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THE DICK TRACY CASEBOOK - Favourite Adventures 1931-1990.

Gould, Chester; Collins, Max Allan; Fletcher, Rick; and Locher, Dick (selected by Max Allan Collins and Dick Locher), · 1990

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990, 1st edn., oversize paperback, x, 273pp, large format pictorial wrappers 11 x 8.5 inches, a selection of some of the best Dick Tracy newspaper comic strip stories since his debut in 1931, from 1936: The Hotel Murders (Gould); 1944: The Brow ...

ADMIRALTY HANDBOOK OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY : Volume 1 BR229 - Magnetism and Electricity; Volume 2 BR230 - Wireless Telegraphy Thoery.

HMSO, · 1941

£16.30 (€19.54 | $21.54 | ¥3,440)

HMSO, London, 1941, 4th imp., unpaginated, numbered paragraphs, vol 1: [viii], single section nu mbered 1-442, appendix and index [xxii], numerous ills/diagrams in line; vol 2: errata slip, [x], multiple sections numbered to 41, 46, 49, 63, 16, 65, 66, 19, 54, 41, 20, append...

BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.

Pape, Richard, · 1954

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Elek, London, 1954, 5th imp., 309pp, [5pp] maps, 12pp half tone ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, dustwrapper by Val Biro, the classic tale of an airman's WW2 bombing mission: the author was navigator in an RAF Stirling returning from a Bombing mission in Germany i...

WITHOUT FRONTIERS.

Raven, Helene Jeanty, · 1960

£16.80 (€20.14 | $22.20 | ¥3,545)

Hutchinson, London, 1960, 1st edn., 222pp, black cloth lettered in gilt and light blue at spine, col'd dustwrapper by Patricia Davey, after giving refuge to a British airman in 1943 Brussels the author and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo. Helene Jeanty feigned madnes...

FROM SARAJEVO TO POTSDAM.

Taylor, A. J. P., · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Thames and Hudson for Book Club Associates, London, 1969, club edn., 216pp, numerous in text ills. in colour and half tone, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, by one of the most eminent historians of the 20th Century, an examination of Europe fr...

HITLER'S GREATEST DEFEAT - The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944.

Adair, Paul, · 1996

£9.40 (€11.27 | $12.42 | ¥1,984)

Brockhampton Press, London, 1996, reprint, 192pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., several maps in text, col'd laminated boards, matching col'd dustwrapper, an account and analysis of the German and Russian armed forces as they faced each other on the Eastern Front in 1944, the wi...

THE AGE OF ELEGANCE 1812-1822.

Bryant, Arthur, · 1950

£6.30 (€7.55 | $8.32 | ¥1,329)

Collins, London, 1950, 1st edn., 450pp, maps at endpapers, battle plans in text, magenta cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lower edge uncut, col'd pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib), an account of British involvement in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, whilst at ho...

GEORGE THE FOURTH.

Fulford, Roger, · 1949

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Duckworth, London, 1949, revised and enlarged edition, 240pp, col'd frontis portrait, royal blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, the original 1935 edition expanded by reference to Professor Aspinall's letters and papers of George IV from the Royal Archives, in three sections...

OUR TEMPESTUOUS DAY - A History of Regency England.

Erickson, Carolly, · 1996

£12.30 (€14.75 | $16.25 | ¥2,596)

Robson Books, London, 1996, 1st edn. UK, 302pp incl. 12pp half tone ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the age of opulence and fashion in Regency Society, and of political radicalism, popular unrest and social upheaval am...

MARIA FITZHERBERT - The Secret Wife of George IV.

Munson, James, · 2001

£12.80 (€15.35 | $16.91 | ¥2,701)

Constable, London, 2001, 1st edn., xiv, 414pp, 16pp half tone ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, a detailed account of the love match that threatened the British monarchy, between the Catholic widow Maria Fitzherbert and the Protestant Pr...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE IV.

Palmer, Alan (intro. Antonia Fraser), · 1975

£7.20 (€8.63 | $9.51 | ¥1,519)

Cardinal Sphere, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 127pp, 8pp coloured ills, 32pp half tone ills., pictorial wrappers, sl. larger than mass market size, in the Cardinal series Kings and Queens, an account of the life of the man who was Prince Regent, a little rubbed at...

BUCKET NUT.

Cody, Liza, · 1992

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Chatto and Windus, London, 1992, 1st edn., 236pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd montage dustwrapper, from the creator of private eye Anna Lee, (who makes a guest appearance) a new heroine Eva Wyliefine in a fine dustwrapper,

THE AGE OF IMPROVEMENT 1783-1867.

Briggs, Asa, · 1971

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

Longman, London, 1971, 10th imp., [xii], 547pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of the political, economic and social consequences on England during the industrial revolution of the development of the coal and iron technology...

TURNER.

Reynolds, Graham, · 1984

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, reprint, trade paperback, 216pp, illustrated throughout in half tone and colour, pictorial wrappers, in the publisher's 'World of Art' series, an account of the life and work of the English painter J. M. W. Turner, fine,

SKETCHES BY JOHN CONSTABLE in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Kauffmann, C. F., · 1981

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

HMSO, London, 1981, 1st edn., oblong paperback, 48pp, half tone and col'd ills in text, large format 8 x 8 inches, pictorial wrappers, reproducing 66 works by Constable and tracing the origin and development of his art, a little rubbed at tips, very good,

THE HERMITAGE : WESTERN EUROPEAN PAINTING of the Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.

Kozhina, Elena (intro), · 1978

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Aurora Art Publishers, Leningard, 1978, 1st edn., 304pp, coloured and half tone plates, large format 11.5 x 8.5 inches, white cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, decorative head and tailbands, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, a volume illustrating over 120 paintings ...

THE PRIVATE DEGAS.

Thomson, Richard, · 1987

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

The Herbert Press, London, 1987, 1st edn., 143pp, col'd and half tone ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, a new study of Degas focussing less on his finished work than on conceptual and technical means used by the artist and on h...

CALIFORNIA TIME.

Raphael, Frederic, · 1975

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1975, 1st edn., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper by Maurice Phillips, red ink dot fore-edge, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., spine sl. sunned, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

BLACKSTONE'S FANCY.

Falkirk, Richard, · 1973

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Eyre Methuen, London, 1973, 1st edn., 189pp, dark green cloth lettered in silver and decorated in black at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Dave Pether, Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, involved in the world of Prizefighting, a little rubbed at extrems., upper edge sl. du...

THE BOOK OF WITNESSES.

Kossoff, David, · 1971

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Collins, London, 1971, 1st edn., 175pp, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Ron Clark and Gyula Hincz, an interpretation of the New Testament in the format of stories by eye-witnesses, lightly rubbed at tips, very faint bumps at upper and lower edge...