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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini


MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE

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

$15.00
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Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage


HALEY, NELSON COLE

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

$100.00
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Verve: The Sound of America


HAVERS, RICHARD

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

$45.00
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Queenstown's Farms & Sheep Stations: Families That Farmed the Land


McDONALD, BILL

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

$75.00
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One-Man War: The Jock McLaren Story


RICHARDSON, HAL

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

$65.00
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Infantry Brigadier


KIPPENBERGER, Major-General Sir HOWARD

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

$45.00
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The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury


HARMON, JIM & GLUT, DONALD F.

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

$60.00
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Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940


SABIN, PAUL

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

$50.00
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Danmarks Land


CLAUSEN, C. C. & NIELSEN, J. J.

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

$40.00
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Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History


GARDEN, DON

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

$50.00
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Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory


LOURANDOS, HARRY

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

$50.00
2g13b/1

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846


HILTON, BOYD

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

$40.00
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We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific


LEWIS, DAVID

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

$40.00
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The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania


D'ARCY, PAUL

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

$190.00
2g13b/6

French Explorers in the Pacific: the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century (2 Vol Set)


DUNMORE, JOHN

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

$150.00
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Football Grounds of Britain (Third Edition)


INGLIS, SIMON

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

$55.00
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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932


RICHARDSON, JOHN & McCULLY, MARILYN

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

$75.00
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The History of Preston North End Football Club: The Power, the Politics and the People


HUNT, DAVID

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

$40.00
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A Time of Transition: Whakarongo School District Twelve Decades On


BURR, VAL

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

$20.00
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Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present


Revised and Updated

LEVENTHAL, JOSH

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

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