Search Results: HISTORY / England from biblioboy

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Good. 1945. First Edition. Softcover. First edition [no statement of printing]. The legend of King Arthur and his Knights [and the Holy Grail] in art, architecture, etc. Oversize [about 9" x 11.5"] pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled, 80 pages, profusely illustrated. Good copy [cover toned with some creasing, sticker ghost to the lower left corner of the front cover, light corner creasing]. .bx 265

Pitkin Pictorials LTD , UK , 1988 Color Illustrated Softcover 32 pages A near fine copy with light edge wear. See Photos magbx 8

J.Salmon LTD., Kent, England, 1961 First Thus 16 page Souvenir Guide book. Color Illustrated. Travel and Souvenir books, Great Britain A very good copy with light edge wear and light dust soiling to the rear cover. See Photos magbx 8

Minneapolis: Fortress Press 1989. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 0800624173. First edition thus. 134 pages, illustrated, select bibliography, index. Near Fine copy with a trace of wear. bx308

"One of Britain's most famous villages, told by a lifelong inhabitant and containing a unique collection of photographs taken in the early part of this century by the author's father, Paul Ashton Ellis". Very light creasing. bx55

[Columbus]: Ohio State University Press 1964 Hardcover. First edition "A comprehensive---and occasionally hilarious---study of the three-day festival staged by David Garrick, the brilliant actor and manager of the Drury Lane Theatre in London, at Stratford-upon-Avon, in September, 1769". Near Fine copy in dust-soiled jacketr with a long lower corner tear, with associated creasing, to the rear panel. clph

London: A Four Square Book / Landsborough Publications Limited 1959. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Four Square Books 153. "The Commandos at war...This is the authentic account of their amazing war record---their raids and their battles in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Burma". Pictorial wrappers, 320 pages, illustrated with maps. Very good with creases to the spine, and covers, edge wear, pages tanned. bx189E

Tauchnitz 1872 Copyright edition, 334pp. Good condition with wear and rubbing to marbled boards, leather spine and corners. Foxing to pages, tear to front endpaper at hinge. See photos clphE

New York: David McKay Company Inc 1969. Later new impression thus. 209 pages, heavily illustrated [including some colour plats], descriptive notes to the illustrations, index. Good to Very Good copy [spine somewhat cocked, lightly bumped; contents tight and clean] in rubbed Dust Wrapper with a price sticker affixed to the lower spine. bx28

Longmans Green NY 1920 1st ed. 260pp Illustrated. Very good with offset and bookplate to front pastedown and endpaper, offset to rear pastedown and end paper.Lacking the jacket. clph

Men of Wooden Walls Frank C. Bowen Staples Press, UK, 1952 First Edition 152 page hardcover in dust jacket. Illustrated. Naval History A very good copy with edge wear, light foxing and dust soiling in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the head of the spine. See Photos bx25

NY: John Lane Co. 1911. A Review Copy with Slip from the Publisher, This entertaining volume presents six character sketches from the Georgian era, admittedly not the most noble dames and men of the era. Here is a humorist, Abraham Tucker; a grande dame, Lady Mar Coke; a beggar, Bampfylde-Moore Carew; a parson, Sir Henry Bate-Dudley; an heiress, The Countess of Strathmore; and a hostess, Lady Holland Elizabeth. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Edge wear, wear to spine ends, light rubbing. ; plates. bx25

New York: James Pott & Company. 1900. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 196pp Content include chapters on Dover, Norwich, Bristol, Guildford , Liverpool, Exeter, Newcastle, St. Albans, Plymouth, Warwick, Boston, Ely, Chichester, Northhampton, Tamworth Shrewsbury. 12 full page plates.Very minor edge wear and light hand soiling to the cloth. clph

NY: Harper & Brothers.. 1894. First Edition. Red cloth. Gold lettering, silver coat of arms to embossed front cover in red cloth, rubbed and lightly soiled, soiling to the spine, corners lightly bumped, spine ends frayed, shelf slant, page margins and edges lightly toned. ; B & W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; clph

London / New York / Toronto: / Oxford University Press 1952 First Edition. Hardcover "This book is a study of the external policies of the self-governing countries of the Commonwealth from 1931, the year of the Statue of Westminster, down to the outbreak of war in September 1939". 481+ pages, abbreviations used in footnote references, index. Very good copy with light wear, in Good Dust Wrapper, price clipped with a price sticker added to the bottom of the front flap, some spine toning, several short edge tears some with associated creasing. bx 153

NY: Rinehart & Co. 1957. First Edition; A book of Letters from Sallie Coles Stevenson the Charming and witty wife of the American Minister to the court of St. James Andrew Stevenson. Very good copy with light edge wear and light dust soiling to the page edges, in a very good dust jacket with edge wear and a shallow chip at the head of the spine, with light dust soiling. See photos.bx14

London ,UK 1951 First Edition 144 page hardcover in dust jacket. Illustrated. Naval History A good copy with edge wear, foxing, text toned and dust soiling, hinges starting in a good price clipped dust jacket with a chip to the head of the spine, a few small chips to edges and corners. See Photos bx25

Pitkin Pictorials LTD , UK , 1964 First printing 32 page Souvenir Guide Book. Illustrated. A near fine copy with light edge wear. See Photosmagbx 8