London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1880. Hard Cover.
Ninth edition. No date, circa 1880. Boards and endpapers a bit soiled, front endpaper loose but included, binding slightly shaken. Not the best copy, but would you trust an etiquette guide that appeared unused?
xi, 184 pp. 12-page terminal publisher ad. Yellow.....
Hull and London: A. Brown & Sons, Ltd. Stapled Binding.
Large fold-out map repaired at one seam with tissue.
Showing at a glance the extended city boundary, parliamentary divisions, municipal wards and new streets.
New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2001. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Spine slightly concave along top edge, a couple tiny spots on top edge. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xxvi, 801, [5] pp. 8vo. 'London: The Biography is the pinnacle of.....
New York: Osprey, 2006. Hook, Christa. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An excellent copy.
64 pp. Osprey's study of the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-1960) in Kenya and its fighters. The Mau Mau Freedom Fighters waged a guerrilla war for eight years against their British colonial rulers, which became known.....
London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd., 1916. Stapled Binding.
An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
36 pp. This pamphlet is composed of four articles, two by Jane Anderson; one on Looping the Loop over London, and the other on the Submarine at Work.....
Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1863. Half-Leather.
Edges rubbed, boards lightly soiled, cloth on front board of first volume creased.
Complete three volume set. Half-leather, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Includes 241 engraved illustrations. A history of Scottish histories and surnames listed alphabetically.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Hard Cover.
Later printing. Pages lightly toned, pencil marks in Contents.
viii, 217 pp. "Sir Roger de Coverley was... the name of a character in The Spectator (1711). An English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old.....
New York: Vintage International, 2007. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Sixth printing. Pencil name on front cover verso.
445 pp. As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire.....
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First editions. Rebound in half-leather with marbled boards. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown.....
Poole / Dorset: Blandford Press, 1986. Hard Cover.
Edge wear, stain on base causing jacket to adhere to boards.
ix, [1], 181, [1] pp. "Of all the many colonial campaigns of the Victorian era, few have gripped the imagination more than the Zulu War of 1879. Its dramatic events and.....
New York: Osprey, 1995. Embleton, Gerry. Reprint. Soft Cover.
Reprint. Minor general wear.
64 pp. The English military ascendancy which lasted from the mid-14th to the early 16th century was founded upon defensive tactics based on the use of the longbow. This weapon, distinctive in that it was used by.....
Bath: Bath City Council, 1980. Stapled Binding.
Covers toned.
40 pp. Color photographs and illustrations throughout. Topics include jewelry, textiles, the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century, the twentieth century and more.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1922. Hard Cover.
Spine and edges a bit toned, bookplate on front endpaper.
xvii, 470, 2 pp. Includes fold-out genealogical table of the Rothschild and Montefiore families. "Constance Flower, Baroness Battersea (29 April 1843, Piccadilly, London - 22 November 1931, Overstrand; nee de Rothschild), also.....
Osceola, Wisconsin: Osprey Publishing, 2002. 7th Printing. Soft Cover.
7th printing. A few scratches and scrapes to rear wrapper, light wear along edges.
95 pp. The War of 1812-1815 was a bloody confrontation that tore through the American frontier, the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, and parts of.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. No jacket. An excellent copy.
xx, 289 pp. Includes fold-out. The Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. Bennett's classic study recreates.....
New York: Harper, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark, a few pages dog eared.
449 pp. In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein.....
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very good in worn jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with loss from corners, hauntingly pro-German gift note ('In 1937 remember what Swift said: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign.....
London: Quercus, 2010. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback.
Revised edition. A fine copy.
384 pp. Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. It is the story of Britain's fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from.....
New York: Chanticleer Press, 1935. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No publisher date (circa 1930s). Faint crease down first few pages, minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
318 pp. With 48 plates on colour and 137 illustrations in black-and-white. Introduction by Edmund.....
UK: The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1918. Stapled Binding.
Ink mark on front wrapper.
75-104 pp. Reprinted from The Transactions of The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1918. Marylebone is a district in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. Oxford Street forms its southern boundary.....
New York: McCall Publishing Company, 1971. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, red staining on endpapers.
xviii, 311 pp. With 24 pages of photographs. "This informal biography is the first to give a full account of his life--his family's long-suffering relationship with the Greek people, his.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hard Cover.
Front joint of first volume splitting, edges rubbed with minor loss from spine ends of each, corners exposed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
Complete in two volumes. xiii, 563; 505 pp. Additions and notes by John Wilson Croker.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Reynolds, Joshua. Hard Cover.
'The Library Edition.' 1 inch split to cloth along front joint of first volume, endpapers foxed, front hinge of first and third volumes just beginning to weaken, front and rear hinges of second and fifth volumes weakening, some pages.....
London: The Folio Society, 1985. Reissue. Hard Cover.
2006 second Folio Society edition (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1302). Includes publisher's slipcase. Minimal wear to corners, embossed owner stamp on title page. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xiv, 365 pp. Edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle, foreword.....
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine label lightly rubbed.
iv, 250 pp. David Hartley was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders.....