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$25.00
os3/12

Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History


ISAACS, JENNIFER (Compiled & Ed)

Folio 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: Lansdowne Press 1987

KEYWORDS: history Australia Australian indigenous people Aborigine Aboriginal ancient history anthropology antiquity

$40.00
1i19a/9

Exploring Southeast Asia's Economic Past (AEHR XXXI: 1 March 1991)


SNOOKS, G D (Ed) & REID, A J S (Ed) & PINCUS, J J (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine & covers, 103pp, VG (moderate creasing & chafing/soiling to spine & covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate pencil underlining & highlighting to text)

PUBLISHER: Australian Economic History Review 1991

KEYWORDS: Australian Economic History Review past issues March 1991 southeast Asia economic history economics Thailand Vietnam French empire

$25.00
xxa3eg171973

P-47 Thunderbolt


HESS, WILLIAM N

Imperial 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: Motorbooks 1994

KEYWORDS: military history aviation p-47 thunderbolt aircraft fighter planes history design development engineering

$20.00
xxzek172313

A Naturalist and a Gentleman; Charles Traill of Ulva, 1826-1891; A note on his life and extracts from some of his letters


NATUSCH, SHEILA (TRAILL)

Octavo illus. spiral bound light card covers (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: Nestegg 1999

KEYWORDS: sheila natusch charles traill ulva island stewart new zealand naturalist natural history biography letters extracts history

$18.50
xxe3ab172400

Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown


VICTOR G and BRETT DE BARY NEE

Tidy ex-library- possibly unread, 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: Pantheon Books / Random House 1973

KEYWORDS: history America US American Chinatown China Town social history

$18.50
xxe3ae172490

Sacred Rage: The Crusade of Modern Islam


WRIGHT, ROBIN

FIRST EDITION, 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: Andre Deutsch 1986

KEYWORDS: first editions history Islam extremism terrorism modern history conflict

$65.00
1j42b/10

Police Science, 1964-1984: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography


BAILEY, WILLIAM G

Very tidy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 277pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl adhesive residue to boards)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1986

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues police science history crime history

$20.00
xxrnf173052

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin


DE JONGE, ALEX

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: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan 1982

KEYWORDS: Grigorii Rasputin tthe Mad Monk biographies memoir Russia Russian Soviet history court courtiers history

$25.00
xxrlh173127

Russian Autocrats from Ivan the Great to the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1985


EGAN, DAVID R and MELINDA A

Tidy ex-library- possibly unread, 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: The Scarecrow Press 1987

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Russia Russian Soviet history autocrats information resources history historical

$450.00
1n25a/18

An Atlas of Modern Geography


BUTLER, SAMUEL

Octavo, half faux leather bound marbled boards- rebound, title plate with black lettering to front board, xxiii maps- all present + 32pp prefatory note & index to rear, VG (modern/rebound spine & eps, heavy chafing & surface loss to board extrems & boards, heavy tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, purple ink remnants & pencil to prelims & terminals- prev. owner, bookbinder's ink stamp to rear pastedown, NZ hand drawn on to map xxiii in pencil, considerable pencil annotation to back of map xxiii also, occasional light staining/foxing to some maps throughout)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman N/D (c.1826)

KEYWORDS: Samuel Butler maps geography cartography history history historical atlases

$19.50
xxrjg193373

The Zulu War; A Pictorial History


BARTHORP, MICHAEL

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: Blandford Press 1987

KEYWORDS: michael barthorp zulu war pictorial history zululand south africa boer britain british empire imperialism colonialism military history combat warfare photo illustrated

$40.00
1r12a/16

Dunedin; Early Photographs


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

Ex-library; Oblong octavo, illus light card covers with plastic adhesive protective covers, spine reinforced with twine & black tape (originally spiral bound - now removed), unpaginated, illus. 20 black & white photo plates, VG- (light rubbing/soiling & moderately heavy sun-fading/tanning to covers, moderate creasing to cover & some page corners, light soiling/discolouration throughout including to page edges & plates, light dampstaining to top fore-edge impacting most plates, 4x7cm section cut-out of final blank page, usual library markings/stamps/barcodes to covers, text block, prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1985

KEYWORDS: ex-library hardwicke knight dunedin early photographs photographic photography photos history otago south island new zealand early settler colonial pictorial history

$15.00
xxrgg193494

The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive


SANDS, PHILIPPE

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2020

KEYWORDS: philippe sands ratline history twentieth century second world war two ww2 wwii military history postwar otto freiherr ss national socialism nazi germany

$30.00
xxrgi193512

Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household


TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN

FIRST US EDITION; 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: Basic Books 2018

KEYWORDS: first edition adrian tinniswood britain british england english monarchy servant servants staff domestic history royals royalty history ,

$140.00
1r34a/10

The Looting of Nicaragua


DE NOGALES, RAFAEL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 251pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading & soiling to spine, moderate chafing & fading to front board, 2cm closed tear- mended- to front board, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page & rear ep, moderate foxing thorughout, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Wright & Brown N/D (c.1920s?)

KEYWORDS: first editions literature Nicaragua Rafael de Nogales Latin South America history politics political history

$24.50
xxrad193903

Out of Poland; When the best revenge is to have survived


HARRISON, JENNY

SIGNED BY AUTHOR; 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: Lamplighter Press 2017

KEYWORDS: jenny harrison siegel family history histories new zealand migrants immigrants holocaust survival survivors jewish poland polish history world war two second wwii 2

$15.00
xxpha194070

SAS Undercover Operations: From World War II to Afghanistan


RYAN, MIKE

Imperial 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: Amber Books 2019

KEYWORDS: sas British secret services elite military history history undercover operations special air service

$15.00
xxpha194071

SAS Rescue Missions: From the Jungles of Malaysia to the Iranian Embassy Siege


DAVIES, BARRY

Imperial 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: Amber Books 2019

KEYWORDS: rescue missions sas British secret services elite military history history special air service

$90.00
1t1a/3

With Quakers in France


STEPHENS, D OWEN

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 336pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine, light discolouration & wrinkling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedownlight foxing to prelims & terminals, sporadic light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: C W Daniel 1921

KEYWORDS: first editions France French history diaries journals quakers communities history

$25.00
xxqea194527

The Garden of Ideas: Four Centuries of Australian Style


AITKEN, RICHARD

Lg quarto 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: The Miegunyah Press 2011

KEYWORDS: gardening history botany horticulture history culture

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