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To Perish Never
SECOND EDITION, 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: Cassell & Co 1954
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Peter Saunders aviation aerial combat warfare
Anzac: A Retrospect
Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG) minor insect damage to rear pages; 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: Whitcombe & Tombs 1965
KEYWORDS: military history anzac Gallipoli
Escape to Freedom
Ex-library- rebacked, 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: Hutchinson & Co 1953
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
When Britannia Ruled the Waves: The Heyday of the Royal Navy through the Paintings of Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kitson, KBE, CB (1877-1952)
Super 8vo, navy blue heavy card bds, gilt lettering to spine, illus. tp, 112pp., illus., VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, sl tanning to pg edges), in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing, light bruising & creasing/curling to edges & extrems with minor chipping to spine, 2cm closed tear to top edge).
PUBLISHER: Halsgrove 2007
KEYWORDS: England Britain Royal Navy military history Britannia ships HMS Sir Henry Kitson 19th 20th century Admiral paintings
Bloomsbury Portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and their cicle
Super 8vo, illus. heavy hard bds, blue & yellow lettering to spine, frontis., 272 pp., illus., photos, VG+ (light scuffing & tanning/soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & light soiling to pg edges, light tanning & soiling to eps), in d/w VG (moderate to heavy fading to spine, light scuffing & soiling, light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1976
KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury Group artist writer 20th century London Vanessa Bell Virginia Woolf Duncan Grant culture social history custom
Kleinwagen / Small Cars / Petites Voitures
TEXT IN GERMAN, ENGLISH & FRENCH, lg quarto, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, illus ffep, 176pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & scuffing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling/discolouration to covers, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Benedikt Taschen 1994
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN, ENGLISH & FRENCH small cars automotive transport history design engineering
Racing Against the Tide
Square imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white, black & brown letteirng to spine, 200pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling & creasing to cover edges, sl foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Castlepoint Racing Club 2023
KEYWORDS: New Zealand horse racing history sport Castlepoint equine
A Genealogical Gazetteer of England: An Alphabetical Dictionary of Places
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xv + (3pp) + 599pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, sl foxing to prelims & terminals, lower corner of pgs 595-596 creased)
PUBLISHER: Genealogical Publishing Co 1982
KEYWORDS: gazetteer England English history place names places registers data parish parishes diocese historical statistics
In My Tower: Volume II
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, v + pgs279-561, illus/photos, VG (light fading to spine, light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & rear ep, prev. bookseller's sm nik stamp to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, minor occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1924
KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography autobiographies Lady Paget Walburga history historical
The Complete Knight's Cross: Volume One - The Years of Victory 1939-1941
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 404pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Fonthill 2021
KEYWORDS: knight's cross iron cross military history recipients awards nazi soldiers officers German Germany officers medals
Me 'n Elvis
PRODUCTION SAMPLE, FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 204pp, illus/photos, VG+ (production sample slip stapled to front cover, light chafing & curling to covers, minor water damage to rear, sl staining to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Castle Books 1988
KEYWORDS: production samples first editions music history musicians Elvis Presley biographies memoir Charlie Hodge autobiography
Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
EARLY UK EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black motif to front board, xxxi + 816pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & rubbing to board corners, moderate to heavy discolouration to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning/soiling & light foxing to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sm newspaper clipping tipped in to front pastedown- with sm ink numeral also, sm label tipped in to ffep- mostly missing/detached, light cracking to gutters, some minor underlining in blue pencil to early pages)
PUBLISHER: Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1908
KEYWORDS: early editions Karl Marx English translations economics money commodities philosophy literature history historical
Irish Brigades Abroad: From the Wild Geese to the Napoleonic wars
Super octavo, illus light card covers, grey & red lettering to spine, 288pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges/corners, sl soiling to covers & page edges)
PUBLISHER: The History Press Ireland 2014
KEYWORDS: military history Irish regiments Europe
Life of Hernan Cortes
Duodecimo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to maroon leather title plates on spine with gilt decoration/tooling also, title vignette to prelims, 344pp, VG (light rubbing to leatherwork on spine & board corners, light chafing & rubbing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning/soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, minor cracking to gutters at front, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co, and Hurst, Chance, and Co London 1829
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books biography biographies memoir Hernan Cortes Mexico Mexican history 16th sixteenth century Spanish conquistadors
Vietnam War Diary 1964-1975
Quarto 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: Silverdale Books 2003
KEYWORDS: military history 20th twentieth century Vietnam Southeast Asia soldiers
A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
Sm octavo, quarter leather bound black textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, red speckling to page edges, illus title page, xxx + 368pp, VG (sl rubbing to board corners, light to moderate rubbing/crackling to leather spine, light to moderate tanning to page edges, light to moderate 'ghost'lettering & tanning/foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's historic ink stamp to base of title page, sm numerals in purple pencil to copyright page, text block very clear & binding tight)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Tegg, 73 Cheapside; Rodwell and Martin ... 1824
KEYWORDS: Washington Irving Diedrich Knickerbocker history New York literature
The Romance of Westland: The Story of New Zealand's Golden Coast
Sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, viii + 187pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, minor cracking to central gutter)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel writing literature Westland south island history
New Zealand Guide & Accomodation List (Fifth Edition)
Sm octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, folding maps throughout, 258pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges & corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl cracking at gutters, occasional closed tearing to some maps with minor foxing also)
PUBLISHER: R Farnell & Co 1912
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel guides literature accomodation historical hotels history
The Queen Newspaper, Book of Travel: A Guide to Home and Foreign Resorts
Sm octavo, beige buckram soft boards, black lettering to spine & boards, rounded page & board corners, printed eps, x + 590pp, illus/folding maps, VG (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to spine with sm adhesive label to base, moderate tanning & light soiling to page edges, covered ex-libris plate to front pastedown, heavy crack to front gutter with tidy tape repair/reinforcement, 1x sm library ink stamp to title page, minor foxing to some maps)
PUBLISHER: Horace Cox, Windsor House 1913
KEYWORDS: travel guides historical historic history resorts holidays vacation
The Price of my Soul
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, paperback, white lettering to spine, illus front eps, 206pp, VG (light to moderate foxing & soiling to covers, light rubbing & curling to cover edges, light bruising & rubbing to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1969
KEYWORDS: first editions Northern Ireland politics modern history Ulster Bernadette Devlin autobiography autobiographies memoir