Books - "history"
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Robert Morrison Of China
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: Pickering & Inglis ND
KEYWORDS: history biography robert morrison
Austerity Britain 1945-51
Super Octavo hardcover (VG+) with 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 2007
KEYWORDS: britain history postwar austerity politics
The First Sunshine - Australian Aboriginal Myths
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: Rigby 1978
KEYWORDS: australian indigenous aboriginal myth mythology legend oral history
Wise Daughters From Foreign Lands - European Women Writers In China
ex-library. Super Octavo hardcover (VG) with 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: Pandora Press 1989
KEYWORDS: history writers china authors women
Wilh. WIlhelmsen - History And Fleet List 1861-1994
Super Octavo hardcover (VG) with 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: World Ship Society 1994
KEYWORDS: boats maritime manifest history fleet ocean sailing shipping
Sexology In Culture - Labelling Bodies And Desires
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: University Of Chicago Press; Polity Press 1998
KEYWORDS: sexuality sociology sexology culture history academia essays
Female Mimics Vol.1 Number 7
Magazine: quarto illus. light card stapled wrappers, illius., 69pp, VG- (moderate creasing, scuffing, light chipping, light water damge to rear portion of magazine)
PUBLISHER: Health Knowledge / Acme 1965
KEYWORDS: female mimics magazine quarterly lgbt queer crossdressing crossdressers trans transgender impersonation erotic erotica photography sexuality gender drag history queen queens
Female Mimics Vol.1 Number 2
Magazine: quarto illus. light card stapled wrappers, illius., 70pp, VG- (moderate creasing, scuffing, light chipping, loose pages at centre)
PUBLISHER: Selbee Associates / Acme 1963
KEYWORDS: female mimics magazine quarterly lgbt queer crossdressing crossdressers trans transgender impersonation erotic erotica photography sexuality gender drag history queen queens
Female Mimics Vol.1 Number 9
Magazine: quarto illus. light card stapled wrappers, illius., 69pp, VG- (moderate creasing, scuffing, light chipping, clear tape to spine)
PUBLISHER: Health Knowledge / Acme, Spring 1967
KEYWORDS: female mimics magazine quarterly lgbt queer crossdressing crossdressers trans transgender impersonation erotic erotica photography sexuality gender drag history queen queens
New Female Mimics Number 1
Magazine: quarto illus. light card stapled wrappers, illius., 79pp+adverts at rear, VG- (moderate creasing, scuffing, chipping)
PUBLISHER: Eros Publishing Co. 1970 (Winter 1970-71)
KEYWORDS: female mimics magazine quarterly lgbt queer crossdressing crossdressers trans transgender impersonation erotic erotica photography sexuality gender drag history queen queens
The Old West (26 volume set)
26x VOLUME SET, thus very HEAVY; quarto faux leather boards with illus. medallions to front, gilt lettering to spines, illus., generally VG+ to nr. FINE (a touch tanning to pages, occasional light foxing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Time-Life Books Time Life 1978
KEYWORDS: old west wild western history frontier us usa united states america american native california gold rush cowboys gunfighters time life time-life
Butterflies of the Australian Region
Folio green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 415pp, VG- (unfortunate damp stain to upper inner corner - unsightly, but majority of plates minimally affected; front hinge/gutters sloppy; light scuffing and soiling to boards; light tanning and occasional foxing within) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing rubbing and chipping, moderate fading)
PUBLISHER: Lansdowne 1971
KEYWORDS: australian lepidoptery lepidopterology buttflies insects biology ecology australia natural history
Voices from the Surf: 80 Years of the Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club 1935-2015
Oblong quarto illus. light card covers, signed to title page by (possibly?) Bob Harvey (inconclusive), illus., 207pp, VG+ (v. slight scuffing to covers, otherwise nr. FINE)
PUBLISHER: Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club 2015
KEYWORDS: surf life saving lifesaving karekare new zealand maritime history local regional auckland
Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan
Octavo blue heavy card boards, xiii+181pp, VG (light scuffing to boards, light soiling within)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2008
KEYWORDS: routledge studies in the modern history of asia east asian japan business economics finance politics political japanese sociology culture
Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy
Octavo illus. light card covers with French flaps, 205pp, nr. FINE (sl. fading to spine, touch of soiling to bottom edge)
PUBLISHER: Pier 9 2008
KEYWORDS: jean-baptiste de lamarck lamarckian evolution science history theory biology natural selection
Hitler's War on Russia: The Story of the German Defeat in the East
FIRST EDITION, super octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 640pp, illus., w/ folding map at rear, erratum slip to contents, VG- (heavy rubbing & creasing to spine, front joint a little sloppy and sl. cracked, moderate scuffing and rubbing and soiling to boards, moderate tanning and foxing within, lacks d/w, numerous ink markings to front eps)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Co. 1964
KEYWORDS: eastern front german russian military history world war two second ww2 european theatre hitler nazi third reich
Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815 (volume 2 only)
THIS VOLUME ONLY (volume 2); super octavo half bound marbelled heavy card boards, vii+412pp, illus., VG- (front board attached but shakey, binding sound but leather surface of spine almost completelty absent; light tanning and foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes / T. Hamilton, J. Hatchard, and L. B. Seeley 1818
KEYWORDS: iceland travel icelandic ebenezer henderson exploration history sociology culture natural
One More Hour
Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, pp, nr. FINE (save for prev. owner's catalogue number in pen to fep, unobtrusive) in d/w nr. FINE (save for some light soiling to reverse)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1989
KEYWORDS: desmond scott raf royal air force wigram typhoon combat military history aviation planes aircraft pilot world war two second ww2
Les Spectacles: A Travers Les Ages: Musique Danse
This volume only; text in French, quarto marbelled heavy card boards half bound with leather, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, decorated endpapers, 363pp, illus., VG (moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning to edges and within with occasional light foxing, prev. owner's details to fep. in pen)
PUBLISHER: Les Editions du Cygne c. 1932
KEYWORDS: les spectacles text in french music dance art history danse musique
Les Spectacles: A Travers Les Ages: Theatre Cirque Music-Hall Cafes-Concerts Cabarets Artistiques
This volume only; text in French, quarto marbelled heavy card boards half bound with leather, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, decorated endpapers, 364pp, illus., VG (moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning to edges and within with occasional light foxing, prev. owner's details to fep. in pen)
PUBLISHER: Les Editions du Cygne c. 1932
KEYWORDS: les spectacles text in french language art history theatre circus music hall musichall music-hall cafes-concerts cafe cabaret