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$19.50
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In the Footsteps of Churchill


HOLMES, RICHARD

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: BBC Books 2005

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill political biography history BBC tv programme

$32.50
xxktk219227

The Story of British Sporting Prints


SILTZER, CAPTAIN FRANK

Ex-library 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & co. (n/d)

KEYWORDS: British sport art history portraits hunting prints

$35.00
xxktk219227

Fishing from the Earliest Times: Second Edition


RADCLIFFE, WILLIAM

Ex-library; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1926

KEYWORDS: fishing history ancient to 1920s

$30.00
xxktk219228

A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI & VII-X [Two volume set]


TOYNBEE, ARNOLD J & SOMERVELL, D C (abridg.)

2x VOL ST, LACK D/Ws; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Readers Union / Oxford University Press 1960

KEYWORDS: History of civilizations

$60.00
2w9/36

Two Hundred Years of History and Evolution of Woodworking Machinery


SIMS, WILLIAM L

HANDBOUND FACSIMILE, quarto, black heavy boards- blank with no lettering, xiii + 174pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, mior ink staining to base of some pages)

PUBLISHER: Walders Press 1985

KEYWORDS: history crafts wood woodwork machinery tools carpentry

$16.50
xxktm219231

Saint Dunstan of Canterbury: A Study of Monastic Reform in the Tenth Century


DUCKETT, ELEANOR SHIPLEY

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Collins 1955

KEYWORDS: Saint Dunstan of Canterbury monasticism saints monasteries religion Christianity Christian history

$25.00
xxkua219246

A Handful of Grain: The Centenary History of the Baptist Union of N.Z.: Volume 1 -- 1851-1882


TONSON, PAUL

THIS VOL. ONLY, paperback (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: N.Z. Baptist Historical Society

KEYWORDS: New Zealand baptist union church history baptists Christianity Christian religion

$20.00
xxkub219253

Govenors' Ladies: The Wives and Mistresses of Van Diemen's Land Govenors


ALEXANDER, ALISON

Ex-library super octavo hardcover (VG-) cracking at gutter 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Tasmanian Historical Research Association 1987

KEYWORDS: Van Diemen's Land Australian Tasmanian colonial history historical biography women Tasmania Australia

$16.50
xxkuh219259

Select Documents of English Constitutional History 1307-1485


CHRIMES, S B (ed) & BROWN, A L (ed)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: A. and C. Black Limited 1961

KEYWORDS: English constitutional documents history England

$20.00
xxkuk219269

A Book of Voyages


O'BRIAN, PATRICK (ed) & BURTON, JOAN (illus)

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (Nr FINE); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2013

KEYWORDS: Patrick O'Brian sea travel maritime history nautical literature

$17.50
xxkum219279

Crossing Open Ground


LOPEZ, BARRY

FIRST EDITION 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1988

KEYWORDS: first edition natural history essays wildlife United States Alaska

$37.50
xxkum219281

The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930


MCLAREN, ANGUS

Super octavo hardcover (near FINE); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: gender sexuality social history men masculinity

$20.00
xxkve219290

Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture


LEHMAN, PETER (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2001

KEYWORDS: gender men masculinity cultural social media studies film cinema history queer lgbtqia essays

$25.00
xxkve219291

Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work 1890-1945


KUNZEL, REGINA 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: social work care history maternity homes America women

$17.50
xxkve219293

Brittania's Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians


HAMER, EMILY

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1996

KEYWORDS: British lesbian political history historical biography queer women essays

$35.00
xxkve219294

Sex Marchers


POLAND, JEFFERSON (ed) & SLOAN, SAM (ed)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ishi Press 2006

KEYWORDS: protest history activism sex sexuality reproductive rights queer LGBTQIA

$15.00
xxkvg219304

Crowds and Power


CANETTI, ELIAS & STEWART, CAROL (trans)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1984

KEYWORDS: crowds social history behavioural psychology sociology

$60.00
2w8/3

Cecil Rhodes: His Private Life, by His Private Secretary


JOURDAN, PHILIP

FIRST EDITION, ex-school library, octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to borders of front & rear board, gilt school emblem to front board, marbled page edges & eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, 293pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate scuffing/rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing to boards, mior tanning to page edges, school presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate to heavy foxing throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1911

KEYWORDS: first editions leather bindings Cecil Rhodes biography biographies memoir politics political history historical

$145.00
2w8/4

Early History of New Zealand: From Earliest Times to 1840 ; From 1840 to 1845


SHERRIN, R A A & WALLACE, J H & LEYS, THOMSON W (Ed)

BOARDS & SPINE DETACHED (BUT PRESENT), quarto, half leather bound black heavy boards, gilt lettering to red leather title plate to spine with raised bands & gilt decoration/tooling also, red speckling to page edges, marbled eps, unpaginated prelims + 728pp + xliii to rear, illus, G- (boards & spine completely detached but present, moderate cracking/loss to red leather title plate on spine, moderate scuffing & surface loss to leather work, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, printer's sm label to base of front pastedown, prelim pages also completely detached but present- valiant attempts at tape repairs to gutter of title page, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, moderate foxing & creasing/tanning/chipping to folding illus opp. pg560)

PUBLISHER: H Brett, Printer and Publishers, Auckland 1890

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand early 19th nineteenth century

$85.00
2w8/5

The Holy Ghost Among the Fantails: Being the Rendering of Certain Painterly Situations in the Missionary Life of Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier, Who Laboured in New Zealand from 1838 to 1868 and Witnessed Many of the Events of Those Turbulent Year


McARTHUR, PIERA

FIRST EDITION, oblong folio, black heavy boards, illus prelims, frontispiece, 60pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (minor fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2012

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand art Piera McArthur history portraits Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier

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