Books - "history"
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The Otago High School Magazine, Vol XXX, December 1914, No. 3
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Otago High School 1914
KEYWORDS: Otago High School magazines past issues historical history
The Otago High School Magazine, Vol X, December 1919, No. 2
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Otago High School 1919
KEYWORDS: Otago High School magazines past issues historical history
Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Crecy Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: military aviation history spitfires fighter pilots planes raf royal air force Jeffrey Quill autobiography memoir
Gold-Dust and Ashes: The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields (Fourteenth Edition)
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1941
KEYWORDS: gold exploration history New Guinea literature Ion L Idriess
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Tidy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
KEYWORDS: sport history boxing Jack Johnson African American biography memoir
Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Haynes Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: Carroll Shelby automotive cars history biographies memoir
Maori: A Photographic and Social History (Revised Edition)
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history Michael King photos photography social
On This Day in New Zealand
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa / Hachette 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history chronology war
A Long Road Home: In the Footsteps of the WPA Writers
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. All online listings are held in Dunedin
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company 1990
KEYWORDS: US America American wpa writers customs travel writing literature federal history
In Memory's Diadem: A Message of Comfort to the Bereaved in War Time
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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.
PUBLISHER: Presbyterian Bookroom 1942
KEYWORDS: second world war two ww2 wwii bereaved widows presbyterian bookroom christchurch new zealand military religious spiritual history
The Sky Belongs to Them
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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1976
KEYWORDS: bomber command air flying cross air force world war two second ww2 2 military history memoir autobiography aviation medicine
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2004
KEYWORDS: history totalitarianism european soviet russia stalin nazi germany world war 2 two second ww2
In Bohemia
Duoedecimo, brown textured heavy boards, black lettering to illus title plate in front board, 207pp, decorated prelims, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light smatterings of foxing to some pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: H. M. Caldwell Co 1905
KEYWORDS: art literature culture Bohemia poems verse James Clarence Harvey Europe history
A History of Ancient Sculpture
Ex-library, rebacked incorporating original illustrated cloth, imperial octavo, teal & red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, aeg, xxxi + 766pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate scuffing to spine & boards, light tanning to pages throughout, light foxing to prelims, light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co 1883
KEYWORDS: ancient history artefacts sculptures art antiquity archeology archaeology
The Anzac Book
Quarto, blue buckram boatrds, gilt lettering to spine, blue lettering & illus plate to front board, frontispiece, xv + 170pp, illus, folding maps, VG- (heavy cracking to lower spine extrems, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges & pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1916
KEYWORDS: anzac military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war Gallipoli soldiers anecdotes stories collection
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xiv + 235pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Academic 2020
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian aboriginal music dance culture customs history indigenous identity
Photographic Record of the War: Reproductions of Pictures Taken by the Australian Official Photographers
SCARCE, THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to front board, x + 753 photos, unpaginated index to rear, VG- (heavy bruising & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, moderate staining to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1923
KEYWORDS: military history the great war ww1 first 1st world war 1 one i photography photos Australian records
Spengler Letters 1913-1936
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue/grey, frontispiece, 320pp, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1966
KEYWORDS: Oswald Spengler letters correspondence collection history philosophy
Myths & Legends of the Polynesians
FIRST EDITION, holograph letter from Andersen tipped in to d/w front flap; also inscribed to Elsdon Best from Andersen, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering with blue & green decoration to spine & front board, deckled/rough cut page edges, frontispiece, 512pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with tape staining also, some occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges- some minor loss, heavy tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Company 1928
KEYWORDS: myths legends Polynesia Polynesian ancient history antiquity folklore lore signed first editions
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature
OWNERSHIP OF JOHN HARRE- NZ ETHNOLOGIST/HISTORIAN, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 515pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to spine & extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, v heavy cracking to gutters- boards sl shaky, light foxing & tanning to prelims, inscription in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1898
KEYWORDS: Malay archipelago nature natural history