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$22.50
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The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948


SMITH, PETER C

Super 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: Pen & Sword 2011

KEYWORDS: military history navy navy vessel HMS Renown

$22.50
xx178pol207809

Telling Stories: Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand


ATTWOOD, BAIN & MAGOWAN, FIONA (eds)

Ex-library. 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: Bridget Williams Books 2001

KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand indigenous social history

$37.50
xx177pol207823

Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theatre, Gender, and Nationalism


KANO, AYAKO

Super 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: Palgrave 2001

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture custom nationalism history 19th century 20th 21st century theatre gender

$15.00
xx177pol207824

The New Koreans: The Business, History and People of South Korea


BREEN, MICHAEL

Super 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: Rider Books 2017

KEYWORDS: South Korea history custom culture business

$16.50
xx177pol207837

The Great Game: A History of Wall Street


STEELE-GORDON, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Orion Business Books 1999

KEYWORDS: Wall Street history economics economy trade trading financial market

$500.00
1n16a/14

Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History


DUNN, BOB & GOADBY, PETER

LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000

KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial

$500.00
1n31a/1

Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History


DUNN, BOB & GOADBY, PETER

LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000

KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial

$50.00
1n31a/5

American Fly Fishing: A History


SCHULLERY, PAUL

Imp. 8vo, pp. x + 278; patterned maroon cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; double roll-tooled border with floral cornerpieces & fish motif centerpiece in gilt to front board; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; adhesive markings to ffep).

PUBLISHER: Lyons & Burford 1987

KEYWORDS: 20th century fish fishing trout flies fly angling angler method technique strategy history

$75.00
1n31a/6

The Way of a Trout with a Fly


And Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics

SKUES, G E M

FIRST EDITION. Royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 259 + [1]; brown/olive buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; fore edge deckled, frontis., plates; G+ (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink & stamp in green ink to ht; lacking ffep; heavy cracking to front & rear hinge, bdg sloppy; moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters; stamp in green ink sporadic throughout).

PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black 1921

KEYWORDS: 20th century G E M Skues fish fishing trout flies fly angling angler method technique strategy history

$345.00
1n31a/17

How the Poor Live and Horrible London


SIMS, GEORGE R

Bound with Socialism in Theory and Practice: Being a Lecture Delivered to a Working Class Audience by Karl Pearson, publ., W. Reeves, 1887. Foolscap 8vo, pp. [8] + 150 + 32; black cl bds, black leathers spine; mottled edges, patterned eps; G+ (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tearing to joints; leather to spine peeling; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription to front pastedown & ht; stamp in purple ink & heavy annotation in black ink throughout Socialism).

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1889

KEYWORDS: George R Sims Karl Pearson social history essay London 19th century

$3250.00
1o18a/3

The Selfish Gene


DAWKINS, RICHARD

FIRST UK EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. xii + 224; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Richard Dawkins first edition human behaviour biology history prehistory environment life animals

$16.50
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Book Collecting: An Introdiction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection


COLLISON, ROBERT L; HORN, ANDREW H (forew)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1957

KEYWORDS: book collecting bibliography history printing bookbinding binding publishing paper bookselling

$30.00
xx177pol207840

The Contemplative Man's Recreation: A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the Library of British Columbia


STARKMAN, SUSAN B & READ, STANLEY E (ed); MACKENZIE, N A (forew); HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK L

8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Library of the University of British Columbia 1970

KEYWORDS: angling angler fishing fish game sport bibliography book history books list handlist guide

$55.00
1o18a/36

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism


CHADWICK, WHITNEY

FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo, pp. 256; grey heavy card bds, spine lettered in black, publisher's device in blind to front board; illus. tp, photos, plates, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping;

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2017

KEYWORDS: Whitney Chadwick first edition female women 20th century habits custom social history education philosophy literature

$40.00
1o18a/38

Flight Out of Time: A Dada Dictionary


BALL, HUGH; ELDERFIELD, JOHN (ed); RAIMES, ANN (transl)

8vo, pp. lxiv + 274; illus. light card covers; plates; VG; (sl scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996

KEYWORDS: art artists 20th century criticism theory philosophy literary history Dada movement

$50.00
1p20b/1

Female Acts in Greek Tragedy


FOLEY, HELENE P

Super 8vo, pp. x + 410; black buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. tp; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate annotation in pencil throughout (by Prof. Anne Mackay)); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: ancient classical history Greece Greek tragedy play drama literature criticism female women representation

$245.00
1p20b/10

New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat in Downtown 81


O'BRIEN, GLENN; EDO & MARIPOL (photos)

Imp. 8vo, pp. 111; heavy card bds, spine & bds lettered in black; photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Petit Grand Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: Jean-Michel Basquiat artist 20th century New York American art history

$50.00
1p20b/12

Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing through Discipline


ELKINS, JAMES & MCGUIRE, KRISTI & BURNS, MAUREEN & CHESTER, ALICIA & KUENNEN, JOEL (eds)

Super 8vo, pp. xv + 302; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2013

KEYWORDS: visual cultural studies art history anthropology criticism critical theory essays

$120.00
1y48a/1

The Vintage Alvis


HULL, PETER & JOHNSON, NORMAN

Super 8vo, pp. 400; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep;); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning).

PUBLISHER: David & Charles Newton Abbot 1974

KEYWORDS: Alvis Car Company history vehicle automobile cars 20th century

$185.00
1y48a/16

Disco Years


GALELLA, RON

4to; illus. heavy card bds; F (in original packaging)

PUBLISHER: Powerhouse Books 2006

KEYWORDS: Ron Galella photos photography disco culture movement music social history

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