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$17.50
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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


VERNEY, MAJOR-GENERAL G L

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

$19.50
xx125pol205456

Jackboot: The Story of The German Soldier


LAFFIN, JOHN

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

$18.50
xx125pol205457

Warrior to Soldier 449-1660: A brief introduction to the history of English warfare


NORMAN, AVB & POTTINGER, DON

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

$25.00
xx125pol205458

The Path of Glory: Being the Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, written by Himself


SHIPP, JOHN & STRANKS, CJ (edit)

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

$15.00
xx125pol205459

Clubs to Cannon: Warfare and weapons before the introduction of Gunpowder


HOGG, Brigadier O F G

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

$22.50
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The Roman Conquest of Britain AD 43-57


WEBSTER, GRAHAM & DUDLEY, DONALD R

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

$35.00
xx116pol205474

Wings of Destiny


MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY

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

$22.50
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The Brave White Flag: A Novel About the Fall of Hong Kong


FORD, JAMES ALLEN

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

$19.50
xx116pol205492

A Book of the 'Bounty'


BLIGH, WILLIAM & OTHERS

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

$22.50
xx116pol205493

I Defy! The Story of Dennis Lankford MB, RNVR


LANKFORD, DENNIS & NOYES THOMAS, A

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

$14.00
xx123pol205554

The Flanders Road


SIMON, CLAUDE; HOWARD, RICHARD (transl); FLETCHER, JOHN (introd)

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

$18.50
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The colonizer and the colonized


MEMMI, ALBERT; SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1967

KEYWORDS: Albert Memmi Jean Paul Sartre colonization master servant social history criticism

$9.50
xx123pol205566

To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History


WILSON, EDMUND

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

$9.00
xx123pol205567

Testaments Betrayed


KUNDERA, MILAN; ASHER, LINDA (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996

KEYWORDS: Milan Kundera essays literature 20th century history

$1850.00
2a18o/39

Vincent van Gogh: The Sketchbooks: A Facsimile of the Artist's Sketchbooks in the Collection of the Van Gogh Museum


VELLEKOOP, MARIJE (Commentary) & SUIJVER, RENSKE (Commentary) & McKAY, DAVID (Trans)

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

$40.00
2a18o/42

The Space of Appearance


BAIRD, GEORGE

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

$245.00
2a18o/43

The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to #45472


CARTER, RUBIN HURRICANE

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

$45.00
2a18o/45

Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers


CURTHOYS, ANN

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

$80.00
2a18o/48

The Virus House


IRVING, DAVID

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

$120.00
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Norsewood: A 'Special Settlement'


KITT, DIANE and TERRY (Researched, Prepared & Published by)

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

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