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$65.00
1y41/21

The New Zealand Division 1916-1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records


STEWART, Col. H.

Octavo, brown cloth boards, black lettering to spine, black decorative rule & lettering to front board, xv + 634pp, illus, folding maps throughout, VG- (boards & spine fully cover sealed- clear contact, heavy chafing to boards/edges & spine, light tanning/foxing/ink staining to page edges, previous owner's name & scribbles in ink to front pastedown, light foxing to eps, moderate creasing to some map edges, occasional sm closed tear to some maps)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history maps illustrated

$70.00
1y41/23

At Home in New Zealand: Houses, History, People


BROOKES, BARBARA (Ed)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 266pp, illus, VG (light chafing & scuffing to covers, moderate water staining to page edges- particularly to spine)

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2000

KEYWORDS: signed inscribed New Zealand culture history houses architecture buildings homes

$50.00
1y41/27

Looking For Bruce Conner


HATCH, KEVIN

Super octavo, illus heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 342pp, illus, Near FINE (spine sl cocked) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 2012

KEYWORDS: art film motion picture Bruce Conner biography memoir modern contemporary history alternative

$40.00
1y41/33

The Crisis of Theory: EP Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics


HAMILTON, SCOTT

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black heavy card boards, silver coloured lettering to spine, viii + 293pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chippping to edges with some sl discolouration & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: signed British politics history postwar EP Thompson philosophy sociology

$65.00
1y41/35

The Sami Peoples of the North: A Social and Cultural History


KENT, NEIL

Octavo, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 331pp, VG+ (light bruising to board extrems & edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light sun fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Hurst & Company 2014

KEYWORDS: Sami people culture history social Nordic Soviet Russia sociology anthropology

$14.00
xxsdl148257

Christianity in Modern Art


GETLEIN, FRANK & GETLEIN, DOROTHY

Super 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: Bruce Publishing Co. 1961

KEYWORDS: art history christianity religion

$12.50
xxsdn148263

The Camera and Dr. Barnardo


LLOYD, VALERIE (ed.)

Super 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: Barnado School of Printing circa 1974

KEYWORDS: photography exhibition art history barnardo

$22.50
xxsdn148267

The Land of England: English Country Customs Through the Ages


HARTLEY, DOROTHY

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 1979

KEYWORDS: history culture customs england

$8.50
xxsdn148271

The Leatherback Turtle: A Malaysian Heritage


HENG, CHAN ENG & CHARK, LIEW HOCK

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: Tropical Press 1989

KEYWORDS: turtle history

$17.50
xxsdq148276

The Zoo Story


de COURCY, CATHERINE

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: Penguin 1995

KEYWORDS: Zoo history institution captivity animals

$80.00
1y41/47

The Murmansk Venture


MAYNARD, Maj.-Gen. SIR C.

BOOKPLATE & OWNERSHIP OF Brig.-Gen. H. S. SEWELL, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, xii + 322pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, light staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, inscription in ink to fep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1928

KEYWORDS: military history illustrated maps Russia Murmansk autobiography memoir raf British air force

$40.00
1y41/49

The Bloody Eleventh: History of the Devonshire Regiment Volume 1: 1685-1815


ROBINSON, R. E. R. & Maj.-Gen. HRH THE DUKE OF KENT (Fore)

Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering on green title plate to spine, xv + 719pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges & bookseller's label to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light sun fading to spine, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment 1988

KEYWORDS: military history illustrated British army Devonshire regiment

$42.50
1y42/4

Campaigns on the North-West Frontier


NEVILL, Capt. H. L.

Super octavo, maroon heavy card boards, gilt lettering to title plate to spine, gilt motif to spine & front board, xix + 413pp, illus, folding map to rear pocket, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Battery Press 1999

KEYWORDS: military history Pakistan India campaigns north west British empire illustrated

$55.00
1y42/5

History of the Sudan Campaign


COLVILLE, Col. H. E.

Super octavo, maroon heavy card boards, gilt lettering to title plate to spine, gilt motif to spine & front board, xvi + 277pp & xiv + 327pp, illus, folding map to front pocket & to rear, Near FINE (v sl foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Battery Press 1996

KEYWORDS: military history illustrated Sudan Egypt maps British empire

$150.00
1y42/7

Historical Records of the Forty-Third Regiment Monmouthshire Light Infantry (With a Roll of the Officers and Their Services From the Period of Embodiment to the Close of 1867)


LEVINGE, Sir RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS

Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & line to spine, gilt motifs & blind rule to spine & boards, 352pp, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine extrems, heavy bruising & scuffing with some surface loss to board corners, moderate staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, inscriptions in ink to front eps, some prelims loose but attached & present, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: W. Clowes & Sons (Printer) 1868

KEYWORDS: military history 43rd forty third regiment Monmouthshire regiment soldiers officers roll light infantry British empire army

$125.00
1y42/13

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in The Great War: The First Year 1914-1915


MOCKLER-FERRYMAN, Lieut.-Col. A. F.

Octavo, green heavy card boards with green buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, cream lettering to front board, frontispiece, viii + 414pp, illus, folding maps, VG- (moderate scuffing to extrems with some surface loss, ligth chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode circa 1915-20

KEYWORDS: ww1 world war one 1 first military history illustrated maps The Great War Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire light infantry British army

$225.00
1y42/15

The Essex Regiment: 2nd Battalion (56th) (Pompadours)


BURROWS, JOHN Wm. & DE WIART, Maj.-Gen. A. CARTON (Fore)

THIS VOLUME ONLY (VOL 2), octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt coat of arms to front board, frontispiece, xxviii + 232pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG- (light creasing & bruising to extrems, heavy staining to base of spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light discolouration to spine)

PUBLISHER: John H. Burrows & Sons/Essex Territorial Force Assoc. 1937

KEYWORDS: military history illustrated Essex regiment pompadours 2nd second battalion British army The Great War ww1 first 1st world war one

$40.00
1y42/16

The Great Duke: In Two Volumes


FITCHETT, W. H.

TWO VOLUME SET, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & gilt motifs to front boards, frontispieces, vi-xx + 371-404pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, moderate bruising & fraying to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, presentation plates to front pastedowns of both vols, moderate cracking to gutters throughout, occasional page loose but attached)

PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1911

KEYWORDS: Duke of Wellington Arthur Wesley Wellesley biography memoir military history politics

$175.00
1y42/18

4th Hussar: The Story of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars 1685-1958


DANIELL, DAVID SCOTT & CHURCHILL, Sir WINSTON (Fore)

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, frontispeice, xv + 416pp, illus, folding maps, VG (light creasing & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light chafing to boards, light wrinkling to material on rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden 1959

KEYWORDS: military history illustrated maps fourth 4th hussar British army Winston Churchill cavalry

$190.00
1y42/20

The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918


WYRALL, EVERARD

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 486pp, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate creasing & light chipping to spine extrems, light scuffing & bruising ot board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, frontispiece loose but attached)

PUBLISHER: Harrison & Sons 1928

KEYWORDS: military illustrated history East Yorkshire regiment ww1 first world war one line infantry British army

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