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$95.00
1y36b/8

Kiwi Saga: Memoirs of a New Zealand Artilleryman


UREN, MARTYN

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, sm octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 319pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine, light rubbing to extrems, sl staining to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name & scribble in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- some minor loss, moderate fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to covers, prev. owner's creative attempt at reinforcement to internal sides with old calendar page!)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1943

KEYWORDS: signed Martyn Uren military history New Zealand Zealanders ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$95.00
1y36b/12

A Spy in Damascus


VANGE, NORMAN

Octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 248pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to board & spine extrems, sl scuffing to spine, minor chafing/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor foxing sporadcially throughout) in d/w, G+ (front flap messily price clipped- both corners, v heavy creasing & tearing to spine & edges- some loss with spine flapping, moderate tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: military history secret spies espionage Norman Vange secret service agents autobiography

$40.00
1y36b/13

The Culture of Cities


MUMFORD, LEWIS

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, xii + 530pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, G+ (bottom quarter of spine missing, moderate tanning & staining to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- minor loss, light to moderate general tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Martin Secker & Warburg 1946

KEYWORDS: history towns cities urban culture Lewis Mumford

$270.00
1y41b/1

South Africa and the Transvaal War (8 Vol Set)


CRESWICKE, LOUIS

8 VOL SET, imperial octavo, cream buckram boards, black lettering & coloured illus to spines & front boards, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, VG (varying degrees of tanning & chafing/soiling- mostly quite minor, moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: T C & E C Jack N/D

KEYWORDS: South Africa military history Transvaal war 19th nineteenth century

$65.00
1y41b/6

New Zealand's Motor Cycle Heritage, Book Two: 1932-1962


BULL, MAUREEN A

THIS VOL ONLY (BOOK TWO), octavo, gold/shiny brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 248pp, illus/photos, VG (spine cocked & lightly bruised, light fading to spine & board edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges, sl soiling to eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to top edge, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Masterton Publishing House 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand motorbikes motorcycles hobbies history classic vintage

$150.00
1y41b/7

J A P The Vintage Years


CLEW, JEFF

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 255pp, illus/photos, VG (spine cocked, light adhesive staining to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minro adhesive staining to front & rear eps, occasional light ink annotations) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine, light creasing & moderate adhesive staining to edges, sm adhesive label to base of front flap)

PUBLISHER: Foulis / Haynes Publishing Group 1985

KEYWORDS: transport history automotive engineering JAP engines motorcycles motorbikes

$47.50
1y41b/8

Motorcycles & Motorcycling in the USSR: A Social & Technical History


TURBETT, COLIN

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black & orange lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 128pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Veloce Publishing 2019

KEYWORDS: transport history Russia USSR Soviet Union motorcycles motorbikes hobbies travel

$60.00
1y41b/9

Journal of a Rambler: The Journal of John Boultbee


BOULTBEE, JOHN & STARKE, JUNE (Ed)

Ex-library, imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, lxxvii + 225pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, moderate tanning to boards, moderate tape staining & scuffing to board edges, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading ot spine & edges, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: history journals diaries John Boultbee travel exploration adventures

$40.00
1y41b/10

A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western and Gospel Music


GENTRY, LINNELL

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 380pp, VG (spine cocked, light rubbing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling tp boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name & sm inscription in ink to ffep, minor cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Scholarly Press 1972

KEYWORDS: music history country western gospel

$175.00
1y41b/12

The Diary of a Country Parson, The Reverend James Woodforde 1758-1802 (5 Vol Set)


WOODFORDE, Rev JAMES & BERESFORD, JOHN (Ed)

5 VOL SET, octavo, black buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, mixed pagination, VG+ (minor rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, G (v heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- some with yellowing tape repairs, heavy staining/soiloing to vol 1, moderate fading to spines, front flap of vol 1 detached but loosely enclosed- brown tape reinforcement to fore-edge, moderate to heavy general chafing & soiling with some level of surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1968

KEYWORDS: autobiography history Reverend James Woodforde 18th eighteenth century England English life

$100.00
1y41b/13

Kingdom of the Elephant


TEMPLE-PERKINS, E A & SLEEMAN, Col Sir JAMES (Preface)

REPRINT, SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 271pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, sl bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor general soiling throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, top of spine missing, light tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Andrew Melrose 1955

KEYWORDS: signed E Temple-Perkins history hunting travel big game

$40.00
1y41b/15

Waepo 44: The Flintock Musket: Brown Bess and Charleville 1715-1865


REID, STUART & PEGLER, MARTIN (Series Editor)

Super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 80pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Shire Publications / Bloomsbury 2020

KEYWORDS: history weapons weaponry guns rifles firearms muskets

$40.00
1y41b/16

Weapon 67: Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939-45


PEGLER, MARTIN & SHUMATE, JOHNNY (Illus) & GILLILAND, ALAN (Illus)

Super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 80pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing / Bloomsbury 2019

KEYWORDS: history weapons weaponry rifles firearms guns ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 eastern front

$45.00
1y41b/17

BSA Competition History


VANHOUSE, NORMAN

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 345pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & light adhesive staining to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl adhesive staining to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing & adhesive staining to edges, sl chafing, sm label to base of front flap)

PUBLISHER: Foulis / Haynes Publishing Group 1986

KEYWORDS: transport history motorcycles motorbikes hobbies BSA competition

$70.00
1y41b/18

Seventy-Five Years on Two Wheels: A History of the Auckland Motor Cycle Club Incorporated 1926-2001


GILMOUR, CALUM

Super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning & soiling to spine & covers, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Polygraphia 2001

KEYWORDS: hobbies motorcycles motorbikes Auckland Motor Cycle Club history

$150.00
1y41b/19

J A P The End of an Era


CLEW, JEFF

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 252pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, occasional ink annotation) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & chipping to edges, light discolouration & moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Foulis / Haynes Publishing Group 1988

KEYWORDS: transport history automotive engineering JAP engines motorcycles motorbikes

$40.00
1y41b/21

The New World: The First Pictures of America


WHITE, JOHN & LE MOYNE, JACQUES & DE BRY, THEODORE (Engraved by) & LORSNT, STEFAN (Ed & Annotated)

Ex-library, quarto, cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps at eps, unpaginated prelims + 292pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, moderate soiling/staining & scuffing to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate tape staining to front & rear eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG- (heavy adhesive staining & minor creasing & chipping to edges, heavy fading to spine & front cover edges, moderate loss to top edge of rear cover, moderate soiling, moderate tape staining to flaps, fore-edges of both flaps clipped- text unaffected)

PUBLISHER: Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1965

KEYWORDS: history US America American pictures art settlers settlements drawings engravings

$40.00
1y41b/24

Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust


BORDEN, HARRY & JACOBSON, HOWARD (Fore)

Quarto, blue heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to front board, 276pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to board corners, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light rubbing/scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 2017

KEYWORDS: Jewish holocaust survivors portraits history war crimes ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$120.00
1y41b/25

Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey and Persia


CURZON, The Hon ROBERT

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to red leather title plate with raised bands & decoration also to spine, marbled page edges & eps, frontispiece, illus title page, xiv + 253pp, map/sketch to rear, VG (moderate to heavy rubbing to leatherwork, moderate scuffing to board corners, moderate foxing/tanning to prelims & terminals, initials in ink to title page, moderate staining to prelims)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1854

KEYWORDS: history travel Armenia Russia Turkey Persia

$145.00
1y41b/26

The Great War With Russia: The Invasion of the Crimea: A Personal Retrospect of the Battles of the Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, and of the Winter of 1854-55, &c


RUSSELL, WILLIAM HOWARD

REBACKED, INCORPORATING ORIGINAL CLOTH, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 324pp, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to board corners, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & light soiling to boards, moderate soiling & light tanning to page edges, minor soiling to eps, minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1895

KEYWORDS: military history 19th nineteenth century Russia war battles

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