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Personal Record 1920-1972
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: Alfred A Knopf 1975
KEYWORDS: literature literary Bloomsbury group Gerald Brenan history
Walter Sickert: A Conversation
ILLUSTRATED, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Bloomsbury Workshop 1992
KEYWORDS: art history Walter Sickert Virginia Woolf
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
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: Hodder & Stoughton 1992
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Ottoline Morrell history
Progress at Pelvis Bay
LACKS D/W, 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: John Murray 1947
KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman history Pelvis Bay antiquity
The Shape of a City
Octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Turtle Point Press N/D
KEYWORDS: Julien Gracq Nantes history development
Knole Kent
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The National Trust 1955
KEYWORDS: Knole Kent V Sackville-West history country homes houses
Herodotus: The Histories
Imp 8vo, illus cl bds, gilt lettering & ornament to leather spine, upper pg edge stained red, illus map eps, frontispiece, xxi + 632 pp., plates counted all present, VG+ (light soiling/rubbing to spine, light rubbing to bords & extrems, minor foxing to pg edges) in slipcase with gilt ornament to front and back cover VG+ (light chaffing to covers & spine, light brusing to exrems & front cover)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1992
KEYWORDS: ancient Greek history Herodotus Histories war military classical literature Peloponnesian War
A Century of Service: A History of the South Canterbury And North Otago Police
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, NO. 689/750. 4to, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, errata slip, [8] + 174 pp., illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate creasing to covers & spine, sl bruising to cover edges/extrems & spine extrems, minor tanning & soiling to pg edges,
PUBLISHER: David A Thomson 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Canterbury North Otago Canterbury Otago South Island police force history
Monuments of Renaissance Music Volume VI: Eustachio Romano, Musica Duorum
FIRST EDITION. Folio, red buckram bds, gilt lettering & ornamentation to spine, gilt series emblem to front board, boardered tp, xvii + 182 pp., illus, musical scores, VG+ (moderate brusing to board extrems, sl scuffing & fading to spine extrems, board warped, light tanning & foxing to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w VG- (moderate tanning & sl foxing to covers & spine, moderate chipping to edges/extrems & spine extrems with minor loss, two 4cm closed tears to front cover, archival tape repair to spine edges & cover)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 1975
KEYWORDS: music renaissance music history folk classical critical editions Monuments of Renaissance Music series
Ducati: The Official Racing History
4to, black cl bds, white lettering to spine, 287 pp., illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling/scuffing & rubbing to bds & spine with v minor loss to spine lettering, light tanning/soiling & foxing to pg edges, sl foxing to eps, moderate chipping & closed tear to pastdown on rear board lower extrem) in d/w V+ (light scuffing/soiling & rubbing, light curling & bruising to edges),
PUBLISHER: Virgin Books 2000
KEYWORDS: motorsports motorcycles Ducati racing history
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences
8vo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cobden-Sanderson 1932
KEYWORDS: anecdotes childhood social history
The Making of a New Zealander
8vo 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1959
KEYWORDS: Alan Mulgan New Zealand New Zealander biography country social history
Germs: a memoir of childhood
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Black Swan 2005
KEYWORDS: memoir biography autobiography social history England English suburbia
Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
8vo 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: The Hogarth Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Henry Green autobiography biography 20th century author social history literature
The Art of the Publisher
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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2015
KEYWORDS: publisher publishing criticsim design books book historu publishing history essays
The Bloomsbury Group: A Study of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and their Circle
8vo 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: The Noonday Press 1954
KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury Group 20th century literature criticism Virginia Woolf art history
A Boy at the Hogarth Press
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1972
KEYWORDS: autobiography biography The Hogarth Press the Bloomsbury Group 20th century literature printing and publishing history
Death's Other Kingdom
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Virago 1988
KEYWORDS: Spain history civil war literature memoir
A Modern Symposium
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PUBLISHER: Unwin Books 1962
KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury Group literature literary criticism history 20th century
Livingstone's Compantions
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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1975
KEYWORDS: fiction short stories Africa social history political morality