Books - "history"
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The Scott-Sefton Collection: Elgin's History Through a Photographer's Lens - Volume 1
Oblong quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, viii + 200pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling to spine & covers, light tanning to page edges, gift inscription in ink to inside front cover, sl cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Elgin County Library 2001
KEYWORDS: photography photos Scott Sefton collection Elgin history
Cardini: The Suave Deceiver
Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 571pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to boards & spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Miracle Factory 2007
KEYWORDS: Cardini biography memoir magic stage magicians illusion illusionists history sleight of hand
The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History From 1000 to 1810
Imperial octavo, green light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xvi + 533pp, illus, VG+ (sl curling & soiling to front cover, moderate denting & soiling to rear cover, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2004
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings architectural history theory
Check to Your King: The Life of Charles, Baron de Thierry, King of Nukahiva, Sovereign Chief of New Zealand
FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, octavo, purple buckram boards, gilt + rule to spine, gilt decoration + blind stamp to front board, xii + 288pp + 47pp adverts, VG (light bruising to spine + extrems, two 1.5cm spots of discolouration/bleaching to spine, light foxing + mild tanning to page edges, mild browning to eps) in d/w VG- (2cm chips to head/foot of spine, 2 cm hole mid-spine, moderate bruising/creasing to extrems w/ surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. undated [c. 1936]
KEYWORDS: charles baron de thierry king nukahiva hokianga new zealand history cololisation colonialism settler france french biography historical narrative
Te Puea: A Biography
SIGNED & DATED, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 331pp, maps/photos, VG (mild bruising to foot of spine, moderate foxing/mild browning to page edges, mild discolouration to eps, mild foxing to photographic plates), in d/w, VG- (heavy bruising/creasing to extrems w/ 1cm chip to front at head of spine, mild bleaching to spine, rubbing, light foxing to reverse)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1977
KEYWORDS: te puea herangi biography signed new zealand history maori king movement waikato turangawaewae pa pacifism pacifist michael king
The Early Churches of Rome
Quarto, dark brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & gilt rule to spine, 253pp, illus/photo, VG (light bruising to spine, flecks of minor discolouration/soiling to boards, moderately heavy foxing + moderate staining to page edges, light foxing to eps, previous owner's name in pen to fep) in d/w, VG- (slight discolouration, moderately heavy creasing/cracking to extrems w/ archival tape repair at head of spine, light soiling + foxing to reverse
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1960
KEYWORDS: rome churches roman architecture art history catholic catholicism italy italian
A Series of 12 early Australian Prints illustrating the first 50 years of Australia's History
ALL PLATES PRESENT, NUMBER 382 OF A LIMITED RUN OF 2500; Printed/illus quarto envelope containing 12 lovely colour prints in individual tissue guards printed w/ information about each. Envelope: VG (isolated spots of foxing, some scuffing to edges & outside surfaces w/ some surface loss, mild discolouration at folds, patch of moderate discolouration to reverse of flap, includes loosely enclosed errata ); Plates: Near Fine
PUBLISHER: The National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), undated
KEYWORDS: australia australian history national trust prints limited edition
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2013
KEYWORDS: politics war history ww1 first 1st world war 1 one Europe the great war
Africa Betrayed
Octavo softcover (VG+) moderate crease/fold to rear cover; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 1992
KEYWORDS: Africa politics history neo-colonialism economics colonialism tyranny
Watergate: The View From the Left
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Pathfinder Press 1973
KEYWORDS: watergate politics US America American Nixon white house scandals history
Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: biography Ishi Alfred Koeber memoir anthropology US America American history
The Thirties: An Intimate History
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: HarperPress 2010
KEYWORDS: thirties 30s history early 20th twentieth century Juliet Gardiner
Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes From Past Times
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Michael O'Mara Books 2012
KEYWORDS: children's nursery rhymes literary history literature collection criticism Karen Dolby
Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2002
KEYWORDS: New Zealand women communities community history anthropology religion gender
The Courtesans: The Demi-monde in Nineteenth-Century France
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2000
KEYWORDS: France French history courtesans la garde biographies
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: HarperPress 2012
KEYWORDS: John Major autobiography history British music halls entertainment stage performers Tom
The Victorians
Octavo softcover (VG+) some tanning to page edges; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: BBC Books 2010
KEYWORDS: Jeremy Paxman Victorian Britain history victorians culture British
Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families From the Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Verso 1995
KEYWORDS: social science sociology industrial revolution families history labour labor capitalism work force
Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books 2009
KEYWORDS: ww2 2nd second world war two 2 biographies anecdotes men returning history women servicemen
Empire
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2012
KEYWORDS: British empire history Jeremy Paxman