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$85.00
1w13a/11

1st Battalion: Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment 1957-2007


KOOREY, PAUL (Ed)

Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine & front board, 344pp, illus/photo, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, in mylar protective cover- minor chafing)

PUBLISHER: Willson Scott Publishing 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 1st first battalion royal new zealand infantry regiment late 20th twentieth century

$40.00
1w13a/16

Four Generations at Oreti


McMILLIN, WENE MARGARET

DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHORS, octavo, illus stapled card covers, white lettering to front cover, 77pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate chafing/surface loss & soiling/wrinkling to covers & inside covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Wene Margaret McMillin N/D (c.1980s)

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand family history Wene Margaret McMillin settlers pioneers Oreti genealogy

$42.50
1w13a/18

Touching on Deaths: A Medical History of Early Auckland Based on the First 384 Inquests


GLUCKMAN, LAURIE & GLUCKMAN, ANN (Ed) & WAGG, MIKE (Ed)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY EDITOR, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, 358pp, VG (light to moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine & covers with light chafing also, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Doppelganger 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand medical history Auckland inquests

$40.00
1w13a/25

The Life and Music of John Field 1782-1837: Creator of the Nocturne


PIGGOTT, PATRICK

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 287pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & discolouration to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, moderate foxing to flaps & rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973

KEYWORDS: music history John Field biographies memoir composers classical

$285.00
1w13a/26

A Favoured Few: Regular Force Cadet School 1948-1991


TAYLOR, RICHARD

Quarto, red faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spoine & front board, 196pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cosmos Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history army cadet school

$550.00
1w13a/27

Jewellery 1789-1910 The International Era (2 Vol Set)


BURY, SHIRLEY

2 VOL SET, quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, illus eps, frontispieces, 863pp total, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, minor water staining to base of spines, sl foxing to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing & wrinkling, sm label residue to rear covers)

PUBLISHER: Antique Collector's Club 1991

KEYWORDS: jewellery jewelry antiques history fashion international era art crafts

$75.00
1w13a/29

The Journal of the First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment: Southeast Asia 1957-1989


CLOSE, CAPTAIN D G (Ed) & ABBOTT, Mrs GLORIA (Typists)

TYPED LETTER LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering & military insignia to front board, frontispiece, 218pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: 1 RNZIR Dieppe Barracks 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history royal infantry regiment journal southeast asia late 20th twentieth century first 1st battalion

$19.50
1w13a/30

Classic Myth and Legend


MONCRIEFF, A R HOPE

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & coloured illus to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 443pp, illus- not counted presumed all present, G+ (spine heavily cracked & flapping, moderate chafing & soiling ot boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, varying degrees of foxing & pencil markings throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Gresham Publishing Company N/D

KEYWORDS: ancient history myths legends Greek Rome Greece Roman mythology

$40.00
1w13a/31

Costume of the Ancients, in Two Volumes: Volume II


HOPE, THOMAS

THIS VOL ONLY, SPINE MISSING OTHERWISE BINDING SOUND, super octavo, brown heavy leather boards, gilt rule to boards, gilt stamp illus/motif to front board, marbled page edges & eps, unpaginated, illus/plates- uncounted presumed all present, G+ (spine missing, boards heavily chafed & soiled/stained, moderate cracking to som egutters, varying degrees of tanning & foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Henry G Bohn 1841

KEYWORDS: ancient costumes clothing attire history historical Rome Greece roman greek

$250.00
1w13b/3

A History of the First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment


BROCK, CAPTAIN C E

Quarto, brown stapled light card covers, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG- (moderate tanning & staining to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, moderate rusting & staining to staples at spine, 2x photos tipped in to inside front cover, moderate discolouration to front & rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Capt. C E Brock 1971

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 1st first battalion royal new zealand infantry regiment

$425.00
1w13b/9

Time Remembered


HORNER, FRANCES

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus buckram boards, maroon & cream lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvi + 237pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to extrems, heavy rubbing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- some pgs loose, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, varying degrees of foxing throughout- mostly quite moderate)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1933

KEYWORDS: scarce first editions Frances Horner English nobility history

$50.00
1w13b/12

The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St Monica's in Louvain (Now at St Augustine's Priory, Newton Abbot, Devon) 1548-1644


HAMILTON, DOM ADAM (Ed, Notes & Additions)

2 VOLS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to cream buckram spines, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xx + 277pp, vol 2- xx + 219pp, folding charts/diagrams to rear of both vols, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate tanning to spines, light to moderate chafing/fading to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, ffep of vol 2 partially detached, varying degrees of foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sands & Co 1904-06

KEYWORDS: history family tree St Monica canoness English augustinian religion religious

$110.00
1w13b/13

Promoting Prosperity: The Art of Early New Zealand Advertising


ALSOP, PETER & STEWART, GARY & ROBERTS, KEVIN (Fore)

SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, heavy quarto, illus heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 439pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & front board, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Craig Potton Publishing 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed history advertising media posters artwork business art

$350.00
1w13b/15

Before the Storm


BUXHOEVEDEN, BARONESS SOPHIE & SQUIRE, Sir JOHN (Intro)

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 331pp, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy cracking to rear hinge, moderate tanning to spine, moderate chafing & staining to boards- moderate surface loss to rear board, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, moderate foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1938

KEYWORDS: first editions biographies memoir Alexandra Feodorovna Russia Russian history

$150.00
1w13b/16

Political Posters in Ethiopia and Mozambique: Visual Imagery in a Revolutionary Context


SAHLSTROM, BERIT

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, x + 179pp, illus, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to board edges, light chafing & soiling ot boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Uppsala 1990

KEYWORDS: politics political artwork posters propaganda Africa African Ethiopia Mozambique campaigns art history

$60.00
1w13b/17

Noble Savages: The Savage Club and The Great War 1914-1918


WILSON, JAMES

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvi + 495pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to board edges/extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine & edges, minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: JH Productions 2018

KEYWORDS: British armed forces army military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war savage club

$55.00
1w13b/19

Death Squads in Morocco


BLACKLEDGE, W J & BRENNAN, Ex-Legionnaire TERRY

Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 246pp, illus/photos, G+ (heavy scuffing & fraying/surface loss to spine & board corners, moderate to heavy cracking to spine hinges, moderate fading & foxing to spine, moderate staining to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, varying degrees of foxing throughout, sm ink 'tick' to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1937

KEYWORDS: history death squads literature ejercito legion women combat

$40.00
1w13b/21

New Zealand One Hundred Years Ago; Journal of a Ten Months' Visit


CRUISE, Major RICHARD A.

Octavo, maroon cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, 162pp, illus, VG- (moderate cracking to gutters - boards moderately shaky, moderately heavy fading to boards incl. lettering, light rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning/soiling to pages, prev. owner's stamp to eps, prelims & several pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Brett Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1921

KEYWORDS: new zealand journals diaries diary memoirs travel writing exploration maritime ocean journeys voyages ships early history colonialism hms dromedary richard a cruise

$50.00
1w13b/22

With the Incomparable 29th


MURE, Major A. H.

Octavo, brown cloth boards, black lettering to spine, black rule to front board, 206pp, VG (light soiling & scuffing to boards, light-moderate tanning & foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: W. & R. Chambers, Limited 1919

KEYWORDS: memoirs autobiography autobiographies military narrative history world war one first wwi gallipoli the royal scots warfare conflicts combat battles major ah mure

$75.00
1w13b/24

The Nelson Police


NEALE, JUNE E.

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to blue spine, illus advert in prelims, viii + 144pp, photo illus, VG (moderate sun-fading to top left corner of covers, light rubbing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Police - Nelson District 1986

KEYWORDS: new zealand south island nelson police district history early colonial nineteenth 19th twentieth 20th century illustrated law enforcement

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