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$25.00
xxsrg181935

The Times History of the War Illustrated [Vol.10]


N/A [THE TIMES]

THIS VOLUME ONLY, tall quarto hardcover (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: The Times [n/d]

KEYWORDS: first world war ww1 one military history times history of the war illustrated

$25.00
xxsri181936

The Times History of the War Illustrated [Vol.15]


N/A [THE TIMES]

THIS VOLUME ONLY, tall quarto hardcover (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: The Times [n/d]

KEYWORDS: first world war ww1 one military history times history of the war illustrated

$25.00
xxsri181937

The Times History of the War Illustrated [Vol.12]


N/A [THE TIMES]

THIS VOLUME ONLY, tall quarto hardcover (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: The Times [n/d]

KEYWORDS: first world war ww1 one military history times history of the war illustrated

$25.00
xxsri181938

The Times History of the War Illustrated [Vol.11]


N/A [THE TIMES]

THIS VOLUME ONLY, tall quarto hardcover (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: The Times [n/d]

KEYWORDS: first world war ww1 one military history times history of the war illustrated

$25.00
xxsri181939

The Times History of the War Illustrated [Vol.5]


N/A [THE TIMES]

THIS VOLUME ONLY, tall quarto hardcover (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: The Times [n/d]

KEYWORDS: first world war ww1 one military history times history of the war illustrated

$15.00
xxflg183180

Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender


SHIRES, LINDA M. (ed.)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Routledge 1992

KEYWORDS: literary criticism history victorian era gender sexuality theory history politics cultural culture

$300.00
2a18q/15

The Principal Navigations: Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Years (10 Vol Set)


HAKLUYT, RICHARD & MASEFIELD, JOHN (Intro) & DERRICK, THOMAS (Illus) & RHYS, ERNEST (Intro)

10 VOL SET, octavo, light blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & ship motif to spines & boards, top page edges stained black, printed eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, occasional illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to some eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss & closed tearing, archival tape repairs to vol 1, light soiling, moderate tanning & fading to spines, flaps to some jackets discreetly reinforced)

PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1927-28

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society travel exploration voyages history maritime nautical adventures history discoveries England English explorers

$25.00
xxfkb183593

The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia 1961-1973


BALLARD, JACK S. et al & BERGER, CARL (Ed)

Quarto hardcover (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: Office of Air Force History 1977

KEYWORDS: aviation military history US American America United States air force history southeast asia

$17.50
xxfkb183594

Clear For Action: The Photographic Story of Modern Naval Combat 1898-1964


HAILEY, FOSTER & LANCELOT, MILTON & LANCELOT, CHARLES G. (Diagrams)

EX-LIBRARY, quarto 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: Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1964

KEYWORDS: military history navy naval combat photos photography history early 20th twentieth century maritime nautical

$25.00
xxfjk183686

Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods


AN EMIGRANT MECHANIC & CLARK, C. M. H. (Fore)

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: Melbourne University Press 1953

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian settlers convicts history labour labor history

$75.00
2f5a/26

Jane's Fighting Ships 1940


McMURTRIE, FRANCIS E. (Ed)

Oblong quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to boards, illus eps, 49pp ads + xxxiv + 527pp, Illus/photos, scruffy (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine & extrems, moderate soiling & staining to boards, light foxing to page edges & eps, heavy creasing to some prelims & advert pgs8-9 missing, some minor water damage to gutters, heavy cracking to rear gutter with ugly tape staining)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1940

KEYWORDS: military history maritime nautical navy naval navies Jane's fighting ships warships design engineering history

$60.00
2f5a/27

Jane's Fighting Ships 1964-65


BLACKMAN, RAYMOND V. B. (Ed)

Quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to boards, illus/printed front eps, 55pp ads + xxiv (total) + 459pp, illus/photos, VG- (spine cocked & moderately scuffed with paper residue from jacket, light bruising to extrems, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light cracking to gutters, binding sl loose) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy scuffing/closed tearing & loss to spine extrems with tape repairs, moderate staining to spine & edges, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low 1964

KEYWORDS: military history maritime nautical navy naval navies Jane's fighting ships warships design engineering history

$55.00
2f51b/27

In the Land of the Lion and Sun, or Modern Persia; Being Experiences of Life in Persia From 1866 to 1881 (Second Edition)


WILLS, C. J.

Sm octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 446pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, moderate staining to rear board, sl chafing & soiling to front board,moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Bowden 1893

KEYWORDS: travel literature exploration modern Persia history culture customs history

$17.50
xxfee184651

The Photograph


Oxford History of Art

CLARKE, GRAHAM

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: oxford history of art photograph photography media photos history image visual culture photo graham clarke

$22.50
xxgvd185245

Notes of a Russian Sniper: Vassili Zaitsev and the Battle of Stalingrad


ZAITSEV, VASSILI & OKRENT, NEIL (Ed) & GIVENS, DAVID et al (Trans)

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: Frontline Books 2009

KEYWORDS: military history Vassili Zaitsev Stalingrad military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Russian snipers Russia

$25.00
xxyba185281

Napoleon


LUDWIG, EMIL & PAUL, EDEN and CEDAR (Trans)

LACKS FEP, super octavo hardcover (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: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1935

KEYWORDS: history Napoleon Bonaparte military history biography memoir

$85.00
2g13b/16

Les Chefferies de Mare (Novelle - Caledonie) Etude D'Ethno-Histoire Confrontation des Traditions Autochtones et des Documents Europeens


DUBOIS, MARIE JOSEPH

TEXT IN FRENCH, super octavo, cream glossy light card covers, blue & black lettering to spine & front cover, xxiv + 815pp, VG+ (moderate tanning & curling/creasing to spine & covers, light soiling to page edges, sm ink stamp to title page)

PUBLISHER: Reproduction des Theses, Universite de Lille / Librairie Honore Champion 1977

KEYWORDS: text in French literature New Caledonia ethnic ethnicity ethno-history history indigenous anthropology traditions European documents

$40.00
2g13c/25

Trail Between Two Wars: The Story of a Smelter City


TURNBULL, ELSIE G.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 93pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & scuffing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine & rear cover, sl tanning to page edges, moderate tanning to pgs 38-39 from loosely enclosed newspaper article, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Elsie G Turnbull 1980

KEYWORDS: signed Elsie G Turnbull Canada history Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company Trail local history autobiography

$45.00
2g13e/23

The Silver Tussock: A History of Holme Station, Craigmore, Maungati, Cannington, Craigmore Downs, Motukaika, Upper Pareora and Alpine


EVANS, ALLISTER

EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 235pp, illus/photos, VG (spine cocked, usual library markings, moderate tape residue to board edges & eps, boards sl warped, light tanning to page edges, moderate staining to prelims, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, heavily sealed in protective plastic cover, VG (library markings/labels, light soiling & discolouration)

PUBLISHER: Allister Evans 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlements regional history settlers pioneers

$150.00
2i9a/63

The Grey Eight in Vietnam: The History of Eighth Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment November 1969-November 1970


CLUNIES-ROSS, Major A. et al (Ed) McKENNA, Private P. T. (Maps) & NICHOLSON, Private D. J. (Maps)

Quarto, grey textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 160pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, sl discolouration to boards, light tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Eighth Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment N/D (c.1970)

KEYWORDS: military history Vietnam war history Australia Australian 8th eighth battalion royal regiment the grey eight 8

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