Books - "history"
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The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo, pp. 256; grey heavy card bds, spine lettered in black, publisher's device in blind to front board; illus. tp, photos, plates, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping;
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2017
KEYWORDS: Whitney Chadwick first edition female women 20th century habits custom social history education philosophy literature
Flight Out of Time: A Dada Dictionary
8vo, pp. lxiv + 274; illus. light card covers; plates; VG; (sl scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996
KEYWORDS: art artists 20th century criticism theory philosophy literary history Dada movement
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Super 8vo, pp. x + 410; black buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. tp; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate annotation in pencil throughout (by Prof. Anne Mackay)); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: ancient classical history Greece Greek tragedy play drama literature criticism female women representation
Navaho Witchcraft
8vo, pp. xxii + 254; illus. light card covers; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; sl cracking to front hinge; lg closed tear to front cover at joint).
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Native American witchcraft magic social history custom
New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat in Downtown 81
Imp. 8vo, pp. 111; heavy card bds, spine & bds lettered in black; photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Petit Grand Publishing 2001
KEYWORDS: Jean-Michel Basquiat artist 20th century New York American art history
Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing through Discipline
Super 8vo, pp. xv + 302; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2013
KEYWORDS: visual cultural studies art history anthropology criticism critical theory essays
The Vintage Alvis
Super 8vo, pp. 400; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep;); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning).
PUBLISHER: David & Charles Newton Abbot 1974
KEYWORDS: Alvis Car Company history vehicle automobile cars 20th century
Disco Years
4to; illus. heavy card bds; F (in original packaging)
PUBLISHER: Powerhouse Books 2006
KEYWORDS: Ron Galella photos photography disco culture movement music social history
Tangi
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Obl fol. pp. [50] unpaginated; illus. heavy card bds; illus.; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to front gutters; light to moderate tanning throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1963
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori social history illustration illustrated pictorial
The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture
Fol., pp. xv + 236; black heavy card bds; all edges stained black, photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Victoria 2017
KEYWORDS: high fashion art arts Dior clothing designer history 20th century
The Kafirs Illustrated: A Facsimile Reprint of the Original 1849 Edition of Hand-coloured Lithographs
Elephant folio, green leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims, frontispiece, 133pp, illus/plates - plates counted & all present, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: A A Balkema 1974
KEYWORDS: facsimile reprints George French G F Angas Africa African Amazulu Amaponda Amakosa tribes history anthropology art travel Kafir
Keith Richards: A Rock 'n' Roll Life
Quarto, illus heavy boards, green & grey lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 207pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, sl chafing/soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light creasing to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: WS White Star Publishers 2012
KEYWORDS: The Rolling Stones Keith Richards biography biographies memoir rock music musicians history entertainment
The Beatles: It Was 50 Years Ago Today
INC. 5x PRINTS, DVD, POSTERS & MANY ENCLOSURES, quarto, illus cushioned heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 133pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine, prev. bookseller's retail label to front pastedown) in clamshell presentation box, VG (light bruising to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, internal framing/border section with ribbon detached but present & still tidy)
PUBLISHER: Carlton Books 2012
KEYWORDS: britpop pop popular music bands history The Beatles illustrated entertainment
Punk on 45: Revolutions on Vinyl 1976-79
Square super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, yellow lettering to spine, 159pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's retail label to rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Plexus Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: punk music history 70s seventies album covers art rock albums
Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, as Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs (Second Edition)
SECOND EDITION, suepr octavo, black/blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule/decoration to boards, vignette, illus title page, xxiii + 255pp + 199pp in te reo Maori to rear, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to board & spine extrems, moderate chipping to top edge of spine, light fading to spine, heavy tanning & light soiling to page edges, gift presentation/inscription in ink to ffep, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, moderate tanning/discolouration to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, some pages remain uncut at top edges)
PUBLISHER: H Brett, Evening Star Office 1885
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Polynesia Polynesian myths mythology folklore lore religion
The Boer Fight for Freedom (Facsimile Reproduction)
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#472/1000), quarto, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, raised bands to spine, teg, illus/maps to eps, unpaginated prelims, xii + 607pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to edges, moderate chafing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Scripta Africana 1988
KEYWORDS: facsimile reprints Boer war Africa African anglo-boer history military
New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History with Special Reference to the Results of Government Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson
ALL PLATES & BOTH MAPS PRESENT, imperial octavo, teal/blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine, gilt illus & blind decoration to front board, marbled page edges, illus/patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 515pp, folding maps to rear, G+ (spine completely detached but present- with minor chipping also, moderate scuffing to board extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, 5cm tear to front gutter, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lettering to rear eps in pencil, minor closed tearing & foxing to folding maps)
PUBLISHER: J G Cotta 1867
KEYWORDS: New Zealand geography natural history geology Auckland Nelson
Flemish Painting, from the 16th to the 18th Century: Relaying Ideas from Erasmus to Diderot
Quarto, red silky cloth heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 320pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor rubbing to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Umberto Allemandi & C 2010
KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation Flemish painting paintings painters
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
SET OF 3 VOLS, BOUND IN 6 BOOKS, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine/leather title plates to spine with raised bands only, gilt decoration to board edges, mixed pagination, illus title pages, G+ (v heavy chipping & scuffing to spines/extrems with heavy insect damage also, moderate to heavy chafing/scuffing & staining to boards, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, front board of vol 1 partially detached, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of all vols, moderate cracking to front hinge of vol 5, moderate foxing & tanning to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1807
KEYWORDS: England English history civil war wars conflict rebellions antiquarian books Earl of Clarendon Edward
Pablo Picasso Drawings
FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus white heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 160pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate foxing & soiling to spine & covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink & minor creasing to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Harry N Abrams 1959
KEYWORDS: first editions art history collections drawings sketches Pablo Picasso