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$17.50
xxcfc187196

The Gallant Six Hundred: A Tragedy of Obsessions


HARRIS, JOHN

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: Purnell Book Services 1973

KEYWORDS: military history charge of the Light brigade

$15.00
xxcfc187202

Flight to Freedom


DONNET, MIKE

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: Ian Allan 1974

KEYWORDS: military history aviation raf royal air force autobiography memoir pilots Squadron Leader Mike Donnet

$14.50
xxcgb187222

From Proust to Camus: Profiles of Modern French Writers


MAUROIS, ANDRE & MORSE, CARL (trans.) & BRUCE, RENAUD (trans.)

EX-LIBRARY, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1967

KEYWORDS: andrew maurois modern french writers lit crit literary criticism history france marcel proust albert camus andre gide claudel jean-paul sartre paul valery andre malraux

$35.00
xxcgb187225

Colonial Small Wars 1837-1901


FEATHERSTONE, DONALD

EX-LIBRARY; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1973

KEYWORDS: donald featherstone colonial small wars military history conflict colonialism victorian era britain british illustrated maps ex-library

$12.50
xxcgb187229

Aloft


LANGEWIESCHE, WILLIAM & BANVILLE, JOHN (introd.)

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: Penguin 2010

KEYWORDS: william langewiesche flying aeroplane aeroplanes airplane airplanes aeronautics history technology culture flight

$38.50
xxcgc187230

Airship Pilot No. 28


WILLIAMS, T.B. & LORD VENTRY (forew.)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Wiliam Kimber 1974

KEYWORDS: t.b. bill williams airship airships lighter than air first great world war one ww1 wwi air combat military history hot air balloon balloons

$37.50
xxcgc187234

Graf Zeppelin: The Adventures of an Aerial Globetrotter


VAETH, J. GORDON

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1959

KEYWORDS: graf zeppelin lighter than air aircraft blimp aeronatics flight technology history germany german empire dr. hugo eckener

$15.00
xxcgd187241

Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies


READ, ANTHONY & FISHER, DAVID

EX-LIBRARY, SPINE COCKED; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1984

KEYWORDS: ex-library claude dansey britain british england english espionage intelligence second world war two ww2 wwii history biography anthony read david fisher

$20.00
xxcgd187243

Roger Casement's Diaries: 1910: The Black & the White


SAWYER, ROGER (ed.) & CASEMENT, ROGER

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: Pimlico 1997

KEYWORDS: roger casement ireland irish diplomat easter rising political history human rights anti-imperialism up the republic!

$19.50
xxcgf187246

Canals in Camera -- 2


GAGG, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1971

KEYWORDS: canals england english britain british photographic photos industry history shipping industry technology

$15.00
xxcgf187249

Out of the Ruins, 1931-1981: Drawings and photographs of earthquake damage and 50 years after


WILKINSON, COLIN B.

Oblong octavo stapled wrappers (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: Colin B. Wilkinson 1981

KEYWORDS: 1931 hawke's bay earthquake new zealand natural disaster disasters history

$10.00
xxcgf187250

The Hawke's Bay Earthquake: New Zealand's Greatest Natural Disaster


Second Edition

MCGREGOR, ROBERT

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: Art Deco Trust 2002

KEYWORDS: 1931 hawke's bay earthquake new zealand natural disaster disasters history

$45.00
2f30a/15

Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 428pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to board edges, binding sloppy- boards shaky, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, usual library markings throughout, 3cm closed tear to rear pastedown, light tanning to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss & internal tape reinforcements, moderate chafing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers pioneers settlements Nelson

$65.00
2f30a/17

Waverley 1860-1920


SOLE, LARAINE

EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 300pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing & soiling to spine & cover edges, usual library markings, moderate soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy patch of label residue to inside rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Laraine Sole 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional history Waverley settlers pioneers

$40.00
2f30a/20

Rapaura: A District History


MATTHEWS, NEVIL and PRUE

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, map to ffep, illus prelims, x + 231pp, illus/photos, VG (light curling & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to front eps)

PUBLISHER: Cape Catley 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers pioneers Rapaura Marlborough region district

$100.00
2f30a/27

Whom God Hath Joined Together


HARVEY, STEWART

Quarto, illus light card covers, brown & black lettering to spine, x + 218pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing/curling to cover egdes & spine, sl chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stewart Harvey 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history genealogy settlers pioneers James Settree Francois Marie Paranthoiene

$45.00
2f30b/9

A History of the Orchid


REINIKKA, MERLE A.

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 324pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Timber Press 1995

KEYWORDS: orchids plants flowers history botany culture

$42.50
2f30b/13

Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals


ANDERSON, STUART (Ed)

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xviii + 318pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy fading to spine & front board, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Pharmaceutical Press 2005

KEYWORDS: history medicine pharmacy pharmaceuticals apothecaries health

$40.00
2f30b/14

Music Publishing and Patronage: C F Peters 1800 to the Holocaust


LAWFORD-HINRICHSEN, IRENE & MENUHIN, YEHUDI (Fore)

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 332pp, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Edition Press 2000

KEYWORDS: C F Peters music publishers history publishing

$65.00
2f30b/21

Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore of New Zealand and the South Seas


TREGEAR, E.

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to front board, 165pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate pencil scribbling throughout, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair 1891

KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature fairy tales folklore history

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