Books - "history"
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A Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age
Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 447pp, illus/diagrams, VG (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards & page edges, prev. owner's correction fluid to ffep, occasional 'ghost' writing from prev. owner's pencil annotations- attempts to erase by prev. owner) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & tanning)
PUBLISHER: McGill-Queen's University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: suicide mental health New Zealand NZ Australia history theory psychology psychiatry
Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & orange lettering to spine, illus prelims, viii + 387pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine lightly warped/faded & creased, light rubbing & curling to wrapper edges, sl soiling to wrappers & page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page, occasional sl cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press 2015
KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature literary history poetry poets
Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + other mixed pagination, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Variorum / Ashgate Publishing 1995
KEYWORDS: China Chinese central Asia Islam islamic history studies
In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, blue & red lettering to spine, xxviii + [2] + 266pp + catalogue to rear, VG+ (light creasing to wrappe edges, sl fading to spine, sl chafing to wrappers, sl scuffing to base of page block, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2021
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history Sufi dynasty Sufism
The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Medieval Hangzhou
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 273pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to prelims, sl cracking to front & rear gutter) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to egdes, sl fading to spine, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Gingko Library 2018
KEYWORDS: Asia China Phoenix Mosque Islam Persia Persian history
Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045-771 BC
Super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xviii + 405pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing to spine, light creasing to wrapper edges, sl chafing to wrappers, light to moderate staining & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: early China Chinese history Western Zhou antiquity bronze age
Bitter Gourd: Fang I-chih and the Impetus for Inellectual Change
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + [2] + 228pp, VG+ (light fading to spine & board edges, minor staining to edges of rear board, sl bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history literature 17th seventeenth century I-chih Fang literary
The Bank of England: A History 1694-1914 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt illus to front boards, top page edges stained blue, frontispieces, vol 1- ix + 305pp, vol 2- vii + 460pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spines & board edges, sl bruising & rubbing to board extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, light wrinkling to prelims, remnants of jacket of vol 2 loosely enclosed to vol 2)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1944
KEYWORDS: finance history Bank of England banks economy
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, ilus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xix + 371pp, VG (spine cocked & lightly creased, light creasing to wrapper edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, minor cracking to gutters at prelims)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history literature literary Chandar Bhan Brahman
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
Ex-library, octavo, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to green buckram spine, top page edges stained green [faded], illus/map to eps, 528pp, VG (usual library markings, light bruising & fading/rubbing to extrems, moderate tape staining to board edges, minor tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges, light tanning & scuffing/tape staining to eps, front flap of jacket inexplicably tipped in to verso of half title page, moderate scuffing/surface loss & ink/adhesive staining to rear eps) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired but not recommended, whole front flap inexplicably removed & pasted in to prelims of main page block, minor fading & scuffing to spine, moderate soiling to rear, moderate adhesive staining to rear flap, minor scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1967
KEYWORDS: history Elizabethan puritan English puritanism religion
Crusades: A Documentary Survey
Octavo, grey printed light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & wrappers, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 318pp, VG (moderate tanning/discolouration & light creasing to spine & wrapper edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to half title page)
PUBLISHER: The Marquette University Press 1976
KEYWORDS: history crusades religious war medieval
The Monks of the West, from St Benedict to St Bernard: Vol I
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, super octavo, burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, deckle dpage fore-edges, xii + 515pp, VG- (usual library markings, heavy chipping to spine extrems- brittle with some moderate loss, moderate discolouration to spine, minor bruising & scuffing to board corners, minor chafing & soiling/discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, occasional heavy cracking to gutters throughout, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, other light patches of foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1861
KEYWORDS: history monks religion middle ages monastic
Raffles and Hastings: Private Exchanges Behind the Founding of Singapore
Imperial octavo, illus stiff card wrappers, dark blue & white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + [6] + 235pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl rubbing to extrems, minor chafing/wrinkling & soiling to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Marshall Cavendish Editions 2014
KEYWORDS: history Singapore Stamford Raffles Marquess of Hastings
Syonan: Singapore Under the Japanese 1942-1945
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, beige lettering to spine, illus prelims, 204pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, 2cm scuff to rear board- light surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Landmark Books / Singapore Heritage Society 2017
KEYWORDS: Singapore history ww2 wwii second 2nd world war two ii 2 Japanese Syonan
Angkor: Splendors of the Khmer Civilization
Quarto, illus glossy boards, yellow & white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 296pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light adhesive residue to front & rear eps, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Asia Books 2013
KEYWORDS: Khmer history civilisations civilizations archeology archaeology Indochina
The Fall of Singapore: 90 Days: November 191-February 1942
HEAVY ITEM - EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quarto, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 742pp + table to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing to rear board, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, minor creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Talisman Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: Singapore history ww2 wwii second 2nd world war two ii 2 Mlayan campaign
The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365-427)
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, brown glossy boards, beige lettering to spine, xii + 345pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges & rear ep, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2010
KEYWORDS: Tao Qian history literature literary classics
Early Chinese Texts on Painting
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, illus title page, xii + 391pp, illus, VG (light to moderate fading & creasing to spine, light creasing to wrapper edges, minor soiling to wrappers, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edgesprev. owner's sm label [Brian Moloughney] to ffep, minro cracking to front gutter- and occasionally throughout)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: art history China Chinese paintings criticism appreciation technique
On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of Counterculture
Square super octavo, illus light card wrappers, orange & purple lettering to spine & front wrapper, frontispiece, illus prelims, XXVII + 195pp, illus/photos, VG (Light creasing to spine & wrappers/edges, light to moderate bruising to extrems, light fading to spine & wrapper edges, light to moderate foxing/soiling & tanning to page edges, gift inscription in ink to half title page, occasional light cracking to gutters, light foxing to terminals)
PUBLISHER: Plexus 1991
KEYWORDS: UK counterculture english Ken Kesey Merry Pranksters bus history biography eccentric photography
New Orleans Style
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus title page, 224pp, illus/photos, VG (slight bend to structure, light soiling & moderate creasing to wrappers, light soiling & scuffing to spine, light bruising to extrems and edges of spine, light soiling/foxing & tanning to page edges, light cracking to front & rear gutters, light foxing and moderate creasing to inside wrappers, prev. owner's name & date in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Jazzology Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Bill Russell music jazz New Orleans style USA history