Search Results: Titles starting with S from The Petersfield Bookshop

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Fine in a fine slipcase. Size: Octavo . Category: History; Military & Warfare. .

Arms & Armour Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Based almost entirely on original German documents, including the captured files of the SS leadership, this book gives a final account of the Nazi Praetorian Guard. With steadily mounting tension, the story moves from the origins of the SS before 1923 to its supremacy, twenty years later, as the most appealing instrument of political and military terror known to history. The author sees the SS not as an historical accident, but as a tyrannical expression of bureaucracy in politics. It is with the administration and internal rivalries of the Nazi state that the book is mainly concerned: how the whole system worked out in peace, and above all in war. The author brought the objective eye of the historian to bear on this emotive subject and produced a book that is not only factual and absorbing but also a valid and vital contribution to the study of the Second World War. This is a classic work on the history of the SS.… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Fiction; .

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Jacket is complete with a few nicks and scuffs and short tears. This copy has a prize bookplate on the endpaper from a military cadet school. Size: Octavo . Category: Military & Warfare; History. .

London: Seeley, Service & Co. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition. As much travelogue as it is military history. These are the reminiscences of an extraordinarily well travelled senior soldier in the last 20 years or so of the 19th century. This copy is in perfectly good order save that it looked a little tired on the outside and has a stain to the font board. Size: Octavo . Category: Military & Warfare; History. .

London: Methuen & Co, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. Blind embossed red cloth. Spine discoloured and worn, back joint split and back board discoloured, but boards attached and reasonably firm. Moderately foxed throughout. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Fiction; 1920s; .

London: S. Cornish &Co, c1839. Presumed first. brown blind stamped. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 16mo (very small). Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Dated 1839. wear to covers and spine. Category: Poetry; 19th century; .

Time Warner, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Size: Octavo. Category: Travel & Places; Britain/UK; Modern; .

London: Seaforth, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/fine. Foreword by His Royal The Prince Of Wales.The Royal Navy is not an assembly of ships, it is an institution, enduring through centuries and rich in the experience and skills of the generations who have made it and which it has made. With coloured and black and white illustrations Size: Quarto. Category: Ships & the Sea; Britain/UK; Modern; .

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Poems in French with an introduction in English. In a complete jacket which is a little browned at the spine and edges. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Poetry; .

London: Oxford University Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Lance Cattermole. A little light spotting to the page edges. The jacket has a small nick at the top left of the front panel. Some striking black and white illustrations by Cattermole throughout. Size: Small Octavo. Illustrator: Lance Cattermole. Category: Fiction; .

London: L.Upcott Gill, c1893. Presumed First. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. With practical hints as to living and cooking on and working a small yacht, with four charts, decorative maroon boards presumed first. Size: Octavo (standard book size). spine worn and torn. edges slightly darkened. slight wear to covers. Category: Ships & the Sea; 19th century; .

London: Hutchinson, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. This copy is SIGNED across a bookplate on the front pastedown by the author. The book itself is pretty tired, front and rear hinges are going and the boards are rubbed and dull. Size: Octavo. Category: Ships & the Sea; Military & Warfare. .

Darlington, W. Stairman, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Publisher's gilt and black stamped decorative blue cloth Size: Small Octavo. Slight wear to spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. slight wear to covers. Category: Poetry; Britain/UK; 19th century; .

London: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. This copy contains a chatty, two page ALS from Chadwick discussing the book itself, Wystan Auden at Oxford in the last few years of his life. Size: Octavo . Category: Religion & Theology; .

London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Red cloth, with photograph as frontispiece. Fading to spine and discolouration to top of text block, otherwise a clean and sound copy. Size: Octavo. Category: Religion & Theology; .

Collins, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Blue cloth with dustwrapper, Wrapper a little shelf worn and some foxing to text block edges. Size: Octavo. Category: Religion & Theology; History. .

Post Falls: Mediatrix Press, 2015. Softcover. Fine Condition. Originally published in 1955, this is a quality paperback reprint. Size: Octavo . Category: Religion & Theology; .

Robert Laffnt, 1970. Later Edition. Half Blue Leather with Patterned Boards. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. « Saurons-nous nous souvenir, en ce septième centenaire du roi chevalier, que l’homme ne change pas et que les règles que le saint nous indiquait comme. inviolables, sont toujours celles du cheminement des êtres et des âmes vers la lumière et la justice ? Sine rubbed and corners Size: Octavo . Category: History; .

Yale, 1997. Reprinted with Corrections. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. Black cloth with dust wrapper. This book encompasses the extraordinary history of the Papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to John Paul The Second, lavishly illustrated. Size: Quarto. Category: Religion & Theology; .