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$10.00
xxsej180831

Meeting at Potsdam


MEE, CHARLES L.

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Corgi Books 1976

KEYWORDS: military history politics ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii leaders

$10.00
xxsej180833

Commando Extraordinary


FOLEY, CHARLES & LAYCOCK, Maj.-Gen. Sir ROBERT (Fore)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1970

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Otto Skorzeny

$10.00
xxser180837

Last on the List


REID, MILES

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: New English Library 1975

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Miles Reid military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii

$10.00
xxser180839

Taranto


NEWTON, DON & HAMPSHIRE, A. CECIL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: New English Library 1974

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Taranto

$10.00
xxser180840

The Game of the Foxes


FARAGO, LADISLAS

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1974

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii espionage spies nazi intelligence

$50.00
1y99b/33

Ordo Ab Chao: The Original and Complete Rituals of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of 4-33 Degrees


N/A

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, 236pp, Near FINE (sl chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated 2014

KEYWORDS: freemasons freemasonry rites rituals Scottish rite history

$325.00
1y99b/35

A Voyage Around the World: New Zealand


VERNE, JULES

Sm octavo, terracotta textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & boards, aeg, illus title page, vii + 264pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & surface loss to boards, presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing eps & prelims/terminals, light foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge and Sons N/D (c.1880s)

KEYWORDS: exploration travel literature Jules Verne New Zealand Aotearoa culture history

$45.00
1y99b/42

A Few From Afar: Jewish Lives in Tasmania From 1804


ELIAS, PETER & ELIAS, ANN (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxix + 281pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges & spine with some sl peeling, moderate fading to rear cover, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: The Hobart Hebrew Congregation 2005

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian Tasmania Jewis Jews population heritage history communities Van Diemen's Land settlers

$60.00
1y99b/43

One Treaty, One Nation: The Book Every New Zealander Should Read


BARR, HUGH et al

Octavo, green light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, 314pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling/peeling to cover edges, sl soiling & creasing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Tross Publishing 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa treaty of Waitangi politics Maori civil rights land history interpretations

$250.00
1y99b/46

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment


PRINGLE, D. J. C. & GLUE, W. A.

Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims, 631pp, illus, folding maps- all present, VG- (scruffy copy: corner of front board snipped, v heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems- , light soiling to boards, heavy creasing to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, sl creasing to edges of some folding maps, prev. owner's presentation taped in)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa official military history 20 battalion armoured regiment ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii

$75.00
1y99b/49

Magnum Opus or the Great Work of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Facsimile Reprint)


PIKE, ALBERT

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, mixed pagination, VG+ (light chafing & curling to covers, sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing N/D (Facsimile Reprint)

KEYWORDS: freemasonry freemasons history Scottish Albert Pike literature

$45.00
1y99b/55

Scribes, Script and Books: The Book Arts From Antiquity to the Renaissance


AVRIN, LEILA & CARL, MALLA (Illus) & OPHIR, NOAH (Illus)

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY- MINIMAL MARKINGS, quarto, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, red blind stamp illus & gilt rule to front board, frontispiece, xxxii + 356pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl label residue to front board & spine, any library markings erased with black marker pen- minimal)

PUBLISHER: American Library Association / The British Library 1991

KEYWORDS: language linguistics books literature etymology books history evolution bookmaking

$40.00
1y99b/70

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange


HUANG, ALEXANDER C. Y.

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, red & black lettering to spine, illus title page, xi + 350pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: signed Shakespeare China Chinese literary history

$55.00
1y99b/71

Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture


LOEWENSTEIN, DAVID & MARSHALL, JOHN (Eds)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 318pp, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to board extrems, sl soiling & light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: English literature literary criticism history historical heresy politics

$50.00
1y99b/76

English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology


BEVINGTON, DAVID (Ed) & ENGLE, LARS & MAUS, KATHARINE EISAMAN & RASMUSSEN, ERIC

Super octavo, black buckram boards, silver gilt lettering & gilt decoration to spine, printed eps, lx + 1997pp, VG- (v heavy soiling to rear board, terminals & some page edges- otherwise a decent VG+) in d/w, VG- (v heavy soiling to rear covers & flap, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company 2003

KEYWORDS: plays English renaissance drama theatre stage history literary criticism collection anthology

$85.00
1y99c/1

A Visit to Paris in 1814; being a Review of the Moral, Political, Intellectual and Social Condition of the French Capital (Fourth Edition)


SCOTT, JOHN

Octavo, leather quarter bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to title plate on spine, raised bands & gilt rule to spine, red speckling to page edges, lxxv + 343pp, VG (moderate cracking & scuffing to leather on spine, 1cm cracks to hinges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1816

KEYWORDS: travel exploration France Paris culture history

$90.00
1y99c/4

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works


MIDDLETON, THOMAS & TAYLOR, GARY et al (Eds)

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 20166pp, VG (light chafing & creasing/curling to covers, light cracking to some gutters, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: plays theatre history drama stage Thomas Middleton collection anthology literature literary

$245.00
1y99c/5

Tales of the Wars; or, Naval and Military Chronicle: Consisting of Faithful Accounts of Sea and Land Battles, Interspersed With Anecdotes and Biographical Notices of the Most Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders


STAPLETON, R. J.

BINDS ISSUES #106-#157, LAST PAGE IN FACSIMILE TASTEFULLY REBOUND, octavo, quarter leather bound marbled heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, marbled eps, frontispiece, vi + 416pp, illus/engravings, VG (light bruising & chafing to extrems, heavy fading to spine, heavy tanning & discolouration to page edges, age appropriate foxing throughout, some prelims neatly rebound) A very tidy copy

PUBLISHER: G. Berger 1838

KEYWORDS: military history navy naval anecdotes army collection anthology anecdotes tales war

$20.00
xxser180841

The Country of The Ring and the Book


With a Frontispiece in Colur and 106 Illustrations, Maps and Plans

TREVES, SIR FREDERICK

FIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company, Ltd 1913

KEYWORDS: first edition the ring and the book robert browning britain british england english literary criticism culture history literature franceschini

$25.00
xxser180845

Old Stone Age


CELEBONOVIC, STEVAN & GRIGSON, GEOFFREY

Folio hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-, archival repairs to head of spine) ; 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: Phoenix House 1957

KEYWORDS: archaeology early humans cromagnon stone age human history anthropology prehistory prehistoric

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