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$22.50
xxpcj157462

Freedon at Midnight


COLLINS, LARRY & LAPIERRE, DOMINIQUE

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: Granada 1981

KEYWORDS: India Pakistan history independance

$14.00
xxpcj157464

The Wasted Hour: The Tragedy of 1945


GARDNER, BRIAN

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: Cassell & Co 1963

KEYWORDS: history ww2 politics Britain

$15.00
xxpcj157466

Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade


SHESOL, JEFF

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: W.W. Norton & Co 1998

KEYWORDS: America politics history

$20.00
xxpcj157467

A Short History of Renaissance and Reformation Europe: Dances over Fire and Water


ZOPHY, JONATHON W.

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: Prentice Hall 2003

KEYWORDS: renaissance reformation Europe history

$12.50
xxpcj157469

The Lighthouse Stevensons: The extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson


BATHURST, BELLA

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 Perennial 2007

KEYWORDS: lighthouses history Scotland

$10.00
xxpbi157539

The Mozart Companion


ABRAHAM, GERALD & (ET AL) & LANDON, ROBBINS (ed.) & MITCHELL, DONALD (ed.)

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: Rocklif 1956

KEYWORDS: music history biography classic reference

$10.00
xxpbe157559

Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Chils Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War


SOYZA, NIROMI DE

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: Allen & Unwin 2011

KEYWORDS: war autobiography memoir history politics historical

$18.50
xxpai157588

Spanish Texas 1519 - 1821


CHIPMAN, DONALD E. & JOSEPH, HARRIETT DENISE

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press 2010

KEYWORDS: history texas spanish america

$12.50
xxpac157630

Bossworth Field and the Wars of the Roses


ROWSE, A. L.

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions 1998

KEYWORDS: history england

$14.00
xxpae157639

German cultural history of the last hundred years


JOHANN, ERNST & JUNKER, JORG

Square 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung 1970

KEYWORDS: german history culture

$24.50
ak3/1/354

Auckland Waterfront: The Port in Edwardian Times


MORRIS, ROGER D.

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (nr. FINE); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Captain Tach Press / Boat Books Limited 2014

KEYWORDS: Auckland maritime history port waterfront harbour boats shipping Edwardian

$95.00
ak3/2/364

Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR Octavo light blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus., 428pp, VG+ (tidy ex-lbrary: internal marking to fep. only, light fading, soiling, and scuffing to boards, light tanning to edges), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962

KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand history regional local back country Wairau Roundell Lake Rotoiti Buller Howard Valley Tarndale sheep runs Motueka Tapawera Motupiko Baton Wangapeka Karamea Crow River Sherry Tadmor Glenhope

$65.00
ak3/2/369

Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B.


MARSHMAN, JOHN CLARK

FIRST EDITION, DELIGHTFUL BINDING octavo full leather binding with gilt embossed emblem to front board, gilt tooling, lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled edges, 456pp., VG+ (presentation school prize note from 1908 to pastedown, library cartalogue numbers in pen to interior, light scuffing and soiling to boards & spines, light rubbing to boards, binding sound but small crack to front/spine, light foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890 (New Edition)

KEYWORDS: Memoir biography British history Empire imperial military India Afghanistan colonial wars Jellalabad

$47.50
ak3/4/372

From the Center: Femisist Essays on Women's Art


LIPPARD, LUCY R.

Octavo illus. light card covers, 314pp., VG- (light cracking to binding, moderate creasing and scuffing to covers, light soiling also, bookseller's stamp to fep., moderate soiling and tanning to pages)

PUBLISHER: E. P. Dutton 1976

KEYWORDS: Feminism feminist art crticism theory history women's movement womens Changin 1971

$110.00
ak3/4/384

The Jubilee History of Nelson: From 1842 to 1892


BROAD, LOWTHER

Octavo blue pebbled leather boards, gilt lettering to front (none to spine), decorative endpapers, illus., 205pp, VG- (tidy ex-library (stamp to fep. only), prev. owner's details in pen to front pastdown, lone pen annotation to endpapers (unobtrusive), light scuffing and soiling to boards, v. slight beginning of a split to spine appearing (easy to miss), moderate discolouration to spine (perhaps from removal of library stickers, tan-lines and residue suggestive of this), light foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Bond, FInney, and Co. 'Colonist' Office, Nelson 1892

KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand regional history local Tasman gold provincial Wairau politics

$285.00
ak3/5/385

Early History of Wairarapa


BANNISTER, CHARLES [CHAS]

SCARCE, green light card stappled covers, black lettering to spine, illus.,, 152pp, VG (rusted staples, light soiling scuffing and creasing to covers, v. light surface loss to front covers (probable sticker removal), light tanning to pages, prev. owner's name in pen to foreward page (1st page)

PUBLISHER: not stated, n.d [c. 1940]

KEYWORDS: Wairarapa regional New Zealand history local Masterton pioneers colonial

$50.00
ak3/5/387

Saint Dominic and His Times


VICAIRE, M. -H. & POND, KATHLEEN (transl.)

Large octavo speckled grey hard card boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi+548pp, illus. VG (very light underlining in pen to introduction only, light scuffing to boards, prev. owner's details in pen to fep., lacks d/w)

PUBLISHER: Darton, Longman & Todd 1964

KEYWORDS: Saints history saint Dominic european christian christianity religion religious Dominican dominicans Catholic catholicsm inquisition council Latrean

$55.00
ak3/5/388

Nelson: A History of Early Settlement


ALLAN, RUTH M.; TAYLOR, NANCY M. (additional chapters) & BEAGLEHOLE, J. C. (intro)

Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii+458pp, VG+ (tidy ex-library, stamps to fep., light scuffing and soiling to boards) in d/w (VG, usual markings, plastic covered with adhesive strips)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1965

KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand regional history local Tasman provincial politics

$95.00
ak3/5/392

Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

FIRST EDITION; octavo light blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus., 428pp, VG+ (tidy ex-lbrary, prev. owner's stamp to front pastedown and fep., light fading, soiling, and scuffing to boards, light tanning to edges), in d/w VG- (light scuffing and soiling, stickers to front and spine, tape along top and bottom edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962

KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand history regional local back country Wairau Roundell Lake Rotoiti Buller Howard Valley Tarndale sheep runs Motueka Tapawera Motupiko Baton Wangapeka Karamea Crow River Sherry Tadmor Glenhope

$40.00
ak3/5/393

History of New Zealand: From the Arrival of Tasman in Golden Bay in 1642, To The Second Arrival of Sir George Grey in 1861


SAUNDERS, ALFRED

Octavo green cloth boards, black lettering and decorative borders to front and spines, decorative floral endpapers, ix+467+adverts., VG (tidy ex-library, stamps and markings to fep. & title, light scuffing and soiling to boards, slightly cocked, light tanning and foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs [n/d., c. late 1890's]

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonial pioneer exploration Tasman George Grey Govenor

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