Books - "history"
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Unreel: A Life in Review
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: Penguin Random House New Zealand 2024
KEYWORDS: Memoir autobiography Diana Wichtel New Zealand television history
Liliana's Journal: Warsaw 1939-1945
Ex-library 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: Piatkus 1981
KEYWORDS: Memoir autobiography war diaries diary journal journals WW2 WWII world war 2 Holocaust Poland Polish history
Memorable Isle of Man TT Races: A Century of Battles on the World's Toughest Circuit
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: Pitch Publishing 2019
KEYWORDS: Isle of Man TT races motorsport motorbikes motorcycle racing history
A Parson in Prison: A Biography of the Rev. George Edgar Moreton
Ex-library small 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: Oswald-Sealy New Zealand Ltd 1944
KEYWORDS: Biographies Reverand George Edgar Moreton prison chaplaincy New Zealand Dunedin Otago history religion
How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith
Ex-library - single ink stamp, small 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: Ward Lock & Co Ltd N/D (c.1900)
KEYWORDS: Military history siege of ladysmith war correspondence Boer
Big Pacific
Oblong quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) 1cm closed tear to base of rear cover; 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: David Bateman 2017
KEYWORDS: Pacific ocean natural history marine wildlife geography geology maritime
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend
IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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: Folio Society 1999
KEYWORDS: Catherine the Great biography Russian history Queens Imperial Russia Folio Society Enlightenment Women
The Latter Days
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: Hodder and Stoughton 1953
KEYWORDS: Colditz Story sequel Pat P R Reid memoir WW2 WWII World War Two POW prisoners of war history
She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll
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: Blandford 1993
KEYWORDS: Music rock & roll history women female musicians biography Gillian G Gaar Yoko Ono pop
The Trial of Richard III
Octavo softcover (VG) ink & pencil annotation to half-title page; 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: Alan Sutton 1990
KEYWORDS: Trial of Richard III third king history monarchy kings English British law
A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume One: 1900-1933
FIRST EDITION this vol. only imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+, tear to spine otherwise 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: HarperCollins 1997
KEYWORDS: Martin Gilbert 20th century history twentieth volume one modern first editions
The Lost Pilot: A Memoir
SIGNED & INSCRIBED 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: Penguin 2013
KEYWORDS: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman memoir autobiography history WW2 WWII World War Two pilot pilots Royal Navy NZ New Zealand Kiwi Kiwis
Currency Lad: The Story of Hamilton Hume and the Explorers
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: Leisure Magazines1982
KEYWORDS: Hamilton Hume R H Webster exlploration history biography
Macchi c . 202 in action
Oblong 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: Squadron / Signal Publications 1980
KEYWORDS: Āircraft no. 41 Macchi c . 202 squadron / signal aviation planes aeroplanes warfare history military
P-38 Lightning in Action: Aircraft Number 109
Oblong 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: Squadron / Signal Publications 1990
KEYWORDS: Āircraft number no. 109 P-38 Lightning squadron / signal aviation planes aeroplanes warfare history military
P-12/F4B in Action: Aircraft Number 141
Oblong 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: Squadron / Signal Publications 1993
KEYWORDS: Āircraft number no. 141 P-12/F4B squadron / signal aviation planes aeroplanes warfare history military
England Versus New Zealand: A History of the Tests and Other Matches
SIGNED BY A FEW PLAYERS, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 304pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor foxing & soiling to page edges, sl crack to base of front gutter) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning to flaps, minor general wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: The Crowood Press 1990
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand England sport history cricket test matches
My Years in China 1926-1941
Octavo, green buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, illus/map to front eps, 395pp, VG- (light bruising to extrems, moderate foxing/discolouration & staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, gift plate tipped in to half title page, prev. bookseller's sm label to verso of half title page, light sporadic foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (both flaps price clipped, moderate chipping/tearing to spine extrems, moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: John Lane The Bodley Head 1944
KEYWORDS: history conflict China autobiography autobiographies memoir Hallett Abend
From the Quiet Annals of Daingean: Articles on the History of a Parish in North Offaly
Octavo, illus light glossy card wrappers, beige lettering to spine, illus prelims, (6) + 194pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, large gift inscription in ink to full title page, prev. owner's annotated photos tipped in to terminal pages- relevant family history to book/location)
PUBLISHER: John Kearney 2006
KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history Daingean North Offaly John Kearney
Coomasie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa
TIRED/SCRUFFY COPY! Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine, gilt & black illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiv + 510pp, illus, folding map to prelims, G (v heavy scuffing to board corners, moderate scuffing & chipping to spine extrems, heavy rubbing/chafing to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, ffep missing, v heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- binding loose & boards shaky, heavy cracking to gutters throuhgout- some page segments partially detached, closed tearingt o folding map)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1874
KEYWORDS: Africa British campaigns history war military Coomasie Magdala