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By: N/A
Price: $4.00 $3.20
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 $8.00
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 $4.00
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 V.C. [The Victoria Cross]](/assets/images/product/2283084.jpg "V.C. [The Victoria Cross]")
By: N/A
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942
Seller ID: 2283084
Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1940
Seller ID: 2283090
Front wrapper creased. 1940 Soft Cover. 143 pp. An identification guide to British aircraft. CONTENTS: National Marking, Royal Air Force Aircraft; Fighters; Bombers; Army Co-operation; Fleet Air Arm; Reconnaissance; Transport, Communication and Training; Experimental; Civil. Includes illustrations. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD.:
Edition: 25th Thousand
Seller ID: 2283094
25th thousand. No publisher date. No jacket, a couple light stains on front board, spine lightly toned. 96 pp. Includes 320 drawings and photographs with descriptions. An identification guide to British, German and Italian aircraft. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283122
First edition - a paperback original. Wrapper edges lightly rubbed, smudge on front wrapper, ink stamp on half-title page. 1942 Soft Cover. 72 pp. Men of the R.A.F. describe their own experiences in their own words. These accounts of operations over Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Norway, Italy, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic give us the human stories behind the official communiques, and show us the great range and effectiveness of our Ai... View more info
![Image for Treaty between Her Majesty and the Emperor of All the Russias for the Marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh with H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrowna of Russia. Signed at St. Petersburg, January 22, 1874. (Russia. No. 1 (1874).) [His Royal Highness] [Her Imperial Highness] [Alexandrovna]](/assets/images/product/2283762.jpg "Treaty between Her Majesty and the Emperor of All the Russias for the Marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh with H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrowna of Russia. Signed at St. Petersburg, January 22, 1874. (Russia. No. 1 (1874).) [His Royal Highness] [Her Imperial Highness] [Alexandrovna]")
By: N/A
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Harrison and Sons: 1874
Seller ID: 2283762
Appears to have been removed from a larger volume of government papers - evidence of sewings at binding edge, but no thread remains, so pages are loose. 1/2 inch closed tear to top edge, small smudge on first page. 1874 Disbound. [12 pp.] A government document memorializing the marriage between Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Alfred, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrowna of Russia. Included also are the articles dictating the t... 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 "An Answer to John Robinson of Leyden, Now First Published from a Manuscript of A.D. 1609 (Harvard Theological Studies Series Volume IX [9])")
By: A Puritan Friend; Burrage, Champlin
Price: $30.00 $24.00
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: A'Beckett, G.A. [Gilbert Abbott]
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Bradbury, Evans, and Co.: 1864
Seller ID: 2283682
Two books in one volume. Binding repaired, corners a bit rubbed. 1864 Hard Cover. xviii, 320, 304 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Color frontispiece (one of 20 color plates) and reproductions of 200 engravings by John Leech. The classic work by one of the original staff of Punch magazine, the weekly British humor magazine. A'Beckett also wrote the Comic History of Rome (to which John Leech also added illustrations), Comic Blackstone, etc., as ... View more info
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1979
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2278687
Fourth edition. Volume 2 only. No jacket, corners very lightly rubbed. 1979 Hard Cover. xlii, 2582 pp. Volume 2 only. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of England in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rear endpapers illustrated with a map of London in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 2: The Romantic Period; The Victorian Age; The Twentieth Century. View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $6.00 $4.80
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 $2.40
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 $12.00
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: Aronson, Theo
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Cassell: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286008
First edition. 1976 Hard Cover. xii, 252 pp. Fold-out genealogical table follows text. In 1863, Queen Victoria decreed that Edward, Prince of Wales, should marry Princess Alexandra, daughter of the obscure and unsophisticated heir to the Danish throne. The beauty, grace and charm of Prince Christian's daughter had prevailed over the Queen's intense dislike of the Danish royal house, and had even persuaded the embarrassingly difficult Bertie to agree to the match. Thus be... View more info
By: Atwood, W.F.
Price: $5.00 $4.00
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
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2013
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2286365
Third printing. A fine copy. 2013 Trade Paperback. xv, 465 pp. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke had painstakingly erased three periods... View more info
By: Baird, Julia; Giuliano, Geoffrey; McCartney, Paul
Price: $5.00 $4.00
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 $8.00
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
By: Barber, Richard
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Boydell Press: 2004
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2280244
First printing. Front wrapper edge very lightly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as well as men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but not invari... View more info
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Blandford Press: 1986
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2279769
Stained, causing jacket to adhere to rear board, though only faint staining to margins of endpapers. 1986 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 181, [1] pp. Of all the many colonial campaigns of the Victorian era, few have gripped the imagination more than the Zulu War of 1879. Its dramatic events and the high courage displayed by men of both sides have provided the material for books, articles and paintings, while in recent times its more remarkable incidents have featured in television... View more info
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1890
Seller ID: 2287013
No jacket. No publisher date (circa late 1800s), ink name and date on front paste-down endpaper. 1890 Hard Cover. xii, 298 pp. English noblewoman Lady Jane Grey is one of the most romanticized monarchs of Tudor England. Her short, nine-day rule was an unsuccessful attempt to maintain Protestant rule. This challenge cost her the throne and her head. Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537, in Leicester, England. Her life began with promise and high expectations but ended tragical... View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
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: Begg, Paul
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Longman: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285384
First edition. A fine copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 310 pp. England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and heading towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency ... all these things combined to create a sense of uncertainty and fear. The East End of London became the focus for that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-... View more info
By: Bennett, H.S.
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1995
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2280242
Minor sticker adhesive on spine. 1995 Trade Paperback. xiv, 290 pp. The Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. Bennett's classic study recreates beautifully their historical context and offers the additional perspectives provided by the letters of their correspondents: bishops and serving men, prisoners and dukes, priests and ribald comp... View more info
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1992
Seller ID: 2279076
Spine faintly toned, minor general wear, ink name on half-title page. 1992 Trade Paperback. x, 325 pp. During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and just... View more info
By: Billson, Peter
Price: $7.00 $5.60
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
By: Bingham, Jane
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited: 2012
Seller ID: 2279571
A nice copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. 384 pp. A highly readable account of one of the great eras of history, a time that witnessed the Great Fire of London and the plague, as well as the age of Shakespeare, Bacon and Raleigh, the Reformation, exploration, and victory over the Spanish Armada. View more info
By: Black, J.B.
Price: $15.00 $12.00
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: Bloomfield, Georgiana Baroness
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.: 1883
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 2283734
Sixth edition. Front hinge of first volume just beginning to loosen, owner bookplate (H.H.B.) on front endpaper of each volume, first few leaves of first volume a bit foxed. 1883 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. xi, [1], 341, [3], 38; vii, [1], 348 pp. 8vo. A biography by a British courtier who served as maid of honor to Queen Victoria, and later became a diplomat's wife. Her marriage brought her to the courts at St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna. Includes three por... View more info
