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From Brown Men and Red Sand to Life Of a Sportsman, from Wealth and Rebellion Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist to L'Assiette Au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous No 92 -- 3 January 1903, we can help you find the social life books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
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L'Assiette Au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous No 92 -- 3 January 1903
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Windows on Latin America: Understanding Society Through Photographs
by Levine, Robert M. (Editor)
Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Fine.. 142 pp. 8 1/2" x 11", voluminously illustrated with black and white photographs. Photoessays -- Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Peru and Argentina -- of early 20th century and late 19th century life. Written by Ramiro A. Fernandez, Lic.Alejandria Garcia Quintanilla, Gilbert M. Joseph, Boris Kossoy, Robert M. Levine, Kathleen Logan, German Rodrigo Mejia, Louis A. Perez, Steve J. Stein,...
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SGD 20.68
The Book Of Royalty. Characteristics Of British Palaces; The Drawings By W. Perring And J. Brown
by Hall, Mrs. S.C. [Anna Maria]
London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher's crimson russia, sides elaborately gilt with armorial and floral ornaments, front cover center piece inlaid with blue morocco. Aeg. Near fine. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate 4 (The...
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SGD 1,171.90
The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or the Disappointed Dido still in Despair
by London. S.W. Fores
London: S.W. Fores, 1802. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Near fine. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with publisher note at bottom right, "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido, arms raised, rails, "Ah me, a luckless Maid, thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts, the one for ever gone the other too Cold to feel the genial warmth of mine and Mother Love. I'll take to my Weeds & shew the World the ne'er was Love like mine." Slight blemish on papers lying...
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SGD 344.68
![Jugend [Youth]; Presented by Jeannette Stocheck](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/003/733/1450733003.0.b.jpg)
Jugend [Youth]; Presented by Jeannette Stocheck
by Tubke, Albrecht
Dresden: Sandstein Verlag, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine. Tubke, Albrecht. Unpaginated. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Portraits of young people between the ages of 15 and sixteen, the adolescent search for identity and individuality. Text in English and German. Bright, fresh copy.
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SGD 103.40
Old California Houses Portraits and Stories
by Parsons, Marion Randall
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. olive khaki cloth. Near fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 143 pages. Seventeen reproductions of the author's paintings, each designed to depictvery briefly the remarkably swift evolution of California's architectural and social history. Edges slightly sunned.
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SGD 48.25
The Prize Ring
by Lynch, Bohun
London: Country Life, 1925. First edition. Boards. Orig. marbled boards and vellum spine. Teg. Very good. 137 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Frontispiece and forty plates, some in color. All plates with tissue guards. Illustrated by reproductions of old prints, several oil paintings, "and the famous Byron Screen." History of boxing in England, much anecdotal data concerning boxers, matches and the nobility, Lord Byron included who embraced the sport despite a club foot. Limited edition, copy 144 of 750. Boards...
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SGD 344.68
Melbourne on the Yarra
by Tipping, Marjorie
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions. 1977. Oblong Quarto Size [approx 30.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Pastedowns are a little bubbled [publication flaw] with an abrasion to front pastedown. Slight yellowing to upper DJ edge and some sunning to spine with small chip to spine tail. Illustrated with over 100 sepia photographs. 95 pages. Melbourne- its history and mores - is revealed through this...
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SGD 16.22
Advice To Sportsmen. Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates Or Grown Persons; With Anecdotes Of The Most Renowned Shots Of The Day: Exemplified from Life. Including Recommendatory Hints In The Choice Of Guns, Dogs, And Sporting Paraphernalia: Also, Characters, Costumes And Correspondence; Selected from the Original Notes, &c, of Marmaduke Markwell, Esq
by Rowlandson, Thomas [Illustrator]
London: Thomas Tegg, 1809. First edition. leather_bound. Period full brown calf. Teg. Very good. 132 pages. 17 x 10.5 cm. Half title, frontispiece and 15 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. Early, scarce work of Rowlandson. TOOLEY 407. Armorial bookplate, inner dentelles, chipping front endpaper fore-edge, plates clean, text generally bright, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, triple gilt border fillets, front cover hinge repaired, moderate surface wear.
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SGD 1,034.02
Australian Aboriginal Languages
by Blake, Barry J
London and Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1981. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. ex-library copy but only signs are a stamp to lower edge, mild abrasion to reaer pastedown and some tape marks to boards. 137 pages. From the vocabulary and sounds of Aboriginal languages to word lists. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 22.53
Open Australia
by Tanner, Lindsay
Sydney: Pluto Press. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. Excellent condition. 248 pages. The former Federal MP for Melbourne, Lindsay Tanner proposes a radical overhaul of the Australian system of representation. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Softcover.
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SGD 13.52
The Last Jig or Adieu To Old England
by Rowlandson, Thomas
London: James J. Adelphi, 1818. Wraps. Thick laid paper. Near fine. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 33 cm. including border. Black and white engraving sharp, bright and clean. The date can be seen above upside down bench at lower right corner, and Rowlandson's name barely visible save for first three letters of his name directly below the date previously mentioned. Dampstain at upper left corner not affecting imprint area.
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SGD 137.87
The X Mas Academics A Combination Game At Whist
by Bunbury, Henry William
London: J. Bretherton, 1773. Wraps. Very good. 27 x 40 cm. Stipple engraving. Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two dogs approach the table; on the wall behind is a portrait of Archbishop Synge. Corner adhesion marks on verso.
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SGD 241.27
Portraits Of Illustrious Personages Of Great Britain.; With Biographical And Historical Memoirs Of Their Lives And Actions
by Lodge, Edmund
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Hardcover. Orig. green publisher's cloth embossed in blind. Very good. 8 vols. 8 x 12 cm. Illustrated with 240 full-page portraits. Nos. 1-8 in the series, Bohn's Illustrated Library. Index for entire series in Vol. 8. Backstrips slightly and evenly sunned to brown, gilt lettering thereon bright, a few front cover fore-edges faded, Vol. IV fore-edge spotted, mostly unopened. Bright, fresh set with interior contents and portraits clean.
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SGD 172.34
The Guruma Story
by Guruma Elders led by Peter Stevens. Collected and Edited byLoreen Brehaut and Ann Vitenbergs
Alice Springs: IAD Press. 2001. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. vii, 168 pages. The Guruma elders of the Pilbara region of Western Australia share stories of the land and the way they lived there. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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SGD 22.53
Farmer Giles & his Wife shewing off their Betty to their Neighbours on her return from School
by Gillray, James
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1809. Wraps. Very good. Gillray, James. 30 x 46 cm. Hand colored etching. A rich farmer's parlour or drawing-room, with curtains drawn over two high windows (right). Lower left corner states, "Drawn by an Amateur Etched by Js Gillray." Bluebell of Scotland, sheet music played and sung by Betty. Wall signboard reads, "Evil communications corrupt good Manners," and below "Betty Giles aged 16. 1808, Cheese Hall." One of the guests twiddles his thumbs, the others pay no attention...
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SGD 958.20
Cigar Box Labels
by New York. O.L. Schwencke Lithograph Engraver And Lithographer
New York: O.L. Schwencke, 1900. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf in Cambridge style binding. All edges red. Fine. 98 leaves. 27 x 19.5 cm. 100 labels, 81 full page and 19 multiple pages mounted chromolithograph plates. An elegant printer's sample book incorporating embossed printing as well as full color gold and silver examples. The labels present the spirit of the 19th century with a cross section of the advertiser and printer art of the period. Trade catalogues at WINTERTHUR No. 1618 describes...
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SGD 1,309.76
The Carter and the Gipsies
by Rowlandson, Thomas
London: Tho. Tegg, 1815. Wraps. Thick laid paper. Near fine. 25.5 x 35 cm.(imprint area). 50 x 34 cm. including border. Black and white engraving sharp, bright and clean. Mark at head of border appears to be remnant of a stamp.
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SGD 137.87
Secret Memoirs Of The Court Of St. Petersburgh Particularly Towards The End Of The Reign Of Catherine II. And The Commencement of That Of Paul I; Translated from the French
by London. H.S. Nichols & Co
London: H.S. Nichols & Co, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth front cover gilt decorated, spine lettered in gilt and slightly darkened. Very good. 390 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Title page printed in red and black, frontispiece of Catherine II. Appendix. Mostly unopened. Presents customs and manners of the Russian Court, anecdotes relating to Catherine, Court intrigues and mention of Catherine's favorites. Clean, fresh copy.
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SGD 172.34
Pot Fair Cambridge & The College Gate
by Rowlandson, Thomas
London: H. Bunbury, Nd. Wraps. Thick laid paper. Near fine. 24.5 x 34 cm.(imprint area). 41.5 x 35 cm. including border. Black and white engraving, image portion clean with nicks to edges of the left greater border, and darkening to bottom right of greater border.
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SGD 137.87
Don Miguel's First Sight Of The British Squadron
by London. C. Motte
London: C. Motte, 1835. Original Wraps. Orig. laid paper. Fine. 16.5 x 27 cm. Color engraving during the First Carlist War, 1833-1840 during which the British volunteered to assist Isabella II of Spain against her rival uncle the late king's brother, Carlos de Borbón (or Carlos V). The Carlists supported return to an absolute monarchy. The priest says, "Cheer up my son recollect as fast as they compel you to make promises I can absolve you from them.
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SGD 137.87
Young Troublesome" or Master Jacky's Holidays
by Leech, John
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and dark green cloth. Aeg. Very good. Leetch, John. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 27 cm. Title and eleven hand-colored etched plates printed recto only. Half title with cast of characters printed on verso. Total of twenty-five illustrations with letterpress. FIELD p.160. Nicks to backstrip head and foot, raised bands, decorated endpapers, spine panes decorated in gilt, front cover title in gilt.
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SGD 620.42
The American Tradition In The Arts
by McLanathan, Richard
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. wine cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 492 pages. 298 black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. KARPEL I41. "One of the better introductory studies of American art,this attractive book emphasizes the relationship between major social forces and the arts in the United States.
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SGD 48.25
The Meanings of Social Life. A Cultural Sociology
by Alexander, Jeffrey C
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 296 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 31.54
Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood House Cook Book
by Wills, Grace T
New York: C.B. Darrow, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in black. Very good. 83 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. The author was a social worker, and Clark a notable American philanthropist and patron of the arts. This work is more a chapter in philanthropy, the half title reading "Receipts for Very Economical Cookery." Its recipes, documentation of food for the underprivilaged rather than for the public. They are practical with costs noted to prepare simple, wholesome meals with no...
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SGD 103.40
Class Distinctions Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer; With essays by Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter. Marieke de Winkel, and Sanny de Zoete
by Baer, Ronni
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. delft blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. 180 color plates, a reflection of the golden age of painting, portraits of an array of social strata rendered with erudtion by the scholarly articles herein. Artist Biographies. Index.
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SGD 137.87
