Books - "history"
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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
Memoirs of a British Agent: Being an Account of the Author's Early Life in Many Lands and of His Official Mission to Moscow in 1918
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: Macmillan/Papermac 1985
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Bruce Lockhart espionage military politics history spy British Russia
The Young Charles Darwin
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: Yale University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: biography memoir history Charles Darwin
Bomber Offensive
First edition, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 288pp, VG (slight bruising to spine extrems, moderate tanning to page edges. owner's name stamp to fep, owner's name & address in ink to fep verso) in d/w, VG- (tape repairs to edges, flap folds & spine extrems, heavy fading to spine, some scuffing, creasing to flap folds)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1947
KEYWORDS: Second World War Two WW2 military aviation history bomber command Sir Arthur Harris memoir autobiography
The Triumphant Tour of the New Zealand Footballers 1905: An Illustrated Record
The Originals RARE in original hardcover binding, octavo, brown cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, xlviii + 176pp, illus, VG- (6cm surface tear to spine, some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some staining to boards, some tanning to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep, fore-edges of pages 175 & 177 torn off, black ink stain to lower corner of last few pages not obscuring any text, last two pages clipped at lower corner)
PUBLISHER: Geddis & Blomfield 1906
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport football rugby history 1905 tour
The Triumphant Tour: The All BLacks in England, Ireland and Wales 1924-1925
Octavo, light card covers with black lettering to covers, printed eps, 176pp, illus, VG (light staining & tanning to covers, some browning to page edges, owner's name in ink to contents page, light rust staining from staples))
PUBLISHER: LT Watkins Ltd 1925
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport rugby All Blacks history tour
Alfa Romeo from 1910 to the Present
Large quarto, hardcover in d/w, fine
PUBLISHER: Georgio Nada Editore 2017
KEYWORDS: cars Alfa Romeo automotive industry history
Memento d'Histoire de ll Nouvelle-Caledonie: Les Temps Modernes 1774-1925
TEXT IN FRENCH, quarto, turquoise light card covers with black lettering, 321pp, illus, VG (moderate browning to page edges and lighter to pages, occasional crease to page corners) in d/w, VG (some creasing & nicks to edges & flap folds, some soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Societe d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle Caledonie 1973
KEYWORDS: New Caledonia history TEXT IN FRENCH
Not Just Weighing Babies: Plunket in AUckland 1908-1998
Imperial octavo, illus blue light card covers with black lettering, printed eps, x + 119pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Pyramid Press 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Plunket Auckland history
Last Port to Antarctica: Dunedin and Port Chalmers: 100 Years of Polar Service
Small quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine, 136pp, illus, VG+ (v slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Antarctic Dunedin POrt Chalmers maritime history
A Shred of Autobiography or The Progress of a Convict
Limited numbered edition (321/375), tall slim quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 96pp, VG+ (v. v. slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Sullivan's Cove 1981
KEYWORDS: Jorgen Jorgenson autobiography Australia convict history