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$300.00
1y7a/41

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (18 Vol Set)


N/A

HEAVY 18 VOLUME SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quarto, blue plastic boards (folders), silver gilt lettering to spines, approx. 12x illus individual issues to each folder, VG (moderate chafing & soiling to boards, spines heavily cocked, light soiling & foxing to some issues)

PUBLISHER: Orbis N/D

KEYWORDS: aviation history military international engineering aircraft history encyclopedia encyclopaedia periodicals

$15.00
xxzcc173560

The Gringo in Latin America


WEST, RICHARD & BULMER, JOHN (Illus)

EX-LIBRARY, sm 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: Jonathan Cape 1967

KEYWORDS: latin America politics geopolitics history anthropology history culture

$15.00
xxepa174452

Rich Dessert's & Captain's Thin: A Family and Their Times 1831-1931


FORSTER, MARGARET

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: Chatto & Windus 2010

KEYWORDS: history nonfiction carr's of carlisle family business history baking

$20.00
xxrgd175181

Men Who Blazed the Trail: Stories of the Churche's Pioneers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand


DEBENHAM, MARY H.

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: The Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1926

KEYWORDS: pioneer settler history missionaries colonisation new zealand history religion christian christianity

$35.00
xxrma175401

Whaling in Southern Waters


TOD, FRANK

Quarto 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: Frank Tod 1982

KEYWORDS: whaling maritime history colonial new zealand history aotearoa nz

$20.00
xxrma175415

Medieval Women


POWER, EILEEN: LE ROY LADURIE, EMMANUEL (forew.)

In slipcase. Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in case (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: The Folio Society 2001

KEYWORDS: medieval women women's history womens gender roles in europe european history the folio society

$40.00
1y46b/8

The Maorilander: A Study of William Satchell


WILSON, PHILLIP

OWNERSHIP OF NORTHLAND HISTORIAN KAY BOESE, octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 163pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges & flaps, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers & spine)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors history literature literary biography memoir criticism William Satchell history

$25.00
xxpgi175917

The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island: 1. Natural and Cultural History


Volume 55 : Part 2, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History

THOMAS, DAVID HURST & JONES, GRANT D. & DURHAM, ROGER S. & LARSEN, CLARK SPENCER

Super octavo staped wrappers (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:

KEYWORDS: anthropological papers of the american museum of natural history st catherines island colonisation colonialism natural history flora fauna

$30.00
xxpkl176128

Your Guide to the Old West


CROMIE, ALICE

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: Quadrangle 1977

KEYWORDS: wild west travel guide tour settlements forts museums battlegrounds landmarks relics cowboys history american history usa united states of america

$16.50
xxpof176296

The Iron House: A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre


DUKE, MICHAEL S.

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: Gibbs Smith 1990

KEYWORDS: history memoir biography autobiography tiananmen square massacre chinese communist history democracy movement party

$16.50
xxyaa176354

The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600


HANSEN, VALERIE

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 & Co. 2000

KEYWORDS: china history chinese premodern early history shang zhou conquest confucius buddhism song dynasty mongols ming

$15.00
xxyba176597

The Streets of Hampstead: A New Survey of Their Origins and Names, Their Historic Houses and Notable Residents


WADE, CHRISTOPHER

Oblong super octavo stapled wrappers (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: High Hill Press 1984

KEYWORDS: England English history London Hampstead topography natural history

$30.00
xxybb176672

Illustrated English Social History :1, 2, 3, 4


TREVELYAN, G. M.

4 VOLUME BOX SET. Paperback (VG) in slip case (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: Pelican Books 1964

KEYWORDS: boxset history england social history

$19.50
xxybd176798

Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization


CHEN, KUAN-HSING

LACKS FEP & TITLE PAGE, 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: Duke University Press N/D (pages missing)

KEYWORDS: cultural Asian postcolonial studies history China Chinese history politics political science

$17.50
xxycd177016

Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century


ROSS, KIRSTIE

Oblong 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: Auckland University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: new zealand aotearoa nz history nature tramping twentieth century history the bush outdoors

$20.00
xxycd177040

Passageways: The Story of a New Zealand Family


THWAITE, ANN

Uncorrected proof copy, some pages loosely inserted. 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: Zenith 2009

KEYWORDS: new zealand history ann thwaite family history biography aotearoa settlers settler

$20.00
xxygd177847

Star in the South: The Centennial History of the New Zealand Dominican Sisters


McCARTHY, SISTER MARY AUGUSTINE

Octavo hardcover, lacks fep (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: St Dominic's Priory 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand religious history religion Dominican sisters history centennial

$32.50
xxykb178982

Edgehill: The Battle Reinterpreted


SCOTT, CHRISTOPHER & TURTON, ALAN & VON ARNI, ERIC GRUBER

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: Pen & Sword Military 2004

KEYWORDS: english civil war history british england military history edgehill battle of at

$35.00
xxylc179275

Women Workers in New Zealand 1977


SINCLAIR, MARY (Ed) & DAVIES, SONJA (Convener)

Oblong octavo stapled light card covers (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: New Zealand Working Women's Council 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa women gender history business history Mary Sinclair

$50.00
1y89a/16

Jubilee of the Otago Harbour Board: Dunedin - Port Chalmers New Zealand 1874-1924


N/A

SECOND EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDING, imperial octavo, brown stiff card covers, brown & blue lettering to front cover, internally staple bound, 120pp, illus, folding plates, VG (moderate creasing to spine & covers, moderate rusting to staples- pgs 115-118 almost detached but still hanging on, some moderate closed tearing to ffep at staples, occasional additions & amendments in ink to pags throughout- unobtrusive)

PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand ports Otago harbour jubilee Port Chalmers history maritime nautical history

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