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$15.00
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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

$50.00
2s13a/6

Tahlten Ethnoarchaeology


ALBRIGHT, SYLVIA L

Quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to front cover, vi + 127pp, illus/photos, VG (light curling & creasing to spine & cover edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling/foxing to spine & covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Dept of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University 1984

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity archaeology archeology Tahlten ethnoarchaeology ethnography geology natural history

$40.00
2s13a/32

From Double Eagle to Red Flag


KRASSNOFF, P N; LAW-GISIKO, ERIK

Super 8vo, red buckram bds, gilt lettering to spine, [12] + 852 pp., G+ (moderate to heavy fading & scuffing to bds & spine, moderate bruising to board & spine edges & extrems with light chipping, small tears to front & back joints, moderate soiling & tanning/foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, prev bookseller's sticker to base of front pastedown, prev owner's bookplate & inscription in black ink to ffep, moderate cracking to front hinge at gutter--bgd sloppy, light foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1929

KEYWORDS: Imperial Russia Russian history Leo Tolstoy culture customs social history Eastern Europe European

$15.00
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The Hakluyt Society: Philip II's Empire: A Decade at the Edge: Annual Lecture 1998


FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE

Octavo stapled light card covers (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 Hakluyt Society 1999

KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual lectures previous years 1998 Philip ii 2nd second history history historical Spain Spanish

$40.00
ak2/6a/26

Angling Literature in England; and Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients with a Notice of some Books on Other Piscatorial Subjects


LAMBERT, OSMUND

Sm 8vo, light card covers, red & black lettering to front cover, teg, fore & bottom pg edges deckled, [8] + 87 pp., G+ (heavy soiling & light to moderate water damage to covers, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, moderate cracking to front & back hinges at gutters, bookplate to ffep, creasing to eps).

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1881

KEYWORDS: anecdotes angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game history literature

$65.00
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The British Angler's Manual, or, The Art of Angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. With some Account of The Principal Rivers, Lakes, and Trout Streams, in The United Kingdom; with Instructions in Fly-Fishing, Trolling, and Angling at the B


HOFLAND, T C

Sm 8vo, green blind paneled cl bds, gilt lettering & ornamentation to spine & front board, frontis., 8 pp. advts., + xxxii + 448 pp. + [5] pp. advts. (both sets of advts. acting as eps), illus., plates, VG (sl scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with sl fraying, light tanning tp pg edges, heavy cracking to front hinge at gutter--bdg sl sloppy, light to moderate soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, prev owner's bookplate & sticker to front pastedown, prev bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown, light creasing to paper & light cracking at central gutters).

PUBLISHER: H. G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden 1848

KEYWORDS: anecdotes angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game history literature

$60.00
2s19a/2

The Punch & Judy Show: History, Tradition and Meaning


LEACH, ROBERT

Imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl chafing, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Batsford Academic and Educational 1985

KEYWORDS: children's entertainment history puppets Punch & Judy history traditions criticism

$19.50
37pol202422

Lewis: A History of the Island


MACDONALD, DONALD

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: Gordon Wright Publishing 1978

KEYWORDS: Island of Lewis history Norse historic research social history

$22.50
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Eigg: The Story of an Island


DESSLER, CAMILE

Super 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: Polygon 1998

KEYWORDS: history social history island Eigg culture custom landscape lifestyle Highland heritage clan

$60.00
2s20c/13

Me Anga Whakamua / Facing the Future


HETARAKA, JANET & STOPPARD, DIANE

Square quarto, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims, 64pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hihiaua Cultural Centre Trust 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori European settlers history culture early history portraits anthropology

$16.50
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The Sacred History of Britain: Landscape, myth and power: The forces that have shaped Britain's spirituality


PLAMER, MARTIN

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: Piatkus 2002

KEYWORDS: England Britain history social custom spirituality spiritual history

$40.00
2i2a/11

The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co


TILBROOK, A J & HOUSE, GORDON (Ed)

Octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 283pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate rubbing & soiling to spine & boards, 1cm crack to base of spine at front hinge, minor rubbing & surface loss to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Ornament Press 1976

KEYWORDS: crafts design history metals metalwork pewter Liberty & Co Archibald Knox marks silver history

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