GOMME, GEORGE LAURENCE

This Volume Only, Super octavo, green cloth boards with leather spine & gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., viii + 328pp, VG ( light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Elliot Stock 1892

KEYWORDS: Great Britain Roman Antiquities History Scotland

FIELD, A.N.

First edition, scarce, octavo, brown light card cover with black lettering to spine & front cover, 288pp, VG (light soiling to covers, light creasing to spine, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, prev owners details in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: A.N. Field 1936

KEYWORDS: politics government economics history

RUMSEY, FRANCES & COUCHOUD, PAUL-LOUIS (trans)

First edition, archival repair to spine hinge, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, top page edges coloured red, xxiii + 155pp + 8pp adverts, VG (heavy dampstaining to boards, light tanning to spine, light tanning to page edges, moderate fraying to spine extrems, light sporadic foxing to pages, previous owner's label to fep)

PUBLISHER: John Lane, the Bodley Head 1921

KEYWORDS: Epigrams Japan Civilization Confucius Confucianism history

BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, several small tears with loss to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Travel Book Club 1951

KEYWORDS: India travel Mahatma Gandhi history

DIEMBERGER, KURT

Inscribed, dated & signed by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 304pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1994

KEYWORDS: Kurt Diemberger Mountaineers Austria autobiography mountains history signed

CLUNE, FRANK

inscribed & signed by author, first edition, octavo, blue & brown stapled wrapper, 31pp, VG (moderate tanning to wrapper & pages)

PUBLISHER: Hawthorn Press 1945

KEYWORDS: signed travel forlorn hope ship nautical history

MONK, MARIA

3 Volumes in one, octavo illus boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 196pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG (light tanning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Philadelphia (n/d)

KEYWORDS: Catholic Church Doctrines history religion

PETERSON, G.C. & BAGNALL, A.G.

super octavo, green cloth boards, frontispiece, 494pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, light bruising to spine extrems, previous owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1948

KEYWORDS: biography history William Colenso

WAISER, BILL & PERRET, JOHN (Photos)

Signed by author, super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board & spine, frontispiece, vii + 563pp, illus, NR FINE in NR FINE d/w

PUBLISHER: Fifth House / Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006

KEYWORDS: Saskatchewan Canada Canadian history signed

N/A

Super octavo, brown boards with black lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, viii + 793pp + folding map, VG- (moderate internal cracking to front board hinge, light tanning to boards, moderate tanning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, previous owners name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: G.H. Loney 1935

KEYWORDS: New Zealaand year book history

BABBAGE, S. BARTON & WILLIAMS, HERBERT (Intro)

Scarce, Octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering and rule to front board, frontispiece, 96pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to spine hinges and board edges, bruising to spine extrems and board corners, moderate foxing to page edges and eps)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1937

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori war military

JONES, TOM (compiled)

octavo, illus paper wrapper, illus eps, frontispiece, 280pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name in ink to title page, some rusting to pages & cover from staples, light soiling to cover, light tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages, light bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Geo. W. Slade Ltd 1920

KEYWORDS: rugby sports New Zealand history

MANN, KRISTIN (ed) & ROBERTS, RICHARD (ed)

Super octavo, illus light card cover, 246pp, VG+ (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing to cover)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann Educational Books 1991

KEYWORDS: law Africa history

WILSON, MARGARET

Inscribed & signed, octavo, illus light card covers, 143pp, VG+ (light rubbing to cover, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1989

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history politics labour party

BUTTERWORTH, A.

First edition, lacks f.e.p., green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, ruling to front board, 258pp, VG (library booklet to r.e.p., light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1923

KEYWORDS: South India travel history

WILLIAMS, W.G.

First edition, octavo, grey cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 76pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, bookseller's stamp to fep, light bruising to spine extremslight foxing to page edges, light tanning & light foxing to boards)

PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1949

KEYWORDS: Anglican Church Aotearoa New Zealand Polynesia pacific Missions history religion

SKOLNICK, JEROME H.

First edition, Super octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xxvii + 419pp, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, archival tape repair to upper spine)

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 1969

KEYWORDS: Sociology Violence United States Politics history

KAPUR, SUDARSHAN

Super octavo, illus light card cover, xi + 0222pp, VG (moderate fading to spine, light rubbing to cover, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: beacon Press 1992

KEYWORDS: Mahatma Gandhi African Americans Civil rights History

SAINTY, J.C.

Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 159pp, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of London 1975

KEYWORDS: history Great Britain government officials

GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1997

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Mikhail Gorbachev Russia USSR Soviet Union politics history modern