Books - "history"
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Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
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: Harper Business 2015
KEYWORDS: business boardroom shareholders history Jeff Gramm
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
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: University of California Press N/D (c.1990s)
KEYWORDS: anthropology ancient history myths mythology Greece Greek rituals sacrifices
A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England
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: University of Chicago Press 1971
KEYWORDS: Thomas Hobbes history historical dialogues philosophy law
The Invercargill Book
Octavo softcover, spiralbound (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: Morepork Press N/D (c.2005)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Southland Invercargill cities south island pioneers
The Origin of Russian Communism
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: Geoffrey Bles 1948
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian economics politics communism history
The Ship That Stood Still
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: Patrick Stephens 1993
KEYWORDS: maritime disasters nautical Captain Stanley shipwrecks history
Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) pgs 79-82 detached but present; 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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979
KEYWORDS: religion religious history buildings cathedrals finance economics
The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
Super 8vo, pp. xx + 267; purple buckram boards, spine lettered in yellow; plates; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep).
PUBLISHER: Roy Publishers [1954]
KEYWORDS: Anna Leonowens Siam Siamese Thailand court history 19th 20th century
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Super 8vo, pp. xx + 904; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Prwss 2007
KEYWORDS: United States of America 19th century American history politics government economic conditions economics social change international relations Daniel Walker Howe
Prohibition and Politics: Turbulent Decades in Tennessee, 1885-1920
Ex-library. First edition. Super 8vo, pp. x + 301; red cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; library markings to prelims & terminals; tape to boards, adhesive residue from tape to eps); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning).
PUBLISHER: The University of Tennessee Press 1965
KEYWORDS: Paul E Isaac United States of American 19th 20th century American history Tennessee prohibition
The Drug Beat
Ex-library. 8vo, pp. xxii + 278; black buckram boards, spine lettered in yellow; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from tape to boards & eps; library markings to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning).
PUBLISHER: Cowles Book Company 1971
KEYWORDS: Allen Geller Maxwell Boas 20th century drug use drugs social history
The Drugtakers: The social meaning of drug use
Ex-library. First edition. 8vo, pp. 240; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from tape to boards & eps; library markings to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to front & central gutters; pp. 5-8 peeling from gutter); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; price clipped to front flap; some water damage).
PUBLISHER: MacGibbon & Kee 1971
KEYWORDS: Jock Young 20th century drug use drugs social history first edition
Whangarei Hospital: A Century of Service, 1901-2001
4to, pp. 308; 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; sl soiling to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ht).
PUBLISHER: Northland Health 2001
KEYWORDS: Diana Menefy New Zealand Whangarei hospital 20th century history
The Great Books of Hashish Volume I, Book I
Imp. 8vo, pp. xxiv + 150; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to p. i; light soiling throughout).
PUBLISHER: And/Or Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Laurence Cherniak marijuana hashish cannabis history social drugs drug use
Alchemy: The Secret Art
Imp. 8vo, pp. 128; green heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate 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 bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Bounty Books 1973
KEYWORDS: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola alchemy science philosophy nature history
The Flowering of a Waratah: Neurology in Australia: A History
Super 8vo, pp. xvi + 350; illus. heavy card boards; photos; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges) ; in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Australian Scholarly Publishing 2024
KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand neurology neurologists history
Indian Hemp: A Social Menace
Ex-library. First edition. 8vo, pp. 112; red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; library markings to spine & eps; light to moderate cracking to front & rear hinge).
PUBLISHER: Christopher Johnson 1952
KEYWORDS: Donald McI Johnson H Pullar-Strecker Indian hemp marijuana cannabis drugs drug use history marihuana
Film and the Shoah in France and Italy
Super 8vo, pp. xii + 244; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising, curling & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Vallentine Mitchell 2008
KEYWORDS: Giacomo Lichtner film cinema Shoah France Italy history
The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914-1915: An account based on official records of the Seizure and Occupation by New Zealand of the German Islands of Western Samoa
Scarce. 8vo, pp. 218; green/blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; photos; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions in black ink to front pastedown & in blue ink to rfep; light cracking to front gutters; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: Ferguson & Osborn 1924
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Samoa occuption military history 20th century
24 Battalion
First edition. 8vo, pp. xvi + 261; red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, foldout maps; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to central gutters); in facsimile d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping, some loss to spine at head and tail; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs 1953
KEYWORDS: R M Burdon New Zealand war warfare military history first edition