Books - "history"
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The Last of a Salty Breed
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
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz
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
We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz
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
The Book of Jazz: A Guide to the Entire Field
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
A Handbook of Jazz
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
Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence
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
They All Played Ragtime: The True Story of an American Music
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
Jam Session: An Anthology of Jazz
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
Indo - Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists & Their Tibetan Successors
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
Teutonic Mythology Vols I-IV
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
Nature, Virtue, and the Boundaries of Encyclopaedic Knowledge: The Tropological Universe of Alexander Neckam (1157-1217)
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
At War with the Bolsheviks
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
Rifles: Six Year with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters
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
After the Victorians 1900 - 1953
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
Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
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
London
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
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
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
Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck
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
Warships of World War 1
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
Southampton Murder Victims
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