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$25.00
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Thomas Telford's Aqueduct's on the Stropshire Union Canal


QUENBY, RON

Signed by author. 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: Swan-Hill Press 1992

KEYWORDS: aqueducts infrastructure canal canals united kingdom engineering thomas telford history

$17.50
xxknd179850

Speeches to the Party


CANNON, JAMES P.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Pathfinder 1973

KEYWORDS: socialism socialist history politics radicalizing socialist workers party american memoir

$15.00
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Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru


BLANCO, HUGO

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: Pathfinder 1972

KEYWORDS: peru peruvian history peasant struggle working class politics revolution latin american america hugo blanco

$24.50
xxknd179852

Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy


BEILHARZ, PETER

Underlining. 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: Routledge 1992

KEYWORDS: bolshevism fabianism social democracy socialism politics labour history left wing utopias

$25.00
xxknd179856

Time, Space and the Market


BROWN, STEPHEN & SHERRY, JOHN F. [JR]

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 costs

PUBLISHER: M. E. Sharpe 2003

KEYWORDS: politics economics time space the market retail stores history advertising

$18.50
xxknd179858

Fidel Castro Speeches: Cuba's Internationalist Foreign Policy 1975-80


CASTRO, FIDEL

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Pathfinder 1981

KEYWORDS: fidel castro speeches political politics south american latin america cuba cuban revolution communism communist socialist history foreign policy

$25.00
xxknd179859

Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines


BROAD, ROBIN & CAVANACH, JOHN; EHRENREICH, BARBARA (forew.)

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 costs

PUBLISHER: California 1993

KEYWORDS: environmentalism the environment the philippines politics history environmental resources

$35.00
xxknd179861

The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329


WEIS, RENE

First uk edition. 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: Knopf 2001

KEYWORDS: cathars medieval history europe european french france the inquisition christianity christian religious religion persecution

$70.00
1y92a/37

The Secret Police in Lenin's Russia


GERSON, LENNARD D.

Octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 332pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps, sl crack to front gutter) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/sm closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling, light tanning to edges)

PUBLISHER: Temple University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history soviet secret police VCheka Lenin

$80.00
1y92a/43

The Peenemunde Wind Tunnels: A Memoir


WEGENER, PETER P.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, x + 187pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w & removable protective cover, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: first edition Peter P Wegener autobiography memoir supersonic wind tunnels Peenemunde ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 history aerodynamics science

$65.00
1y92a/45

Abyssinia on the Eve


FARAGO, LADISLAS

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 286pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate scuffing to extrems & spine, light fading to spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking & soiling to some gutters throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling, moderate creasing to spine & flaps)

PUBLISHER: Putnam 1935

KEYWORDS: Africa uncolonised Abyssinia independence history Ladislas Farago

$80.00
1y92a/47

Magic and Ritual in Tibet: The Cult of Tara


BEYER, STEPHAN

FIRST INDIAN EDITION, super octavo, mustard cloth boards, red gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 542pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising & discolouration to extems, light soiling to boards, light foxing z7 moderate tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading, chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Motilal Banarsidass 1988

KEYWORDS: first Indian edition religion spirituality Tibet Tibetan Tara ancient history anthropology antiquity

$100.00
1y92a/50

L'Auberge de Secheron: Au Temps des Princesses et des Berlines


CHAPUISAT, EDOUARD

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#370/800), TEXT IN FRENCH, quarto, cream textured heavy boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, illus plate to front board, frontispiece, viii + 181pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate foxing to spine & boards, light tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Editions du 'Journal de Geneve' 1934

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH secheron inn princesses sedans history

$45.00
1y96a/1

Datus: A Chronology of New Zealand From the Time of the Moa


FINN, GEORGE

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, red buackram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt moa illus to front board, deckled lower page edges, frontispiece, 221pp, illus/photos, VG- (prev. owner's clear tape repairs to spine, light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy fading to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: National Printing Co. 1932

KEYWORDS: signed George Finn New Zealand Aotearoa history anthropology settlers pioneers moa

$75.00
1y96a/5gc

Fun & Fantasy: A Book of Drawings


SHEPARD, ERNEST H. & MILNE, A. A. (Intro)

FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, 87pp, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy warping & bruising to extrems, moderate foxing & tanning to lower board edges, light water staining to lower edge of rear board, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping to edges with tidy archival tape repairs, moderate foxing, heavy tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co/Punch 1927

KEYWORDS: first edition Punch drawings comic strips history humour humor

$85.00
1y96a/9

The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy


BOORMAN, SCOTT A.

SCARCE! Octavo, illus light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, 242pp, illus/maps, VG- (moderate scuffing & curling to covers, heavy fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, light to moderate foxing to page edges, annotations in ink to inside front cover, occasional underlining to text)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: social political science politics revolution Mao Maoist philosophy wei-ch'i communism geopolitics 20th century twentieth history

$55.00
1y96a/10

The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade


GUY, JOHN (Ed)

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, light brown lettering to spine, xiv + 313pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: British royal family history Elizabethan queens Elizabeth 1st first i politics the virgin queen political culture court

$95.00
1y96a/14

Into the Frozen South


MARR, SCOUT

Octavo, grey buckram boards, dark green lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 246pp, illus/photos, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy soiling/staining to rear board, moderate soiling & discolouration to spine & front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, light cracking to some gutters, light to moderate foxing to pages, moderate soiling to index at rear)

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1923

KEYWORDS: quest expedition exploration travel literature history Scout Marr south

$50.00
1y96a/17

A Very Gallant Gentleman


BERNACCHI, L. C.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, purple buckram boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 240pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters, item between pgs 10-11 missing)

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1933

KEYWORDS: first edition biography memoir L E G Oates military history

$45.00
1y96a/21

Memoirs of a Slave-Trader


CANOT, THEODORE & MAYER, BRANTZ & LAWRENCE, A. W. (Eds)

Octavo, yellow buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 248pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: George Newnes N/D

KEYWORDS: Theodore Canot autobiography memoir slavery slave trade history traders

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