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$26.50
xx83pol212594

The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I 1802-1835


FLYNN, JAMES T

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: The Catholic University of America Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet higher education university history early 19th nineteenth century

$24.50
xx83pol212595

The Internationalists, and Their Plan to Outlaw War


HATHAWAY, OONA A & SHAPIRO, SCOTT J

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2017

KEYWORDS: Paris Peace Pact 1928 politics political war conflict history warfare

$30.00
xx84pol212606

The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev


SHEPILOV, DMITRI & BITTNER, STEPHEN V (Ed) & AUSTIN, ANTHONY (Trans)

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: Yale University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet politics political Kremlin government history

$16.50
xx86pol212613

Castles of Ireland


DE BREFFNEY, BRIAN & MOTT, GEORGE (Photos)

Imperial 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: Thames and Hudson 1985

KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish castles history historical heritage

$20.00
xx86pol212624

Historic Cunard Liners


RENTELL, PHILIP

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, square 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Atlantic Transport Publishers 1986

KEYWORDS: maritime history nautical Cunard Liners Philip Rentell signed luxury passenger ships vessels

$30.00
xx86pol212626

Crossing & Cruising: From the Golden Era of Ocean Liners to the Luxury Cruise Ships of Today


MAXTONE-GRAHAM, JOHN

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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1992

KEYWORDS: maritime history ocean liners luxury cruise ships nautical travel

$30.00
xx86pol212629

The Provincial Book Trade Eighteenth-Century England


FEATHER, JOHN

Very tidy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: history 18th eighteenth century book trade literature industries

$40.00
ak5/5/36

The Rebels


ALLEY, REWI

Octavo, illus grey glossy stapled light card covers, red lettering to front cover, 36pp, illus, VG (light chafing, creasing & soiling/foxing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The New Zealand-China Society / The Progressive Book Society 1973

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature Rewi Alley China Chinese history

$50.00
ak5/5/39

Le Livre d'Or de Jeanne d'Arc: Bibliographie Raisonne et Analytique des Ouvrages Relatif's a Jeanne d'Arc


D'ARC, PIERRE LANERY

TEXT IN FRENCH, tidy ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 1007p, illus, VG+ (minimal library markings, light fading to spine, light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Verlag B R Gruner 1970

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH bibliography bibliographies catalogues Joan of Arc history historical

$137.50
ak5/5/40

The Chatham Islands: Their Plants, Birds and People


RICHARDS, E C

FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, ix + 177pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, sl fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to ffep, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor archival tape repairs, light soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Simpson and Williams 1952

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Chatham Islands rural nature natural history people nature plants wildlife botany anthropology

$40.00
ak5/6/7

RNZAF: The First Decade 1937-1946


DARBY, CHARLES & PENTLAND, GEOFFREY (Color Paintings)

DAMP STAINING & WRINKLING TO REAR, quarto, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 119pp, illus/photos, VG (minor damp staining to rear board, light soiling to page edges, sm ink numerals to top of ffep, moderate damp staining & wrinkling to base of page block & rear eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate damp staining to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Kookaburra Technical Publications 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand armed defence defense forces military aviation RNZAF history fighter planes aircraft design

$40.00
ak5/6/8

Biology Aotearoa: Unique Flora, Fauna and Fungi


PARSONS, STUART

Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, green lettering to spine & covers, 126pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning/soiling & chafing to spine & covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Pearson 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa biology natural history flora fauna native botany plants fungi ecology

$150.00
ak5/6/10

RFK Funeral Train


FUSCO, PAUL & KENNEDY, Senator EDWARD M (Tribute) & MAILER, NORMAN (Essays) & THOMAS, EVAN (Essays)

Oblong quarto, illus light card coevrs, yellow & white lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning to page edges, gift inscription in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Umbrage Editions Inc 2000

KEYWORDS: US America American statesmen RFK Robert F Kennedy assassinations funeral trains modern history aftermath

$40.00
ak5/6/13

Architectural Monographs: John Soane


SUMMERSON, JOHN et al

FIRST EDITION, quarto, illus stiff card covers, red & black lettering to spine- faded, frontispiece, 123pp, illus/folding plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (moderate fading to spine & cover edges with minor curling also, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Academy Editions 1983

KEYWORDS: first editions John Soane architecture buildings history historical design

$70.00
ak5/6/16

Italian Printmaking: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: An Annotated Bibliography


KARPINSKI, CAROLINE

Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread? Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, xxv + 305pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, minor soiling to front board, light bruising to board corners, light soiling to page edges, minor creasing to some page fore-edges)

PUBLISHER: G K Hall & Co 1987

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Italian printmaking 15th 16th fifteenth sixteenth century history historical

$45.00
ak5/6/17

Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918-1939


LEBZELTER, GISELA C

Very tidy ex-library, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, ix + 222pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl creasing to some prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, sl fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1978

KEYWORDS: England English history early 20th twentieth century anti-semitism politics political Jews Jewish persecution

$55.00
ak5/6/21

Hoki to Haast: New Zealand's First Airline


WAUGH, RICHARD

SCARCE IN HARDCOVER, quarto, illus heavy boards, white & black lettering to spine, 152pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl foxing to page edges, sm numerals in ink to ffep, date & signature in ink to title page, minoradhesion damage to dedication/copyright & foreword pages_

PUBLISHER: The Kynaston Charitable Trust 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand civil aviation history flight passenger flights Air Travel (NZ) Richard Waugh

$55.00
ak5/6/22

Lost.....Without a Trace? Brian Chadwick & the Missing Dragonfly


WAUGH, RICHARD

SCARCE IN HARDCOVER, quarto, illus heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, 215pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, sl foxing to page edges, sm ink numerals to ffep)

PUBLISHER: The Kynaston Charitable Trust 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand civil aviation air disasters Brian Chadwick Dragonfly missing aircraft mysteries history

$50.00
ak5/6/24

A History of Religious Architecture: The House of God


SHORT, ERNEST

Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 306pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional minor foxing throughout, light cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor archival repair, light fading to spine, moderate chafing/soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1955

KEYWORDS: historical buildings architecture history religious temples churches abbeys cathedrals

$65.00
ak5/6/27

A History of English and Irish Glass (2 Vols Bound as 1)


THORPE, W. A.

TWO VOLS BOUND AS ONE, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained orange, mixed pagination, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (binding sloppy, light bruising & fading to spine & board edges, light foxing & soiling to eps, rear eps messily affixed) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light tanning & soiling, minor cracking to spine)

PUBLISHER: Holland Press 1969

KEYWORDS: antiques collectables collectibles glass glassware English Irish England Ireland history

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