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$25.00
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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic


BRONFEN, ELISABETH

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: Routledge 1992

KEYWORDS: art history aesthetics femininity women's history women literary criticism

$18.50
xxsgc166488

The Mechanical Baby - A Popular History of the Theory and Practice of Child Raising


BEEKMAN, DANIEL

Super octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at east 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: Dobson Books 1979

KEYWORDS: child raising parenting children family history social history

$19.50
xxskk166916

Thames Sacred River


ACKROYD, PETER

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in half height decorative 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2007

KEYWORDS: history geography natural history thames travel nature

$50.00
1d30b/9

The Story of the Sri Lankans (A Small People With a Great History of Over 2500 Years From the Tiny Island in the Indian Ocean)


MENDIS, Dr. OLGA

Imperial octavo, cream heavy card boards, brown title patch to spine, illus prelims, xxix + 576pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, prev. bookseller's price ink stamp to fep, some subtle personal ink & white-out corrections by prev. owner to text sporadically throughout- mostly to correct typos) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & sun fading to spine & edges, light soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Sridevi Publication 1998

KEYWORDS: Sri Lanka history illustrated Indian Ocean islands anthropology culture antiquity ancient history

$20.00
xxkze167838

The American Leonardo - A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money


BREWER, JOHN

Super octavo, hardcover (Near FINE) 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford 2009

KEYWORDS: biography history art history

$55.00
1i45e/18

The Tragic Story of J. J. Meikle : Injustice According to Law - The Meikle Case : Seven Years Hard


n.a.

Super octavo, illus light card covers, blue and brown lettering to front cover, frontispiece of Meikle, 52pp, illus - folding map to rear, VG+ (1cm damp staining to front cover, sl. bruising to corners)

PUBLISHER: Wright & Carman 1904

KEYWORDS: john james meikle case new zealand nz history justice courts legal family history

$20.00
xxhlc168509

Law in War - Freedom and Restriction iin Australia During the Great War


BOND, CATHERINE

Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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: Newsouth 2020

KEYWORDS: australia history war legal history military political

$25.00
xxhgd168523

Pathfinders - A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW


BENNETT, MICHAEL

Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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: NewSouth 2020

KEYWORDS: australia aus history trackers tracking aboriginals nsw new south wales indigenous history

$35.00
xxhcd168544

The Lyalldale Waltz - A light-hearted look at rural life about South Canterbury over the past seventy years


THOMPSON, ISAAC M.

INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Kopje 1975

KEYWORDS: south canterbury history nz new zealand local history pareora estate farming

$12.00
xxfdk168810

The True Story of the Novel


DOODY, MARGARET ANNE

Super octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Fontana/HarperCollins 1998

KEYWORDS: literature history novels evolution antiquity ancient history

$14.00
xxded169791

A Theatre in the House - The Carey's Globe


CAREY, ROSALIE

Super octavo softcover (nr FINE); 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: University of Otago Press 1999

KEYWORDS: nz history otago dunedin globe theatre history carey family

$350.00
1i1a/29

A Series of Thirty Engravings in Outline, From the Elgin Marbles


STEWART & HAYDON

Oblong quarto, blue light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & scuffing to cover edges & spine, light staining, heavy loss to bottom corners of rear pages - 13cm x 3cm sections - engravings still good, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: W. T. Robinson 1826

KEYWORDS: British Museum Elgin marbles engravings Stewart Haydon history antiquity ancient history Greece Greek drawings art

$25.00
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The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001


ROBIN, LIBBY

Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) in d/w (nr FINE); 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: Melbourne University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: aus australia ornithology birds history zoology natural history

$28.50
xxfbd170975

Goya


HUGHES, ROBERT [GOYA, FRANCISCO]

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: Borzoi / Alfred A Knopf 2004

KEYWORDS: francisco goya spain spanish art painting history inquisition art history

$28.50
xxfbc170984

Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions


MARSHALL, KIMBERLY (ed.)

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: Northeastern University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: history music history women's studies musicology ethnography ethnomusicology classics

$15.00
xxfbb170991

Provand's Lordship and Old Glasgow


Glasgow Museums

AVENELL, HELEN

oblong 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: Glasgow City Council 2004

KEYWORDS: glasgow scotland scottish history city history provand's lordship

$15.00
xxhtd171017

Walker, R.N.: The story of Captain Frederic John Walker, C.B., D.S.O. and three Bars, R.N.


Cadet Edition

ROBERTSON, TERENCE

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: Evans Brothers 1958

KEYWORDS: children's military history naval history ww2 wwii world war two sailing nautical

$100.00
1w9d/5

F1 Retro 1980


HUGHES, MARK

Quarto, green cloth boards, green & silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt 80 to front board, 280pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Motor Sport Magazine 2017

KEYWORDS: formula one 1 f1 history 1980s eighties illustrated history photos motorsport motor car racing

$15.00
xxfpg171676

TALES OF AKAROA 1940-1990


N/A

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: Akaroa 1990 Community Committee 1990

KEYWORDS: akaroa new zealand banks peninsula sailing fishing history oral history

$55.00
1w12a/28

Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East 1576-1626


BARBOUR, RICHMOND

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 238pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, v sl foxing to page edges & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: trade history India England Indian English illustrated business drama theatre history

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