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$40.00
1y68b/23

The Scott-Sefton Collection: Elgin's History Through a Photographer's Lens - Volume 1


VERRELL, KEN (Ed)

Oblong quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, viii + 200pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling to spine & covers, light tanning to page edges, gift inscription in ink to inside front cover, sl cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Elgin County Library 2001

KEYWORDS: photography photos Scott Sefton collection Elgin history

$400.00
1y68b/25

Cardini: The Suave Deceiver


FISHER, JOHN & KARR, TODD (Ed)

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 571pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to boards & spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Miracle Factory 2007

KEYWORDS: Cardini biography memoir magic stage magicians illusion illusionists history sleight of hand

$40.00
1y68b/26

The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History From 1000 to 1810


LEFAIVRE, LIANE & TZONIS, ALEXANDER

Imperial octavo, green light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xvi + 533pp, illus, VG+ (sl curling & soiling to front cover, moderate denting & soiling to rear cover, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2004

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings architectural history theory

$45.00
1y68c/3

Check to Your King: The Life of Charles, Baron de Thierry, King of Nukahiva, Sovereign Chief of New Zealand


HYDE, ROBIN

FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, octavo, purple buckram boards, gilt + rule to spine, gilt decoration + blind stamp to front board, xii + 288pp + 47pp adverts, VG (light bruising to spine + extrems, two 1.5cm spots of discolouration/bleaching to spine, light foxing + mild tanning to page edges, mild browning to eps) in d/w VG- (2cm chips to head/foot of spine, 2 cm hole mid-spine, moderate bruising/creasing to extrems w/ surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. undated [c. 1936]

KEYWORDS: charles baron de thierry king nukahiva hokianga new zealand history cololisation colonialism settler france french biography historical narrative

$100.00
1y68c/6

Te Puea: A Biography


KING, MICHAEL

SIGNED & DATED, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 331pp, maps/photos, VG (mild bruising to foot of spine, moderate foxing/mild browning to page edges, mild discolouration to eps, mild foxing to photographic plates), in d/w, VG- (heavy bruising/creasing to extrems w/ 1cm chip to front at head of spine, mild bleaching to spine, rubbing, light foxing to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1977

KEYWORDS: te puea herangi biography signed new zealand history maori king movement waikato turangawaewae pa pacifism pacifist michael king

$40.00
1y68c/29

The Early Churches of Rome


MALE, EMILE & BUXTON, DAVID (trans.)

Quarto, dark brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & gilt rule to spine, 253pp, illus/photo, VG (light bruising to spine, flecks of minor discolouration/soiling to boards, moderately heavy foxing + moderate staining to page edges, light foxing to eps, previous owner's name in pen to fep) in d/w, VG- (slight discolouration, moderately heavy creasing/cracking to extrems w/ archival tape repair at head of spine, light soiling + foxing to reverse

PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1960

KEYWORDS: rome churches roman architecture art history catholic catholicism italy italian

$45.00
1y68c/34

A Series of 12 early Australian Prints illustrating the first 50 years of Australia's History


N/A

ALL PLATES PRESENT, NUMBER 382 OF A LIMITED RUN OF 2500; Printed/illus quarto envelope containing 12 lovely colour prints in individual tissue guards printed w/ information about each. Envelope: VG (isolated spots of foxing, some scuffing to edges & outside surfaces w/ some surface loss, mild discolouration at folds, patch of moderate discolouration to reverse of flap, includes loosely enclosed errata ); Plates: Near Fine

PUBLISHER: The National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), undated

KEYWORDS: australia australian history national trust prints limited edition

$35.00
xxyjb178690

The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War


McMILLAN, MARGARET

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: Profile Books 2013

KEYWORDS: politics war history ww1 first 1st world war 1 one Europe the great war

$35.00
xxyjb178691

Africa Betrayed


AYITTEY, GEORGE B. N. & MANDELA, MAKAZIWE (Fore)

Octavo softcover (VG+) moderate crease/fold to rear cover; 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 Press 1992

KEYWORDS: Africa politics history neo-colonialism economics colonialism tyranny

$16.50
xxyjb178697

Watergate: The View From the Left


JENNESS, LINDA & PULLEY, ANDREW (Intros)

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: Pathfinder Press 1973

KEYWORDS: watergate politics US America American Nixon white house scandals history

$30.00
xxyjb178703

Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America


SACKMAN, DOUGLAS CAZAUX

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: Oxford University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: biography Ishi Alfred Koeber memoir anthropology US America American history

$18.00
xxyjb178705

The Thirties: An Intimate History


GARDINER, JULIET

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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: HarperPress 2010

KEYWORDS: thirties 30s history early 20th twentieth century Juliet Gardiner

$15.00
xxyjb178710

Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes From Past Times


DOLBY, KAREN

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: Michael O'Mara Books 2012

KEYWORDS: children's nursery rhymes literary history literature collection criticism Karen Dolby

$25.00
xxyjb178713

Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives


BROOKES, BARBARA & PAGE, DOROTHY (Eds)

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: University of Otago Press 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand women communities community history anthropology religion gender

$12.50
xxyjb178715

The Courtesans: The Demi-monde in Nineteenth-Century France


RICHARDSON, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2000

KEYWORDS: France French history courtesans la garde biographies

$26.50
xxyjb178716

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall


MAJOR, JOHN

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: HarperPress 2012

KEYWORDS: John Major autobiography history British music halls entertainment stage performers Tom

$10.00
xxyjb178718

The Victorians


PAXMAN, JEREMY

Octavo softcover (VG+) some tanning to page edges; 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: BBC Books 2010

KEYWORDS: Jeremy Paxman Victorian Britain history victorians culture British

$20.00
xxyjb178723

Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families From the Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline


SECCOMBE, WALLY

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: Verso 1995

KEYWORDS: social science sociology industrial revolution families history labour labor capitalism work force

$12.50
xxyjb178731

Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War


SUMMERS, JULIE

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: Pocket Books 2009

KEYWORDS: ww2 2nd second world war two 2 biographies anecdotes men returning history women servicemen

$12.50
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Empire


PAXMAN, JEREMY

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 Books 2012

KEYWORDS: British empire history Jeremy Paxman

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