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$22.50
xxrli125404

Churchill's Generals


KEEGAN, JOHN (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1991

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Winston Churchill politics British Britain history military

$18.50
xxrli125408

Everyday Miracles: The Art of Stanley Spencer


KISLER, MARY & PATON, JUSTIN

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

$16.50
xxrli125428

The Doukhobors


WOODCOCK, GEORGE & AVAKUMOVIC, IVAN

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

$18.50
xxrli125433

Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities Between Great Britain and Germany on September 3 1939


WOOD, EDWARD FREDERICK LINDLEY (Viscount Halifax)

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

$12.00
xxrli125434

Hammer: Witness to History


HAMMER, ARMAND & LYNDON, NEIL

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

$22.50
xxrlj125481

Migrations: Journeys in Time and Place


EDMOND, ROD

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

$22.50
xxrlj125483

Studies of a Small Democracy: Essays in Honour of Willis Airey


CHAPMAN, ROBERT (Ed) & SINCLAIR, KEITH (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd/University of Auckland 1965

KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics history essays sectionalism

$15.00
xxrlj125489

Apologies to the Iroquois: With a Study of the Mohawks in High Steel by Joseph Mitchell


WILSON, EDMUND

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

$37.50
xxrlk125502

Jane's Fighting Ships


MOORE, CAPTAIN JOHN E. (Ed)

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

$50.00
2i19/25

Making Waves


HUTCHINS, LES

Inscribed & signed by author, Super octavo, illus light card covers, 208pp, illus, VG

PUBLISHER: Les Hutchins 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand autobiography history signed

$50.00
2i19/27

Stick Out, Keep Left


THORN, MARGARET & LOCKE, ELSIE (ed) & MATTHEWS, JACQUIE (ed)

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

$40.00
2i19/29

Social Justice for Indigenous Australians 1994-1995


TICKNER, ROBERT E.

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

$750.00
2i19/34

Prisoners of War News: Three Volume Set 1940-1942


N/A

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

$50.00
2i19/38

Present Without Leave


CRESSWELL, D'ARCY

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

$120.00
2i19/40

Picturesque Dunedin or Dunedin and its Neighbourhood in 1890: With a Short Historical Account of the City and its Principal Institutions


BATHGATE, ALEX (ed)

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

$40.00
2i19/48

From Sketch-Book and Diary


BUTLER, ELIZABETH

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

$100.00
2i20/4

Plant Life on Banks Peninsula


WILSON, HUGH D.

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

$55.00
ak3/21/3931

Nicolas Poussin: Paints the Seven Sacraments Twice


GREEN, TONY

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

$100.00
2i20/11

Courage: Eight Portraits


BROWN, GORDON

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

$45.00
2i20/15

Escape Fever


HARDING, GOEFFREY & DEACON, T. V. (Illus)

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

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