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xxyme190364

The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconsitution of Social Order


FUKUYAMA, FRANCIS

FIRST EDITION; 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: The Free Press 1999

KEYWORDS: first edition francis fukuyama history economics

$16.50
xxyme190366

The Western Front Diaries: The Anzac's Own Story, Battle by Battle


A Special 100th-Anniversary Edition

KING, JONATHAN

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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.

PUBLISHER: Scribe 2015

KEYWORDS: world war one 1 first ww1 anzac western front military history new zealand australia diaries

$15.00
xxyme190367

James Joyce: Bloomsday Magazine 2000


MEADE, DECLAN (ed.) & [JOYCE, JAMES]

Quarto 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: The James Joyce Centre 2000

KEYWORDS: james joyce bloomsday magazine ireland irish literature history centre interviews criticism

$22.50
xxyme190376

Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference


SOBER, ELLIOTT

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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.

PUBLISHER: Bradford / MIT Press 1991

KEYWORDS: elliott sober formal logic biology methodology science scientific history

$30.00
xxyme190377

Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship


REICH, CHANAN

SOME DAMP ISSUES; 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: Melbourne University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: australia israel politics diplomacy political history israeli australian

$20.00
xxyme190389

Life of the Very Reverend Mother Marie du Couer de Jesus, nee Euphrasie Barbier, Foundress and First Superioress General of the Institute of the Daughters of Notre Dame des Missions


COULOMB, L'ABBE A.

FIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY, 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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.

PUBLISHER: H. Dessian / Holy See 1914

KEYWORDS: abbot a. coulomb vatican mother marie du couer-de-jesus biography catholic catholicism christianity spirituality religion history first edition ex-library

$16.50
xxyme190399

Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It


EDWARDS, CHRIS & MITCHELL, EDWARD 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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.

PUBLISHER: Cato Institute 2008

KEYWORDS: tax competition economics politics history chris edwards daniel j mitchell conservatism neoconservatism

$16.50
xxyme190400

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web By Its Inventor


BERNERS-LEE, TIM & FISCHETTI, MARK

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: HarperSanFrancisco 1999

KEYWORDS: tim berners-lee internet world wide web technology history

$40.00
1e4a/8

Gonig Up: An Informal History of the Elevator from the Pyramids to the Present


GAVOIS, JEAN

Lg quarto, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 165pp, illus, VG (light water staining to base of boards & spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light water staining to internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Otis Elevator Company 1983

KEYWORDS: architecture engineering elevators history Otis business buildings high rise highrise construction

$95.00
1e4a/10

The Church in New Zealand: Memoirs of the Early Days


WILSON, J. J.

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to boards, 255pp + index to rear, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss to board edges, moderate discolouration & cracking/insect damage to spine, red tape repairs to spine base, moderate to heavy discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, moderate insect damage & heavy cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: J J Wilson 1910

KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion Christianity church Christian history settlers pioneers

$45.00
1e4a/21

Cheerful Yesterdays


ALPERS, The Hon. O. T. J. & EARL OF BIRKENHEAD (Preface)

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by author & with portrait loosely enclosed, super octavo, blue quarter leather bound blue buckram boards, gilt lettering with gilt tooling to spine, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 370pp, VG (sl bruising to extrems, moderate fading & discolouration to spine, light to moderate fading & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to prelims) with loosely enclosed VG+ portrait

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1928

KEYWORDS: deluxe first editions signed O T J Alpers New Zealand history autobiography memoir pioneers

$40.00
1e4a/25

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation


CHANCELLOR, EDWARD

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to dark grey spine, xiv + 386pp, VG+ (light bruising & foxing to board edges/extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light creasing to top corners of pgs 113-132) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light foxing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1999

KEYWORDS: economics history finance financial

$175.00
1e4a/28

The World Crisis 1915


CHURCHILL, The Rt, Hon. WINSTON S.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering to front board, 557pp, folding maps, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate chafing & light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm ink markings to ffep, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, minor archival repair to pgs 531-33)

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1923

KEYWORDS: first editions Winston Churchill early 20th twentieth century history

$40.00
1e4b/4

Tour de France: The Complete History of the World's Greatest Cycle Race (Ninth Edition)


LAZELL, MARGUERITE

Quarto, illusglossy heavy boards, black & yellow lettering to spine, illus prelims, 232pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Carlton Books 2013

KEYWORDS: sport cycling history road racing tour de France

$70.00
1e4b/6

Trekking the Great Thirst: Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert


HODSON, ARNOLD W. & NELLEN, A. E. (Ed) & WILLIAMS, Sir RALPH (Introductory Note) & SELOUS, F. C. (Fore)

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 359pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to board corners, moderate fading to spine with light bruising & 1cm crack to top edge, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, moderate foxing sporadically to pages throughout, light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1914

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing adventure Kalahari Desert history

$40.00
1e4b/8

Return to Tomorrow: 50 Years of Computing in New Zealand


TOLAND, JANET (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, 162pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, lg amusing meme printed & glued in to ffep with sm ink inscription just above- wrinkled)

PUBLISHER: NZCS 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history social cultural computers computing technology

$450.00
1e4b/11

Persian Days


AMORY Jr., COPLEY

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN D/W, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp illus to front board, illus front eps, frontispiece, xviii + 230pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate chafing & surface loss to spine & boards, light soiling to boards, light to moderate taning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with loss to edges, moderate fading/discolouration to spine, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1928

KEYWORDS: first editions travel literature writing Persia culture social history Copley Amory Jr

$90.00
1e4b/16

The Church in New Zealand Volume II: In the Path of the Pioneers


WILSON, J. J.

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 219pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & chipping to spine & extrems, heavy bruising to board edges, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, various ex-libris ink stamps & pencil markings to eps & thorughout, light foxing sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Tablet Printing and Publishing Co 1926

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history church Christianity Christian pioneers settlers religion religious

$40.00
1e4b/23

New Stock Trend Detector: A review of the 1929-1932 Panic and the 1932-1935 Bull Market


GANN, WILLIAM D.

Super octavo, purple heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 191pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, moderate fadign to spine & edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Lambert Gann Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: stocks stock market trading finance money history trends trend detector

$125.00
1e4b/26

Maori and Early European Explorations in Western Otago; A Lecture


PARK, Professor JAMES

SCARCE, POSSIBLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT; Octavo stapled green light card covers, 14pp, VG- (inscription to top of front cover in pencil reads Professor Cotton with complements, additional v shaped mark in pencil next to inscription appears to have been added later, heavy vertical crease along middle of entire pamphlet where previously folded in half, additional approx. 15cm light crease to bottom right section of front cover, additional small creases or folds to cover/page corners, light soiling & moisture staining and heavy tanning/fading to covers, partial remnant of sticker to rear cover, light scuffing/rubbing to extrems resulting in approx. 2cm closed tear along bottom of staple fold, owner's name in black ink to first page, intermittent light soiling/foxing to pages, light staining to pages from staple rust)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co., Ltd. 1922

KEYWORDS: professor james park maori early europeans explorations expeditions travel colonialism western otago south island new zealand dunedin witness daily times history lecture pamphlets scarce

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