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$25.00
xxdzf187180

The Truth About Language: What it is and Where it Came From


CORBALLIS, MICHAEL C.

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: University of Chicago Press 2017

KEYWORDS: language linguistics philosophy history

$19.50
xxdzf187182

Somme: Into the Breach


SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, HUGH

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: Viking / Penguin 2016

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one 1 i the great war battles battle Somme western front

$18.50
xxcfb187194

Politicians at War: July 1914 to May 1915: A Prologue to the Triumph of Lloyd George


HAZLEHURST, CAMERON

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: Jonathan Cape 1971

KEYWORDS: politics ww1 first 1st world war one 1 i the great war government history first editions

$17.50
xxcfc187196

The Gallant Six Hundred: A Tragedy of Obsessions


HARRIS, JOHN

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: Purnell Book Services 1973

KEYWORDS: military history charge of the Light brigade

$15.00
xxcfc187202

Flight to Freedom


DONNET, MIKE

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: Ian Allan 1974

KEYWORDS: military history aviation raf royal air force autobiography memoir pilots Squadron Leader Mike Donnet

$14.50
xxcgb187222

From Proust to Camus: Profiles of Modern French Writers


MAUROIS, ANDRE & MORSE, CARL (trans.) & BRUCE, RENAUD (trans.)

EX-LIBRARY, 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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1967

KEYWORDS: andrew maurois modern french writers lit crit literary criticism history france marcel proust albert camus andre gide claudel jean-paul sartre paul valery andre malraux

$35.00
xxcgb187225

Colonial Small Wars 1837-1901


FEATHERSTONE, DONALD

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1973

KEYWORDS: donald featherstone colonial small wars military history conflict colonialism victorian era britain british illustrated maps ex-library

$12.50
xxcgb187229

Aloft


LANGEWIESCHE, WILLIAM & BANVILLE, JOHN (introd.)

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: Penguin 2010

KEYWORDS: william langewiesche flying aeroplane aeroplanes airplane airplanes aeronautics history technology culture flight

$38.50
xxcgc187230

Airship Pilot No. 28


WILLIAMS, T.B. & LORD VENTRY (forew.)

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: Wiliam Kimber 1974

KEYWORDS: t.b. bill williams airship airships lighter than air first great world war one ww1 wwi air combat military history hot air balloon balloons

$37.50
xxcgc187234

Graf Zeppelin: The Adventures of an Aerial Globetrotter


VAETH, J. GORDON

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: Frederick Muller 1959

KEYWORDS: graf zeppelin lighter than air aircraft blimp aeronatics flight technology history germany german empire dr. hugo eckener

$15.00
xxcgd187241

Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies


READ, ANTHONY & FISHER, DAVID

EX-LIBRARY, SPINE COCKED; 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: Hodder & Stoughton 1984

KEYWORDS: ex-library claude dansey britain british england english espionage intelligence second world war two ww2 wwii history biography anthony read david fisher

$20.00
xxcgd187243

Roger Casement's Diaries: 1910: The Black & the White


SAWYER, ROGER (ed.) & CASEMENT, ROGER

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: Pimlico 1997

KEYWORDS: roger casement ireland irish diplomat easter rising political history human rights anti-imperialism up the republic!

$19.50
xxcgf187246

Canals in Camera -- 2


GAGG, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1971

KEYWORDS: canals england english britain british photographic photos industry history shipping industry technology

$15.00
xxcgf187249

Out of the Ruins, 1931-1981: Drawings and photographs of earthquake damage and 50 years after


WILKINSON, COLIN B.

Oblong octavo stapled wrappers (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: Colin B. Wilkinson 1981

KEYWORDS: 1931 hawke's bay earthquake new zealand natural disaster disasters history

$10.00
xxcgf187250

The Hawke's Bay Earthquake: New Zealand's Greatest Natural Disaster


Second Edition

MCGREGOR, ROBERT

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: Art Deco Trust 2002

KEYWORDS: 1931 hawke's bay earthquake new zealand natural disaster disasters history

$40.00
2f30a/15

Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 428pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to board edges, binding sloppy- boards shaky, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, usual library markings throughout, 3cm closed tear to rear pastedown, light tanning to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss & internal tape reinforcements, moderate chafing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers pioneers settlements Nelson

$40.00
2f30a/20

Rapaura: A District History


MATTHEWS, NEVIL and PRUE

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, map to ffep, illus prelims, x + 231pp, illus/photos, VG (light curling & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to front eps)

PUBLISHER: Cape Catley 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers pioneers Rapaura Marlborough region district

$100.00
2f30a/27

Whom God Hath Joined Together


HARVEY, STEWART

Quarto, illus light card covers, brown & black lettering to spine, x + 218pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing/curling to cover egdes & spine, sl chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stewart Harvey 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history genealogy settlers pioneers James Settree Francois Marie Paranthoiene

$45.00
2f30b/9

A History of the Orchid


REINIKKA, MERLE A.

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 324pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Timber Press 1995

KEYWORDS: orchids plants flowers history botany culture

$42.50
2f30b/13

Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals


ANDERSON, STUART (Ed)

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xviii + 318pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy fading to spine & front board, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Pharmaceutical Press 2005

KEYWORDS: history medicine pharmacy pharmaceuticals apothecaries health

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