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$30.00
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Scottish Locomotive History: 1831-1923


HIGHET, CAMPBELL

FIRST EDITION, 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: George Allen & Unwin 1970

KEYWORDS: first editions trains transport steam locomotives Scotland Scottish history

$30.00
xx175pol207396

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea: The Story of 835 Naval Air Squadron in the Second World War


BARRINGER, E E

FIRST EDITION, super 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: Leo Cooper 1995

KEYWORDS: military history aviation 835 naval air squadron first editions ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$25.00
xx175pol207397

Dowding and Headquarters Fighter Command


FLINT, PETER

Super 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: Airlife 1996

KEYWORDS: military history battle of Britain aerial warfare combat aviation raf royal air force ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$24.50
xx175pol207400

Fighter Pilot's Heaven: Flight Testing the Early Jets


LOPEZ, DONALD S & BORMAN, FRANK (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, super 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: Airlife Publishing 1995

KEYWORDS: first editions military history aviation test pilots early jets

$20.00
xx175pol207401

Amelia Earhart: A Biography


RICH, DORIS L & YEAGER, JEANA (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, super 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: Airlife Publishing 1989

KEYWORDS: first editions aviators aviation pilots Amelia Earhart history biography biographies memoir

$40.00
1k22a/14

The Pleasures of Men


WILLIAMS, KATE

FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED. Super 8vo, [8] + 401 pp.; red heavy card bds, spine lettered in blue gilt; blue eps; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems); in d/w, VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling; minor bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; in plastic wrapper).

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 2012

KEYWORDS: modern first edition Kate Williams 21st century historical fiction 19th century England London social history crime vice corruption thriller

$40.00
1l6b/11

EyeOpeners: A Little Something to Think About


EASTHAM, SCOTT

Super 8vo, x + 195 pp.; illus. light card covers, VG- moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Horizon Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Scott Eastham New Zealand life social history custom human truth culture communication essays

$16.50
xx174pol207455

In Search of Ancient Gods: My Pictorial Evidence for the Impossible


VON DANIKEN, ERICH & HRON, MICHAEL (trans)

Super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press 1974 - Illustrated Edition

KEYWORDS: erich von daniken alternative history alternate facts ancient aliens

$9.00
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One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History


CHARROUX, ROBERT & BAIR, LOWELL (trans)

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: Sphere Books 1981

KEYWORDS: cosmology alternate ancient history robert charroux

$80.00
1m26a/14

The Ivory King: A Popular History of the Elephant and its Allies


HOLDER, CHARLES FREDERICK

Crown 8vo, pp. xiv + 330; brown buckram bds, black label to spine lettered in gilt, spine & front board lettered in black & decorated in red; frontis., plates; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in pencil to ffep; light cracking to front & central gutters).

PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1891

KEYWORDS: Charles Frederick Holder 19th century elephant wildlife animals natural history zoology

$120.00
1m26a/26

Angling in America: Its Early History and Literature


GOODSPEED, CHARLES ELIOT

LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Super 8vo, pp. xiv + 381; textured grey leather bds, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in gilt to front board; teg, marbled eps, frontis., plates; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges); in cream cl slipcase, VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping; some tearing away to cl).

PUBLISHER: The Flyfisher's Classic Library 1996

KEYWORDS: American United States fish fishing angling angler history sport game

$25.00
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Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand


O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT

Revised edition. Obl super 8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2013

KEYWORDS: Katherine Mansfield New Zealand pictorial history 20th century

$35.00
xx180pol207582

The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan


STEINER, GEORGE

8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: New Directions 2011

KEYWORDS: literature poetry poetic history philosophy 21st century criticism

$17.50
xx179pol207672

Culture and the Death of God


EAGLETON, TERRY

Provenance attributed to Vincent O'Sullivan. 8vo 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: Yale University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Terry Eagleton social history culture philosophy cultural religion

$37.50
xx179pol207675

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiousity, and the Real


JACKSON, MICHAEL

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo 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: Duke University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Michael Jackson anthropology religion religious social history

$45.00
2i48b/18

The Ethnomusicologist


HOOD, MANTLE

Super 8vo, pp. xxviii + 400; orange buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in green; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev owner's stamp in black ink to top & bottom pg edge & front pastedown).

PUBLISHER: The Kent State University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: music musicology ethnomusicology research theory anthropology history social

$25.00
2i48b/19

Currency Companion to Music & Dance in Australia


WHITEOAK, JOHN & SCOTT-MAXWELL, ALINE (eds)

Super 8vo, pp. 734; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).

PUBLISHER: Currency House 2003

KEYWORDS: music dance art arts Australia Australian Currency Companion history

$40.00
2i48b/20

Guitar Family Trees: The History of the World's Most Iconic Guitars


BURROWS, TERRY; WYLDE, ZAKK (forew)

Super 8vo, pp. 256; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).

PUBLISHER: Apple 2011

KEYWORDS: music musical instruments guitar history company companies

$200.00
2i48b/21

Hateruma: Socio-Religious Aspects of a South-Ryukyuan Island Culture


OUWEHAND, C

Imp. 8vo, pp. xi + 324; blue cl bds bordered in blind, spine & front board lettered in gilt, publisher's device in gilt to front board; illus., 140 plates to rear; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; prev ownership & gift inscription in black ink to ffep); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Leiden, E. J. Brill 1985

KEYWORDS: Hateruma Japan Japanese island Okinawa Prefecture sociology religion religious socio-religious myth mythology legend social history custom culture

$165.00
2i48b/25

The Highland Bagpipe: Music, History, Tradition


DICKSON, JOSHUA (ed)

Super 8vo, pp. xxv + 377; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; photos, illus., disc to rear; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; prev owner's stamp in black ink to bottom pg edge, front pastedown & ffep); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems)

PUBLISHER: Ashgate 2009

KEYWORDS: Scotland Highlands music bagpipe history mmusical instrument

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