Books - "history"
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
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PUBLISHER: Vintage 1998
KEYWORDS: history philosophy literature prose Umberto Eco
Churchill, an Unruly Life
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PUBLISHER: Touchstone Books 1998
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill British prime ministers history biography biographies memoir
Eagles: Dark Desert Highway
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PUBLISHER: Trapeze 2023
KEYWORDS: music history bands musicians The Eagles biography biographies memoir Mick Wall
The Persian War, in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices
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PUBLISHER: Osprey / Bloomsbury 2019
KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity wars Persia Persian war classic historians Herodotus Greek Greece battles
Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language
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PUBLISHER: Atlantic Books 2016
KEYWORDS: ancient history language Rome Roman education philosophy education literature linguistics
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, 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: Hachette 2018
KEYWORDS: signed Australian rock history bands music musicians roadies anecdotes industry
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book
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PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2022
KEYWORDS: literature history literary books writing
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1929-1932
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PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973
KEYWORDS: diary diaries journals letters correspondence Anne Morrow Lindbergh literature literary aviation flight history
Cheddar Gorge: A Book of English Cheeses
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PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2018
KEYWORDS: English cheese cheeses anecdotes history culinary dairy culture
The Templars
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PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999
KEYWORDS: knights templar history crusades soldiers religion religious orders military
Old Soldiers Never Die
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PUBLISHER: Antony Rowe (Printer) N/D (Modern Copy)
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Private Frank Richards
The Thousand Plan: The Story of the First Thousand Bomber Raid on Cologne
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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1965
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 bombing raids Cologne
The Gurkhas
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PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1965
KEYWORDS: military history Gurkhas soldiers gurkha British Army Nepalese
Signal Catastrophe: The Story of the Disastrous Retreat from Kabul 1842
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PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1966
KEYWORDS: military history Afghan war British army battles Kabul defeats
The man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2003
KEYWORDS: A C Gilbert biography biographies memoir toys history childhood memorabilia
All for a Shilling a Day
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PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1966
KEYWORDS: military history recruitment army 19th nineteenth century
The Frolik Defection: The Memoirs of an Intelligence Agent
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PUBLISHER: Corgi Books 1976
KEYWORDS: espionage history Josef Frolik intelligence agents defection autobiography autobiographies memoir Czech
The Angler's Vade Mecum, containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies, Seasons, and th Kind of Weather that Brings them Most on the Water
Crown 8vo, half-bound in black leather double roll-tooled in gilt & green/black marbled bds, gilt panel spine lettered in one panel & decorated in five, teg, fore & bottom edges sl deckled, marbled eps, frontis., viii + 128 pp., 11 plates to rear, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, bookplate to front pastedown, annotation in pencil to tp).,
PUBLISHER: Archibald Constable and Co. 1818
KEYWORDS: W Carroll angling angler fish fly fishing literature fisher fisherman fishermen flies vade mecum 19th century history trout salmon
Fly-Fishing: Some New Arts and Mysteries
Crown 8vo, half-bound in blue leather double roll-tooled in blind & blue cl bds, gilt panel spine lettered in two panels & decorated in four, marbled eps, xiii + 272 pp., illus., VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds, minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals).,
PUBLISHER: The Field & Queen [c. 1915]
KEYWORDS: J C Mottram angling angler fish fly fishing literature fisher fisherman fishermen flies 20th century history trout salmon
An Open Creel
Crown 8vo, red cl bds, double roll-tool border to bds in blind, spine & front board lettered & illus. in gilt, teg, bottom edge deckled, xii + 305 pp. + 31 pp. advts., VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds, moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light soiling & tanning to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, bookplate & prev bookseller's stick to front pastedown, prev bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown).,
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1910
KEYWORDS: H T Sheringham angling angler fish fly fishing literature fisher fisherman fishermen flies vade mecum 20th century history trout salmon