PORTER, LINDA

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Portrait 2007

KEYWORDS: mary tudor i tudors monarchy british english crown history royalty philip ii of spain bloody england europe european britain biography

SOLTI, SIR GEORG

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: Chatto & Windus 1997

KEYWORDS: sir georg solti orchestra orchestral classical music director frankfurt opera history memoir autobiography biography

HEIGHTON, STEVEN

First edition. 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: Hamish Hamilton 2005

KEYWORDS: literature boats sailing ship history wreckage north pile

WORSLEY, LUCY

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: Faber & Faber 2007

KEYWORDS: medieval europe literature cavalier william cavendish king charles i court of manege biography history england

SUMMERS, JUDITH

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: Bloomsbury 2006

KEYWORDS: casanova casanova's lovers women womanizer giacomo biography history

LOWRY, PRISCILLA

Very tidy ex-library. Imperial 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: St John's Press 2008

KEYWORDS: silk history of trading legends use textile the road marco polo

PETERSON, PAUL

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: Cumberland House 2007

KEYWORDS: texas william clarke quantrill campaign history american civil war biography

SHELDON, JAMES

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: Batsford 1961

KEYWORDS: vintage motor cycles auto automobiles veteran motorbikes history

IHIMAERA, WITI & ELLIS, NGARINO

Imperial 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: Reed 2002

KEYWORDS: maori art east coast iwi aotearoa new zealand nz te tairawhiti history painting carving

DE-LA-NOY, MICHAEL

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: Peter Owen 1996

KEYWORDS: frederick prince of wales king george ii iii heir to british throne royalty royal history england english

IXION

Second revised impression. 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: Iliffe & Sons 1951

KEYWORDS: motor cycles motorbikes auto history

NELSON, HANK; BOWDEN, TIM

Imperial 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: Australian Broadcasting Commission 1982

KEYWORDS: australian government papua new guinea international relations politics political history australia

CHILDS, JESSICA

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: Jonathan Cape 2006

KEYWORDS: henry howard earl of surrey viii king british royal royalty history britain england english

CONLY, D. G.

EX-LIBRARY, octavo, cream light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to covers, frontispiece, 122pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings & pockets, heavy creasing & closed tearing/chipping to spine, moderate tanning & curling/scuffing to spine & cover edges, light soiling, moderate tanning to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Tablet Printing & Publishing 1951

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin James John Marlow JJ local history

STEWART, Wm. DOWNIE et al [MCLAREN, FERGUS]

Sm octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece, 161pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, light cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping with sl loss to edges, heavy tanning to spine, moderate tanning to covers, prev. owner's name- partially erased- to front cover)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1943

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Fergus Blair McLaren biography memoir Dunedin pioneers history

STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to title plate & black decoration & raised bands to spine, all page edges stained red, marbled eps, frontispiece, illus title page, xxix + 564pp, illus, VG (moderate chafing & scuffing to leather & boards with some light surface loss, light soiling & folding/creasing to page edges & corners, light cracking to gutters, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1868

KEYWORDS: British architecture history Westminster Abbey religious memorials

VISCOUNT CUNNINGHAM of HYNDHOPE

LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 715pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1952

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Admiral Viscount Andrew Brown Cunningham of Hyndhope British navy naval maritime nautical war military history

ALFORD, STEPHEN

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 412pp, illus, Near FINE (sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: British history William Cecil Burghley biography politics government Queen Elizabeth 1st first i court first edition

STEWARD, DICK

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, x + 264pp, illus, Near FINE (boards sl warped) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, sl foxing to internal sides)

PUBLISHER: University of Missouri Press 2000

KEYWORDS: John Smith T biography memoir wild west frontier gunfighters history Missouri Tennessee pioneers

LEGGIERE, MICHAEL V.

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 686pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration/chafing to board edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling, light foxin gto internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: Napoleon Bonaparte history Napoleonic wars downfall defeat France war politics military