Books - "history"
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The Kit-Cat Club: Friends who Imagined a Nation
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) with plastic cover; 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: Harper Press 2008
KEYWORDS: history Britain society culture memoirs politics
Over the Wide and Trackless Sea: The pioneer women and girls of New Zealand
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: Harper Collins
KEYWORDS: colonialism history New Zealand pioneers society culture
The Cato Street Conspiracy
FIRST EDITION. 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: Jonathan Cape 1962
KEYWORDS: history england treason
The Giant Book of Military Leaders: A Ranking of the 100 Greatest Leaders Past and Present
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: The Book Co. 1997
KEYWORDS: history military war leadership
Rorke's Drift
Wordsworth Military Library
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: Wordsworth Edition 1997
KEYWORDS: history military war rorke's drift england
The Idea of India
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 Books 1998
KEYWORDS: india politics history
A Short History of Asia: Stone Age to 2000AD
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: Macmillan 2000
KEYWORDS: history asia
Nothing But Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of Canterbury
Imperial 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: Hazard Press 1992
KEYWORDS: new zealand history ancestry rutherfords canterbury christchurch otatahi
George Hunn Nobbs 1799-1884 : Chaplain on Pitcairn and Norfolk Island
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) and plastic cover ; 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 Pitcairn Descendants Society 1984
KEYWORDS: biography history photography illustrated
New Zealand Trucks and Trucking
Quarto 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: Golden Press 1981
KEYWORDS: auto vehicles history photographs New Zealand trucks
New Zealand Trucks: HIstorics, Haulers & Heavies
Quarto softcover (VG) light card cover; 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: Grantham House Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: auto vehicles history photographs New Zealand trucks
Treasures of Egypt and Nubia
Large quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards, white lettering to front & green lettering to spine, illus of egyptian/nuboan art to front & rear boards, illus eps, 252pp, illus, plates, FINE, in d/w, Near FINE ( v. v. slight bruing to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Grange Books 2006
KEYWORDS: ancient egypt archaeology art history nubia
International Rugby 1994
LIMITED, NUMBERED, DELUXE EDITION, folio, quarter red leather bound with navy blue cloth boards, Gilt lettering and motif to front & spine, all edges gilt, cream textured eps, frontispiece, 256pp, plates, FINE, in slip case, VG+ (light rubbing, v. slight soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett 1995
KEYWORDS: rugby new zealand all blacks history sport
International Rugby 1993
LIMITED, NUMBERED, DELUXE EDITION, large folio, quarter goat leather bound with navy blue cloth boards, Gilt lettering and motif to front & spine, all edges gilt, cream textured eps, frontispiece, 276pp, plates, Near FINE ( light scratching to page edges, v. slight chipping from spine, ribbon bookmark slightly deteriorated), in slip case, VG, (light rubbing, small indent to spine, fabric binding has come loose at top & bottom and is creased)
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett 1994
KEYWORDS: rugby new zealand all blacks history sport
Cassell's....History of the Russo-Japanese War: Special Edition Volume 1
THIS VOLUME ONLY, SUBSCRIBERS EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt line to front board, page edges stained red, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 288pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine/boards & extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to all gutters throughout- boards v shaky but still attached, sm scuff to fep)
PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company n/d (circa 1904?)
KEYWORDS: history military politics illustrated special edition Russia Japan russo-japanese war cassell
Cassell's....History of the Russo-Japanese War: Special Edition Volume 2
THIS VOLUME ONLY, SUBSCRIBERS EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt line to front board, page edges stained red, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + pgs 289-576, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine/boards & extrems, light staining to front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to all gutters throughout- boards v shaky but still attached)
PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company n/d (circa 1904?)
KEYWORDS: history military politics illustrated special edition Russia Japan russo-japanese war cassell
Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth - A Life Beyond Cheaper by the Dozen
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super ocatvo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xii + 415pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to extrems, light creasing to pg edges at prelims) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Northeastern University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: signed inscribed biography memoir Lillian Moller Gilbreth women's studies family gender career engineering politics history
Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses
Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xv + 330pp, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press 1983
KEYWORDS: biographies holocaust resistance women gender women's studies Jewish persecution history jews ww2 second world war 2 two
Schindler's Ark
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 432pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1982
KEYWORDS: Oskar Schindler holocaust history first edition Jewish Jews persecution ww2 second world war two 2
Heraldy Gazette 1964-1973.
Vols # 28-54, Not all Issues Present, Some Issues Duplicated), folio, quarter bound red buckram with navy blue heavy card boards, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, crease marks to text block - as this is a collation from a newspaper publication, these creases are simply from their original publication)
PUBLISHER: Self Bound collation 1964-1973
KEYWORDS: family history heraldry gazette newspaper