Books - "history"
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Them & Us: Britain, Ireland, and the Northern Question 1969-1982
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: Ward River Press 1983
KEYWORDS: james downey northern ireland britain british irish question troubles thatcher-haughey history conflict politics
Divided Ulster
A Penguin Special
Paperback (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 1970
KEYWORDS: ulster liam de paor northern ireland britain british irish question troubles thatcher-haughey history conflict politics
To Take Arms: A Year in the Provisional IRA
Paperback (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: Quartet Books 1973
KEYWORDS: provisional ira maria mcguire republicana army northern ireland britain british irish question troubles thatcher-haughey history conflict politics
On the Blanket: The H-Block Story
Paperback (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: Ward River Press 1980
KEYWORDS: ira h-block republican army northern ireland britain british irish question troubles thatcher-haughey history conflict politics tim pat coogan long kesh hm prison maze
Handbook of North American Indians (Volume 9; Southwest)
This volume only; 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: Smithsonian Institution 1979
KEYWORDS: handbook of north american indians series northern alfonso ortiz william c sturtevant southwest anthropology indigenous aboriginal native studies history prehistory culture cultural archeology archaeology encyclopedias encyclopaedias
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xvi + 449pp, illus, VG (light creasing & bruising/wrinkling tospine & covers, light fading to lettering on spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to inside front cover, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996
KEYWORDS: science museums Italy Italian natural history
The Maginot Line: History and Guide
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xii + 308pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling ot spine & cover egdes, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword 2021
KEYWORDS: military history maginot line Europe fortifications ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, frontispiece, 288pp, illus, VG+ (sunning to spine and covers)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history exploration adventure Tuai Ngare Raumati Maori Bay of Islands
Flyers of Time: Pioneer Aviation in Country Victoria
Quarto, illus heavy boards, maroon letters to spine, illus title page & prelims, 407pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Kevin M O'Reilly 2012
KEYWORDS: civil aviaiton history Australia Australian Victoria flight transport flight
Gabriel's Gully and Dunedin in 1861
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, stapled light card covers, white lettering to front cover, 23pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & moderate chafing/scuffing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1957
KEYWORDS: signed A H Reed New Zealand Otago Dunedin history Gabriel's Gully
From East Cape to Cape Egmont: A Pictorial Record of an East-West Walk
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light chafing & soiling to covers, minor rusting to staples, closed tearing to spine)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1962
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history A H Reed
The Nazi Movement in the United States 1924-1941
Tidy ex-library, super octavo, black buckram boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 380pp, VG (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, minor tape residue to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor tanning & tape staining to eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, minor closed tearing & yellowing tape repairs to rear)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: nazi movement extreme politics US America American history early 20th twentieth century Hitler hate speech infiltration
Brazilian Adventure
FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, octavo, brown cloth boards, yellow lettering & illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained brown, frontispiece, 414pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading/rubbing to spine, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, heavy cracking to some gutters, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, plate to pgs 278/279 detached but present)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1933
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing exploration Brazil South America American first editions history culture
The National Bibliography of Indian Literature 1901-1953 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, tidy ex-library, super octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, patterned eps, vol 1- viii + 797pp, vol 2- x + 632pp, VG (minimal library markings, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling & tape staining to board edges, light tanning to page edges, tape staining to eps) in d/w, VG (in adhesive covers- probable staining to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, front flaps clipped)
PUBLISHER: Sahitya Akademi 1962-66
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Indian literature early 20th twentieth century history
The Peoples of Malaysia
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey buckram boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained brown, illus eps, xiv + 354pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate chafing to spine & board edges, light to moderate tanning to page edges, light to moderate insect damage & cracking to front & rear gutters, boards shaky, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of half title page, moderate tanning throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss, price clipped, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: D Van Nostrand Company 1945
KEYWORDS: first editions Malaysia history culture anthropology social development
Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History (Second Edition)
Super octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to long title plate on spine, xvii + 388pp, VG- (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & heavy tanning to page edges & eps, heavy tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sumur Bandung 1960
KEYWORDS: essays literature prose collection anthology Indonesia trade economics history
From East Cape to Cape Egmont: A Pictorial Record of an East-West Walk
DATED, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, white stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light chafing & curling to covers with light soiling & foxing, moderate closed tearing & scuffing to spine, minor rusting to staples)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1962
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand A H Reed history East Cape Egmont walking
Bernard Freyberg, VC: Soldier of Two Nations
FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP OF HISTORIAN MICHAEL BASSETT & EPHEMERA LOOSLEY ENCLOSED, super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 627pp, illus/photos, VG (sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, considerable adhesion to photo pages, some minor underlining in ink, occasional foxing throughout) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1991
KEYWORDS: Bernard Freyberg military history biographies memoir New Zealand England
Shikar Sketches with Notes on Indian Field-Sports
CONTEMPORARY REBIND, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spine, red speckling to page egdes, frontispiece with tissue guard, xv + 336pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to extrems, light to moderate scuffing/chafing to leatherwork, light soiling to marbled boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, light tanning to eps, occasional cracking to gutters, light foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Hurst and Blackett 1887
KEYWORDS: India Indian sports culture games hobbies Shikar history
Russia: A History
Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 478pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing & extrems) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light wrinkling & chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history geopolitics