Books - "history"
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George Moore: Confessions of a Young Man
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: McGill-Queens's University Press 1972
KEYWORDS: biography George Moore writer history
Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Abacus 1997
KEYWORDS: travel history
Memoirs of the Mato Grosso, Brazil
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Strugglers' Community Press 1989
KEYWORDS: Travel history
The High Lands of Britain
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Richards Press 1948
KEYWORDS: history Britain
Portrait of Peakland
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1963
KEYWORDS: history England
Henry Morse
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Catholic Books Club (n/d)
KEYWORDS: biography religion history
Whatever Happened at Fairfields?
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Gower Press 1969
KEYWORDS: Shipbuilding industry Scotland Glasgow history
A Small Place in Italy
Super Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 1994
KEYWORDS: history Italy Tuscany
Pitt the Younger
Imperial Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974
KEYWORDS: history Britain Prime Ministers
The RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces: Their Origins, Roles and Deployment 1946-1969: A Documentary History
Super Octavo, dark blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, light blue eps, frontispiece, xiv + 653pp, illus + folding table, Nr Fine in d/w, VG+ (covered in clear contact)
PUBLISHER: HMSO 1995
KEYWORDS: RAF Nuclear deterrent forces military history Royal air force aviation
The Voice of the Machines: An Introduction to the Twentieth Century
First Edition, octavo, light blue heavy card boards with gilt letteing to front board and spine, 190pp, VG- (moderately heavy staining and browning to spine, moderate foxing and light staining to boards, small dint to front board, scuffing to board edges, light foxing to eps and page edges, dent to pages 81 to 101, 4cm closed tear to page 101, light tanning to page edges, publishing date in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: The Mount Tom Press 1906
KEYWORDS: transport history railways locomotions trains
Malta: The Hurricane Years 1940-41
First Edition, black faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, folding map, xiii + 457pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG (two heavy creases to front flap, slight discolouration to edges, covered in clear contact)
PUBLISHER: Grub Street 1987
KEYWORDS: second world war 2 ww2 aviation military history Malta
Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism
First edition, super octavo, black heavy card boards with lettering to boards & spine, xii + 263pp, Nr Fine (slight scuffing to board edges)
PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 1992
KEYWORDS: history Merleau-Ponty Hermeneutics Postmodernism philosophy
Mana from Heaven: A Century of Maori Prophets in New Zealand
Ownership of Stuart Pack, anthropologist and former director of Auckland War Memorial Museum; Super octavo, patterned light card covers with black lettering to cards and spine, xix + 378pp, VG+ (very light soiling and foxing to page edges, covered in clear contact causing very light bubbling to card edges)
PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history prophets Maori religion bible
A Case History: The Hawke's Bay Hospital Board 1876-1989
Imperial octavo, heavy purple card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, purple eps, frontispiece, x + 308pp, illus, Nr Fine (slight scuffing board & spine edges)
PUBLISHER: Hawke's Bay Area Health Board 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Hawkes Bay
A Scheme of Egyptian Chronology with Notes Thereon Including Notes in Cretan and Other Chronologies
First edition, Imperial octavo, dark blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xii + 405pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in heavy pencil to front pastedown, moderate bruising to board edges, 1.5cm closed tear to top of spine, light fraying to spine edges, moderate tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Luzac & Co. 1932
KEYWORDS: ancient history egypt egyptology Egyptian Chronology Cretan
Golden Goliath
First limited signed edition, scarce thus, colour cover art is a tipped in page in front of book, brown cloth boards with dark brwon lettering to spine, illus title page, 45pp, illus, VG (light foxing to page edges, owner's ex-libris label to front pastedown, bookseller's label to front pastedown, light tannning to eps, small stamp and no. in ink to lower rear pastedown, small stain to page 8)
PUBLISHER: The Hawthorn Press 1946
KEYWORDS: Edward Hammond Hargraves Gold mining discoveries New South Wales History Australia Gold discoveries signed
Memoirs of Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and 1813, with Observations on the Country and the People, In Three Volumes
3 volume set in slipcase, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & red panel to spine, dark green eps, xix + lxxxix + 316pp (vol I), 358pp (vol II), viii + 302pp (vol III), NR FINE in slipcase, VG+ (slight rubbing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: Captain Golownin Japan POW prisoner of war military history memoir autobiography
Aviation in Leicestershire and Rutland
Quarto, green heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, yellow eps, illus title page, 392pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (covered in clear contact)
PUBLISHER: Midland Publishing 2001
KEYWORDS: aviation Leicestershire Rutland World War Two WW2 RAF Royal Air Force history
An Escaper's Log
First edition fourth printing, octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 306pp + 4pp ads, illus, VG (light chaffing & slight saining to boards, owner's inscription to f.e.p., owner's name & bookseller's label to front pastedown, light tanning to eps & page edges)
PUBLISHER: John Lane The Bodley Head 1940
KEYWORDS: Duncan Grinnell-Milne POW prisoner of war prison escape Germany autobiography memoir first world war 1 ww1 military history