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$9.50
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Victorious 80s: A Celebration of New Zealand Cricket 1980-87


DEVLIN, PETER

Imperial 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: Moa Publications 1987

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Peter Devlin New Zealand sporting history

$9.50
xxkqb56154

Denis Compton's Annual 1952


COMPTON, DENIS

Imperial 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co 1952

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket 1952 Denis Compton annual anecdotes history anthology

$9.50
xxkqb56160

The Boundary Book: A Lord's Taverners' Miscellany of Cricket


FREWIN, LESLIE (Ed)

Super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1963

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Lord's Taverners Leslie Frewin anthology cricket writing essays anecdotes history cartoons literature

$9.50
xxkqc56162

The Illustrated History of Test Cricket: The First Century


Introduced by Richie Benaud

TYLER, MARTIN (Ed)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Marshall Cavendish Books 1977

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Martin Tyler Richie Benaud history photographs

$10.00
xxkqc56165

The Illustrated History of the Test Match


ARNOLD, PETER & WYNNE-THOMAS, PETER

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson 1988

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Peter Wynne Thomas Peter Arnold test match history pictorial record photographs

$10.00
xxkqc56166

My World of Cricket


CHAPPELL, GREG

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jack Pollard 1973

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Greg Chappell autobiography history pictorial record photographs techniques

$12.00
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The Illustrated History of the Test Match


Foreword by Richie Benaud

ARNOLD, PETER & WYNNE-THOMAS, PETER

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson 1988

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Peter Wynne Thomas Peter Arnold test match history pictorial record

$12.00
xxkqc56169

Starting with Grace: A Pictorial Celebration of Cricket 1864-1986


WILLIS, BOB & MURPHY, PATRICK

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Stanley Hall/Century Hutchinson 1986

KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Bob Willis Patrick Murphy pictorial history photographs

$9.50
xxkqd56205

They Made Cricket


MARTINEAU, G. D.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); 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: Museum Press 1965

KEYWORDS: specials cricket sport Norman Cutler history players anecdotes umpires groundsmen

$13.50
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On Active Service: New Zealand at War


WOLFE, RICHARD

Ex-library Oblong imperial octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, black eps, frontispiece, 192pp, illus, VG+ (bruising & rubbing to lower board edges) in d/w, VG+ (library labels to rear)

PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls 2004

KEYWORDS: Richard Wolfe New Zealand wars South African war first second world war WWI WWII one two history military service peacekeeping

$20.00
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New Zealand Working People 1890-1990


ELDRED-GRIGG, STEVAN

Quarto, illus light card covers with red lettering to spine & front cover, 251pp, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to covers, light tanning to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 1990

KEYWORDS: Stevan Eldred-Grigg New Zealand history workers

$47.50
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The Case Against Japan: A Concise Survey of the Historical Antecedents of the Present Far Eastern Imbroglio


SHEPHERD, CHARLES H.

First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine, 224pp, VG (soiling to board upper edges, owner's name in ink to fep, foxing to page edges), in d/w, VG (soiling, tanning to spine, bruising with loss to spine extrems & corners, bruising to edges)

PUBLISHER: Jarrolds Publishers 1939

KEYWORDS: first edition Charles H Shepherd history Japan Sino-Japanese conflict aggression Korea China

$40.00
2g14/9

The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature far from the Travellers' Track in the Land of the Rising Sun


BROWNELL, CLARENCE LUDLOW

First edition, Colonial library issue, octavo, blue cloth boards with blind lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 302pp + 41pp Methuen catalogue, illus, VG- (soiling to boards, bruising to spine extrems, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, browning to eps, foxing, 1cm tear to pages 198/199 fore-edges when separating)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1902

KEYWORDS: first edition colonial library issue Clarence Ludlow Brownell Japan history autobiography memoir culture

$33.50
2g14/12

Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000


BELICH, JAMES

First edition, black cloth boards with white lettering to spine, 606pp, nr fine (v slight tanning to page edges), in d/w, VG+ (fading to spine, ding to spine/front fold, label residue stain to rear)

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane Penguin 2001

KEYWORDS: first edition James Belich New Zealand history

$50.00
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The Indian Annual Register; An Annual Digest of Public Affairs of India; Recording the Nation's Activities each year in matters Political, Economic, Industrial, Educational, Social Etc.


being issued in 2 six-monthly volumes, volume II July-Dec. 1939

MITRA, NRIPENDRA NATH (ed)

this volume only, super octavo, green cloth boards with green buckram to spine, gilt lettering, rule and device to spine, xix + 504pp, VG (light wear and soiling to boards, light foxing to eps and page edges, spine v slightly loose)

PUBLISHER: The Annual Register Office 1939

KEYWORDS: nripendra nath mitra indian annual register sociology census history india public affairs

$25.00
2g14/42

Rail Tracks and Chimney Stacks


RAW, JUNE

Super octavo, illus light card stapled wrappers, 64pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: West Auckland Historical Society 1998

KEYWORDS: June Raw New Zealand West Auckland New Lynn memoir history autobiography railways trains

$60.00
2g15/14

New Zealand Music Charts 1966 to 1996; Singles


SCAPOLO, DEAN (ed)

quarto, illus light card covers, 362pp, VG+

PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1997

KEYWORDS: new zealand arts music history singles charts dean scapolo

$16.50
2g15/16

Rail; The Great New Zealand Adventure


SINCLAIR, ROY

quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, x + 151pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear, ink owner's details to fep, ink marking to lower page edges) in VG+ d/w (v light wear and fading)

PUBLISHER: Grantham House 1987

KEYWORDS: new zealand history trains railways roy sinclair transport

$25.00
2g15/18

Names and Places in Southern New Zealand


GRIFFITHS, GEORGE

super octavo, illus light card covers, 103pp, illus, VG (light wear and creasing to covers, v light soiling to page edges, previous owners details in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1990

KEYWORDS: george griffiths geography place names new zealand history southland otago

$195.00
2g15/22

Report on The Mining Industry in New Zealand


being papers laid before Parliament during the session of 1886

LARNACH, W.J.M. (ed)

original binding, octavo, rust buckram boards with gilt lettering and blind-stamped device to spine, blind rule to both boards and spine, ii + 334pp, illus including VG folding tables (creasing and small closed tears to extremities), VG (wear and soiling to boards, rear lower corner missing, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to eps and page edges)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Government Printer 1887

KEYWORDS: w.j.m. larnach new zealand history mining industry engineering

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