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$35.00
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Churchill and Beaverbrook: A Study in Friendship and Politics


YOUNG, KENNETH

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: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1966

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill Lord Beaverbrook biographies biography memoir politics political history

$19.50
xx68pol196631

Marlborough


BARNETT, CORRELLI

Ex-library, 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: Eyre Methuen 1974

KEYWORDS: British aristocracy nobility Marlborough history biography biographies memoir

$9.50
xx68pol196635

The Great War: Walk in Hell


TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

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: NEL / Hodder & Stoughton 2000

KEYWORDS: scifi science fiction novels literature Harry Turtledove alternative alternate history

$45.00
1y11a/19

Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor; or a Speciman of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand 1837-1840


CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN & HEENAN, P B (Facsimile) & MOLLOY, B P J (Facsmilie) & ROLFE, J R (Facsimile)

FACSIMILE WITH MODERN PHOTOS, super octavo, illus heavy boards, green lettering to spine, xiv + 179pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network Inc 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand botany flora plants history historical accounts Allan Cunningham

$90.00
1y11a/21

Survivors on the Gold Coast: The Basel Missionaries in Colonial Ghana


SCHWEIZER, PETER A & TUTU II, OTUMFUO OSEI (Fore)

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, 213pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover, moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Smartline Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: Africa African history religion Christianity Ghana colonies colonial Basel anthropology

$45.00
1y11a/23

The Shaping of the Medical Profession: The History of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1858-1999


HULL, ANDREW & GEYER-KORDESCH, JOHANNA

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxx + 288pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl staining to boards/spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor adhesion damage to illus pgs) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light wrinkling & chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Hambledon Press 1999

KEYWORDS: history medical royal college of physicians and surgeons Glasgow British Scottish academia academic institutions

$45.00
1y11a/25

Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s


ROSENBLUM, ROBERT (Essays) & WHITNEY, DAVID (Ed)

Square super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 141pp, illus, VG (light curling & chafing ot covers, light to moderate soiling to page edges, moderate foxing to front eps, moderate glue staining/exposure to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Random House 1979

KEYWORDS: art history criticism essays Andy Warhol portraits

$60.00
1y11a/31

Thoughts on Clinker Lapstrake Dinghy Construction


PEAL, PETER

Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 108pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising/scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Peter Peal 2016

KEYWORDS: New Zealand boatbuilding boat builders Peter Peal clinker dinghies maritime nautical history design

$32.50
1y11a/35

Hawaiki: A New Approach to Maori Tradition


ORBELL, MARGARET

Ex-library, quarto, illus stiff card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 81pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings & tape reinforcements, heavy chafing & creasing to boards with moderate staining to front cover also, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Canterbury 1985

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori traditions culture history Hawaiki Dr Margaret Orbell

$47.50
1y11a/39

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe


BELICH, JAMES

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 622pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to board edges/extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, 1cm closed tear to top edge of spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2022

KEYWORDS: Black Death plagues Europe history European James Belich

$60.00
1y11a/42

Su' esu' e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance: Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference


SUAALII-SAUNI, TAMASA'ILAU et al (Ed & Compiled by)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine & covers, xii + 392pp, VG (moderate scuffing & creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges, ffep neatly torn out)

PUBLISHER: The Centre for Samoan Studies, National University of Samoa 2008

KEYWORDS: Samoa Samoan literature society history criticism religion religious spirituality

$245.00
1y14a/2

Great Contemporaries


CHURCHILL, The Rt Hon WINSTON S

FIRST EDITION, FIFTH IMP., octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained blue, 335pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, pencil inscription to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- some sl loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1937

KEYWORDS: first editions 5th fifth impression Winston Churchill biographies great contemporaries inspirational history historical figures

$100.00
1y14a/11

Paris Revisited, in 1815, by Way of Brussels: Including A Walk Over the Field of Battle at Waterloo (Third Edition)


SCOTT, JOHN

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, red speckling to page edges, viii + 405pp, VG- (moderate rubbing & cracking to spine with some cracking at hinges, 2cm loss to base of spine, light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, moderate chafing to boards with minor surface loss, heavy tanning/soiling to top page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to other page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters, occasional light foxing & tanning to pages throughout, binding v sound still)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1816

KEYWORDS: France French history travel writing literature John Scott Brussels Belgium battlefields Waterloo

$35.00
xx69pol196659

Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought


KLOPPENBERG, JAMES T

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: Oxford University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: history Europe European America American philosophy democracy autonomy

$25.00
xx69pol196660

The Second World War: Volume I: The Gathering Storm


CHURCHILL, WINSTON S

THIS VOL ONLY, THIRD EDITION, 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: Cassell & Co 1950

KEYWORDS: ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 history Winston Churchill series volume one i 1 gathering storm politics British prime ministers

$16.50
xx70pol196702

Never a Gentlemen's Game


KNOX, MALCOLM

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: Hardie Grant Books 2012

KEYWORDS: sport cricket history Malcolm Knox

$17.50
xx70pol196709

Operation New Zealand: My Search for a New Heart


McSHEAN, GORDON

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: Whitcombe & Tombs 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand heart surgery operations Gordon MxShean medical history

$35.00
xx70pol196726

Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls


CROSS, CHARLES R

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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: Aurum Press 2010

KEYWORDS: rock bands stars Led Zeppelin history music musicians biographies

$35.00
xx70pol196727

A History of Otago


OLSSEN, ERIK

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket torn- prev. owner's tape repairs; 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 McIndoe 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago history Erik Olssen

$30.00
xx70pol196728

A History of the Red Cross in New Zealand 1915-2015


TENNANT, MARGARET

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: New Zealand Red Cross 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Red Cross centennial centenary history charity charitable organisations

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