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HUMAN BONES IN ARCHAEOLOGY.

Stirland, Ann, · 1999

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1999, 2nd edn., paperback, 64pp, half tone ills., line drawings and tables in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, environmental archaeology includes the examination of human remains , known as physical anthropology, and this i...

STEINBERG'S DICTIONARY OF BRITISH HISTORY (Second Edition).

Steinberg, S. H. and Evans, I. H. (edited by), · 1974

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Book Club Associates, London, 1974, club edn., viii, 421pp, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, top edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems., a little bumped at cnrs., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., sunned at ...

DESERTED VILLAGES.

Rowley, Trevor and Wood, John, · 1995

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1995, 2nd end., paperback, 72pp, half tone ills., map, plans and diagrams in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, an introduction to what leads to a village being deserted, how they may be identified and the methods by which un...

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A DRUID PRINCE - The Story of an Archeaological Sensation.

Ross, Anne and Robins, Don, · 1989

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Guild publishing, London, 1989, club edn., 176pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone ills., line drawings, facsimiles and maps in text, pictorial endpapers, dark brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the arch...

THE AGE OF NATIONALISM AND REFORM 1850-1890.

Rich, Norman, · 1971

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, [1971], paperback, xii, 212pp, half tone ills. and maps in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, in the History of Modern Europe series, slight roll to spine with light vertical creasing, rubbed at extrems., cnrs. inclined to curl, in...

NEOLITHIC BRITAIN.

Pollard, Joshua, · 1997

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1997, paperback, 64pp, half tone ills., line drawings, diagrams and plans in text, coloured photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, an introduction to the archaeology of the Neolithic period of Britain, while in earlier periods the lifes...

THE LATER MIDDLE AGES.

Medcalf, Stephen (edited by), · 1981

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Methuen / University paperbacks, London, 1981, trade paperback, viii, 312pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in the Context of English Literature series, providing a unified and coherent account of the culture of late mediaeval England in the cont...

WOMEN IN ENGLAND 1500-1760 - A Social History.

Laurence, Anne, · 1996

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Phoenix, London, 1996, 1st in imprint, paperback, xvi, 301pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., large format (8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the In...

EUROPE SINCE 1870 - An International History.

Joll, James, · 1981

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1981, reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 543pp, 7 in text maps, coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a broad synthesi of a long and crowded period of history, beginning with Germany's emergence as a strong European power and ending with Germ...

FRANCE AND THE ATLANTIC REVOLUTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1770-1799.

Godechot, Jacques (trans. by Herbert H. Bowen), · 1977

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Collier-Macmillan, London, 1977, reprint, trade paperback, [viii], 279pp, pictorial upper wrapper, an Open University Set Book, the French Revolution discussed as a part of the wide-ranging social, cultural and philosophical change in France as well as being a part of a world...

UNDERNEATH ENGLISH TOWNS - Interpreting Urban Archaeology.

Carver, Martin, · 1987

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,214)

Batsford, London, 1987, paperback, 160pp, half tone ills., maps and diagrams in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, an introductory study and overview of urban archaeology, by the Professor of Archaeology at the University of ...

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES.

Barber, Richard (edited and intro. by), · 1999

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,320)

Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1999, paperback, xx, 572pp, 11pp coloured and 1pp half tone ills., large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a collection of the myths and legends of the British Isles from the dawn of Christanity to the age of the Plant...

GUIDE TO THE ANTIQUITIES OF ROMAN BRITAIN.

Brailsford, J. W., · 1958

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1958, 2nd edn., [x], 86pp, half tone photo frontis, 27pp half tone photo ills., map and numerous line drawings in text, decorated cream paper covered boards lettered and decorated in dark brown, a survey of the antiquities of Roman Brit...

LONDON AT WAR 1939-1945.

Ziegler, Philip, · 1995

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

BCA, London, 1995, club edn., xii, 372pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., double page map in text, facsimile newspaper extracts at endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, through numerous interviews,...

THE ADMIRAL'S BABY.

van der Post, Laurens, · 1996

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,425)

John Murray, London, 1996, 1st edn., xii, 340pp, half tone frontis portrait, in text maps, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated phot pictorial dustwrapper, the sequel to 'Night of the New Moon' which told of his capticity in a Japanese POW camp in Java, starting b...

VCS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR - GALLIPOLI.

Snelling, Stephen, · 1999

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Wrens Park Publishing, UK, 1999, 1st in imprint, xvi, 264pp, half tone ills. maps and facsimiles in text, monotone pictorial endpapers, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, an account of each of the acti...

HOT BLOOD AND COLD STEEL - Life and Death in the Trenches of the First World War.

Simpson, Andy (edited and complied by), · 1993

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,320)

Tom Donovan, London, 1993, 1st edn., xx, 227pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, coloured map at front endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of life in the trenches on the Western Front during WW1, covering dom...

ALL THE BRAVE PROMISES - Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 2146391.

Settle, Mary Lee, · 1984

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Pandora Press, London, 1984, trade paperback, [iv], 153pp, [i] ad., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the recollections of the award winning novelist who, as a young American ideallist living in Washington DC in 1942 she had left for England and joined the Women's Auxilliary ...

THE SS - Alibi of a Nation 1922-45.

Reitlinger, Gerald (with a new foreword by Martin Gilbert), · 1981

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Arms and Armour Press, London,1981, 1st in imprint, xvi, 502pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, originally published by Heinemann in 1956, an account of the origin and rise of the SS -the Schutzstaffel, the Naz...

BLITZ ON BRITAIN - The Bomber Attacks on the United Kingdom, 1939-1945.

Price, Alfred, · 1977

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,425)

Ian Allan, London, 1977, 1st edn., 192pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wrapround photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of the pre-war fears about the effects of ...