Books - "history"
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In the Footsteps of Churchill
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
The Story of British Sporting Prints
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
Fishing from the Earliest Times: Second Edition
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
A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI & VII-X [Two volume set]
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
Two Hundred Years of History and Evolution of Woodworking Machinery
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
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury: A Study of Monastic Reform in the Tenth Century
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
A Handful of Grain: The Centenary History of the Baptist Union of N.Z.: Volume 1 -- 1851-1882
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
Govenors' Ladies: The Wives and Mistresses of Van Diemen's Land Govenors
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
Select Documents of English Constitutional History 1307-1485
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
A Book of Voyages
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
Crossing Open Ground
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
The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930
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
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture
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
Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work 1890-1945
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
Brittania's Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians
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
Sex Marchers
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
Crowds and Power
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
Cecil Rhodes: His Private Life, by His Private Secretary
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
Early History of New Zealand: From Earliest Times to 1840 ; From 1840 to 1845
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
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
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