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$45.00
1y74/4

The Royal Palaces of London


SOUDEN, DAVID; WORSLEY, LUCY; DOLMAN, BRETT; & HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES (forew.)

Oblong quarto gold heavy card boards, white lettering to spine and front, illus., 223pp, nr. FINE (slight bump to front corner) in d/w nr. FINE

PUBLISHER: Merrell 2008

KEYWORDS: royal palaces london architecture art history interior design decoration lavish royalty british history english aristocracy

$42.50
1y73/10

The Mystic Garden


SWINSCOW, DOUGLAS & ROWAN, CYNTHIA

Copy of NZ lichenologist David Galloway, w/ small cache of correspondance with author loosley enclosed (one signed typed letter from author); FIRST EDITION, octavo green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus., VG+ (light scuffing to boards, ownership signature and notes to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & v. sl. soiling)

PUBLISHER: Halsgrove Press 1992

KEYWORDS: garden garden art design history plants botany natural history signed modern first edition

$100.00
1y75/39

A History of the 10th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Commericals) 1914 - 1919


N/A [CARVER, R. B.; FENWICK, J. M.; GRAYSTONE, J. W.; PAGE, F. G. & THIRSK, C. W.]

Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front, gilt emblem to front, xix+204pp, illus. w/ folding maps, incl. 1x in rear pocket, VG (moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards, light tanning and foxing to edges and within)

PUBLISHER: A. Brown & Sons 1937

KEYWORDS: regimental history battalion east yorkshire english british military history great war first world ww1 one regiment hull commercials 10th tenth service

$40.00
1y78/26

Economics of the New Zealand Maori


FIRTH, RAYMOND & TAWNEY, R. H.

Super octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 519pp, VG+ (light foxing to edges) in d/w VG+ (staining to upper and lower cover edges, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: A. R. Shearer, Government Printer 1972 (second edition, reprint)

KEYWORDS: maori history economics new zealand history

$60.00
ak3/13/1720

Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire


FOSTER, SUSAN LEIGH

Quarto purple cloth boards, illus., xvii+371pp, VG+ (light tanning within, prev. owner's details twinked out to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: dance ballet history choreography stage dancing dancer narrative criticism history

$50.00
ak3/16/1755

Tiger of Mysore: The Life and Death of Tipu Sultan


FORREST, DENYS

Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & illus. to spine, xii+388pp, folding map to rear, VG (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; tape stains to boards; moderate foxing and soiling to edges, light within) in d/w VG- (usual stamps and markings, light scuffing and soiling, rear flap removed and tipped in to fep., sl. fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1970

KEYWORDS: mysore tipu sultan india indian biography history southern british empire colonialism seringapatam lord cornwallis duke of wellington wars military history

$80.00
1y80/12

London - Vanished & Vanishing


NORMAN, PHILIP

Super octavo, dark green heavy card boards, gilt tooling lettering to board and spine, dekcled page edges, frontispiece, xvi + 294pp + 6pp adverts, illus (75 plates), VG- (light chipping to spine extrems, moderate chafing to boards, heavy tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1905

KEYWORDS: Philip Norman history london illustrated history england uk great britain

$145.00
1y80/21

The 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars Vol. 1, Vol 2.


BARRETT, C. R. B.

2 volume set. Imperial octavo, navy blue heavy card boards, half bound in leather, gilt tool lettering, rule and decoration to spine and boards. black eps, frontispiece, illus title page, vol 1: xvi + 407pp, vol 2: viii + 452pp, illus - plates in both vols, both vols VG (unsteady binding sporadic cracking to gutters, light/moderate chafing throughout, light/moderate foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Spottiswoode & Co 1914

KEYWORDS: C R B Barrett history military history waterloo campaign dragoons hussars

$10.00
xxzad163089

The Battle Of The Bulge - Hitler's Last Desperate Game To Win The War


MERRIAM, ROBERT E.

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: Ballantine Books 1978

KEYWORDS: history ww2 wwii history

$80.00
ak4/3/2168

Our Dealings With Maori Lands; Or, Comments on European Dealings for the Purchase and Lease of Native Lands, and the Legislation Thereon


MACKAY, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, octavo green light card stapled wrappers, 60pp, VG- (heavy soiling & staining to front, moderate to heavy scuffing & chipping to covers, heavy tanning and moderate foxing soiling within, rust stains to staples)

PUBLISHER: Kidd & Wildman 1887

KEYWORDS: new zealand maori history land native court raupatu whenua history colonialism imperialism legal law legislation

$39.50
ak4/16/2214

Swine Fever in New Zealand


GILRUTH, J. A. (M.R.C.V.S)

Super octavo staple wrapped (G+); 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: John Mackay, Government Printer,1899

KEYWORDS: agriculture history science medical pig bacteriologist new zealand history

$245.00
1y92/24

The Essex Regiment: 1st Battalion (44th)


BURROWS, JOHN Wm.

THIS VOL ONLY, Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and shield to front, frontispiece, xxxi + 293pp, illus with four fold-outs to rear, VG (light bruising to spine and board extrems, light foxing to prelims and terminals, minor tanning throughout)

PUBLISHER: John H Burrows & Sons 1931

KEYWORDS: Military history British Essex regiment 1st Battalion Great War formation 1740 regimental history blizzard Ypres Cambrai Sambre etc

$175.00
ak4/10/2427

Cultures of Natural History


JARDINE, N; SECORD, J. A.; & SPARY, E. C. (ed.'s)

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN HARDCOVER; small quarto maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxi+501pp, illus., VG+ (occasional light foxing within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing. light fading to spine, moderate foxing confined to reverse only)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: natural history history philosophy of science biology ecology art collecting gardening colonial gender economics

$50.00
ak4/11/2450

Cassell's Picturesque Australasia Vol. II


Morris, E. E. (ed.)

This volume only (volume 2); quarto red coth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, blind stamp emblem to rear board, vii+308pp+maps of Australia at rear., G+ (text block partially detached; moderate soiling scuffing and rubbing to boards, moderate fading to spine, light waterstaining within, moderate tanning and foxing)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1889

KEYWORDS: travel history geography cassell cassell's picturesque australasia new zealand australia mount cook goldfields south sydney perth maori military history govenor george grey illustrated

$15.00
xxrnj164324

The Wives of Henry VIII


FRASER, ANTONIA

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: Viking 1992

KEYWORDS: History Henry VIII wives ascent decline politics court King heir history

$27.50
ak4/23/2860

The Thirties: An Intimate History


GARDINER, JULIET

Super octavo hardcover (NF) 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: Harper Press, 2010

KEYWORDS: interwar years thirties 1930's decade british history housing boom unemployment intimate history diaries memoirs letters newspapers interviews

$40.00
ak4/24/2933

Bentley: Cricklewood to Crewe


FROSTICK, MICHAEL

Annotations and underscoring by automotive historian Maurice Hendry, Imperial octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+): 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: Osprey Publishing, 1980

KEYWORDS: automotive cars cricklewood crewe history motoring engineering bentley car history

$30.00
ak1/24/3293

The Marian Exhiles: A study of the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism 1553- 1559


GARRETT, CHRISTINA HALLOWELL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of Cambridge Press, 1966

KEYWORDS: 1553 1559 religious settlement christian european history elizabethan christianity european history

$40.00
ak1/24/3318

White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812


JORDAN, WINTHROP D.

Octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx+651pp, illus., VG- (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; light soiling & tanning to edges and within, light scuffing and tape stains to boards) in d/w VG- (usual markings, plastic covered with adhesive strips top & bottom, light soiling scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Institute of Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press 1968

KEYWORDS: african american black history institutional racism white supremacy united states america us usa history colonial sociology

$10.00
xxpch165765

Family


FRAZIER, IAN

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: HarperPerennial 1995

KEYWORDS: Ian Frazier family history chronicle american history

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