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$16.50
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Winds of Change : Britain in the Early Sixties


HENNESSY, PETER

Octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2020

KEYWORDS: Peter Hennessy history Britain UK United Kingdom sixties 60's culture politics economics

$15.00
xx173pol230889

Defending New Zealand : A Study of Structures, Processes and Relationships


ROLFE, JAMES

Octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Institute of Policy Studies 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history James Rolfe defense policy military politics war warfare

$15.00
xx173pol230894

If Walls Could Talk : An Intimate History of the Home


WORSLEY, LUCY

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2012

KEYWORDS: Lucy Worsley pop history domestic life Britain British uk United Kingdom

$35.00
xx173pol230896

The Poetics of Perspective


ELKINS, JAMES

Super octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: James Elkins academia art history renaissance culture rationality

$26.50
xx173pol230900

Gender and Germanness : Cultural Productions of a Nation


HERMINGHOUSE, PATRICIA (ed) & MUELLER, MAGDA (ed)

Octavo softcover (Near FINE); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Berghahn Books 1997

KEYWORDS: Patricia Herminghouse Magda Mueller culture gender studies German Germany history academia

$24.50
xx177pol230903

Australianama : The South Asian Odyssey in Australia


KHATUN, SAMIA

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hurst and Compant 2018

KEYWORDS: Samia Khatun Australia south Asian culture identity colonial history

$30.00
xx177pol230907

A Public Life : THe Memoirs of Zelman Cowen


COWEN, ZELMAN

Super Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Miegunyah Press 2006

KEYWORDS: Sir Zelman Cowen Australian history memoir autobiography biography Australia

$32.50
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The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1925 - 1965


NOCK, O S

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ian Allen 1986

KEYWORDS: British Britain history steam railways trains engines locomotive locomotives O S Nock

$25.00
xx186pol230924

The Artists of Hill End : Art, Life and Landscape


WILSON, GAVIN

Quarto softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Art Gallery of New South Wales 1995

KEYWORDS: history Australia Australian art illustrated photographs New South Wales Donald Friend hill end Russell Drysdale Jeffrey Smart

$50.00
3g2/39

Russian Aircraft since 1940


ALEXANDER, JEAN

Ex-library. Octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 555 pp., VG- (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems & soiling to boards, moderate cracking to gutters, bdg sloppy, light soiling to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals, library stamps & paste-ins), in d/w, VG- (moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light to moderate chipping, light tanning & soiling). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Putnam & Company 1975

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet aircraft air force military history

$120.00
3g2/42

Plato's Parmenides


MEINWALD, CONSTANCE C

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, grey card boards, grey cl spine lettered in purple, 192 pp., VG+ (light bruising, light soiling to pg edges), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light to moderate rubbing, some tanning, bookseller sticker to rear). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Plato classics ancient Greece Greek philosophy history criticism

$60.00
3g2/43

British Colonial Policy in the Mid-Victorian Age: South Africa, New Zealand, The West Indies


MORRELL, W P

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 507 pp., VG+ (light bruising, light soiling to pg edges, ownership inscription to front pastedown), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light to moderate fading & soiling, some tanning, price clipped). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: Britain British empire colony colonial law policy government politics political history

$65.00
3g3/23

The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History


PREVITE-ORTON, C W

Two volume set. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 643, 644-1202 pp., VG (light to moderate bruising, light soiling to boards, light soiling to pg edges, ownership inscription to front pastedown, dampwrinkling to pgs throughout, tanning), in d/w, VG- (light to moderate bruising, moderate soiling & rubbing, tanning). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1962

KEYWORDS: C W Previte-Orton Previte Orton medieval mediaeval history

$60.00
3g3/24

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World


ELLIS, MARKMAN & COULTON, RICHARD & MAUGER, MATTHEW

FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, brown card boards, spine lettered in brown, 326 pp., VG+ (light bruising, sl soiling to pg edges), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light to moderate soiling & rubbing, waterstained, bookseller sticker to rear). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2015

KEYWORDS: tea trade social cultural history food beverage

$60.00
3g3/25

The Waikato: A History of New Zealand's Greatest River


MOON, PAUL

Super octavo, illus card boards, 453 pp., VG (light bruising, wrinkling & waterstaining to pg edges & throughout), in d/w, VG (light bruising, light soiling & rubbing, waterstained, bookseller sticker to rear). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Atuanui Press 2018

KEYWORDS: Paul Moon early New Zealand local history Waikato

$60.00
3h2/37

The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640


HUNT, ARNOLD

Super octavo, illus light card covers, 414 pp., VG (light to moderate bruising, light soiling & rubbing to covers, sporadic annotations throughout). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: English 16th 17th century religion religious social preaching early modern history

$175.00
3h2/46

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations


WALZER, MICHAEL

FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 361 pp., VG (light bruising, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate bruising with moderate chipping, tanning). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 1978

KEYWORDS: military history war warfare philosophy

$100.00
3h3/33

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge


POPPER, KARL R

Super octavo, black cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 417 pp., VG- (light to moderate bruising, light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps, hole to corner of rfep), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate bruising with moderate chipping & tearing, moderate tanning, price clipped). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1965

KEYWORDS: Karl R Popper science history philosophy political

$65.00
3h3/34

Grandeur and Misery of Victory


CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES; ATKINSON, F M (transl.)

FIRST US EDITION. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 432 pp., VG (light to moderate bruising, light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light soiling to pg edges & eps), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate rubbing, moderate bruising with light to moderate chipping, light tanning, price clipped). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1930

KEYWORDS: Georges Clemenceau military history politics political

$275.00
3h3/36

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade


BAKER, SAMUEL W

Second edition. Octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, xx + 524 + 32 pp., VG (moderate bruising with light to moderate chipping, light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling & light foxing to pg edges & eps, light cracking to hinges, light to moderate cracking to central gutters, some underlining & soiling/foxing throughout, some pgs unopened). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1879

KEYWORDS: slave trade slavery Africa African history Sir Samuel W Baker

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