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$45.00
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Touch Wood!


HAMILTON, DUNCAN & SCOTT, LIONEL & The Rt Hon THE EARL HOWE (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, ix + 229pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to half title page, minor tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing throughout- minor) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges- attempts at tape repairs, price clipped, moderate chafing & tanning/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Barrie and Rockliff 1960

KEYWORDS: first editions automotive history Duncan Hamilton autobiography autobiographies memoir motorsport cars racing

$65.00
3k1/25

Formula Junior


BLUNSDEN, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 160pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl fading & rubbing to spine, sl rubbing to boards, minor tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate soiling to edges, light tanning & rubbing/soiling to spine, light general chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front flap)

PUBLISHER: Motor Racing Publications 1961

KEYWORDS: first editions automotive motorsport cars racing formula junior history

$50.00
3k1/26

Australian Competition Yearbook, Number 8


N/A

Quarto, green heavy boards, light green lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing/surface loss to board & spine edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (minor fading to spine, minor creasing & chipping to edges, 4cm closed tear to head of front flap crease, minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Murray Book Distributors Pty 1979

KEYWORDS: automotive motorsport history Australia Australian motor racing competition yearbooks past issues

$75.00
3k1/27

The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire


PO, RONALD C

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, blue & white lettering to spine, xv + 292pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & bruising to spine & cover edges/extrems, sl soiling to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2019

KEYWORDS: ancient China Chinese history antiquity Qing empire maritime navy naval economics politics

$42.50
3k1/29

Charlemagne: Father of a Continent


BARBERO, ALESSANDRO & CAMERON, ALLAN (Trans)

Super octavo, khaki grey buckram boards, gilt & red lettering to spine, gilt & red illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xx + 428pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2009

KEYWORDS: folio society Charlemagne war history empire

$150.00
3k1/33

The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912


PAKENHAM, THOMAS & DAVID, SAUL (Intro)

2 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spines, African scene photographic illus to front boards, frontispieces, xlvii + xxv + 951pp total, illus/photos, Near FINE, in slipcase, Near FINE (sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1991-2011

KEYWORDS: folio society history Africa Great Britain British conquest empire

$45.00
3k1/34

Tui Country: A History of the Pahiatua County


McCALLUM, ANGUS

Quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xiii + 384pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, gift inscription in ink to full title page, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling, 3cm closed tear to base of front cover)

PUBLISHER: The Pahiatua County Council 1988

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history tui country Pahiatua County settlers pioneers

$45.00
3k1/35

A Son of The Red Centre': Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Life of Road Train Pioneer and Bush Inventor of the Northern Territory of Australia


JOHANNSEN, KURT G & PALMER, DAPHNE (Ed)

REVISED EDITION, super octavo, illus orange glossy heavy boards, white & black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 254pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading & bruising to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, 'Kurt Johannsen' in ink to full title page?)

PUBLISHER: Kurt Johannsen 1996

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history NT Northern Territory road trains transport inventors

$40.00
3k1/36

End of an Era: An Informal History of the Military in the Mt Cook Area of Wellington 1846-1979 (A Commemorative Edition)


BESTIC, E B (Preface)

SCARCE, octavo, red illus stapled light card wrappers, 54pp, illus/photos, VG (minor fading & scuffing/soiling to spine area, light to moderate chafing/soiling & creasing to wrappers, light tanning & soiling to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: INL Print (Printer) 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history military Mt Cook Wellington

$120.00
3k1/38

Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the Digital Age


HANFLING, EDWARD

SIGNED & DATED BY ARTIST, square quarto, green glossy illus boards, red & white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 333pp + [3], illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing to rear board, light soiling to page edges, light soiling to prelims) in d/w, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling to rear cover, sl fading & front hinge area, sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Ron Sang Publications 2014

KEYWORDS: signed Mervyn Williams New Zealand art artists modern history

$47.50
3L5/7

South of West Hamilton: A History of the Early European Settlement of the Rukuhia District, 1864-1914


RAYNES, NANCY

Octavo, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, map tipped in to front pastedown [detached but present], 184pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, map at front detached but present, minor foxing & Nancy Raynes in ink to title page, minor foxing sporadically throughout, sm ink alteration to text to pg6) in d/w, VG (moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning, sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: N Raynes 1988

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Hamilton Nancy Raynes early settlers pioneers Rukuhia district

$15.00
xxrdg225302

How to Study Chaucer


POPE, ROB

Octavo softcover (VG), pen annotations throughout; 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: Palgrave 2001

KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Chaucer history English literature 14th fourteenth century study guide

$15.00
xxrdg225303

Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales


ASHTON, GAIL

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 1998

KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Chaucer history English literature 14th fourteenth century study guide

$9.00
xxrea225312

The Story of Music


GOODALL, HOWARD

Ex-library. Paperback (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: Vintage 2013

KEYWORDS: Howard Goodall music history

$26.50
xxrfa225345

In a Class of its Own: The story of a century and a quarter of teacher education at the Dunedin Training College, Dunedin Teachers' College and the Dunedin College of Education


KEEN, DAVID

Signed. 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: Dunedin College of Education 2001

KEYWORDS: New Zealand social history education educators Dunedin teacher teachers training Otago

$15.00
xxrfa225355

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave


HURSTON, ZORA NEALE; PLANT, DEBORAH G (ed)

Paperback (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: HQ 2018

KEYWORDS: Zora Neale Hurston anthropology 20th century America American history slave slavers

$10.00
xxrgc225370

Dunback Coronation Hall 1912-2012


HECKLER, DENISE & GUNN, PATRICIA

Octavo stapled light wrappers (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: Denise Heckler & Patricia Gunn n/d

KEYWORDS: Dunback New Zealand local history

$10.00
xxrgc225371

The 100 Years Tractor Rally: Catalogue


n/a

Octavo stapled light wrappers (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: n/p 1989

KEYWORDS: North Otago New Zealand local history vintage machinery tractors

$15.00
xxrgc225373

I Remember: A Look Back


LESLIE, BILL

Quarto stapled light wrappers (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: n/p

KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history Leslie family Otago

$47.50
xxrgc225377

P. E. Park's Recollections of Childhood on NZ Lighthouse Stations


BENJAMIN, ELIZABETH

Signed & inscribed. 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: Elizabeth Benjamin 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history P E Parks lighthouse lighthouses genealogy family

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