Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on front fly leaf. In very good condition. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on front fly leaf. In very good condition. Tight copy.
Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 119 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Lovely copy. Like new.
Hardcover. Hampshire UK, Bentley Milliennium Committee, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Memories of the early 1900s in the rural village in north-east Hampshire. Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages. A riveting historical mystery of Colonial America. In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and by her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattoed face and otter-skin cloak had caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1857, Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, along with more than 100 English men, women and children.In 1590, a supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished. For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain, Powhatan, father of Pocahontas, who vowed to drive the English out of America. Only when it was too late did the settlers discover the incredible news that Ralegh's colonists had survived in the forests for almost two decades before being slaughtered in cold blood by Powhatan's henchmen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to corners and edges, small faint smudge. Inside is bright and clean. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Howard University Press, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. A comparative social overview of slavery in Britain, America, and the Caribbean during the colonial period. Walvin carefully examines the external pressures exerted on coastal communities in Africa for slaves, the gradual development of a slave trading system within Africa, and the transport of over twelve million Africans across the seas. Clean copy. Several pages with dog-ear creases.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, A & C Black, reprint, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. One of many popular travel guide books published by Adam and Charles Black from 1839 to the 1910s, this series was the leading competitor to Baedeker's iconic guide books. Illustrated with maps and tables throughout, including three folding maps. Includes 112 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original dark green cloth binding with a gilt design on front cover. One map has been neatly repaired with paper and paste due to a small closed tear. Front hinge with mild crack, signature opposite half-title page.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, A & C Black, reprint, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. One of many popular travel guide books published by Adam and Charles Black from 1839 to the 1910s, this series was the leading competitor to Baedeker's iconic guide books. Illustrated with maps and tables throughout including a fold-out map. This guide suggests potential routes and excursions for exploring this picturesque county. 74-page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original dark green cloth binding with a gilt decoration on the front cover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on preliminary pages. 16 pages of black & white illustrations. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with chipping along edges.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Lucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of discomfort. Freud was twice married and the father of at least a dozen children, and his numerous relationships with women were the subject of much gossip-but the man himself remained a mystery. An intensely private individual (during his lifetime he prevented two planned biographies from being published), Freud's life, as well as his art, invites questions that have had no answer-until now.In Breakfast with Lucian, Geordie Greig, one of a few close friends who regularly had breakfast with the painter during the last years of his life, tells an insider's account-accessible, engaging, revealing-of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, enigmatic, and controversial artists. Greig, who has studied his subject's work at length, unravels the tangled thread of a life lived on Freud's own uncompromising terms. Based on private conversations in which Freud held forth on everything from first love to gambling debts to the paintings of Velazquez, and informed by interviews with friends, lovers, and some of the artist's children who have never before spoken publicly about their relationships with the painter, this is a deeply personal memoir that is illuminated by a keen appreciation of Freud's art.
Hardcover. Zaltbommel NL, European Library, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. Old Photograph inlaid into front cover. Introduction followed by 108 old photographs (one to a page) with short caption notes. Bookplate on inside front cover, small name stamp on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London/Portand OR, Fank Cass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Three-color decorated cloth cover boards. Gilt top edge. Some light fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pages offset, and some untrimmed. 9 full-page color illustrations, over 100 b/w illustrations, also 459 in-text illustrations. Some very light foxing and slight tanning to pages. History of English fashion through19th Centuries, including clergy, etc. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Plattsburgh, NY/ Elizabethtown, NY, Clinton County Historical Association/ Essex County Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Blue cwrappers with some faint smudges, small sticker on back, but otherwise very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages. Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be obscured by his statusas father of modern science. The seventeenth century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the breakdown of the Aristotelian synthesis which had dominated intellectual life since the middle ages. In this period of transformational change, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke are acknowledged tohave contributed significantly to the shape of European philosophy from their own time to the present day. But these figures did not work in isolation. Sarah Hutton places them in their intellectual context, including the social, political and religious conditions in which philosophy was practised. She treats seventeenth-century philosophy as an ongoing like all conversations, some voices will dominate, some will be more persuasive than others and there will be enormous variationsin tone from the polite to polemical, matter-of-fact, intemperate. The conversation model allows voices to be heard which would otherwise be discounted. Hutton shows the importance of figures normally regarded as 'minor' players in philosophy (e.g. Herbert of Cherbury, Cudworth, More, Burthogge,Norris, Toland) as well as others who have been completely overlooked, notably female philosophers. Crucially, instead of emphasizing the break between seventeenth-century philosophy and its past, the conversation model makes it possible to trace continuities between the Renaissance and seventeenth century, across the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century, while at the same time acknowledging the major changes which occurred.
Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charles Black, Reprint with corrections, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image), covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Some light tanning to edges and pages, otherwise unmarked. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, white title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. in great shape. A comprehensive and authoritative book on the British submarine and its place in the Royal Navy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. This study is an attempt to add a new dimension to our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution. It is an analysis of the role of the subministers--the secretaries and undersecretaries--of the major departments of the British government responsible for colonial policy during the period from 1763 to the outbreak of the Revolution--the period of the Stamp and Sugar Acts, the Townshend Duties, and the Coercive Acts--and of their role in the war itself. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear and creases to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Basil Blackwell, 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Thirty-one indexed unpaginated plates, including frontispiece. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. "Sir Muirhead Bone, the illustrator of Came To Oxford, was Britain's first officially appointed war artist, serving in both the First and Second World Wars. He is recognized as well for his portraits of Joseph Conrad, his watercolours and drawings of Old Spain, and his works recording the damage and reconstruction in his beloved England following the wars." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 320 pages with chronology, notes & index, B&W photographic & other illustrations. "The mutiny that involved 25 officers and men led by the Bounty's handsome, privileged and gifted second in command, Fletcher Christian". Endpapers chart of the track of His Majesty's Armoured Ship Bounty in the South Seas 1788 to 1790. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w plates. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Story of the nineteenth century aristocratic life of the leader of the "Charge of the Light Brigade".
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caroline of Brunswick, the scandaloue wife of the future George IV, is one of history's problems. Since her death in 1821, many have tried to understand her, to make her a sympathetic character, a heroine. She defeats every effort: there is an oddity about her which is not endearing, and no sooner has one assembled her good qualities - her generosity, her courage, her kindness - than one is confronted by an utterly unforgivable piece of callousness, or mischief, or immorality. A fascinating biography. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, The Great Western Railway, 1st, 1926, Hardcover, maroon boards with black cloth spine, 230 pages. The result of two interesting journeys, devoted to castle-seeking, one in 1924, covering Wales and the English counties along the Welsh border; and the other in 1925 devoted to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall ".The text is accompanied by 105 illustrations, 77 drawings, 1 Plate, 2 colored Plates, and 2 Maps, a color map folded into rear pocket inside cover. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy. British photographer Beaton was noted for his portraits of royalty. His career spanned 50 years and included well-known portraits of King Geroge V and Queen Mary; his last official photo was in 1979. More than just a photographer, Beaton helped the royal family develop a worldwide image, an important component in the evolution and stability of the British monarchy as symbolic leaders of the Commonwealth. His photos were also an essential part of Britain's public relations and morale efforts, especially after Edward VIII's abdication and during World War II. A splendid compendium of Beaton's best works, supplemented by text explaining his importance.
Hardcover. Brighton UK, Alpha Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the twentieth century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are the "Milestones" to that change, while the discussion that follows - "Changing Perceptions" - endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. A touch of soil to foreedge, otherwise clean. Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition.
Hardcover. NY, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in green and gilt, 389 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Charles Fox (1749-1806) was a British Whig statesman who opposed King George III and helped to gain passage of a Parliamentry resolution pledging the abolition of the slave trade and was also an advocate for independence for foreign colonies. Ex-lib with stamping to endpapers, paper scar to inside rear cover. Internally clean, very good.
Softcover. Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover, pictorial boards with chipped glassine wrappers. An atmospheric, engaging set of photographs of post-war London alongside Prevert's poetry. 136 pages, handsome b/w photogravures by Izis-Bidermanas. FRENCH TEXT.
Hardcover. New York , HarperChildrens, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Clean, tight copy. As children, C.S. Lewis and his brother W.H. Lewis created the fantasy world of Boxen. This book collects stories and illustrations, history, geography etc of Boxen. Reproduced original illustrations by the authors. Introduction by Douglas Gresham. The History of Boxen by Walter Hooper.
Hardcover. New York , T. Y. Crowell, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated in b&w by Margot Tomes and with photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked, bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, glossy. Assesses the comexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English Revolution, and into the Restoration, which the English Church and monarchy were restored.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 16 plates, 13 text maps, bibliography, index; An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment-both public and private-to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-SemitismWinston Churchill's commitment to Jewish rights, to Zionism, and ultimately to the State of Israel never wavered. In 1922, he established on the bedrock of international law the right of Jews to emigrate to Palestine. During his meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, Churchill presented the Israeli prime minister with an article he had written about Moses, praising the patriarch. In between these events he fought harder and more effectively for the Jewish people than the world has ever realized.
Softcover. Torino, Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1st Italian, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, illustrated wrappers. An Italian journalist's memoir of a half century living in London. With a SiGNED letter laid in to the previous owner Cecil Roberts from the author. ITALIAN TEXT.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages. "Colonial Desire is a controversial study that breaks new ground in analysing how concepts of culture get formed, and how racialized assumptions continue to pervade them." In this study, the author argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the 19th century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Covers bound in purple cloth. Boards have a touch of age wear at edges. Gutter split at title page, otherwise, binding tight. Clean inside. Edges and preliminary pages have some age-yellow and foxing. Still in great shape for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 326 pages. Ivan Roots covers the period from 1642-1651, during which the English Civil War took place. The book discusses the causes of the war, the battle of Worcester, the fall of the Protectorate, and the aftermath of the war. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 23 and 27 pages, introduction by Claudis Johnson. Facsimile reprints of two pamphlets written to benefit priests who were expelled by the revolutionary French Government. Both authors championed causes to relieve their plight. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed, 1st, 2024, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 238 pages, color illustrations. Tom Parker Bowles, award-winning food writer, restaurant critic, and son of Queen Camilla, blends history, monarchy, and gastronomy to provide a fascinating window into the world of royal tastes and traditions as far back as Victorian times. An intimate cookbook exploring 200 years of British royal food, studded with anecdotes, delectable tidbits, and nuggets of history, featuring 100 accessible recipes. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Stacey International, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A treasury of aristocratic photography from the 1850s to 1930s. England's leisured and affluent upper classes made an art form of their new picture-taking toy, creating intimate portraits of stunning beauty. Includes previously unpublished photographs discovered in dusty corners and attics of Britain's grandest houses.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, sun-fading. Clean, tight copy. The first monograph on English medieval county courts, this book provides a major revision of traditional conceptions of the character of these courts and the organization of English society from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. THe county courts have been considered courts of custom dominated by local knights unskilled in the law. By analyzing county peronnel and their role of the courts, Robert C. Palmer shows that these courts were, on the contrary, clearly professional and controlled by the magnates through their lawyers. Nevertheless, as the author demonstrates by his study of the process of jurisdictional change, the county courts were increasingly relegated to lesser roles by changes meant to assure justice to county litigants, while the king's court became the normal court of original jurisdiction for most important cases.
Hardcover. London, Henry Colburn, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. 1/2 leather bindings with gold marbled covers and end papers. Gilt top edges. Volume 1 - 476 pages plus 16 pages of ads. Raised bands on spine. Rubbing to edges. Clean, unmarked text. Volume 2 - 510 pages. Raised bands on spine. Rubbing to edges. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, illustrated with 2 portrait plates and a diagram. Gilt ruled brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Edited by Atkinson. Bright, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Compnay, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 425 pages. 8 b&w illustrations. Illustrated frontispiece. Paste down plate on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Nan A. Talese, 1st US, 2014-11-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY/London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 304 pages. This is the first of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers' bassist and lyricist, Nicky Wire. For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from "Generation Terrorists" through "Holy Bible" and right up to last year's remarkable album, "Postcards from a Young Man". Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire's personal polaroid's and with accompanying text by the man himself, "Death of The Polaroid" promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most loved and iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.
Hardcover. NY/London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 304 pages. This is the first of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers' bassist and lyricist, Nicky Wire. For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from "Generation Terrorists" through "Holy Bible" and right up to last year's remarkable album, "Postcards from a Young Man". Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire's personal polaroid's and with accompanying text by the man himself, "Death of The Polaroid" promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most loved and iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.