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$245.00
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John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1919 (Fifty-Sixth Edition)


PARDON, SYDNEY H (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, rebound in leather & red buckram- original wrappers missing, gilt lettering to spine, red speckling to page edges- faint, 326pp + ads, VG+ (sl fading to spine, sl soiling to boards, minor tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1919

KEYWORDS: sport history cricket John Wisden almanacks past years 20th twentieth century first editions

$125.00
3s3/12

Grammar of the New Zealand Language (Third Edition)


MAUNSELL, R

FRONT BOARD DETACHED BUT PRESENT, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, no lettering to spine or boards, G (front board detached but present, bottom half of spine missing, heavy cracking to remainder of spine- buckram flapping loose, heavy staining to boards & base of page block, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to front eps, ffep potentially missing, bottom half of terminal pages ripped out, rear board flapping loose from base but still hanging on bravely, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, pencil annotation/doodles to prelims)

PUBLISHER: W B Upton & Co 1867

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa language gramar historical history

$60.00
3s3/16

The Playboy Book: Forty Years


EDGREN, GRETCHEN

Quarto, black buckram boards, illus/photos, VG+ in VG+ d/w (Photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Mitchell Beazley 1994

KEYWORDS: playboy history erotica Hugh Hefner business biography

$75.00
3s3/17gc

Leica: The First 70 Years


ROGLIATTI, GIANNI

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ in VG+ d/w (Photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Hove Collectors Books 1995

KEYWORDS: art photography Leica history cameras

$100.00
3s3/20

Oceanie


GUIART, JEAN

TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling) in cardboard presentation box

PUBLISHER: Gallimard 1963

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH art Oceania cultural artefacts history historical

$65.00
3s3/21

The Pictorial History: NZ and South Seas Exhibition Dunedin 1925-26


FANNING, L S

Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, illus/photos, VG (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ South Seas exhibitions history historical Dunedin exhibition

$100.00
3s3/24

Waiheke Pioneers


DAY, DIXIE

SIGNIFICANT KNOWLEDGEABLE ANNOTATION ADDING INFORMATION OF IMPORTANCE TO THE BOOK, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, pink lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG- (moderate creasing to spine & wrapper edges, whole item warped, minor tanning & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor water damage/staining to edges of page block, extensive highlighting & annotioan in ink throughout, heavy crack to pg84-85 gutter)

PUBLISHER: The Waiheke Historical Society 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa Waiheke history signed Dixie Day pioneers early settlers

$25.00
xxymc226834

Progress in Art


GABLIK, SUZI

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Thames and Hudson 1976

KEYWORDS: Suzi Gablik art history criticism interpretation

$22.50
xxymc226841

The Culture of the Meiji Period


DAIKICHI, IROKAWA; JANSEN, MARIUS B (ed.)

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Princeton University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture history Meiji

$36.50
xxyac226842

Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream


HENSHALL, KENNETH G

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Macmillan 1999

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese social history conditions values

$25.00
xxyac226843

That's How it Goes: Autobiography of a Singapore Eurasian


OEHLERS, F A C JOCK

Octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Select Publishing 2008

KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography history Japan Japanese

$17.50
xxyac226847

Empire of the Summer Moon


GWYNNE, S C

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Scribner 2011

KEYWORDS: Native American West history settlers Civil War

$16.50
xxyac226850

The Face of Spain


BRENAN, GERALD; WOLFERS, JOHN (introd.)

Octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Penguin 1988

KEYWORDS: Spain Spanish history 20th century

$20.00
xxybd226866

Sotheby's: Bidding for Class


LACEY, ROBERT

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: Little, Brown and Comapny 1998

KEYWORDS: Sotheby Sotheby's auction house houses art collecting history

$12.50
xxybd226869

The Vanishing Sky


BINDER, L ANNETTE

Super octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Bloomsbury 2020

KEYWORDS: L Annette Binder history ww2 Second World War Two II 2

$24.50
xxycb226884

Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition


HAJARI, NISID

SIGNED. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Penguin 2015

KEYWORDS: Nisid Hajari India 20th century political history nuclear Pakistan

$15.00
xxycc226886

London Town: A tour of Victorian London


CRANE, THOMAS & HOUGHTON, ELLEN

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-), faded to spine; Photos available on request. 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: Bracken Books 1985

KEYWORDS: illustrated illustrations London England history

$30.00
xxycc226889

Literature as Discourse: Textual Strategies in English and History


HODGE, ROBERT

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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 Johns Hopkins University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: English literature criticism history theory discourse analysis

$26.50
xxycc226890

Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-Century England


CROMPTON, LOUIS

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: University of California Press 1985

KEYWORDS: Lord Byron poet poetry history criticism 19th century homophobia social

$20.00
xxyce226897

The French Short Story in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Anthology


SACHS, MURRAY (eds.)

Text of stories in French. Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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 Univeristy Press 1969

KEYWORDS: French literature 19th nineteenth century criticism history

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