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$35.00
xxgoa167580

Floyd Clymer's Indianapolis Race History 500 Mile : A Complete Detailed History of Every Indianapolis Race Since 1909


CLYMER, FLOYD

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

$25.00
xxgoa167583

Rawene : Heart of the Hokianga


BROWNSON, DREW & MORROW, MARG (photos)

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

$25.00
xxgrc167661

Entanglements of Empire : Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body


BALLANTYNE, TONY

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

$39.50
xxgrc167668

The SAE Story 1905 - 1955 Golden Anniversary


UNKNOWN

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

$25.00
xxgrc167670

American Cars of the 1930s


VANDERVEEN, BART H.

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

$25.00
xxgrd167674

Oriental Rugs and Carpets


UNKNOWN

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

$30.00
xxgqg167688

The Leading Edge


BOYNE, WALTER J.

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

$35.00
xxgqg167689

Chopin's Europe


ZATUSKI, PAMELA & IWO & KOMARNICKI, HANNA & JULIUSZ (photos)

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

$40.00
xxgqg167691

The Holocaust Chronicle


WEBER, LOUIS et al

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

$150.00
1d30b/19

Art of the Flight Jacket - Classic Leather Jackets of World War II


MAGUIRE, JON A. & CONWAY, JOHN P.

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

$45.00
1d30b/22

Ceylon and its Capabilities: An Account of Its Natural Resources, Indigenous Productions, and Commercial Facilities


BENNETT, J. W.

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

$40.00
1d30b/23

Ceylon Pearl of The East


WILLIAMS, HARRY

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

$25.00
xxgub167723

Cricket


LYTTELTON, Hon. & Rev. E.

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

$30.00
xxgub167724

Magic: Its Rites and History


BOUISSON, MAURICE & ALMAYRAC, G. (Trans)

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

$90.00
1d30b/49

Mataura: City of the Falls


MUIR, D. C. W. (Ed)

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

$500.00
1d30b/57

British Period Architecture: In Sri Lanka


ALWIS, Prof. LAKSHMAN et al

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

$95.00
1d30b/59

A Policeman's Paradise? Policing a Stable Society 1918-1945: The History of Policing in New Zealand, Volume Four


DUNSTALL, GRAEME

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

$55.00
1d30b/63

British Merchant Shipping


JONES, CLEMENT

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

$60.00
1d30b/64

Vickers Aircraft


ANDREWS, C. F. & MORGAN, E. B.

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

$27.00
xxfwb167765

Views of 18th Century China - Costumes, History - Customs


ALEXANDER, WILLIAM & MASON, GEORGE HENRY

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

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