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$40.00
1r12a/34

Lionel Martin: A Biography


DEMAUS, A B

Imperial octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to board edges/extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Transport Bookman Publications 1980

KEYWORDS: cars automotive history biographies memoir Lionel Martin Aston Martin design

$65.00
1r12a/35

A Life With HWM: From Aston to Facel Vega


HOBBS, FRED & ABECASSIS, GEORGE (Fore)

Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 203pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Foulis / Haynes 1990

KEYWORDS: Fred Hobbs autobiography memoir HWM HW Motors racing sportscars cars sport history

$45.00
1r12a/39

Shot Down Over Denmark 1940-1945


GRAM, HELGE WILLIAM & BRANTH, ELLEN (Trans)

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white & black lettering to spine, 110pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Danish Resistance Museum Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 aviation aerial combat warfare signed Helge William Gram Danish Denmark

$45.00
1r12a/40

Global Warrior: The Story of Group Captain J R Jeudwine


CHARPENTIER, ALAIN & LACEY-JOHNSON, LIONEL & JEUDWINE, GEOFFREY

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 138pp + appendices to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, gift inscription in ink to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: L Lacey-Johnson 1999

KEYWORDS: military history biographies memoir Group Captain J R Jeudwine British armed forces raf royal air force soldiers

$40.00
1r12a/43

Golden Days of Lake County: The History of Lake County and the Boroughs of Queenstown and Arrowtown


MILLER, F W G

LACKS D/W, octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 299pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owners' names in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1949

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Lakes District Queenstown Arrowtown Wanaka

$40.00
1r12a/50

The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula


WEST, JONATHAN

Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 376pp, NF (light fading & creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otago Peninsula environment geology south island

$55.00
1r12a/51

That Airman! Last of the Seven


WHISHAW, DAVID

Octavo, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, x + 141pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Libra Books Pty 1997

KEYWORDS: military history Australia Australian soldiers airmen raaf royal australian air force aerial operations combat warfare ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 biographies

$45.00
1r12a/59

Roger Byrne: Captain of the Busby Babes


McCARTNEY, IAIN & GREGG, HARRY (Fore)

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 165pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Empire Publications 2000

KEYWORDS: soccer football English premiership teams history Man Manchester Utd United Busby Babes Roger Byrne biographies memoir Old Trafford

$70.00
1r12a/61

Long Range Desert Group: The Story of its Work in Libya 1940-1943


SHAW, W B KENNEDY

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, beige buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 255pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in inkn to front pastedown, light tanning & soiling to eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, light to moderate creasing & chipping to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1945

KEYWORDS: first editions military history long range deserrt group intelligence gathering Libya

$65.00
1r12a/62

Harry Graham: The Little Dasher


CARDWELL, RONALD & WATSON, GRAEME (Fore)

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, xxiii + 148pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Cricket Publishing Company 2017

KEYWORDS: cricket sport history biographies memoir Harry Graham Australian Australia

$100.00
1r12a/63

Uniquely Celtic: The Soul and the Spirit


RAFTERS, FRANK

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & yellow lettering to spine, viii + 547pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Grosvenor House 2015

KEYWORDS: Scottish Scotland football soccer history Celtic FC culture

$45.00
1r12a/65

The Complete Grand Prix Handbook 1902-1990


WALKER, MICHAEL

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 224pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling to covers with some light chafing also, light tanning & soiling to page edges, inscription in ink- signed 'Michael Walker'- to full title page, 1991 season update loosley enclosed)

PUBLISHER: Marque Publishing Company 1991

KEYWORDS: motorsport automotive cars car racing grand prix history f1 formula 1 one drivers

$50.00
1r25b/4

The Age of Motoring


DUMONT, PIERRE (Drawings) & BARKER, RONALD (Captions) & TUBBS, DOUGLAS B (Captions) & GUICHARD, AMI (Designed & Compiled by)

Folio, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt car motifs to front board, 204pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & discolouration to edges, light to moderate tanning, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Edita S A Lausanne 1965

KEYWORDS: cars automotive history design motoring

$50.00
1r25b/7

A Bibliography of Firework Books: Works on Recreative Fireworks From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century


PHILIP, CHRIS

Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread, super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxix + 168pp + plates to rear, illus, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minimal library markings, light creasing to edges, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: C Philip 1985

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues fireworks history literature texts historical

$100.00
1r25b/10

Protest and Crime in China: A Bibliography of Secret Associations, Popular Uprisings, Peasant Rebellions


TENG, SSU-YU

Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 455pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1981

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues China Chinese history revolution uprisings rebellion

$40.00
1r25b/12

Theoretical Naval Architecture


ATTWOOD, EDWARD L

Octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, black rule & gilt insignia to front board, folding charts to rear, ix + 512pp, illus/diagrams, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, presentation plate to front pastedown, light tanning & creasing to folding diagrams)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1922

KEYWORDS: military history navy naval architecture design building calculations theory

$40.00
1r25b/13

Travels in China and Japan


KAZANTZAKIS, NIKOS & KAZANTZAKIS, HELEN (Epilogue) & PAPPAGEOTES, GEORGE C (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 382pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Bruno Cassirer 1964

KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature China Japan Asia oriental history culture Nikos Kazantzakis far east

$40.00
1r25b/17

Claudius: The Emperor and His Achievement


MOMIGLIANO, ARNALDO & HOGARTH, W D (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 125pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration & soiling to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1934

KEYWORDS: first editions ancient Rome roman emperors Claudius history antiquity julio-claudian

$40.00
1r25b/18

The Tragedy of the Stuarts


GLEESON, J DESMOND

FIRST EDITION, octavo, mauve cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, black & gilt insignia to front board, 314pp, VG+ (moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cecil Palmer 1930

KEYWORDS: first editions English history Stuarts

$45.00
1r25b/21

Environmental Bibliography of Wales 1900-1976


FIRTH, J N M & CHEM, C & CAINE, C V

Tidy ex-library, quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, v + 282pp, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing to spine & cover edges, minimal library markings, light chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges with som eminor creasing also)

PUBLISHER: Burgess & Son 1978

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Wales Welsh environment environmental 20th twentieth century history

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