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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... 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With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... 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With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR30188H Peter Mansfield / A History of the Middle East MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR15202H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: rR15202H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW21893H,wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR36931H Alex Von Tunzelmann / Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: BIG929 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED6026 Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots - HB 1994, Originally 1969 Mary Queen of Scots (first published in hardcover in 1969) is a biography of the ill fated monarch by Antonia Fraser. As she stated in her original introduction, Fraser aimed to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR36127H Andrew Wheatcroft / Infidels : A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God. Christians and Muslims have since regarded... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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