Books - "history"
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
LACKS FEP, 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: Macdonald & Co 1985
KEYWORDS: history US American jewish communities Jews eastern european
Jesus and His Jewish Parables: Rediscovering the Roots of Jesus' Teaching
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: Paulist Press 1989
KEYWORDS: Christianity religion religious history theology new testament scripture faith Jewish Jews
Studies in Church History, Volume 19: The Church and Healing: Papers Read at the Twentieth Summer Meeting and the Twenty-First Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Basil Blackwell 1982
KEYWORDS: religion religious church history papers healing meetings
The Inner Road (A Legacy of Love)
Ex-library, 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 Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1984
KEYWORDS: Sister Mary Lalor Australia Australian autobiography autobiographies memoir history religion religious
The Story of Quakerism
LACKS D/W, 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: Headley Brothers 1908
KEYWORDS: religion religious history Quakers quakerism George Fox
Texas Cowboys: Memories of the Early Days
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: Texas A&M University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: US American history Texas cowboys customs
Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography
LACKS D/W, ex-library, super octavo hardcover (VG-) pgs 1-4 detached but present; 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: Bruce Publishing Company 1946
KEYWORDS: Saint Teresa of Avila biography biographies memoir history religion religious ficgures
The Pagan Backgoround of Early Christianity
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: University Press of Liverpool / Hodder & Stoughton 1925
KEYWORDS: religion religious history early Christianity pagan origins
Democracy in America Vol II
THIS VOL ONLY, sm octavo softcover (VG-) pencil underlining; 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: Vintage Books 1960
KEYWORDS: Alexis de Tocqueville US America American politics political democracy history
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Sm 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: Meridian Books 1959
KEYWORDS: Alexis de Tocqueville US America American politics political history
Lectures on Art (Third Edition)
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: Oxford University Press 1880
KEYWORDS: John Ruskin lectures art history Hilary term Oxford University lectures
The Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Landscape
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: Hodder and Stoughton 1979
KEYWORDS: English countryside geography history geographical historical Bedfordshire Huntingdonshire
The Second World War (2 Vol Set in Slipcase with Vinyl Record)
2 VOL ILLUS SET IN SLIPCASE WITH VINYL RECORD, sm folio, faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt patterns to front boards, 615pp total, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to spines & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl scuffing to board extrems) in slipcase, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to edges/corners, moderate chafing & soiling) no damage to vinyl record detected
PUBLISHER: Time Life Inc 1959
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill special editions military politics political history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Time Life
The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs: Volume I
THIS VOL ONLY, very tidy ex-library, octavo, midnight blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 299pp, VG+ (v minimal librray markings- none external, light bruising to spine & board extrems, sl foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (1x sm library label to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: ancient martyr literature criticism translations church religion religious history Christianity
The Chinese at Home
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering & blue illus to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece, xii + 306pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing & bruisng to board & spine extrems, light tanning/soiling to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owners' plate & label to front eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, light smatterings of foxing)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes 1906
KEYWORDS: first editions culture China Chinses history customs
The Art of Praxiteles: The Development of Praxiteles' Workshop and its Cultural Tradition Until the Sculptor's Acme (364-1 BC)
Imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 345pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2004
KEYWORDS: ancient art history artefacts sculpture sculptors Praxiteles criticism interpretation appreciation
The Art of Praxiteles II: The Mature Years
Imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 303pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2007
KEYWORDS: ancient art history artefacts sculpture sculptors Praxiteles criticism interpretation appreciation
The History of the Waldenses and Albigenses, who Begun the Reformation in the Vallies of Piedmont and Various Other Places Several Hudred Years Before Luther
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, brown leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine (missing), gilt rule to spine, 322pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to boards & edges, v heavy rubbing to spine with title plate missing, heavy cracking to front hinge- front board still firmly attached but sl delicate, minor cracking to rear hinge, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in blue pencil to front pastedown, moderate tanning to text block- text still very legible)
PUBLISHER: J Higham (Printer) 1793
KEYWORDS: first editions Thomas Taylor literature religion religious reformation waldensian Christianity history historical
The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence December 1761-March 1778 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, vol 1- lxiii + 424pp, vol 2- xxi + 490pp, VG+ (minor rubbing to board edges, sl soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm labels to ffeps, light soiling to spine of vol 2) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spines, sl soiling to spine of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1963
KEYWORDS: history historical letters correspondence Adams family US America American New England
Folk Song in England
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus heavy boards, white & orange lettering to spine, printed eps, xi + 764pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 2017
KEYWORDS: first editions England English history culture music folk songs