British History Books at Dial a Book Sydney

Muir of Huntershill. A Scottish patriot's adventures around the world.
Bewley, Christina
Book Number: 67438
ISBN: 0192117687
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1981
8vo. hardcover. 212pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, small mark on edge of text-block. / Very good d/w. Thomas Muir was transported to Australia as a political prisoner. From there he escaped on board an American ship across the Pacific eventually returning to Europe - so determinedly opposed to the English that he ended his young life plotting for the invasion of Britain by the French
Price: $10.00

The Tower: 1078-1978
Wilson, Derek
Book Number: 67286
ISBN:
Publisher: Book Club Associates, London, 1978.
8vo. hardcover. 257pp. index, b/w plates. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00

The Workhouse
Longmate, Norman
Book Number: 67208
ISBN: 0851170382
Publisher: Temple Smith London 1974.
8vo. hardcover. 329pp. index, b/w plates. Vedry good, front endpaper trimmed along front edge. / Good, chipped d/w. The British workhouse is the stuff of literature and legend. But what exactly was it? Surprisingly, no full-scale history of the workhouse has ever been written. Here, historian Norman Longmate tells the full story, from its beginnings in Elizabethan times until its demise in the 1940s, though mainly concentrating on the Victorian workhouse in the years of its tarnished glory
Price: $15.00

Cast of Ravens: The Strange Case of Sir Thomas Overbury
White, B.
Book Number: 65859
ISBN:
Publisher: John Murray, London 1965.
8vo. hardcover. 260pp. index, b/w frontis. Very good. / Good, rubbed d/w.
Price: $12.00

The Life of Thomas Moore
Ackroyd, Peter
Book Number: 65861
ISBN: 1856197115
Publisher: Random House Australia 1998.
8vo. hardcover. 435pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Good, some foxing to outer page edges, rear endpaper creased. / Good d/w rubbed & torn on top edge.
Price: $15.00

The Sutton Companion to Castles
Friar, Stephen
Book Number: 64883
ISBN: 9780750939942
Publisher: Sutton Publishing 2007. Revised edition.
8vo. softcover. 344pp. colour & b/w ilus. Very good.
Price: $18.00

Fine Song For Singing. A Celtic Odyssey
Hosking, Clement. Foreword by Dame Mary Gilmore
Book Number: 64217
ISBN:
Publisher: George M. Dash, Sydney, N.D. 1950?
8vo. hardcvover. 230pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Good, chipped d/w.
Price: $75.00

Days with Sir Roger de Coverley
SPECTATOR (Addison & Steele). illustrated by Hugh Thomson
Book Number: 64020
ISBN:
Publisher: Macmillan, London, 1886.
8vo. Original dec. cloth hardcover. All edges gilt. 82pp. b/w illus. Very good, foxing to frontis., tissue guard & title page.
Price: $125.00

Domesday Book Kent. A survey of the Counties of England. Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester"
Morris, John. (edtor)
Book Number: 63628
ISBN: 050331544
Publisher: Phillimore, UK 1983
8vo softcover. Very good+.
Price: $15.00

Domesday Book Leicestershire. A survey of the Counties of England. Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester"
Morris, John. (edtor)
Book Number: 63598
ISBN: 0850033318
Publisher: Phillimore, Uk 1979
8vo softcover 278pp. + notes. Near Fine.
Price: $15.00

Anglo-Saxon England.
Stenton, Frank M. and Clark, George
Book Number: 63397
ISBN:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1950. 2nd edition.
8vo. hardcover. 747pp. folding map at rear. good+, some insect damage to cloth on bottom cover edge. / Good+ d/w with some small tears, owner's signature on fep.
Price: $18.00

The Churchills. A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
Lovell, Mary S.
Book Number: 63337
ISBN: 9781408702475
Publisher: Little, Brown, London, 2011.
8vo. softcover. 624pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $18.00

Among the Fisher Folks of Usan and Ferrydean.
Edwards, D. H.
Book Number: 63174
ISBN:
Publisher: Brechin "Advertiser" Office 1921.
8vo. hardcover. 256pp. + ads. b/w ilus. good some foxing, owner's inscription on fep. Descriptive and Historical Jottings and Anecdotes regarding the Antiquities and Places of Interest in the Parish of Craig and its surroundings.
Price: $95.00

Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879: Life in the Victorian Countryside in Mid-Victorian Times. An Illustrated Selection
Kilvert, Francis
Book Number: 62806
ISBN: 0712693978
Publisher: Century, London, 1986.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 288pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine.
Price: $18.00

The Common Stream
Parker, Rowland
Book Number: 62789
ISBN: 0002161133
Publisher: Collins, London, 1975.
8vo. hardcover. 283pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good. / Very good d/w with faded spine. The history of an English village, Foxton in Cambridgeshire England.
Price: $12.00

The Village Homes of England.
Jones, Sydney R.
Book Number: 32725
ISBN:
Publisher: Bracken Books London 1995.
4to hardcover 162pp, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00

WHITEHALL
LOFTIE, W.J.
Book Number: 3711
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Seeley and Co., Limited, 1895.
Historical and Architectural Notes. First edition. Red cloth, faded at edge of book rather poorly. Rough cut pages in good condition. Tape marks inside book.
Price: $20.00

Atlas Of Royal Britain
Montgomery, Hugh
Book Number: 32720
ISBN: 0517434881
Publisher: British Heritage Press 1984
4to hardcover 256pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good, foxing on half-title page / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Germany And England
Blatchford, Robert
Book Number: 21561
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne, Specialty Press. n.d.
8vo. stapled softcover. 32pp. very good.
Price: $15.00

The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles - 1 The West Midlands
Brook Fred
Book Number: 3712
ISBN:
Publisher: Batsford 1977
VG in d/w - unclipped. 22pp. 67 photographs and 11 maps. A detailed gazetteer (with national 6-figure grid), to 1200 sites not previously recorded.
Price: $15.00

Industrial Britain: The West Midlands/ Chapter on Potteries by A. Moyes
WOOD, PETER
Book Number: 1770
ISBN:
Publisher: David & Charles 1976
very good copy in same d/w.
Price: $15.00

Cromwell
Belloc, Hilaire
Book Number: 39363
ISBN:
Publisher: Cassell1934
8vo. hardcover. 405pp, index, frontis, maps. Good, owner's anme on fep & rear endpaper, spine faded.
Price: $25.00

LIFE IN BRIGHTON from the earliest times to the present.
Musgrave, Clifford
Book Number: 1541
ISBN:
Publisher: Faber & Faber. London. 1970
235 x 150mm. pp503 with numerous plates. Pictorial d/w in good condition, small shelf wear at top of spine. Unclipped. Copy in excellent condition and solid and white.
Price: $18.00

The Common Stream
Parker, Rowland
Book Number: 21049
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Collins, 1975.
8vo. hardcover. 283pp. index. b/w illus. very goodowner's name on title. / good, chipped d/w.
Price: $12.00

The First Churchill - The Life of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Thompson, George Malcom
Book Number: 38723
ISBN: 43652046x
Publisher: Secker and Warburg 1979
8vo. Hardcover in D/w. both very good. Illustrated with B&W photos and seven maps. 338pp. Po name of ffl. Concerns the Battle of Blenheim.
Price: $25.00

HISTORY OF ENGLAND to the Death of William III, 4 Volumes
Macaulay, Lord
Book Number: 43515
ISBN:
Publisher: Heron 1967
8vo. red leatherette hardcovers. pp.645,589,657,556. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $35.00

Dear old Blighty
Turner, E. S
Book Number: 47643
ISBN: 0718118790
Publisher: Joseph 1980
8vo hardcover 288pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

Viscount Castlereagh
Hassall, Arthur
Book Number: 59568
ISBN:
Publisher: Pitman & Sons, London 1908.
8vo. green cloth hardcover. 248pp. index, b/w frontis. Very good, prelims foxed.
Price: $15.00