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$20.00
xxhuh199732

The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed


FLANDERS, JUDITH

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: HarperCollins 2003

KEYWORDS: history Victorian era customs

$10.00
xxhva199742

In the Steps of Jane Austen (Third Edition)


EDWARDS, ANNE-MARIE & EDWARDS, MIKE (Photos)

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: Countryside Books 1991

KEYWORDS: literature literary history Jane Austen

$25.00
xxhva199752

Reminiscences of a Goldminer and Saw Doctor: Jim Smith 1889-1976


SMITH, JIM

Quarto spiral bound 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: K W Roughan 2016

KEYWORDS: New Zealand autobiography autobiographies memoir Jim Smith goldmining gold mining history

$14.50
xxhva199753

The Woman Before Wallis


ROSE, ANDREW

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: Picador 2014

KEYWORDS: true crime murder homicide history Prince Edward Marguerite Alibert

$20.00
xxhvb199757

Forgotten Ireland: Scenes From the 19th Century Camera


HOWARD, MARTIN

Oblong quarto 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: PRC 2000

KEYWORDS: photography history Ireland Irish 19th nineteenth century

$17.50
xxhvb199762

The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication


WILLIAMS, SUSAN

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 2003

KEYWORDS: British English royal family history King Edward viii 8th eighth abdication Wallis Simpson

$17.50
xxhvb199764

Inventing the Victorians


SWEET, MATTHEW

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: Faber and Faber 2001

KEYWORDS: English history Victorian

$16.50
xxhvg199777

The Moral Arc


SHERMER, MICHAEL

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: Henry Holt and Company 2015

KEYWORDS: popular science history morals ethics morality

$20.00
xxhwa199805

A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 Years of the New Zealand School Journal


O'BRIEN, GREGORY & LASENBY, JACK (Fore)

Quarto 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: Learning Media 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature school journal centenary centennial history

$22.50
xxcab199886

Leading Ladies


MACPHERSON, DON (Text) & BRODY, LOUISE (Design by) & SCHICKEL, RICHARD (Fore)

Quarto 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: Conran Octopus 1986

KEYWORDS: Hollywood history leading ladies screen icons actresses biographies portraits

$25.00
xxcab199893

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 80 1994


NICHOLSON, PAUL T et al

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Egypt Exploration Society 1994

KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology ancient history antiquity Egypt Egyptian journals

$20.00
xxcad199905

The Economic Development of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea


N/A

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) pencil annotations/underlining; 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 John Hopkins Press 1965

KEYWORDS: png papua new guinea economy economics politics political history

$15.00
xxcad199911

178 A Brill Returns


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: None Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport trams history Brill 178 Christchurch

$22.50
xxcad199913

Strait of Adventure


GERARD, STEPHEN & PERRY, STUART (Memoir of Author by)

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: A H & A W Reed 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Cook Strait Raukawa

$30.00
xxcad199914

The King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1933


PARDOE, Lieut-Colonel F L

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: Warren and Son 1934

KEYWORDS: military history king's rifle corps chronicle

$32.50
xxcaf199927

A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843


MURRAY, JOHN & SMILES, SAMUEL & MACKAY, THOMAS (Condensed & Ed)

Octavo hardcover (G+) prelims detached but present; 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 Murray 1911

KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir John Murray publishers history

$55.00
1y71a/3

The Painter of Modern Life, and Other Essays


BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES & MAYNE, JONATHAN (Trans)

Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt portrait/illus to front board, frontispiece, xx + 224pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & fading to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor wrinkling to half title page) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges- yellowing tape repairs to internal sides, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling/staining)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 1964

KEYWORDS: art criticism essays prose literature Charles Baudelaire history

$40.00
1y71a/4

July 1914, The Outbreak of the First World War: Selected Documents


GEISS, IMANUEL (Ed)

PENCIL ANNOTATIONS, super octavo, cream buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 400pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to board edges & extrems, light staining/discolouration to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor tape staining to pastedowns, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, pencil annotation & underlining to text- unobtrusive) in d/w, VG (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading)

PUBLISHER: B T Batsford 1967

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war beginning documents documentation politics political

$40.00
1y71a/5

Singing Coral


HOLMSEN, SVERRE & BULMAN, JOAN (Trans) & WOODHALL, DOUGLAS (Decorations)

Super octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 292pp, illus, VG (spine cocked, minor bruising & rubbing/fading to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, minro tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss to spine extrems, moderate fading to spine & edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: James Barrie 1951

KEYWORDS: exploration anthropology polynesia polynesian people history Pacific islands culture customs

$100.00
1y71a/9

In the High Himalayas


WHISTLER, HUGH

LACKS D/W & FEP, scruffy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, 223pp, illus/plates- some loose and/or missing, G (heavy rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, heavy wrinkling to spine, usual library labels/markings, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, v heavy cracking to gutters- boads sl shaky, prelim pgs clipped at lower corner, moderate foxing to prelims & throughout, numerous pgs detached with some plates missing)

PUBLISHER: H F & G Witherby 1924

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Himalayas natural history Hugh Whistler

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