant parish registers to 1812. Manuscript at RIC.
• Pool, P. A. S. [Ed]. The life and progress of Henry Quick of Zennor; The Author, Penzance: 1963
• ———Penzance, a brief history of the town and borough; Penzance Old Cornwall Society, 1965. Second edition 1970. A short introduction to his later work.
• ———The history of the town and borough of Penzance; Penzance Corporation: 1974. £20 Some later copies came with a pamphlet inserted 50th anniversary celebrations of enlargement of borough; November 1984. which includes some essays by Pool and Douglas Williams.
• ———Henry Crozier and his discovery of Chysauster; Reprinted from “Cornish Archaeology” No. 29, 1990.
• ———Antiquities of Penwith, the Land’s End peninsula; Penwith District Council, Penzance: 199-? Good colour photographs.
• Priestland, Gerald & Sylvia. West of Hayle River; Wildwood House, London: 1980. ISBN 0 7045 30120. £10
• Raymont, Christine Morton. Memories of old St. Ives; The author: 1958. £12 Republished with a few additions 1997.
• Reid, Clement & Flett, J. S. The geology of the Land’s End district; 1907.
• Rees, Edgar A. Old Penzance; The author, Penzance: 1956. £23
• Ridge, C. Harold [ed.]. Cornwall parish registers, Gulval 1813–37; The editor, Gulval: 1949. £38
• Rodda’s “One and All” Almanack; Penzance: 1870–19— Published annually [?] from 1870 changing to Saundry’s in about 1910 [below].
• Rowe, J. The laws of settlement in Gulval parish 1739–1821; Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual Report 120 p18–31: 1954.
• Rowe, Joseph Hambley. St. Levan: Its registers and its clergy and its worthies;
• Rowe, Laura. Granite crosses of West Cornwall; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1973.
• Ruhrmund, Frank. About St. Just in Penwith;
• Russell, Vivien. West Penwith Survey; Cornwall archaeological Society, RIC, Truro: 1971.
• St. Ives Borough. The Borough of St. Ives, 1639–1974; St. Ives: 1974
• Sagar-Fenton, Michael. Penlee: The loss of a lifeboat; 1991 ISBN 1 85022 128 6
• ———The Rosebud and the Newlyn clearances; Truran, Truro: 2003 ISBN 1 85022 183 9
• Sallis, Susan. Summer visitors; Severn House, Surrey: 1988 ISBN 0 7278 5904 8. A romantic novel set in St. Ives.
• Saundry, John W. [pub.] Saundry’s “One and All” Almanack; Penzance: Took over from Rodda’s about 1910 published annually until at least 1939. Local material bound with generic almanac and magazine pages. I have a very tatty copy from 1931 and a good one from 1936 from which the Historical Timeline has been extracted and put online. £16 each.
• Shaw, David. Piskey Threshing; David Shaw [link broken 2018], Penzance: 2001 This is an audio CD of the Cornish tales of William Bottrell in an authentic Cornish voice.
• Short, Colin C. In spite of Dr. Borlase—the story of Methodism in Madron;
• Short, John Tregerthen. Prisoners of war in France from 1804–1814, being the adventures of John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams, of St. Ives, Cornwall; Duckworth, London: 1914 with an introduction by Sir Edward Hain. An online index to this book has been compiled.
• Spargo, Thomas. The mines of Cornwall (The Land’s End peninsula); D. Bradford Barton, Truro.
• Sparrow, Elizabeth. The Prices of Penzance, 1734–1834; The Penzance Library: 1985. Edited version of a lecture given on the Price family of Penzance.
• Stevens, C. Taylor. The chief of Baratanac; St. Ives: 1862. The author was a poet and described himself as a "Rural Postman from St. Ives to Zennor".
• Stevens, James (Pool, P. A. S. Ed.); Cornish farmer’s diary; :1977 ISBN 0950559601. The diary of a farmer in Zennor and Sancreed in the mid C19th.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. St. Ives, being the adventures of a French prisoner in England; Heinemann, London: 1924. This was an unfinished novel written between 1893 and 1894. The remainder, to complete the story, was added by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. It has nothing (except a few words) to do with St. Ives, the town.
• Stone, John Frederick Matthias Harris. England’s Riviera: a topographical and archæological description of Land’s End, Cornwall and adjacent spots of beauty and interest; Kegan Paul Trench, Trubner & Co., London: 1912. £24
• Straffon, Cheryl. The earth mysteries guide to ancient sites in West Penwith; Meyn Mamvro, St. Just in Penwith: 1992. ISBN 0 9518859 0 1.
• Strower, Joseph. The Bolton Estate—First Portion, sale particulars; London: 1904.
• ——— The Bolton Estate—Second Portion, sale particulars; Joseph Strower, London: 1904. Abstract.
• Symons, Alison; Tremedda Days—A view of Zennor, 1900–1944; Tabb House, Padstow: 1992. ISBN 0-907018-83-1
• Syren & Shipping. A nerve centre of empire; 1911. About the telegraphy station at Porthcurno in St. Levan.
• Taylor, T. The Easter book of St. Just in Penwith 1588–96; Journal of the RIC (20/3–4 p213–94): 1917/18.
• Thomas, Charles. Penzance market cross, A Cornish wonder re-wondered; Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance: undated [1999?].
• ———, Pool, P. A. S. & Weatherhill, Craig; The principal antiquities of the Land’s End district; Cornwall Archaeological Society: 1954.
• Thomas, Henry Grylls. A Cornish shopkeeper’s diary 1843; St. Just in Penwith Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1997. ISBN 1 85022 110 3.
• Thomas, J. The history of Mount’s Bay, comprising Saint Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Penzance, Newlyn, Mousehole, &c; J. Thomas, Penzance: 1820 £145
• Thomas, Ivor. Studies in Cornish geography (1)—Cornishmen and environment & Isthmus of Penwith; Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Redruth: 1948.
• Thomas, J. [pub.]. The history of Mount’s bay, comprising St. Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Penzance, Newlyn, Mousehole &c; J. Thomas, Penzance: 1820.
• Thomas, W. Herbert. The flooding of Wheal Owles; The author[?]: 1893. A contemporary dialect poem about the mine disaster. Transcribed and online on this site
• Thorne, Graham. The St. Ives branch and Hayle wharves railway; CHB Publishing: 1992.
• Tranter, Gladys M. [ed.] The human spring—The story of Penzance Girls’ Grammar School 1913–1980; The School, Penzance: 1980 ISBN 0 9506870 0 6.
• Tregarthen, J. C. Wild life at the Land’s End; John Murray, London: 1904. With 25 sepia and black-and-white plates including one of Andrew Stevens, the Earthstopper.
• Tregellas, John Tabois. The Adventures Of Rozzy Paul & Zacky Martin, the Saint Agnes bear hunt and the Perran Cherrybeam: three Cornish comic poems; R. T. Vibert, Penzance: 1853
• ———Cornish tales in prose and verse; James R. Netherton, Truro: after 1863 Includes the three above poems.
• Tregenza, Douglas. Departed days—Mousehole revisited (or remembered?); 1984.
• Treneer, Anne. The mercurial chemist: a life of Sir Humphry Davy; Methuen: 1963
• Uny-Lelant Church. St. Uny Lelant; Tempest, Lelant: c1995.
• Vulliamy, C. E. Prehistoric remains in West Penwith; St. Ives: 1921. £10
• Wallis, Nancy [ed.]. St. Buryan through the ages with The history of past times; of occupations; The editor, Penzance:2000. £1 new
• Walters, H. B. A bronze vessel from St. Just in Penwith; Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, London: 1912–13. £3
• Warnes, Rev. F. W. A thousand ages in Thy sight… The parish of St. Gulval-in-Lanisley; The author, Gulval: 1977.
• Watkiss, Reg. Early Photographs of Penzance and Newlyn; Peter Dalwood, Penzance: 1975.
• ———Early photographs: the West Cornwall Peninsula; Celtic Pottery, Newlyn: 1975.
• Weatherhill, Craig. Belerian, ancient sites at Land’s End; Alison Hodge, Penzance: 1981. ISBN 0-906720-01-X & Cornwall Books ISBN 1 871060 32.
• Wesley, Mary & Sayer, Kim. Part of the scenery—A celebration of life in the west country; Bantam: 2001 An autobiography with splendid pictures, some in St. Buryan.
• Wigley, Joyce. Zennor: from material collected by the late Lieutenant Colonel F. C. Hirst; : 1959.
• Williams, Douglas. Mount’s Bay; Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1984. ISBN 0 906456 88 6.
• ———West Cornwall in the Old Days; Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1985. ISBN 0 94815808 5. Photographs
• ———Around Newlyn, Mousehole and Paul; 1988.
• ———& Penhaul, Harry. West Cornwall Camera; Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1990. ISBN 0 9481158 66 2.
• Williams H.W. Some Reminiscences (1838-1918); Penzance: 1918 He was the son of Thomas Williams, who wrote a diary when captured by the French, he eventually become mayor of St. Ives
• Williams, Philip D. St. Just Methodist Church, 1833–1983: 150 years of worship and witness; The Church, St. Just: 1983.
• Wilson, Louise. From Buryan to Bondi - the Dennis Family of West Penwith, Cornwall, and Some Australian Descendants; The Author, Melbourne: 2008. ISBN 9780980447811. Also available from her website.
• Wood, William. The parish of Gulval past and present; The author, Gulval: 1956. £9
• Yglesias, Dorothy. The cry of a bird; William Kimber, London: 1962 The story of the Wild Bird Hospital, Mousehole.
• Young, Fiona (Ed.) Water and wells; Geevor Oral History Project: 2004. Audio CD.
• Young, W. F. J. Mousehole St. Clement’s Methodist church 200^th. anniversary 1784–1984; Church trustees: 1984.
• Zennor Church. St. Senara’s church; Zennor: c2000.
• Zennor Museum. Zennor and the Wayside Folk Museum; St. Ives: c2000
• Various tourist guide books of Penzance and St. Ives of the C20th including.
  • [J. H. H.] Tourist’s guide to Penzance, Land’s End, Logan Rock, St. Michael’s Mount, Kynance Cove, Lizard &c.; Penzance: F. Rodda, Penzance: 1873.
  • A pictorial and descriptive guide to Penzance and West Cornwall including St. Ives, Land’s End and the Isles of Scilly; Ward-Lock: 1906, 1928, 1938, 1952 & 1963. These Ward-Lock Red Guides came with a variety of titles, others are “West Cornwall” and “St. Ives, Carbis Bay and Western Cornwall”
  • Borough of St. Ives Guide; St. Ives: 1926–27, 1949, 1950 (map), 1954, 1957 (map) & 1969
  • Cornwall’s far west—a motorist’s guide; Tor Mark, Truro: c1970?
  • Gurton’s guide to West Penwith; Photoprint, Torquay: 1999. ISSN 1367-2800.
  • Regent Hotel Penzance, Guide book. Penzance:1914. Mostly about Penzance rather than the hotel

I can recommend Ambra Books which has a good selection of books on Cornwall available for sale by post via a monthly catalogue.

For new books about Cornwall, try Just Cornish (in St. Just) or Truran Books for a wide selection.