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$15.00
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XIXth Century French Posters


LAVER, JAMES (Intro) & DAVRAY, HENRY (Preface)

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: Nicholson & Watson 1944

KEYWORDS: art history French posters poster collections 19th nineteenth century

$26.50
xxpgj210673

The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal


SACKVILLE-WEST, ROBERT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2014

KEYWORDS: Knole family heritage history Lord Henry Sackville West aristocracy nobility Sackville-West

$25.00
xxpgk210676

Australian Voices


KLEPAC, ARIANA (Ed) & THOMPSON, JOHN (Ed)

Quarto 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: Pier 9 2010

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history pioneers settlers diaries journals letters correspondence anecdotes

$25.00
xxpgi210684

A Legend of Retailing: House of Fraser


MOSS, MICHAEL & TURTON, ALISON

Imperial 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1989

KEYWORDS: retail history shops House of Fraser department stores

$15.00
xxpgi210685

Everyone But Phar Lap


FITZSIMONS, PETER

Imperial 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: HarperSports 1997

KEYWORDS: sport history Australia athletes

$28.50
xxpgi210686

The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird


DAVIS, JACK E

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Liveright Publishing 2022

KEYWORDS: natural history bald eagles birds conservation ornithology

$30.00
xxpgi210687

Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life


HASTINGS, SELINA

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2020

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Sybille Bedford history

$30.00
xxphb210690

The Defeat of Distance: Qantas 1919-1939


GUNN, JOHN

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 1985

KEYWORDS: signed history aviation Qantas Airways business

$18.50
xxphc210694

Town Transport in Camera


JOYCE, J

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1980

KEYWORDS: transport history photography photos passenger

$30.00
xxphc210697

The Roman World 44bc - ad180


GOODMAN, MARTIN & SHERWOOD, JANE

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Routledge 1999

KEYWORDS: ancient history Rome roman antiquity empire

$15.00
xxphc210698

The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery


MILLER, JOHN CHESTER

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Free Press 1977

KEYWORDS: US presidents slavery Thomas Jefferson history civil rights

$100.00
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The Kings of Arabia: The Rise and Set of the Turkish Sovranty in the Arabian Peninsula


JACOB, HAROLD F

First edition. Demy 8vo, pp. 294 + [6 (advts)]; blue buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, foxing & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; pasted slip peeled from front pastedown; moderate foxing throughout; light to moderate cracking to central gutters).

PUBLISHER: Mills & Boon 1923

KEYWORDS: Harold F Jacob Arab Arabia Kings Arabian Peninsula politics political history Turkish 20th century first edition

$47.50
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The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement


ANTONIUS, GEORGE

8vo, pp. 471; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; foldout maps; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); lacking d/w.

PUBLISHER: Khayat's College Book Cooperative

KEYWORDS: George Antonius Arabia Arabian peninsula politics political history

$65.00
2i26aa/8

Frontiers and Wars: His Four Early Books Covering His Life as Soldier and War Correspondent


CHURCHILL, WINSTON S

First edition. Super 8vo, pp. 567; blue buckram bds, red label to spine letteredin gilt; frontis., plates; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate, soiling tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's stamp in purple ink to ffep); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & foxing; price clipped to front flap).

PUBLISHER: eyre & Spottideoode 1962

KEYWORDS: Winston S Churchill war warfare life lives biography autobiography military history

$75.00
2i26aa/11

The Black Truffle: Its History, Uses and Cultivation


HALL, IAN R & BROWN, GORDON T & BYARS, JAMES & DIMAS, NELSON

Second edition. Super 8vo, pp. [4] + 107; black heavy card bds, front board lettered in gilt, tree motfi to front baord in gilt; patterned eps, photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soilign to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling).

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research 1994

KEYWORDS: New Zealand food crop food black truffle history uses cultivation

$40.00
2i26aa/19

Let Dons Delight: Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common-Room


KNOX, RONALD A

First edition. Ex-library. 8vo, pp. [8] + 280; black buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; top edge stained yellow; 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 to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; library stamps in blue ink to ffep, rfep, ht, tp, p. 1, 139, & 279; light cracking to central & rear gutters; spine cocked); in d/w VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; price clipped to front flap; sm open tears to spine extrems).

PUBLISHER: Sheed & Ward 1939

KEYWORDS: Ronald A Knox essays academic life Oxford College conversation social history criticism

$48.50
2i26aa/20

The Story of the Sail


CLOWES, G S LAIRD; TREW, CECIL G (illus.)

Imp. 8vo, pp. 147; blue cl bds, spine lettered in gilt; top edge stained black; illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to central & rear gutters; spine sl cocked; light foxing throughout; some tearing to top edge of text); in d/w, G (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; many lg closed tears to edges, some open tears to spine; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1936

KEYWORDS: transport ships sail sailing history illustrated sailors

$100.00
2i26aa/21

The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or An Account of the ancient and present State of that Place, to which is added a particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, &c. &c. within the Circumference of Six


SPRANGE, J

Rebound. Foolscap 8vo, pp. xii + 336; bd full in brown leather bds, red label to spine lettered in green; all edges deckled, frontis., opp. ornate dedication, foldout plates & table; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: J. Sprange 1801

KEYWORDS: J Sprage travel description travelling England Britain 19th social history towns villages

$37.50
2i26aa/22

John Deere's Company: A History of Deere & Company and Its Times


BROEHL, WAYNE G

Super 8vo, pp. xvi + 870 +[10 (index)]; brown cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, plough motif in blind to front board; illus. tp, photos, plates, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges; minor soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Doubleday & Company 1984

KEYWORDS: John Deere industry agricultural agriculture company business 19th 20th century history

$47.50
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The Martyrdom of Man


READE, WINWOOD

Crown 8vo, pp. viii + 544; green cl bds, spine lettered in gilt, roll-tooled border in blind to front board; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to joints & spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to central & rear gutters; light to moderate foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Trubner & Co, 1887

KEYWORDS: Winwood Reade war warfare military history religion religious North Africa ancient medieval mediaeval Europe European

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