england history

Hardcover. NY/London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 304 pages. This is the first of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers' bassist and lyricist, Nicky Wire. For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from "Generation Terrorists" through "Holy Bible" and right up to last year's remarkable album, "Postcards from a Young Man". Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire's personal polaroid's and with accompanying text by the man himself, "Death of The Polaroid" promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most loved and iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.

Hardcover. NY/London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 304 pages. This is the first of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers' bassist and lyricist, Nicky Wire. For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from "Generation Terrorists" through "Holy Bible" and right up to last year's remarkable album, "Postcards from a Young Man". Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire's personal polaroid's and with accompanying text by the man himself, "Death of The Polaroid" promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most loved and iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.

Hardcover. Germany, Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3-vol set in slip case. Hardcovers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development of the genre from 1900 to 1969 in three compact, informative volumes. In Volume 1 you'll learn about the first magazines that appeared around 1900 in France, Germany, and the U.S., and follow the development of the genre through the First and Second World Wars. Covered are men's magazines masquerading as movie magazines, humor magazines, art magazines, nudist magazines, and "spicy" fiction. Volume 2 documents the proliferation of pin-up magazines following World War II, most notably a little item called Playboy that debuted in December 1953 and spawned dozens of imitators. This volume also charts the emergence of English men's magazines, fetish magazines, and the top five covergirls of the 1950s. Volume 3 begins with an explosion of new American pin-up magazines following the loosening of U.S. obscenity laws, and continues with French titles in decline, England going pervy; nudists going hippy, and Germany going pervy, hippy and political.

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt-stamped light gray cloth with Dickens' escutcheon in red & gold on cover, top edge gilt, frontispiece photographic profile of Dickens & 18 B&W photographic illustrations. Nice retrospective of London in reference to Charles Dickens life, book provides a brief look at Dickens' literary life, manner and customs, history of the area and more. 300 pages including index,

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's gift label on front flyleaf. Tan, speckled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning from age, a couple of very small tears (barely noticeable--see image) at top along edge of dj. Part New England gothic, part fantasy, and pure rollicking adventure story, this book traces the history of a unique clan of hardy Vermonters who have survived in Kingdom County, near the Canadian border, for several generations.

Softcover. Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, has a crease at the top right corner of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked, edges have some light foxing/tanning. Binding tight. In great shape. This superbly-illustrated new book explores English society and its relationship to the landscape, as seen through photography and tourism over the last hundred years.

Hardcover. Somerset UK, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Black & white photographs throughout. Light pen marking couple pages. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth coverings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on front fly leaf. Light foxing on end papers. Gilt lettering on spine. Light soil.

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st pbk, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 50 pages of text, followed by hundreds of b&w illustrations. The original edition of Early Victorian Architecture in Britain was published in two volumes, one containing an extensive discussion and appreciation of early Victorian architecture by Mr Hitchcock, and the other containing a list of the illustrations the author had collected and the plates themselves. This single-volume paperback edition includes the original Preface, Acknowledgements, and first chapter of the original, as well as the illustrations. Clean, bright copy, small ownership stamp to front fly leaf.

Hardcover. East Sussex UK, Book Guild, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w period photos from the turn of the last century. Like new in shrink-wrap. From a box brimming with fantastic photographs come this collection of the works of photojournalist Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles assembled by his grandson. 38 pages of text. 110 plates.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. This account of Egyptian society in the reign of Muhammad Ali traces the beginnings of the nation state in Egypt. It considers Muhammad Ali as part of a social group whose economic interests led them in the direction of trade with Europe as a means of raising money for further investments. They attempted to increase agricultural exports and to use the profits to create industry; then, following the logic of imperialists, their next step was to seek to conquer the surrounding areas to find markets for their industries and sources of raw materials. These policies brought them into conflict with their suzerain, the Ottoman sultan, and with England, since England needed markets in the Middle East. England sought to destroy the new regime in Egypt as a means of exerting influence on the region. In carrying out these economic changes, the country underwent a series of internal developments that were to revolutionize the structure and shape of Egyptian society. The rules of landownership were altered and large estates were formed, Egyptian fallahin were drafted into the army, and the administration was Egyptianized, establishing the groundwork for a nation state. Small embossed stamp on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 223 pages. In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages. A detailed study of the politics underlying British policies of mercantilism in the American colonies. Focusing on the political activity of interest groups in the British Empire of the eighteenth century, Professor Kammen relates political influence in Georgian England to American colonial history, to the early history of the industrial revolution, to the incredible flood of writings in the later eighteenth century on political economy, and to the dynamics of Anglo-American political society, public life, and the empire. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 205 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Small hole on dj front.

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming spectre of Soviet-sponsored subversion in Britain's dwindling colonial possessions, the imperial intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but top secret role in passing power to newly independent national states across the globe. Walton reveals this `missing link' in Britain's post-war history. He sheds light on everything from violent counter-insurgencies fought by British forces in the jungles of Malaya and Kenya, to urban warfare campaigns conducted in Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula. Draws on (among other sources) records from the Foreign Office's secret archive at Hanslope Park, which contains some of the darkest and most shameful secrets from the last days of Britain's empire. 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 546 pages. This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires, processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas. Color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, UK, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Scarce title. Light gray cloth with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor bump to upper front corner, else like new.

Hardcover. New York, Excalibur Books, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 216 pages. 169 black & white illustrations. Edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, illustrated with black & white drawings, color paintings by Calthrop. 463 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear. chunk gone from spine top, corners.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1872-74, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in original dark green cloth. 633, 520 and 519 pages. Spine cloth frayed and separating on Volumes 1 and 2, Vol. 1 has a small chunk of cloth gone from top, chipped on bottom.otherwise books are clean and tight. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Detailed b/w illustrations throughout. Covers bound in green fabric with gilt title and design on spine (faded) and front cover. Former owner's signature on front endpaper. Covers show some agewear with fading, a bit of soil from handling and shelf wear, and a touch of fraying to edges of spine and corners of covers. Pages and edges are age-yellowed, but binding still quite tight and all in good condition considering age.

Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. Beard examines the English country house life, its gentry, and the changes they undertook through the century in order to survive. The author shows how after World War Two, their political power had eroded and they began to run their estates as businesses, instead of paternalistic rural communities. Clean copy.

New York, Putnam, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth hardcover, 289 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Cover has light edgewear. Clean copy.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 580 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on inside front cover. This classic work of recent historiography broke the hold of the "old guard" on this key period of English history. It has now been extensively rewritten, and in its updated form reinforces its arguments with new evidence and addresses some of the historical preoccupations of the past fifteen years.