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$40.00
3k4/28

Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography


STREATFIELD, DOMINIC

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 486pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine & board edges/extrems, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Virgin Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: South America cocaine coke illegal drugs recreational history

$40.00
3k4/32

The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical Essay


BURTT, EDWIN ARTHUR

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 343pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light rubbing/scuffing to board & spine edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate glue staining & wrinkling to front pastedown, occasional ink markings to margins- unobtrusive, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to spine/edges, moderate tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling, sm adhesive label to spine)

PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1967

KEYWORDS: metaphysics physical science philosophy history

$50.00
3k2/4

A Time of Gods: A Photographer in the Wake of Odysseus


BENY, ROLOFF & OPIE, JOHN LINDSAY (Notes Ed by) & CHAPMAN'S HOMER (Quotations From)

FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 272pp, illus, b&w plates- all counted + present, VG (light to moderate scuffing/insect damage to board edges/extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing/wrinkling & scuffing, heavy general scuffing, prce clipped, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1962

KEYWORDS: ancient Greece Greek ruins landscape art photography antiquity history mythology first editions

$80.00
3k2/8

Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams


MAURIES, PATRICK & SOTTSASS, ETTORE (Essay) & WILK, CHRISTOPHER (Fore)

Quarto, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, grey & black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 288pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sm scuff to bottom corner of front cover, minor chafing to covers, sl scuffing to cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl soiling to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1998

KEYWORDS: Piero Fornasetti art design biography biographies history

$40.00
3k2/11

Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique And Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics


IVES, CHRISTOPHER

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 274pp, Near FINE, in d/w VG+ (sl creasing to edges, slight soiling, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Buddhism zen spirituality Japan history Buddhist ethics Ichikawa Hakugen

$40.00
3k2/15

The Day they Stole the Mona Lisa


REIT, SEYMOUR V.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, 254pp, illus / photos, little ink stamp man illus to base of page black, VG+ (sl fading & bruising to spine extrems & board corners, sl tanning to board edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges, & eps) in d/w VG (light chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning with moderate chafing and soiling, light creasing to rear flap, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Summit Books 1981

KEYWORDS: true crime art theft Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci history art heist Louvre

$70.00
3k2/16

The Great Crash 1929


GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH

FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION octavo blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, VG (light fading to spine extrems & cover edges, light tanning with moderate foxing page edges, moderate to heavy foxing to front eps, moderate pencil annotation to ffep, light tanning & foxing to rear eps, light crack to front gutter, moderate foxing to prelims, light occasional foxing throughout) in d/w VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1955

KEYWORDS: history great crash 1929 stock market crasch finance Wall Street capitalism economics

$18.50
xxdib225059

Letters of Saint Augustine


ALLIES, MARY H. (selected & trans)

ex-library 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: Burns and Oates Limited 1890

KEYWORDS: religion religious texts Christianity theology Saint Augustine correspondance letters history

$15.00
xxdib225060

Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas


HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW & CARPENTER, JOHN and BOGDANA (trans)

lacks d/w 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: The Ecco Press 1991

KEYWORDS: art Dutch modern art art criticism art history Zbigniew Herbert

$16.50
xxdib225062

Thunder in the Heavens


HODSON, JAMES LANSDALE

ex-library super 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: Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd c. 1949

KEYWORDS: history war diary entries James Lansdale Hodson personal account

$16.50
xxdib225063

The First World War


KEEGAN, JOHN

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: Pimlico 1999

KEYWORDS: first 1st world war one 1 ww1 wwi history military war account battle

$17.50
xxdoc225068

The Confessions of St Augustine


MATTHEW, SIR TOBIE (intro & trans) & HUDLESTON, DOM ROGER (intro, revised & emended)

ex-library super 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: Burns & Oates 1954

KEYWORDS: St Augustine confessions Christianity religion religious writings history

$15.00
xxdpd225073

Letters to my Grandson on the Glory of English Poetry


COLERIDGE, STEPHEN

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: Mills & Boon Limited 1923

KEYWORDS: English poetry letter correspondance literary criticism history

$10.00
xxdpd225074

Desiree


SELINKO, ANNEMARIE & BENDER, ARNOLD (trans) & DICKES, E.W. (trans)

lacks d/w & fp 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: Reprint Society 1954

KEYWORDS: fiction historical fiction Napoleon Desiree France romantic fiction fictionalised history biographical fiction

$15.00
xxdpe225076

The Fourth Arm: Psychological Warfare 1938-1945


CRUICKSHANK, CHARLES

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: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: history war warfare propaganda second 2nd world war 2 two ww2 wwii

$15.00
xxdpe225086

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself


EQUIANO, OLAUDAH & SOLLORS, WERNER (ed)

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: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2001

KEYWORDS: slaves Great Britain America biography Africa criticism history

$50.00
3k2/17

Anglicans in the Bush: The Development of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Auckland


WRIGHT, FRANK

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, no lettering to spine or boards, 204pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing/rubbing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion religious history Anglican church Christianity Auckaldn diocese

$200.00
3k2/19

British Pamphleteers: From the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution ; From the French Revolution to the Nineteen-Thirties (2 Vol Set)


ORWELL, GEORGE (Ed) & REYNOLDS, REGINALD (Ed) & TAYLOR, J P (Intro)

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- 264pp, vol 2- 302pp, illus, VG (light fading & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep of vol 1) in d/w, VG- (vol 2 price clipped, minor fading & soiling to spines, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, light to moderate tanning & soiling, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1948-51

KEYWORDS: first editions history English pamphleteers literature literary historical

$45.00
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Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka


SCOTT, DICK

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 216pp, illus, VG (minor creasing to cover edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to wrappers, minor tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to prelims, various newspaper articles tipped in to verso of dedication page, moderate wrinkling to ffep, other occasional minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann / Southern Cross Books 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history wars Parihaka Maori warfare conflict

$120.00
3k2/25

Fred Gratten, Talatonu: Islands and Atolls: A Biography


GRATTEN, MIKE and HELEN & GLUYAS, JEANNIE and RICHARD

SIGNED BY SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS, quarto, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, [4] + xii + 164pp, illus/photos, folding family tree to rear, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Michael and Helen Gratten & Jeannie and Richard Gluyas 2009

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Samoa Fred Gratten biography memoir biographies family history research genealogy

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