Books - "history"
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1945: The World We Fought For
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
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
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
Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
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
Last Line of Defence: New Zealanders Remember the War at Home
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
McDonnell Douglas: 1920 - 1970: 50 Years of service to the community the nation and the world
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
Narooma's Past: Steamers, Sawmills and Salmon
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
The South Sea Bubble
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
Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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
The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History
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
Gold! Gold! Gold! A Dictionary of the Nineteenth-century Australian Gold Rushes
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
Adderley to Bradley: A History of the Southern Bays of Lyttelton Harbour
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
A Companion to Social Archaeology
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
The Wind Commands: Sailors and Sailing Ships in the Pacific
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
Our Own Correspondent, Waiuta Notes, 1906-51
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
The Book of the Chronicles of Keith, Grange, Ruthven, Cairney, and Botriphnie, Events, Persons, and Places
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
The Men I Killed
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
The Perth Incident of 1396 from a Folk Lore Point of View
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
The Quakers in Peace and War
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
The Valley of the Kings
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
Cities of the World: Sydney in black and white
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