British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFor eighty years, the British Empire cast its unwanted across the seas to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the sixteenth century, England was a second-rate maritime power — yet within decades, Henry...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet in the raw, rain-soaked landscape of rural Ireland, A Pagan Place is an unflinching portrait...

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Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA blazing, irreverent portrait of the artist as a holy fool, The Horse's Mouth chronicles the misadventures of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the misty halls of Arthurian legend emerges one of the most thrilling and morally complex tales of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden and turbulent age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen, Elizabethan People: State and Society presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadows of seventeenth-century England, where a woman's worth is measured by her silence and her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sweeping backdrop of Cornwall and Ireland across several turbulent decades, All the Day Long chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn A Fine Anger, Neil Philip delivers a rigorous and illuminating critical study of one of Britain's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, Alan Garner, whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodGavin Maxwell — celebrated naturalist, adventurer, and author of the beloved Ring of Bright Water — turns his luminous prose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the crumbling remnants of Saxon burhs to the formidable gatehouse towers of the late medieval period, Town Defences in England and Wales presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

Edition: limited edition unnumberedCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: DJ: clipped; edges chipped and torn with some loss. Pages: foxing on prelims...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the golden age of British theatre comes a definitive collection of four landmark works by one of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly cost to be Lord Byron — in pounds, shillings, and pence, as well as in passion, scandal, and legend? Lord...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the turbulent backdrop of Dublin in the days leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of idealism and pedagogy, English Progressive Schools presents a rigorous and illuminating account of three...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand drawing rooms and corridors of Victorian power, Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers unfolds one of English...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most daring solo voyages ever undertaken, Sir Francis Chichester set sail from Plymouth in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew rivers in England carry as much history, poetry, and quiet drama as the Avon, and Robert C. Lamb's From the Banks of the Avon:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn 1963, a landmark government report reshaped the future of...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor chipsto edge of DJ, some minor discolouration to spine. In the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an era when painting, theatre, and literature were bound together by a shared visual language, Martin Meisel's Realizations presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the scorching deserts of northeastern Africa, a forgotten chapter of British imperial history played out in blood and sand — A Good Dusting...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding: front hinges cracked; binding slightly shaky; no loose pages; some...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase. This three-volume Oxford World's Classics set presents Samuel Richardson's final novel, "The History of Sir Charles Grandison," a landmark epistolary...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFour centuries of craftsmanship, elegance, and evolving taste come to life in British Furniture 1600-2000, a sweeping visual and historical survey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew objects speak as eloquently of power, lineage, and legacy as the jewels that have adorned Britain's most illustrious families for centuries, and Ancestral Jewels:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Volume 64 No. 1 April 1993 - Volume 71 No. 2 September 2000. The Victorian Historical Journal...

Edition: fine-paper edition.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings:...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: good/fair for age. Worn and sunned boards. Some bumping on spines and corners....

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book examines British identity through the lens of its personalities, politics, and culture. Essays within consider the nuances...

'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...

The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace...

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