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By: Foster, R. F.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London : Allen Lane ; 1988.:
Seller ID: BB0242216
ISBN: 0140125108
Condition: g+
Shelf-wear. Former owner's name on front endpaper. View more info
By: Brunskill, Ian
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London : Times Books, 2007.:
Seller ID: BB0236161
ISBN: 0007259735
Condition: vg/vg
Documenting the lives of the great and the good, the first obituaries appeared in London's "The Times" during the Victorian era. Gathered in this intriguing volume are the obituaries of some of the most significant and influential scientists, social reformers, composers, writers, and politicians of the 19th century, including Charles Dickens, William Gladstone, Karl Marx, Louis Pasteur, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Cook, and Oscar Wilde. Insightful commentary has been added to reveal the subtexts and omissions from the original texts. Arranged according to the date of their deaths and illustrate... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Viking Books, 2005:
Seller ID: BB0244831
ISBN: 0670034266
Condition: vg/vg
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By: Charmley, John
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Harvest Books:
Seller ID: BB0256074
ISBN: 0156004704
Condition: vg
The New York Times Book Review called John Charmley's previous book on Winston Churchill "entertaining, informative, and infuriating." With equally impressive scholarship, eloquence, and wit, Charmley now turns to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957. Churchill carried on the war because of his misguided faith that U.S. help could be enlisted to save the British Empire, contends Charmley. President Roosevelt, ho... View more info
By: Daniel Pool
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997., 1997:
Seller ID: BB0245132
ISBN: 0060183659
Condition: vg
It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in the middle of the London book world to expose the madcap shenanigans, rows, rivalries, and general mayhem perpetrated by the supposedly prudish Victorians. We see Dickens on his first American book tour having bits of his fur coat snipped off by manic fans, romantic rumors swirling around Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope scheming ... View more info
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Publisher: Prestel, 2014:
Seller ID: BB0232556
ISBN: 3791349457
Condition: vg-
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By: Gerhard Herm
Price: $7.00
Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1977:
Seller ID: BB0249945
ISBN: 0312127057
Condition: vg/g
By: Herman, Arthur
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2008.:
Seller ID: BB0233280
ISBN: 0553804634
Condition: vg/vg
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By: Herman, Arthur
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Three Rivers Press:
Seller ID: BB0261465
ISBN: 0609809997
Condition: vg
How the Scots Invented the Modrern World was a veritable hardcover smash, selling more than 48,000 copies in five printings and landing on bestseller lists across the nation, including the Washington Post and the Independent Bestseller List. Now in paperback, this lively and engrossing work traces the history of Scotland's many contributions to our culture, drawing on the most recent research of scholars and historians to demonstrate just how central the Scots have been in the making of what historians call "the great transformation" -- the rise of the West into the world's dominant power. View more info
By: Hickman, Katie
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York : Morrow, c2003.:
Seller ID: BB0256072
ISBN: 0066209552
Condition: vg/vg
During the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives -- and those of other people -- and made the world do their will. Men went to great lengths in desperate attempts to gain and retain a courtesan's favors, but she was always courted for far more than sex. In an age in which women were generally not well educated she was often unusually literate and literary, and courted for her conversation as well as her physical company. Co... View more info
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Publisher: Orion, 2008:
Seller ID: BB0210159
ISBN: 1407244566
Condition: vg
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By: Johnson, Paul
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York : Viking, c2009.:
Seller ID: BB0235374
ISBN: 0670021059
Condition: vg/vg
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By: Marwick, Arthur
Price: $4.00
Publisher: London : Penguin Books, c1990.:
Seller ID: BB0232987
ISBN: 014013817X
Condition: vg
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By: Muirden, James
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Walker, 2003:
Seller ID: BB0253551
ISBN: 0802776809
Condition: vg
"This cheerful poem has been writtenTo tell the history of Britain; For People puzzled by the Past—If this means YOU, here’s help at last From Celts to Churchill, it relates(With all the most Important Dates)Our country’s convoluted course . . .Why Richard hollered for a horse;Why Eleanor was such a catch;Why no one liked the Spanish Match;The pros and cons of Laissez Faire;Smart Georgian ladies’ underwear;Why Charles the Second went to plays;Why Queen Jane reigned for just nine days;The causes of the Irish troubl... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1995.:
Seller ID: BB0213434
ISBN: 0345388143
Condition: vg/vg
By: Toye, Richard
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.:
Seller ID: BB0209549
ISBN: 0805087958
Condition: vg/vg
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By: Wilson, P. W.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Doubleday Doran, 1934:
Seller ID: BB0213493
ISBN: BBC0000013396
Condition: g/fair
A worn copy with discolored jacket. View more info