Books - "history"
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Touch Wood!
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
Formula Junior
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
Australian Competition Yearbook, Number 8
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
The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire
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
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent
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
The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912
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
Tui Country: A History of the Pahiatua County
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
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
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
End of an Era: An Informal History of the Military in the Mt Cook Area of Wellington 1846-1979 (A Commemorative Edition)
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
Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the Digital Age
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
South of West Hamilton: A History of the Early European Settlement of the Rukuhia District, 1864-1914
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
How to Study Chaucer
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
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
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
The Story of Music
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
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
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
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
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
Dunback Coronation Hall 1912-2012
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
The 100 Years Tractor Rally: Catalogue
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
I Remember: A Look Back
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
P. E. Park's Recollections of Childhood on NZ Lighthouse Stations
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