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$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

$20.00
xxqel144712

Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story


PUGSLEY, CHRISTOPHER

Quarto 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1984

KEYWORDS: Military history Gallipoli New Zealand

$13.50
xxqel144714

A Good Place to Hide: How one French community saved thousands of lives in World War II


GROSE, PETER

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: Allen and Unwin 2014

KEYWORDS: History WW2 France jews

$15.50
xxqel144715

1945: The World We Fought For


KEE, ROBERT

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: Book Club Associates 1985

KEYWORDS: Military social history 1945

$16.50
xxqel144716

The Decision to Drop the Bomb


GIOVANNITTI, LEN & FREED, FRED

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: Methuen 1967

KEYWORDS: Military political history United States bomb Hiroshima

$12.00
xxqel144718

Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War


GREENE, BOB

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: Morrow 2000

KEYWORDS: Military history memoir Paul Tibbets Hiroshima Enola Gay

$16.50
xxqel144721

Last Line of Defence: New Zealanders Remember the War at Home


HUTCHING, MEGAN

Square quarto 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: HarperCollins 2007

KEYWORDS: Military social history New Zealand post war

$20.00
xxqfa144732

McDonnell Douglas: 1920 - 1970: 50 Years of service to the community the nation and the world


McDONNELL, JAMES S. (CEO)

Quarto light card stapled wrapper (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: McDonnell Douglas (1970??)

KEYWORDS: History corporate McDonnell Douglas photographic compilation aircraft space

$12.50
xxqfa144734

Narooma's Past: Steamers, Sawmills and Salmon


PACEY, LAURELLE

A4 journal 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: Laurelle Pacey 2001

KEYWORDS: Social history Australia Narooma Gold

$35.00
xxqfa144764

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel


FRASER, DAVID

First edition, 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: HarperCollins 1993

KEYWORDS: first edition Erwin Rommel biography memoir military history

$22.50
xxqfb144795

The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History


LOUGHERY, JOHN

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: John Macrae/Henry Holt & Co 1998

KEYWORDS: lgbt gender sexuality gay literature culture history

$45.00
1y10/43

Gold! Gold! Gold! A Dictionary of the Nineteenth-century Australian Gold Rushes


MOORE, BRUCE

large octavo, illustrated light card covers, blue spine with white lettering, illus, xvi+190 pp, VG+ (slight rubbing & slight soiling to covers & page edges, slight fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: dictionary Australian colloquial slang gold rushes history language quotations

$90.00
1y10/46

Adderley to Bradley: A History of the Southern Bays of Lyttelton Harbour


STAPLESON-SMITH, MARY

quarto, illustrated light card covers, illus spine with blue lettering, decorated eps, 312 pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers, slight creasing on hinge)

PUBLISHER: Friends of Diamond Harbour Library 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Lyttelton Harbour history geography ferries bays community sport roads facilities buildings farming

$55.00
1y10/49

A Companion to Social Archaeology


MESKELL, LYNN & PREUCEL, ROBERT W. (edits)

ownership of New Zealand archaeologist & author, Ian Smith, imperial octavo, black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, chocolate-brown eps, xi+430pp, VG+ (Near FINE but for Ian Smith's name written in pen on prelim) in d/w VG+ (slight rubbing & bruising)

PUBLISHER: Blackwell 2004

KEYWORDS: social archaeology politics people society history culture identity knowledge

$45.00
1y10/50

The Wind Commands: Sailors and Sailing Ships in the Pacific


MORTON, HARRY & HERMANSEN, DON (illus) & DWILLIES, PAUL (illus.)

inscribed & signed by author, with also signature of Peggy Morton, imperial octavo, blue textured cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, illus eps, xxvii+498pp, VG+ (slight bruising, particularly to spine extrems & corners; slight fading to board edges, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w VG- (slight rubbing, soiling & bruising, spine is faded from blue to white)

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe , and the University of British Columbia Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Pacific sailing sailors Drake Magellan journals scurvy navigation history wind jammers galleons navigation adventure indigenous craft European technical

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