Used Books

There are 6554 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rupert Christiansen Publisher Comments Like present-day New York, early-nineteenth-century London was an extraordinarily vibrant and creative metropolis to which visitors -- from scholars to social climbers -- went in search of wealth and fame. The Victorian Visitors lucidly captures the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Growing Up in Scotland by Robbie Kydd Publisher Comments An entertaining and, we think, definitive anthology of extracts from autobiographies, biographies, novels, short stories and poems about the Scottish experience of childhood. It begins with accounts of childbirth and infancy and moves on to play and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene) by John Lukacs Publisher Comments The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Real Mrs. Miniver by Ysenda Maxto Graham Publisher Comments In 1937 the Court Page of the London Times began publishing a series of articles featuring a charming, upper-middle class English housewife named Mrs Miniver. The articles depicted an idyllically happy family with three children, a house in London, and a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eminent Georgians: The Lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, St. John Philby, and Nancy Astor by Halperin John Book News Annotation Halperin considers how their world shaped these four personalities, and the impact they had on their era. Halperin writes that all four--a king; an author exposed as a World War II spy; the father of the notorious Kim Philby; and the American divorcee... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Queen Victoria's Secrets by Adrienne Munich Publisher Comments < P> -- < I> Nineteenth Century Literature< /I> < /P>... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments In this biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe. With the special... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bad Blood by Lorna Sage Publisher Comments A literary memoir from the highly regarded literary critic and academic, Lorna Sage, which was the winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography 2000. We follow her story from childhood in the Welsh borders, through the difficulties of adolescence, to the... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [632]-649) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Great Britain on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Women in Culture & Society) by Judith R Walkowitz Publisher Comments From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Fire of London by Stephen Porter Synopsis Places the fire in historical perpective and examines the events leading up tp, during and after the fire, including the program to rebuild the city.... (read more) Your price $6.23 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elements: The Landscape of Scotland by Craig Mcmaster Publisher Comments In the tradition of American greats such as Ansel Adams, Craig McMaster has captured the essence of Scotland's wild landscape in these breathtaking images.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kings & Queens of Britain by John Cannon Publisher Comments This brand new dictionary gives a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, the entries are ordered in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Derbyshire Top Ten Two Individual Walks by Brian Smailes Publisher Comments Covering the ten highest peaks or fells.... (read more) Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wallington's World by Paul S Seaver Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens. This unique portrait of the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Way We Were: Remembering Diana by Paul Burrell Publisher Comments Paul Burrell served Diana, Princess of Wales, as her faithful butler from 1987 until her death in 1997. He was much more than an employee: he was her right-hand man, confidant and friend. She described him as "the only man she ever trusted." As the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger Publisher Comments You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was clutching her portrait when he died). She was Lady... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. by John Lukacs Publisher Comments This powerful book presents a clear-eyed view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks Publisher Comments In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Page   1-5  |  6-10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16-20  |  21-25  |  26-30  |  31-35  |  36

by Title | by Author | by Price

There are 6554 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Great Britain $7 or Less 20th Century City and County Coming Soon! General History Hanover to Victorian Period London Nature Travel and Rural New Arrivals Oversized Books Politics and Empire Pre Tudor Royalty 20th Century Sale Books Scotland Sets Social and Economic History Staff Picks Textbooks Travel Tudor to Stuart Period Wales Winston Churchill