England

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, blue cloth with bright silver titles to spine. Published to accompany 2013/14 Exhibition at National Maritime Museum. 288 pages with Foreword by Keven Fewster, Introduction, 7 Chapters, Notes, Bibliography, Credits and Index. Large collection of color plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 506 pages, hundreds of b&w and color illustrations featuring English sculptors and their work. Boards with die-cut to front cover revealing art on front fly leaf. FRENCH TEXT, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 478 pages, b&w illustrations. When the young, insignificant scion of an unremarkable German principality first came to England to serve as consort to the youthful Queen Victoria, no one could have guessed that he would grow to become one of Britain's great--if uncrowned--kings. Albert's life could not have been an easy one; a man of great intelligence, pride, and ambition, he was forced to move behind the scenes, playing major roles in running the Crimean War and working to keep Britain out of the Civil War being waged in the United States. He was interested in industry and technology, and worked to stage the Crystal Palace exhibition--the first World's Fair. Yet, while his wife adored him, his adopted people scorned him for his German accent, his foreign ways, and his covert activities as a surrogate ruler. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham UK, Washington Green Fine Art Publishing Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong,128 pages. Full color plates throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and slight rubbing on bottom spine of covers.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in gilt, 246 pages. With Illustrations in color and black and white by Charles Simpson. Small ownership signature on front fly otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Verso, 1st Thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Softcover. Light marginal wear to covers. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, b&w and color plates. Light blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprinting of various 17th and 18th century editions, 70 total pages. Pamphlets that extolled the virtues of the Indian people as opposed to the English stereotyping of a heathen race. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 256 b&w plates, some in color. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allen Lane, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 830 pages. Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age - 'the Empire of Aragon' which once dominated the western Mediterranean; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for a time the largest country in Europe; the successive kingdoms (and one duchy) of Burgundy, much of whose history is now half-remembered - or half-forgotten - at best. This book shows the reader how to peer through the cracks of mainstream history writing and listen to the echoes of lost realms across the centuries. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, facsimile reprint of the 1682 edition, 80 pages. Introduction by Diane Dreher. An early historical play about Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author with a note by the author laid-in. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy. This book discusses the home life of Queen Victoria in the context of her marriage to Prince Albert and her relationships with her children. Whittle describes the purchase, remodeling and rebuilding of Osborne House and Balmoral Castle, a subject often given little attention in other books on the couple's life together.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2nd imp., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 635 pages. Contains black and white illustrated plates, and a pull out family tree. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine, faded. Covers have some age wear. Age yellowing to edges and pages.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 642 pages. Gray cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp dust jacket with only minor wear. Very clean & unmarked. Crisp, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Attractive oversized monograph with 119 illustrations. Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Julia Cameron was acknowledged as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her era

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated with 208 b&w photographs. Dust jacket has some wear and rubbing, unclipped. Great pictorial reference. Introduction and commentaries on the pictures by Betjeman.

Softcover. London, Academy Editions, 1st pbk, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, 8 color plates, 114 b&w illustrations. Quentin Bell justifies his study of Victorian painters and graphic artists not as a revivalist, but as an historian who feels the need to "exhibit the evidence" of a period not adequately covered by others. The chapters are: the age of fragmentation; the Teutonic influence; hard-edged Pre-Raphaelism; Academy notes; low art; from Rossetti to Art Nouveau; the New English Art Club; Sickett & the post-impressionists. Bookplate on inside front cover, small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. London, Book Club Associates, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Columbia OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners. While "freaks" have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, "missing links," and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the epoch of "consolidation" for freakery: an era of social change, enormously popular freak shows, and taxonomic frenzy. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, turns to that rich nexus, examining the struggle over definitions of "freakery" and the unstable and sometimes conflicting ways in which freakery was understood and deployed. As the first study centralizing British culture, this collection discusses figures as varied as Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man"; Daniel Lambert, "King of the Fat Men"; Julia Pastrana, "The Bear Woman"; and Laloo "The Marvellous Indian Boy" and his embedded, parasitic twin. The Victorian Freaks contributors examine Victorian culture through the lens of freakery, reading the production of the freak against the landscape of capitalist consumption, the medical community, and the politics of empire, sexuality, and art. Collectively, these essays ask how freakery engaged with notions of normalcy and with its Victorian cultural context.

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 397 pages. "Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of nineteenth-century England as immediately as Gertrude Himmelfarb's Victorian Minds. The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship" ` ~ Lionel Trilling. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 394 pages includes index. This is a study of the gathering and presentation of news in late 19th-century England, a time when the vote was given to a large section of the working class, when public interest in the British Empire was on the rise, and when technology enabled newspapers to be produced more cheaply, distributed more quickly, and read more widely than ever before. Using manuscript collections and newspaper archives, the author describes the production and readership of newspapers, and the journalists within the industry--how they were recruited, the organization of their work, the ways in which they acquired their information, and their access to people in positions of power. The book moves on to review changes in news presentation in the last decades of Victorian England until the appearance of such papers as the Daily Mail in the 1890s. Clean copy, like new.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. "The Victorian era gave rise to some of the most beautiful and extraordinary watercolors ever painted. With their meticulous technique and discreet purpose, they convey much about the romantic and moral temperament of the age. This volume is the first general introduction to what was a particularly popular medium in the Victorian era and was, in fact, the preferred form of expression for many artists. Through his discussion of subject matter and stylistic development, Christopher Newall provides a fascinating insight into the artistic sensibility of the period. Featuring full-colour masterworks by such major figures as Ruskin, Burne-Jones and Rossetti, along with many lesser-known but respected talents and analyses of both the individual works and the way in which they contributed to the stylistic development of the medium during the period, this is a valuable addition to the scholarship on Victorian art." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.