Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Building Sustainable Communities: Spatial Policy and Labour Mobility in Post-War Britain

Raco, Mike · 2007

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Bristol, England, The Policy Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy, heavy card-stock wraps. Apparent...

The Works of Thomas Browne, Volume IV

Browne, Thomas; Geoffrey Keynes, ed. · 1938

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Faber & Faber, 1938. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This Volume IV covers Letters to and from this English man of letters, Latin language and ancient Rome, Thomas Browne, the Younger in the 17th century. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcove...

The Works of Thomas Browne, Volume III

Browne, Thomas; Geoffrey Keynes, ed. · 1938

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Faber & Faber, 1938. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This volume covers Miscellany Tracts, Repertorium, Latin Writings with Translations, Miscellaneous Writings. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, bound in gray cloth over boards, ...

Richard III, the Great Debate: Sir Thomas More & Horace Walpole

Kendall, Paul, ed. · 1965

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, The Folio Society, 1965. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere....

Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures

Various · 1941

$504.00 (€457.30 | £381.51 | ¥80,482)

London, William Collins of London, . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A lot of 63 (sixty-three) volumes in the Britain in Pictures: the British People in Pictures series that was so popular just post-W.W.I.I. Each bound in publisher's original paper over boards covers, so...

Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of Their Courts, Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents, Private As Well As Public, New Edition, with Corrections and Additions

Strickland, Agnes · 1830

$760.00 (€689.57 | £575.30 | ¥121,362)

London, Henry Colburn, . . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Handsome set of the dozen volumes that comprise an important, influential early addition to English women's history, to English politics and the monarchy, to Great Britain's Court and courtiers, and to its Kings and rul...

Leaflets of Memory

Reynell Coates, ed. · 1847

$180.00 (€163.32 | £136.25 | ¥28,744)

Philadelphia, E.H. Butler, 1847. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Truly, a treasured lovely, being an 1847 edition of Leaflets of Memory, the third in its publishing history of 11 such, issued irregularly. This exemplar edited by Reynell Coates, publishe...

The Voyages and Cruises of Commodore Walker

Commodore Walker; H.S. Vaughan, Introduction and Commentary · 1928

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

London, England, Cassell and Company LTD., 1928. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 1928 reprint edition of the 1760 original edition, and yet another fine contribution to the Seafarers' Library, General Editor being G.E. Manwaring. Sturdy, attractive, ti...

The Ballad and the Folk

Buchan, David · 1972

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition and a nice exemplar of a fine study in ethnomusicology in which the author surveys the nature of the ballad and its meaning to the people of Northeast Scotland. He argues th...

British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century: A Catalogue of the Extant Sheets and an Essay

Livingston, Carole Rose · 1991

$140.00 (€127.03 | £105.98 | ¥22,356)

New York, Garland Publishing, 1991. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently only two additional copies available on-line. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, a big, fat, thick octavo format volume, clean, minima...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume CLXV, January-June, 1923

Punch Office · 1923

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.59 | ¥4,343)

London, England, Punch Office, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound copy of the first of two volumes devoted to 1923's issues. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being from the personal library of the sculp...

Punch, or the London Charivari, No. 4286 Volume CLXV, July-December, 1923

Various contributors; Punch Office · 1923

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, England, Punch Office, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound copy of the second of two volumes devoted to 1923's issues. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being from the personal library of the scul...

Punch Volume 96: January-June, 1889; Volume 97, July-December, 1889

Various contributors; Punch Office · 1889

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, England, Punch Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound copy of two volumes bound as one. Brown and blue cell biological marbled papers over boards, with creamy calf leather over tips and spine, with year sta...

Barbarians at the Gate

Woolf, Leonard · 1939

$23.20 (€21.05 | £17.56 | ¥3,705)

London, England, Gollancz, 1939. Left Book Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a still handsome exemplar of the Left Book Club Edition, published in London by Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939. Left B...

Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

Deighton, Len · 1978

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Introduction...

Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales

Postles, Dave and Joel T. Rosenthal, eds. · 2006

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Kalamazoo, Michigan, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Studies in Medieval Culture published this in its series. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor e...

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 1 - for 1975

Allen, Robert R., General Editor · 1978

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Philadelphia and Los Angeles, Published for the Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, just a bit dusty of page edges, bumping t...

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography for 1974

Allen, Robert A., ed. · 1975

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. First Edition, edited by the Altadena, California-based bookseller and appraiser, Rob...

An Inquiry, Whether Crime and Misery Are Produced or Prevented, by Our Present System of Prison Discipline. Illustrated by Descriptions of the Borough Compter, Totbill Fields. The Jails at St. Albans, and at Guildford. The Jail at Bury. The Maison de Force at Ghent. The Philadelphia Prison. The Penitentiary at Millbank. And the Proceedings of the Ladies' Committee at Newgate

Buxton, Thomas Fowell · 1818

$220.00 (€199.61 | £166.53 | ¥35,131)

London, Printed for John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill; Butterworth and Sons, Fleet Street; and John Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Particularly nice-looking exemplar of a truly scarce item in the trade, only being available in a sma...

Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet

Duncan-Jones, Katherine · 1991

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Augmented with a List...