HISTORY AND POLITICS from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II- Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas, Freely, John. Published by I. B. Tauris, London, 2009. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 265pp., maps, notes, bibliography, index. Contents in fine condition; a few light and small scuff marks to front board; unclipped jacket has a small closed tear upper front… Read more about this item

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics, Hall, Professor Bert S. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 300pp., black and white illustrative plates; bibliography; index. Blue cloth boards with white spine titles. Volume is in fine condition; unclipped jacket has a small closed tear lower spine; taped from the inside.

The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest, Gough, Barry. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Madeira Park, BC, 2015. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 272pp. with mapped endpapers, black and white illustrations and maps. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine jacket with the lightest of shelf wear.… Read more about this item

Eyes of a City: Early Vancouver Photographers 1868-1900, Mattison, David. Published by Vancouver City Archives, Vancouver, B.C., 1986. Occasional Paper No. 3. Oblong 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 76pp., Bibliography; Appendix of Vancouver Commercial Photographers and Studios 1886-1900; Index. Card covers with glossy pages. In fine condition. An exploration of early Vancouver through the photographs that have managed to… Read more about this item

Memoirs 1939-1993, Mulroney, Brian. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto Ontario Canada, 2007. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 1015pp. with Appendices, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index; 40pp. of glossy black-and-white photos. blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Contents are in fine, unread condition; spine is cocked (slanted). The autobiography of Canada's 18th Prime Minister.

1066: The Year of the Conquest, Howarth, David. Published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., London, 1977. 224pp., illustrated. Grey cloth boards with silver spine titles. In fine, unread condition with name to title page. The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English… Read more about this item

The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World. Collins, Paul. Published by Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 246pp., with suggested readings. Black boards with gilt titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition, in fine dustjacket Many of the original 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio were gone before the turn of the… Read more about this item

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, Shapiro, James. Published by HarperCollins, 2005. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 429pp., illustrated, index, preface, prologue, biographical essay. Quarter brown over brown boards, mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition; jacket has very light shelf wear.

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, Norwich, John Julius. Published by Scribner, 2000. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 401pp. with color pictorial section, 3 genealogical charts, maps, Royal Emblems, Bibliography, Index. Blue cloth boards with mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has closed tear top edge and light shelf… Read more about this item

The Free World; Art and Thought in the Cold War, Menand, Louis. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2021. First Edition. 857pp. with notes and index. Black boards with silver titles. In fine, unread condition; dustjacket has very light shelf edge wear.. The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the… Read more about this item

Capitalism: A Short History, Kocka, Jürgen. Published by Princeton University Press, 2016. Small 8vo up to 9½" tall., 198pp. with bibliography and index. Black cloth with gilt titles. In fine, unread condition.

Canoe Country: The Making of Canada, MacGregor, Roy. Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2015. First Edition. 299pp. with black and white photo section, index. Blue boards with silver titles, diagram of canoe to endpapers. In fine, unread condition. A celebration of the essential and enduring story of Canadians and the canoe. A famous paddler once said that God made Canada… Read more about this item

The Knights of the Order, Ernie Bradford. Published by Dorset Press, New York, 1991. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 245pp., maps, appendices, bibliography and index. In fine condition; dustjacket has very light shelf wear. An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Known by many names through… Read more about this item

Alluring British Columbia Canada. Published by British Columbia Government Travel, Canada, 1958. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., unpaginated, approx. 32pp. with black and white and color photos and illustrations. Very light wear to covers and light toning; otherwise in fine condition.

Travels in Arabia Deserta in Two Volumes: Volume I and Volume II, Charles M. Doughty. Published by Dover, 1979. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Volume 1: 674pp. with appendix, publishers' catalogue, rear fold out map; Volume 2: 696pp. with index and glossary of Arabic words. Contents are clean without markings, tears or folds, binding is tight; outside outer… Read more about this item

An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan and Part of Tibet, Turner, Capt. Samuel. Sub-title: To which are added, views taken on the spot by Lieutenant Samuel Davis and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medicinal by Mr. Robert Saunders. Introduction by Hugh Richardson. Published by Manjusri… Read more about this item

Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement, Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Published by T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, and Edinburgh.1912. The People's Book 94. First Edition. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 94pp. with index and two rear pages of publisher's list at dated February 1912. Olive green cloth boards with black titles front and spine. Ghost toning… Read more about this item

Trudeau and Our Times. Volume I: The Magnificent Obsession. Volume II: The Heroic Delusion, Clarkson, Stephen & McCall, Christina. Published by McClelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1990; 1994. First Editions. Signed on title pages by each author to each book. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Volume I: 502pp. with Afterword, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, List of Interviews, Acknowledgments, Index. Volume II:… Read more about this item

On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India (A. D. 629-645), Watters, Thomas; and Davids, T. W. Rhys (Editor) and Bushel, S. W. (Editor). Published by Munshi Ram Manohar Lal, Delhi, India, 1973. Second Indian Edition; published with permission of the Royal Asiatic Society. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 401pp. + 357pp. with Index of Abbreviations used; Index of the Chinese forms… Read more about this item

The Monks of War: The Military Orders, Seward, Desmond. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2000. 338pp. with maps, black and white and colour illustrations, index, bibliography, glossary, notes and appendices. Black cloth boards with red and gilt illustration front and spine; housed in a black slipcase. Volume is in fine, unread condition; slipcase has light shelf wear. The Monks of… Read more about this item