Books - "history"
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The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
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: Pantheon Books 1988
KEYWORDS: film cinematography filmaking movies Hollywood history photography
The Measure of All Things: The Seven- Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Tidy ex library, 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: The Free Press 2002
KEYWORDS: astronomy measurement science adventure quest history
Grey Owl and The Beaver
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: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1935
KEYWORDS: Canada beaver natural history conservation native american culture animals
Wish You Were Here The Story of New Zealand Postcards
Oblong 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: New Zealand Postcard Society 2005
KEYWORDS: postcards New Zealand NZ history illustrated culture art
Hawera District Centenary: Hawera: An Outline of the Development of a New Zealand Community
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: Centennial Committee of the Hawera Discrict Council 1981
KEYWORDS: Hawera New Zealand history centenary Taranaki
Americans in Paris: Life & Death Under Nazi Occupation
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: Penguin 2010
KEYWORDS: history ww2 world war 2 Paris
Please Take Good Care of Me
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: Knox Press 2014
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Sandy Lamb Thames New Zealand history
Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards
Super octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
KEYWORDS: history america louisiana gambling politics
Inheritance: The Story of Knole & the Sackvilles
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: Bloomsbury 2010
KEYWORDS: england biography fmaily history sackvilles
Jonatahn Edwards: Art and the Sense of the Heart
Tidy Ex Library, 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: University of Massachussets Press 1980
KEYWORDS: theology biography history
The Frog: An Introduction to Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology
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: David Nutt 1906
KEYWORDS: frogs amphibians biology natural history
The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth
Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (Near 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: science history earth
Confucianism and Christianity: The First Encounter
Tidy Ex Library, 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: Hong Kong University Press 1983
KEYWORDS: religion philosophy history
Buddhism in China
FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF FORMER NZ PRIME MINISTER WALTER NASH, Ex Library, decorative gold heavy card portfolio album, blind embossed decorative rule to front board, red embossed lettering in english & chinese to front board, peach embossed mandala motif to front board, small bone (or imitation bone) clasps to board edge, illus eps, illus title page, unpaginated, 24 plates loosely enclosed in album, VG+ (usual library markings, light brusing to album corners, book plate to pastedown declaring Mr Nash's ownership and donation by his trust to the library, light indentation to title, light creasing to bottom corner of all plates)
PUBLISHER: Nationalities Publishing House 1955
KEYWORDS: buddhism religion china history culture temples walter nash new zealand
The Illustrations to the 'World History' of Rashid Al - Din
Tidy Ex Library, half-width imperial octavo, grey cloth boards, black title plate with gilt lettering to spine, x+192pp, plates, envelope containing microsfiche of plates to pastedown VG ( tape stains to front & rear boards bleeding onto eps, usual library markings, light soiling to boards & eps from mylar gunk) in d/w, VG+ (4cm closed cut to front)
PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press 1976
KEYWORDS: history iran persia islam vizier spirituality art muslim
Mysticism in Medieval India
Tidy Ex Library, 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: Otto Harrassowitz 1984
KEYWORDS: mysticism India history religion spirituality culture
The European Reconnaissance: Selected Documents
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 & Row 1968
KEYWORDS: history maritime discovery documents correspondance Europe voyages
Classical Literary Criticism
Paperback (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: Oxford University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: literary criticism history development
The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times
Ex library, 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: Francis Griffiths 1910
KEYWORDS: Amazons history anthropology
The Avestan Hymn to Mithra: With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Tidy ex library, 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: Cambridge University Press 1959
KEYWORDS: Mithra Iran religion history hymn translation