Books - "history"
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The Sea-Trout: A Study in Natural History
TASTEFULLY REBOUND. 4to, xi + 219 pp.; half-bound in green leather double roll-tooled in black & marbled bds, gilt panel spine with lettering to two panels, fish illus. to four panels; teg, fore & bottom edges deckled, frontis., plates; VG+ (minor scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; light foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: Sherratt & Hughes 1916
KEYWORDS: Henry Lamond fish fishing angler angling literature trour sea-trout sea trout natural history wildlife rivers streams sea animals
Art and Survival in First World War Britain
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Press 1987
KEYWORDS: Stuart Sillars art First World War 1 I WW1 WWI WW psychology fine art social history England Britain
Intelligible Cities
8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Goware 2022
KEYWORDS: Italy Italian city cities travel history fiction David Groves
Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Scientific Publications 1994
KEYWORDS: sexual lifestyle living social criticism history sociology
Hotel California
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: Harper Perennial 2006
KEYWORDS: music history LA Los Angeles culture California west coast scene
Bloody Murder: From the Deetctive Story to the Crime Novel: A History
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: Viking / Penguin 1985
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history crime thrillers detective novels Julian Symons
Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West
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: William B Eerdmans Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: Christianity religion theology history
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Super octavo softcover (VG) some pencil underlining; 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: University of Notre Dame Press 2003
KEYWORDS: justice philosophy history reason ethics
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2001
KEYWORDS: finance economic history money cash economy politics
The Best of New Zealand Memories
Quarto 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: New Zealand Memories 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand culture history historical photos memories
Historical and Geographical Influences on Psychopathology
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: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1998
KEYWORDS: psychiatric epidemiology mental health disorders psychology history historical geography
Disaster at Stalingrad
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: Frontline Books 2013
KEYWORDS: alternative alternate history ww2 second 2nd world war 2 two ii German victory literature Peter Tsouras
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
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: Encounter Books 2005
KEYWORDS: art history criticism literature political correctness
The Creation of Psychopharmacology
Tidy ex-library, 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: Harvard University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: mental health psychology pharmaceuticals psychopharmacology psychotropic drugs psychiatry history
A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece, xx + 460pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Easton Press 1986
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings library of the presidents series collections former US presidents Calvin Coolidge biography biogarphies memoir history US America American politics political leaders governemnt white house
The Mare's Nest
FIRST EDITION, 2nd IMP., scruffy ex-library, super octavo, blue heavy boards, 320pp, illus/photos, G+ (usual library markings, jacket & some prelims & terminals affixed to boards with yellowing tape, board edges appear quite scuffed, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, v heavy crack to gutters of pgs48/49, light to moderate foxing & soiling to some pages sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges despite tape & covering, jacket firmly affixed with messy yellowing tape)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1964
KEYWORDS: first editions (2nd impression) David Irving military history German secret weapons weaponry British intelligence counter-measures bombs defence defense ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places (6 Vol Set)
6 VOL SET, imperial octavo, half leather bound brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering with raised bands & tooling/decoration to spines, marbled page edges, frontispieces & vignettes to prelims of each vol, varied pagination, illus, VG- (varying degrees of rubbing & scuffing to leatherwork- mostly quite heavy, moderate to heavy cracking to hinges of spines/boards, light to moderate loss & chipping to top spine edge of vol 5, heavy chipping & loss to top edge of spine to vol 6, moderate to heavy tanning & discolouration/staining to page edges- internal & external, moderate cracking to some gutters, prev. bookseller's sm plate to ffeps of all vols, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to eps of all vols, heavy staining to edges of prelims to vol 2- ffep heavily chipped at edges also, varying degrees of foxing throughout all vols- mostly quite minor, occasional minor closed tearing to some page edges, heavy staining to prelims of vol 6)
PUBLISHER: Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York N/D
KEYWORDS: England Great Britain English British cities London history culture
The Adventures of Giuseppe Pignata, Who Escaped from the Prisons of the Inquisition of Rome 1693
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 253pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing/soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's inscription in ink to ffep, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, sl foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (all corners lightly clipped, light to moderate insect damage & loss to rear cover, light tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1930
KEYWORDS: first editions history English translations Giuseppe Pignata prisoners prisoner escapees 17th seventeenth century inquisition Rome inquisition autobiography memoir
The World of San Bernadino
Imperial octavo, green patterned heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt insignia to front board, frontispiece, ix + 303pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (all corners lightly clipped, light fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label residue to front flap, minor tanning to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: The Reprint Society 1964
KEYWORDS: religion religious figures history Bernadino degli Albizzeschi biography biographies memoir
England's Other Cathedrals
Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, minor foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: The History Press 2012
KEYWORDS: England Great Britain English British cathedrals religious buildings churches history historical architecture design