FRASER, DAVID

Lacks folding map, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, teg, xvi + 521pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light dampstaining to eps, previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown, front gutter lightly cracked and repaired with cellotape leaving moderate residue stains, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1907

KEYWORDS: Asia travel India history Turkestan Tibet Persia Himalayas

WADDELL, L. AUSTINE

Some tidy underlining, octavo, grey cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, red illustrations to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 532pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name & inscription to fep, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, heavy tanning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing & light tanning to page edges, light foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co. 1929

KEYWORDS: Buddhism religion Tibet Autonomous Region China travel history expedition

MOORE, JOEL R. (ed) & MEAD, HARRY H. (ed) & JAHNS, LEWIS E. (ed)

Octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 303pp, illus, Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Battry Press 2003

KEYWORDS: history expedition America campaigns russia autobiography Soviet Union Revolution Bolsheviki

VON MOOS, STANISLAUS & CAMPANA, MARA & BOSONI, GIAMPIERO

Imperial octavo, illus boards, black eps, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light fading)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon 2006

KEYWORDS: Max Huber Graphic artists arts history biography

SCHRIRE, I.

First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 209pp, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, spine extrems repaired with archival tape, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1956

KEYWORDS: autobiography history World War Two WW2 autobiography doctor

MIDDLETON, BERNARD C.

Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 372pp + 14 plates, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading, light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners)

PUBLISHER: Oak Knoll Press 1996

KEYWORDS: bookbinding England History Fine bindings Bookplates reference manual

ROSCOE, THOMAS

Octavo, half leatherbound with brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, prelims, 336pp, illus, VG- (previous owner's name in ink to fep, 2.5cm of upper spine lost, front board fully detached from spine, spine nearly detached, light tanning to page edges, very light sporadic foxing to page edges, moderate rubbing & light soiling to boards, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners)

PUBLISHER: Tilt & Bogue (n/d)

KEYWORDS: north Wales travel history United Kingdom

SRP, KAREL & BREGANTOVA, POLANA & BYDZOVSKA, LENKA

Text in Czech, Quarto, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, black eps, 310pp, illus, Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Arbor vitae 2009

KEYWORDS: arts history typography graphic design avant garde biography text in czech

WEAVER, THOMAS (ed)

Quarto, black boards with white lettering to spine, black eps, 343pp, illus, VG+ (previous owner's name in ink to title page, light rubbing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Birkhauser 2003

KEYWORDS: architecture design buildings history David Chipperfield

ALLISON, PETER (ed)

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 256pp, illus, VG+ (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2006

KEYWORDS: architecture design buildings history David Adjaye

DREISER, THEODORE

First edition, Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges stained orange, 412pp, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading, heavy bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Co. 1932

KEYWORDS: United States Politics government sociology economics history

WALKER, DOUGLAS A. (compiled)

Quarto, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, 346pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Air Mail Society of NZ Inc. 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand aviation airmails history air mail service

STEVENSON, G. B.

Octavo, ex-library, white heavy card boards with black & red lettering & illustrations to front board, black lettering to spine & rear board, 160pp, illus, VG (moderate foxing & tanning to boards & spine, some surface loss to spine mostly at extrems, moderate soiling to boards, rust staining around staples, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed (nd)

KEYWORDS: Maori Pakeha New Zealand North Otago history

SMITH, W. SIDNEY

Inscribed by the author to a family member, first edition, scarce, octavo, green cloth boards (half dark green & half light green), gilt lettering to spine & front board, vii + 103pp, VG (light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, slightly cocked, light tanning to eps, moderately heavy foxing & moderate tanning to page edges, light foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited 1905

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Women's Franchise Movement history signed

ATTENBOROUGH, DAVID

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: The Reprint Society 1958

KEYWORDS: Biography natural history Guiana

OLIVER, W.R.B.

First edition, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, viii + 541pp, illus, VG (very light foxing to eps & page edges, bookshop ink stamp on front pastedown, slight crack to gutter around p515, minor bruising to extrems) in d/w VG- (moderate browning, creasing to extrems, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Fine Arts (NZ) Ltd 1930

KEYWORDS: Birds ornithology New Zealand natural history

SCHOLEFIELD, GUY H.

Octavo, orange cloth boards, dark green lettering to spine, xii + 287pp, illus, VG (very slight foxing to page edges, very minor bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG (slight closed tears at folds, very minor tear with loss to upper spine, slight foxing to inside edges)

PUBLISHER: A.H & A.W Reed 1958

KEYWORDS: Newspapers New Zealand Press media history

REED, A.H.

First edition numbered & signed by author, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 439pp, illus, VG- (moderate bruising and fading to spine extrems, light fading to spine and upper board edges, light bruising to board corners, booksellers stamp to pastedown, light tanning to end pages, light foxing to page edges) in d/w scruffy (large section missing from lower front cover repaired with paper, archiaval repairs to spine extrems and hinges, moderate scuffing and creasing to covers, moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1953

KEYWORDS: Forestry kauri felling New Zealand saw mills history

WAUGH, EVELYN & AMORY, MARK (edit)

Super octavo softcover (VG-) spine cracked; 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: Penguin 1982

KEYWORDS: letters literary Waugh Evelyn history

BOARDMAN, JOHN & GRIFFIN, JASPER & MURRAY, OSWYN

Oblong 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: Oxford University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: history Romans illustrated