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$15.50
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

$25.00
xxqfa144747

The South Sea Bubble


CARSWELL, JOHN

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: Alan Suttoin 1993

KEYWORDS: Finance economic history South Sea Company 1720 scandal

$35.00
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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
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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

$65.00
1y11/5

Our Own Correspondent, Waiuta Notes, 1906-51


HUTCHISON, ANNE (compiler)

quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 144pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing & bruising to covers, with slight surface loss; hinge is creased, two -relevant- newspaper excerpts are sellotaped to fep)

PUBLISHER: Friends of Waiuta and Department of Conservation 2001 (revised)

KEYWORDS: Waiuta history people development New Zealand newspaper articles news

$70.00
1y11/7

The Book of the Chronicles of Keith, Grange, Ruthven, Cairney, and Botriphnie, Events, Persons, and Places


GORDON, J. F. S.

octavo, bright blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind illus. to front cover, xi+461pp, illus, VG- (spine & parts of boards faded to dull blue; moderate bruising to spine & corners, with some surface loss; slight rubbing & soiling, eps have split along gutters; ex-libris plate on front pastedown; previous owner's details, in pencil, on fep & page v; page edges tanned; some tiny handwritten annotations)

PUBLISHER: Robert Forrester 1880

KEYWORDS: history Keith Grange Ruthven Cairney Botriphnie Scotland towns villages church Scottish

$50.00
1y11/8

The Men I Killed


CROZIER, F. P.

octavo, brown cloth boards, red lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, lemon-yellow eps, 288pp, VG- (spine & parts of boards faded to lighter brown, moderate bruising to spine, hinges & corners, with some surface loss; slight rubbing; pages lightly tanned; eps & page edges slightly foxed. Very sound overall)

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1937

KEYWORDS: autobiography history military war peace first world I pacificism fighting trenches

$70.00
1y11/9

The Perth Incident of 1396 from a Folk Lore Point of View


MACLAGAN, ROBERT CRAIG

first edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, deep blue eps, vii+403pp, VG- (spine & parts of boards faded to lighter blue; moderate bruising to spine, hinges & corners, with some surface loss; moderate rubbing & slight soiling to boards; light tanning to pages, slight foxing to eps & page edges, WH Smith Subscription Library plate on front pastedown; previous owner's name in pencil on prelim page; ex-libris plate on prelim page, very few pencil annotations)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1905

KEYWORDS: literature Scots Scotland Scottish history historical clans

$40.00
1y11/10

The Quakers in Peace and War


HIRST, MARGARET E. & JONES, RUFUS M. (intro)

super octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 560pp, VG- (spine & parts of boards faded; moderate bruising to spine, hinges & corners, with some surface loss & few closed tears; v. slight fraying on corners; moderate rubbing & slight soiling to boards; light tanning to pages, slight foxing to eps & page edges, previous owner's name in pen on fep, frequent pencil vertical- lines in margins throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Swrthmore Press 1923

KEYWORDS: Quakers religion history philosophy peace testimony war

$12.50
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The Valley of the Kings


NEUBERT, OTTO

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: Robert Hale 1957

KEYWORDS: Archeaology ancient egypt pharoahs pyramids history

$20.00
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Cities of the World: Sydney in black and white


BAKER, GLENN A. & MORRISON, ROBIN (photos)

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: Weldon 1992

KEYWORDS: Photographic history Sydney cityscapes

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