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$30.00
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A Savage Country: The Untold Story of New Zealand in the 1820s


MOON, PAUL

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: Penguin Books 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history

$45.00
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Young New Zealand: An Illustrated Annual: Volume Eleven


N/A

Super octavo, green cloth boards, coloured illustrations to front board, frontispiece, illus title page, 256pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name & inscription in ink to fep, light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Pilgrim Press (n/d)

KEYWORDS: literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$45.00
2s3a/3

Young England: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys: Thirtieth Annual Volume 1908-1909


N/A

Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, coloured illustrations to front board, iv + 484pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Pilgrim Press 1909

KEYWORDS: literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$40.00
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The Boy's Own Annual Volume 52 1929-1930


POCKLINGTON, GEOFFREY R. (ED)

Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, 864pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light foxing to page edges, previous owner's name & inscription in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1930

KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$60.00
2s3a/7

The Boy's Own Annual Volume 35 1912-1913


HAYDON, ARTHUR LINCOLN (ED)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, x + 824pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light foxing to page edges, light cracking to rear board gutter)

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1913

KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$55.00
2s3a/8

The Boy's Own Annual Volume 44 1921-1922


HAYDON, ARTHUR LINCOLN (ED)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, x + 760pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1922

KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$55.00
2s3a/9

The Boy's Own Annual Volume 45 1922-1923


HAYDON, ARTHUR LINCOLN (ED)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 784pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1923

KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$55.00
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The Boy's Own Annual Volume 44 1921-1922


HAYDON, ARTHUR LINCOLN (ED)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 760pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1922

KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$425.00
2s3a/13

The Illustrated London News: Volume XLIX


N/A

chip to p.67 some closed tears some wear, Folio, marble boards with leather spine, illus title page, 636pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, light soiling to pages)

PUBLISHER: George C. Leighton (n.d)

KEYWORDS: literature social history London news articles England sociology

$55.00
2s3a/15

New Zealand


MCINTYRES, PETER

Quarto, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, unpagenated, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Reed 1977

KEYWORDS: Painting New Zealand history arts

$150.00
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Hawke's Bay: Before and After: The Great Earthquake of 1931


N/A

First edition in scarce d/w (archival repair) to closed tears, Oblong, Super octavo, brown cloth boards with blue spine, 199pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light soiling, light foxing, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Daily Telegraph 1931

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand hawkes bay Earthquake

$35.00
2s3a/21

City of Christchurch: New Zealand


N/A

octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 144pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Alex Wildey 1932-1933

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Christchurch history

$450.00
2s3a/22

The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects


DARWIN, CHARLES

Second edition revised, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 300pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1882

KEYWORDS: botany natural history Orchids plants flora insects

$12.00
xxpla136296

Charles Darwin and his world


HUXLEY, JULIAN & KETTLEWELL, H.B.D.

Imperial octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy): 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 Club Associates 1974

KEYWORDS: Charles Darwin evolution history biography illustrated

$10.00
xxpla136313

Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles :A Novel


GEORGE, MARGARET

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: Pan Books Limited 1993

KEYWORDS: Literature Mary Queen of Scots Scotland History Stuarts fiction

$10.00
xxpla136334

The Penguin History of Greece


BURN, A. R.

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: Penguin Books 1990

KEYWORDS: Greece history ancient neolithic Mycenae archaeology

$12.00
xxpld136479

The Death of American Virtue: Clinton Vs. Starr


GORMLEY, KEN

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: Broadway Paperbacks 2010

KEYWORDS: United States America politics government policy society political sicence history Bill Clinton Ken Sarr Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp Paula Jones Susan McDougal controversy interviews

$12.00
xxplc136416

ZB: The Voice of an Iconic Radio Station


FRANCIS, BILL

Super octavo softcover inscribed (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: HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Ltd 2006

KEYWORDS: Newstalk ZB radio broadcasting Auckland New Zealand talkback history radio station

$12.50
xxplc136418

The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris


WHITE, EDMUND

Small 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: Bloomsbury Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: Paris walking tour hidden treasures architecture history

$16.50
xxple136515

The Captain Cook Myth


ROBERTSON, JILLIAN

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: Angus & Robertson Publishers 1981

KEYWORDS: new zealand history explorers Biography James Cook William Dampier

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