Books - "history"
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Floyd Clymer's Indianapolis Race History 500 Mile : A Complete Detailed History of Every Indianapolis Race Since 1909
MISSING LOWER PART OF SPINE BINDING STILL SOUND, quarto, 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: Floyd Clymer 1946
KEYWORDS: history automotive race racing car cars motor sport Indianapolis 500 United States America photos black & white
Rawene : Heart of the Hokianga
Oblong 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: Unknown publisher and date
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand Hokianga region drawings maps Maori place names photos black & white
Entanglements of Empire : Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body
Super octavo, softcover (NEAR 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: Auckland University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand early settler settlers Maori missionaries missionary settlement European drawings
The SAE Story 1905 - 1955 Golden Anniversary
OCCASIONAL PEN UNDERSCORING, 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 Society of Automotive Engineers Inc circa 1955
KEYWORDS: history automobile motor car cars SAE Society Automotive Engineers photos colour black & white
American Cars of the 1930s
Oblong 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 Warne & Co Ltd 1971
KEYWORDS: history automotive automobile motor car cars United States America American 1930s photos colour black & white
Oriental Rugs and Carpets
COMPLETELY CRACKED TO SPINE AT PRELIMS, STARTING TO CRACK AT SPINE TO REAR HINGE, SPORADIC SPINE CRACKING THROUGHOUT, super octavo, hardcover (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: Review Publishing Company 1910
KEYWORDS: history oriental rug rugs carpet carpets design manufacture evolution photos black & white
The Leading Edge
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: Macdonald Orbis Ltd 1987
KEYWORDS: history aviation evolution design manufacture developments inventors inventions photos black & white colour color
Chopin's Europe
Imperial octavo, hardcover (NEAR FINE) in d/w (NEAR 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: Sport i Turystyka 2010
KEYWORDS: pictorial history places visited Europe Fryderyk Chopin music scores photos colour
The Holocaust Chronicle
Imperial octavo, hardcover (NEAR 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: Publication International Ltd 2003
KEYWORDS: history Europe European ww2 world war 2 two second holocaust Jew Jewish concentration camp camps maps photos black & white
Art of the Flight Jacket - Classic Leather Jackets of World War II
Quarto, maroon heavy card boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps - photog, illus prelims - photog, 176pp, illus, Near FINE (v. slight bruising to spine extrems) in illus d/w Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Schiffer 1995
KEYWORDS: world war two ww2 fashion leather jackets garments insignia airmen military history
Ceylon and its Capabilities: An Account of Its Natural Resources, Indigenous Productions, and Commercial Facilities
Maroon heavy card boards, gilt lettering, rule & decoration to spine and boards, maroon eps, frontispiece - map, 427pp + lxxxiv appendix, illus - plates, VG (moderate scuffing to boards and spine edges, heavy scuff to spine edges
PUBLISHER: J. Jetley 1998 / Facsimile Edition
KEYWORDS: Sri Lanka history colonial
Ceylon Pearl of The East
Imperial octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, eps - map, frontispiece, 460pp. illus - plates, VG (light chipping to spine extrems, light dampstaining to boards, moderate foxing to page edges) in illus d/w Tatty (moderate tanning to inside, 3cm tear without loss to lower edge, light moderate chipping and creasing, 16cm tear with a small amount of loss, 1cm tear with loss)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale n.d.
KEYWORDS: Sri Lanka history colonial
Cricket
Small 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: George Bell & Sons 1894
KEYWORDS: cricket history illustrated guide how to
Magic: Its Rites and History
Crack to gutter at frontis, 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: Rider & Company 1960
KEYWORDS: magic magick rites history spirituality
Mataura: City of the Falls
Imperial octavo, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, map illus to front eps, 504pp, illus, VG- (light to moderate bruising to extrems, gutters intact but binding loose, light to moderate foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate staining to covers with some light scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Gore Publishing (Printer) 1991
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history illustrated Mataura Southland
British Period Architecture: In Sri Lanka
LIMITED SECOND EDITION, oblong folio, beige heavy card boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, vii + 70pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to board edges with some surface loss, light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate scuffing to rear board, light discolouration to eps, illustrations throughout are clean)
PUBLISHER: Vasthu Shilpa 2000
KEYWORDS: architecture illustrated Sri Lanka British colonies colonisation history buildings
A Policeman's Paradise? Policing a Stable Society 1918-1945: The History of Policing in New Zealand, Volume Four
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, maps to prelims, xii + 528pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate sun fading to spine and back edges, 1cm closed tear to rear cover nr. spine)
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Printing Company 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand police history illustrated law enforcement
British Merchant Shipping
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 284pp + 8pp adverts, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, 1cm crack to top of spine hinge, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps, prev. owner's small name label to fep, Shippping Officers' Guild ink stamps to prelims & sporadically throughout, light to moderate cracking to gutters) in d/w, tatty (heavy chipping & closed tearing to edges, heavy tanning to spine, light staining to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold & Co 1922
KEYWORDS: nautical maritime shipping merchant history sail steam trade first edition
Vickers Aircraft
Super octavo, blue heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 593pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edgesprev. owner's small name label to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Putnam/Conway Maritime Press 1988
KEYWORDS: military aviation history engineering Vickers aircraft illustrated
Views of 18th Century China - Costumes, History - Customs
Quarto, hard cover (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: Studio Editions / Bestseller Publications 1988
KEYWORDS: china 18th century pictorial engravings history trade customs