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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Carolly Erickson - Alexandra : The Last Tsarina - PB 2001 Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Stella Tillyard - A Royal Affair : George III and his Troublesome Siblings - PB 2007 The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Barone, Michael - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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... 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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 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... 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Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 84108E Brother Andrew / God's Smuggler 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Simpson, Elizabeth - 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... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: v615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wiebe, Robert H - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49801H Alan McGovern / The Vikings: an Illustrated History 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... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 SALE Quick view sku: X82016H 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74464H Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Living to Tell the Tale (Hardback) In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - 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: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82360M John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... 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MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: v615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wiebe, Robert H - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49801H Alan McGovern / The Vikings: an Illustrated History 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: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82360M John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 -... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Wiebe, Robert H - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49801H Alan McGovern / The Vikings: an Illustrated History 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... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 SALE Quick view sku: X82016H 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74464H Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Living to Tell the Tale (Hardback) In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - 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: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82360M John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... 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Quick view Simpson, Elizabeth - 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... 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74464H Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Living to Tell the Tale (Hardback) In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - 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: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82360M John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 -... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: BIG115 Penny Junor - Richard Burton: The Man behind the Myth - HB - 1985 Explores Richard Burton's life and career, from his brilliant performance as Hamlet to his five marriages--twice to Elizabeth Taylor--to his final recovery from alcoholism just prior to his sudden death in 1984 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 SALE Quick view sku: X82016H 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74464H Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Living to Tell the Tale (Hardback) In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - 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: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82360M John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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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Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
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SALE Quick view sku: X74464H Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Living to Tell the Tale (Hardback) In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart
Quick view Williams, Caroline - 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: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82360M John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
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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 Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Foster, Gaines M - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Russia Bonds, Ray - Illustrated Directory of Modern Soviet Weapons - HB -1986 Publishged just 4 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a detailed military guide to all the Soviet Union's military equipment ( and might - from small arms to nuclear bombers) Hardcover, illustrated in colour throughout . Covers... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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... 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Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( 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: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view 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 jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957) Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Zezima, Michael ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BN575 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Longford, Elizabeth - Victoria R.I - Vintage PB - 1970 ( Originally 1964) A 1970 reprint, papaerback, in a red slipcase, tanning to the page block, moderate to heavy creasing to spine. ( The RI in the title refers to Empress of India - When Victoria became Empress of India, she signed as 'Victoria RI' (Rex... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 80176M Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Martin, Kingsley - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X46742E Charles McCarry / From the Field (Large Paperback) From the Field comprises a selection of more than seventy-five pieces that have graced the National Geographic over the past one hundred years. Among the contributors are Joseph Conrad, Paul Theroux, Teddy Roosevelt and Dian Fossey... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56469H Geoffrey Robertson / The Putney Debates This volume in the new "Revolutions" series shows just how the Levellers' were the first Western radical democrats. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Germany Kusch, Eugen - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 81095M David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44601H 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56497H Tim Heald / Princess Margaret : A Life Unravelled Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 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 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 SALE Quick view sku: 80896M 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view Bryant, Billy - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. 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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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Hart, William - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Sewell, John S . - 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... 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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 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... 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