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Super 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: R E Owen, Gov't Printer 1958

KEYWORDS: dominion archives New Zealand papers history national Auckland Taranaki

GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE

Sm 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: Collins Clear-Type Press N/D (c.1912)

KEYWORDS: aeronautical history aviation flight flying Claude Grahame-White

BRUMFIELD, WILLIAM CRAFT (Text & Photos)

Heavy quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv + 644pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, light fading & creasing to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, minor creasing to bottom corner of rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2004

KEYWORDS: Russian Russia buildings architecture historical history design appreciation

BURRLUCK, DAVE & WHEELER, TOM (Fore)

NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION (#3063/6000), lg quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed ffep, 125pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor creasing to folded pages/images) in d/w, VG+ (light chafing & creasing to edges & spine) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Balafon Books 1999

KEYWORDS: special limited editions guitars guitarists history music musical instruments PRS Paul Reed Smith electric design

HOOKS, MARGARET (Text)

Quarto, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine & boards, illus plate to front board, frontispiece, 149pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Turner Publications / Throckmorton Fine Art 2002

KEYWORDS: Frida Kahlo portraits photos photography art history artists Mexico Mexican South America American

MELTON, J

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, viii + 535pp, VG (moderate curling & creasing to covers, light tanning/discolouration to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, prev. owner's name in ink to prelim pgs, moderate staining to base of page block, moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Library of Australian History 1986

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history maritime nautical ships deserters absentees shipmates late 19th nineteenth century notices

FORBES, Ex-Legionnaire 9372 REGINALD R

PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, vii + 248pp, G+ (v heavy scuffing to board edges & extrems- some surface loss, heavy fading/discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, usual library markings, v heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- boards shaky, varying states of foxing & discolouration to pages throughout, more heavy cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co N/D (c.1930s)

KEYWORDS: first editions (presumed) military history legionnaires soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Reginald R Forbes 9372 French Foreign Legion

DURANT, WILL and ARIEL

11 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spines, gilt lettering to front boards, gilt decoration to boards, aeg, iridescent patterned cloth eps, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Easton Press 1992-95

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings special editions history Will Ariel Durant

SACKVILLE-WEST, V & NICOLSON, NIGEL (New Intro)

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontipsiece, 155pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl foxing to front gutter) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. booksellers' labels to front flap & rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Cockbird Press 1990

KEYWORDS: Vita Sackville-West travel writing literature Persia history

JOHNSTON, WARWICK

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 104pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Warwick Johnston 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Port Nicholson early settlers pioneers settlements

ROBINSON, WILLIAM H et al

Square quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 328pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & rubbing to spine & cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Royal Academy of Arts 2015

KEYWORDS: art history paintings gardens botanical plants flowers Claude Monet

MANN, JUDITH W & BOHN, BABETTE & PLAZZOTTA, CAROL

Quarto, light brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 360pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to rear pastedown- some adhesion loss also, sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Saint Louis Art Museum / Yale University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: art history renaissance Federico Barocci appreciation criticism

YEO, S T (Compiled by) & MARTIN, JEAN (Compiled by)

Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 315pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & staining/discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Southeast Asian Ceramics Society / Arts Orientalis 1978

KEYWORDS: China Chinese ceramics pottery oriental art crafts porcelain Asian Asia history

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Octavo, red light card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, 323pp, VG- (moderate wrinkling/curling & staining to covers, moderate tanning & floxing/soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: W A G Skinner, Gov't Printer 1927

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military armed forces regulations history historical administration

CHORLEY, W R

Super octavo, illus black glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, 494pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Midland Counties Pubilcations 1996

KEYWORDS: military history British armed forces raf royal air force aviation casualties losses bomber command aeriel defence aircraft crew pilots airmen deaths

EISENSTEIN, SERGEI & GLENNY, MICHAEL (Ed & Trans) & TAYLOR, RICHARD (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xx + 428pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: I B Tauris & Co 2010

KEYWORDS: film studies history Sergei Eisenstein Russia Russian movies montage

TREFOUSSE, HANS L

FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, 463pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1996

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history politics Andrew Johnson

BURNER, DAVID

FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, xii + 433pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1996

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history politics Herbert Hoover

LEECH, MARGARET

FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, viii + 686pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1986

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history politics William McKinley

COLE, DONALD B

FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, xiii + 477pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1997

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series easton press former US presidents history politics Martin van Buren