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$20.00
xxfnl183128

Life on Muzzle: Three Generations on New Zealand's Most Remote Station


REDFERN, FIONA & MORRISON, DEREK (Photo)

Imperial octavo softcover (Near 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Muzzle Station Marlborough farming history

$10.00
xxfnl183129

Southland 100


N/A

Oblong quarto stapled light card covers (VG) foxing to covers; 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 Southland Centennial Association N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southland centennial centenary Invercargill history

$20.00
xxfnl183130

Souvenir Programme of the Visit of the Southern Cross to Auckland (Mangere Aerodrome) January 27th, 28th, 29th & 30th


N/A

TORN & STAINED, oblong quarto stapled light card covers (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: Wright & Jaques (Printer) 1934

KEYWORDS: New Zealand aviation southern cross history souvenir programmes flight transport

$32.50
xxfnl183133

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (Third Edition)


BONDANELLA, PETER

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 2001

KEYWORDS: Italy Italian cinema film industry films movies motion pictures neorealism history

$15.00
xxfnl183134

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music


WILLIAMS, RICHARD & [DAVIS,MILES]

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: Faber and Faber 2009

KEYWORDS: miles davis jazz kind of blue music history culture america african-american american

$22.50
xxfnl183136

Captain James Cook, R.N.: One Hundred and Fifty Years After


CARRUTHERS, SIR JOSEPH & DE CHAIR, SIR DUDLEY R.S. (forew.) & HUGHES, W.M. (forew.)

FIRST EDITION 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1930

KEYWORDS: first edition captain james cook history exploration colonialism colonization colonisation sailing nautical britain british

$15.00
xxfmh183139

The Assassins: Holy Killers of Islam


BURMAN, EDWARD

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: Crucible 1987

KEYWORDS: assassins isma'ili isma'ilis islam shia shiism hasan i-sabah religion history middle east

$20.00
xxfme183155

The Life of Muhammad, Apostle of Allah


IBN ISHAQ & EDWARDES, MICHAEL (ed.)

Super octavo softcover (Near Fine) in slipcase (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: Folio Society 2004

KEYWORDS: folio society ibn ishaq michael edwardes islam muslim islamic prophet history biography

$15.00
xxflg183181

The Poetry of Tennyson


THOMSON, ALASTAIR W. & [TENNYSON, ALRED LORD]

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: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1986

KEYWORDS: alfred lord tennyson poetry poem poet verse poems britain britsh literary criticism history britain british english

$15.00
xxflg183182

Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846


RAY, GORDON N. & [THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE]

LACKS D/W; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: william makepeace thackeray history biography literature britain british

$16.50
xxflh183184

The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller


BIGSBY, CHRISTOPHER (ed.)

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: Cambridge University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: arthur miller america american dramatist playwright theater theatre cambridge critical companion literary critcism history literature

$19.50
xxflh183187

Dickens: The Critical Heritage


The Critical Heritage Series

COLLINS, PHILIP (ed.) & [DICKENS, CHARLES]

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: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1986

KEYWORDS: charles dickens literary criticism britain british england english history culture critical heritage series

$50.00
2a18n/8

Movies and Methods: An Anthology (2 Vol Set)


NICHOLS, BILL (Ed)

2 VOL SET, super octavo, glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, vol 1- xi + 640pp, vol 2- xii + 753pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing & curling to cover edges, heavy fading to spine & cover edges of vol 1, moderate chafing & soiling to covers & page edges, sl cracking at gutters)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1976-1985

KEYWORDS: film media studies movies history methodology methods motion pictures

$40.00
2a18n/17

Hereford Cathedral: A History


AYLMER, GERALD & TILLER, JOHN (Eds)

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xxxii + 672pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Hambledon Press 2000

KEYWORDS: English England British Britain cathedrals architecture buildings history Hereford cathedral

$40.00
2a18n/21

Caligari's Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions: A History of Film Design


BARSACQ, LEON & STEIN, ELLIOTT (Revised & Ed) & CLAIR, RENE (Fore)

Quarto, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 264pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page egdes, light foxing to half title page & terminals, light creasing/curling to top corners of rear block of pages) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company 1976

KEYWORDS: film set design motion pictures movies scenery sets realism effects history

$40.00
2a18n/28

The Vanishing Paperclips: America's Aerospace Secret: A Personal Account


AMTMANN, HANS H.

Quarto, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 128pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Monogram Aviation Publications 1988

KEYWORDS: aviation autobiography memoir Hans H Amtmann operation paperclip history

$60.00
2a18n/29

The Christchurch Town Hall 1965-2019: A Dream Renewed


LOCHHEAD, IAN (Ed)

Square imperial octavo, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to front board, 248pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to front eps, light soiling to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Christchurch town hall buildings history earthquake damage architecture

$40.00
2a18n/33

The History of Interior Decoration


McCORQUODALE, CHARLES

Imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 224pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps, minor crease to frontispiece) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, 4cm closed tear to rear cover, minor chafing)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 1983

KEYWORDS: interior design history decoration decorating

$45.00
2a18n/46

To Disco, With Love: The Records That Defined an Era


HAMSLEY, DAVID

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black & red lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 197pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, adhesive residue to spine, light scuffing & sl surface loss to extrems, light soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Flatiron Books 2015

KEYWORDS: disco music history records culture pop popular

$45.00
2a18o/2

Imperial Camel Corps


INCHBALD, GEOFFREY

EX-LIBRRAY, octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xviii + 166pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light staining & tape residue to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light wrinkling to prelims, minor creasing to top corners of some pages) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & heavy chipping to edges, moderate fading & chafing to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Johnson Publications 1970

KEYWORDS: imperial camel corps military history British Yeomanry Australia New Zealand mounted regiments ww1 first 1st world war one 1 i the great war

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