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$12.50
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The Green Flag Volume Three: Ourselves Alone


KEE, ROBERT

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: Penguin 1989

KEYWORDS: irish history volume three the green flag ireland

$15.00
xxstg172238

A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980


MAXWELL, D. E. S.

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: Cambridge University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: irish drama history theatre playwrights ireland abbey theatre analysis critique critic yeats sunge beckett

$16.50
xxstg172240

Farthest West: Afoot and Afloat


REED, A. H. & REED, A. W.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy); 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: Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: travel writings stories literature nz new zealand reed west coast otago lake manapouri supper cove dusky sound fiordland history

$35.00
xxsth172244

Nelson Notables 1840-1940: A Dictionary of Regional Biography


LASH, MAX D. & SMITH, DAWN (Ed)

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Nelson Historical Society 1992

KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand biographies regional history

$17.50
xxsth172246

Adventures by Sea and Land


MOFFATT, HARRY LOUIS

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: Nelson Historical Society 1979

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir New Zealand Harry Louis Moffatt exploration travel Nelson regional history

$35.00
xxsth172247

Mountains and Mountain-Climbing: Records of Adventure and Enterprise Among the Famous Mountains of the World


N/A (DAVENPORT, WILLIAM HENRY)

Octavo hardcover (VG-) heavy cracking to gutters; 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: T. Nelson and Sons 1883

KEYWORDS: travel exploration mountains mountaineering climbing mountain history

$20.00
xxsth172251

Richard Cogar Bryant of Kinloch and his Descendants: A Brief History


BRYANT, E. R.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo softcover (VG-) a number of pages loose; 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: Progress Print 1988

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Bryant family

$20.00
xxsth172257

Hochstetter's Nelson Diary: 6 September - 2 October 1859 and Dun Mountain Report


JOHNSTON, MIKE & NOLDEN, SASCHA & HOKE, LEONORE

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: Geoscience Society of New Zealand 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson Dun mountain report history

$14.00
xxsth172261

Wrecks Along the Great Ocean Road


LONEY, J. K.

Octavo stapled wrappers (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: J. K. Loney 1967

KEYWORDS: Australian shipwrecks Victoria Great Ocean Road nautical maritime disasters history Australia

$10.00
xxsth172268

Racists


BASU, KUNAL

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006

KEYWORDS: fiction race ethincity racism conflict Africa history literature

$24.50
xxsth172269

The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology


SOFAER, JOANNA

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: Cambridge University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology human body osteoarchaeology anthropology ancient history

$14.00
xxsth172271

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944


BEEVOR, ANTONY

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: Viking/Penguin 2018

KEYWORDS: military history Antony Beevor ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 Arnhem operation market garden

$40.00
2i45a/2

Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History


TANAKA, STEFAN

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 305pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, pgs 1-9/10 plus prelims loose or detached-but present- with some tape reinforcement to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993

KEYWORDS: China Japan historiography history teaching study oriental culture Asia

$42.50
2i45a/4

Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945; The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu


BROWNLEE, JOHN S.

Super ocatvo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 256pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: UBC Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Japan oriental Asia history historiography

$55.00
2i45a/8

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition


PERRY, ELIZABETH J.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv+ 392pp, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light folding/creasing to top page corners to rear)

PUBLISHER: University California Press 2012

KEYWORDS: Mao China Chinese history politics military revolution

$45.00
2i45a/9

Inventing China Through History; The May Fourth Approach to Historiography


WANG, Q. EDWARD

Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xi + 304pp, VG (light creasing & scuffing to cover edges, light creasing & wrinkling to spine, light chafing & discolouration to covers, prev. owner's initial in ink to ffep, pg 63/64 detached but present)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2001

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history historiography literature Asia

$40.00
2i45a/12

Buddhism in India as Described by the Chinese Pilgrims AD 399-689


HAZRA, KANAI LAL

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, folding map, xvi + 125pp, VG+ (light soiling to rear board, sl soiling to page edges, sl adhesion to terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers 2002

KEYWORDS: India China Indo-China religion spirituality Buddhism ancient history

$48.50
2i45a/13

Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War


CHEN, SONG-CHUAN

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black & red lettering to spine, ix + 230pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light staining to page edges, ffep completely missing)

PUBLISHER: Hong Kong University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Asia opium trade war business history

$65.00
2i45a/14

Writing Women in Late Imperial China


WIDMER, ELLEN & CHANG, KANG-I SUN (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xiii + 544pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: womens's studies literature literary criticism history imperial China Chinese gender

$40.00
2i45a/17

An Early Victorian Album: The Hill/Adamson Collection


FORD, COLIN (Ed & Intro) & STRONG, ROY (Commentary)

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards with black spine, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained pink, illus eps, frontispiece, 350pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & chafing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, sl foxing to pages, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG- (price clippped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate soiling & discolouration to covers, some minor closed tearing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1974

KEYWORDS: history Victorian portraits photography culture Scotland

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