Books - "history"
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Churchill's Generals
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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1991
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Winston Churchill politics British Britain history military
Everyday Miracles: The Art of Stanley Spencer
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: Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2003
KEYWORDS: art history biography anthology collection Dunedin public art Gallery
The Doukhobors
Super 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: Faber and Faber 1968
KEYWORDS: Russia USSR Soviet Union religion Christianity history anthropology
Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities Between Great Britain and Germany on September 3 1939
Super octavo softcover, stapled light card blue 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: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1939
KEYWORDS: politics Great Britain Viscount Halifax war military ww2 second world war Germany Poland history documents
Hammer: Witness to History
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: Coronet/Hodder and Stoughton 1988
KEYWORDS: history entrepreneur business oil exploration
Migrations: Journeys in Time and Place
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: Bridget Williams Books 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand migration settlement genealogy history family
Studies of a Small Democracy: Essays in Honour of Willis Airey
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: Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd/University of Auckland 1965
KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics history essays sectionalism
Apologies to the Iroquois: With a Study of the Mohawks in High Steel by Joseph Mitchell
First edition, 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: W. H. Allen 1960
KEYWORDS: America US history indians exploration politics ceremonies idiosyncrasies first edition
Jane's Fighting Ships
Large 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: Jane's Yearbooks 1977 approx
KEYWORDS: military history fighter crafts naval missiles torpedos identification silhouettes
Making Waves
Inscribed & signed by author, Super octavo, illus light card covers, 208pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Les Hutchins 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand autobiography history signed
Stick Out, Keep Left
Inscribed & signed by editor Elsie Locke, illus light card cover, xiv + 130pp, illus, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Signed autobiography New Zealand Socialism politics History
Social Justice for Indigenous Australians 1994-1995
Super octavo, yellow light card cover, 305pp, VG+ (light rubbing & light soiling to cover)
PUBLISHER: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 1995
KEYWORDS: Aboriginal Australians Torres Strait Islanders Government policy history politics Australia
Prisoners of War News: Three Volume Set 1940-1942
octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus title page vol 2&3, 250pp (vol 1), 250pp (vol 2), 259pp (vol 3) illus, VG (light tanning to page edges, light rubbing to boards, 3 small stains to Vol 3, light fading to spine of vol 3)
PUBLISHER: The University Press 1940-1942
KEYWORDS: military history World War Two WW2 POW prisoner of war
Present Without Leave
First edition, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 278pp, illus, VG (light foxing to page edges, small hole throughout book due to insect, light insect damage to rear board) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light tanning to spine, light insect damage to rear cover, light soilng)
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1939
KEYWORDS: Poets New Zealand autobiography history
Picturesque Dunedin or Dunedin and its Neighbourhood in 1890: With a Short Historical Account of the City and its Principal Institutions
Octavo, black leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, prelims, 300pp, VG (previous onwer's label to fep, heavy bruising to spine extrems, moderate bruising to board edges & board corners, 7.5cm closed tear to lower spine, light rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Mills, Dick & Co. 1890
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin history
From Sketch-Book and Diary
First edition, Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 177pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles 1909
KEYWORDS: travel autobiography Ireland history
Plant Life on Banks Peninsula
Imperial octavo, illus boards, illus eps, frontispiece, 412pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to boards, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Manuka Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history botany plants flora Banks Peninsula
Nicolas Poussin: Paints the Seven Sacraments Twice
Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 416pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Paravail 2000
KEYWORDS: signed Nicolas Poussin biography history Seven Sacraments arts paintings
Courage: Eight Portraits
First Edition with tipped in typed letter informally signed Gordon, black boards with silver lettering to spine, x + 274pp, illus, Nr Fine, in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2007
KEYWORDS: Courage history Biography
Escape Fever
Second printing, ex library, octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 224pp+ 38pp adverts, illus, plates, 2 folding maps, VG- ( moderate staining to boards, light bruising & fraying to board corners, moderate fading to spine, ex library stamps to front board & pastedown, moderate browning to page edges, light soiling to pages, rear gutter cracked)
PUBLISHER: John Hamilton Ltd. / The Airman's Bookshelf 1935
KEYWORDS: military history prisoner of war POW prison escape