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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream.
by OBAMA, Barack
New York: Crown, 2006. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
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$150.00
Naval & Maritime History. An Annotated Bibliography.
by Albion, Robert Greenhalgh
Sections: Reference Works; Merchantmen and Warships; Captains and Crews; Maritime Science, Exploration and Expansion; Commerce and Shipping; Navies; Naval History by Chronological Periods; Special Topics (Auxiliary Services; Ports; Maritime Economics; Commodities; Passengers & Migration; Maritime & International Law; Privateering, Buccaneering, and Piracy; Marine Disasters; Safety at Sea and Salvage; Maritime Historical Journals; Major American Maritime Museums. "First edition published 1963." ix, 370...
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$30.00
The Spring-Time of Life; or, Advice to Youth
by Magie, David
NY, NY: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1853. 1st edition; 12mo; brown cloth covered boards with faded gilt spine lettering and decorations; 328 pages plus 8 pages of publisher's books; faded covers else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.
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$75.00
Fleetbook 13 - Buses of Western Scotland
by Millar, Alan (Editor)
Manchester: A.M.Witton, 1977. Book. Fine. Stapled Card Covers. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 56 pages, 40g, Stapled soft card covers FINE, with the contents tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Contains fleet lists and historical notes..
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£7.00
ENGLAND
by BURNINGHAM , John , Author & Artist
London : JONATHAN CAPE, 1992 Near Fine Book. Black cloth boards with Silver titles in Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. 295x260mm. The wonderful humour illustrations by author & artist John Burningham; Light-hearted view of the English. Near Fine/VG [ Book- no inscsp.minor fox spotting to half title page only, fine throughout] Card paper Dust Jacket minor markings. not clipped. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale
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£12.00
Madmen, a Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics
by Porter, Roy
Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2004. 1st illustrated edition, large 8vo, 320pp, photo illustrations and reproductions, VG+/Fine Copy in VG+/Fine DJ. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£7.50
Mend Your Speech One Thousand Hints on Words Their Use and Abuse
by Vizetelly, Frank H., Litt.D., LL.D
NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company (1920). 16mo; cloth backed stiff pictorial covers; softcover; 48 pages; advertising for other reference books on inside of covers; lightly edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy.
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$8.00
A Short History of Tyneham.
by Leighton, Brian
Privately Published Book. Fine. Stapled Card Covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 17 pages. 50g. Stapled paper covers FINE. A type written history of this deserted village..
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£5.13
American Classics of the Air: Commercial and Private Aeroplanes from the 1920s to the 1960s
by Geoff Jones; Chuck Stewart
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 2000. Book. Fine. Soft Card Cover. 1st U.K. Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 112 pages, 560g. soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout..
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£6.00
Endymion Porter: The Life of a Courtier 1587-1649
by Huxley, Gervas
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. 1st edition, 8vo, 344pp, photo reproductions, illustrations; spine a shade faded o/w VG Copy in VG DJ dust-darkened at spine and with some very shallow loss to spine tips. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£15.00
Victorian Travellers Guide to 19th Century England and Wales Containing Charts of Roads, Railways, Interesting Localities, Views of Scenery and a Comprehensive List of Hotels
by A & C Black
London: Bracken Books, 1985. A reissue in facsimile of Black's Victorian original, 8vo, 544pp, line maps; Bracken were not noted for the quality of paper they used and this is no exception, consequently age-tanning has set in about the edges and margins o/w VG Copy in VG DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£6.00
The Monthly Jubilee Published By an Associatiopn of the Daugthers and Sons of toil (Vol. III, No. VII, June, 1853)
by Denny, John Jay (editor)
Philadelphia, June, 1853: Jubilee Publication Office. Octavo. 31 pages.(i.e. 293-322(3) pp.) One of the earliest radical publications calling for freedom of labor to determine their own wages, Warns of European and big banking interests against the rights of the common man. Bound in yellow printed wrappers (stitched), lower corner with chipping. A very good copy.
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$110.00
The Meaning of Movement
by Janet Kestenberg Amighi
Routledge, 1999. Hardcover. Used - Good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear and some slight bumping around the binding. There is limited highlighting in the first few pages of the book. No further markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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$22.00
The Cottage Garden by Anne Scott-James (1981-03-30)
by Scott-James, Anne
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Allen Lane ~ Penguin books ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Chestnut brown cloth, gilt title to spine & extensive gilt design to face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a country garden by Helen Allingham, white and red titles to face with black and red titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £9.95. Absolutely...
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£12.95
A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, and Travels into the Interior of that Country ; Containing Particular Descriptions of the Climate and Inhabitants, and interesting particulars concerning the SLAVE TRADE
by Hawkins, Joseph
Troy: Luther Pratt, 1797. Second Edition. Full leather. Very Good. Second Edition. ix, [2], 12-180 pages. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Frontispiece engraving "The AUTHOR Relating the HISTORY of his TRAVELS to his Friend" present (often missing). Full leather binding with red leather label and simple gold ruling on spine. Previous owner name "John S. Popkin March 1798" inked on verso of title page. Occasional spotting and light browning throughout. One small hole affecting a few letters on one leaf (pages 141/2)....
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$1210.00
The Great Doctors
by Henry Sigerist (Eden and Cedar Paul, Translators)
1933 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Blue boards with gold stamping show fading over spine and light edge wear. Writing on FEP. Edge of text block is lightly soiled. Text itself is clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Short biographies of many famous caregivers from Hippocrates to Laennec to Pasteur, Koch and Osler. Many illustrations and photographs. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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$19.00
THE BLITZ The British Under Attack
by GARDINER , Juliet, Respected Historian& Historical Consultant, Author, Broadcaster,Lecturer
London : HARPER PRESS, 2010 Author of The critically Acclaimed Wartime Britain. 240x160mm. Epic format 45mm depth. 431pp.Illustrated b/w full-page photo-plates, some double spread. Near Fine/Near Fine[ Book bright red boards , sound binding, clean throughout, small neat corner inscsp." D L Hockey,Jan 2015, Aged 92 yrs, I was there!"] Dust Jacket not price clipped £25 [2010] minor corner creases, no spine fade. Now in clear easily Removable proprietary protective sleeve. Please see our...
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£20.00
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MUMBET/MUM BETT FILM TREATMENT ANNOTATED]
by Gerald Kean, TigerTiger Productions
[AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK STUDIES; ELIZABETH FREEMAN / MUMBET/MUM BETT FILM TREATMENT ANNOTATED] MUMBET [Mum Bett] by Gerald Kean, copy #5 (in pen in upper right corner), (agent) TigerTiger Productions, Weston, CT, registered with Writer's Guild of America-East, September 16, 1991, comb-bound, 8-1/2" x 11", 33 pages including cover page, unnumbered following page, and at back 3 pages of copies of handwritten pages from period documents with content relating to Elizabeth Freeman/Mumbet/Mum Bett, heading of...
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$60.00
The London Child
by Sharp, Evelyn
London: John Lane, 1927. Book. Illus. by Garnett, Eve. New Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near fine copy of this account from the 1920s of the lives of children living in the capital. Evocative descriptions accompanied by the as always delightful illustrations of Eve Garnett (One End Street), which capture the context perfectly. Colour frontis and 3 others, plus b/w illus throughout. Orange cloth has only slight fading to spine, browning to eps which is usual....
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£50.00
Youth of Nepal
by Majupuria. Trilok, & Indra
Lashkar, India: M. Devi., 1985. Book. Near V.G.. Soft Card Cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii + 317pp. 450g. Pictorial soft card covers which are creased and edge-rubbed with a short repaired tear to toe of spine. Near Very GOOD with the contents tight and clean. This is the socio-economic, psychological and political appraisal of the status, roll, problems and aspirations of the young people of Nepal. Illustrated with colour plates and b/w...
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£25.65
Man's Worldly Goods
by Leo Huberman
Victor Gollanz London . Left Book club edition
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NZ$37.50
Coup d'Oeil sur les Révolutions et sur la Réforme de la Médecine
by CABANIS, Pierre-Jean-Georges (1757-1808)
Paris,: Crapart, Caille et Ravier,, An XII - 1804.. xii, 438 pp. 8vo (14 x 20,5 cm.). Contemporary full marbled calf, spine gilt decorated (faded) and lettered on a red morocco label (corners slightly rubbed, hingle worm but firm, top of spine damaged). ** First edition. Cabanis, "close friend of Condorcet. Taught hygiene at the École Centrales (from 1794), was assistand to Corvisart, and taught history of medicine in the Ëcole de Santé in Paris. ... His principal work in...
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€147.49
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[PROGRAM -MENU] Abendbrot des Deutschen Vereins der Universität Harvard
1905-1907. 3 German Association of Harvard University programs/menus. 1) 8 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Commersbuch des Deutschen Verein der Universität Harvard, May 1905. This appears to be a song book related to toasting and drinking. Sewn binding, closed tears to head and tail of spine. 2) 16 x 13 cm. Deutscher Verein. German Association membership form, membership October 1906, $5.00. Signed. Crease to center. 3) 15 x 11.5 cm. Abendbrot des Deutschen Vereins der Universität Harvard. Dinner of the German...
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$125.00
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BEXLEY AREA From Prehistoric Times to the Anglo-Saxon Period
by P.J. TESTER, FSA
BEXLEY KENT : BEXLEY LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS DEPARTMENT, 1985 Illustrated card covers (Stapled Paperback) 210 x 150 mm approx. 30 pp, numerous unspecified b/w photos and line figs. First Edition 1985. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine (Covers- negligible shelf wear or soiling, contents clean with no previous owner name or insc. Binding sound with no notable defects,
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£4.00
The Embroidery Story" and "The Lace Story
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Hollywood Vassarette, 1960. Minor toning, else fine.. Two (2) illustrated booklets advertising lingerie and undergarments by Hollywood Vassarette, with "stories" relating the history of embroidery and lace-making by women: "Because Hollywood Vassarette lingerie and sleep fashions frequently feature dainty, delicate or whimsical embroideries, it seems appropriate to offer this educational booklet so that you may learn the embroidery story ... of its origin, development, present...
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$175.00
