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English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron


ROUSSEAU, GEORGE S & RUDENSTINE, NEIL L

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

$24.50
xxawe220000

The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire


RICHARDS, THOMAS

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

$30.00
xxaxa220002

The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning


LYNCH, DIEDRE SHAUNA

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

$25.00
xxaxa220004

English Satire and the Satiric Tradition


RAWSON, CLAUDE (ED.) & MEZCIEMS, JENNY

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: Basil Blackwell 1984

KEYWORDS: satire literary criticism theory history satiric tradition

$16.50
xxaxa220008

The New Historicism


VEESER, H ARAM (ED.)

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

$16.50
xxaxb220010

Empires


DOYLE, MICHAEL W

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

$22.50
xxaxb220011

Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting


TOBIN, BETH FOWKES

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

$17.50
xxaxb220012

Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright


ROSE, MARK

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

$40.00
3a5/23

Shakespeare: Staging the World


BATE, JONATHAN & THORNTON, DORA

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

$60.00
3a5/24

The Universe, or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little


POUCHET, F A & DAVIS, J R AINSWORTH (Revised & Ed)

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

$40.00
3a5/27

The Japanese Thrust


WIGMORE, LIONEL

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

$45.00
3a5/36

Kia Kaha: Life at 3 New Zealand General Hospital 1940-1946


COCKS, E M SOMER

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

$75.00
3a5/37

Memoirs of General Sir George Richards Greaves


GREAVES, General Sir GEORGE RICHARD & HAIG, Field-Marshal Earl (Fore)

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

$50.00
3a5/38

The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)


BRETT-SMITH, RICHARD & HORROCKS, Lt-General Sir BRIAN (Ed)

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

$160.00
3a5/39

The Red Glutton: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front


COBB, IRVIN S

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

$60.00
3a5/41

Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851


HENRY, PHILIP (5th EARL STANHOPE)

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

$45.00
3a5/42

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


KENRICK, Colonel N C E & The Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (Fore)

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

$50.00
3a5/43

Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Second Edition)


VAN CREVELD, MARTIN

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

$40.00
3a5/44

The Lifeblood of War: Logistics in Armed Conflict


THOMPSON, Major General JULIAN

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

$60.00
3a4/5

Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present


LYNN, JOHN A (Ed)

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

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