Books - "history"
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The Smell of Football
FIRST EDITION, 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: Vision Sports Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: first editions sport English soccer football anecdotes history Mick Baz Rathbone
Lions Rampant: The Story of No 602 Spitfire Squadron
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: William Kimber & Co 1985
KEYWORDS: military aviation history spitfire squadrons Battle of Britain raf royal air force British armed forces
The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity
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: Macmillan 1986
KEYWORDS: art theory criticism essays literature postmodernism visual arts history
Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator
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: Frederic C. Beil & Naval Institute Press 1988
KEYWORDS: military aviation history ww2 2nd second world war two 2 ii Samuel Hynes autobiography US navy fighter pilots war heroes
An Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Melanesia (Second Edition)
OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K R HOWE, 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: Cummings Publishing Company 1977
KEYWORDS: anthropology cutlure Melanesia pacific history
Tom Finney: My Autobiography
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Headline Book Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: Tom Finney autobiography memoir sport history English soccer football
Polynesian Mythology; and Ancient Traditional History of the Maori as Told by Their Priests and Chiefs
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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1974
KEYWORDS: Polynesia Polynesian mythology ancient history anthropology folklore lore legends Maori
Roman London
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: Thames and Hudson 1986
KEYWORDS: ancient Roman history London English England archeology archaeology
Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
FIRST EDITION, 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: Profile Books 2012
KEYWORDS: first editions London underground transport transit systems history tube trains passenger rail
The Great Houses of San Francisco
Imperial 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: Thames and Hudson 1974
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings history historical San Francisco art photos photography
Shipwrecks Bluff Area 1845-1920
Octavo stapled light card covers (VG-, cover torn); 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: Bluff History Group 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Bluff maritime nautical history disasters shipwrecks
Under the Nor' West Arch: A High Country Story
SIGNED BY GRACE PORTER, 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1970
KEYWORDS: New Zealand High Country autobiography memoir Grace Ted Porter signed history
Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage
LACKS D/W, 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 Travel Book Club 1951
KEYWORDS: Nelson Cole Haley Charles W Morgan maritime nautical autobiography history
The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 384pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to ffep, light cracking to gutter of pg171) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, price clipped, light fading to spine, in removable plastic cover)
PUBLISHER: The Woburn Press 1973
KEYWORDS: entertainment old b movies matinee cinema history heroes silver screen superheroes
Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940
Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx + 307pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press2005
KEYWORDS: petroleum industry market California history trade government policy energy fossil fuels 20th twentieth century
Danmarks Land
TEXT IN DANISH, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & black illus to front board, patterned eps, 359pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to gutters- binding sloppy/loose, gift inscription in ink to verso of title page, light to moderate foxing to pgs sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters with some pgs detached but present- not counted presumed all present)
PUBLISHER: Gyldendalske Boghandel N/D (c.1910s)
KEYWORDS: text in Danish Denmark culture history illustrated C C Clausen J J Nielsen
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE - ASSOCIATION COPY! Imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xvii + 398pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: ABC-CLIO 2005
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian New Zealand Pacific environmental history anthropology geography human ecology oceania nature environment signed association copy
Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory
OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, cream lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 390pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light creasing, curling & tanning/discolouration to spine & covers with some sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian prehistory ancient history antiquity archaeology archeology anthropology hunting prehistoric Aboriginals Aborigine
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846
Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 757pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: England English history culture politics ideology
The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania
ASSOCIATION COPY - WARM & LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, super octavo, blue heavy boards, blue gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 292pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edgeslight fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2006
KEYWORDS: association copy Oceania Pacific history social life customs culture navigation maritime anthropology environmental conditions environment nautical