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George Moore: Confessions of a Young Man


DICK, SUSAN (Ed)

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 costs

PUBLISHER: McGill-Queens's University Press 1972

KEYWORDS: biography George Moore writer history

$8.50
xxria122856

Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows: Travels Around the North Country Fairs


PEARSON, HARRY

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Abacus 1997

KEYWORDS: travel history

$8.50
xxria122858

Memoirs of the Mato Grosso, Brazil


MARTELL, RALPH G.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Strugglers' Community Press 1989

KEYWORDS: Travel history

$8.50
xxria122867

The High Lands of Britain


MAIS, S.P.B.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: The Richards Press 1948

KEYWORDS: history Britain

$33.00
xxria122869

Portrait of Peakland


PORTEOUS, CRICHTON

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1963

KEYWORDS: history England

$12.00
xxria122871

Henry Morse


CARAMAN, PHILIP

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Catholic Books Club (n/d)

KEYWORDS: biography religion history

$10.00
xxria122873

Whatever Happened at Fairfields?


HAWKINS, BILL & PAULDEN, SYDNEY

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Gower Press 1969

KEYWORDS: Shipbuilding industry Scotland Glasgow history

$10.00
xxria122875

A Small Place in Italy


NEWBY, ERIC

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 1994

KEYWORDS: history Italy Tuscany

$14.00
xxria122877

Pitt the Younger


JARRETT, DEREK

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974

KEYWORDS: history Britain Prime Ministers

$77.50
2i8/4

The RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces: Their Origins, Roles and Deployment 1946-1969: A Documentary History


WYNN, HUMPHREY

Super Octavo, dark blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, light blue eps, frontispiece, xiv + 653pp, illus + folding table, Nr Fine in d/w, VG+ (covered in clear contact)

PUBLISHER: HMSO 1995

KEYWORDS: RAF Nuclear deterrent forces military history Royal air force aviation

$325.00
2i8/8

The Voice of the Machines: An Introduction to the Twentieth Century


LEE, GERALD STANLEY

First Edition, octavo, light blue heavy card boards with gilt letteing to front board and spine, 190pp, VG- (moderately heavy staining and browning to spine, moderate foxing and light staining to boards, small dint to front board, scuffing to board edges, light foxing to eps and page edges, dent to pages 81 to 101, 4cm closed tear to page 101, light tanning to page edges, publishing date in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: The Mount Tom Press 1906

KEYWORDS: transport history railways locomotions trains

$100.00
2i8/9

Malta: The Hurricane Years 1940-41


SHORES, CHRISTOPHER & CULL, BRIAN & MALIZIA, NICOLA

First Edition, black faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, folding map, xiii + 457pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG (two heavy creases to front flap, slight discolouration to edges, covered in clear contact)

PUBLISHER: Grub Street 1987

KEYWORDS: second world war 2 ww2 aviation military history Malta

$42.50
2i8/11

Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism


BUSCH, THOMAS W (ed) & GALLAGHER, SHAUN (ed)

First edition, super octavo, black heavy card boards with lettering to boards & spine, xii + 263pp, Nr Fine (slight scuffing to board edges)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 1992

KEYWORDS: history Merleau-Ponty Hermeneutics Postmodernism philosophy

$100.00
2i8/12

Mana from Heaven: A Century of Maori Prophets in New Zealand


ELSMORE, BRONWYN

Ownership of Stuart Pack, anthropologist and former director of Auckland War Memorial Museum; Super octavo, patterned light card covers with black lettering to cards and spine, xix + 378pp, VG+ (very light soiling and foxing to page edges, covered in clear contact causing very light bubbling to card edges)

PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history prophets Maori religion bible

$50.00
2i8/15

A Case History: The Hawke's Bay Hospital Board 1876-1989


CONLY, GEOFF

Imperial octavo, heavy purple card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, purple eps, frontispiece, x + 308pp, illus, Nr Fine (slight scuffing board & spine edges)

PUBLISHER: Hawke's Bay Area Health Board 1992

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Hawkes Bay

$60.00
2i8/17

A Scheme of Egyptian Chronology with Notes Thereon Including Notes in Cretan and Other Chronologies


MACNAUGHTON, DUNCAN

First edition, Imperial octavo, dark blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xii + 405pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in heavy pencil to front pastedown, moderate bruising to board edges, 1.5cm closed tear to top of spine, light fraying to spine edges, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Luzac & Co. 1932

KEYWORDS: ancient history egypt egyptology Egyptian Chronology Cretan

$245.00
2i8/19

Golden Goliath


CLUNE, FRANK

First limited signed edition, scarce thus, colour cover art is a tipped in page in front of book, brown cloth boards with dark brwon lettering to spine, illus title page, 45pp, illus, VG (light foxing to page edges, owner's ex-libris label to front pastedown, bookseller's label to front pastedown, light tannning to eps, small stamp and no. in ink to lower rear pastedown, small stain to page 8)

PUBLISHER: The Hawthorn Press 1946

KEYWORDS: Edward Hammond Hargraves Gold mining discoveries New South Wales History Australia Gold discoveries signed

$90.00
2i8/21

Memoirs of Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and 1813, with Observations on the Country and the People, In Three Volumes


GOLOWNIN, CAPTAIN & MCMASTER, JOHN (Intro)

3 volume set in slipcase, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & red panel to spine, dark green eps, xix + lxxxix + 316pp (vol I), 358pp (vol II), viii + 302pp (vol III), NR FINE in slipcase, VG+ (slight rubbing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1973

KEYWORDS: Captain Golownin Japan POW prisoner of war military history memoir autobiography

$70.00
2i8/22

Aviation in Leicestershire and Rutland


BONSER, ROY

Quarto, green heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, yellow eps, illus title page, 392pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (covered in clear contact)

PUBLISHER: Midland Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: aviation Leicestershire Rutland World War Two WW2 RAF Royal Air Force history

$80.00
2i8/24

An Escaper's Log


GRINNELL-MILNE, DUNCAN

First edition fourth printing, octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 306pp + 4pp ads, illus, VG (light chaffing & slight saining to boards, owner's inscription to f.e.p., owner's name & bookseller's label to front pastedown, light tanning to eps & page edges)

PUBLISHER: John Lane The Bodley Head 1940

KEYWORDS: Duncan Grinnell-Milne POW prisoner of war prison escape Germany autobiography memoir first world war 1 ww1 military history

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