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$12.50
xxpej217388

Battle of the Atlantic, 50th Anniversary (1943-1993) Official Souvenir Brochure and Programme of Events


N/A

Quarto 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: Brodie Publishing 1993

KEYWORDS: military history brochures Battle of the Atlantic souvenirs celebrations commemorations

$22.50
xxpej217389

Artillery (Modern Military Series)


JOHNSON, CURT & BAKSHIAN Jr, ARAM (Intro)

Quarto 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: Octopus Books 1975

KEYWORDS: military history warfare artillery weaponry development

$30.00
xxpej217391

The Neophiliacs


BOOKER, CHRISTOPHER

FIRST EDITION, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Gambit 1970

KEYWORDS: first editions literature social history Christopher Booker

$18.50
xxpel217392

Spitfire at War


PRICE, ALFRED

Quarto 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: Ian Allan 1977

KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes spitfires spitfire raf royal air force British armed forces

$18.50
xxpel217393

Spitfire at War: 2


PRICE, ALFRED

Quarto 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: Ian Allan 1985

KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes spitfires spitfire raf royal air force British armed forces

$22.50
xxpel217395

Famous Aircraft: The P-51 Mustang


MORGAN, LEN & GROH, RICHARD (Scale Drawings)

Imperial octavo softcover, stapled (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: Arco Publishing 1963

KEYWORDS: military aviation history p-51 Mustang design engineering fighter planes

$37.50
xxpel217396

Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War


LAMBERTON, W M (Compiled by) & CHEESMAN, E F (Ed) & CARRICK, J D (Drawings) & YEOMAN, F (Drawings)

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G) jacket scruffy with extensive archival tape repairs; 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: Harleyford Publications 1960

KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 aircraft the great war

$30.00
xxpel217402

The Cambridge Ancient History, Plates Volume IV


COOK, S A (Ed) & ADCOCK, F E (Ed) & CHARLESWORTH, M P (Ed) & SELTMAN, C T (Plates Prepared by)

THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) flaps of jacket missing; 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: Cambridge University Press 1960

KEYWORDS: Cambridge ancient history plates art antiquity

$40.00
1o15a/19

Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman


ROBSON, CATHERINE

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 250pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & bruising to board edges & extrems, light imprint of jacket to rear board, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, minor general fading)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: English literature history literary criticism victorian era girls gender identity female children

$90.00
1o15a/20

King James & Letters of Homoerotic Desire


BERGERON, DAVID M

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to black spine, viii + 251pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading & rubbing to board edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Iowa Press 1999

KEYWORDS: history lgbtq gay men homosexuality letters correspondence royal family King James

$40.00
1o15a/21

The Other Love: An Historical and Contemporary Survey of Homosexuality in Britain


HYDE, H MONTGOMERY

Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 323pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing/discolouration to prelims, occasional minor pencil markings) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edgeslight chafing & soiling, light foxing/tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1970

KEYWORDS: Great Britain British history gay men homosexuality lgbtq

$40.00
1o15a/25

Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis


VAN DRIEL, MELS

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 288pp, illus, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2011

KEYWORDS: men male genitals genitalia anatomy history urology sexuality sexual behaviour behavior

$40.00
1o15a/26

The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History


SIMONS, PATRICIA

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 327pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to top edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: gender sexuality men sexual behaviour behavior physiology anatomy history culture

$60.00
1o15a/27

Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris


PENISTON, WILLIAM A

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & lilac lettering to spine, xi + 258pp, VG+ (sl creasing & soiling to covers/edges, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harington Park Press 2004

KEYWORDS: lgbtq gay lesbian studies history Europe European France French gender sexuality male prostitution politics government political sex

$60.00
1o15a/28

Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (3 Vol Set)


DEL MAR, NORMAN

3 VOL SET, LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges of vol 1 stained grey, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing & rubbing to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate staining/soiling to boards, light fading to spines, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Barrie and Rockliff / Barrie & Jenkins 1962-72

KEYWORDS: Richard Strauss music history musicians classical composers biography biographies memoir

$40.00
1w46a/3

Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein and Their Circle


LEDDICK, DAVID

Super octavo, black heavy boards, green gilt lettering to spine, xix + 316pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, 2cm closed tear to top of spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 2000

KEYWORDS: art history photography phtoographers George Platt Lynes Paul Cadmus Lincoln Kirstein biographies gay men homosexuality

$47.50
1w46a/8

When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators


MERRILL, LISA

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 318pp, illus, VG+ (minor library markings, light tape residue to board edges, sl rubbing to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, minor library markings)

PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Charlotte Cushman gay lesbian history lgbtq stage theatre theater gender portrayal biography

$145.00
1w46a/9

A History of Africa (2 Vol Boxed Set)


FAGE, J D & TORDOFF, WILLIAM

2 VOL, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt decoration to boards, xv + xi + 702pp total, illus/photos, Near FINE, in slipcase, Near FINE (sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Folio Society 2008

KEYWORDS: folio society history Africa

$175.00
1w46a/11

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (2 Vol Boxed Set)


FIGES, ORLANDO

2 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, red heavy boards, white lettering to spine, white & blue illus to front boards, frontispieces, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in slipcase, Near FINE (sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2013

KEYWORDS: folio society Russia Russian history revolution 19th 20th nineteenth twentieth century

$100.00
1y36b/6

The Dardanelles: Colour Sketches from Gallipoli


WILKINSON, NORMAN

Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blue lettering & gilt nautical illus to front board, teg, deckled page fore-edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 118pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light bruising & moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light soiling & rubbing to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning to eps, prev. owner's label to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, old newspaper clipping of 1939 London Anzac Day to rear pastedown, sl cracking to gutters, occasional minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1915

KEYWORDS: military history Gallipoli Anzac Dardanelles Norman Wilkinson art sketches

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