Books - "history"
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Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories
Octavo, illus light card covers, pink & blue lettering to spine, xx + 282pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to covers, sl soiling & minor creasing/curling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 2019
KEYWORDS: erotica sex art literature literary criticism history research
Old Marlborough, or, The Story of a Province
FIRST EDITION, HEAVY ARCHIVAL TAPE REPAIR, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, unpaginated prelims + 478pp + adverts to rear, illus, G (boards likely completely detached but re-affixed with archival tape at hinges & gutters, heavy scuffing to board edges- some minor surface loss, moderate soiling to boards, prev. owner's name in ink to spine/boards/eps & preface page, spine is tanned & cracked, moderate tanning to page edges, ffep missing, moderate soiling to eps & lightly throughout)
PUBLISHER: Hart and Keeling 1900
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Old Marlborough pioneers early settlers
With Flying Colours: The Pirelli Album of Motor Sport
FIRST EDITION, obloing quarto, black heavy boards, blue gilt lettering to spine & front board, 253pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate chafing/soiling & fading to boards/edges, light tanning & sioling to page edges, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (ligh tto moderate creasing to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co 1987
KEYWORDS: first editions motorsports pirelli high performance cars racing history
Fifty Years of Primitive Methodism in New Zealand
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: Primitive Methodist Book Depot 1893
KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion religious history primitive methodist methodism
The Basis of Prosperity in New Zealand
FIRST 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: Coulls Somerville Wilkie 1939
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history economics business
Drink
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: Burke Publishing Co 1948
KEYWORDS: leisure drinking alcohol culture history historical
The Sydney Press Gang
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: Old Sydney Free Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian journalism press gangs Sydney newspapers history first editions
Farthest North: Afoot in Maoriland Byways
FIRST EDITION, DATED (1947) & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: A H & A W Reed 1946
KEYWORDS: signed first editions A H Reed New Zealand history north island Northland
Locomotives I Have Known
FACSIMILE EDITION, 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: Argus Books (Facsimile Edition) 1980
KEYWORDS: trains locomotives steam transport history hobbies rail
Beginnings: Volume 4: A History of the North Shore of Auckland
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Paul Titchener Publications 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Auckland North Shore Paul Titchener
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician Dr Li Zhisui
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: Random House 1994
KEYWORDS: China Chinese government politics political leaders Chairman Mao Dr Li Zhisui history memoir
Keep in a Cool Place: The First Winter at Vanda Station, Antarctica
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: Canterbury University Press 2022
KEYWORDS: history exploration south pole Antarctica Vanda Station
100 Years of Rotorua
Super 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: Braynart Group N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua history north island
Catalogue and Price-List of Public, Local, and Private Acts of New Zealand, and Statutory Regulations to 31st December 1949
Super 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: R E Owen, Government Printer 1950
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical data statutory regulations government price lists costs
The Bridge to Nowhere
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: Wanganui Newspapers 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Mangapurua settlement early settlers
Great Central, Volume One: The Progenitors 1813-1863
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Ian Allan 1985
KEYWORDS: Great Central Railway history transport transport 19th nineteenth century
The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923: Volume One
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Macmillan & Co 1950
KEYWORDS: Soviet Russia Russian history early 20th twentieth century Bolshevik Bolsheviks revolution
The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-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: Basic Books 1999
KEYWORDS: history US America politics government religion religious civil war
Chartist Portraits
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: Cassell 1989
KEYWORDS: chartism politics political movements social history UK British government 19th nineteenth century chartist movement
Marxism and the Human Individual
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: McGraw-Hill Company 1970
KEYWORDS: social history science Karl Marx marxism sociology