Books - "history"
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At the Eastern Window: Three Essays
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
Dharmacakra or the Wheel of the Law
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
The Gamekeeper at Homes: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
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
A Book of Quaker Saints
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PUBLISHER: T. N. Foulis 1917
KEYWORDS: Quaker saints religion religious 20th century history
Independence Day: A Sketchbook
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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1926
KEYWORDS: Philip Guedalla England English history
Performing Englishness: Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence
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PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: England English folk culture custom social history ethnography enthomusicology
A Vision, a Village and a Future: The Story of the Selwyn Foundation 1947-2007
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
The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948
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PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword 2011
KEYWORDS: military history navy navy vessel HMS Renown
Telling Stories: Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand
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
Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theatre, Gender, and Nationalism
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PUBLISHER: Palgrave 2001
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture custom nationalism history 19th century 20th 21st century theatre gender
The New Koreans: The Business, History and People of South Korea
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PUBLISHER: Rider Books 2017
KEYWORDS: South Korea history custom culture business
The Great Game: A History of Wall Street
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
Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History
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
Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History
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
American Fly Fishing: A History
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
The Way of a Trout with a Fly
And Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics
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
How the Poor Live and Horrible London
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
The Selfish Gene
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
Book Collecting: An Introdiction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection
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
The Contemplative Man's Recreation: A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the Library of British Columbia
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PUBLISHER: The Library of the University of British Columbia 1970
KEYWORDS: angling angler fishing fish game sport bibliography book history books list handlist guide