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$9.50
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Adolf Hitler: The Man and the Myth


MANVELL, ROGER & FRAENKEL, HEINRICH

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Panther/Granada 1978

KEYWORDS: history biography memoir Adolf Hitler politics military history third reich nazism Germany

$22.50
xxpci130156

The Development of Piston Aero Engines: From the Wrights to Microlights: A Century of Evolution and Still a Power to be Reckoned With


GUNSTON, BILL

Ex-library, some highlighting & annotation, 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1994

KEYWORDS: aviation history evolution air planes transport engines engineering history

$48.50
2i42/10

Birds, Beasts & Fishes: THe First Hundred Years of the North Canturbury Acclimatisation Society


LAMB, R. C.

Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to soine, frontispiece, 184pp, illus plates, VG+ ( Light tanning to upper page edges, previous overners name & ink stamp to fep) in d/w VG- ( light fading to spine, tape repair to upper spine extrems, light soiling & rubbing)

PUBLISHER: North Canturbury Acclimatisation Society 1964

KEYWORDS: Acclimatisation Society New Zealand history social history canturbury biology zoology

$45.00
2i46/27

Original Rolls-Royce and Bently 1946-65


TAYLOR, JAMES

significant highlighting, Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, 160pp, illus, VG+ (ligth foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Bay View Books 1999

KEYWORDS: cars automobiles history Rolls royce bently history

$12.00
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Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children From Britain


MANN, JESSICA

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: Headline 2006

KEYWORDS: history ww2 second world war military evacuation social history

$30.00
xxpkk136209

A Brief History of Henderson Creek


COPEDO, BEN

Octavo, stapled light card covers (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: West Auckland Historical Society 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Henderson Creek culture social history

$16.50
xxplj136903

The Retreat from Mons: By One who Shared it.


CORBETT - SMITH, A.

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 1917

KEYWORDS: war airforce military history aviation ww1 wwI world war one Britan UK history

$16.50
xxplj136928

Churchill Roosevelt Stalin: the War they Waged and the Peace they Sought


FEIS. HERBERT

super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy, some foxing): 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: Princetown University Press 1957

KEYWORDS: history WWII Yalta war peace settlement grand alliance post-war Europe military history Winston Churchill Theodore Roosevelt Joseph Stalin

$10.00
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The Lives of the English Rakes


LINNANE, FERGUS

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Portrait 2006

KEYWORDS: History England social history Rochester Buckingham rakes

$10.00
xxqbe141626

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Records Office


SINCLAIR, CECIL

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Stationary Office 1997

KEYWORDS: geneology family history scotland history ancestry

$50.00
1w50/40

The Astronauts: Pioneers in Space


COOPER, L. GORDON

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 111pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light soiling, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1961

KEYWORDS: Astronauts history Space flight project Mercury history NASA

$18.50
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Illustrated London


ACKROYD, PETER

Quarto 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus 2003

KEYWORDS: Uk History London pictorial history

$20.00
xxqcj142991

The Little World of Stewart Island


DEMPSEY, GERTRUDE

Signed 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: A.H & A.W.Reed 1964

KEYWORDS: Biography history natural history Stewart Island New Zealand

$100.00
1u38/25

A History of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment (the Duke of York's Own) 1685-1914


JONES, ROBERT J. & SPRINGHALL, BRIGADIER R.J.

Imperial octavo, deep maroon cloth boards, copper lettering to spine, copper decoration to front cover, illus, 575pp, VG (minor bruising to spine extrems and board corners, minor foxing on a few pages and page edge, light tanning to eps, very sound)

PUBLISHER: 1958

KEYWORDS: history militia military England Great Britain Yorkshire uniform equipment campaigns history statistics officers

$125.00
1u38/26

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, 1928-1956: wIth Folding Maps (rear pocket)


UNDERHILL, BRIGADIER, W. E.

imperial octavo, folding maps in rear pocket (in very good condition), green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, frontispiece, illus, photographic plates, ix + 277pp, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems, slight bruising and rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Underhill 1957

KEYWORDS: history militia military England Great Britain Leicestershire uniform equipment Italy Singapore Palestine Tobruk Norway Greece Burma campaigns history statistics officers

$20.00
xxqek144677

The Nazi Terror: Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans


JOHNSON, ERIC

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: John Murray 2000

KEYWORDS: History Nazis social history Third Reich Hitler

$20.00
xxqfe145031

A Guide to the Sources of British Military History


HIGHAM, ROBIN (ed)

Imperial 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 cost

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1971

KEYWORDS: History reference sources guide military history

$14.00
xxqfl145413

The Golden Age: Myths and Legends Series


BULLFINCH, THOMAS

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Bracken Books 1986

KEYWORDS: art history mythology ancient history illustrated

$60.00
1y12/29

Costume and Fashion, Volume Three: the Tudors, Book 2: 1547-1603


NORRIS, HERBERT

Small quarto, deep purple cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine with gilt & red illustration on spine & front cover; frontispiece, pages numbered 385-832: 447pp, illus, a little scruffy but sound (mod. rubbing, soiling and insect damage to covers; edges mod. bruised with sl. surface loss on spine extrems; mod. tanning with sl. foxing to eps & page edges; slightly cocked) in d/w scruffy (bruising, rubbing, soiling & insect damage; edges worn with small open tears; 70x50cm open tear on spine, dampstaining inside)

PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1938 (?)

KEYWORDS: history costume fashion manufacture sewing England History Tudor Tudors fabrics material

$100.00
1y27/20

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Vol 1- The Birth of Britain: Vol 2- The New World: Vol 3- The Age of Revolution: Vol 4- The Great Democracies


CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.

4 VOLUME SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top of page edges stained red, xi-xxi + 322pp-416pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems and board edges with sl surface loss, light foxing to page edges and prelims, slight foxing to pages throughout all vols) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing and chipping and occasional tears to covers- severe to vol 1, archival tape repairs to edges of vols 1, 7cm closed tear to cover of vol 2, moderate foxing & tanning to all covers)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1956-1958

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill history Great Britiain illustrated literature culture language grammar syntax pre-history

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