History - General from Goldring Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small indentaion to top front with dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 532 pages. 47 illustrations. 20 maps. In this ambitious and important work Roger Osborne shows that we can only truly understand our ciilization by re-examining and confronting our past, with all… Read more

Istanbul: NET Turistik Yayinlar, 1988. Card covers are clean and unmarked internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Fine copy. With original entry tickets enclosed. 93 pages printed on glossy paper. illustrated. throughout with colour photographs. The history of the 15th century Topkapi Palace. 205. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read more

Athens: Art Editions, 1983. A near Fine unmarked copy in card covers with pages of glossy paper. A large format work detailing the history of the Acropolis - the rocky hill on which the Parthenon is sited and describes in detail all of the ancient buildings there. It also covers the Acropolis Museum which houses many ancient sculptures and those… Read more

Istanbul: NET Turistik Yayinlar, 1988. Card covers are clean and unmarked internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Fine copy. With original entry tickets enclosed. 61 pages printed on glossy paper. illustrated. throughout with colour photographs. The history of the famous Hagia Sophia, one of the greatest monuments of Byzantium … Read more

Hampstead, London: High Hill Press, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format book of 192 pages printed in the calligraphy of George Simpson with architectural photographs by Keith Wynn and portraits of many authors and newly commissioned photographs of the houses in which they lived. In this book are… Read more

Charlestown, Massachusetts: Bunker Hill, 2004. A large format volume in card covers which have a little wear to lower spine edge else very clean, tight and unmarked. Printed on acid-free paper. 400 pages of text and photographs, many in colour. An incomparable visual history of the United States - engrossing in its narrative, pictorially sumptuous, and exhilarating in… Read more

London: William Heinemann, 1913. Gilt title on black cloth boards which have marks and fading to spine. Internally there is a Keele University library bookplate to front pastedown, a name and date to front endpaper, a blind embossed stamp to title page, age darkening to endpapers, a stain to the fore edge and to the margins of many pages… Read more

London: B. T. Batsford, 1956. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which has a light mark to front board with no wear. Internally there are small marks left by the removal of a dustjacket cover to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Dustjacket is also VG and has a little wear to spine tail, some… Read more

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. White title on green cloth boards which are unmarked with a touch of wear to spine tail. Internally there are marks to the top margins of 8 pages else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is not price clipped. xvii + 742 pages. 32 plates. 20 maps. 10 tables. Coloured map of ancient Greece… Read more

London: B. T. Batsford, 1957. Gilt title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket has two small repaired closed tears, a little wear to edgws and age darkening to spine. Second impression 1957 (first was 1956). A well kept copy. Canon Heaton… Read more

London: Zed Books, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy. Second Updated Edition. Foreword by Richard Falk. xxii + 173 page. 'Both a Palestinian and an Israeli, Marwan Bishara is the ultimate insider to the current conflict. This book, written in the aftermath of the Sharon election, has proved prophetic. While events may move on, the choices faced by Israelis… Read more

London: William Heinemann, 1948. Silver title and motif on blue cloth boards which are unmarked with no wear but a slight indentation to lower front. Internally there is a little foxing to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a repaired closed tear and has some loss to back. xii + 188… Read more

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. A near Fine umarked copy. xx + 379 pages. 16 illustrations. The founding of Israel in 1948, one of the seminal events of the century, offers a dramatic narrative with few parallels in modern history. Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with personal diaries and correspondence to reconstruct the unvarnished… Read more

New York: Warner, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy. 157 pages. Rooted in pride and drawn from the great thoughts of great minds, the book offers insights to help you face life's many challenges. Hard-won words of wisdom, as well as African proverbs, thoughtfully and provocatively interpreted by Janet Cheatham Bell. B2C. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No… Read more

London: Michael Joseph, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Through his words and deeds,Nelson Mandela has been embraced by the whole world as a symbol of courage, hope and reconciliation. Collected in this small book are his comments on subjects as diverse as Humanity, Racism, Friendship, Oppression and Freedom which provide an… Read more

London: Hutchinson, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy. A large format volume of 468 pages. First UK edition. This is the epic story of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited North America for more than 15,000 years and of their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans. It is a story of friendship, treachery, courage and war. It begins when… Read more

Cologne: Könemann, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A very large format voume of 320 pages. Coloured pictorial endpapers. Lavishly illustrated in colour. 4,000 years of history and archaeology in the Levant - from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages - are presented in this volume. Uncovering buried history, a team of French archaeologists follows the… Read more

Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. A clean and unmarked copy which has light creasong to corners. xvii + 395 pages. In the book the author analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Vergès constructs… Read more

London: Blandford Press, 1971. An unmarked copy which has a very thin line of fading to lower boards but no wear. Internally there are a few spots of light foxing to top and fore edges else a clean, tight copy. Dustjaket is VG+ and is not price clipped. 209 pages. 96 colour plates. 6 pages of sketches with many… Read more

Colorado: Westview, 2000. A Very Good copy which has a crease to back cover and name and year to title page. xxx + 382 pages. Photo illustrations in the text. Freedomways was a quarterly journal published between 1961 and 1985, and was perhaps the premier African American intellectual periodical of its time. Edited by Esther Cooper Jackson and Shirley… Read more