History from Spafford Books

Cody, Wyoming: The Buffalo Bill Historical Center NONE [NONE] [00no date]. (Mass market paperback) 22pp. Near fine. 4to. There is a name and date penned (small, delicate, tasteful) to the title page, otherwise, a clean and bright copy. A Heritage of the Blackfeet. Educaional series Number 1, published by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Sioux Falls, South Dakota: South Dakota Archaeological Society Journal and Special Publications [0-917621-00-X] 1986. (Mass market paperback) xi, 216pp. Very good. 4to. Green card warpper, titles printed in copper to front and spine, lightly marked. There is a name penned and a number written to the inside front cover, with the same number written also… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford, Printed at the Theater NONE [NONE] 1704. (hardcover) xxiii, 557; xiii, 581; xxi, 603; Index. Very good. Large folio. 3 volumes, sold as such. Frontispiece, finely engraved portrait, in each tome. Large headpieces and cul-de-lamps throughout. Bound in panelled dark brown calf. Spines with raised bands, gilt ruled, and titles in gilt, in red… Saber más sobre este artículo

Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing and International Publishers [0-920080-43-X] 1984. (Mass market paperback) x, 229pp. Very good. 8vo. Traces the North American lumber industry and labour history, an informative and absorbing story. There is a name penned to the title page (that of Bill Gilbey who worked with the Worker's Unity League); else is fine.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed for A. Seile NONE [NONE] 1668. (hardcover) 1-157; [1], 159-547pp. Very good. Folio. The life of William Laud (b. October 7, 1573, d. January 10, 1645). Bound in full leather, with a contemporary repair and collation in two parts. Raised bands, bright gilt decoration. Title, in gilt, stamped to spine is 'Life of… Saber más sobre este artículo

None Listed: Harvest House 88772 144 3 [88772 144 3] 1974. (Mass market paperback) 151pp. Very good. 12mo. Signed to half title page. An autobiography and discussion of Indigenous concerns as addressed by the author. The Great Chief of the Hurons, for change and the greater good. Black and white photographs. A name has been… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dawson City: Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in 978-0-9688868-4-7 [978-0-9688868-4-7] 2014, 2nd edition. (Mass market paperback) xiii, 145pp. Very good. 8vo. The story of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, the First Nations people who lived at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers. Black and white photographs. Very nice copy..

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press; American Indian Studies Research Institute [0-8032-3556-9] 1992. (hardcover) xviii, 374pp. Fine. 8vo. An academic study, the focus of which is the Big Village settlement (1775-1845) of the Omaha people. Black and white photographic plates. Tables. Figures. Maps. Red wine coloured buckram, white titles to front and spine. Fine… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2009. (hardcover) xxv, 579pp. Fine. 4to. First published in 1939, describes the fall of the Republic, the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BCE and 14 CE, and the rise to power of Augustus. Light brown cloth, pictorial stamped in dark brown and red to the top board.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2010. (hardcover) xxxvii, 229pp. Near fine. 4to. Red cloth. Decoration in gilt and black to front. Title in gilt to spine. Frontispiece. Full colour plates. Housed, as issued, in sturdy, plain black slipcase. There is a smudge to the margin of page 181, a publisher's flaw, an otherwise a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2014. (hardcover) xxiii, 179pp. Fine. 8vo. Quarter bound, gilt buckram over illustrated paper boards. Title stamped in black to spine. Mapped endpapers. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with full colour plates. 4 page fold-out. Housed, as issued, in sturdy plain black slipcase. Regarded one of the first books in the English… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2007. (hardcover) xxv, 390pp. Fine. 4to. Tan buckram, illustrated in brown. Title printed to spine in dark copper foil. Mapped endpapers. Frontispiece. Maps. Full colour photographs. Housed, as issued, in sturdy plain medium-brown slipcase. Fine copy. Translated by Moses Hadas. Introduction by Noel Lenski..

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2013. (hardcover) xviii, 427; 121pp. Fine. 4to. Howard Carter's personal account of the discovery of the treasures of Tutankhamun in 1923. These two volumes include a reproduction of Carter's original text, written between 1923 and 1933 with the first black and white photographs of the tomb as it was… Saber más sobre este artículo

London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 978-0-415-42205-5 [978-0-415-42205-5] 2006. (hardcover) xlvii, maps, 509 [1]; 511-1037pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Two volume set, sold as such. Housed, as issued, in sturdy black slip case with title stamped, in gilt, to one panel. There is a tiny bit of wear, barely visible… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2011. (hardcover) xiv, 416pp. Fine. 4to. Quarter bound, dark grey buckram over printed paper boards. Profusely illustrated in full colour. Housed, as issued in sturdy, plain brown slipcase. Fine copy in fine slip case. With new introduction by the author..

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2010. (hardcover) xxiv, maps, 281; ix, 283-559pp. Fine. 4to. Two volumes, housed, as issued, in sturdy black slipcase one panel of which is stamped decoratively in gilt. Brilliant turquoise blue cloth boards stamped with gilt pictorial detail to front and spine. Gilt title stamped to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece… Saber más sobre este artículo

Regina: Bishop Budka Council #5914 Knights of Columbus 1990. (hardcover) 142pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Illus., ports. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Ex-lib with various stamps and stickers. An account of the life of Bishop Budka in Canada, the accusations of disloyalty and treason shortly after WW1, and the expansion of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2006. (hardcover) 308pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Folio. Beige covers, with title stamped in burgundy to spine. Burgundy and silver illustration stamped to front. Housed, as issued, in beige slipcase, with one panel that shows a photograph of the Pyramids at Giza. Fine copy in fine slipcase. Simon… Saber más sobre este artículo

Belmont, Massachusetts: American Opinion NONE [NONE] 1971. (Mass market paperback) 28pp. Very good. 8vo. Booklet format, stapled. Wrappers printed in dark blue on white, with the word 'REPRINT' marked to front and priced at thirty-five cents. American Opinion was a periodical published 11 times a year. Black and white photographs. Related epemera laid in..

Gloucester, England: Alan Sutton Publishing [0-86299-463-2] 1988. (Mass market paperback) 160pp. Very good. 8vo. A tribute, in black and white photographs, to the area between Filton, Bristol and Severn Beach in South Gloucestershire, England, a region of contrasts and old communiites. Wrappers are lightly marked, top corners lightly bumped; internally clean and bright..