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$175.00
1c9a/57

Sea Gypsy


TANGVALD, PETER

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 198pp, VG (light bruising & discolouration to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine, moderate tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions history nautical maritime sailing exploration Peter Tangvald adventure autobiography memoir

$110.00
1c9a/60

New Zealand Engineers, Middle East


CODY, J. F.

Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 774pp, folding maps, illus/photos, VG- (moderate scuffing & surface loss/fraying to extrems, moderate water damage/staining to spine & boards- internal & external, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate water staining to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand official history military ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii engineers Middle East campaigns Greece Crete

$60.00
1c9a/66

Christmas at Sea


KLEBINGAT, CAPTAIN FRED K. & WEINSTEIN, ROBERT A. (Illus Collected & Ed by)

Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, illus title page, 105pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing & cracking/closed tearing to spine & edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1974

KEYWORDS: maritime history nautical literature Christmas stories

$120.00
1c9a/68

Transactions / Maori Mythology


WOHLERS, Rev. J. F. H. et al

SIGNED BY JOHANNES ANDERSEN, AND HE HAS ADDED A HANDWRITTEN LIST OF CONTENTS, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to black cloth spine, 112pp + addendum to rear, VG (moderate scuffing & discolouration spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, various university ink stamps throughout with light tanning & foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: None Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand mythology history Maori culture transactions signed Johannes Andersen

$17.50
xxkdc189081

Flying Sulkies: A History of the New Zealand Trotting Cup 1904-1980


WOOD, BERNIE

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: Moa Publications 1981

KEYWORDS: sport horseracing trotting annuals New Zealand cup horses equine harness racing history

$15.00
xxkdc189082

The Story of BSA Motor Cycles


HOLLIDAY, BOB & SMITH, JEFF (Fore)

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: Patrick Stephens Ltd 1978

KEYWORDS: motorsport motor cycling racing motorbikes BSA history sport design evolution engineering engines

$15.00
xxkde189087

The Big Show


CLOSTERMANN, PIERRE & BERTHOUD, OLIVER (Trans) & SLESSOR, Sir JOHN (Fore)

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: Chatto & Windus 1951

KEYWORDS: French fighter pilots raf royal air force military history aviation anecdotes Pierre Clostermann

$16.50
xxkec189122

God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights


MARSH, CHARLES

Super octavo softcover (VG) some pencil underlining & annotation; 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: Princeton University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: US America American civil rights history

$16.50
xxked189128

A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War


FAULKS, SEBASTIAN & WOLF, HOPE (Eds)

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: Hutchinson 2014

KEYWORDS: military history the great war ww1 first 1st world war 1 one i letters correspondence diaries journals anecdotes soldiers

$19.50
xxkee189134

A History of Western Education (Second Edition)


GOOD, H. G.

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: Macmillan 1960

KEYWORDS: philosophy history education

$15.00
xxkee189136

A Short History of Educational Ideas


CURTIS, S. J. & BOULTWOOD, M. E. A. & MORRIS, Sir CHARLES (Fore)

THIRD 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: University Tutorial Press 1961

KEYWORDS: history education philosophy antiquity

$15.00
xxkee189140

A Bibliography of New Zealand Education


ROTH, HERBERT

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: New Zealand Council for Educational Research / Whitcombe and Tombs 1964

KEYWORDS: New Zealand bibliography bibliographies education youth children history

$20.00
xxkef189153

The New Zealand Trotting Register 1944-1945


N/A

Duodecimo 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: A. B. D. Clark (Printer) 1945

KEYWORDS: New Zealand trotting harness racing horse horses past seasons reports history sport

$22.50
xxkeg189160

SAS The Jungle Frontier: 22 Special Air Service Regiment in the Borneo Campaign, 1963-1966


DICKENS, PETER

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: BCA / Arms and Armour Press 1983

KEYWORDS: 22 special air service sas Borneo campaign jungle warfare combat history military

$15.00
xxkfa189171

Not as Strangers


ROBINSON, NEIL

Quarto 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: Wilson & Horton 1967

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Governor-General Bernard & Lady Fergusson politics leaders biographies memoir

$15.00
xxkfa189172

Report of the Education Board of the District of Otago for the Year Ending December 31st, 1938, with Appendices


N/A

Quarto stapled light card covers (VG-) heavy vertical fold/crease to length of pamphlet; 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: Coulls Somerville Wilkie (Printers) 1939

KEYWORDS: New Zealand education board schools schooling reports Otago history

$38.50
xxkfa189181

Mobilising the Masses


CUNNINGHAM, MATTHEW

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: ANU / Australian National University Press 2022

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian New Zealand conservative movement history great depression radical right politics

$10.00
xxkfa189182

A Proper Person to be Detained: The Story of a Murder and its Aftermath


CZERKAWSKA, CATHERINE

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: Contraband 2019

KEYWORDS: England English true crime murder homicide history historical Catherine Czerkawska

$15.00
xxkfa189183

The Set of the Sails: The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman


VILLIERS, ALAN

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy/tatty) heavy cracks to some gutters; 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1952

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Cape Horn exploration

$12.50
xxkfa189185

Selwyn College's First Century


HARGREAVES, RAY et al

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: Centennial Committee, Selwyn Board of Governors 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand schools education Selwyn College centenary centennial history

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