Books - "history"
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A Savage Country: The Untold Story of New Zealand in the 1820s
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
Young New Zealand: An Illustrated Annual: Volume Eleven
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
Young England: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys: Thirtieth Annual Volume 1908-1909
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
The Boy's Own Annual Volume 52 1929-1930
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
The Boy's Own Annual Volume 35 1912-1913
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
The Boy's Own Annual Volume 44 1921-1922
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
The Boy's Own Annual Volume 45 1922-1923
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
The Boy's Own Annual Volume 44 1921-1922
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
The Illustrated London News: Volume XLIX
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
New Zealand
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
Hawke's Bay: Before and After: The Great Earthquake of 1931
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
City of Christchurch: New Zealand
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
The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
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
Charles Darwin and his world
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
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles :A Novel
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
The Penguin History of Greece
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
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton Vs. Starr
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
ZB: The Voice of an Iconic Radio Station
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
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
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
The Captain Cook Myth
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