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$60.00
2g16a/16

Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice ad the Changing Realities of 'Land in the New Territories of Hong Kong


CHUN, ALLEN

Super octavo, lavendar light card covers with white lettering to spine, xv + 2pp maps + 348pp, nr fine (v slight creasing to front cover lower corer)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2002

KEYWORDS: Allen Chun China Hong Kong Chinese colonial history anthropology history cluture politics ethnology

$14.00
xxdug67744

Post Mortem: The Jews in Germany - Now


KATCHER, LEO

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Leo Katcher Jews Germany anti-semitism history social history

$15.00
xxdyg68409

Chatto Curiosities of the British Street: Troughs & Drinking Fountains: Fountains of Life


DAVIES, PHILIP

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: Chatto & Windus 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Philip Davies Britain British horse troughs drinking fountains mediaeval pumps monumnets history architecture social history

$16.00
xxdrh68978

The Whirtinaki Valley


ELLISON, NANCY

first edition hardcover, worn 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: Paul's Book Arcade 1956

KEYWORDS: specials nancy ellison new zealand history autobiography history

$10.00
xxdzg68898

The Historic Bay of Plenty:Te Papa C.M.S. Mission Station 1838 - 1883


BULL, STANLEY (ED.)

Softcover staple bound super octavo (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 Elms Trust 1970

KEYWORDS: specials Stanley Bull New Zealand history religion religious history local regional North Island Bay of Plenty

$75.00
2g34/41

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: Part 1 USAF Variants


EVANS, ANDY

Quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 128pp, illus + folding 1:72 scale drawings to rear, nr fine

PUBLISHER: SAM Publications 2007

KEYWORDS: military history aeronautical engineering model modelling aeroplanes aircraft aviation military history hobbies crafts Andy Evans McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom II

$50.00
2g34/44

General Dynamics F-111: A Comprehensive Guide


THORNBOROUGH, ANTHONY M.

Quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 176pp, illus + folding 1:48 scale drawings to rear, nr fine

PUBLISHER: SAM Publications 2013

KEYWORDS: military history aeronautical engineering model modelling aeroplanes aircraft aviation military history hobbies crafts Anthony M Thornborough F-111

$50.00
2g34/48

The Hawker Hunter: A Comprehensive Guide


BRADLEY, PAUL

Quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 128pp, illus + folding 1:72 scale drawings to rear, nr fine

PUBLISHER: SAM Publications 2009

KEYWORDS: military history aeronautical engineering model modelling aeroplanes aircraft aviation military history hobbies crafts Paul Bradley Hawker Hunter

$40.00
2g35/21

RN Cruisers in Focus


WARLOW, LT CDR BEN

Oblong imperial octavo, illus light card covers, printed eps, 112pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Maritime Books 2003

KEYWORDS: Lt Cdr Ben Warlow Royal Navy naval maritime nautical history cruisers pictorial photographic history

$15.00
xxkua69832

Battling the Land


200 Years of Rural Australia

LINN, ROB

Softcover super octavo (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: Allen & Unwin 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Rob Linn Australia history natural history rural Australia

$15.00
xxkui70256

Heartland: New Zealand's Meeting Places


ROBINSON, STEPHEN

softcover imperial square octavo (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: Whitcoulls 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Robinson new zealand pictorial history photographic history illustrated

$40.00
1g76/26

New Zealand, or Zealandia, The Britain of the South: Volume 1


With Two Maps and Seven Coloured Views (Missing)

HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES

First edition, volume 1 only, octavo, blue cloth boards with blind-stamped decorative rule to boards & gilt motif to centre front board, xvi + 328pp, G (lacks spine, lacks fep, front board only attached by one stitch, fading & chaffing to boards, fraying & bruising to board corners, some tape repair to board/spine folds, tape reinforcement to hinge at centre (pg 192/193), browning to page edges, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1857

KEYWORDS: Charles Hursthouse New Zealand history geology scenery climate natural history flora fauna minerals Maori government agriculture immigration

$675.00
ak3/22/3954

Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Volumes 9 - 17 (IX - XVII): A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII BC30


Eight volume set with large coloured folding map at rear of vol 1 (Vol IX)

BUDGE, E. A. WALLIS

Eight-volume set, octavo, browny-orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule to front board, xxiv + 222 + large folding map (vol.1), xvi + 207pp (vol.2), xvi + 219pp (vol.3), xvi + 241pp (vol.4), xvi + 219pp (vol.5), xxxiv + 230pp (vol.6), xvi + 251pp (vol.7), xvi + 321pp (vol.8), all vols illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, several fading spots to spines, tanning to eps, v occasional page corners creased, moderate wear to spine of vol 1, light fraying and moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench et al 1902

KEYWORDS: classics ancient history Egypt Chaldaea ancient Egyptian history EA Wallis Budge

$9.50
xxkwk73451

Sweet Thunder


CROKER, RICHARD

softcover rectangle saddle-stapled octavo (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: Lodestar Press

KEYWORDS: specials trains steam travel railway history richard croker history photography

$50.00
1e1a/6

Steel Roads of Australia


TAYLOR, COLIN & CHURCHMAN, GEOFFREY (Illus)

Quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 145pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light foxing to inside)

PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1991

KEYWORDS: Australia transport railways trains steam engines history Colin Taylor Geoffrey Churchman pictorial photographic history

$16.50
xxfgj79664

Why I Survived the A-Bomb


KOHCHI, AKIRA

hardcover super octavo (fine) in d/w (nr 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Institute for Historical Review 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Akira Kohchi atom bomb chemica warfare history hiroshima history memoir

$22.50
xxfgi79593

A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo 1755-1870


HINOJOSA, GILBERTO MIGUEL

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Texas A&M University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: specials Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa USA Laredo Texas Mexican American Mexico history economics social history

$12.00
xxfhf80057

The First Great Civilizations


HAWKES, JACQUETTA

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: Pelican 1977

KEYWORDS: specials history mesopotamia indus valley egypt jacquetta hawkes history

$30.00
2b30a/59

The Lyalldale Waltz: A Light-hearted Look at Rural Life about South Canterbury over the past Seventy Years


THOMPSON, ISAAC M.

Lacks fep, inscribed, signed & dated by author, octavo, maroon boadrs with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 219pp, illus, VG (some fading to spine extrems, owner's name & address twice to half title verso, some tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (heavy staining, 2cm tatty portion of loss to upper spine extrem, tatty tears with loss to lower spine, creasing to all edges, nicks to all corners)

PUBLISHER: Isaac Thompson 1975

KEYWORDS: Isaac M Thompson New Zealand Canterbury Kopje Pareora Estate history farming local history

$12.00
xxfke81974

Ned Kelly: Man and Myth


CAVE, COLIN (ed)

One section celotaped into book, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia 1980

KEYWORDS: specials colin cave ned kelly australia history criminal history

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