With colour illustrations from the work of the 'Navaho boy artist' Little No Shirt (Beatien Yazz), who plays a central roll in this account of a couple's move to Arizona DJ has some rubbing to edges and damage to tail of spine. Tanning to page edges, else cl [more...]
Splendid collection of short biographies and sketches on a huge range of historical figures from statesmen and conquerors to philosophers and poets, including Napoleon, Homer etc. Taken from the work of a variety of great authors. Decorative cloth covers. No [more...]
A beautifully produced edition. Edited by David Stanbury this is a narrative account of the voyage of the Beagle pieced together from the writings of Darwin, the Captain Robert Fitzroy and the letters of Midshipman Phillip King and 2nd Lieutenant Sulivan. To [more...]
Region by region investigation of English surnames. Inscribed by the Author, with his signature to half title. Dust-jacket has some light shelfwear and is price clipped. Otherwise prim and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Readable history of the Napoleonic Wars with ample b/w illustrations. DJ is price-clipped with some light shelfwear. Volume clean and prim. Very good overall. [more...]
Interesting volume detailing the experience of attending Marlborough College in the 1960s, as told by the students. With maps to endpapers and diagrams. Dust jacket has some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Foxing to top edge and fore-edge. Contents cle [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the poet Blunden's traumatic WWI memoir. Dark Brown leatherette covers with lavish gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers and silken ribbon marker. With original illustrations by David Whitfield. Foxing to top and fore ed [more...]
Biography of the seventeenth century churchman and writer. EX-LIBRARY with neat withdrawn stamp and tags to endpapers. Stamp to title page and label to spine. Light marking to covers. Otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Sensitive series of sketches of life behind-the-scenes in the Scotland of the 19th century and earlier. Established from historical articles in the Daily Herald. Includes a retired soldier, a lady's maid and a 'moral force'. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough [more...]
Revised and expanded edition to include native american and african american history. A compliation of signpost markers, many now removed, that detail virginia's history. Light mark to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Early reprint of Sitwell's account of the lives of two of his ancestors, drawn from their journals and written from their perspective. With b/w images an decorated initials. Dust jacket is torn with loss to top and tail of spine and marked, rubbed. Toning t [more...]
Sumptuously illustrated account of Belgium's medieval and gothic past with 20 tipped in colour images by Bruckman. No date but c. 1910. Toning to spine. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents tight and sound. Good+ [more...]
Wide-ranging, engaging history of the jews from ancient times to the present day. With numerous b/w illustrations and fold out maps. Spine is slightly cocked. Edges rubbed and bumped with some fraying and loss. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and [more...]
Fascinating account of the history and culture of London shop signs. With numerous examples and descriptions. Strange nick to top edge, with loss to board and DJ. Some foxing to top edge. Else crisp and clean. Good overall. [more...]
Biography of the Cambridge antiquarian, who grew up around the university and had a unique look at college life. Rubbing and marking to covers. Light foxing to page edge. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Handsome edition of Smiles' biography of the Potter and early industrialist who later became a leading abolitionist. Decorative red cloth with gilt to spine. Fore-edge rough cut. Large John Murray catalogue to rear. Sunning to spine. Light foxing to end-pa [more...]
