WEBSTER, GRAHAM & DUDLEY, DONALD R

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 costs

PUBLISHER: B T Batsford 1966

KEYWORDS: roman conquest britain brittania rome empire history

MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY

Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: MacMillan & Co 1943

KEYWORDS: military history memoir biography air forces

FORD, JAMES ALLEN

Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: Hodder & Stoughton 1961

KEYWORDS: war history memoir biography hong kong seige

BLIGH, WILLIAM & OTHERS

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 costs

PUBLISHER: JM Dent & Sons1938

KEYWORDS: hms bounty mutiny history navl britain

LANKFORD, DENNIS & NOYES THOMAS, A

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1954

KEYWORDS: history korean war memoir dennis lankford

SIMON, CLAUDE; HOWARD, RICHARD (transl); FLETCHER, JOHN (introd)

8vo softcover (VG), tp price clipped; 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: John Calder 1986

KEYWORDS: Claude Simon France history Second World War 2 WW2 WW II WWII German occupation

MEMMI, ALBERT; SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL (introd)

8vo 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: Beacon Press 1967

KEYWORDS: Albert Memmi Jean Paul Sartre colonization master servant social history criticism

KUNDERA, MILAN; ASHER, LINDA (transl)

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996

KEYWORDS: Milan Kundera essays literature 20th century history

VELLEKOOP, MARIJE (Commentary) & SUIJVER, RENSKE (Commentary) & McKAY, DAVID (Trans)

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#60/1000), oblong quarto, this is a beautiful set of facsimile sketch collections of Vincent van Gogh formatted in 4x notebooks and an envelope with an accompanying commentary booklet in its own little pocket, all presented in a beautiful brown buckram clamshell case. The slipcase has gilt lettering to its spine & black lettering to a cream coloured title plate to its front with only some very minor bruising to the lower corner of it's rear/base, the title plate has some sl scuffing to its top edge but still very clean & tidy. There is also an A4 sized envelope which contains more facsimile sketches which has been tidily opened at its fore-edge, the contents of this lovely set are all immaculately presented with no visible signs of wear or tear

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society / Van Gogh Museum 2013

KEYWORDS: special limited numbered editions folio society art history appreciation Vincent van Gogh sketches collections facsimiles sketchbooks

BAIRD, GEORGE

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, grey/white lettering to spine & covers, xii + 395pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & creasing/curling to spine & covers/edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2003

KEYWORDS: postmodern architecture structuralism deconstruction signs symbols history theory

CARTER, RUBIN HURRICANE

SIGNED BY RUBIN HURRICANE CARTER! Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & beige lettering to spine & covers, illus title page, ix + 339pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1991

KEYWORDS: signed Rubin Hurricane Carter sport history boxing legends civil rights autobiography autobiographies memoir prisoners middleweight wrongful imprisonment homicide murder trials justice injustice

CURTHOYS, ANN

Super octavo, illus light card covers, blue & white lettering to spine, xxii + 329pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, light tanning & soiling to rear cover & page edges, top corners of pgs109-116 sl creased)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2002

KEYWORDS: freedom ride Ann Curthoys indigenous Aboriginal rights Australia Australian social history autobiography autobiographies memoir travel writing literature

KITT, DIANE and TERRY (Researched, Prepared & Published by)

Quarto, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus title page, xii + 517pp + references to rear, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Diane and Terry Kitt 2014

KEYWORDS: family history genealogy historical records New Zealand Norsewood heritage

DUMESNIL, MAURICE

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 288pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate fading & chipping to spine & spine extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light scuffing to board corners, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1933

KEYWORDS: history travel literature writing Isadora Duncan biography biographies memoir South America Maurice Dumesnil

N/A

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, folding map to prelims, 536pp + indices to rear, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, moderate soiling & staining to spine & covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm ink stamps to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Michael Winton 1993

KEYWORDS: England Great Britian English British cities London directories history historical facsimiles pigot & co suburbs

TURNER, J F

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, unpaginated prelims + 242pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading & bruising to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor scuffing to front eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, minor chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1989

KEYWORDS: first editions art history appreciation interpretation biography biographies memoir Howard Finster artists criticism

SPOERRI, ELKA & BAUMANN, DANIEL & GOMEZ, EDWARD M (Essay) & WERTKIN, GERARD C (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, quarto, beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 111pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading & staining to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate soiling to rear ep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: American Folk Art Museum / Princeton University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: first editions art exhibitions Adolf Wolfli appreciation history

SUTTON, PETER C

Lg quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp illus to front board, frontispiece, 294pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln 2002

KEYWORDS: art history collections Dutch Flemish Willem Baron van Dedem appreciation

HURST, SIDNEY C & WARE, Major-General Sir FABIAN (Preface)

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xv + 407pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to board & spine extrems, light tanning & chafing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, spine cocked, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor fioxing to prelims, bottom corner of pgs 259/260 torn off)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1929

KEYWORDS: first editions military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war graves memorials cemeteries France Flanders imperial war graves commission

SCHMITT, L J (Intro) & SULLIVAN, D G (Intro)

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, 227pp, VG (moderate tanning & light foxing to spine & covers, moderate creasing to cover edges & spine, moderate creasing & cracking to spine extrems & cover edges & hinges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Hutcheson, Bowman & Johnson (Printer) 1939

KEYWORDS: New Zealand directories past issues years industry manufacturers commerce history historical