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$20.00
xxflf200905

The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War


HENNESSEY, PETER

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 Press 2002

KEYWORDS: whitehall politics britain cold war history joint intelligence committee war cabinet geopolitics margaret thatcher spy spying political history

$15.00
xxflj200917

Caves of Ice


LEES-MILNE, JAMES

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: Faber & Faber 1984

KEYWORDS: third volume of diary diaries memoir art history National Trust twentieth century 1946 1947 british history

$30.00
xxflh200934

VerledenLand: Archeologische opgravingen in Nederland


BLOEMERS, J.H.F & LOUWE KOOJIMANS, L.P. & SAFARTIJ, H.

TEXT IN DUTCH, quarto 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: Meulenhoff Informatief BV, Amsterdam 1981

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH archaeology soil geography nederlands dutch natural history early architecture settlement pre history

$15.00
xxfmi200970

Chinese Watercolours


HEJZLAR, JOSEF (text) & FORMAN, B. (photos)

Large quarto 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: Octopus Books Ltd 1978

KEYWORDS: chinese art china watercolours dynastic history calligraphy shanghai school hsieh-i hua niao hua history

$10.00
xxzbd201173

Hanging On: Diaries, December 1960-August 1963


PARTRIDGE, FRANCES

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: Flamingo 1994

KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury group literature history diaries journals history 60s sixties Frances Partridge

$10.00
xxzbd201174

Other People: Diaries, September 1963-December 1966


PARTRIDGE, FRANCES

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: Flamingo 1994

KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury group literature history diaries journals history 60s sixties Frances Partridge

$50.00
1y99e/28

Lawman: Brut


ALLEN, ROSAMUND (trans)

FIRST EDITION THUS. Super 8vo, black heavy card bds, gilt lettering to spine, xli + 485 pp., VG+ (v minor soiling to boards, sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to pg edges & sl foxing to eps), in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, sl foxing/soiling, light curling & creasing to edges & spine extrems, minor closed tear to upper spine extrem, light chipping to base of rear cover)

PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1992

KEYWORDS: Brut Britain British historu English history literature Old English Anglo Saxon The History of the British myth legend medieval

$40.00
1y99e/33

City at the Centre: A History of Palmerston North


TENNANT, MARGARET & WATSON, GEOFF & TAYLOR, KERRY

Super 8vo, illus heavy card bds, maroon eps, frontispiece, 383 pp., illus/photos, NF (sl creasing/bruising to upper spine extrem & board edges, minor soiling to pg edges & pastedown) in NF (light bruising to rear spine hinge & upper spine extrem, v light scuffing to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Massey Universitu Press 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Palmerston North social history cities towns

$135.00
1y99e/38

First and Strong: The Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regimental Story


MOORHEAD, MURRAY

4to, green heavy card bds, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt decoration to font board, illus title page, x + 359 pp., illus/photos, NF (v sl scuffing to boards, light bruising to board extrems & spine extrems) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing/creasing & bruising to spine extrems & board extrems, in platic wrapper)

PUBLISHER: Published with the assistance of the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military military history army Wellington Taranaki regiment history World War 1 World War 2

$15.00
xxzec201267

A Nineteenth-Century Childhood


MACCARTHY, MARY

Sm 8vo 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: Martin Secker 1929

KEYWORDS: 19th century social history childhood memoir autobiography history literature

$25.00
xxzec201276

The Festival Etc


MACCARTHY, MARY

8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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: Longmans, Green and Co 1937

KEYWORDS: essays history literarture social history

$15.00
xxycb201412

Utu: The Story of the Film


MURPHY, GEOFF & ABERDEIN, KEITH

Imp 8vo stapled light wrappers (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: Huia Publications 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand film cinema history Maori social history

$12.50
xxyce201435

The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber


BAKER, NICOLSON

8vo 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: Vintage Books 1996

KEYWORDS: essays literary history bookish library card catalog social history

$20.00
xx59pol201535

Monks, Nuns and Monasteries


SITWELL, SACHEVERELL

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+, torn); 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1965

KEYWORDS: monk monastic nun nunnery abbey monastery europe history christian history

$22.50
xx58pol201568

London Was Yesterday 1934-1939


FLANNER, JANET & DRUTMAN, IRVING (Ed)

Imperial 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: Michael Joseph 1975

KEYWORDS: literary history Genet Janet Flanner English history journalism journalists essays anthologies anthology

$25.00
xx56pol201671

The history of the T. U. C. 1868-1968: A Pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution


WOODCOCK, GEORGE; ET AL

Lg 4to 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 General Council of the Trades Union Congress 1968

KEYWORDS: trade union trades history pictorial social history revolution

$36.50
xx51pol201821

The Priest who Was Never Baptized: Stories Factual and Fictional of Russian Life in the Nineteenth Century


LESKOV, NIKOLAI; MUCKLE, JAMES (transl)

8vo illus 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: Bramcote Press 2004

KEYWORDS: 19th century Russia life lives social history stories history

$37.50
xx52pol201843

The Story of Art


GOMBRICH, E H

Super 8vo 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: Book Club Associates 1978

KEYWORDS: art artists history civilisation civilization social history criticism

$30.00
xx55pol201987

Carteret's Voyage Round the World 1766-1769 (2 Vol Set)


WALLIS, HELEN (Ed)

2 VOL SET, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG+) moderate crack to front gutter of vol 1; 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: Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: hakluyt history maritime nautical voyages exploration Philip Carteret 18th eighteenth century history historical

$55.00
2s7a/1

Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences are Turned Into Crimes


ABRAMS, ELLIOTT

FULL LEATHER BINDING, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, iridescent patterned eps, x + 243pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1993

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings history US American political history signed Elliott Abrams crime

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