HOBSON, DENNIS

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Oxford Publishing Co 1986

KEYWORDS: rail railways history autobiography memoir Dennis Hobson transport England trains engineering mechanics

READ, HERBERT (Intro)

Oblong imperial octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (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: Faber and Faber 1962

KEYWORDS: Paul Klee essay art contemporary history criticism

WILLIAMSON, EULLA

Octavo hardcover (VG+) no d/w; 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: The Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Assoc. 1980 approx

KEYWORDS: agriculture history Canterbury New Zealand farming business

DE WAAL, EDMUND

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: Vintage 2011

KEYWORDS: biography memoir history Edmund de Waal art ceramics

BESCHLOSS, MICHAEL R.

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Faber and Faber 1991

KEYWORDS: politics modern history America US cold war USSR Soviet Union J. F. Kennedy Nikita Khrushchev

BAKER, NICHOLSON

Super 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: Simon and Schuster 2008

KEYWORDS: history politics second world war ww2 military psychology

MARSHALL, ROY

Oblong quarto hardcover (VG+) no d/w; 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: The Transport Publishing Company 1979 approx.

KEYWORDS: transport history engineering England industry bus coach

SANGSTER, ANDREW

Large super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Wanganui Newspapers 1985 approx

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand education Wanganui Collegiate

DRAGICEVICH, JACK T.

Quarto 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: Avondale-Waterview Historical Society 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand heritage waterview history

TITCHENER, PAUL

Quarto softcover, stapled light card covers (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: Paul Titchener Publications 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical yachting articles history biographies

GUSTAFSON, BARRY

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Auckland University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics history labour party parliament

COUSINS, JANE

Quarto 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: Pluto Press 1973

KEYWORDS: modern history Turkey torture politics justice prisoners biographies human rights military

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