Search Results: ART, HISTORY AND POLITICS, ART from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

1066: The Year of the Conquest, Howarth, David. Published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., London, 1977. 224pp., illustrated. Grey cloth boards with silver spine titles. In fine, unread condition with name to title page.
The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings and changed England and the English forever.The events leading to-and following-this turning point in history are shrouded in mystery. Distorted by the biased accounts written by a subjugated people, many believe it was the English who ultimately won the battle, since the Normans became assimilated into the English way of life.
Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, David Howarth gives us memorable portraits of the kings: Edward the Confessor, Harold of England, William of Normandy, as well as the leading political figures of the time. Howarth describes the English commoners: how they worked, fought, died, and how… Read More

40 Years on the Yukon Telegraph, Lawrence, Guy. Published by Caryall Books Ltd, Quesnel, British Columbia, 1990. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 122pp. with photographs, appendix, index. Stamped name to free endpaper, light shelf wear to covers and otherwise in fine condition. Guy Lawrence was for 40 years a lineman and telegrapher on the famous Yukon Telegraph Line. This is the story of those years and how he first came to Canada from England in 1898 to take part in the great gold stampede.

60 Years behind the Wheel: The Cars We Drove in Canada, 1900-1960Sherk, Bill; Filey, Mike (foreword). Published by Dundurn Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003. Glossy card covers. 4to up to 12" tall; 216pp. with numerous black and white illustrations. Light wave to pages and otherwise in unread condition without marks, tears etc.

935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral IntegrityLewis, Charles, Published by PublicAffairs, New York, 2014. First Edition.Quarter black over white boards, red spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 364 pages including index. Volume in unread condition; light crease to lower front of unclipped dustjacket which is otherwise fine.

An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan and Part of Tibet, Turner, Capt. Samuel. Sub-title: To which are added, views taken on the spot by Lieutenant Samuel Davis and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medicinal by Mr. Robert Saunders. Introduction by Hugh Richardson. Published by Manjusri Publishing House, New Delhi, 1971. Reprint of 1800 Edition. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; xxviii, 473pp. with 13 plates, Appendix. Blue pebbled leather boards with gilt titles, top edge blue, blue endpapers. Ordre des Architects du Quebec stamp to pastedown and contents are otherwise fine without markings, tears or folds. Blue top outer edge has some bleeding not affecting pages; outer edge has very light dusting. Boards are tight and square without rubbing.
In 1786, Samuel Turner (1759 1802), an army officer in the East India Company, was appointed leader of a mission to encourage open trade routes in… Read More

The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna, John R Jewitt, annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, Canada, 1987. First Canadian Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; 192pp. Black cloth boards with silver spine titles. Two small and very light scratches to boards and otherwise volume is in fine condition. Unclipped jacket has light inside toning to top edge and an inside soil spot.
Held captive as a slave after his crew was killed, John R. Jewitt experienced adventure and hardship as he learned about the native life of Nootka Sound. This new edition contains nearly 300 annotations and 200 drawings for the book by Hilary Stewart. During three years of research, Stewart tracked down the English captive's descendants, John Rodgers Jewitt IV, V and VI, living in the United States, and Northwest Indians still bearing the name Maquinna. Jewitt's journal which was first published in 1815.
Hilary Stewart (1924-2014) was an award-winning author… Read More

Against the Current: Selected Writings, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1996. First Edition. 340pp. Black boards with silver titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition; unclipped jacket has very light shelf wear.

Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island, Heyerdahl, Thor. Published by Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1958. First Printing July 1958, Book of the Month. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 384pp, 62 color photos; maps. Tan cloth boards with blind-stamped illustration front; gilt spine labels on red panel, mapped endpapers in tri-colour. Light dusting to outer edges; lightly shaken and otherwise fine without markings, tears or folds. Unclipped dustjacket has ruffling and rubbing to edges.

Alaska, 1899, Copper River Exploring Expedition, Abercrombie, Captain W. R., Washington, Government Printing Office, 1900. Senate Document No 306 56th Congress 1st Session. First Edition. 169 pages followed by 168 full halftone photo plates and attached folding map. Half leather over black boards, banded spine with gilt titles; all edges speckled light red; marbled green endpapers with reinforced red hinges. Boards have rubbing to leather with a crack to upper joint line. Map is clean, crisp and white with a small repairable tear to bottom panel outside left margin. Binding tight; contents in pristine condition and appear unread.
In 1989, Capt. W. R. Abercrombie, Second United States Infantry was commanded to lead an expedition to "open up a military road to Copper Center, and from the last-named point by the most direct and practicable route to Eagle City. …. This expedition will cover as much territory as possible, and will collect and incorporate in the reports all information that may lie… Read More

Album Of The Damned: Snapshots From The Third Reich, Garson, Paul. Published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, 2008, First Edition. Black boards with gilt front board and spine titles. Un clipped dust jacket. In beautiful condition; one tiny bump to back board bottom edge otherwise as new.

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth, Cantor, Norman F. Published by Harper, 2005. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 180pp. with bibliography and notes. Quarter black over brown boards. In unread condition with remainder mark outside bottom edge.

All the Drowned Sailors, Lech, Raymond B. Published by Stein and Day, New York, 1992. Black boards, gilt front and spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 242 pages. Photographs, maps, appendices, bibliography, index.Volume is in fine condition. Clipped dustjacket has rubbing to edges, one small closed tear and yellowing inside spine. From the dust jacket: "The never-before-told story of what was America's greatest wartime sea disaster; of what really happened to the Indianapolis and her crew; why she should never have been sunk in the first place; why the U. S. Navy left her crew drifting in shark-infested waters for four days even though they knew she was missing; and, after heads were accidentally seen bobbing in the water, why the Navy began a massive cover-up that lasted for over thirty years. "

Alluring British Columbia Canada. Published by British Columbia Government Travel, Canada, 1958. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., unpaginated, approx. 32pp. with black and white and color photos and illustrations. Very light wear to covers and light toning; otherwise in fine condition.

Ancient Greece. A Sketch of its Art, Literature & Philosophy Viewed in Connexion with its External History from Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great, Cotterill, H.B. Published by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, London, 1915. Second Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xxiv, 499 pp., color and black-and-white plates, some illustrations in text. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine and illustration spine. Gilt top edge. In very good condition: name to free endpaper with no additional markings; spotting to first few pages not affecting plates or title pages; light wear to boards; binding is tight.

Ancient Greece: Everyday Life in the Birthplace of Western Civilization, Garland, Robert. Published by Sterling, New York, 2013. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 365pp.illustrated in colour with maps and photos, Glossary of Greek Terms, suggested reading, index. Blue aqua cloth boards, silver spine titles. Contents in fine, unread condition; lower board edges have light rubbing; light shelf wear to unclipped jacket.

The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies: A History of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land and it's Dioceses from 1820 to 1950, Boon, T. C. B. Published by The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1962. First Edition. Signed and inscribed to Reverend Canon Arnold W.B. Heeney, dated May 12 1966; Rev Heeney is also noted in the author's acknowledgements. 480pp. with 9 maps (including fold-out), bibliography, index. Beige boards with gilt spine titles. Light yellowing to pages and otherwise, contents are clean without markings, tears or folds. In very good condition. Considered a definitive source on the history of the Anglican Church in Canada.
Boon, T. C. B. (Thomas Charles Boucher), 1887-1979

Arabia Felix, The Danish Expedition of 1761 - 1767, Hansen, Thorkild. Translated by James and Kathleen McFarlane. Published by Harper and Row, New York, 1962. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 381pp., index, illustrated with maps and black and white plates. Turquoise cloth boards with gilt titles. Bookplate to pastedown, name to versus of contents page, light outer edge toning and otherwise contents in fine condition; dustjacket has tiny chips and tears.A true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively… Read More

The Armada 400th Anniversary Edition, Mattingly, Garrett. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1959 BOMC. Quarter brown cloth over blue boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated endpapers. 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 443 pages including color and black and white plates, notes and index. Inked name to half title and otherwise volume and unclipped jacket in fine condition. "On the four hundredth anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, here, in a new deluxe illustrated edition, is Garrett Mattingly's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Armada, which has been hailed as 'an historical masterpiece' (New York Times)."

The Arunta, A Study of a Stone Age People, Spencer, Sir Baldwin; F.J. Gillen Published by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., St. Martin's Street, London, 1927. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Paged continuously: xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646pp plus plates; bibliographical references and index. Paged continuously: xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646pp plus plates. Hundreds of black and white plates, illustrations and diagrams in both volumes. Volume One has large folding map with title tissue overlay; Volume Two has double-paged colour plates and a fold out colour plate of Ceremonial Objects with title tissue overlay. Green cloth boards with gilt spine titles; top edge gilt. Contents of both volumes are in near mint condition with pages presenting as bright, white and unmarked. Small closed tear to gutter of fold out map Volume One not affecting map itself; tiny closed tear and fore edge ruffle page 273, Volume One; small chip edge of rear free endpaper Volume Two. Very light wear to boards; binding is… Read More

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini, Benvenuto. Published by The Folio Society, London, 1966. Translated by George Bull. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall., 447pp. with 18 black and white plates. Crimson cloth boards decorated in gilt to front and spine; grey endpapers, grey top edge; house din a grey slipcase. Volume is in fine, unread condition; a few pin-prick rubs to front hinge line of front board; light rubbing to slipcase corners.
Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the Cellini Salt Cellar, the sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, and his autobiography, which has been described as "one of the most important documents of the 16th century".