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$35.00
xxzac201136

Personal Record 1920-1972


BRENAN, GERALD

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

$19.50
xxzac201141

Walter Sickert: A Conversation


WOOLF, VIRGINIA & SHONE, RICHARD (Intro)

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

$22.50
xxzal201158

Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale


SEYMOUR, MIRANDA

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

$10.00
xxzbd201168

Progress at Pelvis Bay


LANCASTER, OSBERT

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

$19.50
xxzbd201169

The Shape of a City


GRACQ, JULIEN & KOHN, INGEBORG M (Trans)

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

$10.00
xxzbe201179

Knole Kent


SACKVILLE-WEST, V

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

$120.00
1y99e/17

Herodotus: The Histories


HERODOTUS; CARY, HENRY (trans) & SCARE, CHRIS (ed) & GEELAN, P J M (maps)

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

$82.50
1y99e/36

A Century of Service: A History of the South Canterbury And North Otago Police


THOMSON, DAVID A & KAGEI, HENDRIK

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

$275.00
1y99e/40

Monuments of Renaissance Music Volume VI: Eustachio Romano, Musica Duorum


DAVID, HANS T; BROWN, HOWARD MAYER & LOWINSKY, EDWARD E (eds) & BLACKBURN, BONNIE J (assist ed)

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

$50.00
1y99e/41

Ducati: The Official Racing History


MASETTI, MARCO; MARTERA, EUGENIO & MONTEMAGGI & PIETROGRANDE, PATRIZIA (eds)

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

$15.50
xxzbk201206

Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences


SMYTH, Dame ETHEL; ET AL

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

$12.50
xxzcb201218

The Making of a New Zealander


MULGAN, ALAN

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

$12.50
xxzce201226

Germs: a memoir of childhood


WOLLHEIM, RICHARD

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

$22.50
xxzce201229

Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait


GREEN, HENRY

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

$10.00
xxzcf201236

The Art of the Publisher


CALASSO, ROBERTO; DIXON, RICHARD (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2015

KEYWORDS: publisher publishing criticsim design books book historu publishing history essays

$35.00
xxzdj201248

The Bloomsbury Group: A Study of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and their Circle


JOHNSTONE, J K

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

$8.50
xxzdk201251

A Boy at the Hogarth Press


KENNEDY, RICHARD; HILLIER, BEVIS (inrod)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1972

KEYWORDS: autobiography biography The Hogarth Press the Bloomsbury Group 20th century literature printing and publishing history

$10.00
xxzec201269

Death's Other Kingdom


WOOLSEY, GAMEL; PARTRIDGE, FRANCES (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Virago 1988

KEYWORDS: Spain history civil war literature memoir

$10.00
xxzec201270

A Modern Symposium


DICKINSON, G LOWES; FORSTER, E M (introd)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Unwin Books 1962

KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury Group literature literary criticism history 20th century

$8.50
xxzec201279

Livingstone's Compantions


GORDIMER, NADINE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1975

KEYWORDS: fiction short stories Africa social history political morality

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