Books - "history"
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She is My Son: The Adrienne Clarke Story
Quarto 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: Aphrodite Press
KEYWORDS: transgender stories transsexual lgbt lgbtqia+ queer life history
Reelin' and Rockin': The Golden Age of Rock 'n Roll Movies
Quarto staplebound 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: The Printing Place
KEYWORDS: rock n roll rock'n'roll movie music culture history
1900
Oblong 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1982
KEYWORDS: rebecca west culture sociology history
German Rococo: The Zimmermann Brothers
Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); 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 the Penguin Press 1968
KEYWORDS: german rococo art history
Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century
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: Thames and Hudson 1975
KEYWORDS: eighteenth century english art history
Back to Sunny Seas
Octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 287pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & sopradically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1905
KEYWORDS: colonial library series travel history writing literature West Indies Frank T Bullen
The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, xii + 370pp, illus, vG (light rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to base of ffep, occasional light foxing & staining to pages throughout) in d/w, G+ (v heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges & spine- some patches of moderate loss, heavy creasing to flaps, minor tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1948
KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies memoir Su Tungpo literary
British Policy Towards West Africa: Select Documents 1786-1874
Ex-library, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxviii + 656pp, folding map to prelims, VG (usual library markings, minor adhesive staining/residue to base of boards, light chafing & soiling plus sm patch of paper residue to rear board, minor tanning & staining to page edges, minor creasing & adhesive staining to eps) in d/w, VG (in plastic cover with adhesive edges- edges of jacket likely stained, all corners lightly clipped, minor tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: history British politics foreign policy West Africa 18th 19th eighteenth nineteenth century
The Balloon Buster: Frank Luke of Arizona
Octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt lettering & aviation illus to front board, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 191pp, illus, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges, distributor's label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Arno Press 1972
KEYWORDS: aviation history biography Frank Luke
Better Eyesight: The Complete Magazines of William H Bates
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown & blue lettering to spine, xxv + 708pp, Near FINE (minor bruising to top corner of rear)
PUBLISHER: North Atlantic Books 2000
KEYWORDS: William H Bates opthamology vision eyesight works orthoptics history medical
Civilization and Capitalism 15th - 18th Century [3 Vol Set]: The Structures of Everyday Life ; The Wheels of Commerce ; The Perspective of the World
3 VOL SET, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to sipnes, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (minor creasing & soiling to spines & covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2002
KEYWORDS: history capitalism finance financial wealth business economics commerce
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + (4) + 234pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & soiling to spine, label residue to rear, light general soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese natural history bencao gangmu systematic materia medica herbal medicine
Buffon: A Life in Natural History
Super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 492pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light wrinkling at spine area, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: natural history Georges Buffon naturalists biography nature
The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to black spine, frontispiece, xix + 209pp, illus, VG+ (ghost lettering to front board from jacket, light bruising & fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Westholme Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: ancient history popular science biography Anaximander Greek philosophy philosophers
Place-Names of Banks Peninsula: A Topographical History
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, printed inside covers, 332pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine/hinges, sl soiling to page edges, sl foxing to title page)
PUBLISHER: Cadsonbury Publications 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand topography topographical history place names Banks Peninsula
A Photographer's Life With Disneyland Under Construction (Third Edition)
Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG- (light creasing/curling & soiling to spine & covers/edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy crack to central gutter- some pages detached)
PUBLISHER: Ape Pen Publishing Company 2002
KEYWORDS: photography photos history Disneyland construction Mell Kilpatrick
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 408pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light cerasing & chipping to edges, minor chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 2001
KEYWORDS: ancient history Mediterranean antiquity Fernand Braudel
Schopenhauer: A Biography
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 575pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Arthur Schopenhaur philosophy philosophers history biography biographies memoir
Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands, Recounting Highland and Clan History, Traditions, Ecclesiology, Archaeology, Romance Literature, Humour, Folk-Lore &c
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, 511pp, illus/plates with tissue guards- not counted presumed all present, folding map to rear, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light cracking to front gutter, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's details in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Alexander Gardner N/D (c.1920)
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history Scotland Scottish highlands west western highland clan clans
Evidence in Camera: The Story of Photographic Intelligence in World War II
Octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue- faded, 256pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, sl tanning to spine & board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Quality Book Club 1957
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 photography aerial intelligence gathering