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$35.00
xxadg194800

I Remember Laura: Laura Ingalls Wilder


HINES, STEPHEN W

Imperial 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: Thomas Nelson Publishers 1994

KEYWORDS: literature literary biographies history Laura Ingalls Wilder

$15.00
xxahc194833

The Test Match Career of Freddie Trueman


CLARK, C D

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: David & Charles 1980

KEYWORDS: sport cricket cricketers Freddie Trueman test match careers history England English

$15.00
xxahg194843

Double Century: The Story of MCC and Cricket


LEWIS, TONY

Imperial 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1987

KEYWORDS: sport cricket history Australia Australian mcc Melbourne

$40.00
1t20b/34

Practical Falconry


McKAY, JAMES

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 168pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, light fading/discolouration to spine)

PUBLISHER: Quiller 2010

KEYWORDS: birds ornithology falcons falconry hobbies birds of prey history culture

$160.00
1t32/1

Story With Character: Ten Years of Tipoteca Italiana


BERRA, SANDRO & ZONTA, FABIO (Photography)

Oblong quarto, black cloth boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, 201pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & warping to boards, sl discolouration to board edges, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, rear pastedown partially detached- still very tidy though) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Tipoteca Italiana 2006

KEYWORDS: print printing history characters Tipoteca Italiana

$150.00
1t32/2

The Photobook: A History, Volume 1


PARR, MARTIN & BADGER, GERRY

Lg heavy quarto, black heavy boards, gery lettering to spine & front board, 320pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, sm adhesive label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2004

KEYWORDS: art photography history Martin Parr Gerry Badger

$100.00
1t32/4

The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand


STOCKS, BRONWYN (Ed) & MORGAN, NIGEL (Ed)

Lg quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, blue & white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 286pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & creasing/curling to spine & covers/edges, light fading to spine, light chafing to covers, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan Art Publishing 2008

KEYWORDS: manuscripts illuminations art medieval ancient history religious texts

$65.00
1t32/5

Building Paris: Creating the World's Most Beautiful Capital City


MARSHALL, BRUCE

Sm folio, illus grey heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to base of boards, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading/discolouration, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Endeavour London 2009

KEYWORDS: French cities France Paris history buildings infrastructure architecture

$45.00
1t32/7

Political and Social Writings: Volume 3, 1961-1979: Recommencing the Revolution: From Socialism to the Autonomous Society


CASTORIADIS, CORNELIUS & CURTIS, DAVID AMES (Trans & Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, cream light card covers, green lettering to spine, xxviii + 403pp, VG (light to moderate wrinkling, chafing & soiling to spine & covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press 1993

KEYWORDS: politics political social science sciences sociology writings literature ideology Cornelius Castoriadis revolution socialism modern history 20th twentieth century

$45.00
1t32/11

An Unhusbanded Life: Charlotte Despard: Suffragette, Socialist and Sinn Feiner


LINKLATER, ANDRO

Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 271pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning/discolouration, light chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1980

KEYWORDS: Charlotte Despard feminism feminists suffragette movement biography memoir politics political activists activism history

$135.00
1t32/14

Workers Under the Ground, or, Mines and Mining


HARTWIG, Dr G

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, aeg, printed eps, frontispiece, 126pp, illus, VG- (sl bruising to extrems, heavy staining/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate water staining to eps & prelims/terminals, roughly cut to base of pg 99/100, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1888

KEYWORDS: mining history mines labour force labor underground coal precious metal metals gold silver copper tin iron lead salt

$15.00
xxaiaa194863

Fawlty Towers: The Story of a Sitcom


McCANN, GRAHAM

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: Hodder & Stoughton 2007

KEYWORDS: British sitcoms comedy humour humor Basil Fawlty Towers history biographies John Cleese Manuel

$15.00
xxaie194896

The Tales of a Grandfather: Volume I


SCOTT, Sir WALTER

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo hardcover (VG) frontispiece loose but still atatched; 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: Adam & Charles Black 1888

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history Sir Walter Scott

$22.50
xxaif194908

The Outline of the Geology of New Zealand, December 1948


OFFICERS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY & MARWICK, J (Fore)

Octavo stapled light card covers (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: H H Tombs (Printer) 1948

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology history geological surveys research archeology archaeology

$15.00
xxaif194909

Experiment Farm Cottage


N/A

Octavo stapled light card covers (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 National Trust of Australia / Ambassador Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Farm Cottage

$15.00
xxajaa194924

The Uchuck Years: A West Coast Shipping Saga


YOUNG, DAVID ESSON

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: Harbour Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical shipping boats British Columbia Nootka Sound history David Esson Young

$25.00
xxajd194938

The Master Builders: A History of Structural and Environmental Design from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century


COWAN, HENRY J

Imperial 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: John Wiley & Sons 1977

KEYWORDS: ancient Egypt history environmental design architecture building

$35.00
xxajd194939

Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London


CLAYTON, ANTONY

Imperial 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: Historical Publications 2000

KEYWORDS: English British cities London history underground tunnels railways

$15.00
xxajd194940

The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival


WILSON, DICK

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G-) jacket v scruffy; 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: Hamish Hamilton 1971

KEYWORDS: China Chinese communism politics political history

$25.00
xxakb194947

Bolingbroke and His Times: The Sequel


SICHEL, WALTER

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: James Nisbet & Co 1902

KEYWORDS: Bolingbroke history literature

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