Books - "history"
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A Concise History of the Sex Manual, 1886-1986
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: Faber and Faber 1986
KEYWORDS: sex manual social history
Louis Renault: A Biography
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: Harcourt, Brace & World 1970
KEYWORDS: life lives Louis Renault biography 20th century history
A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa
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: University of California Press 1998
KEYWORDS: Ojibwa Indians Michigan Grand Island Alger County History
The Class Struggles in France (1848-1859)
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: International Publishers 1964
KEYWORDS: Karl Marx marxism France social history class
Waiting for Dizzy: Fourteen Jazz Portraits
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: Cooper Square Press 2000
KEYWORDS: music jazz history criticism Gene Lees
Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
Super octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to balck buckram spine, unpaginated prelims + 444pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2016
KEYWORDS: military history cold war atomic bombs US Army nuclear weapons
Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes
Imperial ocatvo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, decorated title page, 204pp, illus/photos, VG+ (in plastic protectiove cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to spine & wrapper edges, light soiling to wrappers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1996
KEYWORDS: art photography history Alfred Stieglitz
British Battlecruisers 1905-1920
Quarto, olive green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title pages, 128pp, illus, folding diagram to rear pocket, Near FINE (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems) in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Seaforth Publishing 2016
KEYWORDS: early 20th twentieth century military history maritimme British battleships warfare warships
The British Battleship 1906-1946
Lg quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/printed eps & title pages, 448pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light fading to spine & board edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine & edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 2015
KEYWORDS: military history maritime warfare British navy naval battleships warships early 20th twentieth century
Anti-Submarine Warfare: An Illustrated History
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 224pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, 2x medium scuffs to rear board, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning & fading to spine, sl creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to base of front flap, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 2007
KEYWORDS: military history maritime warfare submarines anti-submarines naval
Soviet Warship Development: Volume One: 1917-1937
THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems & board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning to eps, sl adhesion to some pages) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 2cm closed tear [archival repair] & minor water staining to base of spine, sl chafing & soiling, minor tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Conway Maritime Press 1992
KEYWORDS: military history maritime Russian Soviet warships design engineering development early 20th twentieth century
Endless Story; Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War
Octavo, blue heavy boards, dark blue lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 451pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate tanning to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to full title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy chafing & soiling, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1935
KEYWORDS: military history Taffrail maritime warships destroyers Captain Taprell Dorling
Modern Golf
FIRST EDITION, EPHEMERA FROM ST CLAIR GOLF CLUB (1922-1924) LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering & golf illus to spine & front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiv + [2] + 252pp, illus/photos, VG (light fading to spine, moderate bruising to head & base of spine, sl scuffing to board corners, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black 1909
KEYWORDS: first editions sport history golf hobbies P A Vaile
The Monks of the West, from St Benedict to St Bernard, Vol VII
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, super octavo, burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, deckled page edges, unpaginated prelims + 632pp, G+ (heavy scuffing & cracking to spine- top half flapping loose, bottom 1cm of spine missing, moderate bruising to other extrems, moderate fading/discolouration to spine & board edges, light to moderate ink splats/staining to rear board, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, usual library markings, minro cracking to front & rear gutters, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1879
KEYWORDS: religion history monks monastaries
Conceived in War, Born in Peace: Canada's Deep Sea Merchant Marine
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: Cordillera Publishing Company 1992
KEYWORDS: Canada Canadian military history navy naval
Waugh Stories: Growing Up in Hokitika during the 1960s
SIGNED BY AUTHORS. 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: The Kynaston Charitable Trust 2014
KEYWORDS: 20th century New Zealand local history West Coast
Memoirs of Te Rangi
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: Whitcoulls n/d
KEYWORDS: Beatrice Heays early New Zealand local history
Saga of Wangaraleednie (Hill of the West Wind)
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: Franklin Harbour and Cleve National Trust 1974
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history settlement colonial
The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920; A Maori History of the Auckland Isthmus
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: Whitcombe & Tombs 1922
KEYWORDS: early 19th 20th century New Zealand history Auckland
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and Hstory in a World Civilization: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods (Volume Two)
This vol. only. 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: The University of Chicago Press 2017
KEYWORDS: Islam civilisation civilization history Middle Ages medieval religion