Books - "history"
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What A Laugh; Autobiography by Les Andrews QSM
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
Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
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
The Gaoler
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
The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies
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
Wings & Waves: The Fleet Air Arm 1919-1939
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
The Cambridge Illustrated History of The Middle Ages 350-1520 (3 Vol Set)
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
Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward and Archaeology of Modernism
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
Our Halcyon Dayes; English Prerevolutionary Texts and Postmodern Culture
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
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye; The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets
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
Theatre and religion; Lancastrian Shakespeare
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
Thomas Mann; Eros & Literature
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
A History of Girls' Comics
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
Young Stalin
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
A Spy's London
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
Convention; 1500-1750
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
The Great War
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
A Blessed Shore; England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespear
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
The Wisden Book of Obituaries: Obituaries From Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1892-1985
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
Chase Me a Kiwi: A Portrait of New Zealand
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
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
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