Books - "history"
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The History of Preston North End Football Club: The Power, the Politics and the People
Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 303pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: PNE Publications 2000
KEYWORDS: English soccer football Preston North End fc pne sport history
A Time of Transition: Whakarongo School District Twelve Decades On
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, vi + 118pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing, curling, tanning & soiling to spine & covers, heavy crack to gutter of pgs 2-3 with some pgs loose but still attached)
PUBLISHER: Whakarongo School & District 120th Jubilee Committee 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand education school history Whakarongo 120th jubilee
Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present
Revised and Updated
Rounded quarto 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: Black Dog & Leventhal 2011
KEYWORDS: america american baseball field parks fields stadiums ballpark ballparks history sport sports major minor negro league leagues
Christ's College Canterbury: A Record of the Centenary 1950
Octavo stapled wrappers (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: Christ's College Canterbury 1950
KEYWORDS: christ's college canterbury centenary education history new zealand
Spoon
Oblong super octavo softcover (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: Phaidon 2004
KEYWORDS: phaidon design industrial product commercial visual culture history products
Richard Pearse and his Flying Machines: An Anthology of Research Notes, Essays and Ideas
Oblong 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: Geoff Rodliffe 2007
KEYWORDS: richard pearse flying machine machines design new zealand aviation aeroplane airplane aeronautics history technology air travel
Art as Existence: The Artist's Monograph and Its Project
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to silver buckram spine, xiii + 378pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl creasing to eps)
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2006
KEYWORDS: first editions art criticism authorship history artists biographies philosophy
Suppressed Murder of Wyatt Earp
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xix + 135pp, illus/photos, VG (spine cocked, light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to top spine edge & rear board, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with archival tape repairs to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate damp wrinkling to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Naylor Company 1967
KEYWORDS: first editions wild west Wyatt Earp crime US American America history justice biography
Arizona's Dark and Bloody Ground: An Authentic Account of the Sanguinary Pleasant Valley Vendetta That Swept Through Arizona's Cattleland in the Latter Eighteen-eighties - the Graham-Tewksbury Feud
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 224pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate chafing & surface loss to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges, 2x10cm block removed from ffep, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping with tape repairs to edges, moderate tanning & soiling, price clipped, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Andrew Melrose 1953
KEYWORDS: first editions Graham Tewksbury feud Arizona US America American history Pleasant Valley
New Zealand in the Pacific War: Personal Accounts of World War II
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, x + 233pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company 2008
KEYWORDS: signed Bruce M Petty New Zealand military history anecdotes accounts ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii
Story and Space in Renaissance Art: The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative
FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF ART CRITIC FRANCIS POUND, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 188pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl warped front board, light foxing to page edges, occasional annotation in pencil) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: first editions art history renaissance criticism appreciation philosophy Italian narrative perspective
Paddy: The Life and Times of Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp: An Autobiography
Octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, 2cm open tear to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light tanning & fading)
PUBLISHER: Howard Baker Press 1987
KEYWORDS: military history Wing Commander Patrick Barthropp autobiography memoir Battle of Britain fighter pilots raf royal air force British armed forces
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 486pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with discreet reapirs, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, lower corner of front flap torn out)
PUBLISHER: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers 1976
KEYWORDS: first editions General Custer Crazy Horse US America American history Little Bighorn 7th Cavalry
Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names
Super octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 331pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: art titles naming names history reading interpretation paintings artists
Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance
SOME PENCIL ANNOTATION BY ART CRITIC FRANCIS POUND, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 624pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing & curling to spine & covers with some minor soiling, light fading to spine, light to moderate soiling to page edges, occasional cracking to gutters, aforementioned pencil annotations)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: art history criticism portrait painting psychology self-portraits Rembrandt
Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 495pp, illus, Near FINE (occasional sm pencil annotations) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Zone Books 2004
KEYWORDS: art history philosophy visual arts criticism appreciation
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence: Britain's Great Ruling Classes Since 1066
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: Little, Brown 2009
KEYWORDS: British aristocracy history ruling classes social customs bourgeoisie bourgeois
Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story
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: Portobello 2011
KEYWORDS: dance tango history hobbies entertainment
William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584
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 2001
KEYWORDS: military history Netherlands William the Silent of Nassau Prince of Orange biographies memoir revolution dutch leaders
Crucified Heroes: The Films of Sam Peckinpah
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: Gordon Fraser Gallery 1979
KEYWORDS: film history filmography Sam Peckinpah films movies Hollywood criticism