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$19.50
xxamg213638

The Writing of the Disaster


BLANCHOT, MAURICE & SMOCK, ANN (Trans)

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: New Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press 1995

KEYWORDS: literature philosophy social commentary modern history disasters Maurice Blanchot

$15.00
xxamg213647

The Sun Goes Down: Last Letters from Japanese Suicide-Pilots and Soldiers


LARTEGUY, JEAN (Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: New English Library / NEL 1975

KEYWORDS: kamikaze pilots soldiers war history Japan Japanese letters correspondence

$20.00
xxamg213650

Gunner Inglorious


HENDERSON, JIM

REPRINT, FIRST AUSTERITY EDITION IN STIFF PAPER COVERS, octavo stiff paper covers (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: Harry H Tombs 1945

KEYWORDS: New Zealand war history literature Jim Henderson

$22.50
xxanb213652

Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian


LUKACS, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, 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 2002

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill former British Prime Ministers politics political history first editions biography biographies memoir

$15.00
xxanf213661

Marsden of Maoriland: Pioneer and Peacemaker


REED, A H & WILLIAMS, Bishop HERBERT W (Fore)

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: A H & A W Reed 1938

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Samuel Marsden biography biographies memoir pioneers early settlers

$15.00
xxanf213662

I Will Come Back For You: The Undercover Jewish Commando Who Helped Defeat the Nazis


HUHN, DANIEL & STANYON, RACHEL (Trans)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Ithaka 2025

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 nazis nazi Germany Jewish commandos Manfred Gans war heroes

$17.50
xxanf213667

Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive


STAFFORD, DAVID

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: BBC Worldwide 2000

KEYWORDS: ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 history British secret agents operatives special operations SOE

$24.50
xxaoa213668

The Oxford History of New Zealand Music


THOMSON, JOHN MANSFIELD

Tidy ex-library, 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: Oxford University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: New Zealand music history

$32.50
xxaob213684

Les Folies du Music-Hall: A History of the Music-Hall in Paris from 1914 to the Present Day


DAMASE, JACQUES & COWARD, NOEL (Fore)

Imperial 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: Hamlyn Publishing Group 1970

KEYWORDS: French music hall history entertainment 20th twentieth century Paris

$22.50
xxaob213690

The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe


IRVING, DAVID

Paperback (VG-) heavy crack to central gutter; 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: Futura Publications 1976

KEYWORDS: German military history air force Luftwaffe ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 aviation aerial combat warfare

$25.00
xxaoc213695

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story


TIWARY, VIVEK J & ROBINSON, ANDREW C (Art) & BAKER, KYLE (Art)

Quarto 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: M Press 2016

KEYWORDS: graphic novels The Beatles Brian Epstein biography biographies literature pop music history

$25.00
xxaoc213699

Spitfire Mark I P9374


SAUNDERS, ANDY

FIRST EDITION, 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: Grub Street Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: military aviation history Spitfire fighter planes aerial combat warfare design first editions

$30.00
xxaoc213703

Green Devils / Red Devils: Untold Tales of the Airborne Forces in the Second World War


BLANDFORD, EDMUND L

FIRST EDITION, 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: Leo Cooper 1993

KEYWORDS: first editions military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 aviation aerial combat warfare

$22.50
xxapa213711

Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War


MURRAY, AL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Headline 2022

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$25.00
xxapa213715

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America


FADERMAN, LILLIAN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: gay lesbian women lgbtq 20th twentieth century America history

$20.00
xxapa213717

History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Second, Revised Edition)


ROTHSTEIN, ANDREW (Ed) & DUTT, CLEMENS (Ed)

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: Foreign Languages Publishing House N/D

KEYWORDS: Soviet Union Russia Russian history communist party politics political

$145.00
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1948


PRESTON, HUBERT (ed)

Pott 8vo, xxxii + 844; brown buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; advt eps, plates; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderare to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals & throughout; moderate to heavy wear to spine with loss to lettering; light to moderate cracking to front hinge).

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1948

KEYWORDS: Hubert Preston Wisden cricketers' anthology almanack sport sporting history cricket 20th century

$90.00
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1947


PRESTON, HUBERT (ed)

Pott 8vo, pp. xxxii + 716; illus. light cl. covers; advt eps, plates; G+ (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters; spine cocked; heavy warping to cl. at spine; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling throughout).

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1947

KEYWORDS: Hubert Preston Wisden cricketers' anthology almanack sport sporting history cricket 20th century

$55.00
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1949


PRESTON, HUBERT (ed)

Pott 8vo, pp. viii + 936; brown buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; advt eps, plates; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards with some loss to lettering; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy soiling & foxing & light to moderate tanning to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate to heavy cracking to front & rear hinge, bdg sloppy; prev ownership inscription in black ink to tp; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1949

KEYWORDS: Hubert Preston Wisden cricketers' anthology almanack sport sporting history cricket 20th century

$65.00
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1950


PRESTON, HUBERT (ed)

Pott 8vo, pp. viii + 1004; brown buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; advt eps, plates; G- (heavy scuffing & soiling to boards (water damage?) with moderate loss to lettering, esp to spine; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals & throughout,; heavy cracking to front & rear hinges; prev ownership inscription to tp in pencil).

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1950

KEYWORDS: Hubert Preston Wisden cricketers' anthology almanack sport sporting history cricket 20th century

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