BRAILSFORD, BARRY

First edition. Super octavo, illus. light card covers, french flaps; illus., photos; 472 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: StonePrint 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand philosophy history short stories

ALLAN, SARAH

Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos; xiv + 372 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light cracking to fr gutters; light soiling to pg edges; prev ownership inscr to ht).

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese political history politics government

STERCKX, ROEL

Super octavo, illus. card boards; illus., photos; x + 235 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; sl bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: Early China Chinese history rituals food religion religious sacrifice Confucianism

FERDOWSI, ABOLQASEM; DAVIS, DICK (transl.); NAFISI, AZAR (forew.)

Super octavo, tan card boards, blue card spine lettered in gilt, device to front board lettered in gilt; frontis., illus.; xlii + 886 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges & eps); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems w curling & sl chipping; sl foxing).

PUBLISHER: Viking 2006

KEYWORDS: Persia Persian history king kings Islam Islamic empire literature

ULLYETT, KENNETH

FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-), archival repairs to d/w; 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: Salisbury Square 1950

KEYWORDS: clocks timepiece timepieces collecting collector watchmaker history

DE CARLE, DONALD; AYRES, E A (illus.)

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: N. A. G. Press 1976

KEYWORDS: watch watches watchmaker encyclopedia history antiquarian collecting collector

PRENATT, JAMIE; MORSHEAD, HENRY & SHUMATE, JOHNNY (illus.)

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: Osprey 2017

KEYWORDS: 20th century military history tanks vehicles

VOSS, BARBARA L

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, xlv + 400pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to base of spine, sl creasing/curling to cover corners, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page)

PUBLISHER: University Press of Florida 2015

KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology anthropology US America US San Francisco colonial history

BAILEY, KENNETH E

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 443pp, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to front wrapper, sl chafing to wrappers, sl soiling & creasing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: IVP Academic / InterVarsity Press 2007

KEYWORDS: religion history gospels Middle East Christianity Jesus cultural cultural studies

WILLIAMS, BERNARD & BURNYEAT, MYLES (Ed & Intro)

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 393pp, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl soiling to page edges, occasional light pencil markings throughout) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, 1cm closed tear to head of spine, sl fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: history philosophy essays prose Bernard Williams literature

FRASER, NATALIE C (Written & Published by)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper, unpaginated prelims + 82pp + footnotes to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to wrappers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Natalie Fraser-Wood 1989

KEYWORDS: signed history New Zealand early settlers pioneers biography biographies memoir William Ings family

CLAPHAM, Sir J H

3 VOL SET, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, mixed pagination, diagrams & folding maps- all counted & present, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl fading to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor foxing throughout, occasional light pencil markings/annotations throughout- unobtrusive, occasional light cracking to gutters, moderate cracking to gutters of vol 3- boards a little shaky) in d/w, VG- (all in plastic wrappers- affixed, vols 1 + 3 priceclipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, moderate soiling to spines, generalised moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1950-52

KEYWORDS: Great Britain economics history economic 19th 20th nineteenth twentieth century

GERSTER, GEORG & CARTLEDGE, PAUL (Intro)

Quarto, grey heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, 160pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (original retailer's price label to rear, light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2012

KEYWORDS: ancient history Greece Greek locations sites landscapes photography historical

STOKES, EVELYN

Scruffy ex-library, quarto, illus light card wrappers, black cloth bound spine, unpaginated prelims + 330pp, illus/photos, G+ (usual library markings, heavy staining & adhesive reinforcement to wrappers, heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to wrapper edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, yellowing ineffective tape reinforcement to front gutter, heavy crack at gutter of preface- binding exposed, moderate creasing to top corners of rear pages, occasional soiling throughout but text remains clear)

PUBLISHER: Univesity of Waikato 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand waitangi tribunal land reports Tauranga Maori crown history historical

WILSON, J G

Quarton, illus heavy boards, frontispiece, 60pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (moderate tanning to boards, moderate tanning & cracking to spine, minor scuffing & bruising to extrems, minor tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, moderate creasing to rear ep, moderate foxing to prelims, moderate creasing & insect damage to folding map)

PUBLISHER: The Daily Telegraph Co Ltd (Printer) N/D (c.1950s?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Hawke's Bay early settlers pioneers

PASHA, Admiral HOBART

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & red flag illus to front board, deckled page edges, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 282pp, VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate cracking to gutters, minor tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, gift inscription to half title page, moderate foxing & soiling sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1887

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir history historical Admiral Hobart Pasha

RYAN, CHARLES E

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, red numerals & red cross motif to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, vii + 368pp, folding maps- not counted presumed all present [no list], VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, top half of front board faded, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate foxing & cracking to gutters throughout

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1896

KEYWORDS: first editions military history medical 19th nineteenth century army Franco-German war

CAMPBELL, DOUGLAS N

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, white lettering to spine, xiv+302pp, illus/photos, VG+ ( minor creasing to spine, light fraying to spine extrems, light chaffing to boards, light foxing & tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps) in d/w VG+ ( minor creasing to extrems, minor soiling and foxing to interior, minor fading to spine).

PUBLISHER: Naval Insitute Press 2003

KEYWORDS: military aviation aeroplane a-10 warthog tactics history USA America war air support

EILAND, HOWARD & JENNINGS, MICHAEL W

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHEY Super octavo, white light card wrapper, red and black lettering to spine, illus to cover, unpaginated prelims + 755pp, illus/photos, VG+ ( light scuffing to spine extrems, light scuffing and soiling to wrapper, light soiling and chaffing to page edges, light creasing to front wrapper and eps, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughey] in ink to half title page),

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: Walter Benjamin history philosophy Europe critic culture German biography

ZAGOLA, STEVEN J

Super octavo, black boards, red gilt lettering to buckram spine, vii+296pp, illus/photos, VG+ ( light chaffing to spine extrems, minor chaffing to boards, light foxing & soiling to page extrems, light foxing to eps) in d/w VG ( fading to spine, minor scuffing and creasing to wrapper, foxing and soiling to interior, previous booksellers scruffy label to rear).

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press 2002

KEYWORDS: war military history USSR Russia nuclear missile warhead cold war USA America Soviet aviation space Kremlin aerospace technology ICBM