BECKETT, J. V.

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 512pp, maps to prelims, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1986

KEYWORDS: England English history high society aristocracy gentry nobility

PITTOCK, MURRAY

Super octavo, purple heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xiv + 485pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (in removable protective plastic cover)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2022

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history culture global nationalism

BELTING, HANS

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 480pp, illus/photos, VG (minimal library markings, light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2001

KEYWORDS: modern art history 20th twentieth century masterpieces appreciation criticism

HUGHES, NOEL J.

Tidy ex-library, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, viii + 159pp, VG (minimal library markings- none external, moderate creasing to spine & cover edges, light label residue/staining to front cover, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Institution of Engineers of Ireland 1982

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Irish engineering history historical texts

TRUESDALE, DAVID

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 338pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to board edges & extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Helion & Company 2016

KEYWORDS: military history British 1st airborne division parachute ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

LANKESTER, RONALD F.

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, iv + 80pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Robson Lowe 1972

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history stamps postage communism philately philatelic

AZIZ, K. K.

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 626pp, VG (minimal library markings, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor tape residue & staining to board edges & eps, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & adhesive residue to edges, 5cm closed tear to base of rear cover, light tanning to spine, sl chafing & tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs 1970

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Pakistan history historical texts

WALTER, DAVID

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, 272pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & spine, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand banking tsb bank history finance biography New Plymouth Savings Bank

RONAYNE, CHRIS

Quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 129pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges)

PUBLISHER: David Ling Publishing 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history rackets club Herne Bay Ponsonby

GRIMES, ARTHUR (Ed) & WEVERS, LYDIA (Ed) & SULLIVAN, GINNY (Ed)

Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, v + 363pp, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover egdes, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Institute of Policy Studies / Victoria University of Wellington 2002

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian New Zealand Aborigines Maori indigenous people history political science social commentary

ALSOP, PETER & REED, ANNA & WOLFE, RICHARD

Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, white & yellow lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 424pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2018

KEYWORDS: Leonard Cornwall Victor Mitchell New Zealand art artists history biographies memoir

VON HABSBURG, GEZA et al

Lg quarto, cream cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 421pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / Skira Rizzoli 2011

KEYWORDS: faberge fine arts exhibition Virginia Museum Karl Faberge eggs history

GORDON-SMITH, GORDON & BOSHKOVITCH, M. S. (Preface)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, folding map/frontispiece, xvi + 319pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading & light foxing to spine, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout, light cracking to gutters sporadically thorughout)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1916

KEYWORDS: military history Serbia Serbian army the great war ww1 first 1st world war one i 1

HARRISON, E. J.

SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 352pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & cracking to spine extrems, moderate tanning to spine, 2cm crack to rear hinge, light discolouration to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, & eps, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1914

KEYWORDS: history Japan Japanese combat

TROTTER, ANN

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 277pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light discolouration to board edges, light foxing to top page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate soiling to front cover, light tanning & foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: international relations foreign Great Britain British East Asia diplomatic diplomacy history

EVTUHOV, CATHERINE & GOLDFRANK, DAVID & HUGHES, LINDSEY & STITES, RICHARD

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white & blue lettering to spine, xix + 840pp + appendices & index to rear, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company 2004

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history culture politics

MEDVEDEVA, G. & PLATONOVA, N. & POSTNIKOVA-LOSEVA, M. & SMORODINOVA, G. & TROEPOLSKAYA, N. & FRIEDMAN, VLADIMIR (trans) & ILF, ALEXANDRA (trans)

TEXT IN RUSSIAN & ENGLISH; Large quarto blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 343pp, colour photo illus, VG+ (v. light soiling to boards, v. light scuffing to page edges, light foxing/discolouration to page edges and prelims/terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping to extrems, 2.5cm closed tear to front cover near top of spine, light foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers 1987

KEYWORDS: text in russian and english jewellery moscow historical museum history historical 16th sixteenth 17th seventeenth 18th eighteenth 19th nineteenth 20th twentieth century art ornaments costumes fashion catalogues illustrated soviet crafts

BOLLINGER, CONRAD

FIRST EDITION; Sm. octavo illus heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, 192pp, illus black & white plates, VG- (moderate soiling to boards, moderate scuffing/bruising to boards & spine extrems, slight surface loss to spine extrems, heavy creasing and sun-fading to spine, light creasing to page corners, light cracking to gutters, owner's name in blue ink to fep, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, moderate-heavy tanning/browning to page edges & extrems - more-so to plates, light dampstaining to some page edges)

PUBLISHER: Price Milburn & Co. Ltd. 1959

KEYWORDS: conrad bollinger grog's own country new zealand history liquor licensing laws legislation regulation policing law legal acts traffic alcohol drinking culture cultural social bars pubs trading trade business

BOSWELL, JACKSON CAMPBELL

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY; Super octavo red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xv+264pp, VG+ (light rubbing to spine extrems & corners, v. light soiling to boards, usual library markings to spine & prelims, discreet light grazing to rear ep/pastedown, v. light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1975

KEYWORDS: john milton ex library catalogue annotated reconstruction ancillary readings books collections reference english england poets writers authors intellectuals civil servants stuart reformation period era history indexes

SMITH, Jr., MYRON J. (compiled by) & ZUMWALT, Jr., Admiral E. R. (foreword) & KANE, Jr., Rear Admiral JOHN D.H. (historical note by)

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, Super octavo blue cloth boards, white lettering to spine, xx+539pp, VG+ (v. slight soiling & rubbing to boards & spine, usual library markings, labels & stamps to spine, eps & prelims)

PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company, Inc. 1984

KEYWORDS: ex library united states navy coast guard maritime military naval history bibliography english language works 16mm films reference indexes guides u.s.a. us myron j smith cinema media books publications 20th century