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$15.00
xxktm189950

The Otago High School Magazine, Vol XXX, December 1914, No. 3


N/A

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

$15.00
xxktm189951

The Otago High School Magazine, Vol X, December 1919, No. 2


N/A

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

$22.50
xxktm189953

Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story


QUILL, JEFFREY

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

$22.50
xxktm189958

Gold-Dust and Ashes: The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields (Fourteenth Edition)


IDRIESS, ION L.

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

$17.50
xxktn189962

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson


WARD, GEOFFREY C.

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

$38.50
xxkub189967

Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography


MILLS, RINSEY

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

$25.00
xxkub189970

Maori: A Photographic and Social History (Revised Edition)


KING, MICHAEL

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

$15.00
xxkub189972

On This Day in New Zealand


PALENSKI, RON

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

$15.00
xxkub189974

A Long Road Home: In the Footsteps of the WPA Writers


O'GARA, GEOFFREY

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

$15.00
xxkuc189981

In Memory's Diadem: A Message of Comfort to the Bereaved in War Time


BLACK, W. BOWER

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

$38.50
xxkuh190011

The Sky Belongs to Them


WINFIELD, DR. ROLAND & ROXBURGH, H. L. (intro.)

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

$22.50
xxkuh190012

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia


OVERY, RICHARD

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

$65.00
1c76a/15

In Bohemia


HARVEY, JAMES CLARENCE & MUCHA, A (Illus)

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

$40.00
1c76a/18

A History of Ancient Sculpture


MITCHELL, LUCY M.

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

$75.00
1c76a/19

The Anzac Book


THE MEN OF ANZAC

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

$65.00
1c76a/21

Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970


HARRIS, AMANDA & FOSTER, SHANNON & ONUS, TIRIKI & SIMPSON, NARDI

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

$500.00
1c76a/31

Photographic Record of the War: Reproductions of Pictures Taken by the Australian Official Photographers


BEAN, C. E. W. (Annotated by) & GULLETT, H. S. (Annotated by)

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

$100.00
1c76a/32

Spengler Letters 1913-1936


SPENGLER, OSWALD & HELPS, ARTHUR (Trans & Ed)

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

$200.00
1c76a/34

Myths & Legends of the Polynesians


ANDERSEN, JOHANNES C. & WALLWORK, RICHARD (Illus)

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

$275.00
1c76a/37

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

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

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