Books - "history"
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The Gibson Les Paul Book
Super 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: GPI Books 1993
KEYWORDS: music musical instruments guitars electric Gibson Les Paul design history rock musicians players
William Caxton: The First English Printer: A Biography
Duodecimo 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: Charles Knight & Co 1844
KEYWORDS: printers printing history William Caxton biography biographies memoir antiquarian books
Shooting Folly as it Flies: The Life and Lines of New Zealand's First Political Cartoonist James Brown
Super octavo softcover (Near 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Saddle Hill Press 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand satirists satire politics political humour humor cartoons cartoonists James Brown history
Some Words About the Legend of Atlantis (Second Edition)
SECOND EDITION, 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: Chrys. Papachrysanthou (Reprinted by) 1972
KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology ancient history antiquity lost cities Atlantis
The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion
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: Delta / Dell Publishing 1972
KEYWORDS: religion anthropology history
Primitive Religion: Its Nature and Origin
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: Dover Publications N/D
KEYWORDS: old ancient religions gods deities history antiquity
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
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: Prometheus Books 2011
KEYWORDS: capitalism business finance economics history consumption
Heather's Gold: A Story of a Pioneer Family in the Otago Goldfields
DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: The Caxton Press 2005
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Otago gold fields goldfields early settlers pioneers Donald Offwood history
Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry
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: Oxford University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: psychiatry neuroscience history diagnostic statistical mental disorders neurology
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
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: Penguin 2013
KEYWORDS: inquisitions history historical Cullen Murphy catholic church
Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon
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: Abacus 1997
KEYWORDS: music history rock stars musicians excess bios anecdotes
Butler's Live of the Saints: January - December
4 VOL SET. Medium 8vo, xxxii + 720 pp., xxii + 692 pp., xx + 705 pp., xx + 707 pp.; red heavy card bds, spine lettered & illus. in silver gilt; illus. tp; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light fading to spine, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy foxing, light to moderate tanning & light soiling to pg edges; moderate foxing, light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to vols 2 & 3 at rear & central gutters; light foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: Burns & Oates 1956
KEYWORDS: Alban Butler life lives biographies saints Christain Christianity history historical records 20th century
A History of Fly Fishing for Trout
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. No. 31. SIGNED. Super 8vo, [6] + 244 pp.; blue heavy card bds, cream cl spine lettered in gilt; fore & bottom edges deckled; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to eps & prelims/terminals; light foxing sporadic throughout).
PUBLISHER: Philip Allan & Co. 1921
KEYWORDS: John Waller Hills fly fishing trout history angling angler fish
Ancient Angling Authors
Crown 8vo, xiii + 239 pp.; green buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown); in d/w, G- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, lg open tear to spine extrem at head, lg closed tear to spine at front joint, light to moderate tanning
PUBLISHER: Gurney and Jackson 1910
KEYWORDS: W J Turrell angling literature angler fishing ancient classical history sport game fly flies
Trout Flies of Devon and Cornwall and When and How to Use Them
Crown 8vo, 100 pp.; half-bound in blue roll-tooled leather & marbled bds, spine lettered in gilt; teg, marbled eps, frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine, board edges & extrems & joints; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; bookplate to front pastedown; emblem stickers to front & rear pastedowns).
PUBLISHER: Longman & Co. 1847
KEYWORDS: G W Soltau fishing angling literature angler 19th century fly trout flies England history
Prefaces to Shakespeare
Super 8vo, xi + 827 pp.; white & blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt, NF (sl sucffing to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Tony Tanner Shakespeare introduction plays drama English literature history criticism
The Origins of Angling
Imp. 8vo, xiii + 273 pp.; tan & black cl bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, minor cracking to front hinge); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate tanning, light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).
PUBLISHER: Doubledays & Company 1963
KEYWORDS: fish fishing angler angling literature history origins fly trout flies rivers streams
Angling in Australia: Its History and Writings
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. No. 64/300. SIGNED. WOODBLOCK PRINT TO REAR. Imp. 8vo, 320 pp.; maroon leather bds, spine lettered in gilt, white label to front board lettered in grey & illus.; marbled eps, illus. tp, photos, illus.; NF (v sl scuffing to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: David Ell Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Bob Dunn fish fishing angling literature Australia history
Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments
Super 8vo, xiii + 266 pp.; green heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; plates, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; sl bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light soiling, light bruising to edges & extrems with some chipping, sl soiling).
PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2004
KEYWORDS: Captain Cook explorer exploration discovery voyage travel travelling history Glyndwr Williams
Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Imp. 8vo, [4] + xv + 87 pp.; orange heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; text reproduced from Burney's edition of 1815, 35 plates to rear; NF (minor soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; sl tanning).
PUBLISHER: Chatham Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: William Falconer William Burney maritime naval history marine dictionary