Books - "history"
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The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns
Octavo, yellow buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in blue, front board decorated in blue, red & gilt; illus., photos, plates, folding map; xiv + 360 + [4 (advts)] pp.; VG- (moderate to heavy soiling to boards, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping; light soiling to pg edges; light cracking to fr gutters).
PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1898
KEYWORDS: Cuba Cuban Porto Rica Rican military history 19th nineteenth century
The March on Paris and the Battle of the Marne, 1914
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, brown cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; frontis., map to rear; xii + 175 + [4 (advts)] pp.; VG- (moderate to heavy soiling & scuffing to boards, heavy bruising to edges & extrems w heavy chipping & loss to joints, board edges & spine; moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims; annotations in pencil throughout; )
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1920
KEYWORDS: ww1 First World War One 1 France Germany military history first edition
Men from Under the Sky: The Arrival of Westeners
FIRST EDITION. Sm octavo, orange cl boards, spine lettered in white & blue; illus. eps, frontis., illus., plates; 327 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; price clipped).
PUBLISHER: Charles R. Tuttle Company 1973
KEYWORDS: Westeners social history colonial Fiji Fijians European American pacific islands
Cooper Cars
Super octavo, red card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; illus. eps, frontis., photos; 376 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling, scuffing & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Osprey 1991
KEYWORDS: car cars automobiles automobile history 20th twentieth century
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Imp. octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., photos; xiv + 331 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing, light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989
KEYWORDS: China Chinese pottery history handbook guide introduction ceramics
Counting the Cost: The 1981 Springbok Tour in Wellington
Quarto, red stapled illus light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper, [4] + 75pp, VG (moderate adhesive staining to spine area on both wrappers, moderate fading & light creasing to wrapper edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & title page, minor staining & foxing to inside rear covers)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University History Dept Occasional Paper No 1, Wellington 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history rugby union Springbok tour 1981 Wellington South Africa Springboks protests racism apartheid
Bugle and Kukri: The Story of The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt military insignia to front board, frontispiece, xvii + 492pp, illus/photos, in page maps- counted & all present VG- (moderate water damage to base of boards & page block- some mould staining with slight musty aroma, light bruising to extrems, other minor soiling to boards, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor tanning throughout, binding a little wobbly, sl occasional cracking to gutters, moderate but occasional annotation in ink to margins) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate to heavy staining)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: first editions military history 10th tenth Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles gurkhas rifle regiments infantry
John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1923
FIRST EDITION, heavy archival repairs to spine, sm octavo, yellow light card wrappers- faded, 607pp, G+ (v heavy archival tape repairs to spine- spine heavily cracked, moderate fading & foxing to wrappers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters throughout - a rather delicate item)
PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1923
KEYWORDS: Wisden's cricketers' almanacks John Wisden sport history statistics cricket first editions
Mexico: Through Foreign Eyes / Visto Por Ojos Extranjeros 1850-1990
DUAL ENGLISH SPANISH TEXT. Quarto, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, photographs throughout, 320pp VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl scuffing and soiling to lower board edges, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling to front/rear end pages, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in protective plastic cover, easily removed if desired, sl wear on edges, prev. owner's sm adhesive label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton and Company 1993
KEYWORDS: DUAL ENGLISH SPANISH TEXT Mexico photography culture history anthropology art essays
Photographs of a Lifetime
Quarto with grey heavy boards, silver gilt letter to maroon cloth spine & silver gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, photographs throughout, 183pp, VG+ (sl scuffing and soiling to board ends, sl soiling & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (in protective plastic cover, easily removed if desired, sl tanning to spine & edges, minor archival repair to prevent tearing on upper spine, security tag from prev bookseller internal with adhesive staining showing through to face of rear ).
PUBLISHER: Apeture Foundation 1995
KEYWORDS: photography Dorothea Lange americana history culture art depression era world travel
The Navy in the Dardanelles Campaign
Octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine, foldout map as frontispiece, 288pp VG ( minor chafing and wear to spine and boards, sl bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges and eps, light foxing and cracking to gutters throughout, ex-libris embossed/stamp to ffep).
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1924
KEYWORDS: Lord Wester Weymyss navel history Britain UK dardanelles WWI Gallipoli world war one WW1 Ottoman Turkey first 1st world war
America & the Daguerreotype
Quarto, illus light card wrappers, blue and white lettering to spine, xii+273pp, VG+ ( moderate fading to spine, sl scuffing to extrems & permanant marker strike across lower page edges, sl soiling & tanning to rear of wrapper, previous booksellers sticker on front of wrapper)
PUBLISHER: University of Iowa Press, 1991
KEYWORDS: photography photographs daguerreotype America USA americana history essays academic photographic process collection
August Sander: 'In Photography There are no Unexplained Shadows!'
Quarto with white boards, black lettering to spine and front board, illus/photographs throughout, viii + 270pp, VG+ (sl scuffing/tanning to spine and board extrems, minor soiling to front/rear boards, previous bookseller's sticker on front pastedown, minor soiling/tanning to page edges, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w VG+ (in removable plastic wrapper, minor tanning & creasing to extrems).
PUBLISHER: National Portrait Gallery 1997
KEYWORDS: August Sander photography photographs Germany history poraiture 20th century
Andy Warhol: Drawings 1942 - 1987
Lg quarto, heavy grey cloth boards, grey lettering on spine, frontispiece, illus/photos, 320pp, VG+ (light bruising on upper corner of front & rear boards, sl soiling to rear board, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ ( tanning on spine and extrems, sl creasing to upper corners, in easily removable plastic protective wrapper).
PUBLISHER: The Andy Warhol Museum 1998
KEYWORDS: Andy Warhol pop art New York America drawings sketches essay history print 20th century
Alfred Eisenstaedt: People
Lg quarto, heavy red cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, illus/photos, 269pp + index to rear, VG+ (light fading to spine and board edges, sl plucking to cloth, sl soiling and tanning to page edges, minor tanning & foxing to eps, sl soiling throughout) in d/w VG ( in easily removable protective wrapper, minor tanning and wear to extrems, open tear to top of spine repaired with paper, light creasing and scuffing on rear, minor foxing on interior, previous bookseller's sticker on front flap)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1973
KEYWORDS: Alfred Eisenstaedt people life photography photographs politics journalism life 20th century history world famous subjects
PLato's Meno
Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; viii + 474 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; some annotation to eps, throughout); in d/w VG (light to moderate tanning, foxing, soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with chipping; price clipped).
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: classics classical history literature Plato philosophy virtue knowledge belief soul R S Bluck
Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard
Octavo, blue card boards, cl spine lettered in gilt; [vi] + 282 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (sl soiling & rubbing, light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1996
KEYWORDS: Tao Taoist Taoism China Liping Wang Chinese history
Old Clocks and Watches & Their Makers: Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past, in England and Abroad
Super octavo, brown cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, triple filleted panel, device & lettering in blind to front board; frontis., photos, illus.; xii + 822 pp.; VG- (light to moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals; bookseller sticker & stamp to ffep; tearing to fr pastedown; ownership inscr to ht; moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters, bdg sloppy; light tanning throughout).
PUBLISHER: E. & F. N. Spon (1922?)
KEYWORDS: F J Britten timepiece clock clocks watch watches social history style
Reconcilitation, Representation and Indigeneity: 'Biculturalism' in Aotearoa New Zealand
Super octavo, illus. card boards; 222 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; some pencil annotation throughout)
PUBLISHER: Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand multiculturalism multicultural social history
Memoirs of a Social Democrat
2 VOL SET. Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; x + 336, x + 337-688 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate to vol. 2; moderate fading to spine; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, w some chipping to spine head of vol. 1; light soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps; bookplate to fr pastedown; some pencil annotation; light foxing thoughout).
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1929
KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography social history 19th 20th century