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Haydon, Anthony P
Sir Matthew Nathan: British Colonial Governor and Civil Servant
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press 1976. viii 280 pages portrait frontis select bibliography index. The upper section of the rear hinge is cracked. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. A biography of the Victorian careerist who received a grace-and-favour posting as governor of Queensland in the 1920s. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo. University of Queensland Press Hardcover
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Bowles George F S
The Strength of England
London: Methuen & Co 1926. viii 289 pages book catalogue six maps index. Lower page edges uncut. Prelims endpages and edges foxed with occasional foxing throughout. Blue cloth boards damp-stained by the upper section of the front board sllightly soiled gilt spine titles. A study of England's maritime power and its importance after World War I. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Methuen & Co Hardcover
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Hibbert, Christopher
The Battle of Arnhem
New York. Printed in Great Britain: The Macmillan Company 1962. 244 pages illustrated with 32 b/w photos bibliography index. Upper page edges tinted. The fore-edge is very lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. An analysis of the strategic and tactical aspects of the nine-day battle fought at Arnhem between 17 and 26 September 1944. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
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Worsdall Frank
Victorian City: A Selection of Glasgow's Architecture
Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing 1982. 160 pages illustrated throughout with b/w photos glossary index end-paper maps. Something has been blacked out at the upper corner of the ffep prev owner's name. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book focuses on fine architecture erected between 1837 and 1901. It is divided into seven chapters dealing with churches housing educational buildings commercial and public buildings miscellaneous including transport industrial and monuments and on buildings which have been saved from demolition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Richard Drew Publishing Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 024131 ISBN : 0904002918 9780904002911
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Hinsley, FH. (editor) F. H.
The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume XI. Material Progress and World-Wide Problems 1870-1898
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1962. HEAVY. xi 744pp index. Or blue cloth in jacket. Prev owners name on front free endpaper minor marking to page edges. Jacket price clipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
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Howe, Bea
Antiques from the Victorian Home
London: Spring Books 1989. HEAVY. vii 232 pages illustrated with more than 380 photographs and illustrations index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book considers the furniture and decorative objects in a Victorian home in their original setting. Each of the books sections covers a typical Victorian room with other sections covering popular crafts of the period travel souvenirs and cottage art in all its forms. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Spring Books Hardcover
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Lockyer, Roger
Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471-1714
London: Longmans Green & Co 1967. xvi 484 pages bibliography appendices index. Prev Owner's name with date by the upper edge of the front flyleaf. Cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket which is a little faded at the spine. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Longmans, Green & Co Hardcover
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Vox, Maximilien
Napoleon. Evergreen Profile Book 18
New York: Grove Press 1960. Translated by Maurice Thornton. 192 pages with more than 70 b/w illustrations selected bibliography inside covers illustrated. Prev owner's details by the upper corner of the title page verso. Pictorial card cover with a creased lower front corner. First American Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo. Grove Press Paperback
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Allinson, Sidney
The Bantams: The Untold Story of World War I
Oakville: Mosaic Press 1982. 287 pages 16 pages of b/w photos. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Having tracked down 300 of surving Bantams all men about 5 feet tall the author tells their story. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Mosaic Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 024337 ISBN : 0889621918 9780889621916
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Schurff, Dr.; Goll; Hartlt; Knirsch
Das Verhalten Tschechen im Weltkrieg
Wien Vienna: Deutschnationalen Geschaftsstelle 1918. 420pp index. Or grey paper wraps. Tape reinforcement at head and foot of spine faded at spine and edges place/year written on title page single line notation on title page front cover corners creased aong with same corners on several pages. Scarce early title on the suppression of the Czechs during the First World War. Text in German/auf Deutsch. Printed in gothic text. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 4to. Deutschnationalen Geschaftsstelle Paperback
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Spielberg Steven and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
The Last Days
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999. Preface by Steven Spielberg. Prologue by Dr Michael Berenbaum. Introduction by David Cesarani. 240 pages illustrated throughout with archival photographs some color further reading illustrated end-papers. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which is slightly sunned in places. Survivors and liberators share what they experienced of the devastation of Hungarian Jewry rounded up and deported to concentration camps in 54 days as Hitler faced defeat. 437 402 Jews. 148 trains. Destination: Auschwitz. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 024423 ISBN : 0297824791 9780297824794
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Fingleton, J H
The Ashes Crown the Year: A Coronation Cricket Diary
London: Collins 1954. 288 pages b/w photos. Cloth boards in rubbed and edge-worn dust-jcket which has some loss at the spine head and foot and at the upper edge and front corner. The book covers the TEst series of 1953 as well as the story of Coronation year in England as seen by an Australian journalist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Collins Hardcover
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Stewart, Adrian
Eighth Army's Greatest Victories: Alam Halfa to Tunis 1942-43
Barnsley: Leo Cooper 1999. xiii 216 pages 16 pages of b/w photos 11 maps bibliography index of Eighth Army Units and Formations general index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book 'examines the problems faced and overcome by the commanders and men of the Eighth Army. It describes their achievements and assesses their forgotten victories. New information is thrown on the Battle of Alam Halfa the reasons of the escape of the bulk of Rommel's defeated forces after El Alamein the contribution of Ultra and the close co-operation of the Eighth Army and its partner the Desert Air Force. This is an important account of the Eighth Army's North Africa campaign the turning point of the fight against Hitler's Third Reich'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Leo Cooper Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023780 ISBN : 0850526663 9780850526660
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Reader's Digest Association for Drive Publications
AA Book of British Villages: a Guide to 700 of the Most Interesting and Attractive Villages in Britain
Basingstoke: Drive Publications 1983. HEAVY. 448 pages more than 400 full-colour and 100 b/w illustrations 26 pages of colourful maps. Cloth-backed pictorial boards in price-clipped dust-jacket. The villages chosen and described by authors who know and love the places about which they write are arranged in alphabetical order from Abbots Bromley to Zennor. Experts in a dozen aspects of rural life discuss topics from cottage gardens to village history. Five famous personalites who have strong links with the countryside give 'guided tours' of their favourite villages. Reprint with Amendments. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Drive Publications Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023801 ISBN : 0903356287 9780903356282
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Hine, Reginald L
Hitchin Worthies: Four Centuries of English Life
London: George Allen &Unwin 1932. HEAVY. 399pp coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard b/w plates line drawings. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Prelims endpages and page edges foxed. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf with a note that this book was chosen out of 22000 as one of the 50 best-produced works of its year 1932. Decorative green cloth boards gilt sunned and slightly foxed at the faded spine which has a nick towards its upper edge. Signed & Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. George Allen &Unwin Hardcover
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Ellis John
Eye-Deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-18
London: Penguin Books 2002. 214 pages illustrated with more than 130 paintings drawings and photographs index. Paperback. This is a study of the Western Front and the millions of men who fought along this desolate strip of land. The author describes how trenches were designed and dug the tactics of trench warfare the day-to-day routines such as kit inspection and siting latrines and even how the troops managed to entertain themselves. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Penguin Books Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023014 ISBN : 0141391081 9780141391083
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Shaw, Captain R E (editor)
Official Souvenir Programme of the Coronation Review of the Fleet By Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead 15th June 1953
Portsmouth: Commander-in-Chief Portsmoth 1953. 64 pages illustrated with b/w photos line drawings silhouettes anchorages badges worn by ratings advertisements some in colour. A damp stain at the lower front corner decreases in size to about page 44. Illustrated stapled paper wrappers rubbed by the spine. An attractive copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo. Commander-in-Chief, Portsmoth Paperback
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Lewis, Ralph
Scene in Sussex: a Fresh Look at the County By Ralph Lewis
London: The Research Publishing Co No date 1970s.146 pages b/w plates. Four-line greeting written in ink on the front flyleaf. Cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. The book 'takes a fresh look at the county people and places past present and future. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to. The Research Publishing Co Hardcover
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Baudot Francois
Fashion in the Twentieth Century
New York: Universe Publishing 1999. HEAVY. 400 pages illustrated in color and b/w with more than 350 sketches and photos bibliography index. Paperback. The book retraces one hundred years of women's and men's fashion and celebrates in photos the leading designers from all around the world and the clothes they created. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Universe Publishing Paperback
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Nezelof Pierre
Josephine: The Great Lover
New York: Horace Liveright 1929. Translated by Sylvia Stuart. 320 pages b/w plates. Prelims endpages and edges lightly foxed. Upper edge tinted. Fore-edge uncut. Original decorative green cloth boards with spine titles faded. The book is in four parts: Yeyette; Madame de Beauharnais; General Bonaparte; and The Empress. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Horace Liveright Hardcover
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Lipscomb F W
The British Submarine
London: Adam and Charles Black 1954. Foreword by G W G Simpson. xiv 269 pages b/w photos two-colour diagrams illustrating construciton working armament and other aspects of the submarine three maps of the majuor theatres of operations in 1939-45 four appendices index. Decorative blue cloth boards gilt in heavily edge-worn now protected dust-jacket which has loss at its extremities. The author summarizes the history of the British submarine since their first inclusion in the Fleet and traces their technical development. He provides a detailed description of the working of a modern 1950s submarine and a chapter on the problems and techniques of escape and salvage. The larger part of the book gives an account of the British submarine service in the Second World War. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. Adam and Charles Black Hardcover
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Held, Werner
The German Fighter Units Over Russia: A Pictorial History of the Pilots and Aircraft
West Chester PA: Schiffer Publishing 1990. Translated from the German by Dr Edward Force. 192 pages illustrated with b/w photos. Decorative cloth boards in dust-jacket. Thie book covers the service of the seven Luftwaffe fighter units that saw action in Russia during the 1941-1944 air war in the East. The reader is offered a thorough look at the action the operations of each of these units the men machines and airfields. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Schiffer Publishing Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023109 ISBN : 0887402461 9780887402463
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Held, Werner and Obermaier, Ernst
The Luftwaffe in the North African Campaign 1941-1943. A Photo Chronicle
West Chester PA: Schiffer Publishing 1992. HEAVY. Translated from the German by Don Cox. 237 pages marbled end-papers. Decorative cloth boards in dust-jacket which has a wrap-around photo illustration. This is a study of one of the major campaigns of the Second World War. From the point-of-view of the Luftwaffe pilots and crews the reader is shown the campaign from its outset -- from the initial victories to the final battles in Tunisia. Each arm of the Luftwaffe is presented and the various Fallschirmjager units are also covered. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Schiffer Publishing Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023110 ISBN : 0887403433 9780887403439
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Drimmel, Heinrich
Gott erhalte. Biographie einer Epoch
Wien: Amalthea 1976. 398pp chronology. Or yellow cloth in jacket. Spine slightly faded place/year written on half title page. Austria from 1806 to 1914. Text in German/auf Deutsch. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Amalthea Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023159 ISBN : 385002072x 9783850020725
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Lomas Robert
Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science
Gloucester: Fair Winds Press 2004. x 374pp index timeline bibliography endnotes appendix bw & col plates. Paperback.Reassess many of the key events of the late 17th century and see how Freemasonry supported by Charles II was the guiding force behind the birth of modern science under the cover of the Royal Society. Second Edition. Spiral Bound. Near Fine. 8vo. Fair Winds Press Paperback
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Abbott, Jacob
Histories of William the Conqueror and Queen Elizabeth
New York: Harper & Brothers 1882. The book is in two parts. History of William the Conqueror: 291 pages 10 engravings 2 of which are maps; and History of Queen Elizabeth: 281 pages frontispiece with tissue-guard 18 engravings. Prev owner's name with a date on the front flyleaf which has a short tear at its fore-edge. Front hinge slackening. Or green cloth boards with wear at the spine head and foot and a tear in the cloth at the lower edge of the front board. Chautauqua Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
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Masson, Gustave
Outlines of the History of France from the Earliest Times to the Outbreak of the Revolution. An Abridgement of M Guizot's Popular History of France
Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1879. HEAVY. xvii 613 pages portrait frontis: M Guizot with tissue-guard chronological index historical and genealogical tables portraits etc index. Prev owner's name and place by the upper edge of the front flyleaf. Cloth boards gilt spine titles. French history from the Gauls in 387 B.C. to 1789. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Estes and Lauriat Hardcover
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Pia, Jack
Nazi Regalia. In the Series Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
New York: Ballantine Books 1971. Introduction by Alan Wykes. Unpaginated. With more than 100 four-color captioned photographs table of equivalent ranks in Party and military organizations glossary. Pictorial card cover. First American Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Ballantine Books Paperback
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Brown Mike
A Child's War: Growing Up on the Home Front 1939-45
Stroud: Sutton Publishing 2000. 118 pages illustated with period photographs and ephemera bibliography index. Nine-line Christmas greeting at the centre of the title page. Pictorial card cover. The narrative includes details of evacuation rationing coping with gas masks and air raids entertainment in the absence of toys favourite radio programmes and the important -- and often dangerous -- roles of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Sutton Publishing Paperback
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May, Arthur J
The Passing of the Hapsburg Monarchy 1914-1918. Volumes One AND Two
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1968. HEAVY. Vol 1: 496 pages; Vol 2: pp 497-864 index. Both volumes cloth boards in price-clipped dust-jackets which have some insect damage at and by the spines and at the flap folds. From the blurb ' this work penetrates its somber theme the death throes of a recognized great power in greater depth than any previous book. While it is heavily weighted with diplomatic and military affairs an effort has been made to allocate appropriate attention to the internal evolution of the twinship of Austraia-Hungary in all its variety and amplitude'. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. University of Pennsylvania Press Hardcover
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Rozenblit, Marsha L
The Jews of Vienna 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity
Albany New York: State University of New York Press 1983. 284 pages 5 maps tables appendices notes bibliography index. Place and date by the upper edge of the half-title. Paperback. From the rear cover the book 'shows how the Jews of Vienna transformed old identifiably Jewish patterns of behavior into modern urban variations without abandoning their ethnic identity in the process. The Jews' migration to Vienna is described as are the occupational changes they experienced in the city where and how they lived the various means they used to achieve social integration and the network of Jewish organizations they established. The author shows how urbanization led to social change while simultaneously providing the necessary demographic foundation for continued Jewish identity in modern Europe'. Paperback Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. State University of New York Press Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023390 ISBN : 0873958454 9780873958455
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Newton, Don and Hampshire, A Cecil
Taranto
London: William Kimber 1959. 204 pages 8 pages of b/w photos appendix. Place and date by the upper edge of the half-title page. Newspaper cuttings 'Malta Convoy' taped to the Foreword verso and the Contents page its verso and the title page. Text on the Contents and Title pages affected and there are tape stains. Additonal notes/corrections most in English written in pencil or blue biro in the margins on about five pages. Papered boards in edge-worn and price-clipped dust-jacket. The full story of the night of 11 November 1940 when 20 naval planes from A British aircraft carrier 170 miles away inflicted more damage on the Italy fleet lying at Taranto than the German Navy suffered in daylight at the Battle of Jutland. This British victory altered the course of the naval war in the Mediterranean shattered a dictator's dream and laid the groundwork for ultimate Allied vidtory in North Africa. The Royal Navy now added air power to sea power. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo. William Kimber Hardcover
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Weber, Walter
Italiens militarische Tatigkeit im Weltkriege Von 1915-1917. Wertung Auslandischer Arteile. Aus Dem Italienischen Uberfetzt
Berlin: Verlag von Carl Bath. 1921. 52pp large folding sheet with 3 col maps loose at rear 1 map in text. Or grey wraps. Slight edge wear. tape reinforcement at top and bottom of spine place/year written on title page map pocket missing with attendant surface damage to inside rear cover 2 word marginal note on one page. Text in German/auf Deutsch. Printed in gothic type. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Verlag von Carl Bath. Paperback
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Wakefield, Ken
Pfadfinder: Luftwaffe Pathfinder Operations Over Britain 1940-44
Stroud: Tempus Publishing 1999. 251 pages notes on Luftwaffe Bomber Units eight appendices. Cloth boards in portected dust-jacket which has a piece of sellotape holding the front and rear plastic covers to the paste-downs. The book gives the history of the Luftwaffe's history and development of the technique of Pathfinding -- the illumination of a target area by a special force to guide less proficient or less well-equipped bomber squadrons -- over Britain during a critical period of the war. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Tempus Publishing Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023471 ISBN : 0752416928 9780752416922
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Schliephake, Hanfgried
The Birth of the Luftwaffe
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1972. 80 pages followed by substantial unpaginated section of captioned b/w photos from the author's own collection. Prev owner's name stamped twice on the front paste-down. Cloth boards silver spine titles. An account of the German Air Force between the wars based on official records made at the time showing its growth. There is a new insight into the cancellation of the Dornier 19 and the Junkers 89 whle in the first test stage. Among the photographs of partricular interest are the shots taken at the secret training base at Lipezk deep in Russia as well as those of such long-forgotten German military aircraft as the Rohrback Roland and the Dornier P. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Henry Regnery Company Hardcover
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Clark, Kenneth (Introduction). Commentaries by George Robinson
The Florence Baptistery Doors
New York: The Viking Press 1980. HEAVY. 328 pages illustated throughout with b/w photos some in color bibliography index illustrated end-papers. Upper page edges lightly foxed. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on the front board and on the spine in dust-jacket. The close-up photography of David Finn brings the viewer as close to the astonishing sculptures of the South North and East Baptistery Doors as the artists were when first modelling their work more than 500 years ago revealing a wealth of detail and incident. Kenneth Clark's introduction explains the original commission of the doors their place in the art of the time and examines their importance. George Robinson's commentaries connect the scriptural allusions iconograpy and cultural background illuminating the meaning incorporated into these bronze masterpieces. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs by David Finn. 4to. The Viking Press Hardcover
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Chabod Federico
A History of Italian Fascism
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1963. Translated from the Italian by Muriel Grindrod. 192 pages bibliography index. Newspaper cuttings in Hungarian lightly taped to the front end-papers and the verso of the front flyleaf. Thee is a long note also in Hungarian on the half title page with a place and date by the upper edge. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which is price-clipped rubbed and edge-worn. The book's three sections cover After the First World War; Fascism and Italy today 1960s. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo. Weidenfeld and Nicolson Hardcover
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Strawson, John
The Italian Campaign
New York: Carroll & Graf 1988. xv 221 pages 12 pages of b/w photos four maps bibliography index. Personal library circular blind stamp by the lower corner of the front flyleaf. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket which has a short tear from the upper edge of the rear panel. The author analyses the Italian Campaign 1943-45 posing questions about strategy and providing insight into the hostility between Patton and Montgomery. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Carroll & Graf Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023552 ISBN : 0881843687 9780881843682
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Arthur Max
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
London: Ebury Press in Association with the Imperial War Museum 2002. Introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert. x 326 pages b/w ills contributors general index pictorial end-papers. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book was created entirely from the collection of taped interviews held by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum. The author has concentrated on the Western Front and the Gallipoli campaign with accounts arranged in chronological order. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Ebury Press in Association with the Imperial War Museum Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023655 ISBN : 0091882095 9780091882099
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Bradford Sarah
Disraeli
New York: Stein and Day 1983. xiii 432 pages 8 pages of b/w plates notes bibliography index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. A modern biography of Disraeli. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Stein and Day Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023666 ISBN : 0812828992 9780812828993
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Fisher John J
Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East 1916-19
London: Frank Cass 1999. xvi 342 pages b/w ills maps appendices bibliography index. Pictorial card cover. The book 'explores the acquisitive thinking that from autumn 1914 nourished the Mesopotamian Expedition and examines the political issues international and imperial that were delegated to a War Cabinet Committee under Lord Curzon. The author studies the motives of Curzon and others in attempting to obtain a privileged position for Britain in the Hejaz in the context of inter-Allied suspicions and Turkish intrigues in the Arabian Peninsular'. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Frank Cass Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 023633 ISBN : 0714644293 9780714644295
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Prokopowitsch, Erich
Die Rumanische Nationalbewegung in der Bukowina und der Dako-Romanismus. Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Des Nationalitaienkampfes in Osterreich-Ungara
Graz-Koln: Verlag Bohlau 1965. 192pp index bibliography appendices. Or thin card covers. Place/year written on half title several clippings taped in. Third volume Band III in Studien zur Geschichte der Osterreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie. Text in German/auf Deutsch. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to. Verlag Bohlau Paperback
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Constantinescu, Miron et al
Unification of the Romanian National Sate: The Union of Transylvania with Old Romania. Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae Monographs VII
Bucharest: Publishing House of The Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania 1971. 367pp b/w plates folding map showing peasant and working-class movements in Transylvania between 1917 and 1918 facsimiles and b/w photos including a folding one of the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia. Clippings in various languages taped to some prelims including the contents pages and endpages and on p316. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Publishing House of The Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania Hardcover
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Nolc, Marcel; Rubik, Imrich; and Kuzel, Vladimir
Czechoslovak Agriculture
Prague: Orbis 1960. 107pp text-ills tables. Place and date written in biro by the upper edge of the half title. Wrappers with integral flaps. The book presents an outline of developments in Czechsolvak agriculture in the late 1950s against a brief historical background. The authors give an account of the co-operative farms their methods of work system of remuneration and the results they have achieved. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Orbis Paperback
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Mikus, Joseph A
Slovakia: A Political History 1918-1950. Marquette Slavic Studies V
Milwaukee: The Marquette University Press 1963. Revised and Implemented Edition. Translated from the French. xxxiii 392pp appendices bibliography index. Place and date by the upper edge of an otherwise blank prelim. Or cl bds in dust-jacket which has minor damage to the rear flap fold. This is 'a study of the internal weaknesses of Czecho-Slovakia as reflected in the political cultural economic and social relations of the Czechs and the Slovaks and as ably exploited by Germany and the Soviet Union'. . Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. The Marquette University Press Hardcover
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Cammaerts, Emile
The Prisoner at Laeken. King Leopold Legend and Fact
London: The Cresset Press. 1941. xxxvi 268pp appendices maps 2 folding bw frontis. Or buff cloth lacking jacket. Place/year written on half title lacking front free endpaper several clippings in various languages taped in and several brief notes in Hungarian front cover slightly bowed. Examines the charging imprisonment and pardon of Prince Leopolfd of Belgium on charges of desertion in the early years of WWII. Not the prettiest copy but very scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. The Cresset Press. Hardcover
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von Freytag-Loringhove, Baron
Deductions from the World War
London: Constable and Company 1918. viii176 pages Prev owner's note of place and date by the upper edge of the title page. The upper section of the front flyleaf has been cut out. The book was written for German consumption. From the Introductory note as soon as the German newspaper reviews called attention to the book's contents especialy to the chapters 'The Army in the Future' and 'Still REady for War' with their candid explanation of the way in which German propsoes this war finsihed to prepare for the next all comment was restricted or cuppressed. Circulation of the book in Germany was promoted but its export was prohibited and very few copies have found their way across the frontier'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Constable and Company Hardcover
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Richards, Alan
Braziers: Builders of Bromsgrove 1850-1990
Bromsgrove: B & M Bromsgrove Ltd 1996. 192 pages illustrated throughout in b/w with photos sketches and maps sources. Illustrated light card cover. The book is an historical and visual record of some of the hundreds of buildings built by the Brazier firm of Bromsgrove during the 140 years of its existence to 1990. It is also a record of the contribution of four generations of the Brazier family to the firm's development starting with the Victorian founder Jonathan Brazier publican and builder and father of 16 children. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. B & M (Bromsgrove) Ltd Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 022725 ISBN : 0952953307 9780952953302
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Smith, Charles Hamilton (Plates); Haythornthwaite, Philip J (Text)
Wellington's Army: The Uniforms of the British Soldier 1812-1815
London: Greenhill Books 2002. HEAVY. 39 pages followed by unpaginated section of 60 colour plates on page rectos with facing commentary on page versos bibliography. Or cloth boards with slight chipping to lower edge in dust-jacket. The book includes full-colour evocation of British military uniforms during the Peninsular War and Waterloo; Authentic plates drawn from life and completed in 1814 cover all branches of service including general officers and staff of the army line infantry light infantry and rifles heavy and light cavalry artillery and engineers cadets and veterans and foreign regiments with detailed commentary. The introduction analyses the evolution of the British Army of the period. This is a companion volume to Napoleon's Elite Cavalry: Cavalry of the Imperial Guard 1804-1815 The Paintings of Lucien Rousselot with text by Edward Ryan. . First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. FoliIo. Greenhill Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 022792 ISBN : 1853675016 9781853675010
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Brighton, Christopher
Lincoln Cathedral Cloister Bosses
Lincoln: The Honywood Press 1985. Introduction by Michael Evans. x 66 pages illustrated throughout with b/w photos plan of the Cloister. Illustrated stapled light card cover with lightly worn edges. From the Introduction 'the book offers 'a closely observed analysis of the Lincoln cloister based on modern art-historical methods'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. The Honywood Press Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 022811 ISBN : 0950508349 9780950508344
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