Books - "history"
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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
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
The Mechanical Baby - A Popular History of the Theory and Practice of Child Raising
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
Thames Sacred River
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
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)
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
The American Leonardo - A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money
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
The Tragic Story of J. J. Meikle : Injustice According to Law - The Meikle Case : Seven Years Hard
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
Law in War - Freedom and Restriction iin Australia During the Great War
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
Pathfinders - A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW
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
The Lyalldale Waltz - A light-hearted look at rural life about South Canterbury over the past seventy years
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
The True Story of the Novel
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
A Theatre in the House - The Carey's Globe
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
A Series of Thirty Engravings in Outline, From the Elgin Marbles
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
The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001
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
Goya
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
Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions
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
Provand's Lordship and Old Glasgow
Glasgow Museums
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
Walker, R.N.: The story of Captain Frederic John Walker, C.B., D.S.O. and three Bars, R.N.
Cadet Edition
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
F1 Retro 1980
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
TALES OF AKAROA 1940-1990
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
Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East 1576-1626
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