Books - "history"
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Sea Classics of New Zealand: Stories of New Zealand's Yachting Pioneers
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
Labour's Path to Political Independence: The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party 1900-19
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
Turkey: Tortuer and Political Persecution
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
The Gentleman's Magazine Library: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine From 1731 to 1868
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
All These Things
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
The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years' Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago
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
Japanese Impressions with a Note on Confucius
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
Interview with India
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
Spirits of the Air
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
The Forlorn Hope: a sea saga of the sixties
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
The awful disclosures of Maris Monk: Mysteries of a Convent: Six Months in a Convent
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
William Colenso: His Life and Journeys
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
Saskatchewan: A New History
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
The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1936: Forty-Fourth Issue
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
The New Zealand Rugby Annual 1920 (First Year of Publication)
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
Urban Village: The Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary's Bay
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
Law in Colonial Africa
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
Labour in Government 1984-1987
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
Memories of the Life of J. F. H. Wohlers, Missionary at Ruapuke, New Zealand
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
The Southlands of Siva: Some Reminiscences of Life in Southern India
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