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$32.50
xxhaa223072

Unnatural History: An Illustrated Bestiary


CLAIR, COLIN

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: Abelard-Schuman 1968

KEYWORDS: history folklore lore beasts animals mythical

$15.00
xxhaa223079

An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750-1990


CHARLESWORTH, ANDREW et al & OLIVER, ED (Cartography)

Imperial 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: Macmillan Press 1996

KEYWORDS: history Great Britain British human geography industrial protests activism

$22.50
xxhaa223081

Cambridge Orations 1982-1993: A Selection


DIGGLE, JAMES

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: academic history Cambridge University orations Latin speeches James Diggle

$15.00
xxhaa223087

Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age


MADDOCKS, FIONA

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: Review 2002

KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies Hildegard of Bingen

$28.50
xxhaa223092

Jungle Dragoon: The Memoir of an Armored Cav Platoon Leader in Vietnam


WALKER, PAUL D

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: Presidio 1999

KEYWORDS: Vietnam war southeast Asia military history jungle warfare

$19.50
xxhcf223106

Herculine Barbin; Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite


BARBIN, HERCULINE & FOUCAULT, MICHEL (Intro) & McDOUGALL, RICHARD (Trans)

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: Pantheon Books 1980

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Herculine Barbin history hermaphrodites

$30.00
xxhec223127

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story


KING JR, MARTIN LUTHER & HUDDLESTON, TREVOR (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1959

KEYWORDS: first editions Martin Luther King Jr history civil rights

$15.00
xxhec223130

Irish Voices: An Informal History 1916-1966


SOMERVILLE-LARGE, PETER

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: Pimlico 2000

KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history Peter Somerville-Large

$18.50
xxhef223131

Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora


COOGAN, TIM PAT

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: Hutchinson 2000

KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history emigration diaspora

$22.50
xxhef223137

Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900


DECKER, HANNAH S

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: The Free Press 1990

KEYWORDS: hysteria psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Vienna history

$25.00
xxheg223139

Debussy: A Painter in Sound


WALSH, STEPHEN

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in 3/4 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: Faber & Faber 2018

KEYWORDS: classical music composers biography biographies memoir history Debussy

$22.50
xxheg223141

Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt


WALKER, SUSAN (Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: British Museum Press 2000

KEYWORDS: art history portraits Roman Egypt mummies

$19.50
xxheg223149

Chopin's Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism


KILDEA, PAUL

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2018

KEYWORDS: Frederic Chopin classical music composers preludes biography history memoir

$90.00
3g2/17

Winston S Churchill: Volume I Companion; Part 1 1874-1896 & Part 2 1896-1900


CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S

FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges dyed red, mixed pagination, VG+ (slight scuffing & rubbing to boards, spines & edges, slight bruising to spines, v slight soiling to page edges & pastedowns, vertical crease to spine of volume 1) in d/w VG (light chipping to edges, slight soiling & tanning to jackets, 1cm & 2cm closed tear to volume 1 jacket hinge)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967

KEYWORDS: winston s churchill memoir biography history britain british randolph s churchill

$70.00
3g2/18

Behold the Moon: The European Occupation of the Dunedin District 1770-1848; Revised Edition


ENTWISLE, PETER

SIGNED, REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo softcover, illus blue light card wrappers, white text to spine & wrapper, 300pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to edges of spine, wrapper & hinge crease, slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Port Daniel Press 1999

KEYWORDS: dunedin colonisation colonialism new zealand aotearoa history european pakeha maori relations otepoti otago peter entwisle signed

$60.00
3g2/25

British Box Business: A History of OCL (Overseas Containers Limited)


BOTT, ALAN (ed)

Imperial octavo, navy blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to front board & spine, illus prelim, 288pp, illus, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of spine, light foxing & soiling to upper page edges, light soiling to pastedowns, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing & rubbing to edges, v slight tanning & foxing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Scara 2009

KEYWORDS: british shipping maritime merchant navy ocl overseas containers limited logistics history alan bott

$120.00
3g2/26

The Art of Making a Harpsichord


MARTIN, DARRYL

Quarto, light grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight bruising to spine, slight tanning to pages) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to front jacket hinge, v slight tanning to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 2012

KEYWORDS: harpsichord keyboard instrument making darryl martin musical history

$45.00
3g2/27

China's Treaty Ports: Half Love and Half Hate


ELDER, CHRIS (selected & edited by)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & black text to spine & wrapper, illus eps, xxviii + 258pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & warping to spine, slight tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: chris elder china british relations colonialism treaty ports shipping trade european american chinese history

$47.50
3g2/28

Victory Ships and Tankers: The History of the 'Victory' Type Cargo Ships and of the Tankers Built in the United States of America during World War II


SAWYER, L A & MITCHELL, W H & LINDSAY, JOHN S (drawings)

Imperial octavo, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 230pp, illus, VG (v slight bruising & rubbing to spine & edges, light to moderate foxing thoughout, damp staining to rear pastedown & rep, sporadic pen annotations throughout) in d/w VG (light fading & soiling to jacket, light to moderate chipping to spine, 1cm & 2cm closed tears to hinge of jacket, slight creasing to edges of jacket, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1974

KEYWORDS: victory ships tankers world war ii two america cargo ships history

$45.00
3g2/29

Old Peking: City of the Ruler of the World


ELDER, CHRIS (selected & edited by)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, tan & black text to spine & wrapper, illus eps, ix + 302pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine, slight creasing to corner of wrapper, slight tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: chris elder china relations colonialism chinese history peking imperial china

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