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$50.00
1y72/39

List of Commanders & Officers in the Service if the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company in Order of their Seniority


n.a.

Super octavo, grey heavy card boards with black lettering to front board, 159pp, VG- (names have been crossed out sporadically, moderate scuffing to board edges, moderate soiling to boards, some tanning, gutter cracked between pg 12-13)

PUBLISHER: Culross & Sproston 1956

KEYWORDS: naval history transport commanders officers 1950s 1956

$120.00
1y72/42

A History of the Pharaohs - The First Eleven Dynasties and The Twelfth to the Eighteenth Dynasties


WEIGALL, ARTHUR

2 VOLS, tan brown heavy card boards, super octavo, lettering in black to front board and spine, blind stamp decoration and rule to front and back boards, lower page end deckled, frontispiece in both vols, volume one: xii + 328pp & volume two: xv + 424pp, both illus, VG (slight scuffing to spine + extrems, moderate foxing to page edges with slight tanning.)

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1931

KEYWORDS: arthur weigall history pharaohs dynasties egyptology egypt

$20.00
xxzcl161825

The Coming Of The Pakeha To Auckland Province


HORSMAN, JOHN

FIRST EDITION. 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: Hicks Smith & Sons 1971

KEYWORDS: modern first edition nz new zealand aotearoa maori history

$30.00
xxzcl161832

An Illustrated History Of Taranaki


LAMBERT, GAIL & LAMBERT, RON

tidy ex-library. 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: The Dunmore Press 1983

KEYWORDS: history Taranaki New Zealand illustrated photos black & white

$15.00
xxzcb161833

From The Banks Of The Avon - The Story Of A River


LAMB, C. ROBERT

tidy ex-library. 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: Reed 1981

KEYWORDS: nz new zealand aotearoa avon christchurch river waterway history

$15.00
xxzcb161838

The Birth Of A City - Wellington 1840-1843


CARMAN, A. H.

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: CARMAN, A. H. 1970

KEYWORDS: nz new zealand aotearoa wellington history

$35.00
xxzcb161842

Robert Morrison Of China


TOWNSEND, W. J.

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

$22.50
xxzcd161844

Austerity Britain 1945-51


KYNASTON, DAVID

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

$10.00
xxzcd161857

The First Sunshine - Australian Aboriginal Myths


MOUNTFORD, CHARLES P. & ROBERTS, AINSLIE (illus.)

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

$13.50
xxzce161864

Wise Daughters From Foreign Lands - European Women Writers In China


CROLL, ELISABETH

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

$20.00
xxzce161866

Wilh. WIlhelmsen - History And Fleet List 1861-1994


KOLTVIET, BARD & CROWDY, MICHAEL

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

$26.50
xxzdh161876

Sexology In Culture - Labelling Bodies And Desires


BLAND, LUCY & DOAN, LAURA

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

$40.00
1y74/2

L'Amour Bleu


BEURDELEY, CECILE & TAYLOR, MICHELLE (transl.)

Folio quarter bound blue cloth boards, black cloth spine with silver lettering, 304pp, illus., VG- (moderate fading and light scuffing to boards, light to moderate foxing to edges and within (heaviest at eps), prev. owner's details in pen to fep., remenants of d/w loosely enclosed)

PUBLISHER: Rizzoli 1978 (Bookthrift reprint)

KEYWORDS: art history classics classical ancient greece greek rome homosexuality lgbt gay queer

$100.00
1y74/5

Female Mimics Vol.1 Number 7


N/A

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

$85.00
1y74/7

Female Mimics Vol.1 Number 2


N/A

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

$100.00
1y74/9

Female Mimics Vol.1 Number 9


N/A

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

$75.00
1y74/10

New Female Mimics Number 1


N/A

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

$350.00
1y74/26

The Old West (26 volume set)


VARIOUS/ THE EDITORS OF TIME-LIFE BOOKS

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

$100.00
1y74/27

Butterflies of the Australian Region


D'ABRERA, BERNARD

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

$47.50
1y74/28

Voices from the Surf: 80 Years of the Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club 1935-2015


KAREKARE SURF LIFESAVING CLUB

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

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