Books - "history"
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The Devil's Wind: The Story of the Naval Brigade at Lucknow, from the letters of Edmund Hope Verney and Other Papers concerning the Enterprise of the Ship's Company of the H.M.S. Shannon in the Campaign in India
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: Hutchinson 1956
KEYWORDS: naval history indian campaign edmund home verney hms shannon
Jackboot: The Story of The German Soldier
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: Cassell & Company 1966
KEYWORDS: history fictionalised memoir german military john laffin
Warrior to Soldier 449-1660: A brief introduction to the history of English warfare
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: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (Educational) 1966
KEYWORDS: britain british military history
The Path of Glory: Being the Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, written by Himself
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: Chatto & Windus 1969
KEYWORDS: history memoir english india john shipp
Clubs to Cannon: Warfare and weapons before the introduction of Gunpowder
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: Gerald Duckworth & Co 1968
KEYWORDS: history military warfare weapons
The Roman Conquest of Britain AD 43-57
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
Wings of Destiny
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
The Brave White Flag: A Novel About the Fall of Hong Kong
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
A Book of the 'Bounty'
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
I Defy! The Story of Dennis Lankford MB, RNVR
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
The Flanders Road
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
The colonizer and the colonized
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
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987
KEYWORDS: Edmund Wilson history criticism 20th century
Testaments Betrayed
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996
KEYWORDS: Milan Kundera essays literature 20th century history
Vincent van Gogh: The Sketchbooks: A Facsimile of the Artist's Sketchbooks in the Collection of the Van Gogh Museum
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
The Space of Appearance
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
The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to #45472
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
Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers
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
The Virus House
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owners' ink stamps to ffep & verso of half title page, light foxing to prelims, occasional pencil markings to margins, occasional spots of foxing to pages throughout- quite minor) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light tanning to spine, light foxing, moderate rubbing & surface loss to spine)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber and Co 1967
KEYWORDS: first editions military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 atomic weapons nazi Germany third reich research allied troops counter-measures nuclear intelligence
Norsewood: A 'Special Settlement'
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