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$17.50
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In Search of the Highlands: Mapping the Canada-Maine Boundary 1839: The Journals fo Featherstonhaugh and Mudge August to November 1839


McEWAN, ALEC (Ed & Intro)

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: Acadiensis Press 1988

KEYWORDS: journals diaries George William Featherstonhaugh Richard Mudge history Canada Canadian land borders boundaries Canada Maine geography

$15.00
xx189pol208403

Horizons West


KITSES, JIM

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: Thames and Hudson 1969

KEYWORDS: cinema movies film studies history westerns cowboys wild west Anthony Mann Budd Boetticher Sam Peckinpah

$24.50
xx189pol208409

Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music


FRITH, SIMON

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: music popular music history criticism philosophy aesthetics culture

$25.00
xx189pol208410

Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll


FRITH, SIMON

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 1981

KEYWORDS: sound recording industry rock music history criticism

$25.00
xx189pol208417

Studies of the Spanish Mystics


PEERS, E ALLISON

THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, 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: The Sheldon Press 1930

KEYWORDS: religion religious Spain Spanish history theology mysticism teresan period

$36.00
xx189pol208418

Tales of Fishes


GREY, ZANE

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: The Derrydale Press 2001

KEYWORDS: fishing hobbies Zane Grey literature history historical

$45.00
2g9a/10

A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three


The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914

MARTYN, ERROL W

This vol. only. Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 208; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; sticker peeled from front cover).

PUBLISHER: Volplane Press 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War 1 WW WW1 WWI Air Force Royal Great aviation planes aircraft

$70.00
2g9a/12

The Peep Show


WILKINSON, WALTER

Crown 8vo, pp. x + 230; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to central gutters; light to moderate foxing throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing; lg closed tear to lower spine extrem along rear joint fold; hole to spine).

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1933

KEYWORDS: Walter Wilkinson England travel travelling journey social history puppet puppeteering

$90.00
ak1/15a/21

A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean's Maraekakaho- 1857 to Today


SCARFE, ALAN

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 595pp, illus, folding map, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2013

KEYWORDS: signed Alan Scarfe New Zealand history Maraekakaho Hawke's Bay early settlers pioneers Sir Donald McLean

$40.00
ak1/15a/22

Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers


HARRIS, SHELDON

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white & green lettering to spine, 775pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & chafing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1989

KEYWORDS: music history blues jazz musicians singers profiles

$45.00
ak1/15a/27

Mountaineering from the Milford Road: An Illustrated History of the First Mountaineering in the Milford Region 1895 to 1970


HALL-JONES, GERARD

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, illus eps, 119pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, prev. bookseller's label to rear board, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Gerard Hall-Jones 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape Milford Lakes District south island Southern Alps history mountain climbing mountaineering Milfird Road

$150.00
ak1/15a/30

Pages from the Memory Log of G M Hassing: Sailor, Pioneer, Schoolmaster


HASSING, G M

SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, 74pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fraying to board edges, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- page block partially detached, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Southland Times Co N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history autobiography autobiographies memoir G M Hassing

$68.50
ak1/15a/33

History of North Otago for Centennial Period 1840 to 1940


McDONALD, K C

Octavo, yellow light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, vii + 275pp, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to cover edges & spine, moderate fading & soiling to spine, minor ink markings to rear cover, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: North Otago Centennial Committee 1940

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history North Otago centenary centennial committee

$40.00
ak1/15a/35

The Royal Geographical Society: New Zealand Glaciers 1893


HARPER, A P

ARTICLE RECOVERED WITH FOLDING MAP, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, 10pp, folding map to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Royal Geographical Society 1893

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology glaciers historic articles maps royal geographical society history

$125.00
ak1/15a/37

W O Bentley: The Man Behind The Marque


BOBBITT, MALCOLM

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Breedon Books Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: W O Bentley biography biographies memoir automotive history cars manufacturers design

$60.00
ak1/15a/38

Remembrance of Friends Past: Testimonies and Memorials to Lives and Works of New Zealand Quakers Who Died from 1843 to 1998


WEST, MARGARET & BRODIE, AUDREY & BRODIE, JAMES (Ed)

Quarto, beige light card covers, black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 235pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & soiling to covers, sm ex libris label to base of front cover, sm ink numbers to rear cover, light tanning & soiling/ink staining to page edges, occasional light pencil markings)

PUBLISHER: The Beechtree Press 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders history quakers religion religious testimonies

$160.00
ak1/15a/39

Portrait of Frances Hodgkins


McCORMICK, E H (SARGESON, FRANK)

ASSOCIATION COPY- INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY NZ AUTHOR FRANK SARGESON, FROM THE LIBRARY OF HELEN SHAW, dated Christmas 1981- one of the last books he signed, as he does in March 1982, imperial octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front board, frontispiece, 159pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to board edges/extrems, sl foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Auckland / Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: signed Frank Sargeson association copies Helen Shaw art history biography biographies memoir Frances Hodgkins New Zealand

$125.00
ak1/18a/1

Vikings of To-Day, or, Life and Medical Work Among the Fisherman of Labrador


GRENFELL, WILFRED T

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 240pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate rubbing & light bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to front gutter, moderate foxing to frontispiece & title page, light foxing to terminals)

PUBLISHER: Marshall Brothers 1895

KEYWORDS: first editions anthropology travel exploration Labrador history historical Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen

$50.00
ak1/18a/2

Fifty Years Syne: A Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago


CHISHOLM, Rev JAMES

DELUXE SIGNED EDITION, imperial octavo, cream buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, teg, printed eps, frontispiece, xi + 242pp, illus, VG- (light rubbing & moderate tanning & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, pencil annotation to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims, moderate creasing to bottom corner of pg241, light foxing to terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: J Wilkie and Co 1898

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history presbyterian church Otago churches jubilees

$50.00
ak1/18a/3

Mr Explorer Douglas


PASCOE, JOHN (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, xviii + 331pp, VG (moderate foxing & tape staining to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & tape staining to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, frontispiece sl detached at base of gutter) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate adhesive staining to edges of flaps, moderate creasing to spine, light chafing & soiling, moderate tape reinforcement to internal edges)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1957

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Charles Douglas West Coast Westland

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