Books - "history"
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Dragonfly
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Bryan Burrough Mir space station exploration astronomy astronauts cosmonauts history
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 2-volume set (an abridgement from the 12 volume edition)
With an Introductory Memoir of the Author by William Youngman
Two-volume set, complete but an abridgement, imperial octavo, half bound, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spines, speckled staining to page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard to vol 1, 1303pp in 2 vols, VG- (some damage to spine extrems incl. patches of loss, heavy chaffing to spine & board corners, some rubbing to boards, owner's name in ink to page 1, heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, light soilingto page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ball, Arnold & co 1840
KEYWORDS: Edward Gibbon Roman Empire Rome history
The War in South Africa prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff, Berlin
With maps and illustrations
Folding maps present, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & gilt coat of arms to front board, xi + 280pp, illus plus folding maps (all present), VG- (bruising & slight fraying to spine extrems, ding to board lower corners, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's signature & date in ink to fep, v light foxing throughout, closed tears to some folding maps)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1907
KEYWORDS: Colonel WHH Waters South Africa Boer War military history Germany
Defying Hitler: A Memoir
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: Phoenix 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Sebastian Haffner autobiography memoir Nazi Germany history
Malerisches Altes Europa: Romantische Ansichten von Stadten und Schlossern der Guten Alten Zeit
TEXT IN GERMAN, folio, oatmeal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt cathedral motif to front board, illus eps, illus title page, 191pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to title page, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning & foxing, light creasing to edges, bruising & small nicks to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Das Topographikon 1970
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN Rolf Muller Egon Schramm Europe architecture history historical cities
Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad
softcover imperial 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Pimlico 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Jane Fletcher Geniesse biography Freya Stark history
The Russian Album
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Vintage 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Ignatieff Russia Russian history biography
The Chinese on the Art of Painting: Translations and Comments
Softcover 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Schocken Books 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Osvald Siren Chinese art painting criticism history
Winkelmann: Images of Early New Zealand
Quarto, dark blue boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, vi + 146pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to eps), in d/w, VG+ (some foxing to inside, light rubbing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Benton Ross 1987
KEYWORDS: Vivien Edwards Henry Winkelmann New Zealand biography photographer photographs photographic history
Saturday Nights With Daddy at the Opry
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr 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: Rutledge Hill Press 2003
KEYWORDS: specials music biography country & western Grand Ole Opry Nashville Les Leverett history
Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars
Super octavo softcover (nr 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: Duke University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: specials music country & western cultural history anthology essays
A Destiny Apart: New Zealand's Search for National Identity
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: Allen & Unwin / Port Nicholson Press 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Keith Sinclair New Zealand national identity Maori Pakeha sociology history
The Secret Paris of the 30s
Quarto 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: Thames & Hudson 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Brassai Richard Miller France Paris photographic pictorial history
Phobic Raptures: Wicked Family Histories
Imperial 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: Editions Fabriart 1991
KEYWORDS: specials Wayne Anderson gender human sexuality history anthropology art
Journal of Researches inot the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle round the World
with a biographical introduction
Octavo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & CO (n/d)
KEYWORDS: specials Charles Darwin travel science geology HMS Beagle journals diaries natural history
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr 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: University of Chicago Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Richard A Peterson music country & western history popular culture sociology
Claudia: Daughter of Rome
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: Orion 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Antoinette May Claudia biography ancient Rome history
An Ulster Plantation: The Story of the Kati Kati Settlement
First edition, octavo, red buckram boards with black lettering to spine & front board, black rule to front board, frontispiece, xii + 145pp + 6pp book ads + folding map to rear, VG (some foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (archival tape repairs to spine extrems & corners, moderate nicks & portions of loss to edges & corners, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1938
KEYWORDS: first edition Arthur Gray New Zealand Kati Kati history
Beeton's Annual: A Book for the Young
with Illustrations printe din Colours, and Many Woodcuts from Original Design by Eminent Artists
All six chromolitho plates are present, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine & front board, blind-stamped decorative rule to front & rear boards, aeg, brown coated eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, iv + 491pp, illus + 6 chromolitho plates, VG (some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & 2cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, light staining to eps, inscription in ink to frontispiece verso, heavy bruising & creasing to fore-edge of frontispiece & tissue guard, some browning & foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Frederick Warne 1866
KEYWORDS: SO Beeton children's annual literature history hunting adventure
Victorian Life in Photographs
Imperial 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Harold Chapman William Sansom John Hillelson photographic pictorial history Victorian society