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$35.00
1j38/19

By Batons and Barbed Wire: A Response to the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand


NEWNHAM, TOM

Square super octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 96pp, illus; VG+ (light rubbing and creasing to covers, sl foxing to upper page edges) tidy copy of delicate book

PUBLISHER: Graphic Publications 2003

KEYWORDS: new zealand springbok tour 1981 social history anti-apartheid movement south africa racism rugby tom newnham

$75.00
1j38/26

Class, Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside, 1700 - 1880


REED, MICK (ed) & WELLS, ROGER (ed)

Octavo brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, 236pp; VG+ (owner's pencilled annotations throughout book, owner's name in pen to inner back board) d/w (VG+, rubbing and slight tanning)

PUBLISHER: Frank Cass 1990

KEYWORDS: history sociology english countryside protest conflict eighteenth nineteenth century mick reed roger wells

$120.00
1j38/29

Madagascar or Robert Drury's Journal, During Fifteen Years' Captivity on that Island: And a further descrition of Madagascar by the Abbe Alexia Rochon


DRURY, ROBERT (OLIVER, S. P. (ed))

Octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to front board and spine, black illus to front board, frontis, 399pp, illus + folding map, VG- (3cm portionn of upper spine missing, heavy fraying with loss to spine base, moderately heavy browning to spine & less so to boards, some browning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, one plate loose, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1890

KEYWORDS: history autobiography robert drury madagascar personal account nineteenth century

$45.00
1j38/34

Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry


FURET, FRANCOIS & OZOUF, JACQUES

Octavo illus light card covers, ix + 369pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: cambridge studies in oral literate culture france history sociology education francois furet jacques ozouf

$60.00
1j38/38

Harvesters and Harvesting, 1840 - 1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat


MORGAN, DAVID HOSEASON

Octavo black buckram boards, silver lettering to spine, 224pp; near fine (owner's name to fep in pen, owner's pencillings throughout body) d/w (VG+, rubbing and fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1982

KEYWORDS: history agriculture harvest technology rural lifestyle nineteenth century england david hoseason morgan

$110.00
1j38/40

George III and the American Revolution: The Beginnings


MUMBY, FRANK A.

Octavo royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and illus to front and spine, xvi + 432pp, frontis, illus; VG (tanning, moderate foxing, light rubbing), INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR

PUBLISHER: Contstable 1924

KEYWORDS: King George III american revolution history politics frank a. mumby

$42.50
1j38/43

Victorian Village: The Diaries of the Reverend John Coker Egerton of Burwash, 1857 - 1888


EGERTON, JOHN COKER (WELLS, ROGER (ed))

Octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 369pp, illus; near fine (light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Alan Sutton, 1992

KEYWORDS: diaries autobiography john coker egerton burwash nineteenth century history england

$45.00
1j38/44

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales


WOODS, ROBERT

Octavo red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 449pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep) d/w (fine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: victorian england wales deomgraphy history population economy society sociology robert woods

$55.00
1j39/5

English Masculinities, 1660 - 1800


HITCHCOCK, TIM (ed) & COHEN, MICHELE (ed)

Octavo illus light card covers, x + 268pp; near fine (owner's name to fep in pen)

PUBLISHER: Longman 1999

KEYWORDS: english history gender studies sociology essays tim hitchcock michele cohen

$125.00
1j39/7

Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870 - 1914


LOWERSON, JOHN

Scarce octavo brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 310pp; fine in fine d/w

PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: history john lowerson sport english middle class sociology nineteenth century

$65.00
1j39/12

The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present


SMITH, S. A. (ed) & KNIGHT, ALAN (ed)

Scarce octavo illus light card covers, 350pp; fine

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: religion susperstition history past and present supplement s. a. smith alan knight

$165.00
1j39/13

Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China (2 volume set)


HUC, M.

First edition octavo illus boards, silver lettering to front and spine, (vol 1) xiv + 326pp, frontis, fldg map (near fine), illus (vol 2) frontis, x + 342pp + 4pp adverts, illus; both VG+ (foxing, tanning, owner's inscription in pencil to feps)

PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. 1898

KEYWORDS: travel china thibet tartary asia history autobiography m. huc

$75.00
1j39/14

Searching for Vedic India


SWAMI, DEVAMRITA

Octavo illus light card covers, xi + 620pp illus; near fine (v light discolouration to page edges and foxing to fep)

PUBLISHER: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust 2007

KEYWORDS: india vedic texts ancient history devamrita swami

$40.00
1j39/15

Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture


FISHER, WILL

Octavo black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 226pp, illus; fine in near fine d/w (slight fanning to top, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: early modern england gender studies literary criticism british culture history sociology will fisher

$35.00
1j39/16

A County in Community in Peace and War: Sussex 1600 - 1660


FLETCHER, ANTHONY

Octavo orange cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, x + 445pp, fldg map (fine), illus; near fine (owner's name to feps) d/w (VG+, fading to front)

PUBLISHER: Longman Group Ltd 1975

KEYWORDS: regional history sussex seventeenth-century sociology politics anthony fletcher

$45.00
1j39/17

Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women's Propery Law in Nineteenth-Century England


HOLCOMBE, LEE

Octavo burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontis, viii + 311pp, illus; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Martin Robertson & Co Ltd 1983

KEYWORDS: britain history property law women's suffrage politics sociology england lee holcombe

$90.00
1j39/18

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England


MACDONALD, MICHAEL

Scarce in hardcover, octavo black cloth boards, xvii + 323pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to eps) in near fine d/w (tape attaching d/w and protective covering to boards)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: social history insanity healing mental disorders health psychology psychiatry medicine madness mystical beliefs michael macdonald

$9.00
xxcaa30335

The Gates of Hell


BROOKES, EWART

paperback octavo (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: arrow books

KEYWORDS: specials naval history ewart brookes arctic ww2

$10.00
xxcaa30355

The Silent Service


CHAMBLISS, WILLIAM C.

paperback octavo (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: signet books

KEYWORDS: specials naval history military ww2 literature william chambliss

$10.00
xxcaa30362

Submarine!


BEACH, EDWARD L.

paperback octavo (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: coronet books

KEYWORDS: specials naval literature history submarines

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