Books - "history"
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This is Cricket: In the Spirit of the Game
Heavy quarto, green heavy boards, white lettering to spine, white cricket illus to front board, illus prelims, 368pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minor bruising & scuffing/surface loss to board edges/extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, 1cm scuff to edge/fold at rear)
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli 2020
KEYWORDS: sport cricket history grounds photos
Metamorphoses: Greek Photographs
Square imperial octavo, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt publisher's motif to front board, frontispiece, 180pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & soiling/discolouration to board edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, s foxing to prelims & terminals, sl creasing to edges of photographic pages) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1986
KEYWORDS: Greek Greece history heritage photos photography Daniel Schwartz culture art
Trees of New Zealand: Stories of Beauty and Character
Quarto, green heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 208pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, sl fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa / Hachette 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand nature trees heritage history historical
The Pollards: A Family and its Child and Adult Opera Companies in New Zealand and Australia 1880-1910
Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, pink lettering to spine, 224pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2002
KEYWORDS: opera companies history historical New Zealand Australia Pollard Opera Company travelling theaters theatres music musical
Britain and the West New Guinea Dispute, 1949-1962
SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus green cloth boards, blue lettering to spine & boards, (14) + vi + 555pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light soiling & foxing to spine, sl bruising to board edges, light foxing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Edwin Mellen Press 2008
KEYWORDS: signed Nicholas Tarling Great Britain British politics geopolitics West New Guinea 20th twentieth century modern history
Vietnam Task: The 5th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, 1966/67
FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, xvi + 256pp, illus/photos, VG (boards sl warped & bruised, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & verso of title page) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia 1968
KEYWORDS: first editions military history Vietnam war Australia Australian 5th fifth battalion royal australian regiment
Functional Newspaper Design
Super 8vo, pp. xii + 340; black buckram bds, spine lettered in white; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1956
KEYWORDS: printing publishing history newspaper periodical book arts design typography
Government Printing in New Zealand, 1840 to 1843
Super 8vo, xiv + 207; illus. light card covers; VG (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Elibank Press 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand 19th century printing publishing history Government printer 1840
Ancient People and Places: The Canaanites
8vo, pp. 244; red cl bds, spine lettered in gilt, printer's device in gilt to front board; plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1964
KEYWORDS: Canaan Canaanites anicent classical history anthropology Hebrew Palestine Syria Egypt Mesopotamia Asia
Reason and Goodness
8vo, pp. 451; red cl bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep); in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading, scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1966
KEYWORDS: Brand Blanshard philosophy reason moral ethics good right history
William Blake's Jerusalem
Tidy ex-library, super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 264pp, illus/plates to rear, VG (minimal library markings, light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: The Trianon Press 1953
KEYWORDS: art history William Blake appreciation criticism interpretation
Highway 4: The Border Campaign 1947-1950
FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 169pp, VG- (moderate to heavy wrinkling & soiling/staining to covers, light scuffing to rear cover, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, moderate damp staining to front gutter- page block partially detached)
PUBLISHER: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1990
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography autobiographies memoir Colonel Dang Van Viet Hanoi Vietnam border campaigns China Chinese first editions
King of the Dragsters: The Story of Big Daddy Don Garlits (Enlarged and Updated Edition)
Ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 246pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, light bruising & tape staining to board extrems & edges, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate tape staining to eps, light tanning to prelims) in d/w, VG (in scruffy plastic cover, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, minor tanning)
PUBLISHER: Chilton Book Company 1975
KEYWORDS: motorsport history autobiography autobiographies memoir Don Garlits Big Daddy drag racing racing automotive
Waterloo Letters: A Collection of Accounts from Survivors of the Campaign of 1815
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvi + 415pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Frontline Books 2015
KEYWORDS: military history Waterloo campaigns soldiers 19th nineteenth century Napoleon Bonaparte
Benedict de Spinoza: The Elements of His Philosophy
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 171pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems/edges, boards sl warped, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing to terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with minor loss, moderate tanning/fading to spine, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: The Athlone Press 1957
KEYWORDS: Benedict de Spinoza philosophy history theory doctrines
Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 380pp, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: first editions ancient history Greek Greece values morality philosophy literature
An Examination of Plato's Doctrines (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, vol 1- xii + 395pp, vol 2- x + 573pp, VG (minor rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to boards of vol 2, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown of vol 1, prev. owners' names in ink to ffeps & prelims of both vols, occasional pencil markings throughout)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962-63
KEYWORDS: Plato philosophy literature criticism history historical doctrines
Pacific Protest: The Maasina Rule Movement Solomon Islands, 1944-1952
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 206pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges & eps/prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Institute of Pacific Studies University of the South Pacific Suva 1983
KEYWORDS: signed pacific Solomon islands Hugh Laracy politics maasina rule history 20th twentieth century
Trading Cultures: A History of the Far North
Ex-library. Super 8vo, pp. x + 382; illus. light card covers, french flaps; photos, illus.; VG (moderate tanning, scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals; library stickers to spine, rear cover recto & verso; library stamp in black ink to ht & top pg edge).
PUBLISHER: Huia 2011
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history North Island social economic political 18th 19th 20th 21st century
A Thousand Graduates: Conflict in University Development in Papua New Guinea, 1961-1976
Signed, inscribed & dated by author. Super 8vo, pp. xx + 363; illus. light card covers; photos; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling & tanning & foxing to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; moderate to heavy cracking to central gutters).
PUBLISHER: The Australian National University 1980
KEYWORDS: university education social history anthropology Papua New Guinea 20th century sociology