Books on 20th Century
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Map of Northern Arabia. According to the Investigations of Alois Musil.
Four folded maps, each measuring 64cm x 58cm, forming a single large map of northern Saudi Arabia, ...
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Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory. Presented to Members of the Radiation Laboratory by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1946.
205p red cloth with black lettering to front and spine, binding is tight and firm with some signs ...
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Philips' Commercial Map of China. With Index.
Very large folding map in terracotta cloth covers with black lettering, cloth-backed folded map, ...
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The Hobbit or There and Back Again.
315p hardback, green cloth with Tolkien's dragon to the cover, excellent copy, very slight fading ...
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Gallant Beasts and Monsters. Exhibition Catalogue. Signed Copy with Original Sketch.
48p square format hardback, dark cloth with crimson jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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Sombras de Pueblo Negro.
160p paperback with red and black illustration to front, author inscription addressed to Gil (?) ...
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On My Own Terms.
293p hardback with fresh and complete and un-clipped jacket, first edition, excellent attractive ...
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A Collection of Architectural Drawings for Herman Miller.
This is a set of 10 (ten) large architectural plans (A0 format) folded three times, on white paper, ...
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I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. Signed copy.
331p first edition with dustjacket, signed by the author to half title, large format (29x34cm) ...
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Prester John. The Legend and its Sources.
viii 340p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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Foto-Auge - Oeil et Photo - Photo-Eye.
tall format paperback, front a little dusty, yellowing, spine with hurt and small piece missing, ...
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£360.00
Gesammelte Schriften.
7 volumes in light blue cloth, gilt lettering "HH" to front board, all volumes with Fretz & Wasmuth ...
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New Verse.
31 issues, only missing no. 25, otherwise a complete run in original cream paper cover, 26/27 and ...
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The Court of Redonda.
139p large format hardback, green jacket, a brand new copy from the artist and including a limited ...
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The Swiss Banknote 1907 - 1997. Le Billet de Banque Suisse 1907 - 1997.
299p very large format hardback, a fresh copy, dustjacket in excellent condition, clean full colour ...
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This is a blue wallet folder of letters and translations by Storm Jameson regarding her translation of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen book of poems entitled Jonas.
This folder contains a copy of Jonas (1962) with Storm J.'s bookplate, a West End Quality Notebook ...
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France, Spain and the Rif.
338p red cloth, 27 photographs, 3 maps, account of the 1911-1927 war between the people of Rif (a ...
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Documenti Diplomatici Italiani. Undicesima Serie: 1948 - 1953. Volume 1 - 4.
4 large volumes in green cloth, title label to spine, excellent set, as new, never used, includes ...
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£280.00
Living Arts Volume 1.
107p laminated paperback, binding firm, slight bump to top corner, faint soiling to cover edge but ...
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The Shadow of a Titan. First Edition. Second Printing.
518p first edition, second printing, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front, small ...
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Twentieth Century Physics. Three Volume Set.
644p red hardcover set in slipcase, as new condition, pages untouched
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Manshu kenkoku to Manshu Shanhai daijihenshi.
213 paginated leaves, oversized oblong album, hardback bound in silk with gilt lettering, silk a ...
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The Ecstasy of Angus.
43p large format, dark green cloth with signature in gilt to front, top edge gilt, limited edition ...
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Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay.
xxiv 558p burgundy cloth still quite bright, inner hinges a little soft and yielding, text clean, ...
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Black Narcissus. First Edition.
319p brown cloth with yellow titles to spine, spine a little slanted and titles faded but still ...
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Francis Bacon. The Hanover Gallery, 21 March - 26 April 1957.
this is a slim stapled catalogue pamphlet listing 15 items and including six b/w plates, cover a ...
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£240.00
From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli. Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies.
ix 233p paperback, green and white illustrated cover, binding tight and spine intact, all pages ...
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Lino-Cuts: A Handbook of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing. With Ten Illustrations in Colour and Eighteen in Black and White.
51p large format hardback, dark green or black marbled cloth tight and clean, spine dull but hinges ...
£240.00
£240.00
P P: Korupcija i Nasilje. Pred Borbom - Nasic, sin i komp. - Pribicevic i druzina - Dokazi.
124p iv, original paperback, dark green paper cover lettered MMM PP, Serbian language, Cyrillic ...
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£240.00
Photos of Rose Grainger and of 3 Short Accounts of her Life by herself, in her own Handwriting; Reproduced for her Kin and Friends by her Adoring son Percy Grainger; also Table of Dates and Summary of Cultural Tastes.
46 leaves, stiff booklet with illustrated cover, glassive jacket present, in old and worn slipcase, ...
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Ronald H Coase.
viii 205p hardback with fresh dustjacket, faint name to endpaper, excellent fresh copy, first ...
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San Min Chu I: The Three Principles of the People. Translated into English by Frank Price.
xix 514p thick hardback, original blue ribbed cloth with bust design and fresh gilt lettering, rare ...
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Negotiating while Fighting: The Diary of Admiral Turner Joy at the Korean Armistice Conference.
xxiv 476p original tan cloth very fresh with gilt lettering, light library markings only, a very ...
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The British Campaign in France and Flanders (Complete in 6 Volumes)
Six volumes original cloth, uniform set, volume three spine a little lighter, maps folded well ...
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Dusha Leningrada.
40p slim pamphlet, stapled, illustration to front, pencil inscription to verso of cover dated 1989, ...
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India News. Issued Every Week by the Information Service of India, Embassy of India, Washington DC. Volume 1, No 6 (4 June 1962) - # 52 (19 April 1963).
Newspaper, as issued, stored flat, each issue 8 pages, issued every week, with illustrations, nice ...
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Bläserkammermusik 1: Partitur und Kritischer Bericht. (Paul Hindemith - Sämtliche Werke Band 5, 1)
xxxix 323p very large hardback, green cloth with black lettering, musical notation and ...
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Vatican II. L'Église dans le Monde de ce Temps. Tomes I, II, III.
281p 636p 211p large paperbacks, beige covers with red and black lettering, very good condition, ...
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Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered.
Unpaginated paperback with stiff card cover, first edition, nice clean copy, tight and hardly ...
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£160.00
Kunapipi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
A collection of approx 26 issues: 1982 (1 & 2), 1983 (1), 1984 (1), 1985 (1), 1986 (1 & 2), 1987 ...
£160.00
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Kyra, My Sister. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.
256p very faded (formerly orange?) cloth, a very scarce English edition of this work by the "Maxim ...
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La Terza Internazionale. Storia Documentaria.
published in three volumes with two parts each, together six paperback volumes with red illustrated ...
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The Tragic Muse. Colonial Edition.
488p pale purple cloth, coarse cloth, spine and front somewhat dull, hinges holding, no name or ...
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Yuko Shiraishi.
183p large format hardback, dustjacket in good overall condition, clean full colour pages, firm ...
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Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
xvii 682p large hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering, fair condition, wear to edges, spine ...
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Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
236p large format hardback, dustjacket well preserved with minor rubbing to top edge, not price ...
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Al-Barrak: Poemy.
35p slim pamphlet white cover, paper yellowing but well preserved, contains 'Al-Barrak', 'Al-Kadr', ...
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Die deutschen Schutzgebiete in Afrika und der Südsee, 1910 - 1911. Amtliche Jahresberichte.
xvi 333p large format hardback bound in red cloth with lettering to spine, contains Berichtsteil, ...
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Izgubljena Domovina.
111p paperback with black edge (mourning border), title in blue frame to front, frame repeated in ...
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£140.00
La Brèche, Action Surréaliste. No 1 - 8.
8 issues, paperback, with plates and illustrations, nice set, complete and well preserved
£140.00