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$17.50
xx14pol203741

The Peninsula Veterans


RICHARDS, D S

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 and Jane's 1975

KEYWORDS: Iberian Peninsula military history British army soldiers

$15.00
xx14pol203742

1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia


BRETT-JAMES, ANTONY (Compiled, Ed & Trans)

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: Macmillan / St Martin's Press 1966

KEYWORDS: military history Napoleon Bonaparte Russia war defeat

$15.00
xx14pol203747

Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business


DANNEN, FREDRIC

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: Times Books 1990

KEYWORDS: rock music industry record companies business history

$35.00
xx14pol203757

The Marquis of Pombal (Second Edition)


DA CARNOTA, CONDE

Super 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: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1871

KEYWORDS: Marquis of Pombal biography biographies memoir history historical

$30.00
xx13pol2037621

Queen Victoria: Her Life and Reign, a study of Monarchial Institutions in British Countries and Her Majesty's Imperial Influence


CASTELL HOPKINS, J

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: The Linscott Publishing Company n/d (circa 1900)

KEYWORDS: queen victoria empire imperial biography colonialism history politics empress britain british

$10.00
xx13pol2037634

Wife to Mr Milton: The Story of Marie Powell


GRAVES, ROBERT

Octavo hard cover (G+) 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Creative Age Press, Inc 1944

KEYWORDS: historical novel robert graves marie powell john milton poet britain england history literature fiction biography

$19.50
xx13pol2037635

The Human Comedy


ROBINSON, JAMES HARVEY & BARNES, HARRY ELMER

Octavo hard cover (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 Lane the Bodley Head 1937

KEYWORDS: humanity civilisation commentary history prehistory anthropology

$16.50
xx13pol2037652

A Short History of the Sudan


MAHDI, MANDOUR EL

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: sudan africa history sudanese

$15.00
xx13pol2037653

Histoire Extra-Ordinaire: Essays on a Dream of Baudelaire's


BUTOR, MICHEL & HOWARD, RICHARD (trans)

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1969

KEYWORDS: history charles baudelaire literature essays

$25.00
xx13pol2037654

The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding


NORTHROP, F. S. C.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G-); 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: The MacMillan Company 1946

KEYWORDS: geopolitics history east west relations

$22.50
xx13pol2037658

Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-hsi


SPENCE, JONATHAN D.

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: Jonathan Cape 1974

KEYWORDS: china emperor k'ang-hsi history biography

$32.50
xx13pol2037670

From Cave Paintings to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication


HOGBEN, LANCELOT

Super 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Max Parrish and Co. 1949

KEYWORDS: human communication cultural anthropology art media history

$35.00
xx12pol2037673

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club


FLEMING, DAVID

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: The History Press 2022

KEYWORDS: evelyn waugh history hypocrites club

$30.00
xx12pol2037675

The Slavs in European History and Civilization


DVORNIK, FRANCES

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: Rutgers 1962

KEYWORDS: slav slavic history europe

$10.00
xx12pol2037676

Caught in the Web of Words: James A H Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary


MURRAY, K.M. ELIZABETH

EX LIBRARY, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: oxford english dictionary james a h murray words etymology history

$15.00
xx12pol2037678

Roundhead General: A Military Biography of Sir William Waller


ADAIR, JOHN

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: MacDonald and Co. 1969

KEYWORDS: william waller roundhead britain english civil war history

$22.50
xx12pol2037685

Blood and Thunder: Mid-Victorian Melodrama and its Origins


WILLSON DISHER, MAURICE

Superoctavo 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: Frederick Muller Ltd 1949

KEYWORDS: melodrama mid-victorian history theatre theatrical

$90.00
2i22a/2

The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America (Fourth & Cheaper Edition)


BUTLER, Capt W F

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spine, marbled page edges, x + 386pp, illus, folding map of British America to secret pocket to rear pastedown, VG (light to moderate rubbing & chafing/scuffing to leatherwork, light chafing & surface loss to boards, minor discolouration to page edges, light to moderate foxing & soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor soiling to map with 1cm loss to fold of map also)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1873

KEYWORDS: travel history writing literature America historical Captain W F Butler

$170.00
2i22a/3

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign, Kept Throughout the Campaign of 1815 (2 Vol Set)


MERCER, The Late GENERAL CAVALIE

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spines, marbled page edges, vol 1- xii + 369pp, vol 2- viii + 347pp, VG+ (minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor scuffing to spine extrems- sl surface loss, light tanning to page edges light to moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown of vol 1, occasional light smattering of foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1870

KEYWORDS: journals diaries war waterloo battles history military Napoleon Bonaparte General Cavalie Mercer campaigns 1815 first editions

$345.00
2i22a/8

The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV (6 Vol Set)


JAMES, WILLIAM & CHAMIER, CAPTAIN

6 VOL SET, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, red speckling to page edges, frontispieces to vols 1+2 only, mixed pagination, illus, folding charts to rear, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light rubbing to spines, moderate crackling & bruising to sine of vol 6, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light to moderate soiling to eps, light cracking to some gutters, minor foxing & soiling throughout each vol, minor creasing & foxing/soiling to folding charts, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street 1837

KEYWORDS: military history Great Britain British navy naval early 19th nineteenth century warfare

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