Hardcover. Mohr Siebeck, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 42 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1732 pamphlet with introduction by Robert Hume. Published anonymously but thought to have been written by Aaron Hill (1685-1750). The pamphlet turns out to be a fascinatingly particular review of the cultural affairs in London during the winter and spring of 1732. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London , Selden Society/ Bernard Quaritch, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages plus 55 preliminary pages. Text in English and Latin. Blue cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, ACC Editions, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial bpards. Felicity Green brought a new, original voice and look to the fashion pages of the '60s' Daily Mirror. For the first time in newspaper history she created fashion pages designed to appeal to both sexes as the circulation soared to more than 5 million copies a day. Great pictures, great photographers, top designers, top models - Felicity made these Swinging '60s fashion stories FUN! bringing the glamor and style of glossy magazines to the Mirror. These award-winning pages broke the fashion mould and captured the stellar time when London fashion conquered the world. Under Felicity Green's by-line comes stories of the stars of the '60s - they're all talking in this original book: Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki, Vidal Sassoon, Twiggy, Terry O'Neill, and a sparkling foreword by Barbara Hulanicki, of Biba fame, tells the story of a fashion collaboration/friendship whose gingham dress made fashion history. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 160 pages. Illustrated with color and b&w photos. A captivating exploration of London's iconic Soho district, capturing its vibrant and eclectic mix of people, subcultures, and street life. This photographic collection delves into Soho's rich history of art, nightlife, and diversity, revealing both the allure and the edgier, untamed aspects of this unique area. Opening with a look at Soho through the years, this book includes archival images of Suffragettes learning Jiu-jitsu in a Soho gym, David Bowie preparing to record at Trident Studios, and Francis Bacon drinking at the French House. The book then presents the work of photographers who have shed light on Soho's many faces through the decades, including Kelvin Brodie, Clancy Gebler Davies, Corinne Day, William Klein, and Anders Petersen. Also featured is a new series of work by young, up-and-coming photographer Daragh Soden, whose images were specially commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery for this project. These streetscapes and portraits are by turns intimate and haunting, visceral and vibrant, nostalgic and provocative. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages First American edition, first printing. Cartoons which appeared in London's Daily Express since 1939. The author/artist presents the full sweep of his wit and a vivid retrospective view of our world during the angst-haunted 40s and 50s in England. Dustjacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 468 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Illustrated from photographs, paintings, and other works of art, portraits, and plans. Eastlake (1793-1865), an artist, scholar, collector, and public administrator, served as president of the Royal Academy and the first Director of the National Gallery. Robertson covers the artists, writers, scholars, and statesmen of Eastlake's Victorian art world, as well as exhibitions and sales, critical controversies and art-historical writing. With appendices which include checklists of Eastlake's own paintings and private collection, a record of the National Gallery's acquisitions of 1824-1865, and much more. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket; closed tears to bottom of spine and rear top right corner. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design. Color frontispiece portrait of the famous English architect. Illustrated with 12 color plates, 91 b&w plates (some fold-outs). Top edge gilt, clean copy with the scarce light blue dust jacket that has light edgewear with coat-of-arms on front panel, title on spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Emissar of Charles the First, second governor of Massachusetts, pillar of the Protectorate, and victim of Charles the Second, atypical Puritan and passionate lover, Sir Harry Vane was a man of peace who initiated genocide in the New World and found martyrdom in the Old. His experience reaches from Indian wigwam to royal palace. This is an unparalleled picture of a formative age which is with us yet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages with bibliography and index. A revised and abridged version of Watkins earlier work on Soane (1753-1837), concentrating on the twelve lectures the eminent architect gave to the Royal Academy between 1810 and 1820, dealing with the huge scope of the lessons to be gained from world architecture.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 362 pages. Richard Steele, best known for his essays in The Tatler and The Spectator, was a powerful and humane influence in letters, the theatre and politics during the times of Queen Anne and the first George. B&w frontis. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 382 pages, 150 b&w photos and 24 pages in color. Clean copy. From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, a famous British gardener in her own right who is married to Vita's grandson Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with color and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance.

Hardcover. UK, self-published, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. "A careful study of an ancient craft, peculiar to the County of Cornwall, that of carving Family Portraits in Slate." Foreword by Dorothy Dudley. 184 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean.

Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 520 pages. In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. Using his consummate skill as a historian, Professor Hill suggests that there might have been non-theological reasons for supporting the Puritans, or for being a Puritan. He shows Puritanism as a living faith, answering the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans. He looks at oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts, and poor relief and assesses the significance of the household (rather than the Parish) and the dignity of labor. He shows Puritanism in daily life and discusses the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical Puritan revolutionaries. Light bump to top corner of about 50 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Eveleigh Nash, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt design, 315 pages plus ads. Black & white illustrations. Minor foxing to some pages. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley. Frontispiece plate of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of Bristol with tissue facing. Illustrated with 24 more plates in text.

Softcover. London, Frank Cass, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 526 pages, b&w illustrations. An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944. Maps, appends., sources, index, Updated edition of the HMSO Official History Volume. Originally withdrawn shortly after publication due to threats of legal action by Peter Churchill, then re-released with emendations, Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with red covers. Lightly soiled. Black and white wordless cartoons by Soglow.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Blue cloth covers with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. Etching frontispiece by Francis Walker and 119 b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on blank page opposite preface, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, BD Ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 499 pgs. illustrated with photographs and maps. Who speaks for England? A farmer, a miner, a housewife, factory workers, dog breeders, shopkeepers and pigeon fanciers, more than sixty men and women of various ages and occupations, all inhabitants of the small northern English town, Wigton. Stated First Edition but no price on dj, embossed square to back cover, so a Book Club Ed. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, b&w illustrations. An account of the water between the Isle of Wight & the Mainland, its Naval base and its importance to British Naval history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. White cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 32 pages of 87 color plates of stain glass in England. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Lund Humphries, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w and some color illustrations. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w & 20 color plates of which 4 are folding. Catalog of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy with 280 works illustrated and described, chronology, bibliography, exhibition record.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 130 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cloth cover boards, gold gilt title on spine. Some tanning to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. "Humor, drama and beauty woven out of memories of a fantastic boyhood by Hugh Falkus..."

Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charls Black, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Victor Ambrus throughout. Decorated cover boards, cover boards slightly warped, but no moisture damage present. Back endpaper has an horizontal air-bubble. pages clean and unmarked with exception of half title page with has a small brown smudge. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned from age. Light tanning to edges. Binding tight. Spine straight. Here is the story of the British people, written by an author renowned as 'the young reader's historian' and illustrated by an artist who is amongst the most talented book illustrators of our time.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st thus, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Material previously published in The Village Book, and The Labouring Life, reworked in the light of the author's later experience. Chapters include: The badger dig; The darkening of the doorway; The well; The mystery of a damp cottage; An old-world courting; A village David and Goliath; The old cob cottage; The Ackymals; Billy Goldsworthy's barn; P.C. Bullcornworthy; Cemetery or burial ground?; Billy Goldsworthy's cow; The Zeale brothers; The linhay on the downs; The fox in the moonlight.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 449 pages. Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes's texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century, revealing the stakes in the critical discussion of the philosopher and his ideas. Revising the traditional view that Hobbes was simply rejected by his contemporaries, Parkin demonstrates that Hobbes's work was too useful for them to ignore, but too radical to leave unchallenged. His texts therefore had to be controlled, their lessons absorbed and their author discredited. In other words the Leviathan had to be tamed. Taming the Leviathan significantly revised our understanding of the role of Hobbes and Hobbism in seventeenth-century England. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage, 1st pbk, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship--rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection--and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Tate Gallery, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Wonderfully written and illustrated account of the work of the Bloomsbury artists, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry. Contains detailed chronologies of their lives. Catalogue entries on two hundred works, all illustrated in color, bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting--domestic, contemplative, sensuous, and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes set in London, Sussex, and the South of France, as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends--from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell--highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into the works and the changing critical reaction to them, exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury, as well as the movement's wider social, economic, and political. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears, 191 pages with index. Dr. Worcester presents a theory of satire, surveying the whole field since Dryden's Discourse of the Origin of Satire and drawing illustrations not only from English but from classical, French, German, and American literature. At the same time he makes a penetrating study of irony and its uses. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Revised Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. 26 illustrations in color, and 420 in black and white. Originally published in 1979. John Harris was one of England's leading Architectural Historians at the time this book was written. He was curator of the Drawing Collection for RIBA. (Royal Institute of British Architects). Each section introduces a period such as: the Age of Estate Cartographers and the Garden Converstations, The Country House and Sporting Art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and Others, Caneletto and the Architectural Topographers, Gainsborough and the Picturesque, The Art of Turner and Constable. Harris comments on the artists , their style and pictures.

Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12mo. 193 pages, beige pictorial paper covered boards, maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine, Folding plate in front. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket, 111 pages. Wonderful b&w illustrations by Ronald Searle. The first collaboration between these Atkinson and Searle, a look at the 'new poor' in the London of the 1950's. Taking Henry Mayhew's 19th century work 'London Labour and London Poor' as their guide, the writer and artist take a perceptive, compassionate and subtly humorous, look at how the burden of poverty has shifted into some surprising quarters - including a look at a literary exile, an aging actress, enclyopedia salesman, ice cream seller and more. Shelfworn copy, but sound with a light ownership stamp to front fly leaf.

Softcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London , Rupert Hart=Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, 365 pages. An informal military history of the North American continent. The two major campaigns covered being the war with France for the possession of Canada & the American War of Independence. Service discipline in the British Army meant a bloody back, hence the nickname for the soldiers of the time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 150 pages. Superbly illustrated in full color throughout, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes major treasures such as the Domesday Book and the Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's calling card and the last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 370 pages. With a Preface by A.L. Rowse. John Chamberlain (1553-1628) was the author of a series of letters written in England from 1597 to 1626, notable for their historical value & their literary qualities. In the view of historian Wallace Notestein, his letters "constitute the first considerable body of letters in English history & literature that the modern reader can easily follow". They are an essential source for scholars who study the period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 292 pages, b&w plates. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had contributed to 'Family' in 1935. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 477 pages. Original edition of this major study of British policies toward its North American colonies by a premiere early 20th century historian of Colonial America, Charles M. Andrews. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Paul Holberton Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Color and b&w plates throughout. This groundbreaking architectural history examines what people actually wanted in their institutional and private patronage over the last two centuries as opposed to what architects and theorists thought they should want - as seen through the prism of Oxford's principal building contractor and craft practitioner, Symm & Company. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Carlton Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" is one of the better "Supermarionation" series that came from the hands of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, known by Americans as well as those in the UK for their many classic puppet series "Supercar", "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", and especially "Thunderbirds"- and their classic live action "UFO" and "Space Precinct".The Captain Scarlet series also was shown in the USA, but in a limited market originally and with wider exposure via compilation films on Showtime and HBO and later on SciFi Channel. Captain Scarlet marked one of the first Supermarionation series to have a truly dark and serious storyline, with an invisible alien race, the Mysterons, seeking revenge for an attack made in error on their cities on Mars. The Mysterons then declared war on Earth. Chris Bentley presents a complete production history and guide to all 32 episodes of the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons series, plus information about voice artists, merchandising and spin-offs. PLEASE NOTE: the book is clean and tight, but was once owned by a smoker and has a smoke odor.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprints of two 18th century pamphlets, 29 and 52 pages. Introduction by Robert Adams Day. Two profiles of a infamous doctor named Richard Mead in mid-18th century London. The first an attack, the second a defense. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, British Heritage Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages, 64 color plates by Helen Allingham. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1909 in the UK. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Descriptive Album Publishing Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong green cloth covers stamped in dark green and gilt. 100 pages, b/w plates., Contains 108 views of London, with explanatory notes and introduction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 171 pages. Volume 1 ONLY of a six volume set. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.