Search Results: Political History from Rickaro Books Ltd

Cambridge: The Oleander Press, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in striking orange cloth boards with very good, inatct d/w also strikingly orange. Here is a primary sourcebook of British intelligence material gathered by such authorities as T. E. Lawrence, Ronald Storrs, Boyle, Craufurd, Bray, Garland, Parker, Davenport, Cox, Douglas Carruthers, C. E. Wilson and Gertrude Bell. First published in 1917 in a strictly limited and confidential edition, this is an indespensible biographical refernec work for anyone concerned with the Middle East or Arabian politics. Arabia Past & Present, Vol. 19. 362pp..

London: Hutchinson, 1953. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A goo copy of this first edition in blue boards with gilt title to spine. Some marks to front board. Inscription to rear front board. 528pp. Page edges darkening but innternally bright, clean and sound. B/w portrait frontis..

Washington: Regnery History, 2012. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine, as new copy. 241pp..

London: Macmillan, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A near fine copy of this autobiography of Geoffrey Howe. 736pp..

London: The Folio Society, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Second Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good clean copy in slipcase as issued..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy. When Dorothy May died in 2003, her neighbours knew that she possessed 'something of great value' in her bureau. Jeweller Michael Bassett was expecting gemstones, but instead he found a stack of some 250 letters and a 'guest book'. Between 1938 and 1946, Dorothy, as a young music-teacher, left Lancashire, married Paul May - stage-manager of the State Theatre in Freiburg - and set up home there at the height of the Third Reich. Paul was conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1942, and by New Year he was at Stalingrad ... and soon lost to sight. Dorothy's letters to her husband, written in English, recording her daily round, soon started to arrive back marked 'return to Sender'. To maintain her spirits, she continued to write to him, but she did not post the letters, and thus they became a diary of an isolated Englishwoman in a hostile city, beneath her… Read More

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this new work on Anglo-Saxon gold coinage. Includes details of the few known forgeries in gold, or warnings if a unique coin is now considered 'doubtful' for various evidential reasons. This useful fully illustrated work comes with a Foreword by Professor Rory Naismith, a full bibliography and a helpful index of types. 160pp.

London: Historical Association, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of four articles relating to Women's Suffrage, Women's work since 1700, The Sack of Fougeres; and, History education plus reviews. 166pp.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in original black cloth with gilt title to front board. 104pp folding map frontispiece. From a private institutional library with bookplate to inside of front board. Sunned to edges front and rear and also to spine. Overall a good, neat copy..

New York: Bloomsbury Auctions Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine copy of this well illustrated and substantial catalogue. 200.

Chicago: Archon Books, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in d/w. A reissue of a book first published in 1942. 259pp..

Pall Mall London: Charles Knight, 1832. Book. Good. Hardback. Second Edition Enlarged. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy of this important enlarged second edition with three additional chapters, these are significant additions to the work. In original cloth, professionally re-spined with original cloth laid on, replacement endpapers. The engraved title page is foxed the rest of the volume clean and tight. xxivpp + 387pp +1p advertisement to rear. Has the booksellers "Reply to Mr Babbage between ppxii and xiii. Bibliographically interesting. Indeed this volume discusses at length excess profit within bookselling. This single sheet is tipped in and the booksellers dispute Babbage's claim that they would not stock his book, an indignant retort! This is regarded as the earliest paper on the scientific management of factories and of course was influential in the industrial activities of the period. Babbage is now considered to be the "father of computers", and… Read More

New York: Cune Press, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this hardcover. This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the Turks, and end World War One. Lawrence of Arabia reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and leading a guerrilla force of Arab irregulars to take the port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. John Harte's book - as well as focusing on a critical moment that David Lean featured in his famous film in which young Captain Lawrence discovers a secret back door into the Turkish interior - also describes the forgotten nomadic life of the Bedouin tribes and their raiding parties, the founding of oil-rich Saudi Arabia led by King Ibn Saud, and his double-agent, the treacherous Major St John Philby whom spymaster Major Gertrude Bell of the SIS had trained in spy-craft. 240pp..

New York: Oxford University Press, Early English Text Society, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy with a very good dust cover of Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution, 285pp..

Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press /J & N Wilson, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardback. Signed By Jeremy Wilson. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this one volume edition of the original 1922 text of T E Lawrence's monumental book of his part in the First World War. This is the quarter leather limited and numbered edition, bound by The Fine Press, new condition in original card slipcase as issued. The full text published now for the first time in an accesible edition in this handsome numbered limited edition, number 147. " If Seven Pillars interests you as history, or travel literature or autobiography, read the Oxford text. It's a third longer than the subscribers' abridgement and contains all kinds of interesting things you won't find there" Jeremy Wilson, T.E. Lawrence's authorised biographer. This edition now becoming hard to find..

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1835. Book. Good. Disbound. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A disbound copy of the original pamphlet edition. 15pp..