3 ISSUES OF EIGHTEEN CENTURY LIFE A TRI-ANNUAL PUB FROM THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY INCLUDES VOL 19 NUMBER 1 AND 3 , VOL 21 NUMBER 3 EACH ISSUE HAS A SERIES OF FEATURES ON PEOPLE LITERATURE , COMMERACE AND MUCH MORE ALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION [HISTORY 3] View More...
ITEM # 5987 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SILVER JUBILEE QUEEN ELIZABETH II 1952 -1977 CARD COVER 71 PGS EXTENSIVE TEXT AND A WEALTH OF PHOTOS , MANY IN COLOR TELL OF THE QUEENS FIRST 25 YEARS ON THE THRONE A LOOK AT HER FAMILY LIFE , HER ROLL IN NATIONAL AND WORLD POLITICS BOOK IN FINE CONDITION , CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT [ HIST 1 ] View More...
ITEM # 5986 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS CORONATION RECORD NUMBER 1937 72 PGS 10 1/4 X 14 1/2 CARD COVER A DETAILED LOOK AT THE CORINATION OF ENGLAND'S KING GEORGE THE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH IN 1937 WITH 24 WONDERFULL COLORED PLATES AND MANY IN B&W , MANY ARTICLES ON THE KING AND QUEEN , HISTORY OF THE CORONATIONS OF THE PAST AND THE ROYAL FAMILY BOOK IN FINE CONDITION INSIDE AND OUT . THE ONLY FAULT BEING A 1 INCH CRACK AT LOWER FRONT OF SPINE [ HIST 1 ] View More...
ITEM # 7928 THE WAR OF THE NATIONS PORTFOLIO IN ROTOGRAVURE PUB BY THE NEW YORK TIMES 1919 528 PGS 11 1/2 X 16 1/2 HARD BACK COMPILED FROM THE PAGES OF THE NEW YORK TIMES THIS IS A PHOTO HISTORY OF WWI ,THE BIG NAME KINGS AND GENERALS , EVENTS LEADING UP TO WAR , BATTLES AND TREATY . THE BROWN CLOTH BINDING WITH GILT LETTERING IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITIUON WITH ONLY MINOR SHELF WEAR , HINGES ARE SOLID INSIDE PAGES ON NEWS PRINT THAT HAS YELLOWED AND IS BRITTLE STILL QUITE READABLE BUT HANDLE WITH CARE TO PREVENT DAMAGE .THE FIRST FEW PAGES HAVE SEVERAL 1 " TEARS ALONG THE EDGE . THI... View More...
ITEM 7801 MEMORIES DISCREET AND INDISCREET BY A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE [WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN MRS. STUART MENIZES ] PUB BY E.P. DUTTON NY NO DATE GIVEN 352 PGS 6 1/4 X 8 3/4 HARD BACK A VICTORIAN ENGLISH LADY AND HER EXPERIANCES IN INDIA ,THE MIDDLE EAST AND ENGLAND NO DJ BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION VERY MINOR SHELF WEAR [ W HISTORY] View More...
A BIG BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH D.J. SLIP CASE, AND LAYED IN DRAWING OF THE CATHEDRAL ALL IN AS NEW CONDITION . PREFACE BY A. KINSBERGEN GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF ANTWERP. HAND WRITEN .SIGNITURE APPEARS TO BE THAT OF THE GOVERNOR . TEXT , WONDERFULL PHOTOS & ORIGINAL ART BRING YOU THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING THE ART TREASURES IT CONTAINS THE RESTORATION OF THE BUILDING AND MUCH MORE View More...
ITEM # 8204 CARL FABERGE GOLDSMITH TO THE IMPERIAL COURT OF RUSSIA BY A . KENNETH SNOWMAN PUB 1983 BY GREENWICH HOUSE 160 PGS 8 1/2 X 11 HARD BACK EXTENSIVE TEXT AND A WEALTH OF COLOR PHOTOS TELL OF THE ARTIST AND HIS AMAZING CREATIONS ,NOT JUST THE EGGS BOOK AND D/J. IN MYLAR IN FINE CONDITION [ ART ] View More...
ITEM # 8498 WAR AND PEACE IN FINLAND A DOCUMENTED SURVEY EDITED BY ALTER BRODY AND OTHERS PUB 1940 BY SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY 128 PGS 6 X 9 PAPER BACK A LOOK AT THE WAR BETWEEN FINLAND AND RUSSIA FROM THE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW AN EVENT THAT HAS FADED FROM WORLD VIEW BUT WORTH NEW INTEREST IN LIGHT OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION , TEXT CLEAN , BRIGHT AND SOLID COVER VERY GOOD BUT STAINAND SMALL CHIP ON SPINE [WWI - WWII ] View More...
REGENT'S PARK A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA FROM 1086 TO THE PRESENT DAY BY ANN SAUNDERS 1969 242 PGS 6 X 9 TEXT AND MANY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, MAPS , PLANS AND PHOTOS TELLS THE STORY OF THIS WONDERFUL LONDON PARK . BOOK AND D.J. VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT ,NO MARKS CHIPS OR TEARS [ENGLAND] View More...
ITEM # THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF GIUSEPPE PIGNATA WHO ESCAPE FROM THE PRISONS OF THE INQUISITION OF ROME IN 1993 FIRST PUB. IN FRENCH IN 1725 AND HERE FIRST SET IN ENGLIH BY ARTHUR SYMONS PUB BY SEARS PUB . CO N.Y. 252 PGS 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 HARD BACK SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY SYMONS , THIS BEING # 256 OF 525 BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION , CLEAN AND BRIGHT , HINGES STRONG , NO MARKS OR TEARS D.J. IN MYLAR SHOHS A FEW TINY CHIPPS [ WORLD HISTORY ] View More...
ITEM # 8167 THE YEAR BOOK OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC 1929 EDITED BY BOHUSLAV HORAK PUB 1929 BY ORBIS 316 PGS 5 1/4 BY 7 1/2 FLEXABLE COVER EXTENSIVE TEXT AND MANY B&W PHOTOS . INCLUDES CHAPTERS ON HISTORY , POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS , ECONOMICS , LAND REFORM AND MUCH MORE . 20 'BY15" COLOR FOLD OUT , BOUND IN MAP IS PRESENT AND FREE OF TEARS , LIMITED SHELF TO COVER ,OTHERWISE FINE CONDITION [ WORLD HIST. SHELVES ] View More...
Four nice clean copies of this quarterly magazine, comprising a full year's run. Issues include February, May, August and November; Volume LXII, Numbers 1-4. All are clean as a whistle inside and out with just very light edgewear to volume 4. Articles includeTaverns and Tavern Culture on the Southern Colonial Frontier; Thomas Settle Jr., Reconstruction, and the Memory of the Civil War; W.E.B. Du Bois and the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot; the Modern "New" South in a Postmodern Academy; Hospitality, Sociability and Gender in the Southern Colonies; Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empi... View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW copy of a recent title still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. A concise, but focused, survey of the 2000 year military history and geopolitical phenomenon that was the Mongol Empire of Ghengis-Khan and his heirs. Discusess the topic from four perspectives: the early nomaic populations of Eurasia and their complex relationships with settlers; the military fronts of the Altaic Nomads; the great nomad conquerors; and the revenge of the sedentary peoples. View More...
ITEM # 5853 VENICE BY CHARLES YRIARTE PUB BY HENRY COATES 449 PGS 5 X 8 HARD BACK TEXT AND MANY B & W PHOTOS TELL OF THE HISTORY, ART, INDUSTRIES, AND MODERN LIFE OF VENICE TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY F. J . SITWELL BOUND IN FOLD OUT MAP OF THE CITY PRESENT AND SOLID TEXT BLOCK CLEAN AND BRIGHT BACK HINGE STRONG , FRONT HINGE HOLDING BUT TENDER GILT TOP PG EDGS COVER EMBOSSED IN GILT VERY GOOD CONDITION , VERY LITTLE WEAR [ HIST ] View More...
Crisp, beautiful copy in brand new protective mylar. Illustrated. The biography of an extraordinary woman warrior of power and strength, brought down ultimately by the Albigensian Crusade designed by the Church to put an end to religious practicies deemed heretical. 474 pages. Indexed. View More...
Very handsome soft cover book, clean as a whistle inside and and out with just one small spot on reverse side of front over. Published in three languages simultaneously -- German, french and english. Though Zermatt is noted as a ski resort located in a German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland, the book reflects on the town as it was in the past with historic photographs and informative captions. Book measures 8-1/4" square and has 96 pages. No names or writing and pages and page edges pristine. View More...
Book is crisp and clean as new. Appears unread. There are no bumps to boards, no tears or chips, no names or writing, no remainder mark and no price-clip. The jacket will arrive in a brand new mylar cover. The book's surprise is the color art at the center of the book in two areas,The text is an hour by hour chronicle beginning with the day before the Battle of Waterloo. The book measures 6" x 9" and has 366 pages including the index. View More...
Book does not have the dustjacket, but it does have a see-through plastic cover. There are no names or writing and no cracks to hinges. Faults are these -- light dust stain to top edge (the other two edges are very good) and two small spots of foxing to back pastedown. Endpapers show the genealogy of the Bourbon Dynasty. The secret author was named as C. de B., a political informant to the head of the House of Rothschild. Book is illustrated with black and white drawings and 12 black and white plates, all of which are present. Measures 5-3/4" x 8-1/2" and measures 237 pages including index. View More...
ITEM # 8428 REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHARACTER BY DEAN RAMSAY PUB BY T.N. FOULIS 387 PGS 6 X 8 HARD BACK CHAPTERS ON SCOTTISH STORIES OF WIT AND HUMOR , SCOTTISH PROVERBS , RELGION , AND MUCH MORE TIPED IN ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY KERR . BOOK NOT DATED BUT GIFT INSCRIPTION ON FFEP DATED 1909 FOXING ON FRONT & BACK ENDPAPERS , OTHER WISE CLEAN . COVER VERY GOOD [ WORLD HIST ] View More...
Very nice clean book, gently kept. No bumps to corners, no names or writing, and pages and page edges pristine. Jacket shows some browning to edges of blue paper, but no tears or chips and no price-clip. Looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Portrait at frontis. The first complete biography of the controversial German historian. 345 pages. Indexec. View More...
