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Wellington's Campaigns Peninsula-Waterloo 1808-15 Part I: 1808-9-10-11 Roleia to Albuhera [Fifth Edition]: also Moore's Campaign of Corunna (for Military Students)
THIS VOL ONLY, super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hugh Rees, Ltd. 1914
KEYWORDS: Wellington military biography campaigns history battles
Wellington's Campaigns Peninsula-Waterloo 1808-15 Part III: 1815: Waterloo [Fourth Edition]: also Moore's Campaign of Corunna (for Military Students)
THIS VOL ONLY, super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hugh Rees, Ltd. 1911
KEYWORDS: Wellington military biography campaigns history battles Waterloo
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
Octavo 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: Methuen 1981
KEYWORDS: literary criticism history theory fantastic literature psychoanalytical
Clarendon: Selections from The History of the Rebellion and The Life By Himself
Octavo 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: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Clarenden memoir autobiography British civil war military history rebellion Cromwell Charles I
English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron
Octavo 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: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1972
KEYWORDS: English poetic satire literary criticism history poets
The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire
Octavo softcover (VG) pencil annotations; 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: Verso 1993
KEYWORDS: colonial history British empire colonialism
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
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PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1998
KEYWORDS: literary criticism history theory fictional characters
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition
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PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1984
KEYWORDS: satire literary criticism theory history satiric tradition
The New Historicism
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PUBLISHER: Routledge 1989
KEYWORDS: new historicism literary criticism cultural materialism anthropology feminism class history
Empires
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PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: empires global history imperialism ancient civilisations empire
Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting
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PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: colonial art history cultural criticism paintings18th century British colonialism
Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
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PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: copyright literary legal history
Shakespeare: Staging the World
Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ (spine sl cocked & faded, sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The British Museum Press 2012
KEYWORDS: theatre theater stage history William Shakespeare literature
The Universe, or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & gilt/coloured illus to spine & front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 576pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, light bruising ot extrems, light chafing & soiling/discolouration to boards, prize presentation plate to front pastedown, light tanning to eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to rear gutter, sporadic minor foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Blackie & Son 1902
KEYWORDS: natural history nature biology geology environment
The Japanese Thrust
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 715pp, VG (moderate fading to spine extrems, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown, gift inscription in ink to ffep, sl tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, some patches of moderate foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/loss to edges- archival tape repairs, minor fading to spine, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Australian War Memorial 1957
KEYWORDS: first editions Australia Australian war history military ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 official histories Japan Japanese
Kia Kaha: Life at 3 New Zealand General Hospital 1940-1946
ASSOCIATION COPY WITH FORMER OWNER NOTED ON FFEP, octavo, grey mottled cloth boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 285pp, illus/photos, VG (boards sl warped, light tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, minor staining to fore-edges of prelims, prev. owner's ink stamp to front & rear eps, prev. owner's annotation in ink & pencil to ffep & pg285) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping/loss & archival tape repairs to edges, heavy staining to rear, light tanning to spine, minor general soiling & wrinkling, light scuffing to front flap/folds)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 3 three general hospital forties 40s E M Somer Cocks association copies
Memoirs of General Sir George Richards Greaves
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt insignia motif to front board, frontispiece, xiii + 258pp, illus/photos, VG (minor soiling to spine, light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1924
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir General Sir George Richards Greaves East Surrey Regiment military history
The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
Octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 325pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl tanning to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & foxing, light rubbing/scuffing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1969
KEYWORDS: military history 11th eleventh hussars famous regiments series Prince Albert's own cherrypickers cavalry regiments
The Red Glutton: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, viii + 318pp, VG (moderate rubbing & soiling to spine, light bruising to extrems, light chafing/soiling to boards, minor fading to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, historical society ink stamp to ffep- no others detected, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light cracking to rear gutter, minor creasing to top corners of pgs 253-264)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1915
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war first editions
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 341pp, VG- (heavy staining to bottom corner of front board, minor bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, multiple prev. ownership markings to half title page, moderate cracking to gutter of full title page & other gutters sporadically throughout, minor soiling to prelims, occasional light pencil marking to margins)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1888
KEYWORDS: Duke of Wellington military history conversations 19th nineteenth century