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$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

$22.50
xxcvf200366

A History of New Zealand Architecture


SHAW, PETER & MORRISON, ROBIN (Photos) & McCREDIE, PAUL (Photos)

SECOND EDITION, 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: Hodder Moa Beckett 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand architecture buildings construction design history

$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

$50.00
1y77a/5

Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico


SWANTON, JOHN R

FROM THE LIBRARY OF NZ PARLIAMENT, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, folding map frontispiece, vii + 387pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor surface loss patch to front pastedown, minor smudging of red ink to folding map/frontis, occasional minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Washington Government Printing Office 1911

KEYWORDS: ancient history North America American indian tribes ethnology anthropology lower Mississippi valley Gulf of Mexico archeology archaeology

$40.00
1y77a/8

Report on the Present State and Future Prospects of Lord Howe Island


WILSON, The Honourable J BOWIE

FACSIMILE REPRINT WITH LARGE FOLDING MAP TO REAR, imperial octavo, red light card covers, gilt lettering to front cover, 40pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light curling to cover edges, minor soiling to front cover with sm ex-libris label also, moderate cracking to gutters of prelims, gift inscription in ink to ffep, minor creasing & foxing to edges of folding map but otherwise v tidy)

PUBLISHER: D West, Gov't Printer 1981 (Facsimile of Thomas Richards 1882 edition)

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian islands Lord Howe Island history historical reports

$100.00
1y77a/10

True Tales of the Chatham Islands


ARMITAGE, DON (Compiled by)

Quarto, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, illus eps, 240pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling & curling to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Chatham Heritage and Restoration Trust Inc N/D (c.2015)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Chatham Islands history heritage settlers pioneers

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