Books - "history"
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Chess: The History of a Game
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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: BT Batsford 1985
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Richard Eales chess history game sport origins plays players
The Finger of God in the Disruption; Scottish Principles and New Zealand Realities 1843-1993
Octavo softcover stapled 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand 1993
KEYWORDS: new zealand scottish history religion presbyterian peter matheson disruption specials
Anatomy of a Medical School: A History of Medicine at the University of Otago 1875-2000
Imperial octavo, dark blue coth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, 406pp, illlus, VG+ (v slight fading to lower edge front board - otherwise would be as new) in VG+ d/w (v slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Dorothy Page New Zealand Dunedin Otago University Medical School history medicine
A Prospect of Love
first edition hardback octavo with 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: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
KEYWORDS: specials mavis budd autobiography england family history
High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
paperback 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: Princeton University Press
KEYWORDS: specials religion sherpa buddhism culture politics history sherry ortner anthropology nepal ethnography
Mythopoesis: Mythic Patterns in the Literary Classics
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: Wayne State University Press
KEYWORDS: specials literature classics harry slochower psychoanalysis myth history culture
An Introduction to Contemporary History
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: Pelican Books
KEYWORDS: specials geoffrey barraclough history science politics arts
The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture
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
KEYWORDS: specials physics science fritjof capra medicine psychology politics history
Luther and Lutherdom: Volume 1 Part 1
Ex library, super octavo, maroon buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, Li + 465pp, VG (usual library stamps, labels & markings, fading & rubbing to boards, writing in ink to fep, soiling & fading to front and rear eps, foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Torch Press 1917
KEYWORDS: Heinrich Denifle Volz Luther Lutherdom religion theology history Christianity Protestantism
Lord Roberts of Kandahar V. C: The Life of a Great Soldier
First edition 2nd impression, octavo, beautifully illustrated brown boards & spine with red & black lettering with elaborate gilt & red embossed design, frontispiece with tissue protector, 237pp + iii pp adverts + 28pp catalogues, illus, VG+ (rubbing & bruising to spine extrems and board corners, tanning to prelims & eps, heavy foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: SW Partridge & Co 1900
KEYWORDS: first edition 2nd impression Walter Jerrold Lord Roberts of Kandahar biography military history
The Coastline of England & Wales
first edition hardback super octavo, worn d/w with some tears + stains (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: Cambridge
KEYWORDS: specials coastlines england wales dudley stamp patrick abercrombie photography maps history nature
The Poetry of T.S. Eliot
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: Routledge
KEYWORDS: specials poetry literature t.s. eliot criticism history english d.e.s. maxwell
Our People Our Century 1900-2000
hardback quarto with 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: Hodder Moa Beckett
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history paul smith louise callan culture arts television
Early Days in the Adirondacks: The Photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard
first edition paperback quarto (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: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
KEYWORDS: specials photography adirondacks seneca ray stoddard jeanne winston adler america history
The British Competition Car
first edition, illus. hardback octavo with d/w, torn + worn d/w otherwise (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: Batsford
KEYWORDS: specials history racing cars transport racing britain illustrated photography cyril posthumus
A Reader's Guide to The Contemporary English Novel
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: Thames and Hudson
KEYWORDS: specials frederick karl literary theory history
Fillets of Plaice
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: Fontana Collins 1973
KEYWORDS: specials fiction novel literature Gerald Durrell humour memoir animals natural history
The Marines Were There: The Story of the Royal Marines in the Second World War
first edition, hardback octavo, lacks d/w, some foxing (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: Putnam
KEYWORDS: specials marines naval history warfare war robert bruce lockhart
Mauretania: Landfalls and Departures of Twenty-Five Years
Super octavo, blue heavy card boards with dark blue cloth spine with silver lettering, frontispiece, 332pp, illus, nr fine (sticker residue to front pastedown) in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1988
KEYWORDS: Humfrey Jordan John Shaum Mauretania shipping ocean liner history maritime voyages
New Zealand! New Zealand! In Praise of Kiwiana
Oblong quarto, illustrated light card covers, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 162pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1989
KEYWORDS: Stephen Barnett Richard Wolfe New Zealand history culture Kiwiana Buzzy Bee Weetbix hokey pokey Chesdale Creamota jandals vegemite rinso customs