Books - "history"
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English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron
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: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1972
KEYWORDS: English poetic satire literary criticism history poets
The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire
Octavo softcover (VG) pencil annotations; 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: Verso 1993
KEYWORDS: colonial history British empire colonialism
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
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 Chicago Press 1998
KEYWORDS: literary criticism history theory fictional characters
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition
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PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1984
KEYWORDS: satire literary criticism theory history satiric tradition
The New Historicism
Super octavo softcover (VG) pencil annotations; 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: Routledge 1989
KEYWORDS: new historicism literary criticism cultural materialism anthropology feminism class history
Empires
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: Cornell University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: empires global history imperialism ancient civilisations empire
Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting
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: Duke University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: colonial art history cultural criticism paintings18th century British colonialism
Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
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: Harvard University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: copyright literary legal history
Shakespeare: Staging the World
Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ (spine sl cocked & faded, sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The British Museum Press 2012
KEYWORDS: theatre theater stage history William Shakespeare literature
The Universe, or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & gilt/coloured illus to spine & front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 576pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, light bruising ot extrems, light chafing & soiling/discolouration to boards, prize presentation plate to front pastedown, light tanning to eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to rear gutter, sporadic minor foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Blackie & Son 1902
KEYWORDS: natural history nature biology geology environment
The Japanese Thrust
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 715pp, VG (moderate fading to spine extrems, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown, gift inscription in ink to ffep, sl tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, some patches of moderate foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/loss to edges- archival tape repairs, minor fading to spine, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Australian War Memorial 1957
KEYWORDS: first editions Australia Australian war history military ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 official histories Japan Japanese
Kia Kaha: Life at 3 New Zealand General Hospital 1940-1946
ASSOCIATION COPY WITH FORMER OWNER NOTED ON FFEP, octavo, grey mottled cloth boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 285pp, illus/photos, VG (boards sl warped, light tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, minor staining to fore-edges of prelims, prev. owner's ink stamp to front & rear eps, prev. owner's annotation in ink & pencil to ffep & pg285) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping/loss & archival tape repairs to edges, heavy staining to rear, light tanning to spine, minor general soiling & wrinkling, light scuffing to front flap/folds)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 3 three general hospital forties 40s E M Somer Cocks association copies
Memoirs of General Sir George Richards Greaves
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt insignia motif to front board, frontispiece, xiii + 258pp, illus/photos, VG (minor soiling to spine, light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1924
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir General Sir George Richards Greaves East Surrey Regiment military history
The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
Octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 325pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl tanning to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & foxing, light rubbing/scuffing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1969
KEYWORDS: military history 11th eleventh hussars famous regiments series Prince Albert's own cherrypickers cavalry regiments
The Red Glutton: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, viii + 318pp, VG (moderate rubbing & soiling to spine, light bruising to extrems, light chafing/soiling to boards, minor fading to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, historical society ink stamp to ffep- no others detected, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light cracking to rear gutter, minor creasing to top corners of pgs 253-264)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1915
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war first editions
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 341pp, VG- (heavy staining to bottom corner of front board, minor bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, multiple prev. ownership markings to half title page, moderate cracking to gutter of full title page & other gutters sporadically throughout, minor soiling to prelims, occasional light pencil marking to margins)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1888
KEYWORDS: Duke of Wellington military history conversations 19th nineteenth century
The Story of the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's): The 62nd and 99th Foot (1756-1959) The Militia and the Territorials, the Service Battalions and All Those Others Who Have Served or Been Affiliated with the Moonrakers
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, maps at eps, frontispiece, xi + 324pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink stamps to ffep, annotation in ink to half title page, sl foxing to prelims, prev. owner's annotation in ink to pg84)
PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden 1963
KEYWORDS: military history the Wiltshire Regiment 62nd 99th foot British Army infantry
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Second Edition)
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, viii + (4) + 313pp, illus/maps, VG (moderate fading to spine & front cover, light creasing to cover edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: military history logistics art science supplies
The Lifeblood of War: Logistics in Armed Conflict
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxviii + 390pp, illus/maps- not counted presumed all present, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name & black marker pen to front pastedown, highlighting to text) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 2cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover, moderate fading to spine & flaps/edges/folds, light chafing & soiling, sm patch of label residue to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Brassey's 1991
KEYWORDS: army operations logistics military history supplies
Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 326pp, VG+ (minor creasing/curling to cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, minor foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Westview Press 1993
KEYWORDS: essays literature history warfare military war logistics conflict