Books - "history"
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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini
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: Chatto & Windus 2017
KEYWORDS: history Italy Italian fascism politics political Mussolini revolution resistance
Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage
LACKS D/W, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Travel Book Club 1951
KEYWORDS: Nelson Cole Haley Charles W Morgan maritime nautical autobiography history
Verve: The Sound of America
Quarto, blue heavy boards, silver & gilt lettering to spine & boards, illus prelims, 399pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 2013
KEYWORDS: jazz music musicians entertainment US America American history biographies
Queenstown's Farms & Sheep Stations: Families That Farmed the Land
Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 159pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing & curling to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl water staining to top page corners)
PUBLISHER: Bill McDonald 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Queenstown Lakes District farming sheep agriculture settlers pioneers history
One-Man War: The Jock McLaren Story
Octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, 189pp, VG (sl bruising & discolouration to extrems & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate crack to gutter of pgs114-115) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1957
KEYWORDS: military history biography memoir Jock McLaren Pacific War
Infantry Brigadier
THIRD IMPRESSION, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 371pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, sl staining/discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipipng to edges, heavy open tearing & loss to top spine extrem, moderate soiling & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1951
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders soldiers military history Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger 20 twenty NZ battalion ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii
The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 384pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to ffep, light cracking to gutter of pg171) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, price clipped, light fading to spine, in removable plastic cover)
PUBLISHER: The Woburn Press 1973
KEYWORDS: entertainment old b movies matinee cinema history heroes silver screen superheroes
Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940
Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx + 307pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press2005
KEYWORDS: petroleum industry market California history trade government policy energy fossil fuels 20th twentieth century
Danmarks Land
TEXT IN DANISH, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & black illus to front board, patterned eps, 359pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to gutters- binding sloppy/loose, gift inscription in ink to verso of title page, light to moderate foxing to pgs sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters with some pgs detached but present- not counted presumed all present)
PUBLISHER: Gyldendalske Boghandel N/D (c.1910s)
KEYWORDS: text in Danish Denmark culture history illustrated C C Clausen J J Nielsen
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE - ASSOCIATION COPY! Imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xvii + 398pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: ABC-CLIO 2005
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian New Zealand Pacific environmental history anthropology geography human ecology oceania nature environment signed association copy
Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory
OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, cream lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 390pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light creasing, curling & tanning/discolouration to spine & covers with some sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian prehistory ancient history antiquity archaeology archeology anthropology hunting prehistoric Aboriginals Aborigine
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846
Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 757pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: England English history culture politics ideology
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, brown nautical illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xviii + 345pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing & discolouration to extrems, sl fading to spine, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name (K R Howe) in ink to front pastedown, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Australian National University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: exploration Pacific landfinding nautical maritime naviagation history voyages voyaging
The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania
ASSOCIATION COPY - WARM & LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, super octavo, blue heavy boards, blue gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 292pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edgeslight fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2006
KEYWORDS: association copy Oceania Pacific history social life customs culture navigation maritime anthropology environmental conditions environment nautical
French Explorers in the Pacific: the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, vol 1- vi + 356pp, vol 2- 428pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards of vol 2, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG/VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading & scuffing/surface loss to spine & edges, vol 2 price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965-69
KEYWORDS: exploration Pacific ocean islands French explorers history anthropology 18th 19th eighteenth nineteenth century
Football Grounds of Britain (Third Edition)
Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, red lettering to spine, 480pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: CollinsWillow 1996
KEYWORDS: English soccer football grounds history sport
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932
Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 592pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems & edges, light soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light creasing & soiling with pen markings, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2007
KEYWORDS: Pablo Picasso art history biographies memoir criticism appreciation
The History of Preston North End Football Club: The Power, the Politics and the People
Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 303pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: PNE Publications 2000
KEYWORDS: English soccer football Preston North End fc pne sport history
A Time of Transition: Whakarongo School District Twelve Decades On
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, vi + 118pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing, curling, tanning & soiling to spine & covers, heavy crack to gutter of pgs 2-3 with some pgs loose but still attached)
PUBLISHER: Whakarongo School & District 120th Jubilee Committee 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand education school history Whakarongo 120th jubilee
Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present
Revised and Updated
Rounded quarto 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: Black Dog & Leventhal 2011
KEYWORDS: america american baseball field parks fields stadiums ballpark ballparks history sport sports major minor negro league leagues