Books - "history"
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Main Line Lament: The Final Years of the Great Central Route to London
Oblong quarto 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 Publishing Co 1973
KEYWORDS: trains rail history transport great central route England English
Delacroix
Square 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: Pall Mall Press 1970
KEYWORDS: art history appreciation Delacroix
Industrial Gwynedd / Gwynedd Diwydiannol: Cyfrol/ Volume 3
Quarto stapled light card 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: Plateway Press 1993
KEYWORDS: industrial history Wales Welsh archeology archaeology heritage
Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier (August, September 1914)
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: Phoenix Yard Books 2014
KEYWORDS: diaries journals soldiers ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war French military history illustrated
The Welsh Narrow Gauge Railway: A Pictorial History
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: David & Charles 1976
KEYWORDS: Wales Welsh rail railways transport history trains narrow gauge
Howard Kippenberger: Dauntless Spirit
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: Random House 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history signed Denis McLean Howard Kippenberger leaders war
Nisei: The Quiet Americans
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: William Morrow and Company 1969
KEYWORDS: American history Japanese migrants immigrants immigration Nisei
Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World
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 1976
KEYWORDS: human history Arthur Toynbee anthropology
Behind Bamboo: An Inside Story of the Japanese Prison Camps
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1947
KEYWORDS: Japanese pow camps prisoners of war prison military history
Japan's Imperial Conspiracy
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: Panther 1972
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese war military history imperialism imperial conspiracy
Industrial Gwynedd / Gwynedd Diwydiannol: Cyfrol / Volume 2
Imperial octavo stapled light card 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: Plateway Press 1997
KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology history Wales Welsh industrial age
Three Geishas
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: Cassell & Co 1956
KEYWORDS: Japan history geishas sex trade anecdotes Japanese culture first editions
Eclipse of the Rising Sun
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1951
KEYWORDS: ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 history Japan Japanese surrender
Jubilee History of South Canterbury
Signed & inscribed by author. Royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 775; brown buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in black; frontis., photos, foldout map, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with some chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev onwership stamp in purple ink to front pastedown; light to moderate cracking to front gutter; moderate tearing of cl to spine edge ).
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1916
KEYWORDS: Johannes C Andersen New Zealand local history South Canterbury 19th 20th century
The Duleep Singhs: The Photograph Album of Queen Victoria'a Maharajah
Ex-library. Super 8vo, pp. 160; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; tape to boards & eps; library markings to top pg edge, tp verso, & reps); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning).
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: Peter Bance Christy Campbell Maharajah Duleep Singh photographs family album 19th century Indian history
Railway Manual No. 4001
Imp. 8vo, pp. 118; red cl boards, front board lettered in gilt; illus. eps, photos, plates, folding plates, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: British Timken Limited N.D.
KEYWORDS: train trains locomotive locomotives railway manual history engineering
Immigration to New Zealand 1854-1938
Ex-library. Super 8vo, pp. [8] + 198; illus. light card covers; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals; heavy cracking to front gutters; lg tearing to rear cover along hinge; library markings to covers, eps & tp verso; moderate annotation in pencil & blue ink).
PUBLISHER: Australian National University 1991
KEYWORDS: W D Borrie New Zealand early settlers immigration 19th century history
Hunting: A New Zealand History
First edition. Super 8vo, pp. 320; illus. light card covers, french flaps; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Random House 2009
KEYWORDS: Kate Hunter New Zealand hunting hunters 20th century social history game sport
Living in Remote Communities in Tropical Australia: The Hedland Study
4to, pp. 100; illus light card covers; photos, illus.; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; heavy loss to card of spine extrem at tail; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to rear gutter; library markings to spine & covers, tp verso, contents & rear cover recto; moderate tearing to front & rear cover at spine tail hinges).
PUBLISHER: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization 1978
KEYWORDS: Western Australia Port Hedland dwellings social conditions T B Brealey P W Newton Australian history
Canada's Eastern Neighbour: a view on change in Greenland
Ex-library. First edition. 4to, pp. 103; illus. light card covers; frontis., photos; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, esp to spine extrem at tail; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to front & rear gutters; library markings to spine & covers, frontis. recto, tp verso, contents & rear cover recto).
PUBLISHER: Hon. Warren Allmand 1977
KEYWORDS: Hubert J C Schuurman Arthur Petch Greenland environmental social change conditions history