Books - "history"
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Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxii + 440pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history Asian studies culture philosophy
The Fringes of Edinburgh
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: Chambers [n. d.]
KEYWORDS: edinburgh scotland guide to travel history
Pacific Story: A Survey of the Early History of the Third New Zealand Division
Imperial octavo stapled light card covers (VG-/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: Army Board 1945
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Pacific Fiji New Hebrides Second Expeditionary Force exploration
The Wahine Disaster
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime disaster Wahine nautical Cook Strait history
Churchill and Empire
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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2013
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill politics history biography memoir
Along the Path: Motueka's Historic Plaques
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: Eileen Stewart 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson Motueka plaques history historical
Plays Maori and Pakeha (2 Vol Set)
2 VOLUME SET, 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori Pakeha culture plays collection schools education stage drama scripts history
The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII
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: Cambridge University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: British history politics government Henry viii eighth tudor
Wit & Wisdom of Africa: Proverbs From Africa & the Caribbean
Imperial octavo softcover (VG) ffep missing; 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: New Internationalist Publications Ltd 1998
KEYWORDS: Africa literature humour wit wisdom proverbs sayings Caribbean history
Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose
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: Pennsylvania State University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: literature prose renaissance English literary criticism rhetoric civilization civilisation history
A Long Time Away
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: Cheryl E. Grubb 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir W G McConnochie ww2 world war two 2 second fighter pilots air force rnzaf
March or Die
FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG/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: Museum Press Ltd 1955
KEYWORDS: first edition war military history legion legionnaires Indo-China
Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China
LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 364pp, Near FINE (v sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperial civilization civilisation congresses philosophy studies humanities class stratification
The Care-Taker Emperor: Aspects of the Imperial Institution in Fifteenth-Century China as Reflected in the Political History of the Reign of Chu Ch'i-yu
Super octavo, brown light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 226pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light staining to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep)
PUBLISHER: E. J. Brill Leiden 1986
KEYWORDS: China Chinese emperors history politics imperial 15th fifteenth century Chu Ch'i-yu
Chang Ping-Lin (1869-1936): A Political Radical and Cultural Conservative
Octavo, cream light covers, pink lettering to covers & spine, 217pp, VG (light soiling to frnt cover, light fading to spine, moderate creasing & folding to rear cover & pgs)
PUBLISHER: The Liberal Arts Press 1993
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history politics cultural conservative Chang Ping-lin
1952 Indianapolis Official 500 Mile Race Yearbook
Quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, 112pp, illus/photos, VG-/scruffy (heavy scuffing with loss to spine, moderate to heavy creasing & scuffing to edges, moderate foxing to covers & page edges, sm. annotations in ink to front cover & to pgs sporadically throughoutheavy rusting to staples)40
PUBLISHER: Floyd Clymer 1952
KEYWORDS: cars racing motorsport 1952 500 mile raceIndianapolis history yearbook automotive transport
The City in Late Imperial China
Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvii + 820pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light creasing to lower corners of pgs 515-538, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading & tanning to spine, light tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: Rainbow-Bridge Book Co. 1977
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history social science sociology
The Ming Maritime Trade Policy in Transition, 1368 to 1567
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, viii + 211pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems & board edges, inscription in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Harrassowitz 2010
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history trade maritime nautical Asian east economics business trading
Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, xxxiii + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's sm name label to prelims, adhesive errata slip to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history classicism politics philosophy imperial confucianism confucius literature
Chinese Ceramics in Colonial Mexico
Lg quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 87pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1997
KEYWORDS: antiques artefacts China Chinese ancient history antiquity shipwrecks archaeology archeology Mexico South America