Books - "history"
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The Canal Age
hardback octavo with 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: David & Charles 1981
KEYWORDS: specials charles hadfield history britain england travel transport
The Waterways of Britain - A Social Panorama
hardback octavo with 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: Batsford 1976
KEYWORDS: specials dd gladwin history britain england travel transport
The Depths of Courage - American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941 - 1945
new paperback octavo (FINE); 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: Berkley Caliber 2007
KEYWORDS: specials history flint whitlock ron smith albert konetzni america usa ww2 japan navy submarines war uk pacific wwii
A Celebration of 250 Years of Ireland's Inland Waterways
hardback octavo with 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: Appletree Press 1986
KEYWORDS: specials ruth delany ireland history travel transport uk canal
Who I Am
super octavo hardcover with 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: Harper 2012
KEYWORDS: specials pete townshend who music rock history autobiography musician entertainment
Senefelder on Lithography - The Classic 1819 Treatise
new, reprint paperback octavo (FINE); 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: Dover Publications, Inc., 2005
KEYWORDS: specials alois senefelder writing history lithography art reprint
The Sinister Side - How left-right Symbolism shaped Western Art
new hardback octavo with d/w (FINE); 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 2008
KEYWORDS: specials symbolism art history james hall culture psychology symmetry literature brains science theory
Mrs Beer's House
hardback octavo with 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: Hutchinson 1978
KEYWORDS: specials patricia beer autobiography history
The Ivankiad or The Tale of The Writer Voinovich's Installation In His New Apartment
first edition hardback with 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: Jonathan Cape 1978
KEYWORDS: specials vladimir voinovich autobiography literature history
Postmodernity
paperback (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: University of Minnesota Press 1994
KEYWORDS: specials postmodernism culture critical theory history david lyon sociology philosophy technology
Aces Falling - War Above the Trenches, 1918
hardback octavo with d/w (NF); 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007
KEYWORDS: specials peter hart aviation flight pilots history ww1 soldiers
Towpaths of England
first edition, hardback octavo with 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: HALE 1985
KEYWORDS: specials england history brian bearshaw walking tramping
Through the French Canals
hardback octavo with 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: Nautical Books 1982
KEYWORDS: specials canals france history travel transport philip bristow
An illustrated history of British Waterways
hardback octavo with 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: Spurbooks Ltd., 1977
KEYWORDS: specials gladwin dd britain waterways canals history transport travel
Pacific Art in Detail
new hardback square octavo (FINE); 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: Harvard University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: specials pacific art jenny newell art culture history oceania
Highland Railway Locomotives Book 2: The Drummon, Smith & Cumming Classes
this vol. only, hardback octavo, no d/w (NF); 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: RCTS 1990
KEYWORDS: specials history railway travel transport britain drummond smtih cumming locomotives trains rail
Highland Railway Locomotives Book 1: Early Days to the 'Lochs'
this vol. only, hardback octavo, lacks 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: RCTS 1988
KEYWORDS: specials britain railway trains travel transport history locomotives jrh cormack jl stevenson
The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921
Smithsonian History of Aviation Series
(with annotated loose paper slips of Ian Mackersey, NZ aviation author), imperial octavo, grey heavy card boards with gilt lettering to green cloth spinexx + 458pp, illus, VG- (heavy dampstaining to spine & through to eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy dampstaining to spine internally & externally). The dampstaining is the only fault.
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institute (1993??)
KEYWORDS: John H Morrow military aviation history aeroplanes fighter planes pilots World War I WWI technological air power France Germany England Italy Russia USA aviators
The Art of Flying (SIGNED - ASSOCIATION COPY)
Foreword by Air Vice-Marshall Sir Sefton Brancker
An historically significant Jean Batten ASSOCIATION COPY: dated, signed and inscribed by the AUTHOR in 1931 to VICTOR DOREE, a fellow pioneer WW1 Royal Air Corps pilot, who in 1932 bought JEAN BATTEN her famous 'Gipsy Moth' aeroplane. Thus, it is likely that this copy of this book was a deciding factor in determining that Jean Batten would fly a Gipsy Moth. From the library of Ian Mackersey, Batten's biographer. DESCRIPTION: Scarce in d/w. Small octavo, light blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering to front board & spine, 175pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps & page edges, 1cm tear with loss to lower corner half-title page,) in d/w, VG- (top 3cm portion of spine missing, bruising & nicks to lower spine extrem, creasing & nicks to rear upper edge & front lower edge, 1cm untidy tear to rear lower edge & to upper front/flap fold, some soiling)
PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1929
KEYWORDS: Captain Norman Macmillan Air Vice-Marshall Sir Sefton Brancker Victor Doree signed Association Copy aviation history aircraft flying pilot Jean Batten
Wiley Post, His Winnie Mae, and the World's First Pressure Suit
Smithsonian Annals of Flight Number 8
Warmly inscribed to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey and signed by author, small quarto, illus white light card covers, vii + 127pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning & rubbing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press 1971
KEYWORDS: signed Stanley R Mohler Bobby H Johnson Wiley Post Winnie Mae aviation history pilot pioneer pressured flight aeronautical science