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$17.50
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An Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Melanesia (Second Edition)


CHOWNING, ANN

OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K R HOWE, 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: Cummings Publishing Company 1977

KEYWORDS: anthropology cutlure Melanesia pacific history

$17.50
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Tom Finney: My Autobiography


FINNEY, TOM

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: Headline Book Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: Tom Finney autobiography memoir sport history English soccer football

$22.50
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Polynesian Mythology; and Ancient Traditional History of the Maori as Told by Their Priests and Chiefs


GREY, Sir GEORGE & BIRD, W. W. (Ed) & CLARK, RUSSELL (Illus)

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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1974

KEYWORDS: Polynesia Polynesian mythology ancient history anthropology folklore lore legends Maori

$18.50
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Roman London


MARSDEN, PETER

Imperial 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: Thames and Hudson 1986

KEYWORDS: ancient Roman history London English England archeology archaeology

$30.00
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Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube


MARTIN, ANDREW

FIRST 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: Profile Books 2012

KEYWORDS: first editions London underground transport transit systems history tube trains passenger rail

$30.00
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Preston North End - The Rise of the Invincibles


BARRETT, MICHAEL & SQUE, DAVID (Illus)

Quarto 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: Invincible Books 2016

KEYWORDS: English soccer football pne Preston North End history sport

$22.50
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The Great Houses of San Francisco


AIDALA, THOMAS & BRUCE, CURT (Photo)

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: Thames and Hudson 1974

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings history historical San Francisco art photos photography

$25.00
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Shipwrecks Bluff Area 1845-1920


CHRISTIANSEN, PAT

Octavo stapled light card covers (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: Bluff History Group 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Bluff maritime nautical history disasters shipwrecks

$19.50
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Under the Nor' West Arch: A High Country Story


PORTER, GRACE and TED

SIGNED BY GRACE PORTER, 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand High Country autobiography memoir Grace Ted Porter signed history

$15.00
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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini


MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE

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: Chatto & Windus 2017

KEYWORDS: history Italy Italian fascism politics political Mussolini revolution resistance

$15.00
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Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage


HALEY, NELSON COLE

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: The Travel Book Club 1951

KEYWORDS: Nelson Cole Haley Charles W Morgan maritime nautical autobiography history

$100.00
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Verve: The Sound of America


HAVERS, RICHARD

Quarto, blue heavy boards, silver & gilt lettering to spine & boards, illus prelims, 399pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 2013

KEYWORDS: jazz music musicians entertainment US America American history biographies

$45.00
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The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury


HARMON, JIM & GLUT, DONALD F.

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 384pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to ffep, light cracking to gutter of pg171) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, price clipped, light fading to spine, in removable plastic cover)

PUBLISHER: The Woburn Press 1973

KEYWORDS: entertainment old b movies matinee cinema history heroes silver screen superheroes

$60.00
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Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940


SABIN, PAUL

Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx + 307pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press2005

KEYWORDS: petroleum industry market California history trade government policy energy fossil fuels 20th twentieth century

$50.00
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Danmarks Land


CLAUSEN, C. C. & NIELSEN, J. J.

TEXT IN DANISH, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & black illus to front board, patterned eps, 359pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to gutters- binding sloppy/loose, gift inscription in ink to verso of title page, light to moderate foxing to pgs sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters with some pgs detached but present- not counted presumed all present)

PUBLISHER: Gyldendalske Boghandel N/D (c.1910s)

KEYWORDS: text in Danish Denmark culture history illustrated C C Clausen J J Nielsen

$40.00
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Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History


GARDEN, DON

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE - ASSOCIATION COPY! Imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xvii + 398pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: ABC-CLIO 2005

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian New Zealand Pacific environmental history anthropology geography human ecology oceania nature environment signed association copy

$50.00
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Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory


LOURANDOS, HARRY

OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, cream lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 390pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light creasing, curling & tanning/discolouration to spine & covers with some sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian prehistory ancient history antiquity archaeology archeology anthropology hunting prehistoric Aboriginals Aborigine

$50.00
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A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846


HILTON, BOYD

Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 757pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: England English history culture politics ideology

$40.00
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The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania


D'ARCY, PAUL

ASSOCIATION COPY - WARM & LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, super octavo, blue heavy boards, blue gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 292pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edgeslight fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2006

KEYWORDS: association copy Oceania Pacific history social life customs culture navigation maritime anthropology environmental conditions environment nautical

$190.00
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French Explorers in the Pacific: the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century (2 Vol Set)


DUNMORE, JOHN

2 VOL SET, first editions, OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, vol 1- vi + 356pp, vol 2- 428pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards of vol 2, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG/VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading & scuffing/surface loss to spine & edges, vol 2 price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965-69

KEYWORDS: exploration Pacific ocean islands French explorers history anthropology 18th 19th eighteenth nineteenth century

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