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$27.50
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Tibet: Land of Snows


TUCCI, GIUSEPPE & DRIVER, J E STAPLETON (Trans)

Quarto hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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 & IBH Publishing Co 1967

KEYWORDS: Tibet history culture heritage art history

$20.00
xxapa213707

Memories of a Bygone Era


ROBERTSON, MAIDIE

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: Marjorie Hall (Maidie) Robertson 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers early settlers family history Phillips Robertson

$60.00
1w48a/14

Salt and Civilization


ADSHEAD, S A M

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 417pp, VG (spine cocked, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, strip of moderate tanning to half title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing/wrinkling & peeling to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling, 1cm closed tear to top edge of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: history culture salt commodities history historical antiquity

$35.00
xxsek215002

The Facts of Life


PORTER, ROY & HALL, LESLEY

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: Yale University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: Great Britain British history sex sexual social history

$20.00
xxsib215249

A Bright & Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia


MOYAL, ANN

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: William Collins 1986

KEYWORDS: colonial Australia history naturalists botany botanists scientists history

$40.00
ak5/9/18

Captain William Crush Daldy 1816-1903


DUGDALE, LESLEY N

Octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 236pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning/fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Heritage Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Captain William Crush Daldy history biography biographies memoir history New Zealand early settlers pioneers

$300.00
ak5/15/8

The Rooper Story


ROOPER, JOHN ROYDON (Compiled by)

NOTE FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, xix + 290pp, illus/folding charts, VG (light to moderate fading & warping to spine, sl soiling to front board, moderate staining to rear board, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: S Straker & Sons (Printer) 1958

KEYWORDS: family history Rooper history genealogy

$20.00
xxcoe216426

Te Puea: A Life


KING, 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: Raupo / Penguin 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history Te Puea Herangi biography biographies memoir history Michael King

$25.00
xxdjg216850

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles


HOGG, IAN V & WEEKS, JOHN

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: New Burlington Books 1980

KEYWORDS: military history vehicles armoured armored tanks history armed forces

$50.00
ak5/3a/4

At the Gateway of the Day Fiji Methodist Centenary Souvenir 1835-1935


N/A

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, blank spine- white lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 78pp, illus, ephemera loosely enclosed, G+ (heavy creasing & scuffing/soiling to covers, heavy peeling to flaps, complete crack to rear gutter, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals, heavy creasing & chipping/loss with loss to base of prelims, heavy rusting & separation to staples at front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia 1935

KEYWORDS: pasifika pacific islands Fiji religion religious history methodist church methodism history centenary centennial

$245.00
2g40/34

Adidas: The Story as Told by Those Who Have Lived and Are Living It


COOPER, KEITH

COMPLETE! INCLUDES 'SHOE BOX' STYLE PRESENTATION BOX & TWO LOOSELY ENCLOSED POSTERS, quarto, black leatherette heavy boards, white adidas stripes to spine & boards, gilt lettering to front board, illus eps, 643pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in presentation box, VG- (heavy scuffing to extrems, heavy cracking/tearing to joins/corners, one flap potentially removed, posters inside are in great condition though)

PUBLISHER: Adidas 2011

KEYWORDS: sport history footwear Adidas sports shoes history biography

$15.00
xxkbe218574

Enthusiams


GIROUARD, MARK

Tidy ex-library 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: Frances Lincoln 2011

KEYWORDS: Mark Girouard literary criticism theory biography history of literature essays social history

$22.50
xx69pol218711

Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire


WATERFIELD, ROBIN

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: Oxford University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: history war history Alexander the Great empires

$36.00
xxkka218803

New Zealand in the Second World War Official History: Women at War


WAR HISTORY BRANCH

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: War History Branch

KEYWORDS: new zealand military history world war two wwii women in wartime female history

$25.00
xxkob218859

The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson


SMILES, SAMUEL & MARE, ERIC DE

IN SLIPCASE imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in slipcase (VG - cracking at bottom edge); 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 Folio Society 1975

KEYWORDS: George and Robert Stephenson historical biography railway history trains steam engines locomotive engineering history transport illustrated Folio society

$40.00
2w8/30

Point 175: The Battle of Sunday of the Dead


MURPHY, W E

Imperial octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to covers, printed inside covers/eps, 32pp, illus/photos, VG (light tanning & foxing to front cover, moderate foxing to rear cover, light rubbing/curling & foxing to cover edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light creasing/folding to top corners of pages)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1954

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 New Zealand official history pamphlets histories series

$40.00
2w8/31

Guns Against Tanks: L Troop, 33rd Battery, 7th New Zealand Anti-Tank Regiment in Libya, 23 November 1941


SMITH, E H

Imperial octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to covers, printed inside covers/eps, 32pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light creasing to rear cover bottom corner & page corners, minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1948

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 New Zealand official history pamphlets histories series

$40.00
2w8/32

Coastwatchers


HALL, D O W

Imperial octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to covers, printed inside covers/eps, 32pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing to cover edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1951

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 New Zealand official history pamphlets histories series

$40.00
2w8/33

The Assault on Rabaul: Operations by the Royal New Zealand Air Force December 1943 - May 1944


ROSS, J M S

Imperial octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to covers, printed inside covers/eps, 32pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing to edges, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1949

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 New Zealand official history pamphlets histories series

$40.00
2w8/34

New Zealanders in the Battle of Britain


FAIRCLOTH, N W

Imperial octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to covers, printed inside covers/eps, 32pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate tanning & foxing to covers, light creasing to cover edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm markings in pencil to title page)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1950

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 New Zealand official history pamphlets histories series battle of Britain

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