Social History Books

London: A & C Black. Large thick 8vo, pp 1374, lacks front endpaper otherwise a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. . (more information)

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London: Success Publishing Company Ltd.. (TITLE CONTINUES : Written by one Who has Made it his Special Study, Who has Found it Pay where Ordinary Brains Failed to Impress, and Who now Wishes to Impart his Knowledge to the Great Army of Incompetents all Over the World.) Small 8vo, pp 96, in pictorial wrappers, undated (circa 1920's), copy has some wear and browning, some small tears and creasing to wrappers, part of "Political Humbug" sticker attached to front of wrappers, some small tears and nicks to fore-edges, corners worn, spine lacking small piece at base. Author not attributed but satirical analysis of how to "swank" from an American perspective. Chapters include: The Methods of "Swank", an Analysis of "Swank", a Word on Appearances, Suburban "Swank", Political "Swank", Advertising "Swank", The "Swank of the "Sport", The "Swank" of the Professions, and the Maxims of the Swanker. . (more information)

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London: Murray, 1901. 8vo, pp xvi, 360, complete with the three fold-out maps in good condition, hinges slightly cracked, blue cloth dull, spine slightly worn, else a cleaner than average ex-library copy (labels at front and rear, neat stamp on verso & recto of title page,shelf number and cross on spine). . (more information)

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London: Saunders & Otley, 1832. Hand coloured frontispiece depicting crowns and coronets (offset onto title page), pp xx,598, uncut, rather weak internally, hinges weak, frontispiece detached, original polished cloth, rubbed, spine poor, joints breaking. . (more information)

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New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment, 1985. Illustrated with monocrome photos and line drawings, 4to, pp xvii, 393, (v), laminated boards, slightly worn and rubbed, base of board spine cracking but held together by the cellaphane layer of the laminated board, internally sound and tight, slight scuff on the rear pastedown endpaper. PLEASE NOTE THIS WILL BE A 2 KILO PARCEL WHEN PACKED. PLEASE ENQUIRE ABOUT SHIPPING CHARGE. . (more information)

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London: Cassell and Company. New edition, eighteenth thousand. Illustrated, 8vo, pp 219, decorated cloth, red and black, all edges gilt, very slightly worn, endpapers slightly browned, some scattered foxing towards the end of the book, but a much better than average copy. (Neat signature on half title dated 1906).. (more information)

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London: A & C Black. Large thick 8vo, pp 1374, a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. . (more information)

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Washington: National Museum of American Art, 1994. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photos, square format 8vo, pp.100, card wrappers, very good copy. . (more information)

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London: Henry Melland, 1982. Well illustrated, octavo, pp 100, rear endpaper stuck down, otherwise a good copy in a very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. [Postage within the UK should be no more than £2.70]. (more information)

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Newchurch: Bale & Co, 1911. Small 8vo, red cloth, pp xii, 96, cloth very slightly worn, spine head slightly pulled, owner's initials on front endpaper. . (more information)

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London: Virago, 1985. Small 8vo, pp (2), 313, papeback, the slightest signs of wear to the covers, pages slightly browned with age, otherwise a bright copy.[Women, the Family and Wage Labour under Capitalism. Politics, Sexuality and Choice. Nature/Culture : theories of sexual difference.]. (more information)

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London: Batsford, 1936. Illustrated with black-and-white images from old prints, pictures and photos, colour frontispiece, 8vo, pp viii, 120, mid-blue cloth with orange lettering on upper cover and spine, slight fading to head and tail of spine and small section of upper cover, scattered foxing throughout and to all edges, binding tight, in worn dustwrapper lacking sections mainly at head and tail of spine. . (more information)

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Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984. Small 8vo, pp (4), 215, paperback, showing the very faintest signs uf use, but really a very good copy.. (more information)

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London, NW6: (Private printing) The Editors, The Manor House, Brondesbury, 1929. Illustrated with 4 monochrome photographic portraits, 8vo, pp xxvi, 334, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, very minor scuffs on cover, very slight staining on endpapers and minor foxing on half-title, otherwise clean. . (more information)

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Arizona State University, 1986. Illustrated, 4to, pp xvi, 196, (4), a good copy, paperback, pale brown wrappers. . (more information)

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London: The National Trust, 1998. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 48, paperback, a very good copy. [Contemporary illustrations of board-games, billiards, shell work, theatricals etc.]. (more information)

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London & New York: Tavistock Publications, 1987. 1983, reprinted 1987. With pp x, 273, pb, covers showing some signs of use, a little used internally. Postage with in the UK will be no more than £2.65. . (more information)

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Nanaimo, British Columbia: Salal Books, 2000. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp (6), 260, paperback in limp wrappers, the very slightest signs of wear, otherwise a very good copy.. (more information)

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London: Methuen & Co., 1927. Illustrated by Hanslip Fletcher, pp xvi, 224, uncut, cloth backed boards, a little browned and slightly worn, boards slightly bowed. . Illus. by Fletcher, Hanslip. (more information)

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Stroud, Gloucestershire.: Sutton Publishing, 2004. NEW. Well illus, pp xiv, 210, a very good copy in d.w. [Women inventors from 1637 to date] (Published at £17.99) . (more information)

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Oxford University Press, 1992. Small thick 8vo, pp xlii, 509, paperback, a good copy with no creasing of the spine.. (more information)

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London: (Privately Published) The Chiswick Press, 1930. Illustrated with monochrome portraits and photographs. 8vo, pp 232, green cloth with gilt crest on cover and lettering on spine, some light markings on the cloth, head and bottom of spine slightly pulled, top-edge gilt, other edges uncut, a few internal hinges cracking slightly. This copy was given to the owner Eva Hickes by Beatrix Lister, and the ownership inscription and presentation note are written and sellotaped onto the front and back endpapers. A family portrait has been sellotaped on to the half-title page and also another facing page 57. The author's newspaper obituary has been pasted onto the title page.. (more information)

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London: Sampson Low, 1909. Small 8vo, pp (6), 157, slight foxing on the first and last few oages, original pale brown boards, slightly worn, slight split to upper joint on spine. [An uncommon item. An anti-suffragist tract, with chapters including "The Working Woman's Plea for Exemption From Political Responsibility". "Pots and Pans and Proper Pride". "The Ideals of an Anti-Suffragist". "A Woman Worker's Appeal".] . (more information)

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Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. A few illustrations, 8vo, pp (6), 200, a very good hardback copy in dustwrapper.. (more information)

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London: The Athlone Press, 1973. 8vo, pp x,294, clothbound, a good copy in a slightly worn and frayed dustwrapper. . (more information)

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London: Evans Brothers Ltd., 1972. Illustrated, 4to, pp 55, original pictorial card boards, feint foxing to the title page and the verso of page 55. ( One title from the "History at Source" series (Thomas, J.M., General Editor. ) . (more information)

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University of Oklahoma, 1997. Illustrated, 8vo, pp xviii, 366, a very good hardback copy in dustwrapper. Postage within the UK should be no more than £3.20.. (more information)

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Charlottsville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Large 8vo, pp xiv, 254, paperback, a very good copy. Postage within the UK should be no more than £2.95. . (more information)

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Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990. Large slim 8vo, pp 57, paperback in yellow wrappers, a very good copy. [Kinship Household Demography, Family, Marriage, Attitudes to Sexuality, The Celibate State, Women, Children, Elderly, Outcasts, Dress.]. (more information)

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Dublin and New Jersey: Gill and Macmillan. Rowman and Littlefield, 1978. 18 illustrations, 8vo, pp xiv, 226, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. [Emma paterson and the Women's Protective and provident League. Lady Dilke. Molly the Munitions Maker in World War I. Amalgamation, Depression and Membership Problems, 1918-1931. World War II and the Labour Government. Equal pay at Last in a Stop-Go Economy.]. (more information)

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