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![Image for The Illustrated London News. Vol. LVI., Jan. to June 1870 [Volume 56, Nos. 1574-1600]](/assets/images/product/2260273.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $300.00
Publisher: George C. Leighton: 1870
Seller ID: 2260273
Boards a bit rubbed with minor leather loss, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1870 Half-Leather. iv, 668 pp. Folio. Twenty-seven issues of The Illustrated London News, bound in one half-leather volume. Green leather spine and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, five raised spine bands. Numerous engravings throughout (including several with a partial fold-out), with an index of these preceding the periodicals, and an engraved title pag... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Pitkin: 1996
Seller ID: 2265015
A nice copy. 1996 Stapled Binding. 28 pp. CONTENTS: Robin Hood; Parks and Gardens; The Civil War; Literary Heritage; Market Towns; Religious Heritage; Roads, Canals and Railways; Mining and Making; Farming and Food; Sporting Nottinghamshire; Family Fun. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Burbank, Inc.:
Seller ID: 2266375
No publisher date, text block beginning to loosen from stapled binding, first ten page edges bumped. 63 pp. Brief History of the Pilgrims: A Continuous History. Their Formation in England, Life in Holland, Experiences throughout the Years of the Establishment at Plymouth. Taken from Bradford's History and Contemporaneous Writings of Bradford and Winslow. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Stinehour Press:
Seller ID: 2267200
No publisher date. Unpaginated. Topics include the fort at Ticonderoga, the stone fortress, the south wall, the French village, the interior of the fort, the west barracks, the bastions, the view from the ramparts, the canon, the museum collection, the restoration of the fort. Includes black-and-white illustrations. View more info
![Image for An Answer to John Robinson of Leyden, Now First Published from a Manuscript of A.D. 1609 (Harvard Theological Studies Series Volume IX [9])](/assets/images/product/2006047.jpg)
By: A Puritan Friend; Burrage, Champlin
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2006047
First edition - a paperback original. An exceptional copy. 1920 Trade Paperback. xiii, 94 pp. Printed wrappers. The first appearance in print of an early 17th century manuscript written in response to the religious teachings of John Robinson, part of whose congregation became the group we now know as the Pilgrims. Text from Bodleian MS. Jones 30 at Oxford. Robinson, John (1575/6? - 1625), Church of England clergyman and separatist theologian, was born at Sturton, Notting... View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2273292
First edition. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxvi, 801, [5] pp. 8vo. 'London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of grow... View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage: 2008
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2275641
1st printing. Foxing to page ridges, light creasing to spine. 2008 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Thames: Sacred River is a history of the river from source to sea from prehistoric times to the present. It covers the flora and fauna of the river, paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smells and colours, its literature, laws and landscape, its magic and myths, architecture, trade and weather. View more info
By: Addison, Paul
Price: $3.00
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] / Jonathan Cape: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1736000
First edition. Lacks dust jacket. 1985 Hard Cover. viii, 223 pp. 8vo. A social history of Britain between 1945 and 1951 which looks at the remaking of British society in the home, at work and in the social services. View more info
By: Aldridge, Alan; Adams, Richard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Ltd.: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266328
First edition. No jacket, light crease along spine, pages very faintly foxed. 1977 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Full-page illustrations enhance the story of a fighting cat of Good Queen Bess's time who goes to sea for the honor of fair England. View more info
By: Arnn, Larry P.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Nelson Books: 2015
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2266433
First printing. Spine-head lightly bumped. 2015 Trade Paperback. xxxiii, 376 pp. No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know Churchill is to understand the combinations of boldness and caution, assertiveness and humility, that define statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill, both in war and in peac... View more info
By: Atwood, W.F.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Memorial Press: 1940
Seller ID: 2266376
Faint smudges to rear wrapper. 1940 Soft Cover. 74 pp. Includes woodcut illustrations. A concise history of the Pilgrims. View more info
By: Baird, Julia; Giuliano, Geoffrey; McCartney, Paul
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Grafton Books: 1989
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269318
First printing. Spine lightly creased, sticker ghosting on rear wrapper, pages faintly toned. 1989 Mass Market Paperback. 203 pp. Julia Baird, younger half-sister to the late Beatles legend, reveals the unorthodox childhood they shared, memories of their mother, renewed family bonds, and the many sides of John Lennon. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Antique Trader Books: 1996
Seller ID: 1722483
1996 Large Hardcover. vii, 152 pp. A complete reference that will appeal to collectors of militaria, or anyone interested in world or military history. Fascinating glimpses of the British Empire unfold in this detailed study of medals awarded to British Army troops over more than two centuries. Covers military battles and campaigns waged from 1791 through the Gulf War. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1532288
First edition. Includes original jacket. Lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1969 Hard Cover. 336 pp. 9 x 6. Several photographs & illustrations. Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India from 1901 to 1910 as the consort of Edward VII. View more info
By: Bedarida, Francois; Forster, A.S.; Hodgkinson, Jeffrey
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Routledge: 1990
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 1535311
Second edition. Lightly rubbed. 1990 Trade Paperback. 385 pp. Includes diagrams & maps. Francois Bedarida's elegant and persuasive essay on the main themes of British history since the mid-nineteenth century has been a popular text for students of the British Empire. In this new edition of his widely-acclaimed book, Bedarida has added a substantial analysis of recent British history from 1975-1990. He takes a detached, perceptive, and quizzical view of the transformation... View more info
By: Billson, Peter
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Heritage Books: 1993
Seller ID: 2266919
Stain to upper part of last few pages. 1993 Soft Cover. A guide to the history and architecture of all the famous churches of Nottinghamshire. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: 1938
Seller ID: 2199666
Lacks jacket. Boards toned. 1938 Large Hardcover. 112 pp. A thorough and engaging look into the history and development of architecture during the Renaissance. Covers the early Renaissance, the Palladian Period, and The Georgian Period in great detail. View more info
By: Black, J.B.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1963
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 1531476
Second edition. Includes original jacket. Moderately rubbed & toned, front jacket flap corner clipped, ink name on front endpaper, spine toned. 1963 Hard Cover. 539 pp. 8vo. Fold-out maps. Few rulers have impressed themselves so forcefully on the memory and imagination of their people as Queen Elizabeth I. 'Elizabethan England' was, in a very real sense, Elizabeth's England, and the country she left behind when she died was a kingdom that had won a commanding position am... View more info
By: Boswell, James; Brady, Frank
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Signet Classic / New American Library: 1968
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269197
Wrappers lightly rubbed, sticker ghosting on front wrapper, wrappers and pages lightly toned. 1968 Mass Market Paperback. 664 pp. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. The work was a popular and critical success when first published. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English, but some modern cr... View more info
By: Boswell, James; Pottle, Frederick A.; Morley, Christopher
Price: $9.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1950
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2029695
Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Minor loss of gilt from spine titles. 1950 Hard Cover. xxix, 370 pp. 8vo. Map illustrated endpapers. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 – May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. Boswell is also know... View more info
By: Bourniquel, Camille; Fisher, John
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Vista Books: 1960
Seller ID: 2269110
Spine creased, one-and-a-half inch tear to front wrapper along spine, wrappers and pages lightly toned. 1960 Trade Paperback. 191 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Then: When No English Were There - The Agony of the Gaels - The Ireland of Silence - Liberty to Do What? - Foreign Brothers; Now: Strange Dublin - Peace at Home - The Vanishing Irish - The Gaelic Renaissance - Everyday Passions - The Isle of Saints; For Ever: The Art of Signs - The Vanishing Painting - Abbey Street ... View more info
By: Brabbs, Derry
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 2000
Seller ID: 2266920
An exceptional copy. 2000 Soft Cover. Magnificent photographs celebrate the history, the settings, and the graceful structures of the abbeys and monasteries that once proudly dotted England's landscape. Gaze awestruck at the incredibly beautiful Canterbury Cathedral, where Thomas à Becket suffered martyrdom; at the fortresslike Battle Abbey from the days of the Norman invasion; and at the distinctive outline of Whitby Abbey, perched high on the cliffs in North Yorkshire... View more info
By: Bradford, Ernle
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions: 1999
Seller ID: 2202818
Top page ridge very lightly foxed, spine edges lightly rubbed. 1999 Trade Paperback. 368 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Horatio Nelson is considered by some to be one of the most inspiring and perplexing characters in history. In this biography of Horatio Nelson, Ernle Bradford discusses Nelson's own battles, but also looks at naval warfare of the period in general. The author describes the strategies, the tactics, the ponderous ship-to-ship bombardments, th... View more info
By: Brent, Peter
Price: $5.00
Publisher: BBC: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265669
Edges rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1972 Trade Paperback. A look at some of the notable characters from early 20th century England. Includes studies of: Robert Baden-Powell; Horatio Bottomley; Arthur Conan Doyle; Marie Lloyd; Lloyd George; E Nesbit; Rolls & Royce; Daisy Warwick. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd.: 1914
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1849188
First edition. Page ridges and front & end matter lightly foxed, spine faded, corners rubbed, light stain on corner of first several pages. 1914 Hard Cover. xvi, 222 pp. 1-page terminal publisher ad. A history of the presence of the Dutch East Company in Southeast Asia, illustrated with photographs. View more info
By: Brown, Walter R.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Birmingham Museum of Art: 1991
Seller ID: 2198682
Very Good. 1991 Large Softcover. 176 pp. The purpose of this exhibition and catalogue is to take a broad look at the art of the Stuart era and to draw attention to the traditions that it inherited and developed, as well as to the extraordinary innovations and advances that took place during little more than a hundred years from the accession of James I in 1603 to the death of his great-grand-daughter, Queen Anne, in 1714.Keywords: STUART LEGACY ENGLISH ART HISTORY View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1970
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2206143
First American edition. A very nice copy. Near fine.Jacket very lightly rubbed, jacket faintly toned. 1970 Hard Cover. 367 pp. A personal history of twentieth-century England. With eloquence and perception, Sir Arthur recalls the quiet beauty of a still unspoiled countryside; the ardors, endurances, and dramatic changes of the war years; the ambitious, yet often shattered hopes of the post-war era; and the landscape, buildings, institutions, and traditions which are the ... View more info
By: Burke, John
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Crescent: 1987
Seller ID: 1639554
Includes original jacket. Lightly rubbed. 1987 Large Hardcover. 120 pp. John Burke enables the reader to see the castle in the context of medieval society, and to get a clear picture of the castle forts through the great Norman and high medieval period to the castle's transformation into the manor house. View more info
By: Chisholm, Anne
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198435
First edition. Spine cocked, corners bumped.Jacket edges rubbed. 2009 Hard Cover. xiv, 402 pp. First edition. Includes photographs. Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She was born in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father whose friends included Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, Frances worked in Francis Birrell and Bunny Garnett's bookshop in Londo... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Atlantic: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1947349
First edition. 2001 Hard Cover. 271, [1] pp. 8vo. London in 1820 was a city of extraordinary creative dynamism and big money. Rupert Christiansen has marshaled the experiences of a set of remarkable foreign visitors to England, chronicling their impact on British culture and its impact upon them. View more info
