Books - "history"
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Pathways to Adventure: An Extraordinary
SIGNED, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 385pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Dryden Press 2004
KEYWORDS: signed W B Sandy Thomas autobiography autobiographies memoir ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war battles Crete history
New Zealand of To-Day (1884-1887)
BOTH MAPS PRESENT, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, xii + 402pp, folding maps, VG (light bruising to spine & front board extrems, moderate bruising/gouging to fore-edge of rear board, moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, occasional minor cracking to gutters, some page edges still uncut)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1888
KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical 19th nineteenth century history
Planters and Speculators: Chinese and European Agricultural Enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 312pp, folding map & illus, VG+ (sl warping & bruising to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Malaya Press 1968
KEYWORDS: history Asia China Malaya agriculture farming plantations
Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand
LACKS D/W, SPECIAL NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION (#37), super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 296pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Signals Incorporated 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals Army Signalling
The Colonist: A Work on the Past and Present Position of the Colony of New Zealand
Ex-library, octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board only, 486pp, VG- (usual library markings, heavy scuffing to top edge of spine with some cracking to hinges, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to other extrems, heavy staining to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, occasional light cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: J T Smith & Co 1881
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonialism colonial colonisation colonization early settlers settlements European
The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1914-1918
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black letetring & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece, xix + 567pp, 3x lg folding maps to rear pocket, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, minor fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, some prelim pgs detached)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1924
KEYWORDS: first editions military history New Zealand Medical Service ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war
Kin: A Collective Biography of a Working-Class New Zealand Family
Super octavo, teal glossy light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, 251pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & wrinkling to covers, minor soiling to page edges, light soiling to preface page)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand family whanau studies working class classes history
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality
Octavo, illus light card covers, white & teal lettering to spine, xiii + 408pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges, occasional pencil markings to margins)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: history sex sexuality sexology customs anthropology social science
Perverts by Official Order: The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 340pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harrington Park Press 1988
KEYWORDS: gay homosexuality sexual orientation military navy US gays Rhode Island Newport modern history trials law legal sodomy
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, ix + 199pp, illus, VG+ (light curling to covers, light to moderate fading to spine, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: New York University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: gay pirates homosexuality men masculinity literature lgbtq history
Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France
Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, xvii + 379pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: University Press of New England 2011
KEYWORDS: history France French sexuality military soldiers relations gay lgbtq men homosexuality
The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex and Contraception 1800-1975
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 412pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, 1cm closed tear to rear/flap, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: relationships women sex history sexual revolution
Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, viii + 321pp, VG+ (light curling & fading to covers, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: sexuality sexual orientation gay lgbtq lesbian studies French literature history homosexuality
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, map of London to prelims, xvii + 399pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: history Victorian London poverty slums voluntarism sex gender social politics
Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & pink lettering to spine, (4) + 160pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing 2001
KEYWORDS: art history collecting sexuality gay lgbtq collections
With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, white & black lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps to eps, 367pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Riga 2006
KEYWORDS: incarceration Gulag prison camps history Sandra Kalniete
The Eclipse of the Sun: The Story of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan 1946-47
Octavo, illus light card covers, brown & white lettering to spine, 103pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl curling & creasing to cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Stan Jeffreys 2005
KEYWORDS: British commonwealth forces Japan Japanese occupation allied forces military history post-war
Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza
Octavo, white heavy boards, blue lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 200pp, VG+ (sl discolouration to board edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine & rear cover, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Rimal Publications 1995
KEYWORDS: Middle East history Gaza geopolitics civil unrest military
The Cretan Resistance 1941-1945
Sm octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 200pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, 2cm scuff to rear cover, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Nikos A Kokonas N/D (c.1990s?)
KEYWORDS: official British report Crete resistance military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Cretans
Red Winds from the North
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 148pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & covers, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Able Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: military history Korea Royal Signals Korean War signallers autobiography autobiographies memoir Norman Davies personal accounts