Books - "history"
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All About Terrorism: Everything you were too afraid to ask.
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: Random House 2008
KEYWORDS: terrorism history questions answers
The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhatten and the Founding of New York
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: Black Swan 2005
KEYWORDS: New York Manhatten history
What is America: A Short History of the New World Order
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: Text Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: America history human behaviour philosophy
Black Robes and Indians on the Last Frontier: A Story of Heroism
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Super octavo hardcover (scruffy); 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 Bruce Publishing Company 1968
KEYWORDS: history America
Freedon at Midnight
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
The Wasted Hour: The Tragedy of 1945
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
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade
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
A Short History of Renaissance and Reformation Europe: Dances over Fire and Water
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
The Mozart Companion
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
Colin Wilson: Beyond the Occult
Imperial octavo softcover (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: Guild 1988
KEYWORDS: fantasy paranormal occult philosophy religion history
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Chils Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War
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
Spanish Texas 1519 - 1821
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
Bossworth Field and the Wars of the Roses
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
German cultural history of the last hundred years
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
Auckland Waterfront: The Port in Edwardian Times
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
Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts
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
Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B.
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
The Jubilee History of Nelson: From 1842 to 1892
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
Early History of Wairarapa
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
Saint Dominic and His Times
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