Books - "history"
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Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
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: Alfred A. Knope 2006
KEYWORDS: art theory history american culture controversies morality and politics
Aldous Huxley and Film: Filmmakers No. 16
Octavo hardcover (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 Scarecrow Press 1987
KEYWORDS: aldous huxley and film filmmaking filmmakers science fiction sci-fi history theory media studies
The Beatles: From the Cavern to the Rooftop
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: Phaidon 2010
KEYWORDS: the beatles music history musical pop john lennon ringo starr george harrison paul mccartney
The Bible on Film: A Checklist 1897-1980
Octavo hardcover (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 Scarecrow Press 1981
KEYWORDS: the bible film movies history religion religious christian christianity media studies
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
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: Continuum 2010
KEYWORDS: comics comic books graphic novels art theory the city urban space sequence history retrofuturism
A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)
The Very Best of... The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Greatest Comedy Line-up Ever
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: Canongate 2012
KEYWORDS: comedy line-up humour routines british history the secret policeman's ball
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 Natural House
Imperial octavo, cream cloth boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 223pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & soiling to boards & extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & chippping to edges & spine with some loss, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Bramhall House 1954
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings history Frank Lloyd Wright illustrated photos nature
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
Lyalldale: A Vision Realised
SIGNED & DATED, quarto, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 304pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Lyalldale Historical Group 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional history Lyalldale photos illustrated south Canterbury signed
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
In the Beginning: A History of the Medical Unit at Auckland Hospital and the Formative Years of the Department of Medicine the University of Auckland
SIGNED BY ALL 3X AUTHORS, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 429pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate scuffing & creasing to cover & spine extrems/edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to inscription to ffep, sm lettering in ink to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: David E. Richmond, Thomas E. Miller & Judy Murphy 2013
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Auckland hospital history medical unit Auckland university medicine
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