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$27.50
xxfpa225849

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History


FRANKOPAN, PETER

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: Bloomsbury 2023

KEYWORDS: history earth geography natural empires

$25.00
xxfpa225850

The Brownie of Bodsbeck


HOGG, JAMES & MACK, S. DOUGLAS (Ed)

Octavo Hardcover (VG+) 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: Scottish Academic Press 1976

KEYWORDS: historical fiction history James Hogg literature

$15.00
xxfpa225853

New Zealand Official Yearbook 1987-88 (92nd Annual Edition)


DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

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: The Department of Statistics, Wellington 1987

KEYWORDS: New Zealand statistics history official yearbooks

$22.50
xxfpa225855

Jack's Voice: A POW's Diary & Letters - Stalag VIIIB 1941-1945


TURNER, JOHN PENMAN & TALLON, MARY ELAINE (Ed)

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: John Penman Turner 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history war battles WW2 World War 2 military letters diaries POW Stalag VIIIB

$35.00
xxfpa225858

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy


TOOZE, ADAM

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: Penguin 2008

KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany history war World War 2 WW2 battles economy Europe

$34.50
xxfpa225860

The Journal of Christopher Columbus


COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER & JANE, CECIL (Trans) & VIGNERAS, L A (Revised & Annotated) & SKELTON, R A (Appendix)

Super Octavo Hardcover (VG) 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: Anthony Blond / Orion 1960

KEYWORDS: Christopher Columbus geography biography maps history exploration travel

$30.00
xxfpe225861

The Pacific Islands Year Book: 1942 (Fourth (War-Time) Edition)


ROBSON, R W (Compiler & Ed)

Octavo Hardcover (G+) scruffy copy; 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: Pacific Publications 1942

KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands yearbooks war battles World War 2 WW2 The Pacific War military history

$20.00
xxfpe225862

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family


GORDON-REED, ANNETTE

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 & Company 2008

KEYWORDS: America American history law Hemings

$35.00
xxfpe225864

General Peter Cosgrove: My Story


COSGROVE, GENERAL PETER

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR Super octavo hardcover (VG+) 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: HarperCollins 2006

KEYWORDS: Austrailia Austrailian military history biography autobiography battles army interfet

$35.00
xxa3db225872

Covid-19 Nation Dates: A New Zealand Timeline of Significant Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Second Edition)


MCGUINNESS INSTITUTE

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: Mcguinness Institute 2024

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pandemic science timeline history global events covid 19 covid-19 coronavirus health

$25.00
xxa3db225873

Vile Crimes: The Timaru Poisonings


GRAHAM, PETER

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: Canterbury University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Timaru true crime murder law history colonial society

$32.50
xxa3db225874

Richard Trevithick: The Engineer and the Man (Trevithick Centenary Commemoration Memorial Volume)


DICKINSON, H W & TITELY, ARTHUR

FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, super octavo hardcover (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: Cambridge University Press 1934 (Second Impression)

KEYWORDS: Richard Trevithick engineering biography memoir first edition history

$16.50
xxa3db225876

Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island


SAYERS, PEIG & MACMAHON, BRYAN (Trans) & O'CONNOR, CATRIONA

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: Talbot Press 1983

KEYWORDS: autobiography Blasket Island Peig Sayers Ireland history

$20.00
xxa3db225877

The Falklands War: A Day-by-Day Account from Invasion to Victory (25th Anniversary)


WESTON, SIMON (Fore)

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: Marshall Cavendish 2007

KEYWORDS: military war english history Falklands Simon Weston

$15.00
xxa3dd225884

Elite Units of The Third Reich: German Special Forces in World War II


RIPLEY, TIM

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Brown Reference Group 2004

KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany war battles World War 2 WW2 military history german special forces third reich Nazis

$180.00
3m4/22

The Cosmic Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth History


CLUBE, VICTOR & NAPIER, BILL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 299pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & rubbing to edges, moderate scuffing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1982

KEYWORDS: social history catastrophe politics science astronomy space first editions

$545.00
3m4/27

Leica: An Illustrated History Volume I - Cameras


LAGER, JAMES L

THIS VOL ONLY, Quartp, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, illus title page and prelims, 318pp, illus/photo, VG- (light-moderate soiling to boards, slight brusing and rubbing to extrems, moderate soiling and light tanning to pages edges, sloppy binding and heavy cracking to gutters, occasional soiling to pages throughout) in d/w VG (light soiling to upper edges, moderate creasing to flap folds, light chipping and moderate creasing to spine, moderate chafing and soiling)

PUBLISHER: Lager Limited 1993

KEYWORDS: cameras photography history art Leica

$60.00
3m4/29

Dionysos, Archetypal Images of Indestructible Life


KERENYI, CARL & MANHEIM, RALPH (Trans)

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, green lettering to spine, xxxvii + 474pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to front wrapper, 1cm closed tear to head of spine, light soiling and foxing to page edges, light tanning and foxing to inside covers)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: mythology greek gods Dionysos vase paintings ceramics and pottery ancient history

$95.00
3m4/30

Tim Harington Looks Back


HARINGTON, GENERAL SIR CHARLES

FIRST EDITION Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges of pages stained blue, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims+ 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light-moderate tanning & foxing on page edges, light tanning on eps, moderate soiling and foxing on rear eps and gutter, terminal pages missing) in d/w VG- (price clipped, 2cm closed tear to front flap fold and other multiple small closed tears to edges, 5cm loss to base of spine, moderate staining/soiling to front cover and spine, moderate creasing and chipping to edges, moderately tanned spine, faded small ink numerals to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1940

KEYWORDS: First Edition biography military history Great War Spanish Civil War Gibraltar Tim Harrington

$50.00
3m4/31

Stories of Murchison Earthquake: 17th. June, 1929


TEAGUE, BERNARD et al

THIRD PRINTING, Quarto,stapled red light card wrappers, black lettering on cover, 56pp, VG (light creasing on front cover with light bruising to extrems, light fading on the upper edge of the front cover and spine, light scuffing on front and back cover, light soiling/foxing and tanning on page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to inside front cover, light creasing in prelims and throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1979

KEYWORDS: third printing earthquake Murchison Earthquake history natural disasters New Zealand personal accounts

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