England

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.

Softcover. London, The Curtain Press, 1946-48, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, five stapled pamphlets. 1) Oscar Wilde and the Theatre, 23 pages. Contains eight pages of costume designs by Cecil Beaton four in color, along with other cartoons and drawings and a text by James Agate. 2) Notes on the Verse Drama by Christopher Hassall. 36 pages. With Wood Engravings By Joan Hassall. 3) The Masque of Christmas: Dramatic Joys of the Festival described by Laurence Whistler, 40 pages. 4) The Masque. a Theatre Notebook. the Old Vic. King Lear. Reviewed by Ivor Brown. No. 1 December 1946, 16 pages. 5) Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler (Part 1) with color and b&w illustrations, 20 pages. All very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with sun fading to spine, 220 pages, b&w illustrations. Jack Lindsay uses Defoe's detailed journalism & other contemporary writings to create a striking picture of London in a tumultuous age. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Routledge / Thoemmes, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 450 pages plus index. A facsimile reprint of the second edition published in 1738. One of 8 volumes in the series History of British Deism. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 206 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 355 pages, b&w illustrations. Offers the general reader the complete history of Norman Sicily--"from the first day, in 1016, when a party of Norman pilgrims was accosted in the shrine of the Archangel Michael on Monte Gargano, to the last, a hundred and seventy-eight years later, when the brightest crown of the Mediterranean passed to one of the blackest of the German Emperors." The present volume covers the first hundred and fourteen of those years and is a history of struggles, intrigues, sieges, and insurrections, dominated by the sons and grandsons of Tancred de Hauteville and, above all, by the "gigantic blond buccaneer," Robert Guiscard, one of the most incredible men of the Middle Ages. The Other Conquest is an excellent book distinguished by its Horatian ability to delight as well as teach. Lord Norwich does not pretend to have unearthed any new material or to have put forward any startlingly original conclusions, but he has succeeded admirably in explaining "how the Normans got to Sicily in the first place, what sort of country they made of it, and how they managed to imbue it with a culture at once so beautiful and so unique." Clean copy.

Oxford UK, Penrose and Palmer, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light tan stapled wrappers, 64 pages with 100 b&w photos. Center spread map. Bright, unmarked copy with bookseller's small sticker on front.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A look at Britain in the period before the Battle of Britain - a world of gas masks, blackouts, rationing, evacuations and warnings about what to do if a German parachutist lands on your doorstep - a time when it was an offence to leave a car parked without disabling it and when signpost were torn down to confuse the enemy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages. The drama is the most social of the arts, depending upon physical space, audience, and social factors for its existence. It is no surprise, therefore, that the most successful criticism approaches theater the way Barber and Mullaney do: as historical artifact. Barber is the better known, having authored the classic Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (1959); the present volume is based on his papers and examines three early Elizabethan tragedies"Tamburlaine" and "Dr. Faustus" by Marlowe and "The Spanish Tragedy" by Kyd. Particularly interested in locating these plays in the unstable religious atmosphere of the late 16th century, Barber ably demonstrates his understanding of the social, historical, and economic factors that defined the era. Mullaney takes the novel approach of examining the theater in light of London topography; the title thus refers to the physical location of the playhouses as well as the social importance of the theater. Mullaney points out that the prejudice that forced the great theaters of the age to operate outside the city walls encouraged a drama that was radical and iconoclastichence its greatness. Mullaney's argument is fascinating and thought-provoking, convincingly presented. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers. Vol. 1: 586 pages. Vol. 2: 625 pages. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. An important historical work, including chapters on the Middlesex elections of 1768-69 (the first great platform campaign), the economy agitation, the legal position of the platform, the French Revolution agitation, Roman Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League, accounts of notable libel and sedition trials, etc. Clean copies with light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 721 pages, many b&w illustrations, come color. John Brewster's landmark book shows us how British artists, amateurs, entrepeneurs, and audiences created a culture that is still celebrated for its wit and brilliance. Light notations to five pages, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Edward Arnold, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth with lightly worn dust jacket. St. Martin's Press the US distributor has put their sticker at the bottom of the spine on the jacket.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80,pages. A facsimile reprint, Introduction by Deborah C. Payne. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2001, Softcover, 442 pages. The barristers were the most powerful and prosperous professional group in early modern England. This book systematically examines the barrister's working life during a half-century of rapid growth and structural change within the legal profession. Prest analyzes patterns of professional recruitment, training, and mobility and explores the participation of barristers in the cultural, religious, and political life of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Remainder lines to bottom edge. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Leicester University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 262 pages, b&w photographs. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 393 pages plus a 16 page index. With eight pages of illustrations and a frontispiece. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is about the first comprehensive and serious account of an important group of prehistoric monuments in the stone Circles of The British Isles. Aubrey Burl, author provides a hypothetical chronological framework for the circle, examining in particular their possible astronomical function. Special attention is paid to Stonehenge and Avebury, the two best known and most spectacular rings. Clean copy. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. This major revisionist account of the pre-Reformation Church recreates lay people's experience of religion in 15th-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late mediaeval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. Clean copy.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 292 pages. Maps on the endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Timothy Birdsall. A illustrated guide to the major theatres in London along with a brief history of each. No dust jacket. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, 192 pages. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theater. His work includes most of the memorable productions of the Old Vic Company and of what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet and operetta at Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals both old and new -- hundreds of productions in all. He was the favorite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and Edith Evans, and he photographed countless plays starring John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention younger stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. In fact, McBean photographed virtually every great actor of his era, perhaps the most brilliant years in the annals of British theater.His studio was active and eclectic; among his patrons were not only actors, singers, and dancers, but also playwrights, producers, composers, artists, and writers. In his early career, McBean had been a pioneer of surrealist photography, with a highly popular series of "surrealized" portraits that appeared in The Sketch, and, later, of montage and multiple-exposure photography in a long-running series for The Tatler.In 1969, McBean approached Harvard University to initiate the sale of his collection, and in the following year his archive of glass plate negatives, index prints, and programs, together with the copyrights, became a part of the Harvard Theatre Collection, where it remains the most often-requested collection of visual material. The photographs in this book, selected and captioned by the archive's curator, Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, have been carefully reproduced from the original negatives.

Softcover. NY, Doubleday Anchor Book, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. First published in 1917 and long regarded as a classic of English social history. Preface by Asa Briggs. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. A facsimile reprint of a satirical play written in 1700. Name on front cover, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co, reprint, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt-blocked half buckram over sandgrain cloth, 544 pages with index. Top edge gilt. Clean copy.