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$12.50
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Those Were the Early Days in Otorohanga: Otorohanga Centennial Celebrations 1885 - 1985


POWELL, J. R. (MICK)

Oblong octavo staplebound 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: Otorohanga Centennial Celebrations 1985

KEYWORDS: king country otorohanga history waikato aotearoa new zealand heritage

$12.50
xxqbj179708

Mowrer in China


MOWRER, EDGAR

Paperback (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: Penguin 1938

KEYWORDS: memoir travels china communist chinese history culture cultural politics

$12.50
xxqbj179709

Bamboo Doctor


PAVILLARD, STANLEY S.

Paperback (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: Pan 1960

KEYWORDS: history japan japanese encampments encampment doctor world war two second ii wwii allied-prisoner-of-war

$35.00
xxqbj179710

Prisoner from Alamein


STONE, BRIAN

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: Witherby 1944

KEYWORDS: soldier's account of war prisoner prisoner-of-war military history world war two ii second wwii egypt

$25.00
xxqbj179711a

DER FUEHRER


HEIDEN, KONRAD

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pordes 1967

KEYWORDS: military history hitler hitler's rise to power facist germany

$15.00
xxqbj179712

Kempei Tai: The Japanese Secret Service Then and Now


DEACON, RICHARD

Paperback (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: Tuttle 1990

KEYWORDS: japanese secret service military japan history espionage spies world war two second ii wwii

$10.00
xxqbh179717

The Silent Army


ONN, CHIN KEE

Paperback (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: Corgi Books 1962

KEYWORDS: novel dramatization history japanese occupation of malaya world war two ii second wwii

$27.50
xxqbi179722

The Lost Battle: Crete 1941


MACDONALD, CALLUM

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Free Press 1993

KEYWORDS: crete world war two second ii wwii battle history military

$30.00
xxqbi179723

Secret Service


ASTON, GEORGE [SIR]

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1930

KEYWORDS: british secret service history spies espionage military foundation crimean war crimea boer to world war one first wwi

$485.00
1y89a/56

A Prisoner With the Turks 1915-1918


LUSHINGTON, R. F.

Sm octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to title plate on grey buckram spine, 101pp, VG (moderate bruising, scuffing & soiling to boards & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm gift inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: F.R. Hockliffe/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co 1923

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one 1 the great war pows prisoners of war anzacs Australia New Zealand

$40.00
1y89a/59

Shifting Sands


BRAY, Major N. N. E. & CHAMBERLAIN, Rt. Hon. Sir AUSTEN (Fore)

SCRUFFY EX-LIBRARY, SECOND IMPRESSION, MAP VERSO OF HALF TITLE PAGE TORN IN HALF, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to red buckram spine, folding map to prelims, frontispiece, xii + 312pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings/stamps, spine cocked, heavy scuffing & bruising to board edges & extrems, heavy soiling to spine, moderate tanning/soiling & foxing to page edges, aforementioned folding map at prelims torn in half with 4cm closed tear, some moderate cracking to gutters- some reinforcements)

PUBLISHER: Unicorn Press 1934

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 the great war 1st first world war 1 one Major Bray autobiography Persia Arabia

$40.00
1y89a/64

Lasting Impressions: The Story of New Zealand's Newspapers, 1840-1920


GRANT, IAN F.

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xiii + 676pp, illus/photos, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers, light creasing to spine, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand press journalism newspapers history printed media

$120.00
1y89a/67

History of Samoa


LAMBIE, K. R.

EX-LIBRARY, quarto, black heavy boards, grey lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 144pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, moderate fading to spine & board edges with moderate tape residue & staining, moderate scuffing & surface loss to edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (usual library labels, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with heavy reinforcement adhesive, moderate chafing & soiling, tape staining)

PUBLISHER: Commercial Printers 1979

KEYWORDS: Samoa history K R Lambie Polynesia Polynesian

$40.00
1y89a/69

Rendez-vous 127: The Diary of Madame Brusselmans September 1940-September 1944


MADAME BRUSSELMANS & HORNSEY, DENIS (Transcribed by) & EMBRY, Air Chief Marshal Sir BASIL (Fore) & SPAATZ, Gen. CARL (Fore)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 173pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, 1cm closed tear to top spine extrem, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with heavy loss to edges, price clipped, light discolouration to spine)

PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1954

KEYWORDS: military history journal diary Madame Anne Brusselmans Comete Line escapes espionage resistance gestapo ww2 second 2nd world war two 2

$95.00
1y89a/70

The Cage


BILLANY, DAN & DOWIE, DAVID

Octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 190pp, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, sm inscriptions in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG- (v heavy chipping & loss to edges, moderate chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1949

KEYWORDS: Dan Billany David Dowie military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 pows prisoners of war missing persons British soldiers

$245.00
1y89a/71

Daedalus Returned: Crete 1941


VON DER HEYDTE, BARON & MOSS, W. STANLEY (Trans)

Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 186pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w VG- (heavy chipping, numerous tears, light creasing & moderate staining to edges, light chafing & soiling, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1958

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 battle of Crete Baron von der Heydte

$75.00
1y89a/73

Flame Thrower


WILSON, ANDREW

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 202pp, illus/photos, VG+ (v sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, light foxing to prelims & pgs throughout) in d/w, VG (light chipping & staining to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1956

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 British army Andrew Wilson autobiography weaponry crocodiles tanks first edition

$60.00
1y89a/74

I Walked Alone


THE EARL OF CARDIGAN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 206pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & sl foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's adhesive label to front pastedown, light wrinkling to pgs163/164) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950

KEYWORDS: first edition military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 Earl of Cardigan autobiography pows prisoners of war diary journal

$145.00
1y89a/75

Overture to Overlord


MORGAN, Lt.-Gen. Sir FREDERICK & EISENHOWER, Gen. DWIGHT D. (Fore)

Octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, illus eps, 296pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, numerous sm pencil annotations to ffep, prev. bookseller's label to verso of half title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with tape repairs & reinforcements, heavy discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1950

KEYWORDS: military history overlord operation ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 US British operations American

$65.00
1y89a/77

The Escapes and Evasions of 'An Obstinate Bastard'


GRAHAM, DOMINICK

Octavo, yellow glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 238pp, occasional map illus, VG (light to moderate creasing & fading to spine & covers/edges, light chafing & soiling, sl foxing to page edges, light cracking to guttes)

PUBLISHER: WILTON 65 2000

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 Dominick Graham autobiography memoir

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