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$17.50
xxrme125846

Sea Classics of New Zealand: Stories of New Zealand's Yachting Pioneers


TITCHENER, PAUL

Quarto softcover, stapled light card 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: Paul Titchener Publications 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical yachting articles history biographies

$45.00
xxrme125847

Labour's Path to Political Independence: The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party 1900-19


GUSTAFSON, BARRY

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: Auckland University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics history labour party parliament

$30.00
xxrme125849

Turkey: Tortuer and Political Persecution


COUSINS, JANE

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: Pluto Press 1973

KEYWORDS: modern history Turkey torture politics justice prisoners biographies human rights military

$30.00
2i22/5

The Gentleman's Magazine Library: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine From 1731 to 1868


GOMME, GEORGE LAURENCE

This Volume Only, Super octavo, green cloth boards with leather spine & gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., viii + 328pp, VG ( light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Elliot Stock 1892

KEYWORDS: Great Britain Roman Antiquities History Scotland

$475.00
2i22/12

All These Things


FIELD, A.N.

First edition, scarce, octavo, brown light card cover with black lettering to spine & front cover, 288pp, VG (light soiling to covers, light creasing to spine, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, prev owners details in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: A.N. Field 1936

KEYWORDS: politics government economics history

$300.00
2i22/14

The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years' Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago


LEE, JAMES S.

Super octavo, red boards with black lettering to spine, ix + 278pp, illus, VG- (heavy dampstaining and wrinkling to lower board edges, bruising and heavy scuffing with loss to spine extrems & boards corners, moderate tanning to spine, spine sl cocked, light foxing to page edges, dampstaining to end pages lower edges, occasional damp wrinkling to plates)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. (n/d)

KEYWORDS: James S Lee Narcotics drugs East Asia Sociology history autobiography

$40.00
2i22/18

Japanese Impressions with a Note on Confucius


RUMSEY, FRANCES & COUCHOUD, PAUL-LOUIS (trans)

First edition, archival repair to spine hinge, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, top page edges coloured red, xxiii + 155pp + 8pp adverts, VG (heavy dampstaining to boards, light tanning to spine, light tanning to page edges, moderate fraying to spine extrems, light sporadic foxing to pages, previous owner's label to fep)

PUBLISHER: John Lane, the Bodley Head 1921

KEYWORDS: Epigrams Japan Civilization Confucius Confucianism history

$40.00
2i22/22

Interview with India


BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, several small tears with loss to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Travel Book Club 1951

KEYWORDS: India travel Mahatma Gandhi history

$40.00
2i22/25

Spirits of the Air


DIEMBERGER, KURT

Inscribed, dated & signed by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 304pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1994

KEYWORDS: Kurt Diemberger Mountaineers Austria autobiography mountains history signed

$45.00
2i22/28

The Forlorn Hope: a sea saga of the sixties


CLUNE, FRANK

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

$40.00
2i22/29

The awful disclosures of Maris Monk: Mysteries of a Convent: Six Months in a Convent


MONK, MARIA

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

$95.00
2i22/31

William Colenso: His Life and Journeys


PETERSON, G.C. & BAGNALL, A.G.

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

$40.00
2i22/35

Saskatchewan: A New History


WAISER, BILL & PERRET, JOHN (Photos)

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

$40.00
2i22/42

The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1936: Forty-Fourth Issue


N/A

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

$345.00
2i22/48

The New Zealand Rugby Annual 1920 (First Year of Publication)


JONES, TOM (compiled)

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

$60.00
ak3/22/3973

Urban Village: The Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary's Bay


CARLYON, JENNY & MORROW, DIANA

Oblong, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, orange eps, 447pp, illus, VG+ (very light creasing to covers, sl. fading)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland history Ponsonby Freemans Bay St Marys Bay

$60.00
2i23/6

Law in Colonial Africa


MANN, KRISTIN (ed) & ROBERTS, RICHARD (ed)

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

$75.00
2i23/8

Labour in Government 1984-1987


WILSON, MARGARET

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

$200.00
2i23/11

Memories of the Life of J. F. H. Wohlers, Missionary at Ruapuke, New Zealand


WOHLERS, J.F.H. & HOUGHTON, JOHN (trans)

Association copy, dated, inscribed & signed by the translator to the reverend Rutherford Waddell, Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, all page edges coloured red, vii + 216pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light soiling to spine, light rubbing to boards, library label to fep)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1895

KEYWORDS: signed autobiography history New Zealand missionary Ruapuke

$50.00
2i23/12

The Southlands of Siva: Some Reminiscences of Life in Southern India


BUTTERWORTH, A.

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

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