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$500.00
1y83a/60

Young England, Volume I & II 1862-3 (Bound as One Volume)


TWEEDIE, Mr W c/o (Preface)

FIRST EDITION - VERY SCARCE! Imperial octavo, green textured heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to boards, illus title page, 376pp total, illus, VG (heavy bruising/scuffing to spine extrems- light loss to top edge, light scuffing & bruising to board extrems, light chafing & soiling, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light staining to eps, prev,. owner's name in ink to ffep, historic gift inscription in ink to title page of vol 1, varying degrees of foxing & soiling throughout- mostly light & age appropriate, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor insect damage to top corners of rear pages)

PUBLISHER: W Tweedie 1867

KEYWORDS: young England publications literature past years volumes one i 1 two ii 2 history

$245.00
1y83a/62

Historical Records of the Forty-Third Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry


LEVINGE, Sir RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military insignia & blind rule to boards, frontispiece, 352pp, G+ (heavy scuffing & frayi245ng/surface loss to spine & board extrems, heavy cracking to spine/board hinges, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- binding detached at front but still attached at rear, heavy cracking to gutters throughout- some page segments partially detached, various historic inscriptions to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: W Clowes & Sons 1868

KEYWORDS: military history 43rd forty third regiment Monmouthshire light infantry signed

$300.00
1y83a/68

The History of Freemasonry: Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs etc (6 Vol Set)


GOULD, ROBERT FREKE

6 VOL SET, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & coloured decoration to spine & front board, frontis with tissue guards to all vols, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing/rubbing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps plus prelims/terminals also, light to moderate cracking to some gutters- boards of some vols sl shaky, occasional light foxing throughout, minor creasing to prelims of vol 5),

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Publishing N/D

KEYWORDS: freemasons freemasonry masonic secret societies history rites rituals antiquity symbolism fraternities

$120.00
1y91a/7

A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum - Anglo-Saxon Series (2 Vol Set)


KEARY, CHARLES FRANCIS & GRUEBER, HERBERT A & POOLE, REGINALD STUART (Ed)

2 VOL SET, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vol 1- xciv + 282pp + illus to rear, vol 2- cxxvi + 544pp + illus to rear, folding map to rear of vol 2, VG+ (light soiling & chafing to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing to folding map) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges with light chipping also, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm labels to front flaps)

PUBLISHER: B A Seaby 1970

KEYWORDS: British museum collections English coins currency money history anglo-saxon catalogues

$45.00
1y91a/8

The Pour le Merite and Germany's First Aces


ANGOLIA, LTC (Ret) JOHN R & HACKNEY Jr, CLINT R

Super octavo, black faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional creasing to page corners) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/scuffing to edges, moderate chafing)

PUBLISHER: Hackney Publishing Co 1984

KEYWORDS: military history German Germany war medals recipients pour le merite luftwaffe fighter pilots blue max

$240.00
1y91a/9

Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920 (With Supplement Volume)


SHORES, CHRISTOPHER & FRANKS, NORMAN & GUEST, RUSSELL

INCLUDES SUPPLEMENT VOLUME, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#10/100) SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ACES, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to blue leather effect spine, 392pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing) with VG+ 62 page supplement volume

PUBLISHER: Grub Street 1990

KEYWORDS: military aviation history raf British armed forces royal air force pilots fighter aces early 20th twentieth century ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war signed soldiers

$125.00
1y91a/10

The Great War, 1914-1918: New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Roll of Honour


N/A

FACSIMILE REPRINT, super octavo, black leather effect boards, gilt lettering to front board only, frontispiece, xviii + 358pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: None Stated (Modern Facsimile Reprint)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history ww1 first ist world war one i 1 the great war soldiers expeditionary force roll of honour soldiers

$40.00
1y91a/11

The Great Initiates: A Study of the Secret History of Religions


SCHURE, EDOUARD & RASBERRY, GLORIA (Trans) & ALLEN, PAUL M (Intro)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 526pp, VG- (light to moderate brusiing & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate damp staining & warping to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters, moderate damp wrinkling to second half o fpage block)

PUBLISHER: St George Books 1961

KEYWORDS: religion religious history Rama Krishna Hermes Moses Orpheus Pythagoras Plato Jesus world religions theology antiquity

$460.00
1y91a/12

Thirty Years of Colonial Government: A Selection From the Despatches and Letters of the Rt Hon. Sir George Ferguson Bowen (2 Vol Set)


BOWEN, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON & LANE-POOLE, STANLEY (Ed)

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITIONS, octavo blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard to vol 1, vol 1- viii + 460pp with catalogue to rear, vol 2- viii + 467pp, VG- (moderate chipping & bruising to spine extrems, moderate chafing & rubbing/surface loss to boards & edges, moderate tanning to spines, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, some light to moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, light to moderate patches of foxing throughout, moderate wrinkling to page block of vol 2)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1889

KEYWORDS: first editions Sir George Ferguson Bowen colonial history British rule colonialism government

$65.00
1y91a/14

Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980


LIVINGSTON, JANE & BEARDSLEY, JOHN & PERRY, REGENIA (Contribution)

Lg quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, illus prelims, 186pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling & creasing to spine & cover edges, light to moderate chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University Press of Mississippi / Center for the Study of Southern Culture N/D (c.1980s)

KEYWORDS: art history America American 20th twentieth century black folk criticism

$78.50
1y91a/16

Fernand Khnopff


DRAGUET, MICHEL

Square quarto, illus heavy boards, gilt & white lettering to spine, printed eps, frontispiece, 303pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, spine sl cocked)

PUBLISHER: Mercatorfonds / Yale University Press 2019

KEYWORDS: art history criticism Fernand Khnopff appreciation interpretation

$40.00
1y91a/18

The Unknown Leonardo


RETI, LADISLAO (Ed) & BUHRER, EMIL M (Designed by)

Lg heavy quarto, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 319pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1974

KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies Leonardo da Vinci

$150.00
1y91a/21

The Pickelhaube Volume I: Line Infantry


BOWMAN, J A & ANGOLIA, Lt Col JOHN R (Ed) & JOHANSSON, Dr ERIC J (Intro)

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xiii + 354pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & tanning)

PUBLISHER: Imperial Publications 1989

KEYWORDS: military history line infantry soldiers Prussia pickelhaube war helmets uniforms

$70.00
1y91a/26

L'Uniforme et les Armes des Soldats de la Guerre 1914-1918 (2 Vol Set)


FUNCKEN, LILIANE et FRED

2 VOL SET, TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, vol 1- 156pp, vol 2- 156pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & cracking to spine & board extrems, modeate scuffing to spine of vol 2, moderate peeling to rear spine hinge, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards of vol 1, light tanning & moderate chafing & soiling to boards of vol 2, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Casterman 1970-71

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war uniforms soldiers

$50.00
1y91a/32

....and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption, from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year


HUDSON, MICHAEL

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xxvi + 311pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Islet 2018

KEYWORDS: history finance economics debt collection debts lending foreclosure antiquity

$60.00
1y95a/1

The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization's Oligarchic Turning Point


HUDSON, MICHAEL

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black & white lettering to spine, x + 497pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Islet 2023

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Greece Rome Greek Roman economics finance economy

$50.00
1y95a/7

Speculative Masonry: Its Mission, Its Evolution and Its Landmarks


MACBRIDE, A S & NEWTON, JOSEPH FORT (Intro)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 254pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm inscription in ink to front pastedown, ex-libris ink stamp to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co 1971

KEYWORDS: freemasons freemasonry masonic secret societies lodges history

$75.00
1y95a/9

The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy


REDFIELD, JAMES M

Super octavo, yellow heavy boards, gilt lettering to maroon buckram spine, xvi + 459pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to spine extrems, light foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Locri Epizephyrii extinct city women marriage Italy theology Greece ancient history

$40.00
1y95a/15

Lawn Tennis in Six Lessons: The Shortest Cut to the Courts


BARRON, HECTOR

Sm octavo, stapled illus light card covers, vi + 39pp, G+ (v heavy cracking around staples/spine- covers loosened & affixed with archival tape, heavy staining & tanning/soiling to covers, heavy tanning to page edgesheavy staining to prelims & terminals, heavy cracking at some gutters- binding supported by external tape repairs)

PUBLISHER: Webster's Publications N/D

KEYWORDS: sport history lawn tennis techniques etiquette customs

$22.50
xxfbg19700

Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964


BANES, SALLY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Sally Banes dance theatre 20th century New York dance history

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