Books - "history"
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Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2010
KEYWORDS: syd barrett biography british musical music history rock pink floyd english
Art & Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Pluto Press 2012
KEYWORDS: art history theory provocation controversy controversies morality visual
The History of Policing in New Zealand Volume One: Policing the Colonial Frontier: Part One and Part Two (complete in two books)
TWO BOOK SET, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, printed eps, book 1- xxi + 1-409pp, book 2- xiii + 410-1142pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping & creasing to edges, light chafing, 11cm closed tear/cut to front cover of book 1)
PUBLISHER: V. R. Ward, Gov't Printer 1986
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history police colonial illustrated photos social race racial
The Wireless World (28 issues)
28 ISSUES, MOSTLY FROM 1938- WITH ISSUES FROM JAN 1938-DEC 1941 NON-CONSECUTIVE RUN, quarto & imperial octavo, illus stapled wrappers, mixed pagination to each, illus/photos, VG-/scruffy (heavy rust staining to staples & spines, heavy tearing at spine to most vols, moderate tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: The Wireless World 1938-1941
KEYWORDS: wireless world literature publications magazines history communication radio television
Black America: A Study of the Ex-Slave and His Late Master
FIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY, sm octavo, brown heavy half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to title plate & raised bands with gilt tooling to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 240pp, VG-/tatty (heavy cracking & chafing to spine, heavy loss to lower extrem of spine, heavy ex-library markings, moderate chafing & scuffing to boards with some soiling, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, reinforcement to gutters- boards sound, light patches of foxing to pages sporadically throughout, light cracking to some gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1891
KEYWORDS: US America slavery slave trade history race ethnicity ex-slave life freedom first edition
Theory of Land Locomotion: The Mechanics of Vehicle Mobility
LACKS D/W, super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 520pp, illus/diagrams, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate chafing with slight surface loss to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing/staining to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press 1956
KEYWORDS: history locomotion movement engineering illustrated motor vehicles dimensional theory travel
Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority 1780-1930
Super octavo, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 254pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: childhood children literature Goethe history psychology social cultural
Elwyn Richardson and the Early World of Creative Education in New Zealand
Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xiii + 267pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl creasing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: NZCER Press 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history creative education Elwyn Richardson teaching biography
The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart (2 Vol Set)
2 VOLUME SET, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, vol 1- 433pp, vol 2- 334pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy chipping & creasing to edges, price clipped, moderate foxing & tanning, light fading to spine of vol 2)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1965
KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography Liddell Hart military history ww1 first 1st world war
Henry James at Work
Super octavo, grey heavy boards with black buckram spine, yellow lettering to spine, ix + 142pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Henry James literature literary biography Theodora Bosanquet memoir history
The Bridge at Parit Sulong: An Investigation of Mass Murder
Imperial ocatvo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, 485pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing/curling to cover edges, light chafing, sl foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Watermark Press 2004
KEYWORDS: war crimes massacre Malaysia Parit Sulong illustrated ww2 second 2nd world war 2 two military history mass murder atrocities
Man Ray : The Photographic Image
Square 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Gordon Fraser 1980
KEYWORDS: art history artist man ray manray photography
Walker Evans : The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Square 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art 1979
KEYWORDS: art history walker evans the museum of modern art moma photography
Mining : Ayrshire's Lost Industry - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Miners of Ayrshire and Upper Nithsdale
Quarto softcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Richard Stenlake Publishing 1996
KEYWORDS: photography pictorial mining miners mines ayrshire upper nithsdale history guthrie hutton
Impressionism for England : Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
KEYWORDS: art history samuel courtauld collector
Land of Memories : A Contemporary View of Places of Historical Significance in the South Island of New Zealand
Whenua i maharatia, haehae nga takata
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Tandem Press 1993
KEYWORDS: aotearoa nz new zealand south island te wai ponamu history photography
Twilight of the Comintern 1930 - 1935
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 1983
KEYWORDS: history world war two ww2 wwii communist
The Garden Triumphant : A Victorian Legacy
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1988
KEYWORDS: history gardens victorian english landscapes
Agricultural Organization in New Zealand : A Survey of Land Utilization, Farm Organization Finance and Marketing
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: For New Zealand Institute of Pacific Relations by Melbourne University Press 1936
KEYWORDS: aotearoa nz new zealand history agriculture agricultural land farm farming
Exploration Fawcett
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1955
KEYWORDS: history explorer exploration percy harrison fawcett eccentric mystery biography memoir