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$17.50
xx12pol203804

A Literary Journey, Through Wartime Britain


WARD, A C & CHAPMAN, FREDERICK T (Illus)

IN SLIPCASE, octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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 1944

KEYWORDS: literature literary history Great Britain British ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$22.50
xx12pol203805

The Publishing Unwins


UNWIN, PHILIP

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: William Heinemann 1972

KEYWORDS: publishing history publishers Unwin literature literary

$22.50
xx12pol203806

The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800


DARNTON, ROBERT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: encyclopedias dictionaries history literature literary

$17.50
xx11pol203814

Shakespeare: The Man and His Achievement


SPEAIGHT, ROBERT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: J M Dent & Sons 1977

KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare literature literary biography biographies memoir history

$15.00
xx11pol203817

The Shakespeare Conspiracy


PHILLIPS, GRAHAM & KEATMAN, MARTIN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Century 1994

KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare literature literary conspiracy history historical alternative

$15.00
xx11pol203819

Caxton's Own Prose


BLAKE, N F

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: Andre Deutsch 1973

KEYWORDS: literature literary history biographies biography memoir English language printing printers Caxton

$19.50
xx11pol203822

A Biography of William Caxton: The First English Editor Printer, Merchant and Translator


DEACON, RICHARD

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) minor water staining to jacket & base of page block; 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: Frederick Muller 1976

KEYWORDS: printers printing history biography biographies memoir William Caxton literature literary

$16.50
xx11pol203824

The Farm and the Village


EVANS, GEORGE EWART & LAMBETH, R C (Drawings)

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: Faber and Faber 1969

KEYWORDS: England English farming agriculture agricultural history East Anglia rural life

$17.50
xx11pol203825

The Elements of Book-Collecting


WILLIAMS, IOLO A

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1927

KEYWORDS: collectables collectibles books book-collecting hobbies antiques history historical

$18.50
xx11pol203829

Harrap's Book of Nicknames and Their Origins


FREESTONE, BASIL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harrap 1990

KEYWORDS: personal nicknames guide history historical figures profiles

$14.00
xx11pol203830

The Customs and Ceremonies of Britain: An Encyclopaedia of Living Traditions


KIGHTLY, CHARLES

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1986

KEYWORDS: Great Britain British culture customs ceremonies rituals history traditions

$25.00
xx11pol203833

Printing in the 20th Century


MORAN, JAMES (Ed)

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: Northwood Publications 1974

KEYWORDS: printing history design 20th twentieth century art

$18.50
xx11pol203840

Names & Nicknames of Places & Things


URDANG, LAURENCE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Grafton Books 1987

KEYWORDS: nicknames language place names geographical places history

$45.00
1r12b/6

The Rifles are There: The Story of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Royal Ulster Rifles 1939 - 1945


ORR, DAVID R & TRUESDAL, DAVID

8vo, black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt, xiv + 274 pp., illus., plates, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, sl tanning & soiling to pg edges), lacking d/w.

PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword 2005

KEYWORDS: World War 2 WW2 WWII II Second Royal Ulster Rifles battallion military history war warfare conflict

$70.00
1r12b/9

Life is a Twisted Path: A time of imprisonment, escape, evasion and final refuge with the Mattei of Montecelio and Bishop Alois Hudal of Santa Maria dell'Anima, Rome


BURNS, JOHN

Super 8vo, blue illus light card covers, 147 pp., loose errata slip, illus., photos, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, sl tanning & soiling to pg edges, minor cracking to rear gutter).

PUBLISHER: J. and S. A. Burns 2002

KEYWORDS: Second World War 2 WW2 WWII II memoir biography life lives prison prisoner prisoners of war POW military history New Zealand army

$75.00
1r12b/10

With the Cambridgeshires at Singapore


TAYLOR, WILLIAM

Super 8vo, blue cl bds, spine lettered in gilt, frontis., xii + 115 pp., illus., plates, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light fraying, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, front gutters sl loose--bdg sloppy, moderate tanning throughout), in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling with some loss of colour, moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping & tearing, moderate tanning).

PUBLISHER: Trevor Allen Bevis 1971

KEYWORDS: memoir biography life lives war warfare military history 20th century conflict Far East Second World War 2 WW2 WWII II England Great Britain British

$95.00
1r12b/11

Diary of Life in a Stalag: A New Zealand Soldier's Wartime Story


RAWLINGS, ALF

SCARCE. SIGNED. Sm 8vo, illus. light card covers, 69 pp., illus., photos, VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling/tanning/fading to covers, minor bruising to edges & extrems, light tanning to pg edges, light tanning to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Alf Rawlings n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Second World War 2 WW2 WWII II war warfare conflict memoir biography life lives Egypt Italy 20th century military history

$82.50
1r12b/13

Prisoner of War and Fugitive


HARRIS, G H

Sm 8vo, blue cl bds, front board lettered in silver gilt, top edge stained red, [6] + 70 pp., plate to front, VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds, sl bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, minor tanning & soiling to pg edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals), in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling, moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping & minor tearing, moderate tanning).

PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden 1947

KEYWORDS: Second World War 2 WW2 WWII II prison prisoners prisoner of war Egypt Italy war warfare military history memoir biography life lives

$19.50
xx11pol203842

The Dominion Post: 150 Years of News


ELENIO, PAUL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Dominion Post / Fairfax Media 2014

KEYWORDS: New Zealand media history journalism news Dominion Post newspapers

$15.00
xx11pol203860

Printing and the Mind of Man (Assembled at the British Museum and at Earls Court London 16-27 July 1963)


N/A

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Messrs F W Bridges & Sons 1963

KEYWORDS: exhibitions British Museum printing history

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