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Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
A selection of essays on book destruction from all angles...
Gill Partington, and Adam Smyth (editors)
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Seven Champions of Christendom
1861, decorative binding and illustrated by Edward H Corbould
Richard Johnson, illustrated by Edward H Corbould
Griffin, Bohn & Co, London, 1861
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First thus
Anti-Nazi Germans (Signed copy)
Signed by Merilyn Moos
Merilyn Moos, and Steve Cushion, introduction by Ian Birchall
Community Languages, London, 2020
£25.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
This Smoking World
1928, A history of smoking, and why people smoke etc etc
A E Hamilton, introductory essay by Sir Montague Sherman
Methuen, London, 1928
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Earth Transformed, An Untold History (Signed copy)
A special edition signed by Peter Frankopan and with sprayed edges.
Peter Frankopan
Bloomsbury, London, 2023
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Brumroamin (Signed copy)
With postcard signed by Ted Rudge, "Birmingham and Midland Romany Gypsy and Traveller Culture"
Ted Rudge, edited by Doreen Hopwood and Martin Flynn
Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, 2003
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Who Betrayed the Jews? (Signed copy)
Signed by Agnes Grunwald-Spier, "The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust"
Agnes Grunwald-Spier
The History Press, Stroud, 2016
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany
Allan Merson's history and detailed study of Communist activity in Düsseldorf
Allan Merson
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1985
£18.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Secret of Japanese Success (Signed copy)
Signed by J Hagiwara, his lecture given in Glasgow in 1906
J Hagiwara
Japanese Consulate, Glasgow, 1906
£40.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Notes on the History of Shipbuilding in South Shields 1746–1946
with appendices
Amy C Flagg
South Tyneside Borough Council, 1979
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Yugoslav-Bulgarian Relations 1941–1945
The history of the two countries relations during the Second World War
Slobodan Nesovic, translated by Margot and Bosko Milosavljevic
Macedonian Review Editions, Skopje, 1979
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
Secrets from the Sand (Signed copy)
Signed by Zahi Hawass, his life as an archaeologist and Egyptologist
Zahi Hawass
Thames and Hudson, London, 2003
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Central African Journal of Archibald Campbell Scott
Facsimile, limited edition, Scott's journal from Malawi in the 1890s
Archibald Campbell Scott
Society of Malawi, Blantyre, 1986
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions
The World of the Ranters
First edition of A L Morton's account of religious radicalism in the English Revolution
A L Morton
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1970
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Inside Africa
From the library of Fleur Cowles and signed by her
John Gunther
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1955
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Inside Europe Today
From the library of Fleur Cowles and signed by her
John Gunther
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1961
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Excavations of the Roman Forts of the Classis Britannica at Dover 1970–1977
Signed by Brian Philp
Brian Philp
Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, Dover, 1981
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Five books on the Irish War of Independence / Easter Rebellion
All in good readable condition
Various, please see below
Various, Dublin, n.d.
£20.00
History | Soft Cover
Arthurian Chronicles
Everyman's Library No 578, Wace's Roman de Brut and Layamon's Brut
Wace and Layamon, translated by Eugene Mason, introduction by Gwyn Jones. Dustwrapper art by Geoffrey Fraser.
J M Dent, London, 1966
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Island of California
A History of the Myth
Dora Beale Polk
The Arthur H Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1991
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The City We Loved: Coventry, England
c1942, a record of the devastating Blitz in the West midlands city
Various
Three Spires Publishing, Coventry, 1942
£15.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
The National Library of Wales Journal, Volume XXIX 1995/1996
including articles on Welsh History, Robert Wynn & Plas Mawr etc
The Librarian, (J Lionel Madden)
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1996
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The National Library of Wales Journal, Volume XXVII 1991/1992
including articles on Welsh History, Manorbier, the Bangor Missal etc
The Librarian, (Brynley F Roberts)
National Museum of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The National Library of Wales Journal, Volume XXVI 1989/1990
including articles of the Peniarth Historia de Preliis, Welsh farming etc
The Librarian, (Brynley F Roberts)
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1990
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The National Library of Wales Journal, Volume XXV 1987/1988
including articles on Richard Hughes' library, Book of Cynog etc
The Librarian, (Brynley F Roberts)
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1988
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
