Books - "history"
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The New Zealand Division 1916-1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records
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
At Home in New Zealand: Houses, History, People
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
Looking For Bruce Conner
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
The Crisis of Theory: EP Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics
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
The Sami Peoples of the North: A Social and Cultural History
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
Christianity in Modern Art
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
The Camera and Dr. Barnardo
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
The Land of England: English Country Customs Through the Ages
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
The Leatherback Turtle: A Malaysian Heritage
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
The Zoo Story
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
The Murmansk Venture
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
The Bloody Eleventh: History of the Devonshire Regiment Volume 1: 1685-1815
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
Campaigns on the North-West Frontier
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
History of the Sudan Campaign
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
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)
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
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in The Great War: The First Year 1914-1915
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
The Essex Regiment: 2nd Battalion (56th) (Pompadours)
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
The Great Duke: In Two Volumes
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
4th Hussar: The Story of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars 1685-1958
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
The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918
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