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xxesa60450

Myself with Others


Selected Essays

FUENTES, CARLOS

Softcover octavo (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: Picador, Pan Books Ltd 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Carlos Fuentes nonfiction autobiography memoir essays history arts literature cinema politics diplomacy history

$110.00
1s24a/14

Mountjoy 1563 - 1606: The Last Elizabethan Deputy


JONES, FREDERICK, M.

Ex library, scarce, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, VG (usu library markings)

PUBLISHER: Clonmore & Reynolds/ Burns Oates & Washbourne 1958

KEYWORDS: Frederick M Jones Lord Mountjoy Lord Deputy biography history Essex Cecil Hugh O'Neill Christopher Blount Charles Blount religion religious history

$22.50
xxeta60792

The Van Gogh File


The Myth and the Man

WILKIE, KEN

Softcover super octavo (NF) ; 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: Souvenir Press Ltd 2004

KEYWORDS: specials Ken Wilkie art art history Van Gogh biography investigative history

$10.00
xxeuf61494

Country


FLANNERY, TIM

Softcover imperial octavo (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 Text Publishing Company 2004

KEYWORDS: specials Tim Flannery Australia travel history palaeontology kangaroos natural history

$30.00
xxewa61990

The Fighting Parade - Letters from the Trenches 1915-1918 of Pat Leonard DSO


LEONARD, JOHN & LEONARD-JOHNSON, PHILIP (eds.)

first edition hardback octavo with d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Military 2010

KEYWORDS: specials history pat leonard DSO john leonard philip leonard-johnson history ww1 correspondence letters soldiers biography

$60.00
2f25a/41

Pierce-Arrow


RALSTON, MARC

First edition, quarto, black glossy faux-leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 236pp, illus, nr fine (slight ding to lower spine extrem) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning to front upper edges, light bruising to rear upper edge, 1cm closed tear to rear lower edge, bruising to lower spine extrem)

PUBLISHER: AS Barnes & Co/ Tantivy Press 1980

KEYWORDS: first edition Marc Ralston motorcars automobiles vehicles marque Pierce-Arrow automotive George Pierce Company history transport photographic pictorial history

$65.00
2f34a/30

New Zealand: The Brighter Britain of the South:


An Illustrated Description of the Natural Wealth, Conditions of Life, Industries, Trade, and Opportunities for Advancement

FANNING, L. S.

Super octavo, brown light card stapled wrappers with NZ map & blue lettering to front cover, 120pp, illus, VG- (patch of damage to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing to cover edges, some discolouration & staining to covers, owner's name & date in ink to title page, creasing to some page corners)

PUBLISHER: British Empire Exhibition/ WAG Skinner Govt. Printer 1924

KEYWORDS: LS Fanning British Empire Exhibition New Zealand travel history industry culture natural history

$55.00
2f34a/34

Steam in the Southern Pacific


The Story of Merchant Steam Navigation in the Australian Coastal and Intercolonial Trades, and on the Ocean Lines of the Southern Pacific

LAWSON, WILL

Re-bound with new eps & boards, small octavo, maroon faux-leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, 150pp + 2pp adverts, illus with 54illus, VG (2cm stain to title page, sporadic foxing, moderate tanning to pages, 1cm black stain to upper corner page 148/149, last two pages loose)

PUBLISHER: Gordon & Gotch 1909

KEYWORDS: Will Lawson New Zealand Pacific Ocean nautical maritime history steam merchant navy naval history navigation coastal shipping trade routes boats steamers

$26.50
xxewe62357

Seasoned by Salt


A Historical Album of the Outer Banks

BARFIELD, RODNEY

Softcover square super octavo (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 North Carolina Press 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Rodney Barfield American history Outer Banks North Carolina pictorial history

$14.00
xxhcaa62517

A History of Young People in the West: Volume Two Stormy Evolution to Modern Times


LEVI, GIOVANNI & SCHMITT, JEAN-CLAUDE (Eds)

This volume only, ex library, 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: Harvard University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Giovanni Levi Jean-Claude Schmitt history youth young people social history

$13.50
xxdbg63061

The Harbour Board Collection Wellington 1880-1980


CHURCHOUSE, JACK

softcover oblong quarto (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: Wellington Harbour Board 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Jack Churchouse new zealand wellington harbour history ship maritime port photography pictorial history

$28.50
xxdbd63084

British Civil Aircraft 1919-1959: Volume One


JACKSON, A. J.

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) large patch of dampstaining to front board lower corner with damage carrying over to lower edges of first 40 pages. Without that fault, book would be 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: Putnam 1959

KEYWORDS: specials AJ Jackson civil aviation history British aircraft aeronautical history aeroplanes

$15.00
xxdoa63091

Unearthing New Zealand


TROTTER, MICHAEL & MCCULLOCH, BEVERLEY

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Government Printing Office 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Michael Trotter Beverley McCulloch New Zealand archaeology pre-history anthropology history

$65.00
1b45/34

Cadillac Standard of the World: Compete History


With the Editors of Automobile Quarterly

HENDRY, MAURICE D.

Oblong imperial octavo, maroon textured boards with gilt lettering to spine, 447pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to boards) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, several 1cm closed tears to upper spine extrem, small chaffing patch to rear upper edge, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Princeton Publishing 1977

KEYWORDS: Maurice D Hendry cars transport automobiles cadillac American motorcar history photographic pictorial history

$27.50
1b46/27

Anchor Ships and Anchor Men: The History of The Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd


KIRK, ALLAN A.

Octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps with AH Reed motif in white, 186pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (some soiling to rear, rubbing to flap folds, light creasing to upper edges & to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1967

KEYWORDS: Allan A Kirk New Zealand The Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company shipping marine maritime history ships boats vessels Nelson sailing sailors history

$90.00
1b46/33

Paddle Steamers of Australasia


PARSONS, R. H. & TOLLEY, J. C.

large quarto/small folio, cream light card stapled covers with black lettering to front cover, v + frontispiece maps + 196pp, VG- (light tanning & soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges, reading crease to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: RH Parsons 1967

KEYWORDS: RH Parsons JC Tolley transport Australia New Zealand paddle wheel steamers Murray Darling Rivers steamers tugs vessels ships shipping history Tasmania reference history specications

$150.00
1b47/13

Naval Camouflage 1914-1945: A Complete Visual Reference


WILLIAMS, DAVID

Large quarto, navy blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, 3cm closed tear to front upper corner/flap fold)

PUBLISHER: Chatham Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: David Williams nautical maritime naval history camouflage patterns colours schemes function illustrated photographic history warships

$55.00
1b47/17

British Warships 1860-1906: A Photographic History


DINGLE, NICHOLAS J.

Quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 208pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Maritime 2009

KEYWORDS: Nicholas J Dingle naval maritime nautical history British warships boats ships photographic history

$150.00
2b48/30

Official History of the War: Military Operations France and Belgium 1915: Four-book set: 2 volumes & 2 boxes of maps


n/a

Two-volume set plus 2 boxes of folding maps in matching clamshell boxes, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines. Two volumes pristine - still in plastic and never opened (FINE) Two map boxes incomplete. Vol.1 missing maps 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 13. Vol 2 missing maps 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, and diagram 1.

PUBLISHER: Imperial War Museum 1992 facsimile reprint

KEYWORDS: Imperial War Museum official history First World War One WWI military history France Belgium 1915

$245.00
1b48/31

Official History of the War: Military Operations France and Belgium 1916


5-volume set: 2 vols & 2 vols of appendices & box of maps

n/a

5 volumes: 2-volume set plus 2 vols of appendices plus 1box of folding maps in matching clamshell boxes, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines. All volumes pristine (FINE) and two still in original sealed plastic.

PUBLISHER: Imperial War Museum 1992 facsimile reprint

KEYWORDS: Imperial War Museum official history First World War One WWI military history France Belgium 1916

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