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Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a very worn and chipped dust jacket, 294 pages. In these four short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who are ruled by 'the harsh voice we hear when money talks, or hate'. There is Josie, a flower of American girlhood with boundless ambition for wealth. There is Etienne de Sefavenac, a dilettante French aristocrat whose courtly stratagems are intended to ensnare Nancy Sarle - a plain American businesswoman. There is Alice Pemberton, a sensible Englishwoman - the very salt of the earth - in her own estimation. And lastly there is Sam Hartley, an American businessman who has fought his way to riches with his wife at his side, but whose life is now haunted by visions of beautiful young women.

Hardcover. New York, AMS Press, Inc. , Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1936 edition. B/w illustrations (maps/diagrams). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Very good condition throughout. This volume is not only an admirable study in social and economic history, but a unique and valuable contribution to the history of American agriculture as well.

Hardcover. Newton Abbot UK, David & Charles, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. Hill shepherds are the unsung heroes of British rural life. As indispensable to the nation's economy as the flocks they tend, these tough, gifted men and women deserve our recognition and gratitude. Edward Hart, an ex-farmer, has lived and worked with shepherds for many years. Originator of the idea for a Shepherd of the Year award, he now describes the life of a typical hill shepherd, including the daily round, seasonal changes, home life, hobbies and events. There are practical sections on the shepherd's work, his tools and their uses, whilst entertaining chapters cover the annual sales and shows, crafts such as crook-making and social pleasures.

Softcover. Cleveland OH, Jontzen Printing Co, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, printed gray card wrappers, 189 pages, b&w photos. A publication relating to the public tour of the Australian museum ship "Success" which, following a somewhat checkered history in the 1890s, toured North America continually from 1918 until the mid-1930s, offering patrons a sensationalized history of the British convict system. She was destroyed by fire in Lake Erie in 1946 . Though billed by its managers as a former British convict ship and as the "oldest ship afloat," neither was true although she had seen brief service as a prison hulk in the 1850s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Stevens and Sons, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 575 pages. Volume Two. Front corners bumped. Some soiling to covers. Light rubbing to spine and corners.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcover volumes. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines. 1992 reissue of 1888 edition; the book was originally written by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, an advisor to both Charles I and Charles II. One of the most significant histories of the 1642-to-1646 English Civil War, it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered. Written at first as a defense of Charles I, it was extensively revised after 1667 and became far more critical and frank, particularly in its assessments of his contemporaries. Vol. 1 with pencil notations on front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, bright set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The tale of a 17th-Century American girl who ends up an emperor's mistress in India. Hannah Easton, born in 1670 in the forests of Massachusetts, at age 15 moves to Salem with adoptive parents after her father dies of a bee sting and her mother - during the French and Indian War-runs off with a lover from the Nipmuc tribe. Having witnessed scalpings and worse, and harboring the terrible secret of her mother's having gone over to the ``barbarians,'' Hannah is a deeper well than most young girls, suffering trance-like illnesses but also excelling at needlework - including the surgical variety, learned in the war. Her oddnesses, though, are no impediment to marriage with the dashing adventurer Gabriel Legge, who takes her first to England, then to India, where Gabriel joins the East India Company before going independent as a pirate - a calling that will bring him fame and wealth, but also, at last, death. Clean copy.

Softcover. Honolulu HA, University Press of the Pacific, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. First published in 1874, 448 pages with index. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 339 pages, b&w illustrations. The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among them knights, clerics, women, peasants, soldiers, peacemakers, and kings. He also explores how the long war altered governance in England and France and reshaped peoples' perceptions of themselves and of their national character. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Color frontis plus photographic b&w plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Meadville PA, The Chautauqua-Century Press, reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white decorations on front cover, beveled edges, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece of King George I, and other b&w drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. 211 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 550 pages. Fold-out chart in rear. "Stevens is included in the D.N.B. as a poet; he was much admired and liked by Anna Seward, The Swan of Lichfield. The journal is pre-eminantly a human document, the frank and full account of his meetings with Fanny Coutts and their love for one another. It is a period peice with an unhappy ending". Bookplate inside front cover, light stamp to copyright page.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 455 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Funk and Wagnalls, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket, 354 pages. Frontis, illustration, footnotes, genealogical table, sources and references, index. Originally published in 1935. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Routledge/Thoemmes, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. A reprint of the 1949 edition with a new introduction by David Berman. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 29 pages. A facsimile reprint of a pamphlet published in 1727. The subject was a friend of Samuel Johnson who was pardoned after being sentenced to death for a murder in a coffeehouse altercation. The pamphlet, published anonymously, was a defense of Savage based on his character. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 557 pages, b&w and color illustrations. In this brilliant second and final volume of the definitive biography of Lucian Freud--one of the most influential, enigmatic and secretive artists of the twentieth century--William Feaver, the noted art critic, draws on years of daily conversations with Freud, on his private papers and letters and on interviews with his friends and family to explore the intimate life of Freud, from age forty-five to his death in 2011 at the age of eighty-nine. The final forty years of Freud's life were a period of increasing recognition and fame, and of prodigious output. He was obsessed with his art, and with the idea of producing paintings that "astonish, disturb, seduce, convince." He was equally energetic and ambitious in his private life. This book opens with his dramatic affair with Jacquetta Eliot, which led to some of his most intimate portraits and to the start of two important, lifelong friendships, with Jane Willoughby and Susanna Chancellor. Freud talks about his art at all stages, how it changed in the seventies and his first retrospective in London in 1974. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life--"my work is purely autobiographical"--and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic.Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life--"my work is purely autobiographical"--and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic.Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Booth-Clibborn, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. Basil Hyman, a keen amateur photographer, took hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain during the 1950s. The Lost Album is a nostalgic look back at this long-gone era, filled with photographs made during a time of enormous social change--just after World War II and before the "Swinging Sixties"--and a wealth of ephemera: theater tickets and playbills, newspaper advertisements, ration books, and much more. Special inserts include actual facsimiles of some of these now-obscure items--talismans from a slower time, when formality, pride, and courtesy prevailed. There are special sections on two major events: the Festival of Britain in 1951, and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. With brief, lively introductions and captions, this is a captivating snapshot of how people lived and played in Britain in those years.

Softcover. Bath ME, Anderson & Sons Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages, b&w illustrations. New England has been the birthplace of over 1100 major leaguers. In between the well-known and the unknown are several tiers of other ballplayers. This book pays tribute to those tiers closest to the top. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Mills & Boon], 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 208 pages. 9 b&w photographic plates. Charming guide to this historic section of London. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, tiny nicks to cloth corners, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. UK, Pearson Education, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages. Recounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy. Clean copy.