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$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

$75.00
ak3/5/395

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


GRACE, A. A. (preface & postscript)

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

$80.00
ak3/6/410

The Eve of Catholic Emancipation: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century (3 volume set)


WARD, BERNARD

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

$9.00
xxpig157679

The Roaring Nineties: Why we're paying the Price for the Greddiest Decade in History


STIGLITZ, JOSEPH E.

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

$20.00
xxpjb157696

Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion


GRAEF, HILDA

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

$20.00
xxpjb157699

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography


BAXTER, JOHN

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

$17.50
xxpjc157702

Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination


CRUMLIN, ROSEMARY

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

$14.00
xxpjc157705

Homer and the Heroic Age: With 136 Illustrations,14 in Colour


LUCE, J.V.

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

$20.00
xxpjd157715

Good House Keeping Wartime Scrapbook:


DIXON, BARBARA

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

$15.00
xxpjd157717

The Window in the Corner: A Half- Century of Childrens Television


INGLIS, RUTH

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

$13.50
xxpjd157719

MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among Spooks


BINGHAM, CHARLOTTE

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

$15.00
xxpje157726

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair


GOLDHAGEN, DANIEL JONAH

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

$30.00
xxpjj157742

The Doctor must get Through: 50 Years a General-Practitioner-Surgeon


WATSON, R. BURNS

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,

$24.50
xxpjj157746

Glimpses of the World: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888


THWAITE, ANN

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 ,

$14.00
xxpjl157750

Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion


PIERSON, MELISSA HOLBROOK

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

$14.00
xxpka157758

The Lockheed P.38 Lightning: A History


SHENNAN, ANTHONY

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

$15.00
xxpka157759

Flying the Frontiers: NACA and NASA Experimental Aircraft


PEARCY, ARTHUR

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

$25.00
ak3/7/428

Christian Social Witness and Teaching: The Catholic Tradition from Genesis to Centesimus Annus Volume 1: From Biblical Times to the Late Nineteenth Century


CHARLES, RODGER

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

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