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At the Eastern Window: Three Essays


BRIDGE, DIANA

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 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: Diana Bridge 2020

KEYWORDS: Diana Bridge 21st century essays culture social history criticism

$15.00
xx178pol207769

Dharmacakra or the Wheel of the Law


YUPHO, DHANIT

8vo stapled light card covers (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: The Fine Arts Department 1968

KEYWORDS: Thailand Thair Dharmacakra culture custom history

$35.00
xx178pol207779

The Gamekeeper at Homes: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life


JEFFERIES, RICHARD; WHYMPER, CHARLES (illus.)

8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1906

KEYWORDS: 20th century game sport rural life natural history

$30.00
xx178pol207781

A Book of Quaker Saints


HODGKIN, L V; CAYLEY-ROBSINSON, F (illus.)

8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: T. N. Foulis 1917

KEYWORDS: Quaker saints religion religious 20th century history

$25.00
xx178pol207789

Independence Day: A Sketchbook


GUEDALLA, PHILIP

8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1926

KEYWORDS: Philip Guedalla England English history

$39.50
xx178pol207795

Performing Englishness: Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence


WINTER, TRISH & KEEGAN-PHIPPS, SIMON

Super 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: Manchester University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: England English folk culture custom social history ethnography enthomusicology

$19.50
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A Vision, a Village and a Future: The Story of the Selwyn Foundation 1947-2007


WRIGHT, FRANK

Super 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: The Selwyn Foundation 2008

KEYWORDS: Selwyn Foundation history New Zealand Auckland

$22.50
xx178pol207798

The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948


SMITH, PETER C

Super 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: Pen & Sword 2011

KEYWORDS: military history navy navy vessel HMS Renown

$22.50
xx178pol207809

Telling Stories: Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand


ATTWOOD, BAIN & MAGOWAN, FIONA (eds)

Ex-library. 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: Bridget Williams Books 2001

KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand indigenous social history

$37.50
xx177pol207823

Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theatre, Gender, and Nationalism


KANO, AYAKO

Super 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: Palgrave 2001

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture custom nationalism history 19th century 20th 21st century theatre gender

$15.00
xx177pol207824

The New Koreans: The Business, History and People of South Korea


BREEN, MICHAEL

Super 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: Rider Books 2017

KEYWORDS: South Korea history custom culture business

$16.50
xx177pol207837

The Great Game: A History of Wall Street


STEELE-GORDON, JOHN

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: Orion Business Books 1999

KEYWORDS: Wall Street history economics economy trade trading financial market

$500.00
1n16a/14

Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History


DUNN, BOB & GOADBY, PETER

LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000

KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial

$500.00
1n31a/1

Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History


DUNN, BOB & GOADBY, PETER

LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000

KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial

$50.00
1n31a/5

American Fly Fishing: A History


SCHULLERY, PAUL

Imp. 8vo, pp. x + 278; patterned maroon cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; double roll-tooled border with floral cornerpieces & fish motif centerpiece in gilt to front board; 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; adhesive markings to ffep).

PUBLISHER: Lyons & Burford 1987

KEYWORDS: 20th century fish fishing trout flies fly angling angler method technique strategy history

$75.00
1n31a/6

The Way of a Trout with a Fly


And Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics

SKUES, G E M

FIRST EDITION. Royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 259 + [1]; brown/olive buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; fore edge deckled, frontis., plates; G+ (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink & stamp in green ink to ht; lacking ffep; heavy cracking to front & rear hinge, bdg sloppy; moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters; stamp in green ink sporadic throughout).

PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black 1921

KEYWORDS: 20th century G E M Skues fish fishing trout flies fly angling angler method technique strategy history

$345.00
1n31a/17

How the Poor Live and Horrible London


SIMS, GEORGE R

Bound with Socialism in Theory and Practice: Being a Lecture Delivered to a Working Class Audience by Karl Pearson, publ., W. Reeves, 1887. Foolscap 8vo, pp. [8] + 150 + 32; black cl bds, black leathers spine; mottled edges, patterned eps; G+ (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tearing to joints; leather to spine peeling; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription to front pastedown & ht; stamp in purple ink & heavy annotation in black ink throughout Socialism).

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1889

KEYWORDS: George R Sims Karl Pearson social history essay London 19th century

$3250.00
1o18a/3

The Selfish Gene


DAWKINS, RICHARD

FIRST UK EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. xii + 224; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Richard Dawkins first edition human behaviour biology history prehistory environment life animals

$16.50
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Book Collecting: An Introdiction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection


COLLISON, ROBERT L; HORN, ANDREW H (forew)

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: Ernest Benn 1957

KEYWORDS: book collecting bibliography history printing bookbinding binding publishing paper bookselling

$30.00
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The Contemplative Man's Recreation: A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the Library of British Columbia


STARKMAN, SUSAN B & READ, STANLEY E (ed); MACKENZIE, N A (forew); HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK L

8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Library of the University of British Columbia 1970

KEYWORDS: angling angler fishing fish game sport bibliography book history books list handlist guide

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