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$15.00
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Guernsey Through the Lens, Including Alderney, Sark, Herm and Jethou


COYSH, VICTOR (Compiled by) & TOMS, CAREL (Compiled by)

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: Phillimore & Co 1978

KEYWORDS: Guernsey travel writings literature history photography photos culture

$10.00
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All Saints' Church: Hataitai - Kilbirnie Jubilee History


BELL, F D

Super 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: All Saints' Parish Council 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history jubilee All Saints' Church churches

$10.00
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Holy Trinity New Plymouth 1845-1970


ALEXANDER, ADA C

Super 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: Taranaki Newspapers (Printer) 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand churches holy trinity New Plymouth history

$18.50
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Cradle of Rugby: The History of New Zealand College Rugby


REEVE, ARTHUR W V & McCONNELL, LYNN (Ed)

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: Inprint New Zealabd 1992

KEYWORDS: New Zealand college rugby history union high school

$15.00
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Old Norfolk Town: The Past in Pictures


DAVIES, K and K A

Oblong super 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: K & K A Davies N/D (c.1980)

KEYWORDS: Picairn Norfolk Island history photos photography culture

$60.00
1w45a/14

The Roads to Santiago: The Medieval Pilgrim Routes Through France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela


BRABBS, DERRY

Lg quarto, mustard heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 253pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffign & bruising to board edges & extrems, prev. owner's sm ex-libris label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln 2008

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Chile South America Santiago medieval pilgrimages travel writing literature France Spain

$40.00
1w45a/17

Evolutions or Revolutions? Interaction and Transformation at the 'Transition' in Island Melanesia


CATH-GARLING, STEPHANIE

Quarto, illus light green card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xx + 328pp, illus, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Otago 2017

KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology anthropology Island Melanesia Pacific islands evolution culture ancient history antiquity transition

$100.00
1w45a/20

The Faith of Our Fathers: The History of St Bede's College


McCARTHY, DAVID

Quarto, black faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 459pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to board edges/extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate cracking & loosening of binding to central gutters) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Centennial Organising Committee, St Bede's College 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand schools school history St Bede's College education institutions Christchurch south island

$45.00
1w45a/21

'A Suitable Temple': A History of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch, New Zealand 1905-2005


HANRAHAN, M

Oblong quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 112pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling to covers with light chafing & soiling also, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Centennial Committee 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island Christchurch catholic churches cathedrals cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament history centennial centenary

$75.00
1w45a/22

Built in Faith: Catholic Churches of the Christchurch Diocese 170 Years - 1840 to 2010


HANRAHAN, M J

Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, brown lettering to spine, 238pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling/creasing/wrinkling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: M J Hanrahan 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island Christchurch catholic churches history

$40.00
1w45a/23

Da Flittin' of the Nicolsons from Shetland and the Duthies from Kincardine


HILL, KATHLEEN & MILLER, DIANE et al

Quarto, illus light card covers, black letetring to spine, 292pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine)

PUBLISHER: Lifelogs 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand settlers immigrants Scotland Scottish Grace Nicolson William Ogilvy Duthie migrants family history

$100.00
1w45a/26

We Had One of Those Too!


BARNETT, STEPHEN

Oblong quarto, illus heavy boards, coloured lettering to spine, 216pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, sl staining to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand vintage cars classic history automotive 50s 60s 70s

$45.00
1w45a/28

The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography


DUNN, MARYJANE & DAVIDSON, LINDA KAY

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xv + 546pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's sm ex-libris label to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Graland Publishing 1994

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Chile Santiago de Compostela history Christian pilgrimages religious abstracts

$165.00
1w45a/30

Moriori: A People Rediscovered (Revised Edition)


KING, MICHAEL

SECOND EDITION (REVISED), imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 227pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to covers, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Moriori Michael King history culture Chatham Islands pacific

$45.00
1w45a/31

Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: The Morning Post and the Road to 'Dejection'


THOMSON, HEIDI

Octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xii + 274pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sm gouge to spine, gift inscription in ink signed Heidi to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2016

KEYWORDS: literature Coleridge literary history Heidi Thomson criticism appreciation

$40.00
1w45a/32

A History of the Gold Coast


WARD, W E F

LACKS D/W, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 387pp, illus, VG (light bruising & fading to spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/staining to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's ink stamp name to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals, sl cracking to central gutter)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1948

KEYWORDS: history Gold Coast Africa British rule politics

$65.00
1w51/5

The Waikato Journals of Vicesimus Lush: 1864-8 1881-2


DRUMMOND, ALISON (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 210pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press (Printer) 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Waikato history Vicesimus Lush first editions signed

$40.00
1w51/7

Stalin: Czar of all the Russias


LYONS, EUGENE

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN JACKET, octavo, black cloth boards, red lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, page fore-edges deckled, frontispiece, 292pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine/board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & sl foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, moderate underscoring & annotation- particularly heavy to rear ep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss & tidy archival tape repairs also, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: J B Lippincott 1940

KEYWORDS: first editions Russia Russian soviet leaders Stalin history

$40.00
1w51/8

They Wouldn't Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their Story


ROWAN, STEPHEN A

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, brown faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 252pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, moderate creasing to edges, moderate creasing to flaps with minor tanning also, moderate discolouration to spine, occasional moderate closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan David Publishers 1973

KEYWORDS: signed first editions pows prisoners of war Vietnam war military history Stephen A Rowan

$75.00
1w51/13

The World Crisis 1911-1918


CHURCHILL, The Rt Hon WINSTON S

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 831pp, folding maps, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & fading to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate crack to front gutter- front board sl shaky)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1941

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill early 20th twentieth century history military politics the great war ww1 first 1st world war one i 1

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