LONG, DWIGHT & VILLIERS, ALAN (Preface)

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: Rupert Hart-Davis / Mariners Library 1950

KEYWORDS: sailing exploration history Dwight Long Pacific East Indies South Seas maritime nautical

MURRAY, DAVID

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: Motoraces Book Club / Stanley Paul 1964

KEYWORDS: motorsport motor racing automotive cars Scotland Scottish team history David Murray

PRITCHARD, ANTHONY

Ex-library, 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: Robert Hale 1970

KEYWORDS: motorsport motor racing history Europe European cars design engineering Anthony Pritchard

TAYLOR, DICK

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 242pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing/curling & fading to edges- sl chipping also, minor fading)

PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Military 2021

KEYWORDS: military history Great Britain British armour armor armoured vehicles tanks early 20th twentieth century design engineering

HARPER, T N

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 417pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl staining to page edges, light soiling to front eps) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges & rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Malaya history geopolitics politics

HOHNE, HEINZ & BROWNJOHN, J MAXWELL (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 703pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & scuffing to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & light to moderate foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, minor general chafing/wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Martin Secker & Warburg 1979

KEYWORDS: first editions military history nazi third reich Admiral Canaris biography biographies memoir

DARWIN, CHARLES

Sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 500pp, illus, VG- (light to moderate rubbing/scuffing to spine, light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl discolouration to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, occasional minor foxing & soiling throughout, v heavy cracking to gutters throughout- binding quite weak, pgs193-208 loose but present, prev. owner's map & illus of Ascension tipped in to pgs470-471, closed tear with yellowing tape repair to bottom corner of pg267/268)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1890

KEYWORDS: natural history Charles Darwin geology journals exploration HMS Beagle

DARWIN, CHARLES

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges, xiii + 648pp, illus/folding maps [some missing or loose], VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling to front board, heavy soiling to rear board, occasional points of insect damage to exterior & interior- deemed inactive, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, prev. owners' names in ink & minor foxing to prelims, folding map at rear has multiple closed tears, lacks plates II-V, folding map of South America loose but present, pg629-630 detached but present, occasional ink & pencil markings to margins & underlining- unobtrusive & minor)

PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1891

KEYWORDS: natural history Charles Darwin exploration geology volcanic landscapes volcanoes HMS Beagle South America American islands

ELEY, GEOFF (Ed) & HUNT, WILLIAM (Ed)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 356pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (2x closed tears to head of spine, other minor creasing & chipping to top edges, moderate to heavy foxing foxing, minor tanning to spine, sm pencil notation to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Verso 1988

KEYWORDS: history historiography English revolution Christopher Hill Stuarts

DEANE, PAUL

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & white lettering to spine, 224pp, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & inside covers, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Vega 2003

KEYWORDS: esoteric paranormal sex sexual encounters supernatural succubi incubi demons history

STREATFIELD, DOMINIC

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 486pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine & board edges/extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Virgin Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: South America cocaine coke illegal drugs recreational history

BURTT, EDWIN ARTHUR

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 343pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light rubbing/scuffing to board & spine edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate glue staining & wrinkling to front pastedown, occasional ink markings to margins- unobtrusive, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to spine/edges, moderate tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling, sm adhesive label to spine)

PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1967

KEYWORDS: metaphysics physical science philosophy history

BENY, ROLOFF & OPIE, JOHN LINDSAY (Notes Ed by) & CHAPMAN'S HOMER (Quotations From)

FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 272pp, illus, b&w plates- all counted + present, VG (light to moderate scuffing/insect damage to board edges/extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing/wrinkling & scuffing, heavy general scuffing, prce clipped, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1962

KEYWORDS: ancient Greece Greek ruins landscape art photography antiquity history mythology first editions

MAURIES, PATRICK & SOTTSASS, ETTORE (Essay) & WILK, CHRISTOPHER (Fore)

Quarto, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, grey & black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 288pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sm scuff to bottom corner of front cover, minor chafing to covers, sl scuffing to cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1998

KEYWORDS: Piero Fornasetti art design biography biographies history

IVES, CHRISTOPHER

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 274pp, Near FINE, in d/w VG+ (sl creasing to edges, slight soiling, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Buddhism zen spirituality Japan history Buddhist ethics Ichikawa Hakugen

REIT, SEYMOUR V.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, 254pp, illus / photos, little ink stamp man illus to base of page black, VG+ (sl fading & bruising to spine extrems & board corners, sl tanning to board edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges, & eps) in d/w VG (light chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning with moderate chafing and soiling, light creasing to rear flap, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Summit Books 1981

KEYWORDS: true crime art theft Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci history art heist Louvre

GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH

FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION octavo blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, VG (light fading to spine extrems & cover edges, light tanning with moderate foxing page edges, moderate to heavy foxing to front eps, moderate pencil annotation to ffep, light tanning & foxing to rear eps, light crack to front gutter, moderate foxing to prelims, light occasional foxing throughout) in d/w VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1955

KEYWORDS: history great crash 1929 stock market crasch finance Wall Street capitalism economics

ALLIES, MARY H. (selected & trans)

ex-library 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: Burns and Oates Limited 1890

KEYWORDS: religion religious texts Christianity theology Saint Augustine correspondance letters history

HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW & CARPENTER, JOHN and BOGDANA (trans)

lacks d/w super 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: The Ecco Press 1991

KEYWORDS: art Dutch modern art art criticism art history Zbigniew Herbert

HODSON, JAMES LANSDALE

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: Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd c. 1949

KEYWORDS: history war diary entries James Lansdale Hodson personal account