Search Results: Britain: Histroy, Culture, Etc from Great Expectations Rare Books

Bridgnorth: W.J. Rowley, 1856. Original brown cloth with round medallion stamped in gilt on front board with image of castle within. Illustrated. General shelf wear to cloth, with corners bumped and split to upper front joint extending down gutter approximated one inch. Mull exposed on inner hinge. Sporadic light foxing first several leaves, though text and illustrations generally very clean. Boards firmly attached and book solid and in overall good condition. A history of Bridgnrth castle and town, quite scarce.. Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jakcet. 447pp., Bibliographic References, Index. 3 maps. First American edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers. Old toned marks on inside covers where mylar had been affixed to boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. No Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green pictorial cloth stamped in red. Illustrated with drawings by George Wharton Edwards. Covers lightly rubbed and spine faded/darkened. Good.. Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Six] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 2269 - 2716, with General Index for all 98 issues appended. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1970's. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. A fine collection of over 400 pages of British Imperial history by numerous authors and touching on a number of varigated topics among which are: "Britain's Arabian Oil Empire"; "Britain's Pacific Islands"; "India and Pakistan The Struggle for Identity"; "The Empire Comes to Britain" [immigration] and many others on southeast Asia, Canada, Africa and Austalia and India. No previous ownership marks. Professionally bound volume in fine condition. A large heavy book, extra postage charges will be necessary for Priority and International orders. Scans… Read More

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Four] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 1345 - 1792. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1970's. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Minor pen mark to spine. A fine collection of over 400 pages of British Imperial history by numerous authors and touching on a number of varigated topics among which are: "Rivals for the Heatland" Cecil Rhodes vs. Paul Kruger in South Africa]; "The Great Exhibition"; "Ireland The Tortured Colony"; "Antartic Epic" and many others on southeast Asia, Canada, Africa and Austalia and India. No previous ownership marks. Professionally bound volume in fine condition. A large heavy book, extra postage charges will be necessary for Priority and International orders. Scans sent on request.. Hardcover. Fine/Not… Read More

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Three] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 897 - 1344. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1972 - 73. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. A fine collection of over 400 pages of British Imperial history by numerous authors and touching on a number of varigated topics among which are: "The First Burmese War"; "Guns that Won the Empire"; "The Source of the Nile"; "The First Safaris"; "Australia Srikes it Rich"; "The New Rome London as Imperial Capital" and many others on southeast Asia, Canada, Africa and Austalia. No previous ownership marks. Professionally bound volume in fine condition. A large heavy book, extra postage charges will be necessary for Priority and International orders. Scans sent on request.. Hardcover.… Read More

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Five] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 1793 - 2268. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1970's. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. A fine collection of over 400 pages of British Imperial history by numerous authors and touching on a number of varigated topics among which are: "Scuppering Britain's 'Fossil' Navy" [re Admiral Sir John Fisher]; "1914-1918 The War Overeas"; "1939-1943 The Empire in Peril"; "The Empire on Film" and many others on southeast Asia, Canada, Africa and Austalia and India. No previous ownership marks. Professionally bound volume in fine condition. A large heavy book, extra postage charges will be necessary for Priority and International orders. Scans sent on request.. Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued.… Read More

New York: Reynal & Company, 1966. Coarse grained cloth in price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with 16 full color plates and 90 black and white images. Introdustion by Noel Annan, Photography by John Marmar as and illustratons by Mary Sullivan. An account of Cambridge as a cultural and artistic center. Dustjacket worn and showing clear tape repairs. Very good in near good dustjacket.. Very Good/Near Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Londion: Chatto & Windus, 1898. Hardcover, publisher's blue cloth wirh comic vignetter in black on front cover and spine lettered in gold. 639pp., Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 full page black and white plates, plus numerous vignettes in text. Originally published as "England under the House of Hanover" (1848, 2 vols., several editions, reproduced in 1868 as Caricature History of the Georges) This copy is a later printing. A political and social history of the Hanovarian monarchs of 18th and 19th century England told through the employment of contemporary and unflattering artwork. A 32 page publisher's catalog dated March, 1898 appended. Reference library (?) stamp on front endpaper and penciled dates written in margins on several pages. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities. No previous ownership marks. A good+ copy.. Reprint. Hardcover. Good+/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1899. 2 volumes comprising the frist and second series, bound in decorative publishers cloth of mock white vellum over purple borads, stamped with shield crest in gold. Both volumes in original purple cloth dustjackets which have sunned to light blue at spines. Profusely illustrated set. In all covers some fifteen cathedrals and their environs. A very hand some set, with dustjackets having protected white covers and interior free of foxing. Fine set in faded jackets.. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Jersey: Thomas Whittaker, 1899. Hardcover, three-quarter mock vellum over deep purple cloth, emblazoned with gilt coat of arms motif on cover. Original purple cloth dustk-jacket sunned lighter on spine and lightly frayed at top edge. Top edge gilt. Profusely illustrated with line drawings. 351pp. No name, no book-plate, etc. Some incidental foxing just starting to white cloth covers, else a very nice late Victorian cltoh binding. Very good+ in good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Two-toned Cloth. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co. Red cloth with color pastedown and bold gilt lettering on spine and front board. Illustrated with 12 color plates. Text block untrimmed. Wear to front board at lower foredge and general light age wear. Plates printed on coated stock which has wrinkled slightly with age and mositure, not affecting images and nearly undetectable to the eye, but can be discerned by touch. An attractive copy in very good condition.. Pictorial Paper Pastedown. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Yoshio Markino. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American edition. Beige cloth with pictorial cover. Illustrated with 75 vignette illustrations. Private owners bookplate inside front cover a nd small booksellers label affixed to lower front free endpaper. Moderate wear to covers and extremities. Very good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Arno Press, 1967. Large quarto hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous engravings by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. Reprint of the MacMillan edition of 1888. A title in the Abercombie & Fitch Library, The Romance of the Great Roads of England. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy in a clean, complete dust-jacket, which shows one minor nick to upper exremitiy of rear panel. A very good+ copy in a very good dust-jacket. . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926, 1926. Large hardcover. Maroon cloth sans dust-jacket. Illustrated with color frontis and 277 photographs, drawings and maps. Light age soiliing to rear board, else a fine copy. Very good+.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1947. Orange cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with color and monochrome plates. Excerpts from a variety of notable British authors dealing with the English manor, village, farm and factory, landscape, field, road and ritual. Very good+ in edgeworn, good dustjacket.. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1959. Cloth in original dustjacket. Illustrated. Dustjacket badly worn and backstrip and torn at heel of spine. A very good+ copy in fair dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: British Heritage Press,s, 1983. Large quarto hardcover in dark blue cloth, in dust-jacket. 320pp., Index. Illustrated with over 230 drawings, sketches and photographs. First Illustrated American edition, first printing by this publisher, issued a year earlier by Octopus Press. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large heavy book, Priority and International orders may require additional postage. Scans sent on request.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Paddington Press Ltd, 1979. Buckram. Hardcover in price-clipped dustjacket. Extensively illustrated with pictures and maps. The authors attempts to provide a sense of place for the love r of English literature takes them from the London of Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, Dickens and Virgina Woolf, to Hardy's Wessex, the Dublin of Yeats and Joyce, the Lake district of the Romantic Poets, et c. Several small tears to dustjacket, else a fine copy in near fine jacket.. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. No Jacket. New edition. Dark blue cloth with matching endpapers. Illustrated with 125 drawings. One page of adverts at front and 32 page Publisher's catalog appended at rear . Paper on front inner hinge just beginning to crack, not affecting hinge which is still quite secure. A very good copy.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.