Books - "history"
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Facing an Era: Postcard Portraits from a Century Ago
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
The Wahine Disaster: A Tragedy Remembered
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
A Complete Guide to Scottish Country Dancing
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
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
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
The Study of Dress History
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
Prolific in God's Gifts: A Social History of Knox and the Dandenongs
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
The Pythons: Autobiography
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
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
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
Betwixt and Between: Middlebrow Fiction and English Society in the Twenties and Thirties
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
How Reading Changed My Life
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
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
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
St. George Cookery Book
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
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
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
The Nelson Cookery Book: 650 Tested Recipes, Household Hints and Information. Contributed by the Housewives of Sunny Nelson
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
Universal Home Directory: Handy Hints for Householders
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
The Householder. 11th Edition
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KEYWORDS: New Zealand home directory early 20th century social history essays
Mauritius Sketchbook
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
99 More Scottish Country Dances
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
Understanding the Neolithic: A Revised Second Edition of Rethinking the Neolithic
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
Skeletal Remains, Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America
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