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| ALEXANDER, HORACE India Since Cripps London, Penguin, 1944, First Penguin Edition. Paper Back . A very good, clean unmarked copy. 93pp. Penguin Special No S143. Attempted to give an impression of developments in India from Spring of 1942 to the autumn of 1943 - a time of enormous uncertainty and upheaval after the failed so-called Cripps Mission in which India was promised independence, in return for their support, once the war ended. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.64 | JP¥ 587] Book number: 031186 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| ARDAGH, JOHN The New France Harmondsworth, Middlesex", Penguin, 1974, Second Edition. (ISBN: 0140211713) Paper Back , 12mo - over 6¾"" - 7¾"" tall". Comprehensive accounts and opinons on post war France. 700 pages including index. Page edges browned, text remains unaffected. Good. GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.14 | JP¥ 807] Book number: 006079 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| BURMAN, EDWARD Italian Dynasties : The Great Families of Italy from the Renaissance to the Present Day Northamptonshire, Equation, 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 1853360058) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to. Looks at the great Italian dynasties throughout history including the Sforza, the Visconti, and the Este, whose story of vivid contrasts in which violence and cynicism co-mingle with piety and idealism, barbarism and extravagence with a commitment to civilized values. A very good clean hardback in very good unclipped dustwrapper. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. 192 pages including index. Illustrated with bw. pictures. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 041155 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| CHAMBERLIN, E. R. The Bad Popes New York, Dorset Press, 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0880291168) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. The story of seven men: - John XII, Benedict IX, Boniface VIII, Urban VI, Alexander VI, Leo X and Clement VII, who ruled the Church of Rome at seven critical periods in the 600 years leading to the Reformation, and exposing their ecclesiastical corruptions. A very good clean hardback in dustwrapper. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Slight tanning to page edges. 310 pages including index. Illustrated with bw photographs. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 041189 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| TANNAHILL REAY (EDITOR) Paris in the Revolution - a Collection of Eye-Witness Accounts London, The Folio Society, 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover , 4to - over 9¾"" - 12"" tall". Attempts to show what it was like living in Paris at the time of the Revolution by drawing on the words of the people who took part and the artists who painted what they saw. 52 colour & b/w illustrations. 127 pages. A very good clean copy. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 007527 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| SWEET-ESCOTT, BICKHAM Greece - a Political and Economic Survey 1939-1953 London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1954, First Edition. Hard Cover , 8vo. Covers both the politics and economics of Greece during the period with a section on the problem of Cyprus. A very good clean hardback. 207 pages including index. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 19.5 US$ 29.07 | JP¥ 2568] Book number: 036081 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| FISHER, H. A. L. A History of Europe Volume 1 London, Fontana Library, 1966, Seventh Impression. Paper Back , 12mo - over 6¾"" - 7¾"" tall". From earliest times to 1713. Clean, bright copy contains 767 pages including index. Front cover is rubbed. Spine repaired with tape. Very Good. GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.14 | JP¥ 807] Book number: 005787 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| EINHARD THE FRANK The Life of Charlemagne London, The Folio Society, 1970. Hard Cover . 88pp. 17 colour plates. Spine is slightly darkened. Presented in a purple slip case which has faded to the edges. Near Fine. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 007267 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| REUTER FRITZ Worms Bucher Bessler, 1986. Hard Cover , 4to. Ill.: Baranenko Klaus. A book about the ancient city of Worms, which is located on the Rhine. A good clean copy, illustrated with colour photographs. 56 pages. Very Good. GBP 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 19.5 US$ 29.07 | JP¥ 2568] Book number: 041989 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| GRIBBLE, LEONARD The True Book About the Spanish Main London, Frederick Muller, 1963, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Wilson, N. G. Part of the True Book series edited by Vernon Knowles. The truth of the deeds of yesterday that played their part in shaping the new world of today. Clean, square hardback in an unclipped d/w showing light shelf wear & tear. 142 pages. Very Good/Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 031551 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| HEROLD, J. CHRISTOPHER Love in Five Temperaments London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The literary portraits of five eighteenth-century French women being an actress, a slave girl, an ex nun, a maid and a companion none of them too well known, but each remarkable in their own way. Clean, square hardback in an unclipped d/w which has been protected by A Subscriber Book Service Edition d/w. 292 pages including index. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 20.76 | JP¥ 1834] Book number: 030322 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| HOFFMANN, STANLEY, KINDLEBERGER, CHARLES ETC France: Change and Tradition London, Victor Gollancz, 1963. Hard Cover , 8vo. A study of the change in French politics, society and her role in the world from the early 1930's to the early 1960's. A very good clean hardback. Slight fading to spine. 443 pages including index. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 | JP¥ 2935] Book number: 036082 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| HORNE, ALISTAIR The Fall of Paris - the Siege and the Commune 1870-71 London, The Reprint Society, 1965. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. A study of the Siege and its aftermath in which France was gripped in the vice of the Iron Chancellor's armies and forced to surrender on humiliating terms. A good clean hardback in dustwrapper which has tanned with age. 454 pages including index. Good/Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 041171 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| HOSKING, GEOFFREY ALAN Russia : People and Empire, 1552-1917 London, HarperCollins, 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002555360) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Demonstrates how frmo the sixteenth century, the Russians built one of the most extensive and disparate empires in human history, but did so at the cost of their own sense of nationhood. a very good clean hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. 548 pages. Slight tanning to page edges. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 32.50 [Appr.: EURO 36.25 US$ 53.98 | JP¥ 4769] Book number: 037476 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| IRVING, WASHINGTON A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada from the Mss of Fray Antonio Agapida London, Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910, Revised. Hard Cover , 16mo - over 5¾"" - 6¾"" tall". 458pp + adverts Part of the Worlds Classics series. A very good clean, bright copy. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 007281 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| LADY JACKSON, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE The Last of the Valois and the Accession of Henry of Navarre 1559-1589 London, Macmillan & Co, 1898. Hard Cover , 8vo. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt, white and blue decoration. Two volumes - Vol I ix + 405 pages. Vol II xi + 426 pages. Tissue protected frontispieces in both volumes are foxed with tear to tissue paper of Vol I. A little foxing to endpapers but text block is very clean. An attractive set. Picture is of Volume I. Good. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 44.5 US$ 66.44 | JP¥ 5870] Book number: 032117 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| PRYCE-JONES, DAVID; CONNOLLY, CYRIL The War That Never Was - the Fall of the Soviet Empire 1985-1991 London, Phoenix, 1996. (ISBN: 1857994752) Soft Cover , 8vo. Explains how and why the whole Sovet empire crumbled, with comment from major Soviet political personalties with their reactions and insights. A very good clean large format paperback which has been protected with clear adhesive plastic. 456 pages including index. Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 038138 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| LIMM, P. The Thirty-Years War London, Longman, 1985, Third Impression. (ISBN: 0582353734) Soft Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. An analysis of the war which raged in Europe between1618 and 1648 - one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. A very good clean copy. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Part of the Seminar Studies in History series. 134 pages including index. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 041162 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| MACGILLIVRAY, DUNCAN Britain and Her Neighbours. Book IV Lord and Vassal 1066-1485 London, Blackie & Son, 1936, Reprint. Hard Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book four of the series. Internally clean and bright with light crease mark to front cover. Includes many illustrations, some in colour. 192 pages including test questions plus pictorial time charts. Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 036323 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| MACLAGAN, ERIC The Bayeux Tapestry London, Penguin, 1949, Reprint. Hard Cover . A lovely little copy of this book on the Bayeux TapestRy which includes a cutting from The Times entitled 'What the Bayeux Tapestry does not show." Colour plates. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 004224 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| MALAND, DAVID Europe in the Seventeenth Century London, Macmillan Education, 1983, Second Edition. (ISBN: 0333335740) Paper Back , 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall". Ex Library, Ex school library. Repaired tear to front cover. Interior contents clean. 484pp including index. Reading Copy. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 003068 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| MALCOLM Bosnia : A Short History London, Macmillan, 1994. (ISBN: 0333616782) Soft Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Provides an account of the ocutnry from its beginnings to its tragic end laying to rest the historical fallacies that dominated the media at the time of the war. As new, unread paperback. 340 pages including index. Near Fine. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 037562 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| MORTON, FREDERIC A Nervous Splendor : Vienna, 1888-1889 London, George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297777696) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Tells the fascinating story of the ten months before and after Austria's Crown Prince Rudolf murder of his teenage mistress, and his own suicide hours later, thus destroying the last hope of the Habsburg dynasty. Clean, bright hardbck in unclipped dustwrapper. 340 pages. B.W. Illustrations. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 038114 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| NEWMAN, BERNARD Round About Andorra London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928, First Edition. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Gardener, C. Henry. Tells the history of the tiny, independent republic in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, about sixty miles from the Mediterranean end of the chain. Good, internally clean copy which is slightly askew and darkened to spine. Small Foyles sticker inside front board. Fore-edges untrimmed - 300 pages including index. Good +/No Jacket. GBP 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 30.5 US$ 45.68 | JP¥ 4035] Book number: 039842 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. | ||
| OKEY, ROBIN The Habsburg Monarchy, C. 1765-1918 : From Enlightenment to Eclipse" Basingstoke, Hampshire, Macmillan, 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333396545) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall". Tight, unread copy.Slightest signs of shelf life. Part of the European Studies series with terse clear and crisp prose and sharp arguments. 456 pages including index. Near Fine. GBP 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 US$ 37.37 | JP¥ 3302] Book number: 005157 Click here to order or inquire at YesterYear Books. |
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