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In the Footsteps of Marsden: A New Zealand Saga


OJALA, O J

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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.

PUBLISHER: Fisher Printing & Stationery 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed O J Ojala salvation army history religion faith

$20.00
xxa3df171540

Southern (Te Kopuru) Football Club Incorporated 1884-1984 Centennial Booklet


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.

PUBLISHER: North Auckland Times (Printer) c.1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rugby football centenary history Southern te kopuru

$20.00
xxa3df171542

Conquering Isolation: The First 50 Years of Air New Zealand


RENNIE, NEIL

NOTE LETTER POSTED TO FEP, quarto hardcovers (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: Heinemann Reed 1990

KEYWORDS: air New Zealand history civil aviation

$25.00
xxa3df171546

Landscape and Western Art


Oxford History of Art

ANDREWS, MALCOLM

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO NZ ART CRITIC FRANCIS POUND; 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: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: inscribed signed landscape western art history visual culture malcolm andrews nature claude friedrich turner cole technology film media studies cinema politics topography geography

$25.00
xxa3df171547

The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won


HANSON, VICTOR DAVIS

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: Basic Books 2020

KEYWORDS: the second world war two ww2 wwii military history global victor david hanson

$26.50
xxa3df171548

Ghost Flames: Life & Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953


HANLEY, CHARLES J.

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: Public Affairs 2020

KEYWORDS: charles j. hanley korea korean war south north america american cold chemical warfare military history proxy east asia asian dprk anticommunism 20th twentieth century conflict

$18.50
xxa3df171552

No Front Line: Australia's Special Forces at War in Afghanistan


MASTERS, CHRIS

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: Allen & Unwin 2017

KEYWORDS: chris masters australia australian military history afghanistan special forces SAS special operations engineer regiment

$17.50
xxa3df171562

The Second World War


BEEVOR, ANTONY

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2014

KEYWORDS: second world war two ww2 wwii military history antony beevor

$16.50
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The Second World War


KEEGAN, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2005

KEYWORDS: second world war two ww2 wwii military history john keegan

$25.00
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Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World


VOLL, JOHN OBERT

Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread, super octavo, grey buckram boards, green lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 397pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping with moderate to heavy fading to spine & edges, light chafing & surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Westview Press 1982

KEYWORDS: Islam religion muslims history development

$40.00
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City of Wellington New Zealand Year Book April 1st 1929 to March 31st 1930


N/A

Sm octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to frotn board, printed pastedowns, 206pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1930

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history year books past issues Wellington

$40.00
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There's Rosemary


H H PRINCESS MONTESQUIOU MONTLUC SIENA

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 282pp, illus/photos, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout, plate to pgs72/73 loose, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (considerable insect damage & archival tape repairs, heavy creasig & chipping/loss to edges, light foxing, moderate tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1933

KEYWORDS: first editions history elite society minor royalty

$40.00
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A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints 1751-1800


TREMAINE, MARIE

Tidy ex-library- possibly unread, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 705pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, light staining to board edges, sl tanning to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1952

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Canada Canadian imprints history historical

$40.00
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Famous Morganatic Marriages


KINGSTON, CHARLES

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine- faded, 284pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising to extrems, heavy tanning to spine, moderate fading & insect damage to board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, light foxing sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters, occasional closed tearing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co 1919

KEYWORDS: first editions marriages social class relationships history biographies

$75.00
1g46a/27

Muhammad and the Jews: A Re-Examination


AHMAD, BARAKAT

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 140pp, VG (usual library markings- mostly internal, light bruising to extrems, light to moderate taoe residue & staining to board edges & eps, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutters) in d/w, VG (heavy adhesive/tape residue & staining to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Vikas Publishing House 1979

KEYWORDS: Jews Jewish history Islam Muhammad conflict religious religion

$90.00
1g46a/28

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States Japan: 1931-1941 in Two Volumes: Volume I


N/A

THIS VOLUME ONLY, tidy ex-library, super octavo, terracotta buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, US government blind stamp to front board, xc + 947pp, folding map to rear, VG (usual library markings, sl bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Government Printing Office 1943

KEYWORDS: government papers foreign relations policy US America American Japan Japanese historical history

$45.00
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Behind the Veil at the Russian Court (Second Impression)


VASSILI, COUNT PAUL

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 408pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems with fraying, moderate warping & soiling to boards & spine, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, heavy cracking to gutters, moderate to heavy foxing to pages throughout, plate at page 34 loose but re-attached at gutter)

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1914

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history imperial family soviet union

$17.50
1g46a/30

Book Trade Bibliography in the United States in the Nineteenth Century


GROWOLL, ADOLPH

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, lxxvii + 79pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning & staining to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Burt Franklin 1939 (Facsimile reprint)

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies books book trade 19th nineteenth century US America American history historical

$50.00
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Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance 1911-1966


NAYLOR, C DAVID

Super octavo, green glossy light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, xii + 324pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light foxing & water staining to page edges)

PUBLISHER: McGill-Queen's University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: Canada Canadian health insurance medicine medical history 20th twentieth policy politics

$50.00
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Henrietta Maria


HAYNES, HENRIETTA

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xv + 335pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading & tanning to spine, moderate staining & discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps & prelims/terminals, light foxing throughout, light to moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1912

KEYWORDS: first editions English history Henrietta Maria monarchy royal family

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