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$20.00
xxrja193365

Corvette; America's Supercar


JACKSON, TERRY

Large quarto 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.

PUBLISHER: Quintet Publishing Limited 1990

KEYWORDS: terry jackson corvette america's supercar sportscars automotive industry vehicles transport united states racing history illustrated colour photo plates

$20.00
xxrja193366

The Tramways of Australia


BRIMSON, SAMUEL

Quarto 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.

PUBLISHER: Dreamweaver Books 1983

KEYWORDS: samuel brimson tramways tramcars australian trams public transit transportation pictorial history railways photo illustrated maps

$30.00
xxrja193367

Warships Today; Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Warships


CHANT, CHRIS

Quarto 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.

PUBLISHER: Silverdale Books 2004

KEYWORDS: warships chris chant military combat warfare high-tech specifications specs developmental history guides colour photo illustrated aircraft carriers attack anti submarines cruisers destroyers frigates assault ships missiles boats mine vessels spyships naval helicopters guns maritime

$25.00
xxrjg193369

Ataturk; The Rebirth of a Nation


KINROSS, PATRICK [Lord]

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.

PUBLISHER: Phoenix 1999

KEYWORDS: john patrick douglas balfour lord kinross ataturk mustafa kemal biographies ottoman empire turkey turkish history imperialism 20th twentieth century world war one 1 first wwi great

$20.00
xxrjg193370

The Ottoman Centuries; The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire


Lord KINROSS

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.

PUBLISHER: Morrow Quill Paperbacks 1979

KEYWORDS: john patrick douglas balfour lord kinross ottoman empire turkey turkish history imperialism

$25.00
xxrjg193372

The Claws of the Dragon; Kang Sheng - The Evil Genius Behind Mao - And His Legacy of Terror in People's China


BYRON, JOHN & PACK, ROBERT

Super octavo hardcover (VG-, binding slightly shaky and prelim. pages starting to come loose, but all present) 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: Simon & Schuster 1992

KEYWORDS: john byron robert pack kang sheng biographies biography china chinese history 20th twentieth century political revolutionaries cultural revolution politics politicians communism mao zedong

$25.00
xxrjL193377

Dangerous Allies


FRASER, MALCOLM & ROBERTS, CAIN (with)

Reprint; 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.

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: malcolm fraser cain roberts dangerous allies australian independent strategic dependency foreign policy politics political history international relations national security

$30.00
xxrjL193378

McMafia; Crime Without Frontiers


GLENNY, MISHA

SIGNED; Super octavo hardcover (VG-, some pages starting to come loose at prelims, but all present) in d/w (scruffy 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: The Bodley Head 2008

KEYWORDS: signed misha glenny mcmafia international organised crime economics politics criminal history illegal labour trade mafia gangs gangsters

$19.50
xxrjL193379

Russia; Experiment with a People; From 1991 to the Present


SERVICE, ROBERT

LACKS FEP; 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.

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2002

KEYWORDS: robert service experiment russian identity ussr post-soviet union dissolution fall of communism rise capitalism contemporary recent history boris yeltsin politics political macroeconomics social cultural

$30.00
xxrkc193380

Dancing On Our Bones: New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism


RICHARDS, TREVOR

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: Bridget Williams 1999

KEYWORDS: new zealand south africa rugby sport sports politics racism springbok tour 1981 decolonisation decolonization apartheid african all blacks all-blacks trevor richards culture history

$30.00
xxrkc193387

Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China


YININ, ZHANG & YE, SANG & JENNER, W.J.F. (ed.) & DAVIN, DELIA (ed.) & TERKEL, STUDS (introd.) et al.

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: Pantheon Books 1987

KEYWORDS: china oral history contemporary china modern zhang xinxin sang ye w.j.f. jenner delia davin east asia asian chinese twentieth century

$15.00
xxrkd193391

These Horned Islands


KIRKUP, JAMES

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: Collins 1962 [third impression]

KEYWORDS: japan history sociology culture japanese travel

$19.50
xxrkd193392

Tropic Temper


KIRKUP, JAMES

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: Readers Union Collins 1963

KEYWORDS: malaya malaysia history culture travel sociology

$20.00
xxria193394

A History of the Microbiology Department 1950-2010 [University of Otago]


KALMAKOFF, JAMES

Quarto 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Microbiology Department 2010

KEYWORDS: microbiology microbiolgical department university of otago history academic dunedin kalmakoff james dunedin

$24.50
xxrhg193416

When I Left Home: My Story


GUY, BUDDY & RITZ, DAVID

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: Da Capo Press 2012

KEYWORDS: buddy guy david ritz america american blues music african american african-american black history entertainment culture memoir

$22.50
xxrhh193419

A History of Latin America: c.1450 to the present


Second Edition

BLAKEWELL, PETER

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: Blackwell 2005

KEYWORDS: blackwell history latin america new world colonization colonisation colonialism imperialism twentieth 20th century americas central south

$10.00
xxrhk193427

The Mount Aspiring Region


BISHOP, GRAHAM

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: New Zealand Alpine Club 1989

KEYWORDS: mt aspiring otago lakes district mountaineering climbing new zealand graham bishop mountain mountains alpine history

$19.50
xxrhk193428

China Remembers


LIJIA, ZHANG & MACLEID, CALUM

LACKS D/W; super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: china chinese oral history twentieth century 20th zhang lijia calum macleod people's republic

$50.00
1r12a/5

A History of Modern Lebanon


TRABOULSI, FAWWAZ

Octavo, illus. light card covers, black & white lettering to red spine, xi+306pp, illus - maps, VG+ (v. light rubbing to covers & creasing to corners, small spot of light soiling to rear cover from adhesive residue where sticker prev. removed, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's stamp to inside front cover, top right corner of half-title page cut out)

PUBLISHER: Pluto Press 2007

KEYWORDS: fawwaz traboulsi history modern lebanon lebanese middle eastern ottoman empire twentieth 20th century civil wars warfare military conflicts politics political

$40.00
1r12a/11

Phrenology; Proved, Illustrated, and Applied; Embracing an analysis of the primary mental powers, in their various degrees of development. The phenomena produced by their combined activity, and the Location of the Phrenological Organs in the Head, to


FOWLER, O. S. & FOWLER, L. N. & KIRKHAM, SAMUEL (assisted by)

SPINE DAMAGED WITH SIGNIFICANT SURFACE LOSS; Sm. octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative motif to spine, blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, vi+430pp+4pp publisher's adverts at rear, tatty VG- (spine heavily damaged with roughly two-thirds surface loss & spine coming almost entirely loose at top extrem, hinges heavily cracked, boards wobbly but still attached, light soiling & heavy rubbing, scuffing, fading & fraying to boards, heavy browning/discolouration to page edges, light-moderate foxing/soiling throughout, moreso to prelims/terminals, moderate oil? staining to top right corner of first approx. 25pp, phrenological diagram doodling in v. light pencil by prev. owner to one page at terminals)

PUBLISHER: S. R. Wells & Co. 1878

KEYWORDS: os ln fowler phrenology proved illustrated and applied science pseudoscience brains function neuroscience heads skulls scalp morphology human anatomy anatomical medicine history development practical applications of techniques technical historical phrenological 19th nineteenth century scientific methods guides mental traits illness personality

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