Books - "history"
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War: A Modern History
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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian USSR modern history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Soviet politics Kremlin political
The Thames: England's River
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PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2005
KEYWORDS: England Great Britain English British history cities London River Thames rivers waterways
Art and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Russia
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PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1983
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history culture art nationalism society criticism
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography
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PUBLISHER: Picador 2005
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Siegfried Sassoon history
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents
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PUBLISHER: Unknown (page missing)
KEYWORDS: politics political modern history Cold War Russia Russian Anatoly Dobrynin
The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices From Leyte Gulf
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PUBLISHER: NAL Caliber / New American Library 2007
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 naval battles sea warfare Leyte Gulf
Souvenir: Northern Bowling Association of New Zealand
Oblong demy 8vo, 77 pp. + [10 (advts.)]; heavy geen card bds, red spine, front board lettered & decorated in black; illus. tp, photos, illus.; G+ (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription to front pastedown in blue & black ink; moderate cracking to front hinge; moderate to heavy cracking to central & rear gutters).
PUBLISHER: McKee & Co. 1902
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Northern Bowling Association sports sporting history
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2 vols)
2 VOL SET. Super 8vo, x + 443 pp., ix + 449 pp.; heavy card bds. spine lettered in gilt (vol. 1) & white (vol. 2); photos, illus.; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (sl bruising & creasing to edges & extrems, minor creasing); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015-17
KEYWORDS: Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens human history ancient classical modern future
Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED. Super 8vo, xvi + 340 pp.; red buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt, VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; author inscription in blue ink to ffep); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light tanning).
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Pauline B Keating rural conditions development China history Sino Japanese conflict
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840
Super 8vo, red buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in gil, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; sl bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan 1996
KEYWORDS: Helen Dunstan China 17th 18th 19th century politics political economy economic policy government history
Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change
8vo, xi + 465 pp.; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (moderate tanning, scuffing & moderate to heavy soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).
PUBLISHER: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989
KEYWORDS: philosophy of science 20th century Imre Lakatos Greek Greece history knowledge scientific change
Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz with a list of his surviving books and broadsides
Super 8vo, xv + 146 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: The Leo Hart Co. 1950
KEYWORDS: Peter Schoeffer incunabula printer printing history 15th century
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628-1900 (2 vols)
2 VOL SET. Fol. 360 pp., 360 pp.; illus. heavy card bds, black & gilt lettering to spine bds; red eps, frontis., photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Taschen 2009
KEYWORDS: type typography printing publishing history book arts design
Samuel Richardson of London: Printer
4to, blue heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Keith Maslen Samuel Richardson printing publishing history printer 18th century ornaments printing
Fleuron Anthology
4to, xv + 359 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; grey eps, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps); in d/w, VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; sm open tear to front cover & front upper right extrem; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1973
KEYWORDS: Feuron magazine journal periodical fine printing publishing history type typography typographical technique
Letters Written During the Indian Mutiny
Post 8vo, xxiii + 169 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt, front board decorated with emblem in gilt enclosed by roll-tooled border in blind; frontis., plates, map foldouts; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; bookplate to front pastedown, prev owner's sticker to ht; ffep torn out; moderate cracking to front gutters).
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1924
KEYWORDS: Indian Mutiny England English British history India letters correspondence
Hitler's Scientist: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
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PUBLISHER: Viking 2003
KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany German history science 20th century war warfare Second World War 2 WW2 WWII WW II
Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World
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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2006
KEYWORDS: Paul Cartledge ancient classical history Thermopylae battle war Persian Greek Greece
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Jay Winik America United States 18th century modern history New World
Bedlam: London and Its Mad
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: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Catharine Arnold England English history London