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$22.50
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Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text


SHARPE, JENNY

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: University of Minnesota Press 1993

KEYWORDS: jenny sharpe colonialism women gender history

$19.50
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The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth Century England


MCKENDRICK, NEIL & BREWER, JOHN & PLUMB J H

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: Indiana University Press

KEYWORDS: comsumer society economics commercialization history

$17.50
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A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church 1628-1688


HILL, CHRISTOPHER

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 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: Alfred A Knopf 1988

KEYWORDS: john bunyan memoir history christian church protestant england

$22.50
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Roman Colonization Under the Republic


SALMON, E T

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: Cornell University Press 1970

KEYWORDS: roman empire history colonization republic e t salmon

$35.00
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Scipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician


SCULLARD, H H

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: Cornell University Press 1970

KEYWORDS: roman empire history scipio africanus politics h h scullard

$16.50
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Submarine Command: A Pictorial History


LONGSTAFF, REGINALD

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: Book Club Associates 1984

KEYWORDS: submarine naval history military navy submersible command

$16.50
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Wellington's Army


ROGERS, COLONEL HCB

TIDY 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: Ian Allen 1979

KEYWORDS: wellington army military history british

$18.50
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Churchill and America


GILBERT, MARTIN

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: Free Press 2005

KEYWORDS: william churchill british prime minister american history

$24.50
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Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire


SATIA, PRIYA

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: Penguin Random House 2020

KEYWORDS: priya satia colonialism british empire history colonisation

$27.50
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James Boswell: The Earlier Years 1740-1769


POTTLE, FREDERICK A

FIRST EDITION, 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: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1966

KEYWORDS: james boswell history memoir biography

$15.00
xxzei220139

French Tapestries from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries


DIGBY, GEORGE WINGFIELD

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: B T Batsford Ltd 1951

KEYWORDS: french tapestries textile history george wingfield digby

$32.50
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1st King's Dragoon Guards, A Brief Pictorial Record of the Regiment: 1685-1958


N/A

Oblong 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: Gale & Polden Ltd

KEYWORDS: english military history king's dragoon guards militaria 1st the queen's dragoon guards

$85.00
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Characters and Episodes of The Great Rebellion, Selected from The History and Autobiography of Edward, Earl of Clarendon


BOYLE, The Very Rev G D (Ed & Notes) & EDWARD, EARL OF CLARENDON (Selections)

Octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering/tooling/decoration & raised bands to spine, gilt decorative borders to boards, gilt insignia to front board, marbled page edges & eps, xv + 367pp, VG (light chipping/bruising to spine extrems- sl loss, sl scuffing to boards & edges, minor tanning to page edges, prize/presentation plate to front pastedown, light foxing & soiling to prelims, 3cm crack to top of front gutter, minor cracking to rear gutter)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1889

KEYWORDS: history England English civil war Edward Earl of Clarendon

$300.00
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The VC and DSO: A Complete Record of all Those Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men (3 Vol Set)


CREAGH, Sir O'MOORE & HUMPHRIS, E M (Eds)

3 VOL SET, quarto, half leather bound red buckram boards, gilt lettering to black leather title plates on spines, other gilt & raised bands to spines, top page edges stained black, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG (slpeeling to title plates on spines, minor bruising/scuffing to extrems, sl rubbing to spines & boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, contemporary eps, facsimile reprint index to rear of vol 1, minor cracking to gutters, moderate sporadic soiling throughout, lg closed tear with archival tape repair to half title page of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: The Standard Art Book Co N/D

KEYWORDS: military history heroism war heroes VC DSO Victoria Cross Distinguished Service Order recipients bravery courage medals awards

$245.00
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Fernleaf: The Ex-Servicemen's Magazine (12 Issues, 1939, Bound Together in One Vol)


SALMON, PERCY (Ed & Publisher)

12 ISSUES 1939, COMPLETE & BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE VOL, imperial octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, mixed pagination, illus, VG (moderate rubbing & surface loss to spine & board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, front half of ffep missing, moderate tanning & foxing to eps, light to moderate tanning & soiling throughout)

PUBLISHER: Fernleaf / Percy Salmon 1939

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military publications past issues war history Fernleaf magazines ex-servicemen

$50.00
3a4/35

Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy: Forty-Ninth Academic Year 1893-94


N/A

Octavo, half leather bound mauve buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt 'general assembly New Zealand' insignia to front board, red speckling to page edges, 98pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to board edges, sl chafing to boards, general assembly plate to front pastedown, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, sm ink stamp to title page)

PUBLISHER: Washington, Government Printer 1893

KEYWORDS: US America American military history naval academy academies annual registers academic

$50.00
3a4/41

American Samoa: 100 Years Under the United States Flag (Centennial Edition)


SHAFFER, J ROBERT

FIRST EDITION, quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 213pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, minor wrinkling & soiling to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, minor scuffing to flap edges/folds)

PUBLISHER: Island Heritage Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: first editions American Samoa centenary centennial history culture

$950.00
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The Regimental History of the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles (From April 1815 to December 1927)


WOODYATT, Maj.-Gen. NIGEL C

SCARCE, 7 FOLDING MAPS- ALL PRESENT, SIGNED BY 24 MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT (11 FROM BURMA 1942 & 13 FROM BURMA 1946), super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military insignia to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, ix + (3) + 441pp, G+ (heavy scuffing & chipping to spine/extrems with moderate cracking to hinges, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy cracking to gutter of title page- boards sl shaky & frontis sl loose, minro cracking to other gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Philip Allan & Co 1929

KEYWORDS: military history 3rd third Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles regiment regimental signed

$40.00
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Stuka Squadron: Stukagruppe 77 - The Luftwaffe's 'Fire Brigade'


SMITH, PETER C

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, minor foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1990

KEYWORDS: military history German Germany luftwaffe fire brigade Stuka squadron Stukagruppe 77 ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$180.00
3a4/49

The Maori Battalion Remembers (3 Vols)


LAMBERT, H C A (Intro)

3 VOLS, quarto, stapled illus light card wrappers, coloured lettering to front covers, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing/curling & tanning to cover edges, moderate soiling to covers, moderate pencil stabbing marks to front cover & prelims of vol 2, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Rem Publications N/D (c.1980s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori military history Maori Battalion 28 28th

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