History from JWMah

London: Phoebe Phillips / Heinemann, 1982. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. Owner's insitial to the endpaper, no other markings, stright fading to cover colour at the extreme top edge, thus Near Fine in price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket. Light red boards, 288pp, index. Maps, B&W and colour photos and illus. Four main texts have been put together into a… Read more about this item

Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017. (CAD) 1st rpinting. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the title page, no other markings, Fine. Wraps, 231pp, index, a few B&W illus. Accessible and entertaining, Mary Soderstrom begins Road Through Time with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in… Read more about this item

NY: St. Martin's Press, 2016. (USA) 1st printing of the First American edition No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 455pp, index, B&W photos, map. This book gives us a glipse into the life and customs of Shanghai during the 1930's mstly through the eyes of Emily Hahn, a legendary New Yorker journalist. From the jacket: Hahn… Read more about this item

Paris: Unesco / Flammarion, 1992. (FR) Presumed 1st English language edition. No markings, Fine in Very Good only dust jacket with 1" tear to the top edge of front panel and another tear to the top edge of the back panel. Hardcover, 239pp,index, colour photos of the pages of the codices augmented with smaller B&W illus. The authors examines… Read more about this item

Singapore: National Library Board, 2019. (SING) 2nd printing of second edition 2019. No markings, Fine. Wraps with flaps, 314pp, index, Colour and B&W illus, maps and photos. This is a history of Singapore from the 14th century to the present day, an accessible read drawing on the latest archeological discoveries and illustrated with more than 200 artefacts. (2.7 JM LVR… Read more about this item

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. (HK) Presumed 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the title page with red chop: "To J--- and P----/ wonderful man and wonderful friends/ with love/ Grant", no other markigns, slight bump to lwoer corner of front cover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, xv, 325pp, index, no illus. This… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. (UK) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine (-) dust jacket. Hardcover, 276pp, index, B&W illus. Byrom was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He was possibly a spy and a secret Jacobite who had an affair wit Queen Caroline, wife of George III. Byrom invented… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1990. (UK) Presumed 1st edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published in about Fine slipcase with a touch of rubbing to corner tips at opening. . Hardcover boards with maroon cloth spine and gold spine title, 352pp, index, mostly B&W illus but colour frontis and some colur plates. (3.0 JM HOJ 303/0. 1st. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998. (USA) First Touchstone edition. No markings, soft crease to top corner of first few leves, Near Fine. Wraps, 713pp, maps,index. B&W portrait of Thucydides. This is anewly evised edition of the Richard Crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices and encyclopedic index. This has been praised as the best book, throughly readable, with which… Read more about this item

NY: MacMillan, 1994. (USA) 1st printing, No markings, about Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover over mea=tal coil binding, 144pp, colour and monochorme photos and illus. There is usually one scene of the city as it is now with a transparent overlay showing it as it once was. The cities are Paris, San Francisco, Rome, Prague, Jerusalem,… Read more about this item

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. (USA) presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine in about Very Good dust jacket with small scratch to rear panel just breaking the paper surface, 1/4" tear to head of spine panel of DJ, spot to lower edge of front panel of dustjacket visible only from the back, Boards, 367pp, index, 1000 B&W and colour illus.… Read more about this item

Burnaby: Pacific Forensic Science Consultants, 2000. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition, SIGNED BY AUTHOR and dated 2000, no other markings, Fine. Wraps, 132pp, B&W photos and reproductions of newspaper clippings. This is the history of the oldest Territorial Police Force in North America. (1.7 EKN HOZ 403/b5. Signed by Author. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: The Viking Press, 1976. (USA) 2nd printing of the First edition, No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, Cloth hardcover, 184pp, bibliography, lots of B&W illus and photos augmented with colour photos. Ths is a look at the furnoshings and clothing of the Russian aristocracy from 1700 to 1900. Jacqueline Onasis selected the illustrations which show objects d;art,… Read more about this item

Mexico: Bancomer, 1981. (MEX) 1st edition. No markings, hinges fine, there is slight waviness to margins of some of the leaves, thus Good used copy in Good only dust jacket with edge fautls and small tears; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Marron leather, photo end papers, 319pp, list of illus and photos; colour photos and illus, some plan on… Read more about this item

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993. (USA) 1st printing. No mrkings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, x, 303pp, index, line maps, some B&W illus. This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchu in the mid 17th century. (1.9 JM HOQ 102/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

NY: Exeter Books, 1980. (USA) 1st American edition; the book was copyright in the UK in 1969. Ownership stamp to front end paper, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket with rubbing to high portions of the DJ. Boards, 216pp, index, 94 plates including 34 in colour. (3.0 JM LVR 206/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾"… Read more about this item

London: Constable and Company, 1918. (UK) Stated 1st publication. Owner's name and date to inside front cover, the end papers are toned, Good used copy; no dust jacket. Orange boards,246pp, Frontis and 11 B&W photo plates. The tsar and his court; the Russian government as it was; Russain policy; the Revolution; The Tsar's abdication and arrest; France and Russia. (1.9… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. (CAD) First printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, xviii, 366pp, index. Maps; B&W and colour illus. This is a vivid account of Sir John Hawkwood, an Englishman, who wnet to Italy and became the mist successful mercenary leader of his time. "Simply the most vivid account of the late… Read more about this item

Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000. (PHIL) Presumed 1st of this edition; the book originally appeared in 1965. No markings, crease to corner of front cover, Very Good. Wraps, 272pp, index, maps, B&W photos. This book traces of overseas Chinese communities, economically powerful, socially and culturally resistant to assimilation, and tied to many ways to China. The author… Read more about this item

Australia: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., 1990. (AUS) 4th printing, 1993. No markings, Fine Wraps, 644pp, index, maps, B&W illus. This text presents a detaied coverage of 3 crucial centuries in the history of the Roman people, the second and first centuries BC and the first century AD. The ancient sources and archaeoligical material serve to describe the events aand… Read more about this item