The Journals of William Beckford in Portugal & Spain; 1787-1788
Stroud: Nonsuch Publishing, 2006. Paperback. 8vo, 250 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Pages inside appear clean and unmarked.
European History
The Partisan; from the Valley of Death to Mount Zion
New York: Holocaust Library, 1979. Paperback. Octavo, 241 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Wear to covers and edges. Lightly tanned edges and pages, with a few small marks on edges. No writing or marks observed on content pages.
Norwegian Troll Tales; from Trolls Remembering Norway
Iowa City: Penfield Books, 2005. Kittelsen, Theodor. Revised and Expanded edition. Paperback. 8vo, 159 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. No writing or marks observed.
Lady Cynthia Asquith; diaries 1915-1918
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, 529 pages. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Foxed fore-edge and early pages, with light tanning. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book with minor wear. Dust jacket with chips and small tears, now encased in a clear, protective cover.....
The British Working Class, 1832-1940
Harlow, UK: Pearson Longman, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo, 286 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Heavy highlighting in the first quarter of the book. All text is readable. A usable reference copy.
The Power of the Early Tudor Nobility; a study of the fourth and fifth Earls of Shrewsbury
Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1985. Cloth. 8vo, 228 pages. Gray cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minimal use and wear. Dust jacket encased in a clear, protective cover.
Flavors of Hungary; recipes and memoirs
San Francisco: 101 Productions, 1973. Robertson, Linda. Paperback. Octavo, 192 pages. Second printing, 1974. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Recipes inside appear clean and unmarked. A good usable copy.
The English Press in the Eighteenth Century
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo, 321 pages. Gray-green boards with gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Foxed top edge and lightly tanned pages.
Madeleine Smith; a famous Victorian murder trial
London: Duckworth, 1975. Paperback. Octavo, 226 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Age and wear to covers. Tanned edges and pages; some wear and small smudges on edges. No writing or marks observed inside.
The Secret Conferences of Dr. Goebbels; the Nazi propaganda war, 1939-43
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. Second Edition. Cloth. 8vo, 364 pages. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt accents; boards with some bumping and fraying. Firm binding; no loose pages. Bookplate inside front cover; underlining and highlighting noted in the Introduction only. Dust jacket with rubbing, chips and tears. This is a......
Come Back to Portofino; through Italy with the 6th South African armoured division
Johannesburg: 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2011. Cloth. 8vo, 544 pages. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with silver accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minimal use and wear. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside.....
The German Dictatorship; the origins, structure, and effects of national socialism
New York: Praeger, 1970. Cloth. Octavo, 553 pages. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Some liquid light staining on cloth. Firm binding; no loose pages. Tanned pages and edges with light bumping. Some minor wrinkling on some pages likely due to non-staining liquid. Marks and stains on the edges that.....
Bodyguard of Lies: Volume II
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 1056 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book with minimal use and wear; jacket rubbed with bumped corners. Black boards with silver lettering. Lightly tanned pages. From the dust jacket: The extraordinary true story of the clandestine war of.....
The Myth of the Blitz
London: Pimlico, 1997. Paperback. Firm binding; no loose pages. Pages slightly yellowed with age. Book and cover with minor wear. 302 pages. The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humor, understatement and.....
Blenheim Preparation: The English Army on the march to the Danube; collected essays
Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount, 2004. Hardcover. 4to, 340 pages. Red boards with gilt lettering. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minimal use and wear. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States. Foreword by His.....
Convents and Nuns; in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo, 234 pages. Tan boards with red accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minimal use and wear. Dust jacket with small chips and a small tear. Choudhury elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere objects.....
The Story of the Coronation
London: Derek Verschoyle, 1953. Cloth. 8vo, 152 pages. Red cloth-covered boards with bumping and fading at edges. Firm binding; no loose pages. Tanned edges and pages and uneven tanning inside covers. Price-clipped dust jacket with chips and small tears, plus small sections missing at bottom front and spine. Dust jacket.....
Broadening the Battlefield; the H-blocks and the rise of Sinn Fein
Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1987. Paperback. 8vo, 270 pages. Book and cover with minor wear. Tanned pages. Small curls at the bottom of the covers. Some pages lightly stained from apparent pressed flowers and plants.
Agony at Easter; the 1916 Irish uprising
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, 271 pages. Stated first printing. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt accents, white and orange accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Lightly tanned pages.
Elizabethan Essays
London: The Hambledon Press, 1994. Cloth. 8vo, 265 pages. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book with minor wear. A couple of light smudges on fore-edge and lightly tanned pages. Dust jacket with minor wear and a sunned spine. From the dust jacket: "In 'Elizabethan.....
All for the King's Shilling; the British soldier under Wellington, 1808-1814
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Paperback. 8vo, 374 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Some dog-eared pages; no writing or marks observed. Foreword by John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
Enduring the Most; the life and death of Terence MacSwiney
Dingle, Ireland: Brandon Books, 1996. Paperback. 8vo, 253 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and cover with minimal wear. A small spot on the fore-edge.
The Profumo Affair; a crisis in contemporary society
London: White Lodge Books, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, pp. [10], 176. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Lightly tanned pages. Writing on half-title page and page opposite copyright page. Stain at the bottom of three pages late in the book. All content visible. Dust.....
The Quest for the Galloping Hogan
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 120 pages. Unstated first edition. Gold boards with green spine and gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Foxed edges and lightly tanned pages. Dust jacket with chips and tears; a few small pieces missing at top edge. Dust jacket.....
The King Waits
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Limited Edition. Cloth. Octavo, pp. [4], 22, [2]. Signed, limited edition 195 of 275 copies. Tan and blue marbled cloth-covered boards with blue spine and gilt upper edge; boards with light bumping. Tanned pages, including uneven tanning inside covers. Spine is starting to separate in middle.....