Books - "history"
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt 2002
KEYWORDS: history sir walter raligh memoir biography british explorers
Shakespeare's Restless World
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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2012
KEYWORDS: shakespeare history english culture
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2015
KEYWORDS: ottoman empire middle east fall of empire history
The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2016
KEYWORDS: handwriting penmanship history
The King's City: London Under Charles II: a city that transformed a nation - and created modern Britain
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2017
KEYWORDS: history british english london charles ii
London's Triumph: Merchand Adventurers and the Tudor City
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2017
KEYWORDS: history british english london tudor
Power & The People: Five Lessons from the Birthplace of Democracy
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Riverrun 2019
KEYWORDS: democracy history politics greece civilisation
Mongomery Clift: A Biography
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
KEYWORDS: montgomery clift biography hollywood history
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2016
KEYWORDS: history notable events earthquakes nations civilization
Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Grove Press 2010
KEYWORDS: shakespeare history scandal authorship elizabeth i
The Last Englishman: Love, War and the End of Empire
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2018
KEYWORDS: empire britain english history india british raj
The History of England Volume IV: Revolution
THIS VOL ONLY, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: MacMillan 2016
KEYWORDS: history england revolution civil war parliament
I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
Super octavo, brwon heavy boards, gilt lettering to green spine, deckled page fore-edges, illus eps, unpaginated prelims, 287pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 2019
KEYWORDS: art modern history 80s eighties New York culture
Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 705pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: North Atlantic Books 2010
KEYWORDS: esoteric biography biographies memoirs Aleister Crowley occult occultism history magick magic
The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968
Super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to grey spine, deckled page fore-edges, xviii + 682pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to base of spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 2019
KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies memoir Lucian Freud
Shadow Play
Sm octavo, red buckram boards, grey lettering to spine, 154pp + unpaginated catalogue to rear, illus, VG (minor bruising to spine extrems, moderate discolouration to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic cover- easily removed if desired, moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing with some sl loss to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co 1950
KEYWORDS: puppets puppetry shadows history culture shadow plays theatre theater
The Bankside Stage-Book
Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xx + 256pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & staining to board & spine edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing throughout- mostly to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some sl loss, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co N/D (c.1950s?)
KEYWORDS: theatre theater stage models figures Tudor Elizabethan history stages
Birmingham and the Black Country
Slim octavo, black faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 884pp, illus/photos, map to prelims, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2022
KEYWORDS: English British England Great Britain industrial cities Birmingham history buildings architecture historical
The Story of The Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture
Lg quarto, coloured light card covers, red & white lettering to spine, illus title page, 352pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 2017
KEYWORDS: The Face magazines music entertainment history culture pop popular Nick Logan British urban identity
Forty Years of Airfix Toys
Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 176pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Crowood Press 2019
KEYWORDS: toys construction leisure hobbies airfix meccano history
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