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$40.00
1y55b/5

Guide to New Zealand


N/A

Octavo, illus stiff card covers, illus/ads to eps & prelims, xliii total + 148pp, illus/photos, tatty/delicate (v heavy scuffing & archival tape repairs to spine, heavy chafing & foxing to covers, light foxing to page edges, v heavy cracking & separation to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Times Co. 1912

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel guide historical history culture Maori pakeha scenery landscape

$75.00
1y55b/6

Ho Chi Minh: the Missing Years 1919-1941


QUINN-JUDGE, SOPHIE

SOME HEAVY BUT SPORADIC HIGHLIGHTING & ANNOTATION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 356pp, illus/photos, VG (aforementioned highlighting & annotation, light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, otherwise a v tidy copy) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate highlighting & underlining in ink to text on flaps, light fading/discolouration)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2002

KEYWORDS: Vietnam communism political history politics Ho Chi Minh icp

$40.00
1y55b/10

Throught the Lens: Three Decades of New Zealand News Photography


SELKIRK, JOHN (Photos) & STUART, IAN (Text)

Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, 148pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand photography modern history culture John Selkirk collection anthology images news current affairs photos

$75.00
1y55b/13

Grandma's Island: Motuapa, An Island Reborn


KNIGHT, LOIS & LARK, LISA (Compiled & Ed)

Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, blue & brown lettering to spine, illus prelims, x + 182pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Lois Knight 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional local history Motuapa Lois Knight family

$45.00
1y55b/15

Missionaries, Wives & Roses


CHAPMAN, ANN

Quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine & covers, 128pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing/curling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts Aotearoa 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pioneers women missionaries history settlers

$60.00
1y55b/16

A Life Span


WORDSWORTH, JANE

Octavo, illus light card covers, green cloth covered stapled spine, 135pp, illus/photos, VG (light chafing & soiling/staining to covers, heavy fading to spine, prev. seller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Maurice Glamuzina 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers settlers

$45.00
1y55b/24

The Cygnus Mystery: Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life's Origins in the Cosmos


COLLINS, ANDREW

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 350pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising/scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name & sm illus in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light soiling/tape residue to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Watkins Publishing 2006

KEYWORDS: first edition evolution anthropology philosophy history archaeology archeology science astrophysics

$40.00
1y58a/3

The Future From the Past: Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management


LAUWERIER, ROEL C. G. M. & PLUG, INA (Eds)

Quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, brown lettering to spine, viii + 175pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to front board, sl fading to spine & board edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxbow Books 2004

KEYWORDS: ancient history archaeology archeology wildlife conservation heritage archaeolzoology ICAZ conference Durham 2002

$40.00
1y58a/8

The Art of Town Planning


LANCHESTER, HENRY VAUGHAN

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, red speckling to page edges, folding frontispiece, xx + 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light chipping & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light soiling & tanning to page edges, photo/plate detached & corner clipped but re-attached with archival tape)

PUBLISHER: Chapman and Hall 1932

KEYWORDS: civil planning engineering townships towns architecture building history development

$22.50
xxyaa176340

Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, 21: Changing Military Patterns on the Great Plains (17th Century through Early 19th Century)


SECOY, FRANK RAYMOND & GOLDFRANK, ESTHER S. (series ed.)

Super 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: University of Washington Press 1966

KEYWORDS: north america united states great plains military history native american americans french spanish pre-gun post-gun horsemanship battles

$30.00
xxyaa176341

The Highly Irregular Regulars: Texas Rangers in the Mexican War


WILKINS, FREDERICK

PLENTY OF HIGHLIGHTING, ANNOTATIONS, AND POST-IT NOTES, 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: Eakin Press 1990

KEYWORDS: america american texas rangers mexican mexican-american war frontier west military police history

$25.00
xxyaa176343

Dimitrov and Stalin 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives


DALLIN, ALEXANDER (ed.) & FIRSOV, F.I. (ed.) & STAKLO, VADIM A. (trans.) & BRENT, JONATHAN (series ed.)

HEAVY ANNOTATION & HIGHLIGHTING BY REASEARCHER + POST-IT NOTES THROUGHOUT, 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: Yale University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: soviet union ussr georgi dimitrov joseph stalin annals of communism history comintern great terror

$28.50
xxyaa176345

10 Years of Pottery in New Zealand


MASON, HELEN

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, UNRELATED PENCIL CARICATURES TO REAR COVER, octavo stapled wratppers (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: New Zealand Potter Magazine, undated, ca. 1967

KEYWORDS: new zealand potter magazine art artists crafts pottery exhibitions exhibition history

$22.50
xxyaa176353

The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy


PIPES, DANIEL

SOME HIGHLIGHTING & ANNOTATION, 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: St. Martin's Griffin 1998

KEYWORDS: middle east conspiracy theory theories history poltical culture

$25.00
xxyaa176355

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century


MANN, SUSAN

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: Stanford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: china history women women's high qing era literature society sociology gender chinese

$25.00
xxyaa176357

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America


NGAI, MAE M.

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: Princeton University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: labour labor united states usa america illegal immigration immigrant immigrants exploitation neo-imperialism empire subjectification migration mexico latin america central america border border politics history class struggle hegemony

$25.00
xxyaa176361

Teacher of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China


KO, DOROTHY

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: Stanford University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: china chinese history women womens seventeenth century 17th jiangnan confucianism confucian political economy economics asia asian

$25.00
xxyaa176363

The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945


LARY, DIANA

LACKS FEP, 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 2010

KEYWORDS: china chinese communist communism mao prc people's republic of china wwii ww2 second world war two II 2 ussr military history

$39.50
xxyaa176364

The Scope of State Power in China


SCHRAM, STUART R. (ed.) & BUNGER, KARL (forew.) & GERNET, JACQUES (introd.)

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: European Science Foundation / School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London / The Chinese University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: ming qing zhao qin dynasty china chinese history political economy politics state statecraft political science

$22.50
xxyaa176365

After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postolinial Displacements


PRAKAH, GYAN (ed.) et. al

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: Princeton University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: colonialism postcolonialism social justice political political science india palestine latin america imperialism edward said steven feierman joan dayan ruith philips anthony pagden leonard blusse gauri viswanathan zachary lockman jorge klor de alva irene silverblatt emily apter homi bhahba gyan prakah power culture history mission missionary missionaries foreign intervention foreign policy tourism native american americans zionism feminism peru

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