Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with beige buckram spine, black lettering on spine and front cover. 425 pages with index. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Diagrams by the author and numerous illustrations, colored lithographs and collotype reproductions from ancient examples. Gutter cracked at half-title page, previous owner's name otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.
Hardcover. Kent, U.K., Midas Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 407 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Very slight foxing on top edge and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
London, Baynard Press, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages, Illustrated with 5 b&w portraits of Generals, 15 fold-out maps in color. Label on front cover is torn, chipped, with paper loss to 3 sides. Otherwise book is very good with all maps in excellent condition. Scarce.
Hardcover. London, Stevens and Sons, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume three. Rubbing to corners and spine. Some soiling to covers.
Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 487 pages. Oversized book. Black & white photography of English architecture. Light spinewear. Dust jacket with soiling and chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine.
Hardcover. New York/London, M. Dooladt/Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, 1st US, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 575 pages, brown cloth, spine lettering worn away, edges frayed. Light soiling to end papers. Internally the volume is tight and clean. Edited, with Preface, Introduction and Notes and a Disquisition on the Past, Present and Future State of Gipsydom by James Simson. Focus is on Gipsies in England and Scotland.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2326 total pages. 4 volume set. Hardcovers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. B/w illustrated fold-out map in volume 1. Decorated marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards with leather corners and quarter cloths. Leather spines with raised bands, gilt title and decorations. Spines straight. Light tanning from age to pages.
Hardcover. NY, Walker and Company, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and with 17 full color plates. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and minor foxing on top and fore edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 319 pages, b&w illustrations. Biography of one of England's greatest painters and engravers. Shelfworn, a nice reading copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover set. Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore-edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Seeley And Co., reprint, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, 296 pages. B&w frontis portrait with tissue guard. Ex-lib with stamping, bookplate to endpapers, interior clean.
Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 264 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles, red dust jacket with color illustration, b&w maps and illustrations. Slight wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, a clean, tight copy. In 1949, as the Chinese Civil War was about to enter its final, explosive stage, the small British frigate HMS Amethyst was sent on a dangerous mission up the Yangtze River to protect British citizens in Nanking. En route it was attacked by the Chinese Communists and held hostage on the river for several months before the crew managed to make a daring escape. The Amethyst captured news headlines around the world and became an unlikely symbol of the cold war in Asia. This dramatic episode, hailed in the West as a triumph of the human spirit but bitterly condemned by the Chinese Communists, was to prejudice Anglo-Chinese relations for years to come.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 530 pages. A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness. A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English countryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture since its publication. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 276 pages with index. INSCRIBED BY BODGER on the front fly leaf. Over fifty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and two children went to Britain on a special literary quest. They were seeking the world that they knew and loved through children's books. In Winnie-the-Pooh Country, Mrs. Milne showed them the way to that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. In Edinburgh they stood outside Robert Louis Stevenson's childhood home, tilting their heads to talk to a lamplighter who was doing his job. In the Lake District they visited Jemima Puddle-Duck's farm, and Joan sought out crusty Arthur Ransome to talk to him about Swallows and Amazons. They spent several days messing about in boats on the River Thames, looking for Toad Hall and other places described by Kenneth Grahame in The Wind in the Willows. Mud and flood kept them from attaining the slopes of Pooks Hill (on Rudyard Kiplings farm), but they scaled the heights of Tintagel.
Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages illustrated in color and b&w. One page(128) creased in production. This is the first book to tell the story of British photography as a coherent whole, from the pioneers of the early 19th century to photographers today who display their images on websites, on computer screens?even iPods. The authors have traveled the length and breadth of the UK, researching both well-known and forgotten bodies of work. Many famous names are here: Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, Madame Yeronde, Angus McBean, Susan Lipper, and Tom Hunter are just a few. Among the works shown are postcards, family albums, photographic illustrations in books, medical photographs, wartime propaganda, and social documents. Through their exhaustive research the authors demonstrate the extraordinary range and diversity of roles that photography has played in British cultural life over the past 150 years.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with light fading to dj spine. 139 pages of text, 124 b&w plates in rear section. This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions of humanity subscribed to by the philosophers David Hume and James Beattie. Other important studies, also reprinted here, make this volume an excellent resource to Wind's tremendous contributions to art history. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Williams & Norgate, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth wit gilt stamping, 338 pages with index. 12 tipped-in illustrations. Autobiography of the Right Hon. Robert Farquharson, Member of Parliament. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
 "Heraldry For Craftsmen and Designers by: Hope, W. H. St John")
 "Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by: Millard, Candice")
 "History of American Privateers, A. by: Maclay, A.M., Edgar Stanton")
 "History of British Wood Engraving by: Garrett, Albert")
 "History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations, The: vol. III by: Merewether, Henry Alworth and John Archibald Stephens")
 "History of the English House from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period, A by: Lloyd, Nathaniel")
 "History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years Truce - 1609 (4 vol. set) by: Motley, John Lothrop")
 "Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire by: M. Dorothy George")
 "Hogarth's Progress by: Quennell, Peter")
 "Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times - Volume I & II by: Paulson, Ronald")
 "Hogarth: Volume 1 The 'Modern Moral Subject' 1697-1732. Volume II High Art and Low, 1732-1750. Volume III Art and Politics, 1750-1764. (Set of 3 volumes) by: Paulson,")
 "Horace Walpole and His World; Select Passages from His Letters by: Horace Walpole / L.B. Seeley (Editor)")
 "Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits by: Hodgart, Matthew (Ed.)")
 "Hostage on the Yangtze; Britain, China, and the Amethyst Crisis of 1949 by: Murfett, Malcolm H.")
 "Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by: Parker, Peter")
 "How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR) by: Bodger, Joan")
 "How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present by: Williams, Val and Susan Bright")
 "Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery by: Wind, Edgar / Edited By Jaynie Anderson")
 "Hurrah for the life of a sailor!: Life on the lower-deck of the Victorian Navy by: Winton, John")
 "Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, 1685-c.1712, The by: Fiennes, Celia and Christopher Morris (Ed.)")
 "In and Out of Parliament. :Reminiscences of a Varied Life by: Farquharson, Robert")
 "In Peril on the Sea: War Exploits of Allied Seamen. by: Masters, David")