Nicely produced centenary edition of Kipling's unfinished 1937 auto-biography. Red cloth with gilt elephant motif to cover. DJ has some toning and rubbing and wear with small tears. Previous owner's name and a Kipling themed label pasted down to ffep. Cont [more...]
Account of the 100 year history of the famous Italian Woolen mill that became a textile empire. With numerous b/w images. Toning and marking to covers. Rubbing to edges with slight loss to top and taiil of spine. Toning and light spotting to page edges, Fa [more...]
First edition. Tears to DJ with loss to spine and rear cover, with previous owner's tape repair. Mild tanning to page edges, else clean and tight. Good overall. [more...]
Handsome decorative edition of Scott's lively somewhat apocryphal History of Scotland. Gilt design to cover. With engraved title page and tissue guarded frontispiece. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Light foxing and tanning to page edges. Else clean an [more...]
Later reprint of the 1899 study of Egyptian views on the afterlife. With b/w illustrations. Almost a grangerised volume, with a chapter from Sex and the Occult by Gordon Wellesley, titled The Pagan Heritage of Sex: Egypt" [more...]
Detailed but accessible history of ancient Greece. With 2 coloured maps and further b/w maps and illustrations. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Marking/staining to covers, rubbing to edgs, tanning to edges, else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
A revised, enlarged edition. Top edge gilt. Tear with repair to ffep. Previous owner's name to ffep. Tanning within. Light foxing to page edges. Else clean and sound. Fair/good. [more...]
The third Volume of Churchill's second great 'contribution to History'. Published from 1948-1954. With b/w fold-out maps and diagrams. 8vo. (220x150mm). Complete with DJ, red titling clear still legible. Slight marking and Tearing to edges of DJ with some [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Neat little Home university Library edition of Pollard's swift history of England, focusing on the eras of significant political change. Decorated blue leather. Slight foxing to page edges. Rubbing to leather. Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Account of English fashions and behaviour, through the prism of humourous Punch sketches, with numerous examples in b/w. Rubbing and bumping to edges, with fraying/toning to bottom of spine. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
First edition of Mailer's non-fiction novel, describing the march on the Pentagon in 1967. With maps to end-papers. Sunning to spine. Very light foxing and tanning to page edge, else clean and sound. Good. [more...]
First english language edition of Nowarra's detailed history of the development and deployment of the Focke-Wulf Fw190. With b/w diagrams and images. 4to. 159pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear. Very faint foxing to page edge. Contents clean and brig [more...]
Fascinating evaluation of various scientific theories and the effects they had on religion and faith, including chapters on Darwin, Freud and Eugenics. Tanning to top edge. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
A children's novel intending to recount life in 12th century Britain as well as give a portrait of Robin Hood as a key figure in the creation of the Magna Carta and for freedom in England. With frontispiece. Spine is sunned. Mild foxing to page edges but co [more...]
An account of slavery in Cape Town from the first imports of slaves to abolition in 1834. Told in a narrative style. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has rubbing to edges and small closed tear to spine. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good [more...]
Facsimile of Fearon's 1818 account of his journey to America to scout for suitably habitable land for various London families. An unvarnished, oft negative, report with a wealth of factual data and observations. Foxing to page edges. Mild shelf-wear. Conte [more...]
Volume IV of the Conosci L'Italia series. With numerous b/w and colour images and fold-out maps. Some toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music, plus full page colour illustrations of the dancers. Complete with DJ. Toning to spine and edges of DJ. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Photographic history of the ship, with b/w images by Bale with notes but Blake. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Light foxing to end-papers. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
