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$40.00
1s10a/13

A History of Modern Indonesia Since c.1300 (Second Edition)


RICKLEFS, M C

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 378pp, VG+ (sl scuffing & sioling to boards & edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1993

KEYWORDS: Indonesia history culture government politics

$40.00
1s10a/14

The Beloved Princess: Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Lonely Daughter of a Lonely Queen


PEARCE, CHARLES E

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus/portrait to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: royalty royal family Princess Charlotte of Wales monarchy history first editions British

$40.00
1s10a/15

Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century


FAIRHOLT, F W & DILLON, The Hon. H A (Enlarged & Revised by)

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, 415pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light cracking to some gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: George Bell and Sons 1885

KEYWORDS: England English history clothing fashion textiles culture costumes

$40.00
1s10a/22

Annotated Bibliography for the History of Medicine & Health in New Zealand


DOW, DEREK A (Compiled by)

Super octavo, glossy illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xx + 322pp, VG+ (light scuffing to dges of covers, sl soiling to covers, prev owners name in ink to fep, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Otago 1994

KEYWORDS: bibliography biblioghraphies catalogues history health medicine New Zealand

$45.00
1s10a/25

Southern Lights: The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37


RYMILL, JOHN & STEPHENSON, A & BERTRAM, C G L

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, x + 298pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Scott Polar Research Institute 2012

KEYWORDS: Graham Land expedition exploration history south pole antarctica observations

$45.00
1s10a/26

Color Profiles of World War 1 Combat Planes


APOSTOLO, GIORGIO (Text) & BIGNOZZI, GIORGIO (Text) & McADOO, DALE (Trans) & GREEN, WILLIAM (Intro)

Lg quarto, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 208pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to board & spine edges/extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Crescent Books 1974

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war i 1 one the great war combat aerial combat planes fighter aviation design identification markings

$40.00
1s10a/32

Germany Under Three Emperors


RADZIWILL, PRINCESS CATHERINE

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 379pp, illus, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, heavy fading to spine, moderate fading to board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front & rear pastedowns, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light occasional cracking to some gutters, moderate foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1917

KEYWORDS: first editions Germany German history rulers leaders empire Prussia Austria Russia government

$100.00
1s18b/1

Wanderings in the Middle East


SLOAN, A

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled lower page edges, frontispiece, 318pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine &edges with loss & tidy archival tape repairs, moderate staining & discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1924

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Middle East A Sloan Palestine Syria Iraq culture customs first editions history

$40.00
1s18b/5

The Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany


WILHELM II, CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 299pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate scuffing & tanning to spine, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters throughout, moderate foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1922

KEYWORDS: first editions history Germany German crown prince Wilhelm ii 2nd second memoirs autobiography Kaiser Prussia

$960.00
1s18b/7

Observations on the State of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand


FENTON, F D

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE, quarto, blue stiff card boards, black handwritten lettering to title plate on front cover, blue buckram spine, unpaginated prelims, 44pp, folding appendices, VG- (heavy creasing & scuffing to spine & covers with heavy staining & loss also, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to front & rear gutter/hinge- front cover shaky/partially detached, heavy staining to top page edges)

PUBLISHER: W C Wilson, Gov't Printer 1859

KEYWORDS: anthropology New Zealand Australia Australian Aboriginal population history tribes first editions

$60.00
1s18b/8

Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion


FLUSSER, ALAN

Quarto, black heavy boards, black glossy lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 351pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl chafing to boards, sl wrinkling to pages) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Abrams 2019

KEYWORDS: fashion design designers Ralph Lauren history clothing

$245.00
1s18b/9

Old Korea: The Land of Morning Calm


KEITH, ELIZABETH & SCOTT, ELSPET KEITH ROBERTSON

FIRST EDITION, ex-library, quarto, cream buckram boards, black & red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 72pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, usual library markings, sm ex-libris label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to eps, heavy cracking to some gutters, some plates loose, light soiling & foxing to pages thorughout)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1946

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Asia Korea history culture first editions

$55.00
1s18b/22

The Modernist Muslim Movement in Indonesia 1900-1942


NOER, DELIAR

Octavo, illus purple light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, illus eps, x + 390pp, VG- (heavy chafing/surface loss & soiling to spine & covers, heavy fading to spine, moderate tanning & staining to page edges, moderate creasing & chafing/scuffing to eps & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1973

KEYWORDS: Indonesia Indonesian history religion religious Muslim Islam Islamic early 20th twentieth century

$55.00
1s18b/26

Now Showing: A History of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery


BARTON, CHRISTINA (Ed) & BYWATER, JONATHAN (Ed) & CURNOW, WYSTAN (Ed)

Lg quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, grey lettering to spine, printed eps, 300pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & creasing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 2016

KEYWORDS: art history New Zealand Govett-Brewster art gallery

$40.00
1s18b/30

The Malays


MILNER, ANTHONY

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 293pp, VG+ (light chafing & curling to covers/edges, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell 2011

KEYWORDS: Asian history culture Malay civilisation civilization

$15.00
xxpea194020

Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community


RAVIV, DAN & MELMAN, YOSSI

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: Houghton Mifflin 1991

KEYWORDS: Israel idf military espionage history spies intelligence

$15.00
xxpea194021

Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways


FRATER, ALEXANDER

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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1987

KEYWORDS: commercial aviation air travel history aeronautics Imperial Airways passenger transport

$12.50
xxpea194024

The Long Yarn of the Law: A Brief History of Policing in New Zealand


MCMORRAN, FIONA & BELL, DAVID (Drawings by)

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: P D Hasselberg, Gov't Printer 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand law enforcement police history

$20.00
xxpea194026

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture


DOLLIMORE, JONATHAN

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 1998

KEYWORDS: death mortality culture beliefs history

$19.50
xxpfg194040

SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers


LEWIS, DAMIEN

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: Quercus 2020

KEYWORDS: military history SAS nazi ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 elite forces war criminals

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