Books - "history"
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Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) some moderate tanning & foxing; 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: BCA / Book Club Associates 1979
KEYWORDS: industrial revolution history Great Britain British industry industrialisation
Suez Crisis 1956: End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Super octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Pen & Sword Military 2019
KEYWORDS: Cold War Suez Canal Middle East conflict 20th twentieth century history military global politics
Moorish Culture in Spain
Ex-library, quarto 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: George Allen & Unwin 1972
KEYWORDS: Moorish culture Spain Spanish Islam Muslim history
Hedley Verity: Yorkshire and England 1930-1939
Octavo softcover, stapled (VG-) foxing to wrappers; 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: E F Hudson N/D (c.1930s?)
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket Yorkshire England English 1930s thirties 30s
Anglo-Australian Cricket 1862-1926
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (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: Faber and Gwyer 1926
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket England English Australia Australian first editions
Giants of the Game: Being Reminiscences of the Stars of Cricket from Daft Down to the Present Day
Octavo hardcover (VG-) moderate to heavy tanning & foxing; 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: Ward, Lock & Co N/D
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket players
- And Then Came Larwood: An Account of the Test Matches 1932-33
Octavo hardcover (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: John Lane, The Bodley Head 1934
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket Arthur Mailey
Cricket Songs (Third Edition)
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: Arch, Constable and Co 1896
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket Norman Gale
Pilgrimages : Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, grey heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+, in d/w VG, (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1988
KEYWORDS: first edition Japan Japanese academia history literature poetry art J Thomas Rimer
The Culture of the Quake : The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan
Octavo, light illus card wrappers, white lettering to spine & wrappers, illus/photos, VG+, (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan 2015
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese Asia Alex Bates art culture history film media literature earthquake disaster Kanto Taisho academia
A History of Writing in Japan
Ownership signature of Roy Starrs. Octavo, light card wrappers, black & white lettering to spine/wrappers, illus/photos, VG+, (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 2000
KEYWORDS: language history literature Japan Japanese Asia Christopher Seely illustrated photographs kana kanji
Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan : Politics, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses
Octavo, heavy illus boards, white lettering to spine, white & blue lettering to boards, VG+ (sl scuffing/bruising to spine & board extrems).
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2016
KEYWORDS: history Japan Japanese disaster cuture sociology politics religion academia Mark R Mullins Koichi Nakano
Where are the Sunflowers? - A Media Celebrity's Depiction of Her Tragic Encounters with Anti-Korean and Anti-Buraku Prejudice in Japan
Octavo, light illus card wrappers, white & yellow lettering to spine & wrappers, VG+, (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: Merwin Asia 2012
KEYWORDS: Kurihara Miwako Alastair M McLauchlan sociology media culture history class Buraku Burakumin caste Korea Japan Asia sociol taboo
24 Battalion : Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv+361pp, Illus/maps(counted), VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl scuffing to corners of boards, minor soiling/tanning to page edges, sl foxing to feps), in d/w VG- (3cm open tear to top of spine, 2.5cm closed tears to upper & lower rear flap, moderate scuffing to extrems, minor sporadic chipping, creasing & foxing).
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs 1953
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand Aotearoa official military history world war two wwii ww2 24 battalion R M Burdon
Divisional Cavalry : Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
FIRST EDITION. NZ DIVISIONAL CAVALRY ASSOCIATION LEAFLET LOOSELY ENCLOSED. Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi+445pp, 7 folding maps, illus/photos, VG+ (minor soiling/foxing to page edges, sl tanning to eps, 2cm light brown smudge to centre edge of titlepage), in d/w VG+ (minor scuffing to spine extrems, 0.5cm closed tear to top of spine, sl scuffing to wrapper edges, minor foxing & soiling throughout).
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand 1963
KEYWORDS: first edition R J M Loughnan New Zealand second world war two 2 II wwII ww2 military official history divisional cavalry
20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment : Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xviii+631pp, 7 folding maps, illus/photos, VG (minor scuffing to spine extrems, sl bruising to lower corner of front board, moderate soiling/foxing to page edges, 1cm minor closed tear to upper fep gutter, sporadic foxing to rear page edges), in d/w VG- ( minor 3cm & 2cm closed tears to centre of spine, 3cm closed tear to upper spine, 2cm closed tear to lower spine, moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate scuffing & foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand 1957
KEYWORDS: first edition D J C Pringle W A Glue New Zealand second world war two 2 II wwII ww2 military official history 20 battalion armoured regiment
18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment : Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xviii+631pp, 7 folding maps, illus/photos, VG+ ( sl bruising to spine extrems, minor soiling/foxing to page edges, sl foxing to eps) in d/w (1cm closed tear to upper & lower spine, 1cm closed tear to in rear flap, two 0.5cm closed tears to upper front wrapper, minor soiling & doxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand 1961
KEYWORDS: W D Dawson New Zealand second world war two 2 II wwII ww2 military official history 28 battalion armoured regiment
Piero Della Francesca : The Legend of the True Cross in the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo
Square quarto, beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus/photos, diagrams, Near FINE, in d/w VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Skira 2001
KEYWORDS: art history restoration legend of the true cross Piero Della Francesca frescos essays photographs diagrams culture Anna Maria Maetzke Carlo Bertelli
The Old Identities : Being Sketeches and Reminiscences During the First Decade of the Province of Otago, N.Z.
FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt decorative rule front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, page edges speckled red, frontispiece, iv+395pp, VG- (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: Mills, Dick & Co 1879
KEYWORDS: first edition James Barr New Zealand Otago history Dunedin
J.W. Waterhouse : The Modern Pre-Raphaelite
Square quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine & front wrapper, illus/photos, VG+, (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: Groninger Museum 2008
KEYWORDS: art culture paintings history John William Waterhouse J W exhibition musuem