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$48.50
ak1/11/1420

The Orpheus Disaster


FAIRBURN, THAYER

SIGNED BY AUTHOR; quarto illus. red light card covers, illus., 243pp, VG- (binding delicate but intact, moderate creasing and light fading to covers, occassional soiling & foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Western Publishing Company / Carters Crafts & Books 1987

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical history shipwreck wrecks ships shipping wreck Orpheus signed

$25.00
ak1/11/1422

The Art of Zandra Rhodes


RHODES, ZANDRA & KNIGHT, ANNE

Oblong quarto sofctover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1984

KEYWORDS: Zandra Rhodes fashion art history textiles shawls knitting silks fabric design

$25.00
ak1/11/1424

Australia's Heritage Sketchbook


NORRIS, KEITH; NORRIS, WENDY; & MOFFITT, PETER (intro.)

Oblong quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Books for Pleasure / Paul Hamlyn 1976

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian architecture heritage buildings art Keith Norris history settler pioneer colonial

$25.00
ak1/12/1426

Rocky Shore Ecology of the Leigh Area North Auckland


MORTON, JOHN & CHAPMAN, V. J.

Oblong octavo stapled covers (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Auckland 1968

KEYWORDS: rocky shore ecology maritime marine biology science natural history Leigh North Auckland New Zealand

$150.00
ak1/12/1429

Black Studies: A Bibliography


IRWIN, LEONARD B.

Super octavo yellow cloth boards, black lettering to front & spine, viii+122pp, VG (very tidy ex-library (unread?), usual stamps and markings thus; v. light tanning within)

PUBLISHER: McKinley Publishing Co 1973

KEYWORDS: black african american studies bibliography american US USA united states history

$25.00
ak1/12/1430

S. P. G. Papers in the Lambeth Palace Library: Calendars and Indexes


MANROSS, WILLIAM WILSON

Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-library) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford / Clarendon Press 1974

KEYWORDS: S. P. G. SPG religious history missionary genealogy special collections Lambeth Palace calendar calendars indexes indices

$25.00
ak1/12/1431

Poor Carolina: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776


EKIRCH, A. ROGER

Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-library) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press 1981

KEYWORDS: North Carolina colonial history US USA united states america american

$25.00
ak1/12/1434

Carleton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America


BRITTON, JOHN A.

Octavo hardcover (VG, very tidy ex-library (unread?) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press 1987

KEYWORDS: Carleton Beals journalist journalism biography Latin South Central America American history Mexico Mexican revolution revolutionary

$35.00
ak1/12/1435

Emancipation in the West Indies


THOME, JAMES A. & KIMBALL, J. HORACE

Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-libray); 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: Arno Press / New York Times 1969

KEYWORDS: slavery British history imperial slave trade West Indies Atlantic abolition abolitionism empancipation politics

$25.00
ak1/12/1440

The Battles of the Somme


GIBBS, PHILIP

Octavo hardcover (VG, with folding maps); 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: William Heinemann 1917

KEYWORDS: military history maps world war first one ww1 battle battles Some France French Western Front

$25.00
ak1/12/1444

Country Life in Classical Times


WHITE, K. D.

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Paul Elek 1977

KEYWORDS: Ancient Greek Greece Rome Roman Empire classics classical studies agriculture rural farming country sociology culture history

$32.50
ak1/12/1445

The Weald


WOOLDRIDGE, S. W. & GOLDRING, FREDERICK

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Collins 1953

KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series British natural history biology ecology weald modern first edition geology soil

$25.00
ak1/12/1448

New Zealand Parlimentary Debates: Second Parliment: Legislative Council and House of Representatives 1858 to 1860


FITZGERALD, MAURICE (ed.)

VERY SCRUFFY reading copy (spine and rear board coming loose, lacks fep., index page loose), super octavo hardcover (G, 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: G. Didsbury, Government Printer 1886

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history politics legal parliment parlimentary debate debates papers house representatives legislative council government colonial

$25.00
ak1/12/1449

Life in Lakes and Rivers


MACAN, T. T. & WORTHINGTON, E. B.

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Collins 1951

KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series British natural history biology science marine lakes rivers hydrology water fresh freshwater ecology

$25.00
ak1/12/1454

The Broads


ELLIS, E. A.

FIRST EDITION; Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G, very tatty: large segements missing, photograph of boat on front of jacket); 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: Collins 1965

KEYWORDS: The New Naturalist series British natural history biology science Norfolk Broads wetlands maritime ecology

$45.00
ak1/12/1458

The Art of Grahame Sydney


SYDNEY, GRAHAME; FINDLAY, MICHAEL; TURNER, BRIAN; JONES, BELINDA; & GRAHAM, REG

Oblong quarto blue cloth boarts, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 191pp, Near Fine in d/w VG (light fading and v. sl. soiling)

PUBLISHER: Longacre Press 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history criticism Grahame Sydney painting Brain Turner Otago landscape

$30.00
ak2/11/1463

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-58


THETFORD, OWEN

Octavo hardcover (VG, lacks d/w); 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: Putnam 1958 (revised edition)

KEYWORDS: royal air force military history aviation air combat Battle Britain British planes RAF

$40.00
ak2/11/1465

Man and Birds


MURTON, R. K.

FIRST EDITION, green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, xx+364pp, illus., VG+ (light fading and soiling to boards, light tanning to pages) in d/w VG (front bright and vibrant, hint of fading to spine, light scuffing, small (less 1cm) closed tears to corner/top of spine, light tanning and soiling to rear & reverse)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1971

KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series British natural history biology ornithology science birds avian modern first edition

$125.00
ak2/11/1466

The Entwining Branches: A History of the Branches of O'Brien, Hall and Curlewis Families


PRIESTLEY, JENNY & WEIR, GRANIA (forew.)

Super octavo green illus. laminated heavy card boards, viii+134pp, illus., VG+ (light foxing to edges and occassionally within)

PUBLISHER: Jenny Priestley 1993

KEYWORDS: family history genealogy O'Brien Hall Curlewis families Jenny Priestley Australia Australian NSW New South Wales Illawarra Brisbane Syndey Thomas Ormond Desmond

$35.00
ak2/11/1467

Edward Lear in Corsica: The Journal of a Landscape Painter


LEAR, EDWARD

First edition thus; Super octavo yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 256pp, VG (light to moderate foxing within, light tanning) in d/w VG (light scuffing, light soiling, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1966

KEYWORDS: Edward Lear art artist history landscape Corsica travel journal diary diaries biography

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