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Bring Up the Bodies

Mantel, Hilary · 2012 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, A John McRae Book, for Henry Holt, 2012. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, slight sunning to page edges along bottom and top edges, else with a bright interior, unmarked but for …

Hollywood and the American Image

THOMAS, TONY · 1981 · Bookshop Baltimore

$8.90 (€8.07 | £6.74 | ¥1,421)

Arlington House, 1981. Hardcover. ISBN: 0870005251. 208 pages. Over 200 photographs. Clean, good binding, boards are clean, DJ has light edge tears. Movie stars, directors and others and their influences on Americans' attitutudes towards themselves. John Wayne, Fred Astaire, Jam…

Remarks on Mangel-Wurzel; or Root of Scarcity, with an Exposition on its Utility, and Directions for its Culture.

NEWBY (Thomas) · 1813 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.10 | $177.56 | ¥28,358)

Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe. 1813. First Edition, [iv],16pp., tile slightly spotted, disbound. Newby analysis the properties of Mangel-Wurzel, German for beet root, it was originally developed in the 18th century for cattle fodder and was strongly recommended by Dr. Lett…

London And its Environs in the Nineteenth Century, Illustrated by a Series of Views From Original Drawings, by Thomas H Shepherd, with Historical, Topographical and Critical Notices. Series the First, Comprising the Earlier Edifices, Antiquities, &c

SHEPHERD Thomas · 1829 · Inch's Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, Jones & Co. 1829 iii, 160pp, 80 engraved tissue-guarded plates. 28x22, half bound in red morocco over patterned cloth, glt decoration and text on spine, all edges glt. Very good indeed, lovely copy. Related to the Metropolitan Improvements volume also published by J…

Oligarchy

Scarlett Thomas · 2019 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Canongate Books 2019 Paperback, 192pp. Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas's fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege, and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl British boarding school, she finds herself throw…

Poisoned Sky (A David Morton Novel)

Gordon Thomas · 1996 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Warner 1996 Paperback, 438pp. Poisoned Sky portrays a world almost too close to our own, shrunk by the most sophisticated of intelligence networks and ravaged by the industrial pollution, but a world in which individuals still have the power to change its future. One, David Mort…

An Act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors in Cases of Escapes,. and for preventing Abuses in prisons and Pretended Priviledged Places. WITH FINE WOODBLOCK ARMS

RELIEF OF CREDITORS 1697 Act of Parliament · 1697 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1697. Sm. folio, 10 leaves, on laid paper, BLACK-LETTER, with fine woodcut arms of William III on front cover and woodblock head-piece; sewed as issued but disb…

The Humourist. Being Essays Upon Several Subjects

Thomas Gordon · 1741 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

London, T. Woodward; D. Browne, 1741 . Leather. The fourth edition of Thomas Gordon's very scarce collection of essays on diverse subjects, including ghosts, witchcraft, prejudice, love, and enthusiasm. The fourth edition of this very scarce work. A series of essays by Thom…

The Rose-Amateur&Apos;S Guide: Containing Ample Descriptions of All the Fine Leading Varieties of Roses Regularly Classes in Their Respective Families. Their History and Mode of Culture.

Thomas Rivers · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Cloth. A very thorough work on the cultivation and culture of Roses, written by the renowned nurseryman Thomas Rivers. The tenth edition of this work, this edition being enlarged, corrected, and improves. This work is a thorough guide to ro…

A General History of Quadrupeds

Bewick, Thomas · 1791 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick Newcastle upon Tyne x, 483, wood engravings to text. . HB. Demy 8vo (220x140mm), near cont. half calf, rubbed, wear to corners and spine, slight loss to head/foot of spine, leather title piece, marbled boards, rubbed/scuffed. Hinges cracked but…

The Percy Anecdotes

Thomas Byerley · 1868 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, c1870. Leather. Published as part of the Chandos Library, this is a verbatim reprint of the original edition of the 'Percy Anecdotes' in a half-calf binding. With chapters on Science, George the Third, The Fine Arts, and many, many more.…

A Summary View of Heraldry in Reference to the Usages of Chivalry and the General Economy of the Feudal System with an Appendix Respecting Such Distinctions of Rank As Have Place in the British Constitution

Thomas Brydson · 1795 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Nicol, Egerton, Edwards, Faulder, 1795. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this heraldic work written by Thomas Brydson. The first edition. With writings on chivalry, tournaments, crusades, political departments of heraldry as well as distinctions in rank and …

Memoirs of John Howard, Esq., F.R.S., the Christian philanthropist : with a detail of his most extraordinary labours in the cause of benevolence;

TAYLOR, Thomas · 1836 · Moby Dick

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Published by John Hatchard & Son, Piccadilly, London, 1836, hardback. Engraved portrait frontispiece; xvi + 439 pages. , Reasonable state, Once alerted to the pityful plight of people confined to prison for debts, John Howard knew no bounds and travelled the length and breadth o…

Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and CIVIL

Hobbes, Thomas · 1960 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Oxford, B. Blackwell, 1960. Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards with gild lettering on the spine; tan DJ with black lettering; lxvii, 468 pp. "In this edition the errors of the edition of 1651 have been corrected, and the spelling has been modernized."-- Page iv. Good (Boards …

The Crying of Lot 49. A novel.

THOMAS PYNCHON. · 1967 · Clearwater Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 183pp. Purple cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's black top edge stain. A trace of very light spotting to the head of the upper board and pa…

Ruin from the Air: The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima

Gordon Thomas · 1977 · Denton Island Books

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

BCA, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Remains firmly bound, with clean unmarked pages; sellotape repair to top rear corner of jacket. Ruin from the Air is the expanded edition of a previous #! bestseller, ENOLA GAY. Authors Thomas and Witts have outdone themselves…

Poèmes dramatiques de T. Corneille. Nouvelle édition, revû‘, corrigée & augmentée. Enrichie de figures en taille-douce.

CORNEILLE, Thomas. · 1722 · Jack Baldwin - Rare Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

Paris: au Palais, chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1722. 12mo. 4 vols. Vol. 1: [2]. 531p. Frontispiece, 6 plates. Vol. 2: [4]. 540p. 7 plates. Vol. 3: [4], 464p. 6 plates. Vol. 4: [4], 588p. 7 plates.Contemporary calf; gilt spines chipped at head and foot; covers of vol. 4 rubbed; marbl…

Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War.

Weber, Thomas · 2010 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Oxford & New York. Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 416 pp.- Perhaps no individual in modern history has received more intensive study than Adolf Hitler. His many biographers have provided countless conflicting interpretations of his dark life, but virtually…

Poems of Wit and Humour

Thomas Hood · 1864 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1864. Leather. A lovely full-calf selection of the humorous poems of Thomas Hood. Smartly bound in contemporary red full calf. A lovely selection of the comic works of English poet Thomas Hood, best known for "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the …

Gertrude of Wyoming and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1810 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Longman, Hurst et al. 1810. Leather. An early copy of Thomas Campbell's collected poems. Second Edition. Two volumes bound into one. Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale (1809) is a romantic epic in Spenserian stanza composed by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (1…