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$50.00
1y9/6

John Jones of Otago: Whaler, Coloniser, Shipowner, Merchant


ECCLES, ALFRED & REED, A. H

First Edition, octavo, red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 111pp, plates, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & upper board edges, bookseller stamp to paste down, note inscibed on paper and glued to fep - has caused glue wrinkles to reverse of page, slight foxing throughout, writing in pencil to pg15) in d/w, VG+ ( moderate foxing & soiling, moderate creasing and cracking to spine extrems and wrapper edges)

PUBLISHER: A.H & A.W Reed 1949

KEYWORDS: john jones whaling dunedin coastal otago new zealand history biography

$45.00
1y9/7

Marlborough: A Provincial History


MCINTOSH, A. D (ed.)

Super octavo, burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed map on eps, frontispiece, xv + 434pp, plates, VG+ (very neat hand writing in pen to ppii, slight foxing to page edges, dog ears to pp200-224) in d/w, VG- (heavy rubbing to wrapper- especially at rear hinge & edges, bruising and tears to spine extrems, bookseller sticker at rear)

PUBLISHER: Marlborough Provincial Historical Commitee 1940

KEYWORDS: new zealand history marlborough maori colonisation

$12.00
xxqej144634

The Houses of the Merchant Princes: being a text of a lecture in the 1988 seminar series of the centre for the study of Auckland history and society


STACPOOLE, JOHN

Super octavo, stapled light card cover (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 Auckland 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand social history Auckland houses

$12.50
xxqek144636

The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English


STURM, TERRY (ed)

Imperial 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: Oxford University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: History literature New Zealand

$65.00
1y9/28

Kapiti Bird Sanctuary: A Natural History of the Island


WILKINSON, A. H. & WILKINSON, AMY

octavo, light-blue heavy card board covers, dark blue lettering to spine and front cover, bird/landscape illus to front cover, illus title page, frontispiece, illus, 190pp, VG ( v.slight tanning & foxing to spine, covers, page edges & eps, v. few pencil notes/underlinings, rep is water-marked) in d/w shabby (moderately bruised; faded, particularly spine; moderate rubbing & slight soiling - has been put in protective plastic cover- 1.5x3cm hole in spine) a very pretty book

PUBLISHER: R. H. D. Stidolph 1952

KEYWORDS: Kapiti bird ornithology nature natural history New Zealand birds

$85.00
1y9/40

Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present.


FISHER, KATE & TOULALAN, SARAH (edits)

super octavo, illus heavy card boards, white & beige lettering to spine, illus, xii+275pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan 2011

KEYWORDS: history sociology society desire body image children sadism fin de siecle sex sexuality

$45.00
1y9/41

Sex and Sexibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation


STEIN, ARLENE

super octavo; heavy card boards, quarter bound in light brown cloth, silver lettering to spine, x+256pp, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems; slight rubbing with small superficial scratches, slight soiling on rear cover, page edges v. slightly foxed at the top)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1997

KEYWORDS: history sociology society sex sexuality gender LBGT gay lesbian lesbianism family identity personal stories autobiography

$50.00
1y9/49

Hampshire: Painted by Wilfrid Ball, RE, Described by Rev. Telford Varley, MA, BSc.


BALL, WILFRID (illus) & VARLEY, REV. TELFORD

super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt & pale green lettering to spine, pale green lettering & deep pink & green Tudor rose illus to front cover, frontispiece & illus plates with tissue guards,fold-out map at rear, xi+316pp, VG- (moderate bruising to spine extrems and corners, tear along rear gutter edge, eps & page edges moderately foxed, slightly cocked)

PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black 1909

KEYWORDS: Hampshire England history

$50.00
1y10/1

A Warsaw Diary: 1939-1945


ZYLERBERG, MICHAEL

dated, inscribed & signed by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus,120pp, VG (light tanning, light foxing to page edges, slight bruising to board edges with v. slight colour loss, previous owner's name in biro on pastedown) in d/w, VG- (slight foxing,edges bruised with some surface loss, a little soiled)

PUBLISHER: Vallentine, Mitchell 1969

KEYWORDS: autobiography history Europe Jews Poland Warsaw ghettos Auschwitz world war WW II two 2 Nazis

$65.00
1y10/8

Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States


MCBEE, RANDY D.

Octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, ix + 293pp, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to boards) in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: New York University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: United States America USA American culture immigration sociology social history

$40.00
1y10/11

Bad Girls at Samarcand: Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory


ZIPF, KARIN L.

Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 242pp, illus, FINE in FINE d/w

PUBLISHER: Louisiana State University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: Samarcand sexuality sterilisation North Carolina American social history discrimination eugenics women's studies

$25.00
xxqek144646

Art of the Ancient Sinhalese


PARANAVITANA, SENARAT

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy, torn); 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: Lake House Investments 1971

KEYWORDS: art anthropology sinhalese india history sri lanka ceylon

$75.00
1y10/32

Historical Records of The Buffs East Kent Regiment (3rd Foot), Formerly Designated The Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1914-1919


MOODY, R. S. H.

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, illus map to eps, frontispiece, xx + 554pp, plates, VG- ( slight fading to boards, slight bruising to spine extrems, moderate foxing to page edges, moderate soiling to top page edges, light foxing throughout, 4 pages of contents detached from book but loosely enclosed)

PUBLISHER: The Medici Society 1922

KEYWORDS: military war wwi wwi world war one holland dutch denmark europe history

$650.00
1y10/33

History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon in Twelve Volumes


THEIRS, LOUIS ADOLPHE & CAMPBELL, D. FORBES (trans.) & STEBBING, JOHN (trans)

Twelve Volume Set, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, grey eps, frontispiece, all volumes approx 500pp, plates, VG ( light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, several volumes cracked at internal front hinge)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1893

KEYWORDS: napoleon history france

$145.00
1y10/35

The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology


ALBARELLA, UMBERTO (Ed) & RIZETTO, MAURO & RUSS, HANNAH et al

Ownership signature of NZ author & archaeologist Ian Smith, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 839pp, NR FINE in NR FINE d/w

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: zooarchaeology archaeology zoology animals natural history

$12.00
xxqek144667

The Luftwaffe: A History


KILLEN, JOHN

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: Sphere 1969

KEYWORDS: History military German Luftwaffe airforce

$8.50
xxqek144669

Dunkirk: The Necessary Myth


HARMAN, NICHOLAS

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: Coronet 1990

KEYWORDS: Military history war Dunkirk

$26.50
xxqel144682

Early Days in Dunedin


GILKISON, ROBERT

First edition, 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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1938

KEYWORDS: History Dunedin New Zealand

$20.00
xxqel144691

So I Headed West (Ballarat to Broken Hill, to Kanowna, to Kalgoorlie)


MANNERS, W. G.

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: W. G. Manners & Co/Hesperian Press 1992

KEYWORDS: Australia history illustrated culture emigration settlement W G Manners autobiography memoir

$10.00
xxqel144707

The Lonely Leader: Monty 1944 - 1945


HORNE, ALISTAIR & MONTGOMERY, DAVID

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: Pan 1995

KEYWORDS: Biography military history General Montgomery WW2

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