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London: B. T. Batsford, 1957. Gilt title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket has two small repaired closed tears, a little wear to edgws and age darkening to spine. Second impression 1957 (first was 1956). A well kept copy. Canon Heaton of Salisbury Cathedral gives a comprehensive panorama of Israelite life, as ordinary families knew it, from about 1250 to 586 BC covering civil, country, home, religious, military and professional life. Free from jargon with illustrations by Marjorie Quennell and also many pages of photographs, reconstructions of its cities and buildings and articles in everyday use. R1. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Quennell, Marjorie. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1926. Black titles on green cloth boards with pictorial of caveman to front. Boards are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a neat contemporary name and date to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has a small chip to spine head and is not price clipped. Second edition revised. Uniform with the Everyday Life Series. Coloured frontispiece of Magdalenian cave painting and 72 illustrations by the authors. Fold out geological chart. A marvellous study of prehistoric life which is primarily aimed at the young but is suitable for adults. *** NOT EX LIB *** B2C. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Quennell, Marjorie and C.H.B.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Charlestown, Massachusetts: Bunker Hill, 2004. A large format volume in card covers which have a little wear to lower spine edge else very clean, tight and unmarked. Printed on acid-free paper. 400 pages of text and photographs, many in colour. An incomparable visual history of the United States - engrossing in its narrative, pictorially sumptuous, and exhilarating in its epic sweep across five centuries. Drawn from the maps, photographs, prints, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures and other treasures in the Special Collections of the Library of Congress. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 2.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST (THIS WILL BE SENT IN THE UK ECONOMICALLY BY COURIER) B2F. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Italy: Collana Di Ricerca Storica Schiapparelli, 1980. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Special numbered edition 7030. Edizione speciale numerata per i Sigg. Farmacisti 7030. A history of pharmacies and pharmacists in the Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont. 96 pages with 91 illustrations in colour and 46 in black and white. 96 pagine con 91 illustrazione a colori e 46 in biamco e nero. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 20A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. A Fine unmarked copy with Good+ dustjacket which has wear to edges. An historical account of Phillip II and the revolt of the Spanish Netherlands. In 1556 Phillip II ascended the throne of Spain and inherited more power, more land and more wealth than any other man in history, but among his vast possessions were the rebellious provinces of the Netherlands, a legacy that was to drain the riches and hasten the decline of Spain's imperial grandeur. For over 40 years of almost continuous conflict, Phillip sought to suppress, from his cell like cabinet in the Escorial, the turbulent religious and political ideologies that were to wreak unimagined havoc upon the Catholic Europe of his fanatic vision. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1918. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have fading to spine and just a little wear to spine tail and gentle bumping to 3 corner tips. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. xi + 235 pages. 8 illustrations. The book tells among other things of seven visits to France in War-time; three in the winter, spring, and summer of 1915, two in 1916, one in the autumn of 1917, and one in the sring of 1918. It recalls some passages in past French historysuggested by this intermittent observation of the present, and endeavours to forecast certain phases of French national development after the First World War. 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Colorado: Westview, 2000. A Very Good copy which has a crease to back cover and name and year to title page. xxx + 382 pages. Photo illustrations in the text. Freedomways was a quarterly journal published between 1961 and 1985, and was perhaps the premier African American intellectual periodical of its time. Edited by Esther Cooper Jackson and Shirley Graham Du Bois, its contributors were a veritable Who's Who of black intellectual and cultural life. Pieces by Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, Jesse Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, Alex Haley, Alice Walker, and other luminaries appeared in its pages during some of the most turbulent years in American history. This book is a collection of more than 50 articles originally published in Freedomways, chronologically and thematically organized. 51. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. Yellow motif to front with yellow title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. 254 pages. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. Re-issued for the Academy Books series by Jonathan Cape from the 1936 first edition. Eminent work on the history and character of the Third French Republic by the noted French historian who died in 1936 as this translation was in the course of preparation. 4. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska Press, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions. xi + 241 pages. The American First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross burning. No other country in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. The book provides the first comprehensive account of the history of the hate speech controversy in the United States. Professor Walker examines the issue, from the conflicts over the Ku Klux Klan in he 1920's and American Nazi groups in the 1930's, to the famous Skokie episode in 1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990's. He argues that the civil rights movement played a central role in developing America's strong free speech tradition. The courts were very concerned about protecting the provocative and even offensive forms of expression by civil rights forces. Civil rights groups, therefore, preferred to protect rather than… Leer más

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. White title on green cloth boards which are unmarked with a touch of wear to spine tail. Internally there are marks to the top margins of 8 pages else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is not price clipped. xvii + 742 pages. 32 plates. 20 maps. 10 tables. Coloured map of ancient Greece and Italy to front endpapers and coloured map of the Roman Empire at the time of Trajan to rear endpapers. This survey of ancient history, from the beginnings of man to breaking up of the ancient forms of civilization in the fifth century A.D., centres on the great stream of development from the Near East through Greece and Rome. It treats briefly the contemporaneous civilizations of China and India, both to show the occasional links and to trace the origin of cultural patterns important today. PLEASE NOTE : A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.35 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. A near Fine unmarked copy with a touch of foxing to closed edges with near Fine dustjacket. Third edition. Considered a standard work on it's subject and now revised to take into account latest developments in linguistic scholarship, modern dialects have been thoroughly updated and much more material on the Indo-European family of languages has been included. 11 chapters covering language through the centuries including English in America and appendices of specimens of the Middle English Dialects and English Spelling with index, together with 5 maps and 4 illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 11. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Newton Abbot: Victorian (& Modern History) Book Club, 1970. Gold title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally unmarked. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket is VG. vii + 353 pages. 19 illustrations. A re-creation of the Kaiser's Germany by a distinguished Professor of History, born and educated in Berlin. Recounts the golden age of Berlin, when Max Reinhardt revolutionised the theatre, when Richard Strauss conducted the Royal Opera, when Einstein and Planck taught side by side with Mollendorf and Meinecke in Berlin's centres of learning. The author shows how much the world of Weimar owed to Imperial Germany and how the seeds of disaster were sown in the Kaiser's Empire. C3B. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Through his words and deeds,Nelson Mandela has been embraced by the whole world as a symbol of courage, hope and reconciliation. Collected in this small book are his comments on subjects as diverse as Humanity, Racism, Friendship, Oppression and Freedom which provide an insight into the man and all he stands for. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Harvill Press, 1983. A near Fine copy apart from some light foxing to top and fore edge. Coloured pictorial dustjacket is also near Fine and complete. A lavishly illustrated work charting the course of British rule in India from the beginnings of the East India Company in the 17th century down to 28th February 1948 when the last British soldiers left Indian soil. A work which covers what the British did to India as well as what they did for the country. Map endpapers and numerous illustrations, many in colour. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.92 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST *** NOT EX LIB *** *** NOT BOOK CLUB *** L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and John Murray, 1964. Gold title on green boards which have a few marks to spine else clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small signature to front endpaper, else a clean and unmarked copy. xxiii + 296 pages. 54 illustrations and 5 maps and diagrams. Useful index of authors. Covers the people, towns, trade, language, literature the development of Absolutism and the years of decline. C3C. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Century, 1998. First UK edition, first printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with light age darkening to page edges with dustjacket which has a small closed tear to front and is not price clipped. A work of historical detection which uncovers a schoolboy encounter in 1904 between Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein and traces their hidden battle to control history in the aftermath of their meeting and the strange correspondence between their ideas. The author also asserts that Wittgenstein was the recruitment officer for the Cambridge spies - the notorious 'fifth man' whose identity has always remained elusive. B2D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cologne: Könemann, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A very large format voume of 320 pages. Coloured pictorial endpapers. Lavishly illustrated in colour. 4,000 years of history and archaeology in the Levant - from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages - are presented in this volume. Uncovering buried history, a team of French archaeologists follows the significant cultural developments and their impact on the gate between the Orient and the Occident: relics of the first cities in the Bronze Age, traces of the Phoenician conquests in the Mediterranean, characteristics of the fusion of cultures in the Greco-Roman era, monuments to the kingdoms of the Nabataeans and their mythical capital Petra, evidence of the golden age of oriental Christianity, and finally the manifestation of Islamic conquest as a battle for power during the crusades. In his pictures, the photographer Robert Polidori shows much more than just the special highlights of each epoch, but rather the cultural-historical… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Silver title and motif on red boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear just a thin line of fading to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some wear to top edges and is not price clipped. 292 pages. The author, who lived in France from September 1944 onwards, first as a war correspondent and then as correspondent of British newspapers, has written the first well rounded study of the foundation of the Fourth Republic to appear in Britain. She has documented her personal experiences and subjective opinions with the thorough research of her previous academic years, resulting in a well sustained argument in favour of the immense effort made by the French to recover from the effects of defeat and German occupation. **** NOT EX LIB **** 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. A scholarly work covering all the major civilisations of the world. Some 105 illustrations and 18 maps and drawings covering the civilisations. Black and white boards and white spine decorated with ancient symbols of writing. Lacks one front free endpaper which does not detract from the volume which is unmarked and clean. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.96 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** NOT BOOK CLUB OR REPRINT SOCIETY **** B2A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Barnet, Herts: Historical Publications, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. Second edition with new sections by Brian Christmas, Dr. Alexander R. Rumble and Alfreda Wilkinson. Section heading illustrations by Jill Dow. The most useful reference work for professional and amateur local historians and genealogists, which was commended by the Library Association in their award for outstanding reference book of the year. A masterpiece of compression, and a highly readable and moderately detailed guide to the complicated social and administrative structure of feudal and post-feudal Britain. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME of 0.82 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 20. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Dow, Jill. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.