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$30.00
xxzfl152857

The Last of a Salty Breed


VAUGHAN, ROY

Imperial octavo hardcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Strategic Book Publishing 2015

KEYWORDS: British ships seamen voyages mariners history

$16.50
xxacg152884

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz


LOMAX, ALAN & STONE MARTIN, DAVID (illus)

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1956

KEYWORDS: music jazz history Jelly Roll New Orleans

$15.00
xxacg152885

We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz


CONDON, EDDIE & SUGRUE, THOMAS

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1956

KEYWORDS: music jazz photography history

$15.00
xxacg152888

The Book of Jazz: A Guide to the Entire Field


FEATHER, LEONARD

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1961

KEYWORDS: jazz music guide history instruments

$15.00
xxadb152890

A Handbook of Jazz


ULANOV, BARRY & AMIS, KINGSLEY (foreword)

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1960

KEYWORDS: music jazz handbook history language

$22.50
xxadb152892

Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence


HODEIR, ANDRE

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1958

KEYWORDS: jazz music history evolution culture

$16.50
xxadc152896

They All Played Ragtime: The True Story of an American Music


BLESH, RUDI & JANIS, HARRIET

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1960

KEYWORDS: music America ragtime history

$16.50
xxadc152899

Jam Session: An Anthology of Jazz


GLEASON, RALPH J. (ed)

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Jazz Book Club 1961

KEYWORDS: music jazz culture history musicians

$50.00
1y62/10

Indo - Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists & Their Tibetan Successors


SNELLGROVE, DAVID

Tidy Ex Library, super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiii+640pp, illus, plates, VG+ (usual library markings, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light scratched to lower page edges) in d/w, VG (usual library markings, light bruising to wrapper edges, 1cm closed tear at rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Serindia Publications 1987

KEYWORDS: history religion spirituality india tibet buddhism

$900.00
1y62/11

Teutonic Mythology Vols I-IV


GRIMM, JACOB & STALLYBRASS, JAMES STEVEN (trans)

4 VOL. SET, IN ORIGINAL BINDING, Ex Library, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative rule to spine, yellow eps, :viii+1887pp+48pp book catalogue at rear in Vol. 1, VG ( age appropriate wear & tear, usual library markings, light chipping to spine extrems & board corners with slight surface loss, some tears to page edges due to page cutting process, Vol 1: 6cm closer tear to front hinge, closed tear across spine, booksellers sticker to pastedown, 2cm closed tear to fep, rear ep has been roughly torn out, Vol. 2: gutter at pp582 completely cracked but binding still sound, pp853/4 detacthed but present and loosely enclosed, rear ep missing, Vol. 3: 5cm closed tear to rear hinge, gutter cracked at pp978/9 but binding sound, Vol. 4: 1cm hole to front hinge, 2 small holes to rear hinge)

PUBLISHER: George Bell & Sons 1882

KEYWORDS: grimm mythology german norse folklore culture history religion

$70.00
1y62/16

Nature, Virtue, and the Boundaries of Encyclopaedic Knowledge: The Tropological Universe of Alexander Neckam (1157-1217)


ZAHORA, TOMAS

Super octavo, illus heavy card boards, yellow & white lettering to boards & spine, motif of dragon to front board with smaller illus of same dragon, 285pp, Near FINE ( v. slight rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Brepolis 2014

KEYWORDS: history europa sacra religion europe medieval encyclopedia theory

$9.50
xxaea152905

At War with the Bolsheviks


JACKSON, ROBERT

Paperback (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Universal Tandem 1974

KEYWORDS: Military history Russia Bolshevik 1917

$18.50
xxaea152908

Rifles: Six Year with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters


URBAN, MARK

FIRST EDITION, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2003

KEYWORDS: Military history Wellington Sharpshooter 95th rifles 1811

$16.50
xxaeb152909

After the Victorians 1900 - 1953


WILSON, A.N.

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 2005

KEYWORDS: British history society spirit of age post Victorian

$27.50
xxaeb152912

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s


GITLER, IRA

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: Jazz music history swing bop

$15.00
xxaeg152929

London


GOMME, SIR LAURENCE

Super octavo hardcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Williams and Norgate 1914

KEYWORDS: London history origins commerce growth

$14.00
xxafc152942

1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow


ZAMOYSKI, ADAM

Super 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial 2005

KEYWORDS: 1812 Napoleon Russia Moscow military history

$10.00
xxafg152949

Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck


KENNEDY, LUDOVIC

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Book Club Assoc 1975

KEYWORDS: Bismarck Hood naval battle WW2 history Ark Royal

$14.00
xxagaa152958

Warships of World War 1


le FLEMING, H.M.

Octavo hardcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1967

KEYWORDS: Warships WW1 specs naval history

$15.00
xxagb152968

Southampton Murder Victims


BROWN, JIM

Tidy ex library, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Derby Books Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: true crime murder Southlampton history investigation photography

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