Books - "history"
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1893-1962 Aoroa: Home in the North
Stapled card covers, oblong octavo (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: n/a
KEYWORDS: Alfred & Margaret Harding family history New Zealand history 19th century 20th century
Punishment Short of Death: A History of the Penal Settlement at Norfolk Island
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: Hyland House 1984
KEYWORDS: Norfolk Island penal settlement penal history 18th century history
Roman Britain
Heavy 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: Oxford University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Oxford History of England England classical history Rome Roman
Peebles High Street: A Photographic History
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: Peebles Civic Society 2014
KEYWORDS: Peebles history photography photographic history
The Savage Frontier: A History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars
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: Macmillan 1990
KEYWORDS: history anglo afghan wars war military history 20th century
The Land that Lost its Heroes: The Falklands, The Post-War and Alfonsin
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: Bloomsbury, 1987
KEYWORDS: falklands first edition post war alfonsin britain argentina military history margaret thatcher political history
The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
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: Allen Lane/Penguin Press 2002
KEYWORDS: whitehall politics britain cold war history joint intelligence committee war cabinet geopolitics margaret thatcher spy spying political history
Caves of Ice
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: Faber & Faber 1984
KEYWORDS: third volume of diary diaries memoir art history National Trust twentieth century 1946 1947 british history
VerledenLand: Archeologische opgravingen in Nederland
TEXT IN DUTCH, 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: Meulenhoff Informatief BV, Amsterdam 1981
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH archaeology soil geography nederlands dutch natural history early architecture settlement pre history
Chinese Watercolours
Large 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: Octopus Books Ltd 1978
KEYWORDS: chinese art china watercolours dynastic history calligraphy shanghai school hsieh-i hua niao hua history
Hanging On: Diaries, December 1960-August 1963
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: Flamingo 1994
KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury group literature history diaries journals history 60s sixties Frances Partridge
Other People: Diaries, September 1963-December 1966
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: Flamingo 1994
KEYWORDS: Bloomsbury group literature history diaries journals history 60s sixties Frances Partridge
Lawman: Brut
FIRST EDITION THUS. Super 8vo, black heavy card bds, gilt lettering to spine, xli + 485 pp., VG+ (v minor soiling to boards, sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to pg edges & sl foxing to eps), in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, sl foxing/soiling, light curling & creasing to edges & spine extrems, minor closed tear to upper spine extrem, light chipping to base of rear cover)
PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1992
KEYWORDS: Brut Britain British historu English history literature Old English Anglo Saxon The History of the British myth legend medieval
City at the Centre: A History of Palmerston North
Super 8vo, illus heavy card bds, maroon eps, frontispiece, 383 pp., illus/photos, NF (sl creasing/bruising to upper spine extrem & board edges, minor soiling to pg edges & pastedown) in NF (light bruising to rear spine hinge & upper spine extrem, v light scuffing to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Massey Universitu Press 2020
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Palmerston North social history cities towns
First and Strong: The Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regimental Story
4to, green heavy card bds, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt decoration to font board, illus title page, x + 359 pp., illus/photos, NF (v sl scuffing to boards, light bruising to board extrems & spine extrems) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing/creasing & bruising to spine extrems & board extrems, in platic wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Published with the assistance of the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military military history army Wellington Taranaki regiment history World War 1 World War 2
Billiards at Half Past Nine
Paperback (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: John Calder (A Jupiter Book) 1961
KEYWORDS: Heinrich Boll German Germany German history German guilt social history histoy fiction literature
A Nineteenth-Century Childhood
Sm 8vo 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: Martin Secker 1929
KEYWORDS: 19th century social history childhood memoir autobiography history literature
The Festival Etc
8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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: Longmans, Green and Co 1937
KEYWORDS: essays history literarture social history
Utu: The Story of the Film
Imp 8vo stapled light wrappers (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: Huia Publications 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand film cinema history Maori social history
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
8vo 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: Vintage Books 1996
KEYWORDS: essays literary history bookish library card catalog social history