Search Results: History from Alex Richardson

London: Asia Publishing House, 1966. 1st edition. Hardback. Red cloth with faded lettering to spine. Octavo. [xv prelims] 184 pages. Good in Fair jacket. Boards faded, particularly around the spine. Text brown at the edges; small bumps to the fore-edges of the last thirty-odd pages. A bit of tape residue to each of the paste-downs. Jacket price-clipped, faded and frayed, with chipped and torn edges. Small losses at the spine ends and in each corner. Both faces rubbed and marked; back stained along its leading edge.

Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2008. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Quarto. [xv prelims] 236 pages. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs throughout. Foreword by Robert Hillebrand of the University of Edinburgh. Fine in Very Good jacket which has a little rubbing and a few faint marks to its faces.

Tokyo: Liber Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardback. Brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 158 pages. Pull-out map with several b&w illustrations. Translated from the Japanese by Glyndon Townhill. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has a bit of creasing along the top edge of its front.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [xiii prelims] 578 pages. 32 pages of colour and b&w plates. Signed by the author on the title page. Good in Good jacket. Previous owner's inscription at the top of the title page.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968. 1st edition. Hardback. Original brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Quarto. [x prelims] 214 pages. Frontispiece a b&w photograph of Ader; 6 pages of b&w plates; several other technical line illustrations. English and French text. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Page edges tanned. Jacket has faded slightly at the spine.

Dallas, TX: K8 Communications, 1987. 1st edition. Hardback. Quarter bound in brown leather with gold decoration to front and gold bands and lettering to spine. Quarto. [xviii prelims] 177 pages. Numerous b&w (and a couple of colour) illustrations within the text. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "To my good friend / Richard Hill / Thanks for your help / on the photos / Bill Gary". Good. Some wear to the spine ends. Gold decoration on the front board has a few scratches; spine lettering rubbed; a couple of faint marks to the back. Page edges tanned and dull, particularly along the top. Endpapers also rather tanned; previous owner's small stamp to the reverse of the front free endpaper.

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 1st edition. Hardback. Issued in pictorial boards without a jacket. Quarto. [xvi prelims] 235 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Volume 5 in the 'Cultural History of Marriage' series. Very Good. A small nick to the fore-edge of several leaves (pages 201-206).

London: Gingko Library, 2015. 1st edition. Hardback. Original blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 350 pages. Several b&w maps and tables within the text. Very Good in Good jacket which has some creasing to its front top corner and along the top of its front flap.

London: New English Library, 1974. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 190 pages. Good in Good jacket. Endpapers brown. Page edges rather tanned. Small spot to the half-title page. Jacket has some wear to its corners and is rather wrinkled on its faces, particularly the back.

London: Frontline Books, 2014. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xii prelims] 305 pages. 16 pages of b&w plates. Very Good in Very Good jacket which is a little flared along its top and has a bit of rubbing to its faces.

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Reprint. Hardback. Issued in pictorial boards without a jacket. Octavo. [xvi prelims] 316 pages. 8 pages of colour plates. Part of the 'International Library of Historical Studies' series. Near Fine. Boards a little rubbed on their faces.

London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. Hardback. Light blue boards with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xvi prelims] 462 pages. 30 b&w photographs within the text. Near Fine in Fine jacket. Spine ends a little bumped.

Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. [vii prelims] 266 pages. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Spine rather bumped and creased at its foot, as is the jacket.

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1914. 2nd edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine; front board decorated with a gold image of a Viking longship. Octavo. 150 pages. 70 b&w illustrations within the text. Good. Boards a bit worn at the corners and spine ends. Several small bumps along the spine. Front board has some rubbing around the decoration. Text rather tanned at the edges; top edge very dull; small foxed patch to the fore-edge. Endpapers also a little foxed.

El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Quarto. [xv prelims] 224 pages. Illustrated with colour maps throughout the text. Volume 5 in the 'Savas Beatie Military Atlas' series. Good in Good jacket. Rear board has a small creased bump to its bottom corner. Jacket is a bit worn along its top edge and sunned on its spine.

London: Gingko Library, 2017. Paperback. Octavo (24.7 x 24.3 cm). 143 pages. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations within the text. Part of the 'Gingko Library Art Series'. Very Good. Spine a little creased at its foot.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973. Hardback. Octavo. [x prelims] 84 pages. 6 pages of b&2 plates. Edited with an Introdution by Professor Ernest Badian. Translated from the Italian by A. M. Dabrowski. Very Good in Good jacket which is price-clipped and has some wear to its corners and along its top.

Milan: Mimesis International, 2014. Paperback. Octavo. 783 pages. Several b&w photographs, drawings and examples of scripts within the text, which is in English and German. Edited by Velizar Sadowski and Antonio Pancino, with the co-operation of Sara Circassia and Bettina Hoffleitner. Very Good. Cover has small chips to its spine ends and rubbed faces.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 1st edition. Hardback. Issued without a jacket in black cloth with silver lettering and blue decoration to spine and front. Octavo. [xiv prelims] 129 pages. Part of the 'Roman Literature and its Contexts' series. Very Good. Some tanning at the edges of the text. Spine a bit creased around its head.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1981. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xxi prelims] 275 pages. 4 pages of b&w plates; several b&w line illustrations within the text. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned. Jacket has some wear and creasing to its edges, particularly around the spine ends, in the top corners and along the top edges of the flaps. Spine slightly faded; both faces a bit rubbed.