Hardcover. London, William Hodge & Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Harcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. In 1902 the 'Veronica' set sail on her last voyage. An extraordinary outbreak of mutiny occurred, resulting in the deaths of all but five of the thirteen persons on board. The ship was set on fire and abandoned. The five men arrived on the island of Cajueri Tuoia on the north coast of Brazil. They were destitute and asked to board the S.S. Brunswick. Their stories of the events were doubted and two of the men decided to tell the truth. The other three were brought to trial in Liverpool charged with the murder of Captain Shaw and six other crew members. One of the harder to find editions in the series. 248 pages, b&w illustrations. Light tape marks on cover, rear hinge cracked, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. ".recreates the tense, exciting battles with rocks and mud, quicksands and "nephitic gasses," fire and water, that made the "great national undertaking" a fiasco" but did eventually become of important use by trains of the East London line.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 522 pages, b&w illustrations. By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells-sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain's leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization- and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 724 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism, as told through the writings of such figures as Darwin, Marks, George Eliot, and Kipling. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Pi Global Publishing Limited, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format pictorial boards, Drawn from Opie''s unrivalled collection, this scrapbook illustrates song sheets, magazine covers, comic postcards, fashion and food, games, propaganda posters and a wealth of British wartime ephemera whose very survival is remarkable. Due to size (10 1/2 X 15"), DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket, 271 pages.

Hardcover. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1st, 1885, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages + 32 ads in rear. Original brown endpapers, in the original binding of blue cloth decorated in red, black and gilt, spine titled in gilt. Also published under title: The Society of London. Originally attributed to Mme. Juliette Adam; more recently this and other similar works have been accredited with strong probability to Elie de Cyon." (Trove) Catherine Radziwill was the first to use the pseudonym Count Paul Vasili with a gossipy book called Berlin Society, a pen-name that was then taken up by other anonymous writers. Previous owner's name in ink on title page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Unicorn Publishing Group, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from sumptuous fabrics that drew inspiration from the Middle East, combining richly patterned silks with antique fabrics. Her clothes were a must for music and film stars such as Pink Floyd, Crystal Gayle, Elizabeth Taylor, and Barbra Streisand. Porter soon became a key member of an innovative group of British designers that included Ossie Clark, Zandra Rhodes, and Jean Muir, and her place in the history of British fashion was ensured when she was named Designer of the Year in 1972. Thea Porter's Scrapbook is her story in her own words, an unpublished autobiography she put together before her death in 2000. Edited by her daughter Venetia and with an essay by fashion historian Amy de la Haye, it reveals Porter's further talents as a keenly observant and descriptive writer. This book, which includes working drawings, sketches, snapshots, and manuscript notes, serves as a memoir of her early life and career, charting many memorable episodes, including the dramatic surge of American interest in her clothes and the opening of her shop in Paris as she pursued her ambition to create dresses "beyond trend and tat, that thirty years from today will still be beautiful."

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. A photo essay depicting the British Army struggling to come to terms with contemporary life. No dj issued.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. A photo essay depicting the British Army struggling to come to terms with contemporary life. No dj issued.

Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 136 pages. The wife of the distinguished engraver Reynolds Stone, Janet Stone established a kind of literary salon in the idyllic setting of the old Rectory at Litton Cheney in West Dorset, where their wide circle of friends could visit, work, and flourish. Janet's photographs of these occasions feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day. Included between these pages are portraits of the composers, actors, novelists, poets, and philosophers in the Stones' milieu--from Benjamin Britten to Siegfried Sassoon and Frances Partridge--as well as members of the Stone family. Although not a trained photographer, Janet instinctively knew to click the shutter when her subjects were off-guard and at their most informal, capturing an array of candid shots--like one of John Bayley trying on a headscarf and a young Daniel Day-Lewis dressed up as a knight. These unique portraits offer beguiling insight into a special set of circumstances: an idyllic place and time and a group of people drawn together by two contrasting but complimentary personalities, the shy genius of Reynolds met by the outgoing style and glamour of Janet Stone. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from December 11, 1992-February 28, 1993..

Softcover. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from December 11, 1992-February 28, 1993.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red, 235 pages. A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman's camp' near Wakefield, as Cohen-Portheim shows with grace, humor, and deep compassion, even under the best conditions, the simple act of being confined and placed in a sort of limbo is a form of torture: 'Where there is no aim, no object, no sense, there is no time.' Time Stood Still is a passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects. Paul Cohen-Portheim (1880-1932) was an Austrian artist, travel writer and linquist. When WWI broke out, he was painting in Devonshire, England and found himself interned for the length of the war. Flap copy pasted to front fly leaf, stamp to endpapers (Harvard Club of Boston), some light notations as well to endpapers.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 463 pages with index. This study considers the subtle and frequently confused relationship of armed force and political control in the British Empire before the American Revolution. It also clarifies a number of points of controversy and uncertainty about the causes of the American Revolution. A crisp copy of the 1965 1st edition. Name on front fly leaf, price clipped otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Studio Editions, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages. Color plates throughout. This book includes the work of nine leading cartographers spanning the first half of the nineteenth century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with decorated boards in decorated slipcase,298 pages, illustrations from photographs. 'With texts by various writers, selected by Roger Hudson'. Sepia-tone archive photographs throughout. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, T. Plummer, Printer, Seething Lane, reprint, 1801, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. 4 pages in small typeface. Presumably reduced from the 8 page 1798 printing. Moore, a Scottish cartographer, chart seller and educator with a somewhat controversial reputation, was accused of copying a chart of the coasts of France, Spain and Portugal drawn up by William Heather. The case was heard before Lord Kenyon with the prosecution led by Erskine; the jury quickly found for the defendant despite Kenyon's balanced instruction.

Hardcover. New York, Michael Sullivan, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages, in green cloth covers with black and gilt design. A brief first-hand account of a seven week trip to Europe, principally England, Ireland and Scotland. Uncommon. A bit worn with cracked hinges.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 294 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 555 pages. Traces the political fortunes of the Puritans from 1524, the year in which William Tyndale left London for Germany, to the Stuart Settlement at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The author then examines the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Puritanism which, he believes, represented a more genuine idealism than any rival religious movement during the Tudor period. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd., 1st Edition, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 Volume Set, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. 1560 total pages. Hardcovers. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light tanning from age to pages. Bindings good. Spines straight. A record of one of America's most distinguished diplomatic careers.

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.