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$20.00
xxqda143145

Tracks Across the Isthmus: A Centennial History of the Buildings of Auckland's First Railway


LOWE, DAVID

Octavo 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: The Lodestar Press (n/d)

KEYWORDS: trains new zealand history

$12.50
xxqda143146

Coromandel in the Golden Days


CHAPMAN, SAM

Octavo 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: Times Commercial Printers (n/d)

KEYWORDS: history coromandel gold rush sam chapman

$16.50
xxqda143148

A Very Long Weekend: The Army National Guard in Korea 1950 - 1953


BEREBITSKY, WILLIAM

Tidy ex library, 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: White Mane 1996

KEYWORDS: Military history United States National Guard Korea

$120.00
1u35/48

Besieged in Kut and After


BARBER, CHARLES H.

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 344pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood 1917

KEYWORDS: World War One WW1 history autobiography English Charles Barber

$175.00
1u35/50

In the Uttermost East: Being an Account of Investigations Among the Natives and Russian Convicts of the Island of Sakhalin, with Notes of Travel in Korea, Siberia and Manchuria


HAWES, CHARLES H.

First edition, folding map just before index, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine extrems & board corners, frontispiece, xxx + 478pp, illus, VG (light cracking to gutters, previous owner's name in ink to fep, light bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harpers & Brothers 1903

KEYWORDS: Exiles Russia Federation Siberia Charles Hawes history travels autobiography

$60.00
1u36/1

Hongos: Especies Alucinogenas


FURST, PETER

Text in Spanish, super octavo, illus light card covers, 120pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to covers, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Diana 1995

KEYWORDS: text in Spanish mushrooms natural history culture

$45.00
1u36/3

Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science


SHAMDASANI, SONU

Super octavo, illus light card covers, xvi + 387, Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: history biography psychology C G Jung science

$150.00
1u36/7

Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians


ROLLINS, M.

8 of 12 volumes, present volumes are i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, ix, xii, ex library, some folding maps, small octavo, half leather bound, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 388pp (vol1), iii + 353pp, (vol2), iii + 356pp (vol3), iv + 391pp (vol4), iv + 320pp (vol5), 359pp (vol6), ii+ 362pp (vol9), 322pp (vol12), VG- (previous owner's name in ink to fep (vol i, vi, v, xii), moderate library markings, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate rubbing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing & light tanning to pages, vol ii rear board lost majority of leather covering with bare cardboard showing, vol ix lost majority of rear board with several of the last pages ripped and in tatters, first few pages lost in vol vi)

PUBLISHER: Chalmers, Ray & Co. 1804

KEYWORDS: ancient history civilisation culture Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes Persians Macedonians Grecians

$425.00
1u36/15

Lucas's Nelson, Blenheim and West Coast Almanac and Year-Book for 1892


LUCAS, R.

Rebound as a hardcover utilising original cover, new eps, Brown cloth boards, 273pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG (light tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Lucas & Sons 1982

KEYWORDS: South Island Periodicals Almanacs New Zealand History Nelson Blenheim West Coast

$45.00
1u36/23

The Kea: A New Zealand Problem


MARRINER, GEORGE R.

Ex-library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with green lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 151pp, illus, VG (light library markings, moderate tanning to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Marriner Bros & Co. 1908

KEYWORDS: ornithology Kea New Zealand natural history birds

$40.00
1u36/24

Passage to Tobruk


JACKSON, FRANCIS

Association copy, first edition, first copy off the press (authenticated on fep, by Pat Lawlor who has also signed the book), inscribed by author to Pat Lawlor & Signed, octavo, orange cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, 143pp, illus, VG (d/w cellotaped to pastedowns, light foxing to page edges, light library markings) in d/w VG (light fading, light soiling, light bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Reed 1943

KEYWORDS: signed World War Two Campaigns Greece Francis Jackson autobiography New Zealand military history

$45.00
1u36/31

The Story of Hawke's Bay


REED, A.H.

First edition, ex library & signed, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 312pp, illus, VG (d/w cellotaped to pastedowns leaving light residue stains, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light library markings) in d/w VG- (9cm tear with loss to lower front cover & spine, heavy bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing, 11cm tear with loss to upper rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Reed 1958

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Hawkes bay

$38.50
xxqdb143189

Wanderings in Westland: Trips Down Memory Lane


STAPLETON, DOUG

Octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Grwey Star James Print 2007

KEYWORDS: Westland Hokitika history autobiography

$28.50
xxqdb143214

Michelangelo and the Sistene Chapel


GRAHAM-DIXON, ANDREW

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008

KEYWORDS: art history michelangelo sistene chapel renaissance

$20.00
xxqdb143221

Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of our Times


The Chronicles of America Series. Vol.48

SEYMOUR, CHARLES

Charles B. Warren ownership details and signature - American diplomat & ambassador to Mexico1924, 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 1921

KEYWORDS: american history world war 1 ww1 wwi woodrow wilson

$15.00
xxqdc143251

The World's Land Speed Record


BODDY, WILLIAM

Ex library, duo decimo 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: Pheonix House 1964

KEYWORDS: motor racing history land speed

$16.50
xxqdc143262

The Disinherited: The Exiles who Created Spanish Culture


KAMEN, HENRY

FIRST EDITION UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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 Lane 2007

KEYWORDS: spain history biography

$22.50
xxqdc143268

New Zealand's First World War History


BARGAS, IMELDA & SHOEBRIDGE, TIM

Imperial octavo hardcover (Nr Fine) in d/w (Nr Fine); 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: Exisle Publishing 2015

KEYWORDS: new Zealand history world war one ww1 wwi anzacs

$14.50
xxqdc143277

Across the Sea to War: Australia and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through Two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam


PLOWMAN, PETER

Ex library, 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: Rosenberg 2003

KEYWORDS: new zealand history war troops

$22.50
xxqdc143278

The Midland in the 1930's


WHITEHEAD, IAN

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: Ian Akllen Ltd 1982

KEYWORDS: trains rail railway england history steam

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