Books - "history"
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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
An Old New Zealander, or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, sm gilt motif to rear board, frontispiece, xvi + 350pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & extrems, light to moderate discolouration to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, moderate cracking to gutters- some pages may be either loose or missing, moderate soiling to prelims & terminals, pencil annotations to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1911
KEYWORDS: T Lindsay Buick New Zealand history biographies Maori leaders Te Rauparaha
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
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet, with Selections from his Correspondence
Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spine, gilt tooling/decoration & raised bands to spine, teg, marbled eps, frontispiece, xvi + 600pp, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork on spine/boards, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, remembrance plate tipped in & gift inscription in ink to recto of half title page, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1848
KEYWORDS: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton biography biographies memoir autobiographies literature letters correspondence history
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