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$100.00
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An Age of Superheroes (A Time Before Traction Control)


OXLEY, MAT & ROSSI, VALENTINO (Fore)

Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 239pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Haynes Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: motorsports motorcycle grand prix racing history

$40.00
3f3/15

No Maori Allowed: New Zealand's Forgotten History of Racial Segregation: How a Generation of Maori Children Perished in the Fields of Pukekohe


BARTHOLOMEW, ROBERT E & RINGER, BRUCE (Preface)

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black & white lettering to spine, viii + 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl tanning to page edges, sl soiling to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Robert E Bartholomew 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori race racial segregation history racism Pukekohe housing discrimination South Auckland white supremacy employment human rights health

$50.00
3f3/17

Norsewood: The Centennial Story: A History of the District of Norsewood


ANDERSEN, A L & ETHERIDGE, D C (Ed)

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 182pp, illus/photos, VG- (3cm scuff & surface loss to spine, moderate scuffing & bruising to board edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor soiling to title page, prev. owner's name & details in ink to title page & elsewhere to pages, occasional soiling & creasing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (3cm loss to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/loss to edges, tidy archival repairs to spine & edges, moderate to heavy soiling)

PUBLISHER: A L Andersen 1972

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Norsewood centennial centenary early settlers pioneers

$48.50
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An Exquisite Legacy: The Life and Work of New Zealand Naturalist G V Hudson


GIBBS, GEORGE & HUDSON, G V

Sm quarto, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 160pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history nature naturalists G V Hudson

$65.00
3f3/32

The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats


SACKS, PETER M

Super octavo, light grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv+ 375pp, VG (moderate foxing to boards, light soiling to boards & page edges, light foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep, red ink markings to fep & title page)

PUBLISHER: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1987

KEYWORDS: english elegy genre study studies literature criticism history elegiac poetry

$40.00
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Brassai: The Artists of My Life


MILLER, RICHARD (trans)

Ex-Library, quarto, beige cloth boards, 224pp, illus, VG- (dustwrapper affixed to boards with clear adhesive cover, light scuffing to board corners, light foxing to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, previous bookseller's sticker to front of jacket, light to moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1982

KEYWORDS: brassai richard miller artists art book reference process history

$140.00
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Alfa Romeo: Cuore Sportivo


ARDIZIO, LORENZO & MASON, NICK (fore)

TEXT IN ENGLISH, square quarto, red heavy boards, black text to boards & spine, illus prelims, 318pp, illus/photo, VG+ (light scuffing to board corners, slight bruising to spine, previous bookseller's label to rear board) in d/w VG+ (light chafing to jacket, slight creasing & scuffing to edges & corners of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Mondadori 2010

KEYWORDS: alfa romeo cuore sportivo text in english italian car manufacturer motorsport racing history italy

$30.00
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The Life of Ailred of Rievaulx


DANIEL, WALTER & POWICKE, F M (Trans, Intro & Notes)

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: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1950

KEYWORDS: history biography Ailred abbot of Rievaulx

$20.00
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Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District New Guinea


LAWRENCE, PETER

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: Melbourne University Press 1964

KEYWORDS: history cargo movement New Guinea southern Madang district trade industrialism

$16.50
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In the Realms of Gold: Pioneering in African History


OLIVER, ROLAND

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: University of Wisconsin Press 1997

KEYWORDS: history gold mining Africa African Roland Oliver

$15.00
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Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World: 1945-65


BURLEIGH, MICHAEL

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: Macmillan 2013

KEYWORDS: military modern history 20th twentieth century conflict

$18.50
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The Life of George Bass: Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment


ESTENSEN, MIRIAM

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: Allen & Unwin 2005

KEYWORDS: history George Bass biography maritime nautical exploration

$15.00
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Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe


SPIELMAN, ANDREW & D'ANTONIO, MICHAEL

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: Faber and Faber 2001

KEYWORDS: natural history bugs insects mosquitoes entomology pests

$14.50
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Tahiti: A Paradise Lost


HOWARTH, DAVID

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: Harvill Press 1983

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Tahiti history exploration

$22.50
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Maps and Map-Makers


TOOLEY, R V

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Dorset Press 1990

KEYWORDS: cartography maps history

$32.50
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Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1942 and After


KEDOURIE, ELIE (Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1992

KEYWORDS: Sephardi experience history Jews Jewish Spain Spanish Sephardim diaspora middle ages

$17.50
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Charles Darwin: The Power of Place: Volume II of a Biography


BROWNE, JANET

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Pimlico 2003

KEYWORDS: Charles Darwin biography memoir naturalists history

$35.00
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Some Account of That Part of New Holland, Now Called New South Wales


BANKS, JOSEPH & CURREY, JOHN (Ed & Intro)

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: The Banks Society 2004

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history NSW New South Wales New Holland Joseph Banks

$15.00
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Memoirs


MORRELL, W P

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: John McIndoe 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historians memoir autobiography W P Morrell

$35.00
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The Encyclopedia of Mushrooms


DICKINSON, COLIN (Ed) & LUCAS, JOHN (Ed)

Quarto 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: G P Putnam's Sons 1979

KEYWORDS: mycology mushrooms identification history culture literature art encyclopedias encyclopaedias

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