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$50.00
3h2/8

Memoirs; With a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution


ROSS, RONALD

Ex-library, super octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 547pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, minor tanning & foxing to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label & other pencil markings to rear pastedown, occasional moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1923

KEYWORDS: history medical diseases malaria General Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross

$40.00
3h2/9

No Bath But Plenty of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73


POWER, LISA

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, x + 340pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to spine & cover edges, light to moderate soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1995

KEYWORDS: lgbtq gay rights movements Gay Liberation Front 70s seventies 1970s history lesbian homosexuality

$60.00
3h2/12

The Mother of all Departments: The History of the Department of Internal Affairs


BASSETT, MICHAEL

Ex-library, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, green lettering to spine, 312pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate creasing & soiling to spine & covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, library reinforcement to front & rear gutters, text block clean)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand government agencies DIA Department of Internal Affairs history

$85.00
3h2/18

Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer: His Life, Work & Legacy


TSCHICHOLD, JAN & DE JONG, CEES W et al

Sm folio, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, publisher's blind stamp motif to front board, 351pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to boards & spine, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2008

KEYWORDS: typography typographers Jan Tschichold biography memoir biographies printing history

$40.00
3h2/19

Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group


UPSTONE, ROBERT (Ed) & BAKER, FIONA et al

Quarto, illus light card wrappers, white & yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, 184pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing/peeling to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Tate Publishing 2008

KEYWORDS: art artists history Camden Town Group

$85.00
3h2/32

Chagall: The Russian Years 1907-1922


KAMENSKY, ALEKSANDR & D'HAUTEVILLE, ISABELLE (Picture Research)

Sm folio, black cloth boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, 376pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to spine, sl creasing to cover edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1989

KEYWORDS: Marc Chagall art artists painters history Russia Russian years

$40.00
3h2/34

Andrei Mylnikov


SAZONOVA, K (Compiled & Intro) & PROHAZKA, E (Trans)

Quarto, black cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, illus plate to front board, frontispiece, 176pp, illus, VG (light to moderte bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & wrinkling to page edges, light foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals, rear pastedown partially peeling from board, prev. bookseller's label to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Aurora Art Publishers 1977

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian art artists Andrei Mylnikov history

$40.00
3h1/21

Cent ans de Mission: L'Eglise Catholique au Vanuatu 1887-1987


N/A

TEXT IN FRENCH, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, printed inside front cover, 133pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate chafing & light soiling/creasing to covers/edges, sm patch of adhesive label residue to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH religion religious history catholic Vanuatu church missionaries centenary centennial

$300.00
3h1/25

The Discovery of Australia: A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans Before the Arrival of Lieut. James Cook in the Endeavour in the Year 1770


COLLINGRIDGE, GEORGE

FIRST EDITION, quarto, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt illus to front board, deckled page edges, xv + 376pp, illus/maps, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edgeslight cracking to front & rear gutter, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occaisonal light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Hayes Brothers 1895

KEYWORDS: first editions history exploration maritime voyages Australasia Europeans

$60.00
3h1/26

Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?


SMITH, MICHAEL

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 242pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine area)

PUBLISHER: The Collins Press 2006

KEYWORDS: history exploration maritime voyages Captain Francis Crozier discovery polar regions North West Passage

$65.00
3h1/29

The War Diary of the Emperor Frederick III 1870-1871


EMPEROR FREDERICK III & ALLINSON, A R (Trans & Ed)

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 355pp, illus, VG (light fading/tanning to spine, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown, sl tanning & soiling to prelims, occasional minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co 1927

KEYWORDS: war history diaries journals 19th nineteenth century Emperor Frederick III Prussia

$42.50
3h1/30

Empire & Commonwealth: Studies in Governance and Self-Government in Canada


MARTIN, CHESTER

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, xxi + 385pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning to spine, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, other light general tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1929

KEYWORDS: Canada commonwealth politics political history British Empire colonialism

$65.00
3h1/32

Te Puea: A Biography


KING, MICHAEL

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, LACKS D/W, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 331pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, 3cm crack to base of rear hinge, moderate chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light pencil annotation)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history signed Michael King Maori biography biographies memoir leaders Te Puea Herangi

$45.00
3h1/48

Lost London 1870-1945


DAVIES, PHILIP & HRH THE DUKE OF GOUCESTER (Fore)

Quarto, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 368pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Transatlantic Press 2009

KEYWORDS: history historical photos photography London English heritage

$40.00
3h1/52

Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding


CHAPMAN, DAVID L

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, red gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 229pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl chafing, sl tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press 1994

KEYWORDS: history biography biographies memoir sport bodybuilding bodybuilders Eugen Sandow

$95.00
3h1/53

When the Waves Rolled in Upon Us: Essays in Nineteenth Century Maori History


REILLY, MICHAEL (Ed) & THOMSON, JANE (Ed) & OLSSEN, ERIK (Fore)

UNCOMMON, super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 223pp, illus, VG+ (light curling to covers/edges, minor fading & soiling to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa Maori history essays University of Otago students

$60.00
3i5/1

A Text-Book of Gynaecological Surgery


BERKELEY, COMYNS & BONNEY, VICTOR

Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 720pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to spine & extrems, light scuffing to board corners, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's embossed stamp to prelims, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1911

KEYWORDS: history historical medical books gynaecology surgery women's health textbooks gynacology

$245.00
3i5/3

Rocky Marciano's Boy's Book of Boxing and Body Building; With a Simple Section on Judo


MARCIANO, ROCKY & GOLDMAN, CHARLIE & BACHMAN, AL

LACKS D/W, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 189pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, minor soiling to boards, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press 1960

KEYWORDS: sport history boxing guides how to Rocky Marciano body building judo youth juvenile

$47.50
3i5/6

The Life of John Wilson: For Fifty Years Philanthropist and Scholar in the East


SMITH, GEORGE

Ex-library, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 652pp, G (spine almost detached & flapping loose, usual library markings, moderate to heavy scuffing to board edges & extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, moderate glue damage to front eps, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional soiling/foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1878

KEYWORDS: history John Wilson biography memoir biographies philanthropists

$60.00
3i5/7

Two Fists - and a Fortune


WOODCOCK, BRUCE

Octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems, sl chafing to boards, minor tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, G (shockingly heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to spine & cover edges- heavy aging tape repair attempts with minimal success, moderate soiling- very delicate!)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson's 1951

KEYWORDS: sport history boxing boxers Bruce Woodcock autobiography memoir autobiographies

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