Books - "history"
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Utu: The Story of the Film
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
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
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
Monks, Nuns and Monasteries
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
London Was Yesterday 1934-1939
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
The history of the T. U. C. 1868-1968: A Pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution
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
The Priest who Was Never Baptized: Stories Factual and Fictional of Russian Life in the Nineteenth Century
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
The Story of Art
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
Carteret's Voyage Round the World 1766-1769 (2 Vol Set)
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
Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences are Turned Into Crimes
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
Tahlten Ethnoarchaeology
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
From Double Eagle to Red Flag
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
The Hakluyt Society: Philip II's Empire: A Decade at the Edge: Annual Lecture 1998
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
Angling Literature in England; and Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients with a Notice of some Books on Other Piscatorial Subjects
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
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
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
The Punch & Judy Show: History, Tradition and Meaning
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
Lewis: A History of the Island
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
Eigg: The Story of an Island
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
Me Anga Whakamua / Facing the Future
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
The Sacred History of Britain: Landscape, myth and power: The forces that have shaped Britain's spirituality
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
The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co
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