MCGUINNESS INSTITUTE

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: Mcguinness Institute 2024

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pandemic science timeline history global events covid 19 covid-19 coronavirus health

GRAHAM, PETER

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 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Timaru true crime murder law history colonial society

DICKINSON, H W & TITELY, ARTHUR

FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, 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: Cambridge University Press 1934 (Second Impression)

KEYWORDS: Richard Trevithick engineering biography memoir first edition history

SAYERS, PEIG & MACMAHON, BRYAN (Trans) & O'CONNOR, CATRIONA

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: Talbot Press 1983

KEYWORDS: autobiography Blasket Island Peig Sayers Ireland history

WESTON, SIMON (Fore)

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: Marshall Cavendish 2007

KEYWORDS: military war english history Falklands Simon Weston

RIPLEY, TIM

Imperial 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: Brown Reference Group 2004

KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany war battles World War 2 WW2 military history german special forces third reich Nazis

CLUBE, VICTOR & NAPIER, BILL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 299pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & rubbing to edges, moderate scuffing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1982

KEYWORDS: social history catastrophe politics science astronomy space first editions

LAGER, JAMES L

THIS VOL ONLY, Quartp, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, illus title page and prelims, 318pp, illus/photo, VG- (light-moderate soiling to boards, slight brusing and rubbing to extrems, moderate soiling and light tanning to pages edges, sloppy binding and heavy cracking to gutters, occasional soiling to pages throughout) in d/w VG (light soiling to upper edges, moderate creasing to flap folds, light chipping and moderate creasing to spine, moderate chafing and soiling)

PUBLISHER: Lager Limited 1993

KEYWORDS: cameras photography history art Leica

KERENYI, CARL & MANHEIM, RALPH (Trans)

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, green lettering to spine, xxxvii + 474pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to front wrapper, 1cm closed tear to head of spine, light soiling and foxing to page edges, light tanning and foxing to inside covers)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: mythology greek gods Dionysos vase paintings ceramics and pottery ancient history

HARINGTON, GENERAL SIR CHARLES

FIRST EDITION Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges of pages stained blue, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims+ 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light-moderate tanning & foxing on page edges, light tanning on eps, moderate soiling and foxing on rear eps and gutter, terminal pages missing) in d/w VG- (price clipped, 2cm closed tear to front flap fold and other multiple small closed tears to edges, 5cm loss to base of spine, moderate staining/soiling to front cover and spine, moderate creasing and chipping to edges, moderately tanned spine, faded small ink numerals to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1940

KEYWORDS: First Edition biography military history Great War Spanish Civil War Gibraltar Tim Harrington

TEAGUE, BERNARD et al

THIRD PRINTING, Quarto,stapled red light card wrappers, black lettering on cover, 56pp, VG (light creasing on front cover with light bruising to extrems, light fading on the upper edge of the front cover and spine, light scuffing on front and back cover, light soiling/foxing and tanning on page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to inside front cover, light creasing in prelims and throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1979

KEYWORDS: third printing earthquake Murchison Earthquake history natural disasters New Zealand personal accounts

ROGERS, LOUISE LALAURIE (Trans)

Quarto, illus heavy boards, pink lettering to front cover with white letteing to spine, 240pp, illus/photos, near FINE (light tanning to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: Flammarion 2007

KEYWORDS: feminism French France women Paris Parisian clothing fashion photography art history

COMTE, MICHEL

Folio, blue heavy boards, white lettering to front cover and spine, illus eps, unpaginated [272pp], illus/photos, Near FINE (blue ink mark on base of page block) in d/w Near FINE (still in plastic wrap)

PUBLISHER: Schirmer/Mosel 1999

KEYWORDS: art photography Michel Comte history portraits Vogue celebrities

PETERSEN, G C

Octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering on front cover, folding frontispiece, 102pp, illus/photos, 2x folding photo plates, VG (moderate tanning to upper and lower edges of front cover, light tanning to spine, light bruising to upper and lower edges of spine, moderate tanning to page edges, light foxxing with multiple previous owners' personal inscriptions in eps) in d/w VG- (moderate soiling to front & rear, moderate tanning to spine, light loss of surface to flap folds, light creasing on upper edges of flaps, 0.5cm closed tear within spine and three sm open tears on edges of spine and front flap fold, minor stain on back cover

PUBLISHER: Kerslake, Billens and Humphrey (Printer) 1952

KEYWORDS: pioneering Palmerston North New Zealand development township settlers history frontier Pakeha

VAN HASBROECK, PAUL-HENRY

Folio, dark orange cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 224pp, illus photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & index pages to rear, occasional sl soiling throughout) in d/w, VG (in removable plastic wrap, moderate creasing on upper edge of spine and both flaps folds, light creasing to upper edge of rear flap and lower edge of front flap, light soiling on front, rear & spine, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Sotheby's Publications 1989

KEYWORDS: photography cameras history lenses film cinema antiques

ISENBURG, MATTHEW R (intro) & FIELD, RICHARD S (prepared by) & FRANK, ROBIN JAFFEE (prepared by) & TRACHTENBERG, ALAN (essay)

Quarto, burgundy red cloth boards, gilt lettering to front board and spine, 126pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light foxing on upper page edges, light tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (1cm closed tear on lower edge of front cover, 2cm closed tear on upper edge of spine, light creasing & scuffing on extrems and spine, prev. bookseller's label to base of rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Art Gallery 1989

KEYWORDS: daguerreotypes photography art cameras collections history american Matthew R. Isenburg

DOUGLAS, LIEUT J HARVEY

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO HIS FATHER, octavo, dark brown buckram boards, black stamped lettering to cover and spine [faded to spine], deckled page edges, illus eps, frontispiece, 195pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate scuffing to lower and upper edges of spine with upper edge flapping slightly, light scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling & tanning to page edges, light water damage to lower page edges, ex-libris plate to prelims, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart 1918

KEYWORDS: First Edition Signed military war history biography Lieutenant J Harvey Douglas

PRICE, G WARD

FIRST EDITION, 3 ILLUSTRATIONS PRESENT BUT LOOSES, LARGE FOLDING CANVAS MAP PRESENT, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to front cover and spine, deckled page edges, illus front eps, frontispiece, xiii + 298pp, illus/photos, one folding map loosely enclosed to rear, VG- (moderate soiling to boards, light scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine, light scuffing to upper edge of spine, heavy tanning and moderate foxing to pages and edges, light insects damage to eps, page to prelims removed, prev. owner's name in pencil to prelims, occasional pencil markings to margins throughout, binding a little sloppy- minor separation at spine, occasional light cracking to gutters, folding map at rear is delicate with minor closed tearing to folds/creases, minor foxing & water damage also)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1917

KEYWORDS: First Edition military history Salonica army battles

LEWIS, SAMUEL

2 VOL SET, suoer octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front boards, vol 1- lxviii + 675pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 738pp, VG (minor rubbing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to rear boards of each vol, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown of each vol, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of ffep of vol 2, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Genealogical Publishing 1984

KEYWORDS: dictionary Ireland topography geography history

COMTE, MICHEL

Folio, blue heavy boards, white lettering to front and cover and spine, illus eps, unpaginated [272pp], illus/photos, Near FINE (light creasing to rear board, light bruising to lower edge of front board) in d/w Near FINE (in plastic cover with light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Schrimer / Mosel 1999

KEYWORDS: art photography Michel Comte Vogue celebrities portraits history