VILLIERS, ALAN

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy/tatty) heavy cracks to some gutters; 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1952

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Cape Horn exploration

HARGREAVES, RAY et al

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: Centennial Committee, Selwyn Board of Governors 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand schools education Selwyn College centenary centennial history

POLLARD, ELIZA F.

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: S. W. Partridge & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: Florence Nightingale military history Crimea Crimean War medical nurses biographies memoir

FAWCETT, Mrs HENRY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1889

KEYWORDS: history historical biographies women leaders lierature

HAMILL, DESMOND

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: BCA 1985

KEYWORDS: Northern Ireland British forces army modern history 20th twentieth century politics political conflict

SHIRER, WILLIAM L.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); 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: W. H. Allen 1963

KEYWORDS: military history German navy naval warships Bismarck sea warfare maritime ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii

STOCKMAN, ROCKY

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: Headline 1993

KEYWORDS: true crime justice executions hanging law capital punishment history historical

FERGUSON, GREGOR & LYLES, KEVIN (Colour Plates)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing 1984

KEYWORDS: history military training para paras paratroopers Parachute Regiment soldiers airborne forces British armed forces

REYNOLDS, QUENTIN

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: Cassell & Co 1958

KEYWORDS: aerial warfare combat military aviation history the great war ww1 first 1st world war 1 one i

BROWNLEE, MARINA SCORDILIS

Very 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: Princeton University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: classical literature Ovid literature history historical literary criticism appreciation

ARTHUR, MAX

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: BCA 1985

KEYWORDS: military history Falklands war Falkland Islands British soldiers anecdotes

BELL, CATHERINE

Super octavo softcover (VG+) some highlighting to text; 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 1997

KEYWORDS: religion rituals culture theory history

TAYLOR, A. J. P.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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 / Readers Union 1967

KEYWORDS: England English history early 20th twentieth century war military

HANSON, ELISABETH

Scruffy ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); 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: Secker & Warburg / Chatto & Windus 1959

KEYWORDS: Jean Arthur Rimbaud literary biographies memoir history

STRAWSON, JOHN

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: B. T. Batsford 1969

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

CZARRA, FRED

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: Reaktion Books 2009

KEYWORDS: spice spices trade history plants botany culture

DRAKE, Sir FRANCIS & DAMPIER, WILLIAM & PURVES, D. LAING (Ed & Notes)

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration/illus to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 288pp + 16pp catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling/discolouration to spine & boards, moderate soiling & tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell 1884

KEYWORDS: exploration history maritime Sir Francis Drake William Dampier sailing adventure famous voyages

KEAR, JAMES A. (Annotated by)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, beige light card covers, blue lettering to covers, frontispiece, 61pp, illus, VG- (heavy chipping/closed tearing & loss to spine & covers with moderate tanning also, moderate tanning to page edges, spine v delicate)

PUBLISHER: J. A. Kear Jr 1910

KEYWORDS: first editions draughts games hobbies tactics strategy London championship games history

N/A

Octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & title plate, hand-typed index to front, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, pencil annotation to ffep)

PUBLISHER: M. D. Teetzel 1925-26

KEYWORDS: American checker monthly past issues games hobbies checkers draughts history

NESBIT, MOLLY

Octavo, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, 127pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to spine, sl bruising & scuffing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Periscope Publishing 2013

KEYWORDS: art history philosophy pragmatism literature