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Godley Books: Social History
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Women of Smoke: Latin American Women in Literature in Life
Ontario, Williams-Wallace Publishing. 1989. (ISBN: 0887950752) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Address and inscription inside front cover. No other marks and very slight creasing to covers. Mainly clean tight pages with very slightly marked boards and a little rubbing to corners. 109pp. Essays of the ives of ordinary and extraordinary Latin American women from the remote regions of Southern Chile to the Guatemalan forest. They tell of the tortures from the time of Pinochet and the women artists who defied this authoritarian regime. Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 018612
GBP 12,50 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 14.25 US$ 16.44 | JP¥ 2534]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: South American Women, Social History Gender Studies 0887950752
Connecticut Trilogy
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1935, Tercentenary Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 6 inches. Ill.: the Author. Inscription on reverse of front end paper. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked boards and spine, with rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 343pp. Tales of folk-lore and legend based on actual historical information around the American State of Connecticut. The three parts each concentrate on the Connecticut Colony, the Saybroook Plantations and the New Haven Colony and her neighbours. With over fifty drawings of buildings and places relevant to the stories. Very Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 005815
GBP 15,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 17.25 US$ 19.72 | JP¥ 3041]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Local History, Legends, Traditions, America, Usa, Folklore the Author
Nostalgia : Spotlight on the Thirties
London, Universal Books Ltd. 1985. (ISBN: 0904041484) Hard Cover, 10.75 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and with bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with some rubbing to front, rear and edges. 144pp. Very well illustrated nostalgic history of the 1930s. Very Good (+)/Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 028525
GBP 6,25 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 8.22 | JP¥ 1267]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: 1930s, Social History, Illustrations 0904041484
Nostalgia : Spotlight on the Twenties
London, Universal Books Ltd. 1985. (ISBN: 0904041476) Hard Cover, 10.75 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and with bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny tears to upper corners and with some rubbing to front and edges. 144pp. Very well illustrated nostalgic history of the 1920s. Very Good (+)/Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 028526
GBP 6,75 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 8.88 | JP¥ 1369]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: 1920s, Social History, Illustrations 0904041476
The Dorset Village Book
Newbury, Berkshire, Countryside Books. 1992. (ISBN: 0905392353) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Ill.: John Baker. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to corners of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 189pp. Written by a local historian, this book is rich in stories, anecdotes and atmosphere of the Dorset villages from Abbotsbury to Yetminster. Very Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 007753
GBP 5,75 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 7.56 | JP¥ 1166]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Local History, Dorset 0905392353 John Baker
Strange Tales from Humble Lives : Second Series
Manchester, Tubbs and Brook. 1879. Hard Cover, 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Small marking to front end paper and inscription dated '79 to reverse of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear black embossing/lettering to front cover, clear gilt and black lettering/embossing to spine, dusty page edges and minor bumping to corners. 189-360pp. Second Series of Tales from Lancashire by Rochdale author who ran The Chapel for the Destitute. Undated but inscription from '79 and adverts dated 1878. Very Good/No Jacket.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 012996
GBP 17,50 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 20 US$ 23.01 | JP¥ 3548]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Stories, Rochdale, Poor, Destitute
North-East England : People at Work 1860-1950
Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Moorland Publishing Co Ltd. 1980. (ISBN: 0861900057) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. Inscription inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright laminated boards, light bumping to corners and slight scuffing to spine ends. 113pp. With an introduction to each type of industry and good descripions of each of the139 black & white photographs. Very Good (+).
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002027
GBP 8,75 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 11.5 | JP¥ 1774]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Economic History, Industry, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham 0861900057
Scrapbook 1900 to 1914
London, Frederick Muller Ltd. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 9 x 6 inches. Author's date of death in pencil on early page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Very minor fading to upper rear edge. 312pp. Social history in Edwardian England from the well-known broadcaster. Very well illustrated in black & white. Includes an actual page from The Times of 1905 tucked into a pocket at the rear of the book. Near Fine/No Jacket.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 011947
GBP 15,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 17.25 US$ 19.72 | JP¥ 3041]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Social History, Arts, Transport, Politics, Suffragettes, Bbc, Broadcasts
Hydonian 1962
Hyde, County Grammar School. 1962. Soft Cover, 10.25 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Light creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked front cover, minor marrks to rear and minor nicks to oversize parts of covers. unpaginated ca 65pp. The school mazgazine for 1962 of Hyde Country Grammar School in Hyde, then in Cheshire, now in Tamesdie. Filled with events of the year, short stories, sports events, school clubs. Interesting entry for Nov 3 was 'explosives found in gym, set with 2 days fuse'. Many contemporary adverts of the shops in the town - now long gone. Extremely scarce. Very Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 023123
GBP 40,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 45.75 US$ 52.59 | JP¥ 8110]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: School Magazine, Hyde Education
Down The River : Illustrated
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1987. (ISBN: 0575038853) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of storage. 152pp. First published in 1937, this illustrated edition with paintings from Peter Partington tells the story from HE Bates of his love for the countryside and details of social history around the rivers Ouse and Nene through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and the Fens to the sea. Fine/Near Fine.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 019163
GBP 7,50 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 8.75 US$ 9.86 | JP¥ 1521]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Biography, Nature, Rivers Biography - Nature 0575038853
My People the Sioux
Lincoln, NE, Universiity of Nebraska Press. 1975. (ISBN: 0803257937) Soft Cover, 8 x 5.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 288pp. A landmark in Native American literature, published in 1928 and one of the first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by an Indian. Fine.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 028819
GBP 10,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 11.5 US$ 13.15 | JP¥ 2028]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Native Americans, Sioux Anthropology 0803257937
Out of the Shadows : A History of Women in Twentieth-Century Wales
Cardiff, Wales, University of Wales Press. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0708315917) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Previous owner's name on half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 201pp. The author, a broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Women's History at the University of Glamorgan reveals the fascinating story of women's lives in Wales during the twentieth century. Illustrated. Near Fine.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 005402
GBP 15,75 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 20.71 | JP¥ 3193]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Women_history Women_social Conditions Women's Rights, Welsh 0708315917
The Long Room : Number 54-55 2012 : Irish Journal for the History of the Book
Dublin, Trinity College Library. 2012, First Edition. Soft Cover, 10 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. Essays from the Annual Bulletin of the Library Trinity College Dublin 1946-1958. With seventeen articles. Extremely scarce. Fine.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 029253
GBP 15,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 17.25 US$ 19.72 | JP¥ 3041]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Books, History
East of the City : The London Docklands Story
London, Pavilion Books Ltd. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 1862050570) Hard Cover, 10.25 x 8.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and light bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper corners and very minor traces of handling. 224pp. Showing the vast changes which have taken place with photographs of the old London Docklands which furnished the British Empire and the new, this book is a study of the history of the area and what it has become with its innovative architecture, leisure facilities, Canary Wharf, Docklands Light Railways and the Jubilee Line Extension. Near Fine/Very Good (+).
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 007458
GBP 12,25 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 16.11 | JP¥ 2484]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: History, Canary Wharf, 1862050570
Vintage Scarborough
Nelson, Lancashire, Hendon Publishing. 1976. (ISBN: 090290793X) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 11.25 Inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Light creasing to covers adjacent to spine and upper front corner. A very clean very tight copy with bright slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 40pp. Captioned photographs of Scarborough in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Very Good.
Godley Books Professional sellerBook no.: 010370
GBP 6,25 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 8.22 | JP¥ 1267]
Catalogue: Social History
Keywords: Local History, Yorkshire 090290793x
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