Books - "history"
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Churchill and Beaverbrook: A Study in Friendship and Politics
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
Marlborough
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
The Great War: Walk in Hell
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
Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor; or a Speciman of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand 1837-1840
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
Survivors on the Gold Coast: The Basel Missionaries in Colonial Ghana
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
The Shaping of the Medical Profession: The History of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1858-1999
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
Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s
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
Thoughts on Clinker Lapstrake Dinghy Construction
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
Hawaiki: A New Approach to Maori Tradition
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
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
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
Su' esu' e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance: Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference
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
Great Contemporaries
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
Paris Revisited, in 1815, by Way of Brussels: Including A Walk Over the Field of Battle at Waterloo (Third Edition)
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
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
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
The Second World War: Volume I: The Gathering Storm
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
Never a Gentlemen's Game
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
Operation New Zealand: My Search for a New Heart
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
Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls
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
A History of Otago
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
A History of the Red Cross in New Zealand 1915-2015
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