British & Irish History

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the twentieth century's most formidable literary critics turns his unflinching gaze upon the English poetic tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.At the crossroads of modernism and tradition, New Bearings in English Poetry stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....

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Edition: The Travellers' Library - repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt twenty-five, most young men are still finding their footing in the world...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the bitter winter of 1982, Britain dispatched a naval task force 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands from...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj; slightly discoloured boards; At the intersection of labour politics and international power,...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy corridors of wartime Britain, a secret organisation was forged to set Europe ablaze — SOE: An Outline History of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the blood-soaked fields of the Western Front, one young British officer captured the raw, unfiltered truth of the First World War...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century theatre command the reverence accorded to Sir John Gielgud, and this celebratory anthology — assembled to mark the great actor's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingScotland — ancient, wild, and magnificent — has long stirred the souls of poets, wanderers,...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew catastrophes in modern history reshaped a nation's destiny as profoundly as the...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the twilight of the medieval world, English literature stood on the precipice of transformation —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew Scottish clans carry a legacy as rich, turbulent, and enduring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: fold-out map intact. Few corners of Britain stir the imagination quite like the untamed landscapes of Northern Scotland, and the Red Guide...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in British political history burn as brightly — or as paradoxically — as Benjamin Disraeli: a Jewish-born novelist who clawed his way...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of the most scandalous and romantic episodes in modern royal history comes alive in The Windsor Story, the definitive account of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the intersection of legal philosophy and political science stands Geoffrey Marshall's Constitutional Theory, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the quiet Dorset village of Tolpuddle in 1834, six agricultural labourers made a stand that would shake the foundations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedTwo thousand years ago, the most powerful military force the ancient world had ever seen set its sights on a remote, fog-shrouded...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the spring of 1940, the fate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerHidden for decades within a private cipher that no ordinary reader could penetrate, the secret journal of Beatrix Potter stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in British history inspire such fierce debate as Oliver Cromwell — soldier, statesman, regicide, and Lord Protector —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the twentieth century's most celebrated Welsh dramatists and actors, Emlyn Williams, presents in George:...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: clean ex-lib copy with minimal stamps. At the heart of England's most turbulent century,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the turbulent year of AD 60, a warrior queen named Boudica led one of the most ferocious and dramatic uprisings the Roman Empire...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew periods in English history crackle with as much drama, danger, and constitutional consequence as the...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn nine tense days in May 1926, Britain came closer to a class confrontation than at any other...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the tradition of early twentieth-century British girls' fiction, The Old Brigade by...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sleepy, genteel village of Cranford, where the gracious rituals of tea-taking...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the turbulent aftermath of the French Revolution, a group of Scottish radicals dared to demand...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent years following the Sand River Convention, a young British officer stationed in the newly established Orange River Sovereignty set down his...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the crucible of Tudor England, a quiet but seismic transformation reshaped the very architecture...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodNestled on the rugged southwestern coast of Victoria, Port Fairy stands as one of Australia's most historically rich colonial settlements, and Port Fairy: The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of one of England's most turbulent and transformative centuries stands Samuel Pepys — diarist, civil servant, and,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mist-shrouded wilds of Roman...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor the naturalist, amateur entomologist, or curious wanderer seeking to make sense of the buzzing, crawling, fluttering world beneath their feet and above their...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLondon — layered with centuries of history, scandal, spectacle, and grandeur — has long defied any single week's comprehension, yet Mary Cathcart...

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Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the labyrinthine streets of Victorian London emerges one of literature's most heart-wrenching tales — The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the fate of nations hung in the balance at 30,000 feet, it was the Allied fighter aircraft...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA love letter rendered in ink and observation, Malvern Sketchbook presents the timeless landscapes, architecture, and character of the Malvern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersThe fog-drenched streets of Victorian England gave birth to some of the most enduring...