Books - "history"
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The Green Flag Volume Three: Ourselves Alone
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
A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980
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
Farthest West: Afoot and Afloat
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
Nelson Notables 1840-1940: A Dictionary of Regional Biography
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
Adventures by Sea and Land
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
Mountains and Mountain-Climbing: Records of Adventure and Enterprise Among the Famous Mountains of the World
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
Richard Cogar Bryant of Kinloch and his Descendants: A Brief History
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
Hochstetter's Nelson Diary: 6 September - 2 October 1859 and Dun Mountain Report
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
Wrecks Along the Great Ocean Road
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
Racists
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
The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology
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
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
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
Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History
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
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945; The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu
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
Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
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
Inventing China Through History; The May Fourth Approach to Historiography
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
Buddhism in India as Described by the Chinese Pilgrims AD 399-689
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
Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War
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
Writing Women in Late Imperial China
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
An Early Victorian Album: The Hill/Adamson Collection
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