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

New York: British Heritage Press,s, 1983. Large quarto hardcover in dark blue cloth, in dust-jacket. 320pp., Index. Illustrated with over 230 drawings, sketches and photographs. First Illustrated American edition, first printing by this publisher, issued a year earlier by Octopus Press. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front… Read more about this item

Londion: Chatto & Windus, 1898. Hardcover, publisher's blue cloth wirh comic vignetter in black on front cover and spine lettered in gold. 639pp., Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 full page black and white plates, plus numerous vignettes in text. Originally published as "England under the House of Hanover" (1848, 2 vols., several editions, reproduced in 1868 as… Read more about this item

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Four] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 1345 - 1792. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1970's. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Minor… Read more about this item

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Six] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 2269 - 2716, with General Index for all 98 issues appended. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1970's. Profusely illustrated… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes and Noble, 1996. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 465pp., Index. First edition thus, first printing. Originall published in 1974 under the title "Land of My Fathers". No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo -… Read more about this item

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Three] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 897 - 1344. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1972 - 73. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. … Read more about this item

New York [and] London: TimeLife/BBC Large hardbound volume, red cl;oth with title and volume number [Five] printed on spine in gold. A bound collection of the periodical "The British Empire", pages numbered sequentially 1793 - 2268. Bound without original card covers. Circa 1970's. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. … Read more about this item

New York.: Doubleday, 1983. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 304pp., Further Reading, Index. First edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. "An insider's look at foibles, customs, eccentricities and institutions" … Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jakcet. 447pp., Bibliographic References, Index. 3 maps. First American edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers. Old toned marks on inside covers where mylar had been affixed to boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. No… Read more about this item

New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1971. Limited edition paperback, reprinted from the original 1914 edition published by Oxford University Press. 414pp, Appendicies, Index. Illustrated with 8 facsimiles of title-pages. Rear cover sunned, else a fine copy in unread condition. Book is clean, square, and unmarked. A very scarce imprint, this is an actual book,… Read more about this item

Walnut Creek, California: Altamira Press, 1996. Large trade paperack. 239pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy from author, signed on titlepage. No previous ownership marks. Slight spine lean from shelving, else an as new copy, very clean and unread. Near fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

London: Artus Books, 1993. Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards in matching pictorial dust-jacket. 191pp.,Index. Illustrated with color and monchrome photographs by Derry Brabbs and maps drawn by Hubert Pragnell. Tours of ten charming villages: Bath, Cambridge, Canterbury, Chester, Lincoln, Norwich, Oxford, Salisbury Shrewsbury and York. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp, unread copy.… Read more about this item

New York: Portland House, 1987. Hardcover, blue cloth in original non price clipped dust-jacket. 224pp., lierary references, bibliography of other sourdes used, index. 16 full color plates and 80 black and white illustrations. Reprint edition of 1975 Coward ,McCann & Geoghegan edition; first printing thus. No previous ownership marks. An exploration of the King Arthur… Read more about this item

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1967. Hardcover, no dust-jacket. 224pp., Index. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Former owner's book-plate oinside front cover. A clean, square, tight copy. Very good+.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1946. Hardcover, canary yello cloth sans dust-jacket. 154pp., Index. Illustrated with over 90 monochrome images and drawings. Small label of previous owner on top of front free end-paper. Cloth moderately age soiled. A good, soildly bound, internally clean copy. Good.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read more about this item

Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. Two volume set bound in red cloth stamped in gold. Vol. I 416pp.; Vol II 456pp. Illustrated with 24 plates and 25 plates respectively. Large color fold out map of London present at the end of volume II. Top edges gilt. Spines lightly age darkened and light general wear to cloth. Hinges sound, interiors… Read more about this item

Bridgnorth: W.J. Rowley, 1856. Original brown cloth with round medallion stamped in gilt on front board with image of castle within. Illustrated. General shelf wear to cloth, with corners bumped and split to upper front joint extending down gutter approximated one inch. Mull exposed on inner hinge. Sporadic light foxing first several leaves, though text… Read more about this item

New York: Paddington Press Ltd, 1979. Buckram. Hardcover in price-clipped dustjacket. Extensively illustrated with pictures and maps. The authors attempts to provide a sense of place for the love r of English literature takes them from the London of Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, Dickens and Virgina Woolf, to Hardy's Wessex, the Dublin of Yeats and Joyce, the Lake district… Read more about this item

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

New York: Reynal & Company, 1966. Coarse grained cloth in price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with 16 full color plates and 90 black and white images. Introdustion by Noel Annan, Photography by John Marmar as and illustratons by Mary Sullivan. An account of Cambridge as a cultural and artistic center. Dustjacket worn and showing clear tape repairs. Very good in near… Read more about this item