Books - "history"
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A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India
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
Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers
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
Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
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
Poisoned Peace: 1945 - The War that Never Ended
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
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
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
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for Mastery of the Middle East
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
Waffen-SS in Action
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
The Story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: 6th Edition (Revised)
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
British Lorries of the 1950s
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
Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits: Huntley and Palmers of Reading 1822-1972
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
The Dodge Story
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
The Essential Kafir (Second Edition)
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
Foden in New Zealand
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
The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939
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
Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
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PUBLISHER: Bodley Head / Random House 2014
KEYWORDS: Mau Mau uprising war British military colonial Kenyan history Kenya colonialism
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
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
Rule Britannia: Trading on the British Image
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
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
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
The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy
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
Framing the Sign: Criticism and its Institutions
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