Books - "history"
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The Forlorn Hope: a sea saga of the sixties
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
The awful disclosures of Maris Monk: Mysteries of a Convent: Six Months in a Convent
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
William Colenso: His Life and Journeys
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
Saskatchewan: A New History
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
The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1936: Forty-Fourth Issue
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
The New Zealand Rugby Annual 1920 (First Year of Publication)
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
Law in Colonial Africa
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
Labour in Government 1984-1987
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
The Southlands of Siva: Some Reminiscences of Life in Southern India
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
The Child Grew: The Story of the Anglican Maori Mission
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
The Politics of Protest,
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
Raising Up a Prophet: The African-American Encounter with Gandhi
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
Office-Holders in Modern Britain 1660-1870
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
Memoirs
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
The Great British Picture Show
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: Pavilion Books 1985
KEYWORDS: british film history entertainment
Thoroughbreds, Trainers, Toffs and Tic Tac Men: A Cartoon History of Horse Racing in New Zealand
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: Dunmore Press 2001
KEYWORDS: history horse racing sport cartoon humour comedy New Zealand caricature satire gambling turf culture
Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great Granddaughter's Pilgrimage
Large 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: Exisle Publishing 1997
KEYWORDS: travel exploration history adventure maritime nautical New Zealand Robert Holding biography autobiography Madelene Ferguson Allen
Journeying With Aviators in New Zealand
Imperial 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: Random House 1998
KEYWORDS: aviation travel exploration New Zealand history
My Enemy, My Brother: Men and Days of Gettysburg
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: Viking Press 1977
KEYWORDS: history US America civil war Gettysburg confederate union army military biographies
Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behaviour
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: University of Chicago Press 1989
KEYWORDS: history philosophy science biology psychology Darwin