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Corvette; America's Supercar
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
The Tramways of Australia
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
Warships Today; Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Warships
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
Ataturk; The Rebirth of a Nation
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
The Ottoman Centuries; The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
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
The Claws of the Dragon; Kang Sheng - The Evil Genius Behind Mao - And His Legacy of Terror in People's China
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
Dangerous Allies
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
McMafia; Crime Without Frontiers
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
Russia; Experiment with a People; From 1991 to the Present
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
Dancing On Our Bones: New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism
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
Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China
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
These Horned Islands
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
Tropic Temper
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
A History of the Microbiology Department 1950-2010 [University of Otago]
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
When I Left Home: My Story
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
A History of Latin America: c.1450 to the present
Second Edition
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
The Mount Aspiring Region
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
China Remembers
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
A History of Modern Lebanon
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
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
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