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THE BRITISH FIGHTER SINCE 1912 SIXTY YEARS OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Written by Peter Lewis.
Stock no. 1610387
Published by Putnam & Co. Ltd..
1974.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Third edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0370100492. Small sticker to front endpaper. Wrapper is faded at spine, edge rubbed, and browned to rear panel.
FIRST BLITZ
Written by Neil Hanson.
Stock no. 2124824
Published by Doubleday.
Circa
2008.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Secret German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780385611701. SIGNED by author to title page. 2nd printing. Covers have wrinkling. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with bookshop sticker to front panel.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
1922 LITERATURE, CULTURE, POLITICS
Written by Jean-Michel Rabate.
Stock no. 2124823
Published by Cambridge University Press.
1st
2015.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
This book examines key aspects of culture and history in 1922, a year made famous by the publication of several modernist masterpieces, such as T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses. ISBN: 9781107040540. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of closed tears to top edge of front panel.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- LITERATURE
- POLITICS
- ART
THE CHRONOLOGICAL ATLAS OF WORLD WAR TWO
Written by Charles Messenger.
Stock no. 1610286
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co..
1st
1989.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Over 200 maps. ISBN: 0025843915.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- WORLD WAR II
- ATLAS
THE FEW SUMMER 1940, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Written by Philip Kaplan; Richard Collier.
Stock no. 1610282
Published by Greenwich Editions.
1996.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Glazed illustrated boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0862880831. Small red sticker to front endpaper. Rear panel of wrapper has some creasing.
FLIGHT TO FREEDOM
Written by Michael Donnet.
Stock no. 1610266
Published by Wingham Press.
1991.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Second Edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A vivid history of World war II aviation by an outstanding pilot who lived through it all. ISBN: 1873454074. Top of spine bumped. Remains of price sticker to front wrapper flap.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- HISTORY
- WORLD WAR II
OPERATION BOLERO
Written by Ken Wakefield.
Stock no. 2124821
Published by Crecy Books.
1st
1994.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. The Americans in Bristol and the West Country 1942-45. ISBN: 0947554513. Small red sticker to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- WORLD WAR II
- SOUTH WEST UK
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- BRISTOL
GENTLEMEN AND POACHERS: THE ENGLISH GAME LAWS 1671-1831
Written by P.B. Munsche.
Stock no. 1815869
Published by Cambridge University Press.
1st
1981.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
This book touches on many subjects including man traps, transportation to Australia, the Industrial Revolution and fox-hunting, to name but a few, it is essentially about values: how the gentry tried to impose theirs on England and how these, in turn, were undermined by new values, more compatible with the emerging capitalism of the nineteenth century. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ix and 255 pages including index. ISBN: 0521232848. Top of spine bumped. Upside down 'J' rubber ink stamp in blue to title page. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is browned, has a small chip to top of rear panel spine edge, and is fading to spine.
- Categorised in:
- FIELD SPORTS
- POACHING
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LAW
WARTIME MEMORIES: THE HOME FRONT IN CHEPSTOW 1939-1945
No author listed.
Stock no. 2124663
Published by The Chepstow Society.
1st
2000.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900278471. A few indentation marks to covers, where book has been used to lean on while writing. Contents are excellent.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- WORLD WAR II
- WYE VALLEY
THE WESTMINSTER POLL BOOK 1774
No author listed.
Stock no. 2124661
Published by S.A. & M.J. Raymond.
Nearly fine condition.
Raymonds Original Pollbooks. A list of voters in parliamentary elections, indicating which candidate(s) they voted for. Facsimile. Pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 1899668055. Name and address label stuck to inside front cover.
THE LONDON POLL BOOK 1768
No author listed.
Stock no. 2124660
Published by S.A. & M.J. Raymond.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Raymonds Original Pollbooks; a list of voters in parliamentary elections, indicating which candidate(s) they voted for. Facsimile. Pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 1899668004. Light crease to top corner of front cover. Pale browning to covers. Contents are fine.
OLD MONMOUTHSHIRE AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
Written by Adolphe George Jones.
Stock no. 2124659
Published by Oakmagic Publications.
2004.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Abridged edition. This account of the towns and villages of Monmouthshire was first published in 1906 and provides a vivid picture of this famous Border county as it was at the turn of the century. Green Cardwraps. Stapled booklet. 113 pages. ISBN: 1904330681. Light creasing to front cover edge. A few light foxspots.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- HISTORY