British Studies

England: Guinness Superlatives, Ltd., 1971. 359pp including index of recipients of the awards. Along with great detail about the awards are examples of citations illustrating circumstances of meriting such awards. Provides a guide to the detection of faked or copied medals. A fundamental reference with many color and b/w illustrations. Bibliography. Small former owner ex-libris. (loc 662/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7 x 9-1/2. more information

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London: Old Westminster Press, 1950. A note written by a former owner had been taped onto the front end paper. 843pp. ' A Book of Common Errors: Explained and Corrected with Copious References to Authorities'. Intro. by Sir Richard Gregory. (loc 402/1). Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Good. more information

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Harmony Books, 1984. 204pp "The fourth book in the Hitchhiker's Trilogy.". First Stated Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Chipped. more information

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Simon & Schuster, 1965. First printing. Very good. D/j is good. 319pp. Illus. Henry VIII. (loc G66/1). Hard Cover. more information

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London: Collins, 1955. 448pp Illus with photos and maps. As Aldington firmly states in the Foreword, this is a biographical enquiry, not a biography of Lawrence. The red dj, in a mylar cover, is worn about the edges and has a 1" chip from the top of the backstrip and a small one at the bottom edge. (loc 895/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Chipped DJ. more information

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Wash. DC GPO 1941. First edition. 403pp. 'Instructions to the British Ministers to the United States 1791-1812.' Bernard Mayo, editor. Very good; lower corners of cover lightly bumped. (loc 1000). Hard Cover. more information

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Cleveland, OH Jontzen Printing Co. 1929. First edition. 189pp. Photos. 5-1/2"x7". Compiled from Governmental records and documents preserved in British Museums and State Departments in London. 'A Vivid Fragment of Penal History'. Good. Paper browning, but not brittle. (loc 518). Soft Cover. more information

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Grove Press, 1969. Two novels from the Victorian underground. Quoting the dust jacket, 'from the underground of Victorian literature, describes, in imaginative and piquant detail, the joys and satisfactions of incest and communal erotic pleasure.' 218pp (loc 365/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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Banks & Bros, Law Pubublishers 1897. Eighth Edition - First American Copyright Edition. Edited with American Notes by Ernest W. Huffcut of Cornell Law School. Good Plus. New endpapers, some minor binding repair, backstrip slightly faded. 456pp. (loc 752). Hard Cover. more information

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N.Y. Macmillan 1938. First edition. Good Plus. Gilt lettering on backstrip slightly faded. 387pp. (loc 954). Hard Cover. more information

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Leipsic: Karl Baedecker, 1889. 'Handbook For Travellers' Seventh Revised Edition. With 3 Maps and 15 Plans. End papers are chipped, otherwise interior is very good. Cover is worn and frayed along the edges. (loc 518/1). Hard Cover. more information

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N.Y. Praeger 1970. First edition. Very good; former owner bookplate on front end paper. DJ is good, slightly frayed. 260pp. Sketches, photos, indexed. (loc 518/1). Hard Cover. more information

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Horizon Press, 1975. 237pp Letters read after 200 years kept secret in an Earl's home. They reveal an unexpected candidness from British officers and some political figures. Some of the reason Britain lost its colony in America are answered. (Loc 1060/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Frayed DJ. more information

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N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, 1993. 278 pp. Biography of the first great English King.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. 1515pp. Illus. Two volume set. Inside of dust jacket is stuck to bottom of backstrip on Volume 2.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Frayed. more information

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Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1957. 251pp. Frontis. Very good. No jacket. (loc 808/1). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1906. First Edition. 669pp. Early work by Beard. Covers worn, fraying along the edges, particularly at the bottom of the backstrip. Internally good. Former owner signature on front endpaper. (loc 854). Hard Cover. more information

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NY Doubleday, Doran 1928. First edition. Top page edges gilt. 246pp. Very good. No jacket. Backstrip slightly faded. Inside stuff. (loc 518). Hard Cover. more information

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Knopf, 1974. 789pp Illus. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good. more information

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Macmillan. 1895 Printing. 240pp plus appendix. Part of the Twelve English Statemen Series. Good Minus: top of backstrip frayed, spine slightly cocked, end papers foxed. Former owner signature on front end paper. (loc 955). Hard Cover. more information

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Knopf, 1996. 381pp Illus "A biography of the author of 'Dracula.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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N.Y. Macmillan, 1972. First American Edition. Very good. D/j is very good. Illus with photos and genealogical charts. An account of the interrelated Anglo-Jewish aristocracy in England. 466pp. (loc 625). Hard Cover. more information

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Bloomsbury, 1994. 279pp Illus "My life on the loose and the truth about the Great Train Robbery.". First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Frayed. more information

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Garden City Publishing Co., 1926. Good Plus. D/j is slightly frayed. 319pp. British history, that is. (loc 751). Hard Cover. more information

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Philadelphia, PA: Rees Welsh 1897. Four volumes. 1898 printing. Very good. 'Notes Selected from the Editors of Archbold, Christian, Coleridge, Chitty, Stewart, Kerr, and Others; and in addition, Notes and References to All Text Books and Decisions wherein the Commentaries have been cited, and All Statutes Modifying the Text by William Draper Lewis.' Excellent 19th Century edition, rebound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Only defect is that fives lines of text on page vi of the Editor's Preface in Book 1 have been underlined. (loc 756/1). Hard Cover. more information

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St. Martin's 1967. Fourth Printing. 819pp. Photos. Very good, except for red pencil marks on front end paper. DJ is frayed. (loc 612). Hard Cover. more information

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Henry Regnery Co., 1970. 214pp Illus. Index. In the early 1820's William Crockford opened gambling halls throughout London, enriching himself and beggaring much of England's aristocracy. To quote: to succeed "vice must be engaged in luxury", and he did succeed with his gambling palaces. (Loc 750/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Worn. more information

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London: Sir Isaac Pitman 1933. First edition. Very good. D/j is worn and chipped. Early work; presentation copy and also signed by 'Elsie E. Bowerman' on title page. 124pp. (loc 752). Hard Cover. more information

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Rinehart 1957. First Edition. 309pp. Letters by Sallie Coles Stevenson, wife of the American Minister to the Court of St. James from 1836-1841. Ex-library. Good. DJ is good, in a plastic sleeve with the flaps glued down. (loc 831/1). Hard Cover. more information

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Norton, 1990. 244pp Illus (drawings). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Frayed. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1950. 200 pp. Great English structures. Ex-libris on front endpaper.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus, Frayed DJ. more information

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Rinehart, 1955. The Constance Kent case. Illus. 272pp. (loc 261/1). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Frayed, Chipped DJ. more information

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N.Y. St. Martin's 1974. First American Edition. Very good. DJ is very good. 230pp. (loc 750,745/4). Hard Cover. more information

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David & Charles, 1980. 220pp Illus "Maker of the modern Lloyd's of London.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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Scribner's, 1967. 422pp Illus. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Frayed. Illus. by Kelly, Felix. more information

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London: Allen Lane, 1976. 305pp. Indexed. (loc 566/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Frayed DJ. Illus. by Felix Kelly. more information

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Coward-McCann 1977. First American Edition. 334pp. Very good. D/j is very good. The conflict between Henry II and Thomas a Becket over the Constitutions of Clarendon. Sequel to The Lion of England and The Lion of Justice. (loc 590). Hard Cover. more information

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N.Y. Macmillan 1893. 255pp. Frontis. From English Men of Action Series. Red cloth cover, light soil, backstrip slightly faded, but gilt lettering still bright. Interior very good. Former owner name on front end paper. (loc x131). Hard Cover. more information

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NY: Macmillan, 1959. Revised Edition, First Printing. 304pp. Very good, except for pencil marks in margins throughout. Dj is worn. (loc 915/1). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Taplinger 1971. First edition. Very good. D/j is slightly frayed. 'The Autobiography of a Villain.' Foreword Michael Young. An indictment of the English prison system. 191pp. (loc 751). Hard Cover. more information

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Doubleday, 1905. First edition. 241pp. Good. Front end paper torn, repaired. (loc 514/1). Hard Cover. more information

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London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1864. First edition. Two volumes in one, 293pp and 380pp. Pioneer English woman reformer of the penal system. Vol. II includes extensive material on the Irish prison system. Cover faded, lightly foxed throughout, moderate wear to top and bottom of backstrip, otherwise very good. Former owner signature and date on front fly. (loc 708). Hard Cover. more information

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N.Y.: Harper, 1949. 304 pp. Photos. "Romantic Irishman, British patriot, crusader, historian, novelist, sportsman, doctor, detective - the creator of Sherlock Holmes.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good, Slightly Frayed. more information

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St. Martins, 1981. 223pp Illus "...and other magnificent British eccentrics." Designed by Kate Hepburn. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus, Repaired DJ. Illus. by Till, Peter. more information

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N.Y. Harper 1958. Good Plus. D/j is good, chipped. 190pp. An introduction to the English justice system by the novelist. Great illus. by Edward Ardizzone. Foreword by The Hon. Mr. Justice Devlin. (loc 751). Hard Cover. Illus. by Edward Ardizzone. more information

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Bobbs Merrill, 1948. 256pp. Illus. Re: Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray. Good. No jacket. (loc 427/1). Hard Cover. more information

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Carroll & Graf, 2000. 309pp Illus "...and a life in a year at The New Yorker.". First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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Methuen, 1980. 240pp. Illus. (loc 1013/1). First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus, Slightly Frayed DJ. Illus. by Hills, Jonathan. more information

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Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1974. 244pp Illus Bottoms of front and rear covers water stained.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Worn. more information

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Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1952. 673pp 79pp Appndices The twelve months between June 1943 and June 1944. Ahead lay the formidable task of invading Europe. The different and diverging opinions among the three great partners, Britain, the U.S.A. and Russial, and how agreement was reached on the major issues. (loc 425/1). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Frayed with Sunned Spine. more information

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