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A Triptych of Poisoners
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: Star / W H Allen & Co 1979
KEYWORDS: true crime history historical poisonings poison murder homicide investigations Jean Plaidy
New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx
Octavo hardcover (VG) water damage to rear, pencil annotations/markings; 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: Regency Press 1976
KEYWORDS: aliens esoteric Atlantis ancient civilisations civilizations ufos space history
Fay Taylour: 'The World's Wonder Girl' - A Life at Speed
Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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: Pen & Sword History 2023
KEYWORDS: Fay Taylour motorsport champions women biography biographies memoir history
A Woman's Work is Never Done: A History of Housework in the British Isles 1650-1950
Imperial 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: Chatto & Windus 1986
KEYWORDS: history women gender roles Great Britain British housework chores household
A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s
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: The Women's Press 1979
KEYWORDS: gender women history Canada Canadian social articles writing literature
The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family 1880-1940
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: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: women gender roles history Australia Australian family dynamics sociology
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel
LACKS D/W, 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: Schocken Books 1974
KEYWORDS: gender women history women's studies social commentary novels literature literary Victorian era
Caroline Norton's Defense: English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
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: Academy Chicago 1982
KEYWORDS: women's studies history women Caroline Norton 19th nineteenth century laws legal law legal status marriage family
Working-Class Wives: Their Health and Conditions
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: Virago 1981
KEYWORDS: early 20th twentieth century history women gender roles women's studies 1930s thirties health conditions social conditions
The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
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: Virago 1983
KEYWORDS: Rebecca West history writings literature literary anthologies
The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant
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: Virago 1984
KEYWORDS: women gender women's studies Victorian maids servants Hannah Cullwick diaries journals history
Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914
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: Routledge 1990
KEYWORDS: suffrage women women's studies history gender Great Britain British
The Architecture of Michelangelo
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: Penguin 1986
KEYWORDS: buildings history historical architecture Michelangelo
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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: Doubleday 2019
KEYWORDS: women victims history true crime famous murders murder cases homicide Jack the Ripper
The Quest for Frank Wild
Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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: Jackleberry Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Frank Wild explorers adventure exploration history biography biographies memoir
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
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: Pandora Press 1985
KEYWORDS: feminism feminist history sexuality Victorian era women women's studies
History of the Monotype Corporation
Super 8vo, pp. 432; blue cl bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; NF (sl scuffing to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Printing Historical Society 2014
KEYWORDS: printing publishing history 19th 20th century Monotype type typography letter forms machine press book arts design bibliography
Special Forces of the United States Army 1952-1982
Super 8vo, pp. 723 + [12 (index)]; illus. heavy card bds; illus. tp, photos, 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 to eps, prelims & terminals),
PUBLISHER: R. James Bender 1990
KEYWORDS: United States of America army special forces military history 20th century
A History of Printing in New Zealand 1830-1940
No.297/600. Imp. 8vo, pp. [18] + 249 + [3 (index)]; half-bd in cl with textured heavy card bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; top edge stained blue, illus. eps, frontis., plates, elaborate initals, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate scuffing to joints with loss to colour; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & teminals; sticker, Fred B. Butler Collection, to front paastedown; moderate cracking to front gutters).
PUBLISHER: Richard Alexander McKay 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand printing publishing history 19th 20th century book arts design press type typography bibliography
A Book Printer's Display Material: As Used by William Clowes & Sons Ltd at the Caxton Works, Beccles
Imp. 8vo, pp. xvi + 246; illus. heavy card bds, red cl spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps, type specimens; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; blue ink stains to tp verso).
PUBLISHER: William Clowes & Sons 1954
KEYWORDS: William Clowes & Sons type specimen book arts design type typography printing publishing history press
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