Books - "history"
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The Yellow Man Looks On
Octavo hardcover (VG-) boards stained; 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: Cassell and Company 1933
KEYWORDS: Southern Africa African war conflict anglo-dutch history
Sons of Zulu
Quarto 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: William Collins Sons & Co 1978
KEYWORDS: anthropology Zulu tribes history Africa African
The Imperial War Museum Book of The Desert War
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: Sidgwick & Jackson 1992
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 desert war imperial war museum
Rorke's Drift: The Zulu War 1879
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: Spellmount / Ashanti 1991
KEYWORDS: Africa African war Zulu zulus 19th nineteenth century history
In the Line of Fire: New Zealanders Tell Their Wartime Stories
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: Reed Books 2001
KEYWORDS: military history anecdotes soldiers New Zealand Zealanders signed Ian Stuart
The Story of the Book of Mormon
Super 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: Deseret Book Company 1957
KEYWORDS: religion religious history antiquity Book of Mormon theology
Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times
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: Charles E Tuttle 1979
KEYWORDS: history Japan Japanese antiquity
Excavations at Ur
FIRST EDITION, 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: Ernest Benn 1954
KEYWORDS: first editions ancient history antiquity archeology archaeology excavations Ur
Tree Kangaroos: A Curious Natural History
SLIPCASED FIRST EDITION, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Lg quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt bordered glossy illus plates to boards, illus title page, xiii + 202pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to board & spine edges, light soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light scuffing & rubbing to edges/corners, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1996
KEYWORDS: natural history animals species tree kangaroos art biology zoology signed Timothy Fridtjof Flannery
NZ Services Current Affairs Bulletin, Vol 1 (Vols 1-26)
26 CONSECUTIVE ISSUES BOUND IN ONE SINGLE VOL - VOL 1 #1 TO VOL 1 #26, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light rubbing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, sl water staining to top of rear board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning & foxing throughout, light cracking to some gutters, minor vertical creasing to a lot of pages)
PUBLISHER: E V Paul, Gov't Printer 1943
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ services current affairs bulletins past issues historical history
Fiji : Handbook of the Colony
Super octavo, teal stiff card boards, black lettering & illus plate to front board, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims with folding map, 165pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift plate to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate closed tearing & tape repairs to folding map- yellowing tape staining)
PUBLISHER: H R Craigie, Acting Gov't Printer 1936
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Pacific islands Fiji Fijian people culture British colonial history colinies
The Concealed Wisdom in World Mythology
Super ocatvo, brown buckram boards, maroon lettering to spine & front board, xxxvii + 219pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine & rear board, light tanning to page edges & eps, prev. booksellers' book stamps/labels to front & rear eps, minor gouging to rear eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing, prev. bokoseller's sm label to rear, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: The Theosophical Publishing House 1990
KEYWORDS: world mythology theosophy esoteric ancient Greek antiquity history historical fables lore folklore tales philosophy
The Sun Rises
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps at eps, frontispiece, v + 442pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading & tanning to spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, light foxing to prelims, sl adhesion to gutter of title page & frontispiece)
PUBLISHER: Lemurian Fellowship 1952
KEYWORDS: first editions antiquity ancient history civilisations civilizations anthropology
The Sun Rises
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps at eps, frontispiece, v + 442pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading & tanning/foxing to spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, light foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Lemurian Fellowship 1952
KEYWORDS: first editions antiquity ancient history civilisations civilizations anthropology
The Book of Truth, or, The Voice of Osiris
SECOND EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt Egytian illus to front board, frontispiece, xvi + 201pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Rider & Co 1927
KEYWORDS: second editions ancient Egypt Egyptian history antiquity Osiris deities gods Egyptology
Champion Blokes
RARE THUS, SIGNED by 29 of the outstanding sportsmen who are the subject of this book, AND signed and dated by the author, octavo, green buckram boards, blue gilt lettering to spine, 231pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing/discolouration to spine & boards/edges, light tanning to page edges & eps, sl foxing to rear eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasng & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sports history sport heroes signed collectables collectibles former champions
Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians, to Which is Added an Interpretation of the Crata Repoa Initiation Rite
Super octavo, brown faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 162pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing & scuffing to spine & board extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping & loss to spine extrems, moderate chafing & soiling, sm hole- 1cm to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Philosophical Research Society 1973
KEYWORDS: secret societies freemasons freemasonry masonic ancient Egypt Egyptian crata repoa initian rite rites history gods deities
American Minimal Music
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 128pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Kahn & Averill / Alexander Broude 1983
KEYWORDS: music history minimalism western US American
John Elwyn
Quarto, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 136pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & scuffing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Scolar Press / Ashgate Publishing 2000
KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies memoir John Elwyn British landscape paintings appreciation criticism
Random Recollections: Notes from a Lifetime at the Bar
WARMLY INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue patterned buckram boards, blue speckling to page edges, frontispiece, xii + 332pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/corner, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times / Witness Newspapers 1939
KEYWORDS: signed A C Hanlon New Zealand law history lawyers autobiography autobiographies memoir legal profession