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$60.00
3n1/22

Blind Bat: C-130 Night Forward Air Controller Ho Chi Minh Trail


NYC III, FREDERICK F

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, maps to prelims - not counted presumed all present, x + 173pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to board edges/extfrems, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light crasing & chipping/scuffing to edges, light chafing & sl surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Eakin Press 1999

KEYWORDS: military history aviation aerial combat warfare Viet Cong c-130a missions

$40.00
3n1/27

Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945


HAUPT, WERNER

Super octavo, plum coloured boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 394pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Schiffer Publishing 1997

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 wwii second 2nd world war two ii 2 German germany nazi Russia army group north wehrmacht

$40.00
3n1/28

Israel in the Pacific


COLE, WILLIAM A & JENSEN, ELWIN W

Super octavo, teal buckram boards, brown lettering & illus to spine & front board, 458pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to extrems, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/scuffing to spine extrems, minor fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Genealogical Society 1961

KEYWORDS: LDS mormon mormonism Polynesia Pacific religion history anthropology genealogy

$50.00
3n1/29

Commando Despatch Rider: With 41 Royal Marines Commando in North-West Europe 1944-1945


MITCHELL, RAYMOND & THOMPSON, Major General JULIAN (Fore)

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + [5] + 234pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 2001

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 wwii second 2nd world war two ii 2 Raymond Mitchell war diaries 41 Royal Marines Commando autobiography

$30.00
xx17pol226136

Margaret Macdonald: Imperial Daughter


MANN, SUSAN

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: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: military history nursing nurse life lives biography First World War One I 1 ww1

$30.00
xx17pol226138

Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers' Jaws


STRUVE, LYNN A (transl.)

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: Yale University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Asia Asian studies Ming dynasty

$23.50
xx17pol226140

Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectual Past


FAIRBANK, WILMA; SPENCE, JONATHAN (forew.)

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 Pennsylvania Press 1994

KEYWORDS: China Chinese art architecture architectural history building buildings

$20.00
xx17pol226141

Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People's Republic


CAMPBELL, DUNCAN & MOLOUGHNEY, BRIAN (eds.)

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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: Massey University Press 2022

KEYWORDS: China Chinese New Zealand history

$20.00
xx20pol226142

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher


SCHILLACE, BRANDY

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: Simon & Schuster 2021

KEYWORDS: life lives biography Cold War 20th century history

$40.00
xx20pol226144

The Hall of Uselessness


LEYS, SIMON

FIRST EDITION. 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: Black Inc. 2011

KEYWORDS: essays philosophy politics political intellectual history

$35.00
xx20pol226146

Of Cricket, Guiness, and Ghandi: Essays on Indian History and Culture


VAL, VINAY

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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: Seagull 2003

KEYWORDS: essays essay India Indian history culture cultural

$40.00
3n1/36

Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings


VIDAL, GORE & WEISE, DONALD (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to [cloth] spine & front board, 280pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, v sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, label residue to rear)

PUBLISHER: Cleis Press 1999

KEYWORDS: first editions literature essays Gore Vidal sex prose history homosexuality

$40.00
3n1/38

A History of Otago


OLSSEN, ERIK

HISTORIAN GEORGE GRIFFITH'S COPY, WITH RESEARCH MATERIAL LOOSELY ENCLOSED, imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 270pp, illus/photos, VG (spine sl cocked, minor fading to board edges, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light wrinkling to ffep & rear eps, occasional light ink annotation throughout- most of notes are separate and lossely enclosed) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, minor scuffing to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Otago history Erik Olssen

$275.00
3n1/44

Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris


DITTMER, W

FIRST EDITION, LACKS SPINE BUT OTHERWISE SOUND, lg quarto, red buckram boards, coloured illus & lettering to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 119pp, G+ (spine missing- binding still reasonably sound, moderate scuffing & fraying to board & spine extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, minor soiling to boards, moderate cracking to front & rear hinges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, reasonably modern eps- minor soiling, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, other minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1907

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Maori traditional myths traditions legends history te ao first editions

$47.50
3n1/48

King-Doctor of Ulithi: The True Story of the Wartime Experiences of Marshall Paul Wees


WEES, MARSHALL PAUL & THORNTON, FRANCIS BEAUCHESNE (Related to)

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + [4] + 128pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate staining to boards, sl scuffing & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (moderate fading to spine & edges, minro creasing & heavy chipping/tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1950

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 wwii second 2nd world war two ii 2 Dr Marshall P Wees Pacific Ulithi autobiography biography memoir

$40.00
3s9/16

Clydevale: How Farm and Forge Transformed Isolation into Prosperity


WILSON, ELLEN & GRIFFITHS, GEORGE

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown & green lettering to wrappers, 56pp, illus/photos, VG (3cm scuff to base of spine- partially flapping loose, other light scuffing to spine also, light to moderate tanning & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to inside wrappers, minor cracking to front & rear gutters- bottom 3cm separated but still very much attached)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books N/D

KEYWORDS: signed Ellen Wilson George Griffiths New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Clydevale rural farming history

$48.00
3s9/17

Butler's Book: A Review of His Legal, Political and Military Career (2 Vol Set)


BUTLER, BENJ. F

2 VOL SET, super octavo, blue faux leather boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spines, blind stamp flag illus & rule to front boards, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, 1154pp total, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor scuffing to gilt on page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Archive Society 1997 (Facsimile of 1892 edition)

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir facsimile reprints Benjamin F Butler history

$45.00
3s9/18

The Gibbston Story


COOK, ANNE & JOHN, DAVID (Illus)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, 76pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to rear wrapper, sl tanning to page edges & inside wrappers)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1985

KEYWORDS: signed Anne Cook New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history Gibbston rural Otago heritage

$50.00
3s9/19

Mine Fire: The 1906 Coal-mine Fire at Alexandra


McCRAW, JOHN

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, imperial octavo, stapled illus light card wrappers, 48pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling & glue wrinkling to rear wrapper, sl glue wrinkling to front wrapper, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's glossy photos of Alexandra glued into inside wrappers- ink annotations below photos)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1992

KEYWORDS: signed John McCraw New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Central Otago Alex Alexandra disasters mine fire history

$180.00
3s9/20

The Great War (3 Vol Set)


CHURCHILL, The Right Hon WINSTON S CHURCHILL

3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to front boards, red speckling to page edges, frontispieces, 1668pp total, illus, VG (moderate soiling & wrinkling to spines, moderate cracking to spine of vol 3, moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedowns of all vols, occasional minor foxing & cracking to gutters throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep of vol 2)

PUBLISHER: George Newnes N/D (c.1933)

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 wwi first 1st world war one i 1 the great war Winston Churchill

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