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$40.00
ak1/11a/13

The Future of Jazz


FRIEDWALD, WILL et al & TAYLOR, YUVAL (Ed)

Octavo, illus lgossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A Cappella Books 2002

KEYWORDS: music jazz theory philosophy history criticism

$60.00
ak1/11a/19

Propertius I


BAKER, ROBERT J (Trans, Intro, Commentary & Latin Text by)

WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of New England 1990

KEYWORDS: signed latin texts Robert J Baker ancient history literature Sextus Propertius Rome Roman antiquity elegies

$40.00
ak1/15a/1

Cezanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs


LORAN, ERLE

Lg quarto, grey buckram boards, black lettering to red buckram spine, black lettering & illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 143pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light soiling to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate but light/unobtrusive pencil underlining & annotation, minor wrinkling to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1963

KEYWORDS: Cezanne art history criticism appreciation interpretation

$50.00
ak1/15a/5

Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the USSR


BELIAEV, VIKTOR M & SLOBIN, MARK (Ed & Annotated) & SLOBIN, MARK and GRETA (Trans)

Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 340pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: music history criticism soviet Russia Russian Asia

$175.00
ak1/15a/8

Italy: Handbook for Travellers


BAEDEKER, K

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule/decoration to spine & boards, marbled page edges, printed front eps, illus/map to rear eps, folding maps throughout, lxii + 464pp, illus/maps, VG- (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, minor closed tearing to folding maps)

PUBLISHER: Karl Baedeker 1892

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Italy maps historical historic history travelling guides

$145.00
ak1/15a/9

Central Africa: Adventures and Missionary Labors in Several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856


BOWEN, T J

LACKS FEP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, 359pp + 7pp to rear, VG- (moderate scuffing & chipping to board & spine edges/extrems, sl chafing to boards, heavy tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name -historic- to front pastedown, ffep missing & top half of prelim pg missing, sm pink pencil cross to top corner of title page, minor foxing throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1857

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature central Africa 19th nineteenth century history historical accounts missionaries T J Bowen

$40.00
ak1/15a/12

From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism: Popular Music and Australian Culture from the 1960s to the 1990s


HAYWARD, PHILIP (Ed)

Octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xi + 188pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1992

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian popular culture music history late 20th twentieth century

$45.00
ak1/15a/18

A Medical Emergency: Major-General Ginger Burston and the Army Medical Service in World War II


HOWIE-WILLIS, IAN

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LOOSELY ENCLOSED PRINTED SIGNED LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 487pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Big Sky Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: signed Ian Howie-Willis medical officers military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Major-General Ginger Burston biography biographies memoir

$40.00
ak1/15a/19

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music


BEBBINGTON, WARREN (Ed)

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: music history Australia Australian musical heritage companion performers entertainment dictionary

$55.00
2f33a/8

Endless Sotry: Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War


DORLING, Captain TAPRELL (TAFFRAIL); PEARS, CHARLES (illus.)

Demy 8vo, pp. 450; white/blue cl bds, spine & front board lettered in blue, front board bordered in blue; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping & moderate to heavy archival repairs; hole to back; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1933

KEYWORDS: First World War 1 I WW WW1 WWI war warfare ships navy naval boat 20th century Europe military history

$150.00
2f33a/9

The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact


COOPER, JANET (ed)

First edition. Super 8vo, pp. xii + 265; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising, curling & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: The Hambledon Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Battle of Maldon medieval mediaeval Anglo-Saxon Anglo Saxon war warfare history first edition Janet Cooper

$345.00
2f33a/12

23 Battalion


ROSS, ANGUS

8vo, pp. xvi + 506; red buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, foldout maps; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to front & rear hinges, bdg sl sloppy; moderate cracking to front gutters & light cracking to rear gutters); in d/w, G (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling; heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems heavy chipping; extensive tape repairs, scrap papers taped to underside as support; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs 1959

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Second World War 2 II WW WW2 WWII war warfare 20th century ANZAC

$50.00
2f33a/13

British Castles


ASHDOWN, CHARLES H

Medium 8vo, pp. xx + 208; green buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered in yelllow, spine & front board illus.; frontis., plates, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; moderat tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to front & rear hinges, bdg sloppy; moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters; p. xi-xii loose; light tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black 1911

KEYWORDS: Britain England British English castles architecture construction history

$90.00
2f51a/52

Hikurangi Ki Homburg: Henare Kohere and Terei Ngatai with the Maori Coronation Contingent 1902


HOGAN, HELEN M

Imp. 8vo, pp. xii + 140; illus. light card covers; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; 2cm closed tear to front cover with archival tape repairs).

PUBLISHER: Clerestory Press 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori military history soliders 19th 20th century

$57.50
2f51a/53

New Zealand's Western Front Campaign


MCGIBBON, IAN

Quarto, pp. 408; grey heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps & tp, photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, spine sl cocked) in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling).

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2016

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War 1 WW1 WWI II western front 20th century

$40.00
2f51a/55

Antwerp World Port: On Trading and Shipping


PARMENTIER, JAN & DE PALMENAER, ELS & LAGAE, JOHAN & SABAKINU, JACOB

Disc to rear. Imp. 8vo, pp. 175; illus. heavy card bds; illus. eps, frontis., photos, plates, foldouts, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; gift inscription in blue ink to ht).

PUBLISHER: MAS Books 2012

KEYWORDS: Antwerp port shipping trade history trading route Europe

$100.00
2f51a/67

The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts


KIRK, G S & RAVEN, J E

First edition. 8vo, pp. xii + 487; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep; moderate to heavy fading to bds & spine; moderate to heavy pencil annotation throughout).

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1957

KEYWORDS: G S Kirk J E Raven presocratic philosohy philosophers ancient classical history first edition

$50.00
2f51a/68

The Presocratic Philosophers Volume 1: Thales to Zeno


BARNES, JONATHAN

This vol. only. First edition. Super 8vo, pp. xiv + 378; brown heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions in blue ink to ffep & rfep); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning; price clipped to front flap).

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979

KEYWORDS: Jonathan Barnes presocratic philosohy philosophers ancient classical history first edition

$325.00
2f51a/70

Old New Zealand, A Tale of the Good Old Times; And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845. Told by an Old Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe. By a Pakeha Maori


EARL OF PEMBROKE (introd)

Fourth edition (Bagnall 3346). Original bdg. Demy 8vo, pp. xvi + 278; brown cl bds, spine lettered & ruled in gilt; front board ruled & decorated in black; rear board decorated in blind; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping, esp to spine extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; heavy cracking to front & rear hinges, bdg sloppy; moderate cracking to central gutters; moderate foxing throughout; rfep & final pg loose).

PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley and Son 1876

KEYWORDS: old New Zealand 19th century Maori Pakeha history story stories war warfare battle tribes

$90.00
2f51a/71

Manual of New Zealand Geography with Maps and Examination Questions


BOWDEN, THOMAS A & HECTOR, JAMES

Foolscap 8vo, pp. x + 143 + [24 (advts)]; brown cl bds, front board lettered in gilt; advt eps, foldout maps throughout; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to tp verso; annotation in pencil to maps; light to moderate foxing throughout; moderate cracking to front & rear hinges; moderate cracking to central gutters).

PUBLISHER: George Philip and Son 1871

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geography Thomas A Bowden history environment topography maps geographical landscape

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