Storia moderna

Africa : Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

DOWDEN, RICHARD · 2008 · Godley Books

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,747)

London, Portobello Books Ltd. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 1846271541) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Book and jacket in as new condition. 576pp. The author provides a journalist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change to produce one of the most compe...

The Leisure Society

SEABROOK, JEREMY · 1988 · Godley Books

£7.25 (€8.69 | $9.58 | ¥1,530)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 1988. (ISBN: 0631163654) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 195pp. A powerful study of how the leisure society e...

Indian Cavalry Officer,1914-1915

GRIMSHAW, CAPTAIN ROLY · 1986 · Godley Books

£8.25 (€9.89 | $10.90 | ¥1,740)

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Costello. 1986. (ISBN: 0710430272) Hard Cover, 9 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright navy cloth boards, tiny rub to upper rear edge and very minor bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not pric...

The Boer War : 1899-1902

SMURTHWAITE, DAVID · 1999 · Godley Books

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)

London, Hamlyn. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0600596524) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 9.75 inches. Ex-library copy with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to front end paper and title page only. The book would otherwise be classed as 'near fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasi...

To Build Jerusalem

GORMAN, JOHN · 1980 · Godley Books

£7.75 (€9.29 | $10.24 | ¥1,635)

London, Scorpion Publications Ltd. 1980. (ISBN: 0905906276) Soft Cover, 11.75 x 8.5 inches. Inscription to Peter on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor...

Once a Week is Ample - or - the Moderately Sensual Victorian's Guide to Restraint of the Passions

MCDONALD, GERARD · 1997 · Godley Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, Harper Collins. 1997. (ISBN: 0002559218) Hard Cover, 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Book and jacket in virtually mint condition. 62pp. 'The personally secret life of men and women has never been handled more delicately, chastely, convincingly or with more ennobling force, than is d...

Florida Under Five Flags

PATRICK, REMBERT W. · 1955 · Godley Books

£9.75 (€11.69 | $12.88 | ¥2,057)

Gainesville, University of Florida Press. 1955. Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8 inches. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower edge/corner. Dust jacket price clipped and lightly ...

The Face of San Francisco

GILLIAM, HAROLD · 1960 · Godley Books

£9.25 (€11.09 | $12.22 | ¥1,951)

New York, Doubleday & Co Inc. 1960, First Edition. Hard Cover, 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Ill.: Phil Palmer (photographs). Small inscription inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards...

Roman Art : from the Republic to Constantine

BRILLIANT, RICHARD · 1974 · Godley Books

£13.25 (€15.88 | $17.51 | ¥2,795)

Newton Abbott, Readers Union. 1974. Hard Cover, 10 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to top of board edges near spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or c...

The Book of the Magna Carta

HINDLEY, GEOFFREY · 1990 · Godley Books

£6.75 (€8.09 | $8.92 | ¥1,424)

London, Guild Publishing. 1990. Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small nick to upper front corner and general signs ...

Roman Britain

RICHMOND, IAN · 1987 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

London, Bracken Books. 1987. (ISBN: 1851701168) Hard Cover, 9 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight browning to pages and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Reprint from the Brita...

Lytham St Anne's in Old Photographs

ROTHWELL, CATHERINE · 1993 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Alan Sutton. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0750903651) Soft Cover, 8.75 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to front corners, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 1...

North-East England : People at Work, 1860-1950

ATKINSON, FRANK · 1980 · Godley Books

£5.25 (€6.29 | $6.94 | ¥1,108)

Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Moorland Publishing Co Ltd. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0861900057) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping...

Women in Ancient Egypt

WATTERSON, BARBARA · 1991 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Alan Sutton. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0862999782) Hard Cover, 10 x 7 inches. Previous owner's name to half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no...

Owd Peter : A Sketch of Early Village Methodism

YATES, W. · 1900 · Godley Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)

London, A Crombie. 1900. Hard Cover, 7.5 x 5 inches. Fingermarks to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Dusty pages in a very tight binding with unmarked maroon boards and minor bumping to corners. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photogr...

The New Berkshire Village Book

BERKSHIRE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES · 1990 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

Newbury, Berkshire, Countryside Books. 1990. (ISBN: 0905392426) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Ill.: Judith Fraser. No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, minor traces of st...

Dupain's Sydney

WHITE, JILL · 2001 · Godley Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Newtral Bay, NSW, Chapter & Verse. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0947322124) Hard Cover, 11 x 11 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or...

History of the Homeland : The Story Of the British Background

HAMILTON, HENRY · 1947 · Godley Books

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1947, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 6 inches. Signature of previous owner (T Pendry) to front end paper - from the personal collection of Lord Pendry. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very cl...

Carrying the Flag : The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero

RHEA, GORDON · 2004 · Godley Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Cambridge, Mass, Basic Books. 2004. (ISBN: 0465069568) Soft Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Book appears in mint unread condition. 279pp. The fascinating story of an American serviceman in the Confederate Army, only allowed to enlist just as Grant's brutal spring 1964 campaign began...

Harry's War : A British Tommy's Experiences in the Trenches in World War One

STINTON, HARRY · 2008 · Godley Books

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

London, Conway. 2008. (ISBN: 184486085X) Hard Cover, 6 x 7.75 Inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 223pp. A front-line memoir of the First World War on the Wes...