Books - "history"
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Tania: The Unforgettable Guerilla
SOME LIGHT HIGHLIGHTING & UNDERLINING TO TEXT SPORADICALLY THROUGHOUT, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMP., quarto, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to red cloth spine, top page edges stained green, illus title page, 212pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to extrems & board edges, light bruising/indentations to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling to eps, moderate wrinkling & sm prev. bookseller's label to rear eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Random House 1971
KEYWORDS: Tania Tamara Bunke Cuba Che Guevara guerilla warfare revolution revolutionaries history Bolivian jungle biography memoir
Unto Caesar
FIRST U.S. EDITION, super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, xii + 303pp, VG (light bruising to extrems/edges, moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate bruising with light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep)
PUBLISHER: G. P. Putman's Sons 1938
KEYWORDS: first US edition literature philosophy marxism economics social science sociology communism politics political history
Counter-Guerilla Operations: The Philippine Experience
Octavo, light blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 275pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Frederick A. Praeger 1962
KEYWORDS: military history Philippines politics guerilla warfare counterguerilla forces war
Guide to New Zealand
Octavo, illus stiff card covers, illus/ads to eps & prelims, xliii total + 148pp, illus/photos, tatty/delicate (v heavy scuffing & archival tape repairs to spine, heavy chafing & foxing to covers, light foxing to page edges, v heavy cracking & separation to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Times Co. 1912
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel guide historical history culture Maori pakeha scenery landscape
Ho Chi Minh: the Missing Years 1919-1941
SOME HEAVY BUT SPORADIC HIGHLIGHTING & ANNOTATION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 356pp, illus/photos, VG (aforementioned highlighting & annotation, light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, otherwise a v tidy copy) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate highlighting & underlining in ink to text on flaps, light fading/discolouration)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2002
KEYWORDS: Vietnam communism political history politics Ho Chi Minh icp
Throught the Lens: Three Decades of New Zealand News Photography
Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, 148pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand photography modern history culture John Selkirk collection anthology images news current affairs photos
Grandma's Island: Motuapa, An Island Reborn
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, blue & brown lettering to spine, illus prelims, x + 182pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Lois Knight 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional local history Motuapa Lois Knight family
Missionaries, Wives & Roses
Quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine & covers, 128pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing/curling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts Aotearoa 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand pioneers women missionaries history settlers
A Life Span
Octavo, illus light card covers, green cloth covered stapled spine, 135pp, illus/photos, VG (light chafing & soiling/staining to covers, heavy fading to spine, prev. seller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Maurice Glamuzina 1986
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers settlers
The Cygnus Mystery: Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life's Origins in the Cosmos
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 350pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising/scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name & sm illus in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light soiling/tape residue to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Watkins Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: first edition evolution anthropology philosophy history archaeology archeology science astrophysics
The Future From the Past: Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management
Quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, brown lettering to spine, viii + 175pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to front board, sl fading to spine & board edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxbow Books 2004
KEYWORDS: ancient history archaeology archeology wildlife conservation heritage archaeolzoology ICAZ conference Durham 2002
The Art of Town Planning
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, red speckling to page edges, folding frontispiece, xx + 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light chipping & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light soiling & tanning to page edges, photo/plate detached & corner clipped but re-attached with archival tape)
PUBLISHER: Chapman and Hall 1932
KEYWORDS: civil planning engineering townships towns architecture building history development
Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, 21: Changing Military Patterns on the Great Plains (17th Century through Early 19th Century)
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: University of Washington Press 1966
KEYWORDS: north america united states great plains military history native american americans french spanish pre-gun post-gun horsemanship battles
The Highly Irregular Regulars: Texas Rangers in the Mexican War
PLENTY OF HIGHLIGHTING, ANNOTATIONS, AND POST-IT NOTES, 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: Eakin Press 1990
KEYWORDS: america american texas rangers mexican mexican-american war frontier west military police history
Dimitrov and Stalin 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives
HEAVY ANNOTATION & HIGHLIGHTING BY REASEARCHER + POST-IT NOTES THROUGHOUT, 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: Yale University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: soviet union ussr georgi dimitrov joseph stalin annals of communism history comintern great terror
The Great Purge Trial
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: The Universal Library / Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1965
KEYWORDS: history soviet union ussr russia russian moscow purge trials stalin trotsky trotskyites stalin bukharin
10 Years of Pottery in New Zealand
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, UNRELATED PENCIL CARICATURES TO REAR COVER, octavo stapled wratppers (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 Potter Magazine, undated, ca. 1967
KEYWORDS: new zealand potter magazine art artists crafts pottery exhibitions exhibition history
The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy
SOME HIGHLIGHTING & ANNOTATION, 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: St. Martin's Griffin 1998
KEYWORDS: middle east conspiracy theory theories history poltical culture
Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century
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: Stanford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: china history women women's high qing era literature society sociology gender chinese
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
LACKS FEP, 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 California Press 2018
KEYWORDS: silk road exploration trade china chinese central asia economy economic history art cultural culture byzantine empire islam