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BOMBSITES AND LOLLIPOPS - My 1950s East End Childhood.
TO WIN A WAR, · 2015
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
John Blake, London, ND (circa 2015), reprint, trade paperback, xvi, 240pp, half tone photo ills. in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, Briitish social history of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in the East End of London, with WW2 over millions were startiung to wonder if pe...
CIVILIANS ON THE ROMAN FRONT.
Birley, Robin, · 1979
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Frank Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1979, 2nd edn., paperback, 64pp, half tone photo ills., line drawings and diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wraapper, an account of the life and times of the civil population resident in the frontierlands of Roman Britain, where civ...
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH SOCIETY.
Whitelock, Dorothy, · 1966
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pelican/Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966, revised edn., paperback, 256pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, No. 2 in the Pelican History of England series, an account of '.. the life and thought of the Anglo-Saxons, from the time when they first took possession of the Romanized p...
MODERN ENGLAND - From The Eighteenth Century To The Present.
Webb, R. K., · 1985
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
George Allen and Unwin, London, 1985, 2nd edn., 4th imp., trade paperback, xiv, 685pp, frontis map, decorated wrappers, a comprehensive chronicle of English life since the middle of the Eighteenth century, extensively revised for the second edition, an Open University set boo...
THE PELICAN HISTORY OF ENGLAND : 8 - ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1815-1914).
Thomson, David, · 1960
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960, paperback, 251pp, paper wrappers in Pelican turquoise and white livery, no. 8 in the Pelican History of England series, the sources of wealth, power and prestige are examined as is their affect on the changes in social life and organisa...
THE ODDFELLOWS 1810 - 2010 - Two hundred years of making friends and helping people.
Weinbren, Daniel, · 2010
£19.00 (€22.77 | $25.10 | ¥4,008)
Carnegie, Lancaster, 2010, 1st edn., x, 371pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills in text., large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, faint bump lower cnr. lower board, near fin...
THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY.
Pincher, Chapman, · 1981
£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)
Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1981, 1st edn., xii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, a little bumped at lower tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: faint creasing at lower cnrs., very good in a near fine dustwr...
THE STORY OF ENGLAND.
Wood, Michael, · 2012
£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)
Viking, London, ND (circa 2012), 4th imp., xxiv, 440pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, coloured endpapers, tv tie-in, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper, published to accompany the BBC se...
ENGLISH SOCIAL HISTORY - A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria.
Trevelyan, G. M., O.M., · 1947
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1947, new imp. of 3rd edn., xii, 628pp, line diagram and maps in text, coloured maps at endpapers, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head bands, upper edge coloured, coloured lettered dustwrapper (to reverse of previously ...
YEOVIL'S YEARS.
Sweet, Jack, · 2010
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Amberley, Stroud, 2010, 1st edn., paperback original, 128pp, half tone photo ills. in text, large format (9 x 6.5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a month by month collection of stories from Yeovil's past, of local news, events and tragedies, stories ...
DICKENS'S ENGLAND - Life in Victorian Times.
Pritchard, R. E. (ed. and intro. by), · 2009
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
The History Press, Stroud, 2009, paperback, [iv], 284pp, half tone ills. and line drawings in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), pictorial montage upper wrapper, a description of the life and social conditions of the English from 1837 when Victoria came to the throne...
THE SKIPPER - A Fisherman's Tale.
Nowell, Roger and Mills, Jeremy, · 1993
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
BBC Books, London, 1993, 1st edn., 208pp, coloured photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills. in text, tv tie-in, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, written to accompany the BBC series of the same name, an account of a year in th...
THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND.
Cawthorne, Nigel, · 2006
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Piatkus, London, 2006, reprint, [vi], 266pp, line drawings in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of some of the old laws and bye-laws of England which, at the time, made...
THE CURIOUS CURES OF OLD ENGLAND.
Cawthorne, Nigel, · 2006
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Portrait, London, 2006, reprint, [vi], 266pp, line drawings in text, coloured endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of the strange and sometimes alarming treatments in use by the British...
PEMBROKE FOR KING AND PARLIAMENT.
Carradice, Phil, · 1992
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pembroke Town Council, Pembroke, 1992, 1st edn., 100pp, half tone ills., maps and facsimiles in text, maps at endpapers, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, #597 of limited edition of 1000, an history of the town of Pembroke and the surroun...
THE ILLUSTRATED WISE WORDS AND COUNTRY WAYS.
Binney, Ruth, · 2008
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2008, reprint, paperback, 256pp, line drawings in text, coloured pictorial upper wrappers with flaps, a compilation of sayings, mottos, superstitions and proverbs many of which have origins based on fact, with an analysis of each so that you c...
BEDLAM - London and Its Mad.
Arnold, Catharine, · 2009
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pocket Books, London, 2009, 1st thus, paperback, [xiv} inc. double page map, 306pp, half tone ills. in text, decorated chapter heads., half tone pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the world's oldest psychiatric institution, Bethlehem Hospital was originally founded as a p...
BLOOD OF THE VIKINGS.
Richards, Julian, · 2001
£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001, 1st edn., [vi], 250pp, coloured photo pictorial double title, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, tv tie-in, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo picto...
SMUGGLERS' TALES.
Quinn, Tom, · 1999
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1999, 1st edn., 192pp, pictorial half title and title, coloured pictorial frontis, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, chapter heads in line, large format (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, c...
MASTERCRAFTS - Rediscover British Craftsmanship.
Quinn, Tom, · 2010
£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2010, 1st edn., 256pp, coloured photo pictorial frontis, numerous coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, tv tie-in, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial mont...