Books - "history"
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: OUP 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Carroll Smith-Rosenberg history gender sexual conduct essays women's studies cultural studies male-female relations sex ritual society America
Things that must not be Forgotten; a childhood in wartime China
softcover super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Flamingo 2001
KEYWORDS: autobiography china history michael david kwan specials
Postcards from South Africa
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Double Storey 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Rayda Jacobs short stories South Africa fiction autobiography history literature
Carnivorous Plants
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Carnivor & Insectivor Plants 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Gordon Cheers plants natural history botany reference
The Reed Fields Guide to New Zealand Native Trees
octavo, illus heavy card boards (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: Reed Books 2004
KEYWORDS: specials J T Salmon New Zealand natural history trees native trees nature plants reference guide
The Reed Field Guide to New Zealand Wildlife
octavo, illus heavy card boards (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: Reed Books 1994
KEYWORDS: specials Geoff Moon New Zealand natural history trees native wildlife animals reference guide flora fauna marine creatures
Nelson College for Girls: Fifty Years 1883-1933
Imperial octavo, illus heavy card boards, dark blue cloth spine, illus, fold-out 1932 b&w school photograph (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: A G Betts & Son (1933?)
KEYWORDS: specials Nelson College for Girls education school history New Zealand Nelson jubilee
Mostly Toilers, These
Signed by author, privately published, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, v + 141pp, illus VG+ (two 2cm sellotape remainder marks to front board)
PUBLISHER: Privately published 1993
KEYWORDS: Geofrey Charles Buckley New Zealand history memoir Buckleys of Buckley Hall Lancashire Auckland
Butterflies of New Zealand
Association Copy, copy of Graeme Ramsay, with handwritten letter to him from the author loosely enclosed, Imperial octavo, illus heavy white card covers with black lettering to spine & front cover, 48pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, slight fading to card extrems, slight foxing to front card, slight soiling to rear board) in VG+ d/w (some fading & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1970
KEYWORDS: W B R Laidlaw New Zealand butterflies entomology insects natural history lepidoptera reference
New Zealand Mollusca: Marine Land and Freshwater Shells
First edition, quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xiv + 500pp, illus, VG+ (v slight foxing to lower page edges, previous owner's catalogue number in pen to front) in VG+ d/w (soiling & folding to lower rear flap edge, v slight spotting to front)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1979
KEYWORDS: Arthur William Baden Powell mollusc land marine freshwater shells New Zealand reference flora fauna science natural history
Saga in Sepia
The Shailer Collection in the Palmerston North Public Library
Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards 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: Dunmore Press 1979
KEYWORDS: specials Valerie Smith Palmerston North public library centenary Shailer photographs photography history New Zealand
The Political and Social Ideas of Jules Verne
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards, frontispiece, illus 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: Thames & Hudson 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Jean Chesneaux Jules Verne biography France French politics history social theory first edition
Discovering the Camargue
First edition, octavo, black cloth boards in plastic covered 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: Hutchinson & Co 1960
KEYWORDS: specials Monica Krippner Camargue France Rhone travel history culture first edition
The Person of Christ in New Testament Teaching
Octavo, dark blue boards 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: MacMillan & Co 1963
KEYWORDS: specials Vincent Taylor relition christianity bible new testamentn theology Jesus history doctrinal teaching
European Jungle
first edition, octavo, light green cloth boards with red lettering to spine and red border to boards (VG+) in plastic protected d/w (G-) half of back missing & front all present but torn in half; 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: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1939
KEYWORDS: specials F Yeats-Brown Europe history Russia Italy Germany Balkans 1930s first edition
The Editorials of David Lawrence in six volumes
six volume set, limited numbered edition, small quarto, blue cloth boards with blue faux leather to spine, silver lettering and rule to front board and spine, frontispiece, (I) xxxviii + 669pp (II) xxvii + 458pp (III) xxiii + 320pp (IV) xxvii + 501pp (V) xxxi + 472pp (VI) xxxviii + 473pp, all volumes illus, all volumes VG+ (light wear, v light soiling to boards, some marks to page edges)
PUBLISHER: U.S. News & World Report 1970
KEYWORDS: journalism history david lawrence u.s. news world report politics economics editorials
The Causes for the Loss of the Battle of Waterloo
inscribed and signed by author, octavo, heavy card boards with brown cloth to spine, brown label and black lettering to spine, vi + 152pp, VG (wear to extremities esp. bruised corners and light soiling to boards, light foxing to eps and page edges, v light tanning)
PUBLISHER: privately printed 1923
KEYWORDS: history battle of waterloo s.g. rosenbaum signed napoleon
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Randolph Stow fiction autobiography Australia history novel
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Flamingo 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Doris Lessing Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia Africa history culture memoir reportage
Wish You Were Here; England on Sea
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PUBLISHER: Sceptre 2011
KEYWORDS: travis elborough sociology english culture history humour specials