Books - "history"
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The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare
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: Pearson Longman 2005
KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare history drama theatre Elizabethan Jacobean identity conspiracy
The Anzac Book : Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by The Men of Anzac
Ex-library, rebound with new boards and eps, lacks frontispiece, quarto, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 164pp, illus, VG (lacks frontispiece, light library markings, moderate tanning to pages, front & rear gutter cracked, sticker residue to lower spine)
PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company Ltd 1916
KEYWORDS: History biography war military world war 1 Gallipoli Anzac
Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories
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 1997
KEYWORDS: gay communities sex gender customs power politics sexuality USA America cities oral history histories LGBT black of colour
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
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 Michigan Press 2011
KEYWORDS: gay communities sex gender customs power politics sexuality USA America Harlem performance blues music oral history histories LGBT
Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education
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: Princetown University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: history development opposition to sex education morality politics religion power influence HIV
Point of Departure
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); tanned; 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: Oriel 1978
KEYWORDS: autobiography modern history journalism current events memoir politics society
Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco
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: University of California Press 2003
KEYWORDS: San Francisco gay lesbian homosexual sexuality culture LGBT communities culture history society
Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway Movement
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 Michigan Press 2006
KEYWORDS: theatre Broadway off drama experimental theory history
The Jubilee History of Nelson from 1842 to 1892
First edition, rebound with new boards & eps, ex-library, octavo, heavy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 205pp + 2pp adverts, 20 plates, VG- (slight sticker stain to front board, library markings in white to spine, v.slight dent top right board, light foxing to pages, moderate browning to plates, 2cm tear to frontipiece at gutter, library stamp and numbering to prelims, chemist stamp to pp51, owner's stamp & name in ink to 1st page)
PUBLISHER: Bond, Finney, and Co 1892
KEYWORDS: nelson history jubilee new zealand south island aotearoa colonisation early colony tasman
Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road 1840-1970
Tidy ex-library, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt letterring to spine, frontispiece, VG (library markings, light tape staining to boards) in d/w, VG (light wear, plastic wrapped)
PUBLISHER: AH Carmen 1970
KEYWORDS: new zealand history tawa flat wellington porirua
History of the Hawke's Bay
Ex library, super octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus fep, frontispiece, 468pp, illus, fold out geneology to rear, VG- (moderate foxing to page edges, minor creasing to spine extrems, minor rubbing to spine and board corners, minimal library markings)
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1939
KEYWORDS: History Hawke's Bay Hawk's Bay Maori New Zealand
Those Earnest Victorians
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Apollo (?)
KEYWORDS: history social British Victorian era
Bush Fighting: Illustrated by Remarkable Actions and Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand
ex-library, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 326pp, illus, VG ( d/w cellotaped to pastedowns leaving light residue stains, light library markings, light foxing to upper page edges) in d/w VG (moderate soiling, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1973
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wars military art science history
The Shadow of the Land: A Study of British Policy and Racial Conflict in New Zeland 1832-1852
Ex-library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xvix + 422pp, illus, VG (light library markings, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light soiling and rubbing to covers, moderate scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Historical Publications Branch Dept. of Internal Affairs 1968
KEYWORDS: Racism New Zealand history Britain Maori European relations colonies Hone Heke Rebellion
Kia Kaha: Life at 3 New Zealand General Hospital 1940-1946
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-)
PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history hospital medicine
The War Effort of New Zealand
Ex-library, octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xxii + 276pp, illus, VG (light library markings, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, previous owner's name in ink crossed over in ink to fep, light cellotape residue stains to eps)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history military World War One WW1
Mataura: City of the Falls
Imperial octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 504pp, illus, VG+ (previous owner's stamp to fep) in d/w VG+ (moderate fading, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Mataura Historical Society 1991
KEYWORDS: History Southland New Zealand Mataura colonies settlers
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, illus eps, illus title page, 382pp, illus, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand culture history youth sociology
Unemployable: 30 Years of Hardcore, Skate and Street
Quarto, red cloth boards with brown lettering to spine & boards, red eps, prelims, illus title page, 690pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2015
KEYWORDS: history skateboarding Globe International Youth Clothing Australia Melbourne
Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship Since Magnus Hirschfeld
Imperial octavo, illus boards, 408pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to boards)
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press 2017
KEYWORDS: sociology history Germany Arts culture media