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Ford in New Zealand: Putting the Car Before the Horse


STOKES, JOHN

Oblong octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt & white lettering to spine, white & silver gilt lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, 225pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, binding sloppy- boards shaky, sl scuffing to board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, prev. owner's inscription in ink to full title page, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional soiling to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: New Holland Publishers 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport automotive history cars Ford design engineering

$125.00
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Maserati Cars 1957-1998


CLARKE, R M (Compiled by)

LIMITED EDITION, imperial octavo, blue faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing/scuffing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Brooklands Books N/D

KEYWORDS: high performance classic vintage cars Maserati history Brooklands portfolio limited editions design engineering

$150.00
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The Tattooed Land: The Southern Frontiers of the Pa Maori


BRAILSFORD, BARRY

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at pastedowns, x + 262pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to board & spine edges, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1981

KEYWORDS: signed Barry Brailsford New Zealand history Pa Maori iwi tribes

$100.00
3i4/56

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 (One Volume Edition)


CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY

Super octavo, light blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, lxiv + 585pp, illus, folding maps- all folding maps present, VG (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1937

KEYWORDS: exploration adventure south pole Antarctic Antarctica history Apsley Cherry-Garrard

$40.00
3i3/1

A Leading Lady: The Story of Mary Jolly


BAYFIELD (nee JOLLY), PAM

Quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 140pp, illus, folding family history chart to rear, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's ephemera to makeshift pocket affixed to rear board)

PUBLISHER: Pam Bayfield 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history research genealogy Mary Jolly

$40.00
3i3/8

On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z De Lorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant


WRIGHT, J PATRICK

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 237pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, faint pink ghostlettering to ffep & verso of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing/scuffing to edges, light chafing & soiling, minor tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson 1980

KEYWORDS: car industry automotive General Motors business John Z De Lorean GM history

$60.00
3i3/17

A History of Australia: VI: The Old Dead Tree and the Young Tree Green 1916-1935, with an Epilogue


CLARK, C M H

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 522pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history C M H Clark

$95.00
3i3/30

Despite Captivity: A Doctor's Life as Prisoner of War


BORRIE, JOHN

SIGNED, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl fading & bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor ink annotation to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1975

KEYWORDS: signed military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war medical doctors John Borrie

$45.00
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War, Taxation and Rebellion in Early Tudor England: Henry VIII, Wolsey and the Amicable Grant of 1525


BERNARD, G W

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 164pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Harvester Press 1986

KEYWORDS: forces loans 16th sixteenth century history early tudor English England taxation politics government

$42.50
3i3/37

Driving Forces: The Grand Prix Racing World Caught in the Maelstrom of the Third Reich


STEVENSON, PETER

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, cream lettering to spine, illus prelims, viii + 285pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing/curling to cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bentley Publishers 2000

KEYWORDS: grand prix history automotive car racing ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Germany nazi third reich

$97.50
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The Arab Horse: A Record of the Arab Horses Imported into Britain from the Desert of Arabia from the 1830s to 1960


UPTON, PETER

Oblong quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 336pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, multiple sm ink stamps to edges of page block & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, light fading)

PUBLISHER: Medina Publishing / Arabian Horse World 2012

KEYWORDS: horses equine history Arab Arabian stallions breeding imports

$22.50
xxcwb223681

Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II


FRITZ, STEPHEN G

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: The University Press of Kentucky 1995

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 German soldiers nazi Germany

$16.50
xxcxf223697

The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide


OLUSOGA, DAVID & ERICHSEN, CASPER W

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: Faber and Faber 2011

KEYWORDS: Namibia history German occupation genocide 19th nineteenth century Shark Island camp concentration camps Swakopmund Africa African

$30.00
xxcya223698

Benjamin Franklin: His Life as He Wrote It


FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN & WRIGHT, ESMOND (Compiled, Ed & Intro)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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: The Folio Society 1989

KEYWORDS: folio society Benjamin Franklin US America American politics history political autobiography memoir autobiographies

$28.50
xxcya223699

The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945


VASSILTCHIKOV, MARIE 'MISSIE' & VASSILTCHIKOV, GEORGE (Ed & Fore) & BIELENBERG, CHRISTABEL (Intro)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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: The Folio Society 1991

KEYWORDS: folio society Marie Missie Vassiltchikov history diaries journals German Germany Berlin

$20.00
xxcyc223702

Wingate Adventure


BURCHETT, W G

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G) jacket tatty; 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: F W Cheshire 1944

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Burma Japanese

$12.50
xxcyc223703

Wellington


CASTLE, JOHN

Imperial 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: A H & A W Reed 1972

KEYWORDS: New Zealand capital cities Wellington history

$20.00
xxcyc223707

Robert and Elizabeth Simmers: A Family Saga


SIMMERS, KEITH

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: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history research genealogy Robert Elizabeth Simmers

$22.50
xxcyc223708

A New Voyage Round the World: The Journal of an English Buccaneer


DAMPIER, WILLIAM & MILTON, GILES (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: Hummingbird Press 1999

KEYWORDS: exploration history voyages circumnavigation maritime William Dampier 17th seventeenth century

$9.00
xxcye223714

Check to Your King


HYDE, ROBIN

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: A H & A W Reed 1960

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Charles Baron de Thierry sovereign chief biography memoir

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