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$22.50
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A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India


ALLEN, CHARLES

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: Andre Deutsch 1982

KEYWORDS: Tibetian mountains history travel mythology Tibet Kailas mountain lake folklore myth

$15.00
xxbhd219950

Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers


SZASZ, THOMAS

Ex-library 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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1975

KEYWORDS: narcotics drug use social history addiction cultural commentary

$26.50
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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa


PAICE, EDWARD

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 2007

KEYWORDS: the great war East Africa campaign military colonial history

$22.50
xxacd219953

Poisoned Peace: 1945 - The War that Never Ended


DALLAS, GREGOR

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: John Murray / Hodder 2005

KEYWORDS: European history post-WW2 politics Europe

$30.00
xxacd219954

Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945


BAYLY, CHRISTOPER & HARPER, TIM

Super octavo hardcover (VG cracking to gutter) 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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2004

KEYWORDS: British Asia colonial military history 1940s

$32.50
xxacd219955

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for Mastery of the Middle East


BARR, JAMES

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: Simon & Schuster 2011

KEYWORDS: British French colonial history Middle East Syria Iraq Palestine Lebanon

$18.50
xxacd219956

Waffen-SS in Action


HARMS, NORMAN & VOLSTAD, RON (ILLUS.)

Oblong imperial octavo, stapled wrappers (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: Squadron/Signal Publications 1973

KEYWORDS: Waffen-SS military history uniforms tanks transport b&w photos colour illustrations

$18.50
xxacd219957

The Story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: 6th Edition (Revised)


GRAHAM, BRIGADIER-GENERAL C A L

Octavo stapled wrappers (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: Royal Artillery Institution 1962

KEYWORDS: royal regiment of artillery British military history

$34.50
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British Lorries of the 1950s


BOBBITT, MALCOLM

Oblong 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: Veloce 2009

KEYWORDS: British transport history commercial vehicles vintage lorries 1950s photos illustrations colour b&w

$225.00
3a5/2

Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits: Huntley and Palmers of Reading 1822-1972


CORLEY, T A B

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR & MR PALMER, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xii + (4) + 320pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl soiling & rubbing to boards/edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, G+ (heavy tearing & loss to edges- archival tape repairs, light fading to spine, other light creasing & chipping/tearing/staining to edges, light general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1972

KEYWORDS: Huntley Palmers crackers biscuits history Quakers signed first editions

$45.00
3a5/7

The Dodge Story


McPHERSON, THOMAS A

Quarto, illus heavy boards, red lettering to spine & front board, red illus to front board, illus prelims, 320pp, illus/photos, light bruising & scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing plus moderate tape staining to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & title page, sl soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Crestline Publishing 1975

KEYWORDS: automotive history Dodge cars design evolution development engineering transport

$40.00
3a5/10

The Essential Kafir (Second Edition)


KIDD, DUDLEY

Super octavo, beige buckram boards, yellow lettering & yellow/black illus to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 436pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling to spine, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sl soiling/cracking to gutters, minor creasing to folding map)

PUBLISHER: A & C Black 1925

KEYWORDS: anthropology history cultures tribes Kafir South African

$60.00
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Foden in New Zealand


CARTER, GRAEME & LOWE, DAVID

SCARCE, oblong octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, printed inside covers, 80pp, illus/photos, VG- (4cm closed tear & moderate creasing to front cover & title page, othger sl creasing & curling to spine & covers, 2cm closed tear to top edge of front cover with archival tape repair, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: G T Carter Transport Books 2004

KEYWORDS: transport history Foden hgv heavy vehicles trucks lorries New Zealand

$20.00
xxadf219961

The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939


EVANS, RICHARD J

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, contains maps but not plates as such; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin Books 2005

KEYWORDS: third Reich Nazi Germany German political history world war two

$26.50
xxadf219962

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya


ELKINS, CAROLINE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Bodley Head / Random House 2014

KEYWORDS: Mau Mau uprising war British military colonial Kenyan history Kenya colonialism

$20.00
xxadf219963

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War


SHERRY, VINCENT (ED.)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: first world war literary guide criticism history WW2 literature

$20.00
xxzdc219965

Rule Britannia: Trading on the British Image


OPIE, ROBERT

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Viking 1985

KEYWORDS: British advertising history branding vintage commerical art packaging design b&w and colour illustrations

$17.50
xxzdc219967

The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World


SMITH, RUPERT

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2005

KEYWORDS: industrial warfare military history

$16.50
xxzdc219968

The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy


WALLACE, JENNIFER

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: tragedy literary guide criticism history literature

$20.00
xxzdc219969

Framing the Sign: Criticism and its Institutions


CULLER, JONATHAN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1988

KEYWORDS: criticism literary cultural politicial history essays

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