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$15.00
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Facing an Era: Postcard Portraits from a Century Ago


MAIN, WILLIAM & SIMPSON, TONY (Fore)

Imperial 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: Exposures 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history early settlers pioneers photos photography portraits

$19.50
xxcra200324

The Wahine Disaster: A Tragedy Remembered


MAKARIOS, EMMANUEL

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: Grantham House Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime disasters Wahine shipwrecks nautical history

$10.00
xxcra200327

A Complete Guide to Scottish Country Dancing


ANDERSON, ALLIE & DUTHIE, JOHN M

Imperial 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: Commemorative Edition 1990

KEYWORDS: history Scotland Scottish dance country folk dancing music

$20.00
xxcra200331

Sputnik: The Shock of the Century


DICKSON, PAUL

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 2001

KEYWORDS: space travel Soviet Union Sputnik history

$19.50
xxcrd200334

The Study of Dress History


TAYLOR, LOU

Imperial 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: Manchester University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: fashion history dress textiles culture

$20.00
xxcrd200335

Prolific in God's Gifts: A Social History of Knox and the Dandenongs


JONES, MICHAEL

Imperial 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: George Allen & Unwin 1983

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Knox Dandenongs

$15.00
xxcrd200336

The Pythons: Autobiography


THE PYTHONS - CHAPMAN, GRAHAM & CLEESE, JOHN & GILLIAM, TERRY & IDLE, ERIC & JONES, TERRY & PALIN, MICHAEL & McCABE, BOB (MONTY PYTHON)

Imperial 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: Thomas Dunne / St Martin's Griffin 2005

KEYWORDS: British comedy comedians Monty Python humour humor history autobiography autobiographies memoir

$12.50
xxcvf200371

Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels


WENDELL, SARAH & TAN, CANDY & RENAUD, JOANNE (illus) & MAIN, CAROL (illus)

Otavo 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: Fireside/ Simon & Schuster 2009

KEYWORDS: romance novels humour humor guide love stories history criticism literary literature

$15.00
xxcxe200401

Betwixt and Between: Middlebrow Fiction and English Society in the Twenties and Thirties


BRACCO, ROSA MARIA

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: The University of Melbourne 1990

KEYWORDS: Middlebrow fiction literary criticism twentieth-century history interwar novelists

$12.50
xxcxe200402

How Reading Changed My Life


QUINDLEN, ANNA

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: Ballantine Books 1998

KEYWORDS: biography books reading twentieth-century contemporary thought history

$15.00
xxcxe200404

Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World


GOLDSTONE, LAWRENCE & NANCY

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: St. Martin's Griffin 1998

KEYWORDS: book collecting books rare books Lawrence Goldstone Nancy Goldstone book history

$15.00
xxcyd200429

St. George Cookery Book


IRVINE & STEVENSON'S ST GEORGE

Small octavo stapled light card covers (VG) minor annotations in ink; 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: Irvine & Stevenson's St. George 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand cook book Dunedin history ear;y 20th century

$10.00
xxcyd200430

A Handbook for the Better Use of Electricity for Domestic, Business and Farm use. Containing useful information on the subjects as well as a lot of new and tried recipies


DUNEDIN CITY CORPORATION ELECTRIC POWER & LIGHT DEPT

Small octavo stapled light card covers (G+), some leaves loose; 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: Issued with compliments of Dunedin City Council n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin history electricity Dunedin City Council

$25.00
xxcyd200431

The Nelson Cookery Book: 650 Tested Recipes, Household Hints and Information. Contributed by the Housewives of Sunny Nelson


NELSON PLUNKET SOCIETY

Octavo stapled light card covers (G+), rear cover detached; 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: Published by and in aid of the Nelson Plunket Society n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson history cook book plunket society early 20th century

$15.00
xxcyd200432

Universal Home Directory: Handy Hints for Householders


UNIVERSAL PUBLICITY SERVICE

Octavo stapled light card covers (G+); 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: Universal Publicity Service n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand home directory early 20th century social history

$15.00
xxcyd200433

The Householder. 11th Edition


THE HOUSEHOLDER

Small octavo stapled light card covers (G+); 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:

KEYWORDS: New Zealand home directory early 20th century social history essays

$35.00
xxcyd200435

Mauritius Sketchbook


MARTIAL, YVAN & LADAME, SOPHIE (illus)

Oblong super octavo (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: Archipelago Press 2004

KEYWORDS: art books history Mauritius sketchbook

$9.50
xxcyd200436

99 More Scottish Country Dances


MILLIGAN, JEAN C (ed) & STEWART, IRENE B (illus)

Small octavo stiff 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: Collins 1974

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history country dancing dance Scottish dance

$45.00
1y77a/1

Understanding the Neolithic: A Revised Second Edition of Rethinking the Neolithic


THOMAS, JULIAN

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & grey lettering to spine, x + 266pp, illus, Near FINE (sl rubbing/curling to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2003

KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology ancient history neolithic period

$40.00
1y77a/4

Skeletal Remains, Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America


HRDLICKA, ALES

FROM THE LIBRARY OF NZ PARLIAMENT, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule to board edges, top page edges stained grey, 113pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris General Assembly plate to front pastedown, occasional minor carcking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Washington Government Printing Office 1907

KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology skeletons bones ancient history ethnology anthropology North America human homosapiens

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