Books - "history"
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Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover's Complaint
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. xii + 272; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: Shakespeare poetry drama canon 16th century literature history critcism
Imagination and Time
Provenance attributed to Vincent O'Sullivan. 8vo, pp. xi + 193; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Blackwell 1994
KEYWORDS: Mary Warnock religion religious studies philosophy human nature Christian Christianity image metaphor history values custom habit social
Irish Divorce/Joyce's Ulysses
SIGNED& INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. xxviii + 289; light card covers; VG (moderate scuffing, rubbing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
KEYWORDS: Peter Kuch Ireland Irish divorce social history marriage relationships
The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR FOR VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. xi + 205; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2013
KEYWORDS: American fiction 20th 21st century history criticism literature writing authorship
Zane Grey: A Photographic Odyssey
FIRST EDITION. Imp. 8vo, pp. [8] + 211; grey cl bds, spine lettered in white; photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing, tanning & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Taylor Publishing Company 1985
KEYWORDS: Zane Grey fish fishing angler angling photos photograph photography pictorial history
United Colors: The Benetton Campaigns
4to, pp. 159; grey heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in white; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderatebruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Scriptum Editions 2002
KEYWORDS: social history culture photos photgraphs photography photographer art artist 20th 21st century advertising marketing advert
Alone in the Sky
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED ON TIPPED IN PLATE, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, 190pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor tanning)
PUBLISHER: Technical Books / Airlife Publishing 1979
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders aviation history aviators Jean Batten autobiography autobiographies memoir signed
Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre
LACKS D/W, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 304pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to board edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Theocritus pastoral poetry literature writings Greek history criticism literary form
Butler's Lives of the Saints (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, ex-library, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt illus to front boards, top page edges stained red, illus title pages, mixed pagination, VG (usual library markings/pockets, sl rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic covers with adhesive edges- jacket edges likely stained, occasional minor creasing)
PUBLISHER: Burns & Oates 1956
KEYWORDS: theology religious figures saints ancient history antiquity religion
For Dauntless France: An Account of Britain's Aid to the French Wounded and Victims of the War
LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 372pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & staining to spine, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate cracking to gutters, occasional minor foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton N/D
KEYWORDS: France French history Great Britain British casualties soldiers war red cross wounded ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war
Red Deer Stalking in New Zealand
Octavo, orange/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt stag illus to front board, blind rule to spine & board edges, teg, deckled/roughcut page edges, frontispiece, xii + 270pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (spine sl cocked, minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate soiling & discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co 1924
KEYWORDS: New Zealand hobbies hunting red deer stalking camping history historical
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold (Fifth Edition) (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering to spines, black rule & decoration to spines & boards, gilt initials in gothic script to front boards of both vols, all page edges stained red, marbled eps, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1- xxiii + 440pp, vol 2- xvi + 448pp, VG (moderate rubbing & surface loss to spines & board edges, minor chafing & rubbing/surface loss to boards, light soiling to page edges, numerous gift & ownership inscriptions in ink to prelims, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional ink markings to margins)
PUBLISHER: B Fellowes, Ludgate Street 1845
KEYWORDS: Thomas Arnold biography biographies memoir autobiographies history letters correspondence historical
The Danube With Pen and Pencil
LACKS FEP, imperial octavo, blue/grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & coloured lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 191pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems- some minor loss to illus on front board, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps, sm rust stains to front eps, ffep missing, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Company / Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1911
KEYWORDS: travel literature art drawings rivers Dunube history historical
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, xi + 547pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2019
KEYWORDS: art design history Walter Gropius biography biographies memoir
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham Versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, red lettering to spine, 470pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2021
KEYWORDS: literary history Alexander Pope Edmund Curll literature feuds conflict
Merrythought Bears
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl rubbing to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Remember When 2009
KEYWORDS: toys collectables collectibles merrythought teddy bears British manufacturers history
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That (1895-1929)
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 461pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Continuum 2018
KEYWORDS: literary biography biographies memoir Robert Graves literature history
An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports, or, Complete Account (Historical, Practical, and Descriptive) of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing &c &c
LACKS FEP, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & black & gilt illus to front board, illus title page, xii + 1246pp + 24pp to rear, G+ (heavy rubbing & chipping to spine, moderate cracking to hinges, heavy cracking to gutters- binding loose, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, ffep & some prelims missing, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate soiling & foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1870
KEYWORDS: history historical hobbies hunting rural sports shooting fishing
The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473-1478
LACKS D/W, octavo, green heavy boards, green lettering to cream buckram spine, xv + 289pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl staining to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford Bibliographical Society / Printing Historical Society 2016
KEYWORDS: history printing printers historical Johann Zainer 15th fifteenth century crafts
With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 160pp, illus, folding maps, VG (light bruising & moderate fading to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional soiling & foxing to pages- v sporadic) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & v heavy closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1948
KEYWORDS: 6th airborne division military history aviation aerial combat warfare Normandy Lieutenant General R N Gale