Man & Society from Sad Paradise Books

London: Hamish Hamilton Penguin Books, 2014. Paperback. Fine. A very clean neat copy. Illustrated wrappers, 314 pages. 'We all worry about what others will think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment - from status anxiety. move to man

Devon: David and Charles, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine,. A bright, tight copy - new. First printing. Octavo in publisher's original red books with gilt lettering to spine, 286 pages including monochrome and colour photographic plates, a chronology, sources and index. Drawing on Pepys' famous diary as its central resource, the book is a fascinating and vivid… Saber más sobre este artículo

Neath: John E. Richards, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. A quite neat, reasonably sound copy of this title. First edition. Quarto in publisher's original teal boards with gilt lettering to front panel and credits to spine. x - 360 pages including frontispiece, 8 additional black & white plates, numerous photographic illustrations, plans, maps, etc. Introduction by the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Hampshire: Yankee, Inc., 1979. Paperback. Very Good,. A very sound, neat copy. Third printing. Octavo in original illustrated stiff wrappers, 62 pages including numerous black & white photographs, diagrams and illustrations. The text describes the evolution of the home-use brick bake oven, technical aspects of oven construction and using a brick bake oven. 'The only one of… Saber más sobre este artículo

West Strand, London: John W Parker and Son., 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A neat, sound copy. Octavo in publisher's original decoratively embossed brown cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, 614 plus 8 pages of publisher's advertisements. Cloth lightly worn in a few places at edges, corners bumped. Hard to find, let alone… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original aqua cloth, gilt lettering to spine, seventh impression. 250 pages, colour and black & white photographic plates. Top edge very lightly spotted. A collection of Vita Sackville-West's articles from the periodicals 'In Your Garden', 'In Your Garden Again' and 'Even More for Your Garden' orgainsed around the months… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Secker & Warburg , 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original blue cloth with silver title to spine, 372 pages including index, map endpapers, black & white plates, charts. Some chips and closed tears to dustjacket, light foxing to edges. The exploration of the Antarctic from the days of the early seal hunters. A very… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Allen Lane, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with gilt title to spine, 224 pages including black and white photographic plates, appendix, notes, index. Sabbah uses the episode of fake reports of rare plants on the the Hebridian Isle of Rum in the 1940's as a starting point for a more general exploration of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London and New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original brown cloth with gilt title to spine, 480 pages including indicies and 36 monochrome illustrations. Edited and translated by Rainer Daehnhardt and W. Keith Neal. A few small chips and closed tears to price-clipped jacket. First published in Lisbon in 1718, this… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Liveright, 1943. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Black and Gold Edition; original black cloth with extensive gilt decoration to spine, gilt emblem to front board. 707 pages including black and white plates, index. Some spotting to boards and preliminary pages. Highly readable account of Bonaparte's life. A very sound copy of this… Saber más sobre este artículo

Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.: University of Georgia Press, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original grey cloth with red title to spine, 266 pages including appendix, notes, index, black & white photographic plates. Chronicles the distinguished life and career of the historian, teacher and university administrator Horace Mann Bond, illuminating not only the man and his accomplishments but also… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Original brown cloth with gilt title to spine, 216 pages including notes, index, black and white plates. Top edge very slightly spotted. Plowden's book follows the intricate manoeuvers of one of the greatest English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I - one of the most facinating women of all time. Near… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original green boards with gilt Title to spine, xii + 132 pages including index and black & white plates. Price-clipped dustjacket, previous owner's name on flyleaf, some light pencil underlining. A very sound copy.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original plum boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 128 pages including bibliography, index and 150 magnificent color and 28 black & white plates. Stunning photographs with facinating accompanying text evoke the taste of the wealthy, aristocratic and artistic elite of Germany and Austria who created… Saber más sobre este artículo