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A HISTORY OF COACHBUILDING
Written by George Oliver.
Stock no. 2131931
Published by Cassell.
1st
1962.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
An account of the changing trends in motor-car design in Britain, on the Continent and in the United States. A Montagu Motor Book. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, illustrations and diagrams. 216 pages including index. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to half-title page. Tape marks to endpapers, pastedowns and dustwrapper flaps. Minor foxing to outer page edges. Dustwrapper is price-cut with closed tear to top of front panel, grubby at edges. Includes postcard and a letter from the author.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- CARS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Written by Peter Somerville-Large.
Stock no. 1818676
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd..
1st
1995.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A Social History. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & a few colour photos. ISBN: 1856192377. Name in ink to front endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is heavily faded at front spine edge.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- IRELAND
- ARCHITECTURE
INDIA, PAKISTAN, AND THE KASHMIR DISPUTE ON REGIONAL CONFLICT AND ITS RESOLUTION
Written by Robert G. Wirsing.
Stock no. 1818628
Published by MacMillan.
1st
1994.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A response to mounting international concern about Kashmir with specific, step-by-step recommendations for breaking the existing diplomatic stale-mate between India and Pakistan. Black boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0333638182. Top & tail of spine bumped. Mark to front board. White label to front pastedown. Yellow dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and lightly edge-rubbed and scuffed.
MUSSOLINI'S GREEK ISLAND: FASCISM AND THE ITALIAN OCCUPATION OF SYROS IN WORLD WAR II
Written by Sheila Lecoeur.
Stock no. 1818600
Published by Tauris Academic Studies.
1st
2009.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781845116705. Light scuffing to dustwrapper and clear tape remains to verso (not noticeable to front).
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GREEK)
- WORLD WAR II
- POLITICS
HITLER, THE ALLIES, AND THE JEWS
Written by Shlomo Aronson.
Stock no. 1818599
Published by Cambridge University Press.
1st
2004.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
A new analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed impossible. Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0521838770.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- WORLD WAR II
- NAZIS
- JEWS AND JUDAISM
- MILITARY
AVOCA: A HISTORY OF THE VALE
Written by P. Dempsey.
Stock no. 1818563
Published by Browne and Nolan Ltd..
1st
1912.
Almost very good condition.
A small village in Ireland. Small format. Dark green cloth boards, gilt title to front. B/w photos. 71 pages plus adverts to rear. A few marks to boards. Endpapers browned and foxing throughout.
THE HITLER EMIGRES: THE CULTURAL IMPACT ON BRITAIN OF REFUGEES FROM NAZISM
Written by Daniel Snowman.
Stock no. 1818466
Published by Chatto & Windus.
Circa
2002.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0701168803. Text block browned. Pencil erasure marks on front pastedown. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly grubby to spine.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- NAZIS
- JEWS AND JUDAISM
THE ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCHDUKE
Written by Greg King; Sue Woolmans.
Stock no. 1818461
Published by MacMillan.
1st
2013.
Nearly fine condition.
Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781447245216.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- WORLD WAR I
WELLINGTON'S WAR: PENINSULAR DISPATCHES
Written by Julian Rathbone.
Stock no. 1818458
Published by Michael Joseph.
1st
1984.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Sub-titled: 'Atty, the Long-Nosed Bugger that Licks the French'. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps and illustrations. ISBN: 0718123964. Spine and corners bumped. Text block a little browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is dampstained to verso (not visible to front), scuffed to rear panel.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- PENINSULAR WAR
- MILITARY
CELTIC WARRIORS 400BC - 1600AD
Written by Tim Newark.
Illustrated by Angus McBride.
Stock no. 1818411
Published by Blandford Press.
1st
1986.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
The heroic story of two thousand years of Celtic warfare from four centuries before Christ to the 16th Century. Colour illlustrations. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0713716908.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- CELTS
- MILITARY
1812 NAPOLEON IN MOSCOW
Written by Paul Britten Austin.
Stock no. 1818382
Published by Greenhill Books; Stackpole Books.
1st
1995.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 264 pages. ISBN: 1853671959.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- NAPOLEON
- RUSSIA
TIN-POTS AND PIRATE SHIPS: CANADIAN NAVAL FORCES AND GERMAN SEA RAIDERS 1880-1918
Written by Michael L. Hadley; Roger Sarty.
Stock no. 1818370
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
1st
1991.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The authors shed new light on Canadian and German history - and on Canada's naval defences in particular - by exploring the naval operations and politics of both nations between 1880 and 1918. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvi and 391 pages including index. ISBN: 0773507787. Boards lightly bowed. A few minor foxspots mainly to prelims and text block. Grey pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- NAVY
- CANADA
- GERMANY