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$22.50
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The ANZAC Book


MEN OF ANZAC; AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL (ed); GOWER, STEVE (PREF.); CARLYON, LES (forew.); EKINS, ASHLEY (intro.)

REPRINT THIRD EDITION quarto 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: University of New South Wales Press 2010

KEYWORDS: ANZAC military history first-hand eyewitness accounts b&c photos cartoons illustrations poetry songs

$35.00
xxsah219574

The Jensen Healey Stories


BROWNING, PETER & BLUNSDEN, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Motor Racing Publications 1974

KEYWORDS: Jenssen-Healey sports car manufacturer biography history vintage cars b&w photos

$38.50
xxsah219575

Austin Healey: The Story of the Big Healeys


HEALEY, GEOFFREY

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: Dodd, Mead & Company 1978

KEYWORDS: Austin Healey car biography history vintage cars b&w photos

$16.50
xxsat219586

African Birds of Prey


BROWN, LESLIE

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: Collins 1970

KEYWORDS: African birds of prey raptors owls ornithology natural history

$25.00
xxsaw219588

Any Colour - So Long As It's Black!: Designing the Model T Ford 1906-1908


DUNCAN, JOHN

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: Exisle Publishing 2008

KEYWORDS: Model T Ford car design history

$35.00
xxsax219595

The White Star Triple Screw Atlantic Liners: Olympic and Titanic


THE SHIPBUILDER MAGAZINE

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: Patrick Stephens London 1970

KEYWORDS: Olympic Titanic ships shipbuilding history design construction b&w photos illustrations

$37.50
xxsbd219603

British Leyland: Chronicle of a Car Crash 1968-1978


COWIN, CHRIS

Imperial 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: Chris Cowin / Amazon 2014

KEYWORDS: British Leyland car manufacturer business history cars

$35.00
xxsbd219605

Triumph 2000: Defining the Sporting Saloon


WARRINGTON, KEVIN

Super octavo softcover (near 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: Amberley 2016

KEYWORDS: Triumph 2000 sporting saloon car history vintage cars colour photographs

$17.50
xxsbd219606

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power


YERGIN, DANIEL

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: Free Press 2009

KEYWORDS: global oil industry history politics reportage

$25.00
xxsbd219607

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire


CROZIER, BRIAN

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: Forum / Prima Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: Soviet union communist history politics cold war

$17.50
xxsbf219611

Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life


HAMMERTON, JAMES A

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 1995

KEYWORDS: 19th Century Victorian Edwardian marriage law relationships sexual politics British social history

$22.50
xxsbu219618

Trolleybus


BLACKER, KEN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Capital Transport 1981

KEYWORDS: British public transport history trolleybus trolleybuses b&w photos

$22.50
xxsbu219623

Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia


DENNISON, MATTHEW

Super octavo hardcover (near FINE) in D/W (near 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: Quercus 2010

KEYWORDS: Livia historical biography Imperial Rome history politics women public figures

$40.00
ak1/13a/2

Toward a Glorious Indonesia: Reminiscences and Observations of Dr Soetomo


SOETOMO, Dr & VAN DER VEUR, PAUL W (Ed, Annotated, Trans & Intro) & SOEMARMO, SUHARNI (Trans)

Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed inside covers, frontispiece, lxxix + (5) + 283pp + index to rear, VG (moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, minor general foxing & soiling to covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning to inside covers)

PUBLISHER: Ohio University Center for International Studies 1987

KEYWORDS: Indonesia literature Dr Soetomo anthropology history culture

$80.00
ak1/13a/3

The Rt Hon The Earl of Avon: The Eden Memoirs: Full Circle ; Facing the Dictators (2 Vols)


EDEN, The Rt Hon Sir ANTHONY (The Rt Hon The EARL OF AVON)

2 VOLS, INSCRIBED & SIGNED (AS 'AVON') DATED 1967 (VOL 2), AND AS 'ANTHONY EDEN' WITH SIGNED LETTER TIPPED IN (VOL 1), FIRST EDITIONS, super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spines, vol 1- unpaginated prelims + 619pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 659pp, VG (light bruising & fading to board edges, light soiling to boards, minor tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate taoe staining to eps, light foxing to prelims, light to moderate insect damage to rear eps of vol 2, moderate crease to spine of vol 2) in d/w, VG (moderate tape staining to flaps, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate staining to top edges of vol 1, minor general tanning & soiling, moderate wrinkling to vol 2)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1960-1962

KEYWORDS: first editions signed Earl of Avon Sir Anthony Eden autobiography autobiographies memoir politics history

$40.00
ak1/13a/5

Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith


STEWART, DUGALD & SMITH, ADAM & HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM (Ed)

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, clxxvii + 338pp + library to rear, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Augustus M Kelley 1966

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Adam Smith history historical Economic Classics series

$65.00
ak1/13a/6

A History of the Crusades: Volume II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Frankish East 1100-1187


RUNCIMAN, STEVEN

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 523pp, folding family history to rear, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (minor tanning to spine, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light general soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1952

KEYWORDS: first editions history crusades crusaders Jerusalem 12th twelfth century

$40.00
ak1/13a/7

A History of Modern Burma


CADY, JOHN F

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiii + 682pp + 34pp supplement to rear, VG (light rubbing & moderate staining/soiling to boards, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, 2x sm ex-libris ink stamps to ffep, minor foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: history geopolitics Burma

$40.00
ak1/13a/10

Jazz Visions: Reflections on Lennie Tristano and His Legacy


IND, PETER

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 214pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor soiling to boards, sl soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Equinox 2005

KEYWORDS: music jazz Lennie Tristano history musicians biography

$70.00
ak1/13a/11

A Political History of Ghana: The Rise of Gold Coast Nationalism 1850-1928


KIMBLE, DAVID

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 587pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, binding sloppy, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl cracking to rear gutter)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1963

KEYWORDS: politics political history Ghana Africa African nationalism

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