Search Results: History from Brief Street Books

Panther History title. In very good condition, with tight binding and black and white photographic illustrations intact and clean. 558 pages includes index. Cover illustration Rousseau by Ramsay.

2 volumes, 487 and 649 pages. Each 18 x 11 cm. Written in 1958, a view of America from 60 years ago. In very good condition, slight wear to covers as seen.

1953 Reprint. 350 pages plus publisher's advertisements. Glover's round-up of the achivements of the Greeks and Romans. In very good condition.

288 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine hardcover in very good dust jacket. First edition.

Printed to celebrate European Architectural Heritage Year by the editor of the Architectural Review. 138 pages, extensively illustrated with photographs. Small "London Art Bookshop" label to inside pastedown, no other marks, small crease to bottom margin of back dust jacket. Very good book in very good dust jacket. Oversized.

Owners name to half-title at top. Slight signs of price label removal at bottom of back cover. In very good condition. 174 pages, 14 x 22 cm.

312 pages with photographs, hardcover and dust jacket in very good condition. first edition. By Britain's former Ambassador, the story of the West's Afghanistan campaign.

Striking "censored" jacket and endpaper design. 312 pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. First edition.

1971 reprinting of the 1963 edition. 343 pages including index. In very good condition with a modern, almost pop, cover! No markings at all.

415 pages, including index. In very good condition, unmarked. Volume three of the Diaries & Letters. Harold was married to Vita Sackville-West.

Second edition. Sun fading to spine. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.

1953, first thus. Waugh's study of Roman Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I. In very good condition.

1970 printing of the 1968 edition. In very good condition with distinctive bright cover. No markings, tiny crease to rear cover bottom corner. 655 pages including index, plus 6 catalogue pages to back. Translated from the German by CV Wedgewood.

First edition, first printing. In very good condition, no markings, lovely jacket.

Translated into English from the original by C. E. Ellis. Hardcover green cloth over board book in cloth over board box with photographic illustrations. Book is in very good condition, box has slight bump to back bottom corner. 255 pages, with owner inscription "for John Easter 1971" on half title, no other markings. Many tipped in photographic colour illustrations along with black and white drawings in text. Heavy but not unwieldy, very attractive.

258 pages, in very good condition. Second printing with glossary and revisions.

Exhibition guide from The British Museum. Near fine, no marks, gatefold flaps, 256 pages. This is a 2008 reprint, from the same year as the first edition. 29 x 23 cm.

Profusing illustrated book by Professor Zeman then of Oxford. A bright copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions.

With a striking title, this is the Revised Fourth Edition of Vatikiotis' History of Modern Egypt. The author died two years later. Slightly faded cover, apparently unread. Near fine hardcover in very good dust jacket.

Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by author Mellini to "John and Goody", 275 pages.