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$16.50
xxppi140998

Fairburn and Friends


RUPERT GLOVER ET AL & HOLMAN, DINAH (Ed) & CATLEY, CHRISTINE COLE (Ed)

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: Cape Catley 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand ARD Rex Fairburn biography social political literary history anecdotes

$22.50
xxppi140999

Eternal Man


PAUWELS, LOUIS & BERGIER, JACQUES & HERON, MICHAEL (Trans)

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: Souvenir Press 1972

KEYWORDS: first edition civilisation ancient history anthropology archaeology antiquities theory

$26.50
xxppi141013

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War


BRADFORD, NED (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: Hawthorn Books 1956

KEYWORDS: Military history American Civil War biography accounts

$50.00
1w47/50

From New York to New Zealand; or, the New Century Trip


MCMURRAN, C. W. & MONTROSE, C. O. (Ed) & STOUT, SIR ROBERT (Intro)

Large folding map at front, octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, vii + 150pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate browning to spine, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, map clean & tidy with light foxing to margins only)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printing Office 1904

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel history CW McMurran

$17.50
xxftc141042

The Art of Blitzkrieg


MESSENGER, CHARLES

Octavo hardcover (VG-), lacks 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: Ian Allan 1976

KEYWORDS: War military history tactics Blitzkrieg

$30.00
xxppi141059

British Queer History


LEWIS, BRIAN (Ed)

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: Manchester University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: history gay homosexual sexuality essays collection anthology culture

$15.00
xxppi141063

Journal of the History of Sexuality: Volume 14: Numbers 1/2: January/April 2005


ARONDEKAR, ANJALI ET AL

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: University of Texas Press 2005

KEYWORDS: sexuality history culture essays literature colelction anthology

$22.50
xxppi141086

Subalternity and Difference: Investigations From the North and the South


PANDEY, GYANENDRA (Ed)

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: Routledge 2011

KEYWORDS: Asia culture education history gender

$22.50
xxppj141097

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York


PEISS, KATHY

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: Temple University1986

KEYWORDS: American social history women leisure

$26.50
xxppj141103

Greenwich Village 1920 to1930: A Comment on American Civilisation in the Post War Years


WARE, CAROLINE F.

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: University of California 1994

KEYWORDS: Urban Studies sociology history community study New York

$12.50
xxppj141117

Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris


KEEGAN, JOHN

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: Pimlico 1992

KEYWORDS: World War 2 military history, Allied invasion liberation Normandy

$14.00
xxppk141167

Young Logan Campbell


STONE, R.J.C.

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: Auckland University 1982

KEYWORDS: Auckland history New Zealand John Logan Campbell One Tree Hill biography

$50.00
1w48/12

Whites Pictorial Reference of New Zealand: Representative Airviews of New Zealand Cities and Boroughs


WHITE, LEO (Comp)

Oblong imperial octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 311pp, illus, VG (light tanning and foxing, light scuffing and rubbing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Ltd 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pictorial illustrated history

$50.00
1w48/16

Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America


FRANK, MIRIAM

Super octavo, illus heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, xviii + 221pp, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Temple University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: labor studies sexuality sexual identity history education US America humanities lgbt

$40.00
1w48/19

The Triumphs of the Printing Press


JERROLD, WALTER

Octavo, red illus buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, 160pp + 24pp adverts, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, light soiling & surface loss to spine, moderate soiling to boards, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, 3cm closed tear to buckram on spine, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, crack to full length of front gutter, presentation plate to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: S. W. Partridge n/d (pre-1904)

KEYWORDS: printing history literature electrotyping typography press

$45.00
1w48/26

The History of North American Small Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines


LEYES II, RICHARD A. & FLEMING, WILLIAM A. & ATKINSON, A. STUART & VON OHAIN, HANS (Fore)

Super octavo, dark blue heavy card boards, x + 998pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board corners, d/w securely fixed to boards with adhesive clear contact, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to corners, fully adhered to boards with clear contact)

PUBLISHER: AIAA 1999

KEYWORDS: aviation aircraft engines engineering history aeroplanes turbines illustrated

$155.00
1w48/28

Moriori: A People Rediscovered


KING, MICHAEL

First edition, imperial octavo, turquoise heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 226pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light scuffing & sun fading to board edges, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (moderate fading to spine & edges, light scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Viking 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori culture history Moriori Chatham Islands anthropology first edition

$140.00
1w48/29

Sports Car Racing in Camera 1960-69


PARKER, PAUL

2 volumes, quarto, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 256pp, illus, vol 1 VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, sm gouge to front board, adhesive security label to rear pastedown) in d/w, vol 1 VG+ (light creasing to edges & flaps, light scuffing to covers, shop seller's adhesive price label to front cover) vol 2 fine (still in wrapper)

PUBLISHER: Haynes Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: cars racing history motor sport illustrated engines engineering

$100.00
ak1/19/3114

American Music


LEIBOVITZ, ANNIE

Lg quarto, illus heavy card boards, decorative promotional ribbon remenants loosely enclosed, illus prelims, 264pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board corners with sl surface loss, light scuffing & soiling to boards, light staining to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2003

KEYWORDS: music pictorial biographies US America history rock blues soul motown

$45.00
1w48/33

Ford Design in the UK: 70 Years of Success


HULL, NICK

Square super octavo, dark blue heavy card boards, silver coloured lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 224pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, shop's adhesive price label to front)

PUBLISHER: Veloce Publishing 2017

KEYWORDS: cars engines engineering motor ford history illustrated

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