Books - "history"
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Folklore and Fairy tales of the Canterbury Maoris
Octavo, blue/teal stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 38pp, VG+ (light tanning/foxing & creasing to cover edges, sl foxing & soiling to covers & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1957
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori heritage culture history folklore lore fairy tales Canterbury Taare te Maiharoa Maud Goodenough Hayter Mrs T Moses
Camp-Life in Fiordland, New Zealand: A Tale of the Sutherland Falls
LACKS MAP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp rule to spine & board edges, patterned eps, frontispiece, ix + 134pp, illus/photos, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to title page, light tanning & foxing/soiling throughout, map torn out & missing)
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Gov't Printer 1892
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Suthlerland Falls Fiordland landscape
Early Days in Murchison: Unfinished Journal George McNee 1880-1946
Quarto, green stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 25pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1983
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history diaries journals George McNee Murchison
Away FromIt All: The Life-Style of Donald Sutherland of Milford Sound, NZ
Quarto, illus white light card covers, brown lettering to front cover, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 24pp + illus/photos to rear, folding map to rear, VG (light creasing & moderate tanning & foxing to covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, photo pages tanned)
PUBLISHER: Whakatane & District Historical Society 1977
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Lakes District Milford Sound Donald Sutherland biography biographies memoir pioneers
Wakatipu's Golden Days
Quarto, illus spiral bound covers, black lettering to front cover, illus/maps to prelims, unpaginated prelims + 121pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light cracking to top edge of front plastic cover, sl foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: A J de la Mare 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Lakes District Wakatipu history early settlers pioneers
The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand: Reports on the Geo-physics, Geology, Zoology and the Botany of the Islands Lying to the South of New Zealand (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FOLDING MAP TO REAR POCKET OF VOL 2, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt penguin illus to front boards, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spines & board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate scuffing & creasing to ffep of vol 1 with 2cm closed tear to base also, moderate scuffing & surface loss to page edges of vol 1 from prev. adhesion- text block mostly unimpeded, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of ffep, occasional scuffing & surface damage/loss to some pgs of vol 2 from prev. adhesion, minor foxing only to folding map)
PUBLISHER: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1909
KEYWORDS: geology geography subantarctic islands exploration botany zoology reports history exploration New Zealand south southern
Diary of F S Pillans of Myres, Inch Clutha, 1st January, 1850 - 2nd June, 1852 (Copy Made in the Hocken Library from the Original Diary)
Quarto, beige folder with metal clasps, handwritten black lettering to front cover, 72pp, VG+ (copied pages- expected black copy markings to page edges, page edges roughly cut, otherwise a reasonably tidy copy)
PUBLISHER: None Stated (1958?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers F S Pillan diary journal Inch Clutha Southland
Probing the Nelson Creek Area
Quarto, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 100pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & tearing to cover edges & spine, light soiling & chafing, sm numerals in ink to rear cover, minor wrinkling throughout, moderate staining to base of page block)
PUBLISHER: Stanley G P Eaton 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Nelson Creek gold mining prospecting goldmining
The Way Out (Italian Intermezzo)
Octavo, teal/aqua buckram boards, red lettering to spine, 384pp, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, light soiling & pencil annotation to ffep, light foxing & newspaper articles glued in to rear eps, light cracking to gutter of pg32/33) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, moderate tanning & rubbing to spine, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1946
KEYWORDS: Uys Krige autobiography autobiographies memoir military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war
Comrades in Bondage
SIGNED, DATED & WARMLY INSCRIBED, WITH MODERATE WATER DAMAGE, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 144pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to board edges, moderate but faint water damage/staining top edges of spine & front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals, light damp wrinkling to frontispiece) in d/w, VG- (in fully adhesive plastic wrap- fully affixed, price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- sl loss, light rubbing to spine, minor tanning/foxing)
PUBLISHER: Skeffington and Son N/D (c.1946)
KEYWORDS: signed Frank Foster military history autobiography autobiographies memoir
The Naked Flagpole: Battle for Bataan, from the Diary of Richard C Mallonee
Octavo, faux leather brown boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 204pp, illus/maps, VG+ (sl bruising to spine & board corners, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Presidio Press 1980
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 campaigns battles Bataan diaries journals Richard C Mallonee Philippines Japanese occupation
It's Further via Gibralter
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 144pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading/tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with minor loss, moderate tanning to spine & joins/folds, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1961
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 raf royal air force pilots autobiography autobiographies memoir Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs British armed forces
Rumania 1866-1947
Octavo, deep blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 579pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing/scuffing to edges, sl tanning)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Europe European history Rumania geopolitics geography
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, xviii + 944pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Jews Jewish history Europe politics government antisemitism holocaust ethnic ethnicity
Chatham Exiles: Yesterday and To-Day at the Chatham Islands
Octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, map illus to eps, frontispiece, 182pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, sl foxing to prelims, Chatham Islands postage stamps affixed to verso of contents page) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, sm adhesive residue to front cover, newspaper cutting o f author taped to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1950
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Chatham islands history isolated Pacific
A Clinton Couple: Letters from Early Days in South Otago
Octavo, teal buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to title plate on front board, 62pp, VG+ (sl soiling to boardssl foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges & folds, light fading to spine, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 1993
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history South Otago Clinton letters correspondence Scottish settlers John Gormack Mary McDonald
Looking Back: Glenshee to Otago 1853-56 to 1953-56
Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to covers, 142pp + unpaginated supplement to rear, VG- (moderate creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges, moderate chipping & tearing to base of spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to title page, minor cracking & rusting to front & rear gutters)
PUBLISHER: Clan Ayson of NZ Society N/D (c.1950s)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history south island centenary centennial Glenshee Otago pioneers settlers
The Southern Districts of New Zealand; A Journal with Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, folding map verso of title page, xiv + 315pp, G+ (heavy water damage to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & water staining to eps, inscription in ink to ffep, binding sloppy with some segments loosened, moderate closed tearing to folding map)
PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 1851
KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island Southland districts history
Typefaces for Books
Imp. 8vo, pp. 288; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; sl cracking to front gutters; prev ownership inscription in blue to ht).
PUBLISHER: The British Library 1990
KEYWORDS: type typeface lettering founding book arts design letterpress printing history
Newspaper Cuttings/Obituares 1896-1906
This volume only. 4to, pp. 188; red buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate, rubbing scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; dates covered by work inscribed in blue ink to tp).
PUBLISHER: Dunedin Public Library 1975
KEYWORDS: Dunedin Public Library Otago newspaper cuttings obituaries 19th 20th century social history