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$26.50
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft of World War II: A technical directory of the warplanes of 1939-1945


GUNSTON, BILL

Folio 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: Salamander 1978

KEYWORDS: combat airplane airplanes fighter bomber aircraft aeroplane aeroplanes second world war two ww2 wwii warplane warplanes military history illustrated

$22.50
xxhqv186286

The Story of Earth & Life: A Southern African perspectice of a 4.6-billion year journey


MCCARTHY, TERENCE & RUBIDGE, BRUCE

SIGNED BY AUTHORS; 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: Kumba Resources 2005

KEYWORDS: southern africa natural history geography geology minerals ecosystem science earth biology terence mccarthy bruce rubidge

$45.00
xxhqv186288

Opera's Second Death


ZIZEK, SLAVOJ & DOLAR, MLADEN

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: Routledge 2002

KEYWORDS: opera slavoj zizek mladen dolar opera culture history psychoanalysis

$22.50
xxhqv186292

Life in the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Century


GOETZ, HANS-WERNER & WIMMER, ALBERT & ROWAN, STEVEN

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: University of Notre Dame Press 1993

KEYWORDS: middle ages daily life history hans-werner goetz

$145.00
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The Fuller Letters 1728-1755: Guns, Slaves and Finance


CROSSLEY, DAVID & SAVILLE, RICHARD (Eds)

Imperial octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxvii + 307pp, VG+ (light soiling to spine & board extrems, sl tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, light creasing to covers & edges with some v minor chipping/closed tearing, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Sussex Record Society 1991

KEYWORDS: John Fuller letters correspondence history business social Brightling Park

$55.00
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Motley Crue: A Visual History 1983-2005


ZLOZOWER, NEIL & SIXX, NIKKI (Fore)

Quarto, black glossy heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine, blind stamp pentagram to front board, illus title page & prelims, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to lower spine extrem, light chafing to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books 2009

KEYWORDS: rock music biographies Motley Crue history

$60.00
2i9a/31

King Henry's Map of the British Isles


BARBER, PETER (Commentary)

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, illus to full front board, frontispiece, 158pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2009

KEYWORDS: folio society King Henry the 8th eighth viii maps Great Britain British Isles history kingdom monarchy ancient cartography geopolitics politics political geography

$60.00
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G. A. Selwyn, D.D.: Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield


CREIGHTON, LOUISE

Octavo, green buckram boards, green lettering to title plate on spine, frontispiece, xi + 180pp, VG (moderate fading to spine & boards/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand religious history religion G A Selwyn bishop bishops biography memoir

$95.00
2i9a/35

Hero Stories of New Zealand


COWAN, JAMES

Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Harry H. Tombs 1935

KEYWORDS: New Zealand stories collection history heroism heroes

$40.00
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The History of London in Maps


BARKER, FELIX & JACKSON, PETER

Folio, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 176pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising, fading & tape staining/residue to spine & board edges, internally Near FINE) in d/w, VG+ (minor fading to spine, light creasing to spine, clear plastic protective wrap sellotaped to internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Barrie & Jenkins 1992

KEYWORDS: London history maps cartography geography

$40.00
2i9a/48

Elizabethan Recusant Prose 1559-1582


SOUTHERN, A. C. & EVENNETT, H. O. (Fore)

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxv + 553pp, illus, VG (moderate discolouration & tape residue to board & spine edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, usual library markings, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional underlining in pencil) in d/w & plastic protective wrapper- affixed, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, moderate foxing & tanning)

PUBLISHER: Sands & Co N/D (c.1950)

KEYWORDS: religious history catholics Elizabethan catholic refugees literature prose golden age philosophy

$40.00
2i9a/51

Journey of the Serpent People: Hopi Migrations and Star Correlations


DAVID, GARY A.

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 560pp, illus, VG (light to moderate creasing to covers, light to moderate soiling to page edges, light discolouration to prelims, moderate water damage to rear pages)

PUBLISHER: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2017

KEYWORDS: anthropology Hopi migration history north Arizona

$245.00
2i9a/56

To Long Tan: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1950-1966


McNEILL, IAN

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xxv + 614pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges, prev, owners' names in ink & light foxing to half title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1993

KEYWORDS: Vietnam war military history Australia Australian troops soldiers

$100.00
2i9a/57

A Lawyer's Tale


HOOPER, ALBERT CHARLES

SCARCE, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER, octavo, green textured buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 111pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate scuffing & surface loss to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with loss & archival tape repairs to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Priory Press N/D (c.1950)

KEYWORDS: law legal profession A C Hooper Wales England history autobiography memoir

$50.00
2i9a/62

A History of Painting: The French Genius


MACFALL, HALDANE

Quarto, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus plate to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, decorated/illus title page, illus prelims, xxi + 282pp, illus, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, 2cm chip to upper spine extrem, light tanning to spine, moderate staining to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to eps & prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: T. C. and E. C. Jack 1911

KEYWORDS: art history French France painting philosophy

$75.00
2i9a/64

History of the County of Hawke's Bay (4 Part Set)


MOONEY, KAY (Preface)

4 PART SET, quarto, white glossy light card covers, black lettering to front cover, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & soiling to spine & covers, moderate chipping to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Photolithox Printing N/D (c.1973)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hawkes Bay history

$45.00
2i12b/1

Classic Speedboats 1916-1939


GUETAT, GERALD & LEDRU, ERIC & TAYLOR, JAMES (Trans)

Square imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 191pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Bay View Books 1997

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical boats speedboats history illustrated

$55.00
2i12b/7

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics


TANKE, JOSEPH & McQUILLAN, COLIN (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, xiii + 630pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, minor cracking to gutters of pgs 332/333)

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Academic 2012

KEYWORDS: art aesthetics philosophy medieval renaissance early modern history contemporary

$38.50
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Women Mean Business: Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand


BISHOP, CATHERINE

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 404pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand business history women entrepreneurs colonial

$15.00
xxhrj186314

A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures


MUNRO, NINA and JIM

Oblong 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand cookbooks food cooking cookery history culture social life recipes

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