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$135.00
1y85/26

The Memoirs of the 18th ( Queen Mary's Own ) Royal Hussars 1906 - 1922 including the Operations in the Great War


BURNETT, BRIG - GENERAL CHARLES

Super octavo, gilt stamped lettering to spine + front board, gilt stamped regimental insignia to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, 215 pp, illust with 6 x folding maps throughout, VG ( heavy foxing to pages + edges, light fading to spine, light brusing to board edges + spine, some pages uncut )

PUBLISHER: Warren and Son Ltd 1926

KEYWORDS: military history memoirs 18th Royal Hussars Queen Mary ww1 world war 1 one maps colour color photos black & white

$35.00
1y85/30

The Ascent of Nanda Devi


TILMAN, H.W. & LONGSTAFF, DR T.G.

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF NZ MOUNTAINEER MAVIS DAVIDSON, super octavo, printed heavy card boards, blue printer letting to front + spine, illust fep, frontispiece, xiv + 235 pp, illust, VG ( heavy tanning to spine, moderate chafing + foxing to boards, heavy chipping to board edges, light foxing to page edges + front and rear eps, ex libris sticker on front pastedown )

PUBLISHER: Readers' Union 1937

KEYWORDS: history mountain climbing mountaineering Nanda Devi second highest India photos black & white

$60.00
1y85/32

Matthew Hopkins : Witch Finder General


DEACON, RICHARD

EX LIBRARY, super octavo, black heavy card boards, silver stamped lettering to spine, illust title page, 222 pp, illust, VG+ ( usual library markings, light bruising + scuffing to board edges, 1 cm crack with no loss to top rear board ) in d/w tatty ( heavy chipping + creasing to edges, moderate chafing to covers, usual library sticker, 2 x 2 cm closed tears, 1 x 3.5 cm tear with loss, 1 x 3 cm with tear loss )

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd 1976

KEYWORDS: history Matthew Hopkins witch hunter finder civil war General witchcraft Essex Suffolk UK drawings photos black & white

$50.00
1y85/33

Bearing Witness : Essays in Honour of Brij V . Lal


LAL, BRIJ V. & MUNRO, DOUG (ed) & CORBETT, JACK (ed)

Super octavo, light card covers, brown/white/black printed lettering to cover + spine, xvi + 333 pp, illust, Near Fine ( v slight chafing to covers, v slight bruising to edges )

PUBLISHER: Australian National University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: political politics theory history Fiji Indian diaspora India Fijian photos colour color

$100.00
1y85/38

International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture


HEATH, DWIGHT B. (ed)

Super octavo, maroon heavy card boards, gilt stamped lettering to front board + spine, xxiv + 391 pp, Near Fine ( v slight bruising to lower spine edge, slight scuffing to front board title, slight paperclip creasing to fep, former owners name written in pen top right corner fep )

PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press 1995

KEYWORDS: study history alcohol culture international perspective attitudes controls

$60.00
1y85/40

Traditional Micronesian Societies : Adaptation, Intergration, and Political Organization


PETERSON, GLENN

Super octavo, heavy card board covers, white, black and yellow printed lettering, x + 278 pp, illust, Near Fine ( v slight scuffing to board edges, v slight foxing to page edges ) in d/w VG+ ( v slight chipping to top edge of cover, v slight foxing inside of cover )

PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 2009

KEYWORDS: history Micronesia Micronesian society societies culture politics intergration philosophy art religion map photos black & white

$14.00
xxexa163671

Scenes From Soviet Life: Soviet Life Through Official Literature


SETON-WATSON, MARY

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: BBC 1986

KEYWORDS: Soviet Russia literature culture sociology society intellectuals history nostalgia religion writers

$15.00
xxexa163679

The Choice of Books and Other Literary Pieces


HARRISON, FREDERIC

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1903

KEYWORDS: Essays art books history Fortnightly Review C 1880s inc The Romance of the Peerage, The Life of George Eliot, At Burlington House

$45.00
1y86/3

Roman Stoicism: Being Lectures on the History of the Stoic Philosophy With Special Reference to its Development Within the Roman Empire


ARNOLD, E. VERNON

TIDY ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 468pp, VG+ (usual but minimal library markings, light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, sl soiling to boards, information plates neatly cellotaped to both pastedowns)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1958

KEYWORDS: roman history stoicism lectures philosophy empire

$45.00
1y86/44

Falling Leaves of Memory


DU PONTET, E. D.(ed) & MCCALLION, A. J. (ed)

Ex-library, super octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine and boards, 91pp + 2pp index, illus, VG (usual library markings, heavy tanning to covers, 1cm chip with loss to lower back cover)

PUBLISHER: Eastern Bay of Plenty Federation

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ literature E D Du Pontet A J McCallion short stories history

$100.00
1y86/48

A Sketch of The New Zealand War


GRACE, MORGAN S.

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF PROMINENT NZ RAILWAYMAN- RIDLER, FIRST EDITION, lacks fep, tidy ex library, octavo, dark green cloth heavy card boards, white stamp lettering & rule to spine and boards, frontispiece, viii + 171pp + 4pp adverts, illus, VG (unsteady binding, sporadic cracking to gutter, moderate chafing to spine)

PUBLISHER: Horace Marshall & Son 1899

KEYWORDS: Morgan S Grace NZ New Zealand history first edition maori wars

$15.00
xxeww163692

An Alabama Newspaper Tradition: Grover C. Hall and the Hall Family


HOLLIS III, DANIEL WEBSTER

Tidy 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Alabama Press 1983

KEYWORDS: Daniel Webster Hollis alabama us united states usa newspaper news journalism history

$15.00
xxeww163695

The Influence of East Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR


SZPORLUK, ROMAN (ed.)

Tidy ex library, Super 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Praeger Publishers Inc, 1975

KEYWORDS: Roman Szporluk russia russian ussr communism cold war history eastern europe soviet union

$15.00
xxewh163701

Serious Pursuits: Communications & Education


BRIGGS, ASA

Very tidy ex library, Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr 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: University of Illinois Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Asa Briggs career university media education communication essays social history british britain uk england

$15.00
xxewa163714

Capitalism of Class In the Middle East: Theories of Social Change and Economic Development


TURNER, BRYAN S.

Tidy ex library, Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr 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: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. 1984

KEYWORDS: Bryan Turner middle east capitalism sociology anthropology history economics islamic islam society arab

$15.00
xxewa163729

The Grievances of Military Coup-Makers


THOMPSON, WILLIAM R.

Tidy ex library. 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: Sage Publications 1973

KEYWORDS: William Thompson military political politics dictatorship coups coup history regime

$15.00
xxewd163741

The Great Pyramid: A simple explanation of the Divine message of the Great Pyramid to the Anglo-Saxon Race


PAGE, JOHN ELLIOT

Octavo softcover (scruffy); 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 National Revival Church

KEYWORDS: John Elliot Page pyramids egypt cairo architecture conspiracy theory religion history

$50.00
1y87/1

The Royal New Zealand Navy


WATERS, S.D.

Tidy ex library, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 571pp, illus, seven folding maps + maps in text, VG (minor fraying and bruising to board and spine extrems, usual library markings, tape attaching d/w to boards, slight tanning to eps) in d/w VG (library repairs with brown paper and tape, 12cm closed tear to front and 2cm tear with loss to inside edge, light scuffing and tape marks)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs 1956

KEYWORDS: New Zealand naval military history Royal Navy WW2 HMS Achilles Graf Spee Orion Komet minesweeping Neptune Solomans Japan

$245.00
1y87/2

Recollections of an Amateur Soldier: A Captain in the new Zealand Forces in the Great War


TREADWELL, C.A.L.

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, Ex library, Inscribed, dated & signed by author to fellow writer Pat Lawlor, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 252pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing to spine and board extrems, minor staining to upper page edges, light tanning to eps, tape used to adhere d/w to pastedowns) in d/w VG (moderate fading and speckling to exterior, light rubbing to edges, moderate staining to top edge)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons 1936

KEYWORDS: Memoir military history New Zealand infantry Great War WW1 personal account recollection Egypt France Treadwell

$50.00
1y87/11

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Bardia to Enfidaville


STEVENS, MAJOR-GENERAL W.G.

Tidy ex library, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp to front board, frontispiece, xii + 416pp, illus, 6 folding maps + maps in text, VG+ (minor rubbing to spine and board edges, minor speckling to top opage edges, usual library markings, minor residue stain from d/w gloss to front ep) in d/w VG (library additions of clear wrap and brown paper, secured with minimal tape to boards and pastedowns, minor crinkling to edges, 1cm closed tear to top edge)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch Dept of Internal Affairs 1962

KEYWORDS: Military history New Zealand WW2 Bardia El Agheila Tripoli Gabes Enfidaville

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