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$12.00
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance


MANCHESTER, WILLIAM

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: Papermac 1994

KEYWORDS: history medieval Europe renaissance

$12.50
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Gestapo: The History of the German Secret Service


WALTON-KERR, PHILIP ST. C.

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: Senate 1996

KEYWORDS: Germany history military secret service ss ww2 second world war

$12.00
xxsjf131449

George Fox's Journal


FOX, GEORGE & PARKER, PERCY lIVINGSTONE (Ed) & NICOLL, W. ROBERTSON (Intro)

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Sir Isaac Pitman 1905

KEYWORDS: journal memoir autobiography George Fox religion quakers friends diaries history

$12.50
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945


BEEVOR, ANTONY

Super octavo softcover (scruffy-chewed corners); 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: Penguin Books 2003

KEYWORDS: history military world war 2 second ww2 Berlin Germany politics nazism Hitler

$9.50
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Captain Cook and Australia


CORNER, SYLVIA

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: n/a 1973 approx

KEYWORDS: history exploration Australia Captain Cook maritime nautical Endeavour

$12.00
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Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics


RADICE, BETTY (Intro)

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: Penguin Books 1973

KEYWORDS: ancient history reference biographies collection anthology genealogy

$12.00
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Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story of Covert Operations From Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden


HARCLERODE, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Cassell 2002

KEYWORDS: military current affairs operations modern history weaponry counter terrorism

$14.50
xxpef131548

The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329


WEIS, RENE

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: Penguin Books 2001

KEYWORDS: cathar priests Europe history religion

$15.00
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A Very Slippery Fellow: The Life of Sir Robert Wilson 1777-1849


GLOVER, MICHAEL

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: first edition biography memoir Sir Robert Wilson military history

$25.00
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Cracking Chinese Puzzles by Conceptualizing and Philosophizing Approach


ANN, T. K.

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: Stockflows 1996

KEYWORDS: Chinese language linguistics history evolution guide

$16.50
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Dragon Tales: Beginning to Three Kingdoms


SHAN, LIN (Comp) & QINGRONG, HUANG (Illus) & LENG, CHIN BOON (Illus)

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: Asiapac 2000

KEYWORDS: China history literature three kingdoms

$10.00
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Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam


DAVIDSON, LEON

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: Black Dog 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Australia Vietnam military history conflict

$40.00
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Marlboro Grand Prix Guide: 1950-90


DESCHENAUX, JACQUES

Octavo, illus light card covers, 904pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to covers, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Charles Stewart & Co, Brentford 1991

KEYWORDS: sports racing cars grand prix history

$125.00
2i46/15

Dominion Museum Bulletin No. 8: Games and Pastimes of the Maori


BEST, ELSDON

First Edition, quarto, brown light card covers, viii + 191pp, illus, VG (light wear to spine extrems, moderate soiling & light rubbing to cover, prev owners name in ink to front cover, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Govt printer 1925

KEYWORDS: Maori New Zealand history Games Music songs Folklore

$40.00
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The Crookedest Railroad in the World: A History of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad of California


WURM, THEODORE G. & GRAVES, ALVIN C.

Association copy, ownership of Barry Brickell creator of one of NZ's finest Privately owned railways, 123pp, illus, VG (bookseller's label to fep, previous owner's name in ink to fep, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG- (light rubbing & moderate soiling, 7cm tear with loss to bottom of spine, moderate bruising to upper spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Howell-North 1960

KEYWORDS: locomotion railways trains railroad history

$40.00
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The Philosophy of Sage Yajnavalkya


BRAHMANANDA, SWAMI

Octavo, yellow boards with blue cloth spines, xxxvii + 391pp, VG (light fading to spine, light dampstaining to page edges, tape residue to eps, ligth tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light dampstaining, light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems, tape residue to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Divine life Society 1981

KEYWORDS: Yajnavalkya Upanishads literature history Brhadaranyakopanisad Hindu philosophy

$150.00
2i46/31

Singapore: A Developmental City State


PERRY, MARTIN & KONG, LILY & YEOH, BRENDA

loosely enclosed signed holograph note from author martin Perry, Octavo, illus boards, xviii + 339pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons 1997

KEYWORDS: signed singapore history city

$40.00
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Early Chinese Immigrant Societies: Case Studies From North America and British Southeast Asia


TO, LEE LAI (ed)

Octavo, illus light card covers, vii + 248pp, Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1988

KEYWORDS: history Chinese Immigrants North America British Southeast Asia

$45.00
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Where Did You Go My Lovelies: Jane Zusters Revisits the 70s


ZUSTERS, JANE

Numbered limited edition, signed, oblong, super octavo, illus light card covers, illus title page, 80pp, illus, VG+ (small nic to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Hoe Press 2015

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand photography seventies

$145.00
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Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control


BROOKS, JOHN & LAMBERT, ANDREW (Intro)

Occassional light pencil annotation, Octavo, blue heavy card boards, white lettering to spine & boards, illus to front board, xiv + 321pp, VG+ ( light rubbing to boards, light brusing to board corners, light soiling to rear board, light annotation in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2005

KEYWORDS: military history naval policy british royal navy dreadnoughts gunnery tactics WW1 world war one

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