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$25.00
xxsii181416

What A Laugh; Autobiography by Les Andrews QSM


ANDREWS, LES

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: Gilchrist Holdings Limited 1998

KEYWORDS: new zealand south canterbury timaru autobiography history les andrews entertainment music broadcasting singing opera memoirs

$40.00
1y99c/71

Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel


DONNELLY, IGNATIUS & SHEPARD, LESLIE (Intro)

LACKS D/W, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained orange, frontispiece, xii + 452pp + bibliography to rear, illus, VG (boards sl warped, moderate soiling/mould staining - no smell - to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate foxing & soiling/damp staining to eps, moderate damp wrinkling to rear pgs)

PUBLISHER: University Books 1970

KEYWORDS: ancient history civilisations civilizations destruction planetary earth comets catastrophe

$95.00
1y99c/74

The Gaoler


LOCKE, ELSIE

UNCOMMON, octavo, orange patterned heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 233pp, illus, VG (spine cocked, light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page & preface page) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing, chipping & loss to edges, moderate fading & soiling to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to covers, moderate tanning to flap edges)

PUBLISHER: The Dunmore Press 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa Dunedin prison old jail gaol justice law history incarceration prisoners Elsie Locke

$40.00
1y99c/77

The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies


PATERSON, MARK

Super octavo, illus light card covers, light brown lettering to spine, ix + 203pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, occasional underlining in pencil to text, moderate creasing/fold to top corner of pgs 83/84)

PUBLISHER: Berg Publishers 2007

KEYWORDS: history philosophy touch psychology senses

$60.00
1y99c/89

Wings & Waves: The Fleet Air Arm 1919-1939


STARMER, MIKE & FREEMAN, PETER

Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black, red & blue lettering to spine, illus eps, 72pp, illus, Near FINE (sl chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Aviation Workshop Publications 2008

KEYWORDS: aviation military history planes aeroplanes navy naval ships design engineering

$225.00
1y99d/1

The Cambridge Illustrated History of The Middle Ages 350-1520 (3 Vol Set)


FOSSIER, ROBERT (Ed) & SONDHEIMER, JANET et al (Trans)

3 VOL SET IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, peach heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, xviii-xxv + 544-556pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w & mylar protective covers- removable, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spines) in slipcase, VG (moderate scuffing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1997-1998

KEYWORDS: medieval history illustrated middle ages Europe

$40.00
1y99d/11

Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward and Archaeology of Modernism


VOGT, ADOLF MAX & DONNELL, RADKA (Trans)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xv + 365pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to spine & covers, light soiling & tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 1998

KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology architecture buildings Le Corbusier philosophy history

$30.00
xxsii181425

Our Halcyon Dayes; English Prerevolutionary Texts and Postmodern Culture


VENUTI, LAWRENCE

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: The University of Wisconsin Press, Ltd. 1989

KEYWORDS: english literature early modern england history literary criticism studies society great britain historiography postmodernism marxism academic texts

$30.00
xxsii181426

Shakespeare's Perjured Eye; The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets


FINEMAN, JOEL

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, Ltd. 1988

KEYWORDS: william shakespeare sonnets english literature literary history criticism laudatory poetry poems academic texts

$25.00
xxsii181427

Theatre and religion; Lancastrian Shakespeare


DUTTON, RICHARD & FINDLAY, ALISON & WILSON, RICHARD (eds)

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: Manchester University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: william shakespeare english literature literary history criticism academic texts early modern england roman catholicism lancastrian elizabethan essays anthologies

$25.00
xxsii181428

Thomas Mann; Eros & Literature


HEILBUT, ANTHONY

Super Octavo hardcover (VG+) with 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: Macmillan 1996

KEYWORDS: thomas mann german germany literature literary biographies history

$35.00
xxsii181430

A History of Girls' Comics


BREWER, SUSAN & WYNTER, MARK (foreword)

FIRST EDITION Super Octavo hardcover (Nr FINE) 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: Remember When 2010

KEYWORDS: girls comics susan brewer history womens teens first edition art cartoons illustrated black and white colour photos

$22.50
xxsik181433

Young Stalin


MONTEFIORE, SIMON SEBAG

Super Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ex-library; 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007

KEYWORDS: biography joseph stalin politics soviet union ussr russia history communism authoritarianism simon sebag montefiore

$15.00
xxsik181434

A Spy's London


BERKELEY, ROY & WEST, NIGEL (foreword)

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: Leo Cooper 1994

KEYWORDS: london england great britain spies espionage history walking tour guide maps

$35.00
xxsik181435

Convention; 1500-1750


MANLEY, LAWRENCE

Super Octavo hardcover (Nr FINE) with 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: Harvard University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: philosophy literature criticism history european literary theory convention early modern england europe renaissance academic texts

$15.00
xxsik181436

The Great War


TERRAINE, JOHN

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: Wordsworth Editions Limited 1998

KEYWORDS: world war one wwi great military global history illustrated black and white photos maps

$20.00
xxsik181438

A Blessed Shore; England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespear


THOMAS, ALFRED

Super Octavo hardcover (Nr FINE) with 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: Cornell University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: travelers literature history bohemia czechia czech republic england chaucer shakespeare english literary studies criticism academic texts

$28.50
xxsim181449

The Wisden Book of Obituaries: Obituaries From Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1892-1985


GREEN, BENNY (Compiled)

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: Queen Anne Press/Macdonald & Co 1986

KEYWORDS: collection anthology obituaries cricket sport wisden history almanacks

$10.00
xxsip181450

Chase Me a Kiwi: A Portrait of New Zealand


ABBERLEY, ALDWYN

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 Tantivy Press 1947

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa culture history

$20.00
xxsip181452

Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There


BAKER, MARK

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: William Morrow & Company 1981

KEYWORDS: Vietnam war military history soldiers biographies anecdotes

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