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Simple Custom: Cheerfully Illustrated
Imperial octavo 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1954
KEYWORDS: history social customs rites culture illustrated chivalry
The Europeans in Australia: A History Volume One, The Beginning
First Edition. Imperial 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: academia history Australian settlers Europe colonialism British empire
The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution 1763 - 1789
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1968
KEYWORDS: America USA American history revolution British empire essay academia politics war military rebellion
Portraits and Autographs [Lacks title page]
LACKS TITLE/COPYRIGHT PAGE, ALBUM OF PORTRAITS AND SIGNATURE REPRODUCTIONS, imperial octavo, half leatherbound black buckram boards, no lettering to spine or boards, red speckling to page edges, 160pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & boards with some minor surface loss & soiling, minor tanning to page edges, moderate discolouration to front & rear eps, dark & somewhat humourous pencil annotations [dead - historical & could probably do with an update!] to some portraits, minor pencil markings & annotation to index pages also, moderate creasing & soiling/foxing throughout, some page edges have paper reinforcement either to fore-edge or at gutter)
PUBLISHER: Unavailable c.1891
KEYWORDS: historical portraits signatures collections figures history William W T Stead
Featherston Military Training Camp
THIRD EDITION, TIDILY RECASED RETAINING ORIGINAL COVERS, BOTH FOLDING PLATES PRESENT, octavo, red buckram soft boards, white lettering to front board only [spine blank], frontispiece, 112pp, illus, 2x folding plates to rear, VG (moderate scuffing & fading to spine, light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, occasional minor cracking to gutters, sl water staining to head of front gutter, sl tanning & foxing to prelims, light creasing & chipping to edges of folding plates)
PUBLISHER: NZEF / New Zealand Expeditionary Force N/D (c.1917?)
KEYWORDS: NZEF New Zealand NZ military history Featherston Military Camp early 20th twentieth century
Raghbah: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Quarto, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to boards, 247pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl foxing to page edges, ink stamp 'cancelled duplicate' to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing) in slipcase, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling, light bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Impact/BBDO N/D
KEYWORDS: Saudi Arabia culture history Islam muslim Raghbah
Winter in Egypt: Illustrated Guide of the Egyptian State Railways
Slim octavo, illus light card wrappers, red lettering & brown illus to front wrapper, lovely folding map of Egypt railway system to verso of beginning of chapter 1, 101pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & archival repair to spine, moderate to heavy soiling to wrappers, bottom 1cm of spine base missing, moderate creasing & tearing/chipping to wrapper edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, v heavy cracking at front gutter- binding partially exposed, moderate staining & tape repair to inside front wrapper, moderate tanning & soiling to prelims, light to moderate foxing to folding map, 4cm closed tear to left side of folding map, moderate cracking to gutter of pgs88/89)
PUBLISHER: J Barreau N/D (c.1912)
KEYWORDS: travel history exploration Egypt rail trains railways guides
James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual for 1886
Sm octavo, orange stiff card wrappers, black lettering to wrappers, inside wrappers printed, unpaginated prelims, 275pp, VG- (heavy discolouration to spine, ink '86' to spine, moderate fading to text on wrappers, moderate creasing & soiling to wrappers, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate glue/scuffing marks to front gutter- some minor loss, verso of full title page missing, prev. owner's name in ink to title & contents page, other ink markings throughout- historic)
PUBLISHER: James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co / Wright & Co (The Cricket Press) 1886
KEYWORDS: cricketers' almanacks James Lillywhite history past years 19th nineteenth century
Red, White, and Black: The Early Peoples of America
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall Inc 1982
KEYWORDS: Europe America Native American history academia civilization colonisation settler culture anthropology colonial slavery
The Frontier Camp Meeting: Religion's Harvest Time
Super octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Southern Methodist University Press 1955
KEYWORDS: academia history religion frontier America USA United States settler theology church culture
Money & Power
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Inter-varsity Press 1984
KEYWORDS: religion economy academia ideology history Jacques Ellul Christianity
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Little Brown 2007
KEYWORDS: first edition literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt memoir history
Palimpsest: A Memoir
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Random House 1995
KEYWORDS: first edition literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt memoir history
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
First Edition. Super octavo hardcover (NF) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2015
KEYWORDS: first edition literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt biography history Jay Parini
Gore Vidal: A Biography
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1999
KEYWORDS: literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt biography history Fred Kaplan
Hal Porter: Man of Many Parts
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Random House 1993
KEYWORDS: first edition literature Hal Porter Australia biography history Mary Lord
Andre Gide: A Life in the Present
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: ex-library literature Andre Gide Alan Sheridan biography history lgbt bisexual gay
Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
KEYWORDS: First Editition literature Charles Jackson Blake Bailey biography history lgbt queer gay
John Addington Symonds: A Biography
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Longmans 1964
KEYWORDS: literature John Addington Symonds biography victorian history lgbt gay queer
The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Westview Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Namibia anthropology history colonial settler colonisation Africa academia bushmen Robert Gordon Stuart Sholto Douglas politics South Africa