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A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI & VII-X [Two volume set]
2x VOL ST, LACK D/Ws; super octavo hardcover (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: Readers Union / Oxford University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: History of civilizations
Two Hundred Years of History and Evolution of Woodworking Machinery
HANDBOUND FACSIMILE, quarto, black heavy boards- blank with no lettering, xiii + 174pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, mior ink staining to base of some pages)
PUBLISHER: Walders Press 1985
KEYWORDS: history crafts wood woodwork machinery tools carpentry
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury: A Study of Monastic Reform in the Tenth Century
Ex-library octavo hardcover (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: Collins 1955
KEYWORDS: Saint Dunstan of Canterbury monasticism saints monasteries religion Christianity Christian history
A Handful of Grain: The Centenary History of the Baptist Union of N.Z.: Volume 1 -- 1851-1882
THIS VOL. ONLY, paperback (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: N.Z. Baptist Historical Society
KEYWORDS: New Zealand baptist union church history baptists Christianity Christian religion
Govenors' Ladies: The Wives and Mistresses of Van Diemen's Land Govenors
Ex-library super octavo hardcover (VG-) cracking at gutter 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: Tasmanian Historical Research Association 1987
KEYWORDS: Van Diemen's Land Australian Tasmanian colonial history historical biography women Tasmania Australia
Select Documents of English Constitutional History 1307-1485
Ex-library 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: A. and C. Black Limited 1961
KEYWORDS: English constitutional documents history England
A Book of Voyages
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (Nr FINE); 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: HarperCollins 2013
KEYWORDS: Patrick O'Brian sea travel maritime history nautical literature
The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930
Super octavo hardcover (near FINE); 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: University of Chicago Press 1997
KEYWORDS: gender sexuality social history men masculinity
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture
Super 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: Routledge 2001
KEYWORDS: gender men masculinity cultural social media studies film cinema history queer lgbtqia essays
Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work 1890-1945
Super 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: Yale University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: social work care history maternity homes America women
Brittania's Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians
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: Cassell 1996
KEYWORDS: British lesbian political history historical biography queer women essays
Sex Marchers
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: Ishi Press 2006
KEYWORDS: protest history activism sex sexuality reproductive rights queer LGBTQIA
Cecil Rhodes: His Private Life, by His Private Secretary
FIRST EDITION, ex-school library, octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to borders of front & rear board, gilt school emblem to front board, marbled page edges & eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, 293pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate scuffing/rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing to boards, mior tanning to page edges, school presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate to heavy foxing throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1911
KEYWORDS: first editions leather bindings Cecil Rhodes biography biographies memoir politics political history historical
The Holy Ghost Among the Fantails: Being the Rendering of Certain Painterly Situations in the Missionary Life of Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier, Who Laboured in New Zealand from 1838 to 1868 and Witnessed Many of the Events of Those Turbulent Year
FIRST EDITION, oblong folio, black heavy boards, illus prelims, frontispiece, 60pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (minor fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2012
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand art Piera McArthur history portraits Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier
200 The Westpac Story
Heavy quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, illus prelims, 297pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & rear board, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, sl chafing & soiling, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Westpac Banking Corporation 2017
KEYWORDS: banking history banks Westpac Australia Australian finance
Whitcombe's New War Atlas: The World at a Glance (Second and Revised Edition)
Imperial octavo, stapled illus light card wrappers, printed inside covers, 16pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & creasing to spine & cover edges, moderate tearing to spine extrems & base of front cover, moderate to heavy tanning/foxing & scuffing to covers, whole page block detached at top staple, moderate tanning & foxing to inside covers/eps, light to moderate tanning to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D
KEYWORDS: military history war atlas atlases Europe European America Pacific
New Zealand VC Winners: The Story of New Zealand Servicemen Who Won the Greatest Honour for Valour on the Battlefield
Quarto, illus stapled light card wrappers, pink lettering to front covers, illus title page, 48pp, illus/photos, VG (2x ring binder holes to staple area, moderate rubbing & scuffing/creasing to spine & cover edges, minor foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to covers & inside covers)
PUBLISHER: Wilson And Horton 1974
KEYWORDS: New Zealand war history military VC Victoria Cross heroes winners recipients
The Russo-Ukrainian War
FIRST EDITION, super ocatvo, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, xxii + 376pp, VG+ (sl creasing & soiling to cover edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 2023
KEYWORDS: first editions modern history war Russia Ukraine Ukrainian Russian geopolitics
History of Civilization in England, in Three Volumes (3 Vols Bound as 1)
Ex-school library, duodecimo, black leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to red leather title plate to spine with raised bands & gilt decoration also, marbled page edges & eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, mixed pagination, VG (moderate rubbing & scuffing to spine, light scuffing & bruising to board corners, minor tanning to page edges, presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, minor adhesion to prelims pgs)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1911
KEYWORDS: history England English civilisation civilization
Printed: Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901
Very tidy ex-library, quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, marbled eps, frontispiece, xvii + 294pp, illus, VG (minimal library markings, light fading & tape residue to board edges, binding sloppy/loose, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (usual library markings/labels, light creasing to edges, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Australia 2007
KEYWORDS: art history colonial Australia Australian 19th nineteenth century prints