KENNEY, ROWLAND

FIRST EDITION, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii+263pp., VG (light scuffing to boards, light to moderate soiling foxing and tanning to edges and within)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1913

KEYWORDS: rail railways train trains locomotive transport history engine engines engineering labour union unions strike workers unionism politics political all grades movement 1911 general royal commission

PEPPER, ART & LAURIE

FIRST EDITION, super octavo turquoise cloth boards, yellow lettering to spine, xii+516pp., illus., VG (sl. cocked, light soiling and scuffing to boards; light tanning soiling and foxing within) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing and chipping with archival tape repairs to small lost segment base of spine, moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Schrimer Books 1979

KEYWORDS: art pepper jazz biography american music alto saxophone saxophonist autobiography history

JONES, GWYN & MAGNUSSON, MAGNUS (intro.)

Imperial octavo maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration, illus., xxii+490pp., nr. FINE in slipcase VG+ (sl. scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Folio Society 1997

KEYWORDS: folio socitey viking vikings europe european scandinavia scandinavian history

WARBURTON, CHARLOTTE ELIOT; & MEAD, A. .D. (ed.)

Ex-library octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. endpapers, 152pp, VG (very tidy ex-library, minimal markings; tape stain to spine and light soiling to boards; occasional light soiling and foxing (minor); lacks d/w)

PUBLISHER: Keeling & Mundy 1965

KEYWORDS: wanganui river new zealand local regional history

HALL-JONES, JOHN

Includes loosley inserted Supplement to Doubtful Harbour (quarto white illus. light card stapled covers, 8pp, VG+ (sl. rust stains around staples)); actual book details: quarto green illus. light card covers, illus., 60pp., VG+ (a touch of fading & light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Craig Printing 1984

KEYWORDS: doubtful harbour new zealand history maritime fiordland south island captain alessandro alaspina don felipe bauza spanish spain exploration captain john grono j l stokes sir james hector

AMODEO, COLIN & HUNTLEY, BILL (illus.)

Quarto illus. light card covers with French flaps, illus., 306pp, nr. FINE

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 2005

KEYWORDS: new zealand canterbury maritime regional history mosquito fleet ships naval sail sailing colonial settler pioneer shipping shipbuilding

GARNER, JEAN

Octavo blue cloth boards, white lettering to spine, 362pp, illus.., nr. FINE (occasional sl. soiling, prev. owner's stamp to fep.) in d/w nr. FINE

PUBLISHER: Dryden Press 1995

KEYWORDS: john hall new zealand history politcs womens suffrage parihaka biography canterbury christchurch

LICHTHEIM, MIRIAM

3x volume set; octavo illus. light card covers, vol. 1: The Old and Middle Kingdoms xxi+245pp / vol. 2: The New Kingdom xiv+239pp / vol. 3: The Late Period, xiv+228pp, all VG (light creasing to covers, light tanning, moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1975 / 1976 / 1980

KEYWORDS: ancient egypt egyptian literature egyptology hieroglyphics hieroglyphs middle old new kingdom kingdoms late period history

ESQUEMELING, JOHN

Super ocavo brown/red cloth boards, gilt lettering and figure to spine, illus., xxxv+508pp., VG (moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards, light tanning and occasional light foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1898

KEYWORDS: buccaneers jamacia west indies tortuga caribbean america american history pirates naval maritime piracy captain sir henry morgan buccaneer lolonois francis privateer privateers anglo-spanish war military

LEGLER, JOSEPH & WESTOW, T. L. (transl.)

2x vol. set; super ocatavo orange cloth boards, lettering to spine, vol. 1: xv+432pp / vol. 2: ix+544pp, VG+ (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; light tanning and foxing throughout) in d/w's VG- (usual stamps and markings, clear tape to top & bottom, moderate soiling and light foxing, scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Association Press 1960

KEYWORDS: christianity christian history church reformation protestant revolution europe european theology theological religion religious spirituality

ADAMS, DANIEL ET AL. [D. C. THOMAS & CO.]

Large quarto illus. heavy card boards, illus. eps., illus., 352pp, nr. FINE (sl. tanning to edges) in d/w nr. FINE (sl. scuffing)

PUBLISHER: D. C. Thomas & Co. / Waverley Books 2008

KEYWORDS: the beano history comics childrens literature comic british dennis the menace bash street kids

DOWNING, CHARLES

Octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering and desing to spine, illus., x+679pp, VG (light fading, soiling, scuffing & rubbing to boards, light to moderate tanning and foxing within, creasing to a handful of miscut pages where they have been folded by prev. owner so the book may still flat on shelf (minor))

PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Son, 1872

KEYWORDS: american horticulture fruit plants trees fruits planting gardening botany gardens us usa history charles downing propagation orchard apples cherries grapes plums pears

CARMAN, A. H.; SWAN, A. C.; & MASTERS, READ (ed.)

Small octavo red & white light stapled card covers, 109pp., VG (sl. tanning and foxing within, tears around staples to title and 1st page, binding still sound)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Publications 1945

KEYWORDS: rugby almanack new zealand 1944 1945 sport sports sporting history

KING, L. W.

This vol. only; octavo orange brown cloth boards with black lettering and border design to front, black lettering to spine, illus., vii+220pp., VG+ (sl. cocked, light scuffing to boards, light tanning and occasional light foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1903

KEYWORDS: egypt chaldea babylon babylonian religion myth mythiology ancient history near middle east

CARELL, PAUL & SAVILL, MERVYN (transl.)

FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 370pp., VG (moderate scuffing and rubbing, fading, to boards, light tanning and foxing to edges and within, prev. owner's inscription in ink to fep.) in d/w VG (moderate scuffing and creasing, with moderate chipping and small segments lost to spine (unobtrusive), light soiling (mostly to reverse))

PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co. 1960

KEYWORDS: desert korps rommel africa north african world war two ww2 2 second military history afrika armour german

MADELID, LARS & PALM, CARL MAGNUS (transl.)

Octavo illus. light card covers, illus., 301pp., nr. FINE (v. sl. creasing and soiling to some pages, minor)

PUBLISHER: Premium Publishing 2007

KEYWORDS: british rock pop music tours touring reference history london swinging 60s sixties 1960s rolling stones beatles blues mod carnaby street who kinks jimi hendrix small faces pink floyd yardbirds john mayall bluesbreakers

GENERAL STAFF, WAR OFFICE

This vol. only; octavo red cloth boards, folding maps in rear pocket, illus., adverts to eps., 333pp, VG- (a split to rear hinge of spine is the main fault; otherwise, generally tidy: light scuffing to boards, light tanning foxing and occasional soiling within and to maps also)

PUBLISHER: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1907

KEYWORDS: anglo somali anglo-somali war dervish somalia horn africa east eastern offical history operations british military army scramble colonialism colonial empire

PARKYNS, G. J.

2x volume set; super octavo brown leather boards, elaborate gilt border and design to front and spines, gilt lettering to spines, gilt edged, illus., vol. 1: xii+120pp / vol. 2: 165pp ; VG (light to moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning and light foxing within, prev. owner's stamp to fep.'s, light soiling within)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1816

KEYWORDS: british ancient history monastic baronial remains monastery monasteries cathedrals castles architecture abbey abbeys houses

MULGAN, DAVID

Sundry associated signatures to fep. (ex-pupils and relatives, signed at the unveiling of the plaque to commemorate the 75th anniversart of the first flight of the Manurewa); octavo brown cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus., 150pp., VG+ (light crease to spine, light tanning and foxing to edges & within) in d/w VG ( moderate soiling and light scuffing, creasing)

PUBLISHER: Wingfield Press 1960

KEYWORDS: new zealand civil aviation flying flight history planes walsh brothers flying school manurewa plane

GENERAL SIKORSKI HISTORICAL INSTITUTE [KOMARNICKI, TYTUS (pref.) & BIEGANSKI, STANISLAW (ed.)]

This vol. only; super octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, lvi+866pp, VG+ (light scuffing to boards, light tanning within) in d/w VG (moderate soiling, light scuffing & chipping)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967

KEYWORDS: polish soviet polish-soviet relations diplomacy foreign affairs political politics european history world war two second ww2 2 poland russia russian