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13 Years of Anti-Fascist Struggle

1943, a record of The Daily Worker's cartoon, articles, and headlines
William Rust, introduction, with articles by Harry Pollitt and J B S Haldane
The Daily Worker, London, 1943
£40.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

The Island of California

A History of the Myth. The hardback first US edition.
Dora Beale Polk
The Arthur H Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1991
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Forgotten Irish, Memorials of the Raj (Signed copy)

Signed by Eileen Hewson
Eileen Hewson
Kabristan Archives, Wem, 2004
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

The Strange Case of Thomas Walker (Signed copy)

1957, first edition. Signed by the author, Frida Knight, Communist and activist
Frida Knight, foreword by G D H Cole
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1957
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Anti-Nazi Germans (Signed copy)

Signed and dedicated by the author, Merilyn Moos
Merilyn Moos, and Steve Cushion, introduction by Ian Birchall
Community Languages, London, 2020
£25.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

The Making of the English Landscape: Leicestershire

W G Hoskin's Illustrated Essay on the History of the Leicestershire Landscape (1957)
W G Hoskins
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Crystal Sun (Signed copy)

A first edition signed by Robert Temple, "Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the Ancient World"
Robert Temple, introduction by Arthur C Clarke
Century, London, 2000
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Naval Mutinies of 1797, Unity and Perseverance

A comprehensive study and reassessment of this episode of Royal Navy history
Ann Veronica Coats, and Philip MacDougall, editors
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2011
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions

Policing Provincial England 1829–1856

The Politics of Reform. The making of the county Police forces.
David Philips, and Robert D Storch
Leicester University Press, London, 1999
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry

1914, first edition, with 76 colour facsimile illustrations of the complete tapestry
Hilaire Belloc
Chatto & Windus, London, 1914
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Six Weeks in Russia in 1919

2nd printing, Arthur Ransome's account of Russian life after the October Revolution of 1917
Arthur Ransome
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1919
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

Prowling Russia's Forbidden Zone

1949, first edition, a secret journey into Soviet Germany
Werner Knop, wrapper by E McKnight Kauffer
Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1949
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Socialist History, the first fifteen issues 1993—1999

Edited by Willie Thompson et al, containing a wide range of articles
Willie Thompson, with David Parker, Mike Waite and David Morgan (editors)
Pluto Press, London, 1993
£60.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions

The Presence of the Past

Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life—from the library of Sinhalese scholar C H B Reynolds
Steven Kemper
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, 1991
£14.95
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Salazar and Modern Portugal

1970, first edition. Hugh Kay's study of the Portuguese politician
Hugh Kay
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1970
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Konstantin Stoilov, Diaries 1879–1901

A Bulgarian edition of the statesman's diaries, in two volumes
Konstantin Stoilov, edited by Dr Elena Statelova and Dr Radoslav Popov
University Publishing House, Sofia, 1996
£50.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Culture in Early Anglo-Saxon England

The author's own copy, and featuring Beowulf, Sutton Hoo and the Ruthwell Cross
D Elizabeth Martin-Clarke
The John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1947
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions

Judaism of the Second Temple Period

Volume One: Qumran and Apocylpticism
David Flusser, translated by Azzan Yadin, foreword by David Bivin
William B Eerdmans, Grand Rapids & Cambridge, 2007
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Colossus (Signed copy)

Signed by Niall Ferguson, the Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Niall Ferguson
Allen Lane, London, 2004
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Two A J P Taylor first editions

Englishmen and Others (1956) and From Sarajevo to Potsdam (1966)
A J P Taylor
Various, London, 1956
£12.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Red Square at Noon

1973, the first Penguin edition
Natalia Gorbanevskaya, translated by Alexander Lieven
Penguin Books, London, 1973
£10.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus

The Birds of Ancient Egypt

Patrick Houlihan's comprehensive study of the role of birds in Ancient Egypt
Patrick F Houlihan, with the collaboration of and preliminary checklist to the Birds of Egypt by Steven M Goodman
The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 1988
£15.00
History | Soft Cover | First thus

The Queen's Wards

Wardship and Marriage under Elizabeth I
Joel Hurstfield
Longmans, London, 1958
Sold
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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 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

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