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.
Hardcover. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Minor spine edge wear. Gilt title on front cover and spine. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with white lettering, decoration. Delightfully illustrated history of interior design and furniture. 48 pages, 2-color art throughout by the authors. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover with decoration. Tanning to pages and edges (agewear). Top edge gilt (faded). Binding good, spine straight. The autobiography of Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), who was an Irish politician, journalist, novelist, and historian.
Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Jacobitism, or support for the exiled Stuarts after the revolution of 1688, has become a topic of great interest in recent years. Historians have debated its influence on Parliamentary politics, but none has yet attempted to explore its broader implications in English society. This study offers a wide-ranging analysis of every aspect of Jacobite activity, from pamphlets and newspapers to songs, cartoons, riots, seditious words, clubs, and armed insurrection. Previous owner's inscription on first page, light marginal notes to about 20 pages. In a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 463 pages. numerous b&w illustrations. Described as "Original Edition With a Continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a Preface, Appendices and Illustrations". The Journal of an Irishman who fell foul of English rule in the mid-19th century, was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and escaped. No date but probably late 1940s. Mild musty odor.
Hardcover. New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 139 pages. Gilt title on spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, laminate dust jacket fully illustrated in color, 145 illustrations throughout with 24 pages in full-color. Clean covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, with light discoloration due to age around page edges; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. London, Phillimore & Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 116 pages of b&w historical photographs of Jersey Island. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped in frontis by Leon Underwood. Light edgewear, rubbing to cover label, spine label mostly gone, stamp on front fly leaf. 150 pages. At the age of 12, Woodward (1896-1961) had begun working in a London factory, and just one year later she had left home to take up another factory job making collars for men's shirts. Later she took positions as a receptionist and a freelance journalist, and allied herself with various socialist, suffrage, and free-thought groups. Jipping Street is "a graphic and absorbing account of growing-up in a London slum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... [it is] a psychic reconstruction of childhood rather than a chronological narrative".
Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with bright gilt stamping, 137 pages. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker, photographic frontispiece portrait of actor John Drew, as well as numerous photographs of John Drew (and other actresses) in various dramatic productions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 104 pages, b&w illustrations. Biography of an 18th century man of medicine and natural science. Small name stamp on front fly leaf, oterwise clean.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Paul Harris Publishing, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 53 pages of text, color frontis., 96 plates. A study of the self taught caricaturist John Kay of Edinburgh. Lavishly illustrated. PLEASE NOTE: This book while tight and clean, has a musty odor.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 767 pages. 'This book is a major new intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyses early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises. This study is a significant contribution to the history of the 'republic of letters' of the 1680s and the development of early Enlightenment culture and will be essential reading for scholars of early modern European history, religion, political science, and philosophy.' Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set complete, glossy boards, 977 pages in total. Professor Toomer's two-volume set is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship of John Selden, acknowledged as the most learned man of 17th-century England. All of his numerous published works, especially in the fields of history, law, and Hebraica, are critically examined and described in detail. The narrative also relates his writings to contemporary events, in the Civil War and the parliaments (including the Long Parliament) in which he played a prominent part, and to the work of other scholars in Europe (notably Scaliger and Grotius) and in Britain (including Camden and Ussher). Selden's involvement with the Universities, the support of libraries, and the promotion of scholarship is discussed. The work will be an essential resource, not only for the life of a major figure of his time, but also for the intellectual history of 17th-century England in general. No djs as issued, like new.
Softcover. NA, NA, 1st, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. No date or publication information. Library stamp at bottom left corner of front cover. Number stamped on reverse of title page. Text is clean, unmarked. Some light chipping to cover edges. The journal starts in 1848, with a voyage to Glasgow at fifteen years of age, for famine relief. Later voyages took Crockett to Paris, Russia, and Calcutta, Entertaining anecdotes about the passengers, his reading, and his wedding in Boston. The narrative is taken up later at his Golden Wedding. Entertaining and informative. Stapled in green wrappers.
Hardcover. Lavenham, Terence Dalton Limited, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, small chunk missing on top left corner, with protective clear cover. A very clean and tight copy. Many dramatic incidents recorded here for the first time. Large format. B/w photos and diagrams. Index.
Hardcover. Swindon, English Heritage, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London, is one of the world's great private art collections assembled by an individual. In quality it challenges the Frick collection in New York, with whose eponymous collector Iveagh was in competition for acquisitions during the great age of the industrial barons on both sides of the Atlantic, and the Wallace collection in London. They all saw collecting great art - much as the oligarchs of today - as ultimate status symbols.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, First Edition, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with moderate wear, tears to edges & chipping, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning throughout. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. London, Seeley & Co, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover bound in brown gilt decorated cloth, 355 pages, many b&w illustrations.
Softcover. NY, King's Crown Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers, 287 pages. Local government bodies known as county councils were the landlords for 25,000 small farmers, market gardeners, and part-time agriculturalists in England and Wales in 1935. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fading to spine. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages plus maps and fold-out family tree/timeline. Hardcover. Paste down presentation label on front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). A touch of tanning to pages. In very good condition.
Hardcover. Abington UK, Professional Books Ltd., reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, approximately 500 pages. A hardcover reprint of the 1679 London edition published by Sawbridge, et al. Latin text. Clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages plus publisher's ads. ...to Which are Prefixed and Added Extracts From the Same Journal Giving an Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. B/w illustrations throughout, including two facing frontispieces with tissue guard. Binding still quite good. Tanning and foxing throughout with other agewear appropriate for a book this old. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers and ID stamp on preliminary page. Dark red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover, agewear (see image). From Editor's Preface: "During one of the Editor's official visits to Balmoral, her Majesty very kindly allowed him to see several extracts from her journal relating to excursions to the Highlands of Scotland...It...occurred to her Majesty that these extracts, referring as they did, to some of the happiest hours of her life, might be made into a book,..."
Hardcover. Abington UK, Professional Books Ltd., reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, approximately 400 pages. A hardcover reprint of the 1679 London edition published by Sawbridge, et al. Latin text. Clean and tight.
Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles, 351 pages. Preliminary pages with foxing, stamp on title page otherwise good plus. Complete with 27 pages of publisher's ads in rear.
Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear to bottom of spine. 360 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index. Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences of women, whether mistresses, adulteresses or those involved in the sex trade. From renowned courtesans to downtrodden streetwalkers, Julie Peakman examines the multifaceted lives of these women within brothels, on stage and even behind bars. Based on new research into court transcripts, asylum records, magazines, pamphlets, satires, songs, theatre plays and erotica, we learn of the gruesome treatment of women who were sexually active outside of marriage. Julie Peakman looks at sex from women's points of view, undercutting the traditional image of the bawdy eighteenth century to expose a more sordid side, of women left distressed, ostracised and vilified for their sexual behaviour. Unveils the complex sex lives of libertine women in eighteenth-century London.
Hardcover. New York, Edita Lausanne/Universe Books, 1st U.S.A. Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover in cardboard slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Dust jacket price clipped, excellent otherwise, no rips or tears, glossy. Leather bound cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Thanks to slipcase in beautiful condition. A passport to our common heritage, which will illuminate and reveal the colorful pageantry of existence in medieval time. A book that links today with the past.
Hardcover. New York, William Jackson, 1st, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Black & white illustrations. Missing approx. 1/4" of cloth at top and bottom of spine. Covers and spine faded. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co., Rebound first edition, 1809, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece portrait of author. Agewear throughout. Rebound with brown boards, Navy blue quarter cloth, title paste down on spine. Binding good. Spine straight. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury was an English soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.
Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. A picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church. Since all of the inhabitants of England at that time were countrymen, except for a few large towns, this book is really an introduction to life in Medieval England as a whole. Clean and unmarked wraps in reddish-brown with a woodcut illustration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, A&C Black Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Eliot Stock, 1st, 1896, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION on tipped-in card. 241 pages, b&w illustrations by Alfred Beaver and others. Light green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Ink markings to first few pages. Wear to cover corners. Hinges cracked. Staining to end papers and some pages.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black and white photographs by Bill Brandt throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 2nd pr., 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth with red lettering to the spine, 361 pages. Although the life of London runs like a thread through the whole fabric of this book, it is not essentially a book about London. Life in Bloomsbury is but the center of a large circle, the point around which the rest of the book revolves, the origin of a disarming commentary on an infinite variety of topics - on Bloomsbury's squares, on the picturesqueness of London a generation ago, on what is true Cockney, on the differences of English and American humor, on the decay of English wit, on books and authors and publishers and the Press, on the literary lions of the past, on the religion of speed, on the charm of Americans, on how the Victorian age was neither so repressed nor so hidebound as most people today like to believe - and so on, one thing leading to another, like good conversation at a good luncheon overlooking the mellow squares of Bloomsbury. The book is full, too, of good stories and reminiscences, both humorous and pathetic, but there is shrewd comment besides on the deficiencies of contemporary society, not the less effective because the author knows how to soften the blow. Mild soil, sunning to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 511 pages, b&w illustrations. When Hitler unleashed a fierce barrage of weapons on the defiant capital of England, London's resilient citizens were undaunted. With colorful detail and rich insight, historian Maureen Waller takes readers through London in the last year of war. She reveals the magnificence of human spirit that carried a besieged people through agonizing travails and the long, giddy transformation the metropolis made as it passed through battle, to celebration, and back to life as usual. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on black on spine. Light tanning to pages. Spine straight. Binding tight. Takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but it is a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the history of the City and of the urban renaissance.
Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w drawings by Paul Hogarth throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 144 pages. B&w drawings throughout by Paul Hogarth. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Loa Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages. Offering a fresh account of developments that have since characterized postwar British painting, this catalogue focuses on Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, and Leon Kossoff-- artists who worked in close proximity as they were developing new forms of realism. If for many years their efforts seemed to clash with dominant tendencies, reassessment in recent decades has afforded their work a central position in a richer and more complex understanding of postwar British art and culture. Rigorous and gorgeously illustrated, the essays reflect on the parallel yet diverse trajectories of these artists, their friendships and mutual admiration, and the divergence of their practice from the discourse of high modernism. The authors seek to dispel the notion of their work as a uniquely British endeavor by highlighting the artists' international outlook and ongoing dialogue with contemporary European and American painters as well as masters from previous generations.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture-the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear-was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. A collection of b&w images Brandt made in the 1930s of how the various classes of English society lived their lives. Brandt personally supervised the printing of the plates. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Omnibus Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 176 pages. While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the 1960s to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life emerged in October 1965 and, over the next fifteen months, would document the capital's action at its absolute zenith. With imagery from the likes of David Bailey, Duffy and Terence Donovan, designs from Peter Blake, David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe and fledgling artist Ian Dury plus words and opinions from those riding high on the city`s cutting-edge, London Life remains the coolest document from the capital's most exciting period. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A large and lovely appreciation of London, with text by Pritchett and photographs throughout by Evelyn Hofer, which capture the look of London in the early 1960s. The photographs include 18 pages in full color and 111 pages in monochrome gravure. There is a bookplate on the inside cover, a small stamp to the half-title page, and a crease to the dj flap. The interior of the book is clean and tight.