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$10.00
xxstj172365

People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings


LEAKEY, RICHARD E. & LEWIN, ROGER

Paperback (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: Avon Printing 1979

KEYWORDS: anthropology antiquity ancient history natural science

$17.50
xxstj172381

Beyond the Frontier: The Politics of a Failed Mission; Bulgaria 1944


THOMPSON, E. P.

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 Merlin Press 1997

KEYWORDS: military history politics Bulgaria ww2 world war two 2 second 2nd special operations

$16.50
xxstj172385

Womanhood in America: From Colonial Times to the Present.


RYAN, MARY P.

Third edition. 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: Franklin Watts 1983

KEYWORDS: america cultural studies women gender feminism womenhood american history women's

$25.00
xxstj172386

The Victory of Greenwood


MORENO, CARLOS

Super octavo hardcover (N. FINE) in d/w (N. 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: Jenkin Lloyd Jones 2021

KEYWORDS: greenwood black american history tulsa race massacre

$35.00
xxstj172389

Campfires at the Cross: An Account of the Bunting Dale Aboriginal Mission at Birregurra, near Colac, Victoria


LE GRIFFON, HEATHER

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: Arcadia 2006

KEYWORDS: bunting dale aboriginal mission birregurra colac victoria australia australian history settler aboriginal-settler relationships colonial

$15.00
xxstj172390

Field Guide to the Kokoda Track: An Historical Guide to the Lost Battlefield


JAMES, BILL

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: Kokoda Press 2006

KEYWORDS: kokoda track battlefields world war two wwii australia territory of papua new guinea guinean history

$22.50
xxstj172393

Garbo on Garbo


BROMAN, SVEN; PERRY, GABRIEL (trans.)

Imperial 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: Bloomsbury 1992

KEYWORDS: greta garbo biography swedish actress film hollywood history

$16.50
xxstj172394

Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art


ANDERSEN, KRISTEN (ed.); WILLIAMS, ROBERT & MCCORMICK, CARLO & REID, LARRY

Oblong 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: Ignition Publishing / Last Gasp 2004

KEYWORDS: pop surrealism lowbrow art history illustrated mark ryden

$25.00
xxstj172397

Surrealism: Revolution by Night


NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

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: National Gallery of Australia 1993

KEYWORDS: surrealism visual art history paintings exhibition

$19.50
xxstk172422

The Critical Historians of Art


PODRO, MICHAEL

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: Yale 1983

KEYWORDS: art history critique german philosophers nineteenth century semper riegl wolfflin warburg panofsky aesthetics philosophy

$60.00
1w49a/18

The Foveaux Whaling Yarns of Yankee Jack: Burr Osborn's Adventures in Southern New Zealand, 1845


RICHARDS, RHYS

SIGNED, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 152pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine, prev. owner's names in ink to prelims covered with white adhesive label)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical whaling hunting Burr Osborn history

$30.00
1w49a/20

Rambles in New Zealand 1839


BIDWILL, JOHN CARNE

LACKS D/W, LIMITED EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to title plates to spine & front board, illus title page, 128pp, VG (light fading to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, notation glued in to ffep, publication inscription in ink to half title page, prev. owner's name in ink to title pages with white adhesive label)

PUBLISHER: The Pegasus Press 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration John Carne Bidwill nature botany plants literature history

$180.00
1w49a/22

A Year Amongst the Persians; Impressions as to the Life, Character & Thought of the People of Persia; Received During Twelve Months' Residence in That Country in the Years 1887-1888


BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE & ROSS, Sir E. DENISON (Memoir)

FOLDING MAP TO REAR, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt motif & rule to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxii + 650pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl water staining to edges of eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1926

KEYWORDS: history exploration Persia autobiography memoir Edward Granville Browne culture travel

$195.00
1w49a/23

Climbs in the New Zealand Alps; Being an Account of Travel and Discovery


FITZGERALD, E. A. & CONWAY, Sir MARTIN ET AL (Contributions)

HEAVY STAINING, ALL PLATES PRESENT BUT SOME LOOSE, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spine, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 363pp, illus/plates, folding map to rear pocket, scruffy (heavy bruising & scuffing to board extrems/edges, heavy cracking & loss to title plates, heavy staining to boards, spine & pg corners, vv heavy staining to some middle pages & plates, v heavy cracking to gutters, heavy staining & closed tearing to folding map)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1896

KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration climbing Alps history travel E A Fitzgerald

$40.00
1w49a/27

A Trenchard Brat: A Life in Aviation


WESTON, Flt.Lt. FREDERICK GEORGE

SIGNED, LETTER FROM AUTHOR TIPPED TO FFEP, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 299pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, errata slip tipped in to pg214) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Brewin Books 1999

KEYWORDS: aviation history autobiography memoir Frederick Weston military raf air force British

$48.50
1w49a/28

Edinburgh: The Golden Age


COSH, MARY

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 1105pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: John Donaldson Publishers 2003

KEYWORDS: history Scotland Edinburgh illustrated social 18th 19th century

$60.00
1y7a/11

Isaac & Mary Ann Giibbs and Their Related Families (Vol 3)


EARL, MAURIE (Compiled)

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, iii + 209pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & covers)

PUBLISHER: Maurie Earl n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history Isaac Mary Gibbs genealogy Bromwell Cole Quinney Hodgkinson Elvines Trower Fenemor Stringer Ilton Mead Nelson regional pioneers settlers

$60.00
1y7a/13

Isaac & Mary Ann Gibbs and Their Related Families (Vol 4)


EARL, MAURIE (Compiled)

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, illus stapled glossy light card covers, 170pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Maurie Earl n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history genealogy isaac Mary Gibbs Bromell Cole Quinney Hodgkinson Elvines Trower Fenemor Stringer Ilton Mead settlers pioneers

$50.00
1y7a/15

The First Railway in Otago and the Lewis Coal Mine Near Coal Point Molyneux


DANGERFIELD, J. A. (Compiled)

Lg quarto, yellow & white stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, v + 72pp, VG (light creasing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep with white adhesive label)

PUBLISHER: J A Dangerfield 1991

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history rail Otago railway Lewis Coal Mine Molyneux Coal Point trains

$48.50
1y7a/16

John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders, 1864-1891


ABRAHAMSON, JENNY & ENYS, CHARLES (Illus) & O'MALLEY, JOHN (Photos)

Square imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 239pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Wily Publications 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Castle Hill sheep station farming agriculture Canterbury provincial John Charles Enys photos paintings art collection

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