HOWELLS, TREVOR

Signed & inscribed by author. 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: R. Trevor Howells 1994

KEYWORDS: life lives biography military history New Zealand

DUNSFORD, DEBORAH

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: Mount Albert Grammar School 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history education schools

NA

Quarto, blue/white light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, 124pp, illus diagrams/photos, VG+ (light soiling to spine and covers, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: cppress UK ND

KEYWORDS: Lotus cars automobile racing sports mechanics engineering history automotive

NA

Super octavo, black buckram board, gilt lettering to front board and spine, 12pp + 968pp, VG (lmoderate soiling to page edges, light soiling to boards, previous owners' personal inscription and previous booksellers label in front pastedown, light foxing to page edges and eps, light bruising to rear board extrems and spine, head of spine lightly warped)

PUBLISHER: Genealogical Publishing Co 1986

KEYWORDS: Ireland towns parishes religion communities indexes history statistics census

CHURCHILL, WINSTON

First edition, second state (12 works by the same author listed, front board blank). Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; 392 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscr to fr pastedown & ffep; some tanning & foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1930

KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography memoir Winston Churchill social history 19th 20th century

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