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$50.00
1y71a/30

338171 T E (Lawrence of Arabia)


OCAMPO, VICTORIA & GARNETT, DAVID (Trans)

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 128pp, VG (minor fading to spine extrems, moderate tanning & heavy foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, moderate to heavy foxing throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/loss to edges, moderate tanning to spine, light soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1963

KEYWORDS: T E Lawrence of Arabia history biography biographies memoir

$50.00
1y71a/32

T E Lawrence: An Arab View


MOUSA, SULEIMAN & BUTROS, ALBERT (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 301pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light discolourtion to board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, sm patch of label residue & prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions TE Lawrence of Arabia history biography biographies memoir Arabs middle east

$70.00
1y71a/33

New Zealand at the Front


MEN OF THE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION

REBOUND & RECASED, quarto, half leather bound red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spine, patternend eps, frontspiece, xvi + 180pp, illus, VG- (heavy rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems- minor loss to spine extrems, heavy cracking to front hinge/gutter, moderate chafing & fading to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, heavy tanning & light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1917

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war soldiers

$40.00
1y71a/42

Marshal Ney: A Dual Life


BLYTHE, LEGETTE

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 318pp + 16pp adverts/publisher's catalogue to rear, VG (minor fraying & rubbing/bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light fading & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev, bookseller's sm label to rear pastedowns, sl foxing throughout, minor chipping to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1937

KEYWORDS: first editions Marshal Ney biography biogarphies memoir history

$40.00
1y71a/54

Jim Crow Guide to the USA


KENNEDY, STETSON

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, blue lettering to spine, 230pp, VG+ (light curling & chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges, sm inscription in pencil to title page)

PUBLISHER: University of Alabama Press 2011

KEYWORDS: US America American history social customs culture race racial discrimination minorities ethnicity segregation

$25.00
xxcaf199930

Archaeology in China: New Light on Prehistoric China (Supplement to Volume One)


TE-K'UN, CHENG

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: W Heffer & Sons / University of Toronto Press 1966

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity China Chinese archeology archaeology prehistoric excavations anthropology

$30.00
xxcaf199939

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates: Second Session, Twenty-Fifth Parliament. Legislative Council and House of Representatives: November 2 to December 10, 1937


N/A

Imperial octavo hardcover (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: E V Paul, Gov't Printer 1938

KEYWORDS: New Zealand past parliamentary debates government politics political history 1937 historical

$30.00
xxcaf199944

War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator


N/A (GRIDER, JOHN MACGARACK & SPRING, E W)

Sm octavo hardcover (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: Cornstalk Publishing 1928

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war aviation pilots dairies journals

$30.00
xxcag199947

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates. First Session, Twenty-Sixth Parliament. Legislative Council and House of Representatives: June 27 to August 3, 1939


N/A

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) cracking to front hinge; 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: E V Paul, Gov't Printer 1940

KEYWORDS: New Zealand past parliamentary debates 1939 government politics political history parliament

$25.00
xxcdb199973

Royal Worcester Porcelain: From 1862 to the Present Day


SANDON, HENRY & BECKERLEY, JOHN and JOAN (Photos)

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, 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: Barrie & Jenkins 1973

KEYWORDS: signed antiques china porcelain royal worcester history identification

$20.00
xxcdb199974

Pierre Toussaint


JONES, ARTHUR

Tidy ex-library, 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: Doubleday 2003

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir history Pierre Toussaint

$15.00
xxcdc199979

The House of Reed: Fifty Years of New Zealand Publishing 1907-1957


N/A

PROOF COPY, 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: A H & A W Reed 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature publishing houses Reed history proof copies

$20.00
xxcde200010

A Century of Australian Song


SLADEN, DOUGLAS B W (Ed)

Octavo hardcover (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 Walter Scott Publishing N/D

KEYWORDS: literature song verse Australia Australian history historical

$17.50
xxcde200016

Diary of Andrew Boyes on a Voyage from Edinburgh to Dunedin 1849


BOYES, ANDREW & BLACKMAN, GARY (Ed & Intro)

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: Gary Blackman 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Scottish Scotalnd settlers pioneers emigration history Andrew Boyes diaries journals

$22.50
xxcee200031

Austerity Britain 1945-51


KYNASTON, DAVID

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: Walker & Company 2008

KEYWORDS: post-war Britain austerity wealth poverty ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 history economy economics

$22.50
xxcee200032

A History of the Cornish China-Clay Industry


BARTON, R M

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: D Bradford Barton 1966

KEYWORDS: history pottery Cornwall china-clay

$10.00
xxcee200040

The Swazi: A South African Kingdom


KUPER, HILDA

Octavo softcover (VG) some pen 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: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966

KEYWORDS: anthropology South Africa swazi customs culture history

$17.50
xxceg200044

Goya


GUDIOL, JOSE

Scruffy ex-library but with lovely colour plates, 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: Thames & Hudson 1966

KEYWORDS: art history Goya appreciation

$20.00
xxceg200051

The Complete Book of Tartan


ZACZEK, IAIN & PHILLIPS, CHARLES

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: Hermes House 2004

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish heritage tartans history clans family

$20.00
xxceg200054

An Unknown Few


O'SHEA, PHILLIP P & HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES (Fore)

Ex-library, oblong 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: P D Hasselberg, Gov't Printer 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history war heroes george cross empire gallantry albert medals recipients bravery

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