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$17.50
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Hacks and Dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street


ROGERS, PAT

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: Methuen 1980

KEYWORDS: English literature literary studies history biography social history

$35.00
xxa3dd225879

Wealth & Poverty: An Economic History of The Twentieth Century


POLLARD, SIDNEY (Ed)

Quarto hardcover (VG+) 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: Oxford University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: economy history social history 20th Century Twentieth

$48.50
3m2/27

Airlines of Asia: Since 1920


DAVIS, R E G & STERLING, DR. CHRISTOPHER H (foreword)

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii+572pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chaffing to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light soiling & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (minor fading to spine, light creasing to extrems/edges, light chaffing, light tanning & soiling to interior extrems, previous booksellers sticker on flap).

PUBLISHER: Paladwr Press 1997

KEYWORDS: aviation aeronautics aeroplane civilian commercial airline history Asia history transport

$125.00
3m2/28

Tannenberg: The First Thirty Days in East Prussia


IRONSIDE, MAJOR-GENERAL SIR EDMUND

FOLDING MAPS AT REAR. Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 306pp, VG ( moderate tanning & soiling to spine, minor scuffing to spine & board extrems, minor crease & soiling on front board, moderate foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, foxing throughout, signed with previous owners name in ink with moderate pencil notes and underscoring throughout, occasional sm closed tears to folding maps at rear- all maps present).

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1925

KEYWORDS: Tannenberg Prussia military history Sir Edmund Ironside history tactics Russia UK England Germany Europe campaigns

$145.00
3n4/34

Song of the Old Tides


BRAILSFORD, BARRY

Signed by author. Numbered FIRST EDITION (#59). Prev owner's pre-publication receipt loosely enclosed. Quarto, grey card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus., photos; 320 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, w some sl chiping; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history songs folklore poetry history

$38.50
xx9pol226111

The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate: 1192 - 1286


KUMAR, SUNIL

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2020

KEYWORDS: Delhi sultanate history India kingdom history muslim hindu culture Asia

$40.00
3s10/30

Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy


CRANE, JOSEPH

Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus.; xx + 314 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing to covers, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chiiping; moderate soiling & tanning to page edges & prelims/terminals);

PUBLISHER: The Wessex Astrologer 2007

KEYWORDS: Astrology astrological history ancient history Greek Greece

$50.00
3s10/31

Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune


BRENNAN, CHRIS

Imp. octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, xxvi + 670 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing to covers, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Amor Fati 2017

KEYWORDS: Astrology astrological history ancient history Greek Greece

$22.50
xx24pol226155

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America


BRAM, CHRISTOPHER

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Twelve 2012

KEYWORDS: literature gay queer lgbt Tuman Capote Allen Ginsberg Gore Vidal America USA history civil rights social history

$20.00
xx35pol226179

Art in China


CUNAS, CRAIG

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: China Chinese art history academia history culture modern ancient painting sculpture

$100.00
3s7/4

Scottish Hazard


PLATTS, BERYL

2 VOL SET. Octavo, red/blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; 191, 155 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; bookplate to fr pastedown; map tipped in as frontis., adhesive reside to ht (vol. 1)); in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some curling to edges).

PUBLISHER: Proctor Press 1985

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish Flanders Flemish local history family families history

$19.50
xxcce226380

Daily Life in China: On the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276


GERNET, JACQUES; WRIGHT, H M (transl.)

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: Stanford University Press 1970

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Mongolia Mongol 13th century history

$14.00
xxcua226619

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica


ARRIAN; HAMMOND, MARTIN (transl.); ATKINSON, JOHN (introd.)

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: Oxford University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: Arrian Alexander the Great classical ancient history Greece Greek military history

$245.00
3s5/24

Chinese Writing


XIGUI, QUI; MATTOS, GILBERT & NORMAN, JERRY (transl.)

Super octavo, red card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems) (photos available on request).

PUBLISHER: The Society for the Study of Early China 2000

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history writing script palaeography history

$20.00
xxymb226821

A Diplomat in Japan


SATOW, SIR ERNEST

Small octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: ICG Muse 2000

KEYWORDS: history Japan Japanese history Meiji restoration British Diplomacy culture memoir

$40.00
3p3/97

Memories of The Burma - Thai Railway


Unknown

Super octavo, stapled green light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper, map to inside front wrapper, 23pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to spine and minimal creasing & fading)

PUBLISHER: N/D (c.1998)

KEYWORDS: history Thai Thailand biography Burma trains railways military war Japan history

$40.00
3p3/134

The Origins of the Second Republic in Spain


BEN-AMI, SHLOMO

Very tidy Ex Library, octavo, burgundy red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 356pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing/chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, single library label)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: Spain second republic history dictatorship politics history

$70.00
3s3/22

The Canadian Encyclopedia (3 Vol Boxed Set)


MARSH, JAMES H (Editor-in-Chief)

3 VOL SET IN SLIPCASE, quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, illus, VG+ in VG slipcase (minor soiling to slipcase- photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Hurtig Publishers 1985

KEYWORDS: encyclopaedias encyclopedia Canada Canadian history social history

$325.00
xxyae226857

Shaping the Nation: England, 1360-1461


HARRISS, GERALD

THIS VOL. ONLY. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Oxford University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: England English history 14th 15th century politics political economics nation state Oxford History of England

$35.00
xxyae226858

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846


HILTON, BOYD

THIS VOL. ONLY. Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Oxford University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: England English history 18th 19th century politics political economics nation state Oxford History of England

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