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$100.00
2a18l/42

The Sea-Trout: A Study in Natural History


LAMOND, HENRY

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

$35.00
xx119pol205287

Art and Survival in First World War Britain


SILLARS, STUART

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

$16.50
xx119pol205290

Intelligible Cities


GROVES, DAVID

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

$22.50
xx119pol205300

Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles


JOHNSON, ANNE M & WADSWORTH, JANE & WELLINGS, KAYE & FIELD, JULIA & BRADSHAW, SALLY; ACHESON, Sir DONALD (forew)

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

$14.00
xx119pol205308

Hotel California


HOSKYNS, BARNEY

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

$15.00
xx118pol205317

Bloody Murder: From the Deetctive Story to the Crime Novel: A History


SYMONS, JULIAN

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

$20.00
xx118pol205335

Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West


SANNEH, LAMIN

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

$28.50
xx118pol205345

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?


MACINTYRE, ALASDAIR

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

$17.50
xx118pol205366

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000


FERGUSON, NIALL

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

$28.50
xx117pol205385

The Best of New Zealand Memories


RHODES, WENDY et al

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

$35.00
xx117pol205395

Historical and Geographical Influences on Psychopathology


COHEN, PATRICIA (Ed) & SLOMKOWSKI, CHERYL (Ed) & ROBINS, LEE N (Ed)

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

$22.50
xx117pol205398

Disaster at Stalingrad


TSOURAS, PETER G & PETERS, RALPH (Fore)

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

$22.50
xx117pol205411

The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art


KIMBALL, ROGER

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

$25.00
xx117pol205413

The Creation of Psychopharmacology


HEALY, DAVID

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

$40.00
2a18e/41

A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge


WHITE, WILLIAM ALLEN

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

$40.00
2a18e/45

The Mare's Nest


IRVING, DAVID

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

$245.00
2a18j/33

Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places (6 Vol Set)


THORNBURY, WALTER & WALFORD, EDWARD

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

$40.00
2a18j/34

The Adventures of Giuseppe Pignata, Who Escaped from the Prisons of the Inquisition of Rome 1693


PIGNATA, GIUSEPPE & SYMONS, ARTHUR (Trans)

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

$45.00
2a18m/44

The World of San Bernadino


ORIGO, IRIS

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

$40.00
2a18m/45

England's Other Cathedrals


JEFFERY, PAUL

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

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