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Because Each Life is Precious: Why an Iraqi Man Risked Everything for Private Jessica Lynch


AL-REHAIEF, MOHAMMED ODEH & COPLON, JEFF

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 costs

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2003 approx

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief military modern history Iraq US America Jessica Lynch

$35.00
xxecd126824

History of London: London 800-1216: The Shaping of a City


BROOKE, CHRISTOPHER N. L. & KEIR, GILLIAN

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1975

KEYWORDS: London history culture architecture politics England medieval

$22.50
xxecd126827

The Great Rebellion: The King's War: 1641-1647


WEDGWOOD, C. V.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Book of the Month Club/Deborah Owen 1991

KEYWORDS: history British military war King Charles politics royalist parliament Oliver Cromwell

$15.00
xxecd126828

How Old is Our House? A Short Guide to the Documentary Sources and Architectural Records Available in New Zealand


GRIFFITHS, G. J.

Super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books circa 1980

KEYWORDS: building history New Zealand architecture land documents

$10.00
xxaqv126834

True History of the Kelly Gang


CAREY, PETER

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 costs

PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 2000

KEYWORDS: history Ned Kelly gang fiction literature Australia novel

$17.50
xxaqv126842

Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War


SEIB, PHILIP

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in dw/ (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Potomac 2006

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second world war America US broadcast journalism radio media politics Edward R. Murrow

$15.00
xxrnc126858

The Curtiss Navy Hawks: Number 116


BOWERS, PETER M. ET AL

Super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Profile Publications n/d

KEYWORDS: aviation history military navy hawks engineering airplanes aeroplanes US America

$15.00
xxrnc126859

The Curtiss Army Hawks: Number 45


BOWERS, PETER M. ET AL

Super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Profile Publications n/d

KEYWORDS: aviation history military army hawks engineering airplanes aeroplanes US America

$8.50
xxrnc126878

Glaswegiana: A miscellany of Stories of Glasgow Past & Present


BARR, WILLIAM W.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Vista of Glasgow 1973

KEYWORDS: anthology collection culture Glasgow Scotland history social biographies memoirs stories

$50.00
2i34/1

Bluff Harbour


HALL-JONES, JOHN

ASSOCIATION COPY - signed dated & inscribed by author to his father (and fellow historian), octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xix + 170pp, illus, VG (newspaper article pasted to prelims, light tanning & foxing to page edges eps & frontispiece) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light rubbing & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Southland Harbour Board, Bluff 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Bluff harbour history association copy signed

$9.00
xxrnc126885

A Short History of Russia


CHARQUES, RICHARD

Octavo hardcover (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 costs

PUBLISHER: English Universities Press 1959

KEYWORDS: history Russia politics Romanovs Europe muscovy

$195.00
2i34/5

Escape From France


CLAIRE

Very scarce in d/w, first edition, octavo, red cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 117pp, VG (slightly cocked, sl scuffing to lower spine extrem & board edges, light crease to top rear board, light tanning to eps and all pages & edges) in d/w, VG- (moderately heavy fraying & chipping to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing to edges, moderate soiling & tanning, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale Ltd 1941

KEYWORDS: first edition ww2 second world war autobiography memoir Claire France Germany military history

$100.00
2i34/6

Five Months on a German Raider: Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the Wolf


TRAYES, F. G.

First edition, octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 187pp + 4pp adverts, plates, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners with sl surface loss, light tanning to page edges & eps, owner's ex-libris labels to pastedowns, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, bookseller's label to back pastedown, 3cm tear with loss to upper corners of pgs 83-86, 1cm closed tear to bottom pg 83/84)

PUBLISHER: Headley Bros 1919

KEYWORDS: first edition autobiography memoir F. G. Trayes ww1 first world war military history prisoner of war maritime nautical

$60.00
2i34/8

The Diary of Peter Bussell (1806-1814)


BUSSELL, PETER & TURNER, G. A. (Ed & Pref)

Octavo, light brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 232pp, plates, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, light tanning to page edges & page 232, light foxing to prelims, v light staining & rubbing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Peter Davies 1931

KEYWORDS: diary journal autobiography memoir Peter Bussell maritime navy British military history nautical

$25.00
xxrnd126894

Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox


MCKEE, ALEXANDER

First edition, 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press 1982

KEYWORDS: military history politics ww2 second world war Dresden bomb attack Germany first edition

$18.50
xxrnd126916

The Dangerous Book For Boys


IGGULDEN, CONN & IGGULDEN, HAL

Quarto hardcover (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 costs

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2006

KEYWORDS: children's history dangerous book for boys how to guide

$8.50
xxrne126954

Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict


WILSON, COLIN & ODELL, ROBIN & GAUTE, J. H. H. (Ed)

Paperback (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Corgi 1988

KEYWORDS: jack the ripper history crime murder mystery London true real life

$14.50
xxrne126961

A Distant Feast: The Origins of New Zealand's Cuisine


SIMPSON, TONY

Ex-library, 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Godwit/Random House 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history culinary cuisine cooking cookery culture recipes

$22.50
xxrne126973

Introduction to Documentary


NICHOLS, BILL

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: film cultural studies education text book history criticism documentary

$26.50
xxrne126976

Catholic Record Society: Recusant Roll No. I, 1592-3: Exchequer Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer Pipe Office Series


CALTHROP, M. M. C.

MOST TEXT IN LATIN, this volume only, super octavo hardcover (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Catholic Record Society 1916

KEYWORDS: catholic church British recusant roll finance financial economics history list debt most text in latin

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