Books - "history"
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Guests of the Unspeakable
First edition, octavo, red orange boards with black lettering to spine, xii + 276pp + 26pp adverts, VG (light rubbing, light tanning to page edges) in d/w Poor (large ugly tear with 16cm loss to front repaired with archival tape, 4.5cm tear with loss to rear cover repiared with archival tape, 4cm tear with loss to upper spine repaired with archival tape, several small tears with loss repaired with archival tape to cover edges, moderate tanning to spine, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1932
KEYWORDS: autobiography aviation history World War One WW1 military
Stoned on Duty
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 239pp, VG (moderate tanning to page edges, light rubbing creasing to covers, prev owners inscription in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history police biography Peter Williamson
Ghosts in Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand
First edition, Super octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 232pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w FINE
PUBLISHER: Craig Potton 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Natural History science evolution Gondwa
Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction
Super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, black eps, xix + 316pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board corners) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light creasing)
PUBLISHER: Blackwell 2008
KEYWORDS: Kinship Prehistoric people Human evolution history
Jane's Fighting Ships 1985-1986: Eighty-Eigth Year of Issue
Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 816pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to board, light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate creasing, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Jane's Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: nautical military fighting ships history
Jane's Fighting Ships 1975-1976: Seventy-Eigth Year of Issue
Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 688pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light creasing, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Jane's Publishing 1975
KEYWORDS: nautical military fighting ships history
Jane's Fighting Ships 1968-1969: Seventy-First Year of Issue
Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, VG (dust jacket wrapped in plastic glued to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1969
KEYWORDS: nautical military fighting ships history
Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
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: Cambridge University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: military history foreign affairs US America Vietnam politics
The Seven Lives of Lady Barker
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: David Bateman Ltd 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography memoir Mary Anne Barker station life in new zealand history
Soldiers of Scotland
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Barnes and Noble 1997
KEYWORDS: military history Scotland Robert Bruce bannockburn battle of culloden biographies memoirs journals
Wherrries and Waterways: The Story of the Norfolk and Suffolk Wherry and the Waterways on Which it Sailed
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: Terence Dalton 1986
KEYWORDS: history England wherry nautical maritime norfolk suffolk transport archaeology
Hobson's Choice: Recollections of a North Country Engineman
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
My Own Story
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 2015
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Emmeline Pankhurst history suffragette women's rights politics England
Paul Klee on Modern Art
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
Farmers in Business 1880-1980
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
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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
Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years 1960-63
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
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
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
Chas, Roe Coachbuilders Vol. One 1920-1942
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
Pathway to Establishment: The History of Wanganui Collegiate School
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