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$20.00
xxpni163424

Gallipoli


BUSH, ERIC

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1975

KEYWORDS: Eric Bush world war 1 one history military campaign anzac nz australia gallipoli turkey ww1 invasion

$15.00
xxpnj163433

'The Best Life I Ever Had': Droving Around Cooktown


SYKES, JACQUI & GRIMWADE, GORDON

POSTCARD AT REAR. 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Pictorial Press Australia 2003

KEYWORDS: Jacqui Sykes Gordon Grimwade regional town region city history australia

$12.00
xxpnj163440

Concentration Camp Dachau 1933-1945


N.A.

Super octavo oblong 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Dachau Memorial Museum 1994

KEYWORDS: dachau memorial museum holocaust world war 2 ww2 two nazi germany third reich anti-semitism photography photos history

$14.00
xxpnk163452

The Middle Kingdom: Inside China Today


WICKERT, ERWIN & BROWNJOHN, J. MAXWELL

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Pan Books Ltd. 1984

KEYWORDS: Erwin Wickert china travel history society politics sociology

$18.50
xxpnl163457

The Grail Seeker's Companion: A Guide to the Grail Quest in the Aquarian Age


MATTHEWS, JOHN & GREEN, MARIAN

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: The Aquarian Press 1986

KEYWORDS: grail quest quide reference religion history mystery

$20.00
xxpnl163467

Crickey Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-68


MULVANEY, JOHN & HARCOURT, REX

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1967

KEYWORDS: John Mulvaney Rex Harcourt aboriginal australia australian cricket sport history

$35.00
xxpnl163469

The Pushcart War


MERRILL, JEAN

FIRST UK 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton Children's Books Ltd. 1973

KEYWORDS: Jean Merrill new york history satire

$35.00
xxpoa163472

The Power of Myth


CAMPBELL, JOSEPH & MOYERS, BILL

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Doubleday

KEYWORDS: Joseph Campbell Bill Moyers mythology culture anthropology sociology religion myths history

$15.00
xxpoa163478

Victoria Travels: Journeys of Queen Victoria between 1830 and 1900 with Extracts from Her Journal


DUFF, DAVID

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd. 1970

KEYWORDS: David Duff queen victoria england britain victorian royalty monarch monarchy history royal

$42.50
1y84/36

Modern Art 1890 - 1918


CLAY, JEAN

Square folio, green heavy card boards, gilt tooling to spine and boards, 320pp, illus - 500+ plates, VG+ (very slight scuffing to spine, moderate foxing to eps) in illus d/w VG (light chipping to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Vendome 1978

KEYWORDS: Jean Clay history modern art symbolism expressionism fauvism cubism futurism pittura metaphysica dada de stijl

$55.00
1y85/8

I Serve: Regimental History of the 3rd Carabiniers


OATTS, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL L.B.

Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt carabiniers emblem to front board, frontispiece, 16 + 333pp, 11 folding maps present, illus, VG (light rubbing and bruising to spine and board extrems, light tanning to eps, minor staining to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Jarrold and Sons 1966

KEYWORDS: Military regimental history 3rd Carabiniers Sedgemoor Jacobite rebellion seven years war Napoleonic Crimean South African First World War ww1 second world war ww2

$85.00
1y85/9

The Story of the Household Cavalry Volume II


ARTHUR, CAPTAIN SIR GEORGE

This Vol Only, imperial octavo blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt standard banner to front board, gilt to upper page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, 6 + 376pp (pages 401 to 777 in series) 11 plates, some with tissue guard (plates not listed in this vol but appears complete), illus, deckled pages, VG (light bruising and creasing to spine and board extrems, minor cracking to gutters, ex libris sticker to front pastedown, light tanning and foxing to eps, prelims and terminals, minor crinkling and staining to page edges, some pages uncut at production)

PUBLISHER: Archibald Constable and Company 1909

KEYWORDS: Household cavalry military history coldstream guard dragoon foot guards scots guards hussars Wellington

$55.00
1y85/11

Faithful: The Story of the Durham Light Infantry


WARD, S.G.P. & POETT, GENERAL SIR NIGEL (fore)

Super octavo green buckram boards, silver lettering & horn and crest emblem to spine, frontispiece, xx + 574pp, illus, VG (light rubbing, fading, bruising to spine and board extrems, light staining to upper front board edge, light foxing and tanning to eps and prelims, light staining to page edges, previous owner's name and inscription in ink to fep) in d/w VG- (15mm tear with loss to top edge, 6 minor archival tape repairs to edges, substantial staining to spine, moderate foxing to interior, numerous 3mm closed tears)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson & Sons (C.1962)

KEYWORDS: Military history Durham Light Infantry militia yeomanry 68th Royal Welsg Fusiliers Saint-Malo West Indies Walcheren Crimea New Zealand Gate Pa Wanganui Kakaramea 2nd Bombay ww1 ww2 Korean Great war second world war

$65.00
1y85/16

The Royal Monmouthshire Militia: Being a Detailed Description of the Regiment from the Year1660 to the Time of its Transfer to the Special Reserve


SARGEAUNT, B.E.

Imperial octavo, half-bound, red leather & grey buckram boards, gilt lettering and crest to spine and front board, marble patterned eps, frontispiece, xii + 302pp, 28 plates present, plate at p34 missing, illus, deckled pages, VG (moderate rubbing to spine and board edges, moderate staining to page edges, crinkling and 2mm closed tears to edge of frontispiece, list of previous owner career progression in service in ink to prelim, tape repairs where title page meets gutter, light speckling & foxing to eps and prelims)

PUBLISHER: Royal United Service Institution 1910

KEYWORDS: Military history Royal Monmouthshire Militia King Henry V 1696, 1760, 1778 Peninsula Waterloo Crimea South African War to 1909

$195.00
1y85/17

Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards


MACKINNON, COLONEL

2 Vol Set, super octavo, dark brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxviii + 448pp & xx + 552pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing and bruising to board and spine edges, light fraying to spine edges, light sporadic water staining to top edges of pages in both vols, minor water staining to lower edges of pages in vol 1, light tanning throughout both vols)

PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley 1833

KEYWORDS: Military history Coldstream Guard Monck Cromwell Charles II Fleurus Ghent Duke of York Abercrombie Wellesley Napoleon Waterloo

$110.00
1y85/20

South African Forces: World War II: Volume 1: East African and Abyssinian Campaigns


ORPEN, NEIL

This Vol Only, Large Folding Map at Rear, Super octavo blue heavy card boards, gilt lettering on red square to spine, illus, VG+ (minor bruising at spine extrems, minor tanning to prelims and terminals) in d/w VG (minor creasing to edges, several 1mm closed tears to edges, moderate foxing to interior)

PUBLISHER: Purnell 1968

KEYWORDS: Military history South African forces WW2 General Smuts El Wak El Yibo Abyssinia Banno Mega Gobwen Addis Ababa Dadaba Soddu Eritrea

$60.00
1y85/21

The Fifth British Division 1939 to 1945: Being an Account of the Journey and Battles of a Reserve Division in Europe, Africa, and Asia


ARIS, GEORGE

Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, white Y on black square to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 268pp, illus, complete with 20 maps of which 9 are folding, VG+ (light bruising and rubbing to spine extrems and board corners, minor fading to spine, slight tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Fifth Division Benevolent Fund 1959

KEYWORDS: Military history Fifth British Division ww2 second world war 15th infantry Norway Y L regiment Kjorem Senne Ironclad India Qum Sicily Anzio

$175.00
1y85/23

History of the South Staffordshire Regiment


VALE, COLONEL W.L. & LEE, MAJOR-GENERAL A.W. (fore)

Super octavo, gren buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt South Staffordshire emblem to front board, illus eps, xv + 516pp, illus VG (minor bruising and scuffing to spine and board extrems, slight crease to spine, minor staining and speckling to page edges) in d/w VG- (numerous archival tape repairs to edges, price clipped, minor crinkling and rubbing to edges, minor staining to exterior)

PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden 1969

KEYWORDS: Military history South Staffordshire Regiment 1705 West Indies Penninsula War Vittoria Burma Sikh War Crimean WW1 WW2 Somme Arnhem

$25.00
ak4/6/1973

Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America


PERRY, BRUCE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Station Hill Press, 1991

KEYWORDS: african american history biography civil rights movement black malcolm x politics nationalism

$27.50
ak4/6/1981

The Black Book: Britons on the Nazi Hit List


OLDFEILD, SYBIL

Super octavo hardback (NF) 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: Profile Books, 2020

KEYWORDS: nazi germany ww2 world war two second military history black book gestapo

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