Books - "history"
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The PRS Guitar Book
NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION (#3063/6000), lg quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed ffep, 125pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor creasing to folded pages/images) in d/w, VG+ (light chafing & creasing to edges & spine) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Balafon Books 1999
KEYWORDS: special limited editions guitars guitarists history music musical instruments PRS Paul Reed Smith electric design
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon
Quarto, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine & boards, illus plate to front board, frontispiece, 149pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Turner Publications / Throckmorton Fine Art 2002
KEYWORDS: Frida Kahlo portraits photos photography art history artists Mexico Mexican South America American
Ships' Deserters 1852-1900, Including Stragglers, Strays and Absentees from HM Ships
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, viii + 535pp, VG (moderate curling & creasing to covers, light tanning/discolouration to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, prev. owner's name in ink to prelim pgs, moderate staining to base of page block, moderate foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Library of Australian History 1986
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history maritime nautical ships deserters absentees shipmates late 19th nineteenth century notices
Red Horizon
PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, vii + 248pp, G+ (v heavy scuffing to board edges & extrems- some surface loss, heavy fading/discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, usual library markings, v heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- boards shaky, varying states of foxing & discolouration to pages throughout, more heavy cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co N/D (c.1930s)
KEYWORDS: first editions (presumed) military history legionnaires soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Reginald R Forbes 9372 French Foreign Legion
The Story of Civilization (11 Vol Set)
11 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spines, gilt lettering to front boards, gilt decoration to boards, aeg, iridescent patterned cloth eps, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Easton Press 1992-95
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings special editions history Will Ariel Durant
Passenger to Teheran
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontipsiece, 155pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl foxing to front gutter) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. booksellers' labels to front flap & rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Cockbird Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Vita Sackville-West travel writing literature Persia history
Port Nicholson's First Town: The Story of Britannia By the River 1840
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 104pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Warwick Johnston 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Port Nicholson early settlers pioneers settlements
Impressions and Memories
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxix + 238pp, illus, VG- (moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, frontispiece & half title page detached but present, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1927
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Lord Ribblesdale history historical aristocracy
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Square quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 328pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & rubbing to spine & cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Royal Academy of Arts 2015
KEYWORDS: art history paintings gardens botanical plants flowers Claude Monet
Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line
Quarto, light brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 360pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to rear pastedown- some adhesion loss also, sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Saint Louis Art Museum / Yale University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: art history renaissance Federico Barocci appreciation criticism
Chinese Blue & White Ceramics
Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 315pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & staining/discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Southeast Asian Ceramics Society / Arts Orientalis 1978
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ceramics pottery oriental art crafts porcelain Asian Asia history
Regulations for the Military Forces of the Dominion of New Zealand
Octavo, red light card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, 323pp, VG- (moderate wrinkling/curling & staining to covers, moderate tanning & floxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: W A G Skinner, Gov't Printer 1927
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military armed forces regulations history historical administration
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 4: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1943
Super octavo, illus black glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, 494pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to inside front cover)
PUBLISHER: Midland Counties Pubilcations 1996
KEYWORDS: military history British armed forces raf royal air force aviation casualties losses bomber command aeriel defence aircraft crew pilots airmen deaths
Sergei Eisenstein, Selected Works: Volume II Towards a Theory of Montage
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xx + 428pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: I B Tauris & Co 2010
KEYWORDS: film studies history Sergei Eisenstein Russia Russian movies montage
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Sixth Edition, with Additions and Corrections to 1872)
LACKS FFEP, PAGES 87-90, & FOLD-OUT DIAGRAM TO THE SAME, possibly due to binder's error; octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule to boards, xxi + 458pp, VG- (moderate to heavy bruising & scuffing to spine & board corners, moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, ffep missing, minor cracking to front & rear gutters, light to moderate soiling & foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1886
KEYWORDS: Charles Darwin natural selection origin of species history historical literature science biology
The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G Harding in His Times
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, xvi + 691pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1988
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history Warren G Harding politics
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, green leather board, gilt lettering with raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to boards, aeg, printed eps, frontispieces, xvi + 832pp total, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press N/D
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history Grover Cleveland politics
Martin van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, black leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, xii + 715pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1986
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history Martin van Buren politics
Herbert Hoover: A Biography
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, illus prelims, xii + 444pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press N/D
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history politics Herbert Hoover
Garfield: A Biography
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, green leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to boards- gilt lettering to front board, aeg, printed eps, frontispiece, x + 716pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1987
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history politics James A Garfield