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$70.00
3k2/16

The Great Crash 1929


GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH

FIRST EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION octavo blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, VG (light fading to spine extrems & cover edges, light tanning with moderate foxing page edges, moderate to heavy foxing to front eps, moderate pencil annotation to ffep, light tanning & foxing to rear eps, light crack to front gutter, moderate foxing to prelims, light occasional foxing throughout) in d/w VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1955

KEYWORDS: history great crash 1929 stock market crasch finance Wall Street capitalism economics

$18.50
xxdib225059

Letters of Saint Augustine


ALLIES, MARY H. (selected & trans)

ex-library 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: Burns and Oates Limited 1890

KEYWORDS: religion religious texts Christianity theology Saint Augustine correspondance letters history

$15.00
xxdib225060

Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas


HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW & CARPENTER, JOHN and BOGDANA (trans)

lacks d/w 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: The Ecco Press 1991

KEYWORDS: art Dutch modern art art criticism art history Zbigniew Herbert

$16.50
xxdib225062

Thunder in the Heavens


HODSON, JAMES LANSDALE

ex-library 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: Allan Wingate (Publishers) Ltd c. 1949

KEYWORDS: history war diary entries James Lansdale Hodson personal account

$16.50
xxdib225063

The First World War


KEEGAN, JOHN

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 1999

KEYWORDS: first 1st world war one 1 ww1 wwi history military war account battle

$17.50
xxdoc225068

The Confessions of St Augustine


MATTHEW, SIR TOBIE (intro & trans) & HUDLESTON, DOM ROGER (intro, revised & emended)

ex-library 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: Burns & Oates 1954

KEYWORDS: St Augustine confessions Christianity religion religious writings history

$15.00
xxdpd225073

Letters to my Grandson on the Glory of English Poetry


COLERIDGE, STEPHEN

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: Mills & Boon Limited 1923

KEYWORDS: English poetry letter correspondance literary criticism history

$10.00
xxdpd225074

Desiree


SELINKO, ANNEMARIE & BENDER, ARNOLD (trans) & DICKES, E.W. (trans)

lacks d/w & fp 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: Reprint Society 1954

KEYWORDS: fiction historical fiction Napoleon Desiree France romantic fiction fictionalised history biographical fiction

$15.00
xxdpe225076

The Fourth Arm: Psychological Warfare 1938-1945


CRUICKSHANK, CHARLES

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: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: history war warfare propaganda second 2nd world war 2 two ww2 wwii

$10.00
xxdpe225077

The Aran Islands


SYNGE, J.M. & ROBINSON, TIM (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: Penguin books 1992

KEYWORDS: history Aran Islands culture daily life customs Ireland

$15.00
xxdpe225086

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself


EQUIANO, OLAUDAH & SOLLORS, WERNER (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: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2001

KEYWORDS: slaves Great Britain America biography Africa criticism history

$50.00
3k2/17

Anglicans in the Bush: The Development of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Auckland


WRIGHT, FRANK

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, no lettering to spine or boards, 204pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing/rubbing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion religious history Anglican church Christianity Auckaldn diocese

$200.00
3k2/19

British Pamphleteers: From the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution ; From the French Revolution to the Nineteen-Thirties (2 Vol Set)


ORWELL, GEORGE (Ed) & REYNOLDS, REGINALD (Ed) & TAYLOR, J P (Intro)

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- 264pp, vol 2- 302pp, illus, VG (light fading & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep of vol 1) in d/w, VG- (vol 2 price clipped, minor fading & soiling to spines, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, light to moderate tanning & soiling, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1948-51

KEYWORDS: first editions history English pamphleteers literature literary historical

$45.00
3k2/24

Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka


SCOTT, DICK

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 216pp, illus, VG (minor creasing to cover edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to wrappers, minor tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to prelims, various newspaper articles tipped in to verso of dedication page, moderate wrinkling to ffep, other occasional minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann / Southern Cross Books 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history wars Parihaka Maori warfare conflict

$120.00
3k2/25

Fred Gratten, Talatonu: Islands and Atolls: A Biography


GRATTEN, MIKE and HELEN & GLUYAS, JEANNIE and RICHARD

SIGNED BY SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS, quarto, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, [4] + xii + 164pp, illus/photos, folding family tree to rear, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Michael and Helen Gratten & Jeannie and Richard Gluyas 2009

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Samoa Fred Gratten biography memoir biographies family history research genealogy

$40.00
3k2/26

Pacific Tales


BECKE, LOUIS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine & front board, black illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 323pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine extrems, sl bruising & rubbing to board extrems, minor discolouration/soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1924

KEYWORDS: travel exploration history Pacific islands Louis Becke

$40.00
3k2/27

Notes From My South Sea Log


BECKE, LOUIS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine & front board, black illus to front board, 256pp, VG (moderate scuffing to spine extrems, moderate tanning/foxing to spine, minor bruising to board corners, light rubbing/surface loss to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: T Werner Laurie N/D

KEYWORDS: travel exploration history historical south seas maritime Louis Becke

$100.00
3k2/28

Wild Life in Southern Seas


BECKE, LOUIS

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, green illus to front board, page edges sl deckled, viii + 369pp + catalogue to rear, VG- (heavy chipping & scuffing to spine extrems, heavy tanning to spine, moderate tanning & rubbing to board edges/extrems, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owners' names in pencil to front eps, occasional heavy crack to gutters, contents otherwise clean)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1897

KEYWORDS: first editions travel exploration history historical south seas maritime Louis Becke

$40.00
3k2/29

Yorke the Adventurer, and Other Stories


BECKE, LOUIS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & balck lettering to spine & front board, black illus to front board, 254pp, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine extrems, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, light tanning to spine, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1925

KEYWORDS: travel exploration history historical maritime Louis Becke literature

$55.00
3k2/30

Edward Barry (South Sea Pearler)


BECKE, LOUIS

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 246pp, VG- (moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1900

KEYWORDS: first editions travel exploration history historical maritime Louis Becke literature

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