Books - "history"
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The Writing of the Disaster
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
The Sun Goes Down: Last Letters from Japanese Suicide-Pilots and Soldiers
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
Gunner Inglorious
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
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian
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
Marsden of Maoriland: Pioneer and Peacemaker
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
I Will Come Back For You: The Undercover Jewish Commando Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
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
Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive
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
The Oxford History of New Zealand Music
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
Les Folies du Music-Hall: A History of the Music-Hall in Paris from 1914 to the Present Day
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
The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe
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PUBLISHER: Futura Publications 1976
KEYWORDS: German military history air force Luftwaffe ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 aviation aerial combat warfare
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
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
Spitfire Mark I P9374
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
Green Devils / Red Devils: Untold Tales of the Airborne Forces in the Second World War
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
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
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PUBLISHER: Headline 2022
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America
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
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Second, Revised Edition)
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
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1948
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
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1947
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
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1949
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
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1950
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