Books - "history"
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Nelson: A History of Early Settlement
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
Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts
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
History of New Zealand: From the Arrival of Tasman in Golden Bay in 1642, To The Second Arrival of Sir George Grey in 1861
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
The Maungatapu Mountain Murders: A Narrative of the Murder of Five Men Between the Wakamarina River and Nelson by Burgess, Levy, Kelly and Sullivan in 1866
Nice copy of a fragile book: octavo paper wrappers with title ornament & portraits x4 to front cover, illus, 158pp, VG+ (tanning to covers & contents, v. small closed tears to covers, moderate soiling to covers most pronounced at position of staples, contains errata slip attatched to title wrt. page 19)
PUBLISHER: R. W. Stiles & Co. 1924
KEYWORDS: new zealand history true crime murder criminology journalism mangatapu nelson wakamarina south island
The Eve of Catholic Emancipation: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century (3 volume set)
3x VOLUME SET, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, illus., xxii+277pp / viii+363pp / viii+390pp, VG+ (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings within but not to exterior (although sticker residue and staining to boards present where these presumably once sat), light soiling and scuffing to boards, light tanning and v. light foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co. 1912
KEYWORDS: Catholic empancipation English British history catholicism religion UK Britain Reestablishment Re-establishment church christian christianity
The Roaring Nineties: Why we're paying the Price for the Greddiest Decade in History
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 2004
KEYWORDS: economics history politics business finance society culture
Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion
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: Sheed & Ward1985
KEYWORDS: religion theology history
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
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: Harper Collins1997
KEYWORDS: biography history media film culture 2
Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination
Tidy Ex Library quarto 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: National Gallery of Victoria 1998
KEYWORDS: art religion gallery museum artists history theology philosophy
Homer and the Heroic Age: With 136 Illustrations,14 in Colour
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: Thames and Hudson 1975
KEYWORDS: literary archeological greek history religion
Good House Keeping Wartime Scrapbook:
Imperial 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: Collins & Brown 2005
KEYWORDS: world war 11 wwii world war 2 nostalgic history world war two womens adverts
The Window in the Corner: A Half- Century of Childrens Television
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: Peter Owen 2003
KEYWORDS: children television childhood history criticism
MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among Spooks
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: Bloomsbury 2018
KEYWORDS: history memoir spy thriller humor 1950s Britian
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
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: Little Brown 2002
KEYWORDS: history religion world war 11 ww11 world war two war holocaust
The Doctor must get Through: 50 Years a General-Practitioner-Surgeon
Signed by author, 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1971
KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography medical health medicine medical history,
Glimpses of the World: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description tokeep 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: Faber and Faber 2002
KEYWORDS: biography science religion animals natural natural history ,
Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description tokeep 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 & Company 2001
KEYWORDS: memoir sociology history anecdote horses animals
The Lockheed P.38 Lightning: A History
Quatro softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description tokeep 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: Historian Publishers 1970
KEYWORDS: aircraft avation flying jets engines history
Flying the Frontiers: NACA and NASA Experimental Aircraft
Quatro softcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description tokeep 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: Airlife 1993
KEYWORDS: aircraft avation flying jets engines history NASA NACA
Christian Social Witness and Teaching: The Catholic Tradition from Genesis to Centesimus Annus Volume 1: From Biblical Times to the Late Nineteenth Century
Octavo softcover VG+ (tidy ex-library); 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: Gracewing 1998
KEYWORDS: Christian Social Witness Teaching catholicism Catholic Tradition Genesis Centesimus Annus church history theological theology Christianity Jesuit society Jesus