Chapman, R. W The Portrait of a Scholar and other Essays written in Macedonia 1916-1918
London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1922. Hardcover. Second Impression. 8vo. Black cloth. 147 pp. Endpapers lightly tanned. Text block clean throughout. Front cloth badly damp-marked at centre. Internally GOOD+ / cloth FAIR (Book ref. 02292) £7.50
Paliouras, Athanasios MacEdonia Archaeology - Civilisation - Volume II (B')
Athens: Greek National Line, 1994. Cloth. Poor/Good Minus. 4to Extensive damp damage - Front of DJ wrinkled and creased, cloth separating from boards, spine detached, text block nearly wholly detached from binding, pp also damp affected but text and plates clean and bright. (Book ref. 71320) £15.00
Paliouras, Athanasios MacEdonia History - Volume I (A')
Athens: Greek National Line, 1994. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to II edition. Very light general shelfwear, large ink inscription to title page, else a very tidy copy. (Book ref. 71319) £30.00
Lunt, Horace G.: A Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language.
Skopje, Macedonia: (the author), 1952 First edition. Appears to have been published by the author. HB. Blue cloth, no dustjacket . 236pp. With folding map of Macedonia. The author was a Harvard academic who studied the language of Macedonia in the country; the book describes the sound pattern and structure of the language, with examples of prose and a representative list of words with English equivalents. Pioneering work. Very Good . Light rubbing to cover edges. Pages clean but tanned, with blotchy browning to endpapers and prelims. (Book ref. 20092) £11.00
Ian Buxton BIG GUN MONITORS
1978, , , 0905617061,215pp, photos, line drawings of ships and guns, index, vg in worn dw, , In the history of naval warfare no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was over. Their value was rediscovered during the Second World War when a final class was built. Mounting guns from 6 to 18-inch calibre, in World War I they saw service at the Dardanelles, Adriatic and Macedonia, and during the Second World War they supported landings in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, and Normandy. (Book ref. 28210-01) £34.50
Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge ALEXANDER: A HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN & GROWTH OF THE ART OF WAR
1993, Greenhill Books, , 1853671479,2 volumes 692pp, numerous illustrations and maps, Very good in d/w, , From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian. Volume 1 covers the background to warfare in the east and the role of Philip of Macedonia, Alexander's father. It looks at his famous victory on the Issus river in 333 BC from which King Darius and his army fled in dissaray. The second volume takes the story from Alexander becoming the undisputed master of the world after Darius's death through to Alexander's own death at the age of 32. (Book ref. 12914-01) £57.50
Abbott, Jacob History of Alexander the Great; & the life of Marie Antoinette (2 books)
Thomas Allman; Abbott's Entertaining Histories, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Pair of hardbacks tightly bound in crimson cloth with gilt titles and edges and steel engraving on spine and front covers. Cloth on Alexander the Great is faded with rubbing at corners and wear at spine ends Both books have bookplates from the library of A Bernard Reeves. No inscriptions. Alexander the Great has 220 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's adverts and adverts on the end papers. Marie Antoinette has 222 pages. both have illustrations on frontispiece. (Book ref. 34750) £10.00
Lieut. Col. G R Stevens History of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) Vol. 3 1921-1948
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall HB. Dark-green cloth boards with red lateral cloth band bearing crossed kukris and crown motif; gilt lettering to spine; red band faded at its spine. Some wear to edges, corners and joints; there is a small stain to fnt on the red band adjacent the joint. odd .. Ex-owners name and gift inscrs. on eps. booksticker on fep. Very slight and sparse foxing to eps. 322 pages, incl. 18 charts, many plates (all present). Book tight and clean. (Book ref. 004741) £100.00
Robinson, B.W. Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0856670723 (Book ref. 031783) £25.00
Hume-Griffith, M.E. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East
London: Seeley & Co., 1909. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library Showing some wear, spine worn cracked and split, would benefit rebinding. A rare book in any condition. (Book ref. 027125) £75.00
Chloros, A.G. Yugoslav Civil Law: History, Family, Property
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0198251882 Some fading to boards. (Book ref. 018076) £9.99
Warriner, Doreen (Editor) Contrasts in Emerging Societies: Readings in the Social and Economic History of South-Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century
London: University of London: The Athlone Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0485110741 Some staining to boards. (Book ref. 018050) £8.99
Anonymous Yugoslavery: Yugoslavia: Capitalism and Class Struggle 1918-1967
London: BM Blob, 1991. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Rare. (Book ref. 016673) £45.00
Amnesty International Albania: Amnesty International Briefing
London: Amnesty International Publications, 1984. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0862100771 Account of the torture, murder and other human rights abuses in Albania. Rare. (Book ref. 011382) £20.00
Amnesty International Yugoslavia: Amnesty International Briefing
London: Amnesty International Publications, 1985. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0862100836 Account of the torture, murder and other human rights abuses in Yugoslavia. Rare. (Book ref. 011381) £20.00
Amnesty International Yugoslavia: Prisoners of Conscience
London: Amnesty International Publications, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0862100844 Account of the torture, murder and other human rights abuses in Yugoslavia. Rare. (Book ref. 011380) £20.00
PACKER (C): Return to Salonika
Cassell, [1964] 8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 12, a double-page map in the text and a large folding panorama photograph; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dust wrapper. Scarce, especially in the dust wrapper. Enser, p.320. (Book ref. 18300) £40.00
ROLLIN, M. [ CHARLES ]: The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians. Translated from the French.
London: for Longman and Co; T. Cadell (& many others), 1839. 6 volumes (complete). Engraved portrait. Folding engraved maps. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), contemporary full tan calf, spines gilt with later crimson and black morocco lettering pieces. Bindings scuffed, a few of the lettering pieces frayed at edges or a little chipped, spines darkened, two upper inner joints split, some headbands rubbed. Generally sound and attractive on the shelf. Armorial bookplates of Reginald John Cust on front pastedowns. (Book ref. 11446) £80.00
Edmund Spencer Travels in European Turkey in 1850 Through Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thrace, Albania, and Epirus: with a Visit to Greece and the Ionian Isles Vol 1 only
London: Colburn & Co, 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol 1 [of 2] only, original blind stamped purple cloth with gilt title to spine, cloth and spine very faded and small circular white mark on upper board, 416pp, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a vignette on the title page and a folded map, carelessly folded and with a small tear (Book ref. 014149) £140.00
Dick, Charles & Aldis, Anne Central and Eastern Europe: problems and prospects (Occasional paper no. 37)
Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1998. 1874346291 First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Clean and tightly bound larger format paperback original, no inscriptions, appears little used. ii + 236 pages (Book ref. 34009) £8.00