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$18.50
xxrdj171785

Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head


CHAPMAN, ROB; COXON, GRAHAM (fore.)

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

$22.50
xxrec171813

Art & Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts


WALKER, JOHN A.

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

$70.00
1w44a/6

The History of Policing in New Zealand Volume One: Policing the Colonial Frontier: Part One and Part Two (complete in two books)


HILL, RICHARD S.

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

$40.00
1w44a/11

The Wireless World (28 issues)


N/A

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

$95.00
1w44a/16

Black America: A Study of the Ex-Slave and His Late Master


CLOWES, W. LAIRD

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

$62.50
1w44a/18

Theory of Land Locomotion: The Mechanics of Vehicle Mobility


BEKKER, M. G.

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

$55.00
1w44a/20

Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority 1780-1930


STEEDMAN, CAROL

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

$62.50
1w44a/29

Elwyn Richardson and the Early World of Creative Education in New Zealand


MacDONALD, MARGARET

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

$40.00
1w44b/1

The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart (2 Vol Set)


HART, Capt. LIDDELL

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

$50.00
1w44b/7

Henry James at Work


BOSANQUET, THEODORA & POWERS, LYALL H. (Ed, Notes & Intro)

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

$60.00
1w44b/15

The Bridge at Parit Sulong: An Investigation of Mass Murder


SILVER, LYNETTE RAMSAY

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

$22.50
xxfpf171821

Man Ray : The Photographic Image


JANUS (ed) & BACA, MURTHA (transl.) &

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

$30.00
xxfpf171825

Walker Evans : The Museum of Modern Art, New York


EVANS, WALKER & SZARKOWSKI, JOHN (intro)

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

$25.00
xxfpf171826

Mining : Ayrshire's Lost Industry - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Miners of Ayrshire and Upper Nithsdale


HUTTON, GUTHRIE

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

$32.50
xxfpf171827

Impressionism for England : Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector


HOUSE, JOHN & ET AL

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

$25.00
xxfpf171829

Land of Memories : A Contemporary View of Places of Historical Significance in the South Island of New Zealand


Whenua i maharatia, haehae nga takata

EVISON, HARRY (text) & ADAMS, MARK (photog.)

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

$24.50
xxrel171840

Twilight of the Comintern 1930 - 1935


CARR, E. H.

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

$18.50
xxrfc171844

The Garden Triumphant : A Victorian Legacy


STUART, DAVID

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

$35.00
xxrfc171845

Agricultural Organization in New Zealand : A Survey of Land Utilization, Farm Organization Finance and Marketing


BELSHAW, H & WILLIAMS, D. O. & STEPHENS, F. B. & FAWCETT, E. J. (ed) & RODWELL, H. R. (ed)

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

$15.00
xxrfc171846

Exploration Fawcett


FAWCETT, P. H. & FAWCETT, BRIAN

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

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