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$46.00
1y55b/1

Tania: The Unforgettable Guerilla


ROJAS, MARTA & CALDERON, MIRTA RODRIGUEZ (Eds)

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

$150.00
1y55b/3

Unto Caesar


VOIGT, F. A.

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

$40.00
1y55b/4

Counter-Guerilla Operations: The Philippine Experience


VALERIANO, Col. NAPOLEON D. & BOHANNAN, Lieut.-Col. CHARLES T. R.

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

$40.00
1y55b/5

Guide to New Zealand


N/A

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

$75.00
1y55b/6

Ho Chi Minh: the Missing Years 1919-1941


QUINN-JUDGE, SOPHIE

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

$40.00
1y55b/10

Throught the Lens: Three Decades of New Zealand News Photography


SELKIRK, JOHN (Photos) & STUART, IAN (Text)

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

$75.00
1y55b/13

Grandma's Island: Motuapa, An Island Reborn


KNIGHT, LOIS & LARK, LISA (Compiled & Ed)

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

$45.00
1y55b/15

Missionaries, Wives & Roses


CHAPMAN, ANN

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

$60.00
1y55b/16

A Life Span


WORDSWORTH, JANE

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

$45.00
1y55b/24

The Cygnus Mystery: Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life's Origins in the Cosmos


COLLINS, ANDREW

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

$40.00
1y58a/3

The Future From the Past: Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management


LAUWERIER, ROEL C. G. M. & PLUG, INA (Eds)

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

$40.00
1y58a/8

The Art of Town Planning


LANCHESTER, HENRY VAUGHAN

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

$22.50
xxyaa176340

Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, 21: Changing Military Patterns on the Great Plains (17th Century through Early 19th Century)


SECOY, FRANK RAYMOND & GOLDFRANK, ESTHER S. (series ed.)

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

$30.00
xxyaa176341

The Highly Irregular Regulars: Texas Rangers in the Mexican War


WILKINS, FREDERICK

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

$25.00
xxyaa176343

Dimitrov and Stalin 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives


DALLIN, ALEXANDER (ed.) & FIRSOV, F.I. (ed.) & STAKLO, VADIM A. (trans.) & BRENT, JONATHAN (series ed.)

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

$22.00
xxyaa176344

The Great Purge Trial


TUCKER, ROBERT C. (ed. & introd.) & COHEN, STEPHEN F. (ed.)

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

$28.50
xxyaa176345

10 Years of Pottery in New Zealand


MASON, HELEN

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

$22.50
xxyaa176353

The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy


PIPES, DANIEL

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

$25.00
xxyaa176355

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century


MANN, SUSAN

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

$25.00
xxyaa176356

Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road


WHITFIELD, SUSAN

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

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