Books - "history"
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The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period 1815-1840 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xvi + 632pp, vol 2- x + 686pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to spines & extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to base of rear pastedowns, minor staining/soiling to rear eps) in slipcase, VG- (heavy scuffing & cracking to joins)
PUBLISHER: Indianan University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: US America American history old northwest pioneers pioneer period early 19th nineteenth century
Illustrated History of New Zealand
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white & green lettering to spine, 488pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated history histories Alexander Turnbull Library
Voices from the New Zealand Wars / He Reo no nga Pakanga o Aotearoa
Imperial octavo, illus stiff card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 439pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover corners, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2021
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Vincent O'Malley wars Maori pakeha early settlers
Comrade: Bill Andersen: A Communist, Working-Class Life
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 412pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand trade union history Bill Andersen biography biographies memoir labour work force labor
The St Petersburg Imperial Theaters: Stage and State in Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1920
Octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 214pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company 2000
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history theater theatre St Petersburg imperial early 20th twentieth century revolution
Coffee Houses of Wellington 1939 to 1979: The Pre-Espresso Period in New Zealand
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, illus to inside front cover, illus prelims, xii + 161pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light foxing to page edges, minor cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Millers 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand culture modern contemporary history coffee houses social baristas Wellington signed Craig Miller
The Barnett Shale Play Phoenix for the Fort Worth Basin: A History
Quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, unpaginated prelims + 202pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: The Fort Worth Geological Society / The North Texas Geological Society 2007
KEYWORDS: US American history north Texas Fort Worth basin geology oil gas energy resources geochemical
D Day
FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus stapled light card covers, red lettering to front cover, illus title page, unpaginated, VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing to cover edges, minor scuffing & tearing to staples/spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1944
KEYWORDS: first editions military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 d day landings Normandy anecdotes Denis Glover
Cecil Collins: Painter of Paradise
FIRST EDITION, octavo, stapled blue light card covers, blue lettering to front cover, 25pp, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to spine & edges, sl foxing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Golgonooza Press 1979
KEYWORDS: first editions art history biographies memoir English painters Cecil Collins Kathleen Raine
The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod
FULL LEATHER BINDING, LIMITED EDITION- THIS COPY UNNUMBERED BUT ONE OF 500, quarto, blue full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & rule with illus to front board, aeg, marbled eps, x + (2) + 385pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Derrydale Press 1998
KEYWORDS: blue water classics full leather bindings limited editions fishing angling sea US America American waters history
Roman Mosaics or Studies in Rome and its Neighbourhood
EX-LIBRARY, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: MacMillan and Co1892
KEYWORDS: roman mosaic archaeology history rome
Art in Greece
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks d/w; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co1927
KEYWORDS: grecian art ancient greek archaeology history
The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley: In Two Volumes
TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks d/w; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1876
KEYWORDS: lord macauley life letters memoir history
A Study of Australian Art
EX-LIBRARY, super octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks d/w; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Currawong Publishing Co 1949
KEYWORDS: australian art history australia artists
Picasso: The Complete Writings
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1985
KEYWORDS: gertrude stein picasso art history
Age of Surrealism
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: surrealism surrealist movement history modern thought
Always a Southern Man: The History of the Southern Rugby Football Club 1884-1984
BOTTOM EDGE WATER STAINED, super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Southern Rugby Football Club
KEYWORDS: southern rugby football club history dunedin otago new zealand
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
UNDERLINED TEXT, super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: October Books, MIT Press1992
KEYWORDS: jonathan crary art history modernity modern thought
Peasant Paintings from Hu County, Shensi Province, China
Oblong super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Arts Council of Great Britain 1977
KEYWORDS: chinese art peasant painting art history
'The Hyde Park Atrocity' Epstein's Rima: Creation and Controversy
Quarto softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Henry Moore Centre 1988
KEYWORDS: jacob epstein hyde park english artists sculpture art history