Books - "history"
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New Zealand's First Talkies
Early film-making in Otago and Southland 1896-1939
Softcover 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: Otago Heritage Books 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Simon Price New Zealand history Otago Southland film film-making pre-war to interwar period
Warm Milk and Apples
Softcover 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: The Copy Press 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Evered H. Goodall New Zealand biography memoir personal history
Greek Literature in Translation
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 Books Ltd 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Grant history Greek literature classical studies prose poetry lterary analysis
The Dramatic Experience
A Guide to the Reading of Plays
Softcover 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: Cambridge University Press 1980
KEYWORDS: specials J.L. Styan drama theatre plays guide introduction theatrical history dramatic interpretation
Political and Social Life in the Great Age of Athens
Softcover imperial 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: The Open University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: specials John Ferguson Kitty Chisholm history politics social structures Athens ancient Greece anthology
A History of the Roman World AD138 to 337
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: University Paperback 1969
KEYWORDS: specials H.M.D. Parker ancient history classical studies ancient Rome Roman development societal structure
Democracy in the Ancient World
ex-library Hardcover super octavo (VG-) lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1927
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials T.R. Glover ancient history politics sociology political science Homeric world Ancient Rome Roman Republic
Essays on Four Plays of Euripides
Andromache; Helen; Heracles; Orestes
ex-library Hardcover super octavo (VG-) lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1905
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials T.R. Glover ancient history essays plays drama literature literary analysis
Dunedin's Matchbox Railway
Softcover imperial 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: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Incorporated 1986
KEYWORDS: specials J.A. Dangerfield New Zealand train transport locomotive railway Dunedin history
British Railway Accidents of the Twentieth Century
First edition Hardcover super octavo (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: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1967
KEYWORDS: first edition specials J.A.B. Hamilton British rilways trains transport railway accidents train disasters twentieth century history
Social Values in Classical Athens
Softcover 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: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1976
KEYWORDS: specials N.R.E. Fisher ancient history classical studies societal values social hierarchy culture anthropology
Our Hellenic Heritage
Vol. II Part III. Athens - Her Splendour and Her Fall
Hardcover octavo (VG) lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macmilland and Co., Limited 1922
KEYWORDS: specials H.R. James ancient history classical studies Athens
The Campaigns of Alexander
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 Books Ltd
KEYWORDS: specials Arrian Aubrey de Selincourt ancient history Alexander Greek campaigns conquests classical studies
The Route of the Coastal Pacific Express
Quarto, illus light card covers, printed eps, 64pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: IPL Books Wellington 1989
KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Churchman trains transport New Zealand South Island Coastal Pacific pictorial photographic history
North British Steam Locomotives built 1857-1956 for Railways Oversease
Squre imperial octavo, blue/black mottled cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 112pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)
PUBLISHER: D Bradford Barton (date?)
KEYWORDS: John H Court railways trains steam engines North British Locomotive Company Britain locomotives engineering railway history
Hyde Railway Accident June 4, 1943
Quarto, light card covers with black lettering to front cover & black taped spine, 24pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Otago Railway and Locomotive Society
KEYWORDS: JA Dangerfield New Zealand Otago Hyde railways transport trains steam engine accident disaster history
Seneca
First edition, super octavo, red buckram boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 206pp, VG- (browning to spine, fading & soiling to boards, esp front board fore-edge, bruising & fraying to spine extrems, owner's name & year in ink to fep, tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1920
KEYWORDS: Francis Holland Seneca biography ethic physic philosophy literary criticism history classics first edition
Herodotus Father of History
First edition, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, iv + 315pp, VG (heavy foxing to eps, cellotape residue stains to eps, tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (cellotape residue stains internally, browning to spine, tanning & foxing, bruising & nicks to rear upper edge & spine upper extrem)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1953
KEYWORDS: first edition John L Myres Herodotus classics literary criticism biography Greek literature history
The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led: Deeds of Daring, Chivalry, and Renown
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt lettering & gilt rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 382pp + 30pp adverts, illus, VG (slight fading to spine, owner's name in ink to fep, bookseller's label to front pastedown, tanning to prelims, foxing, tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1913
KEYWORDS: first edition Edward Fraser Wellington military history soldiers Barrosa Talavera Light Brigade Arroyo Albuhera Badajoz Salamanca
Forest Flora of New Zealand
Small folio, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule & black tree motif to front board, brown eps, xv + 345pp, illus + 142plates, VG (binding sl sloppy, heavy bruising and fraying to spine extrems and spine hinges, moderate scuffing to board edges & corners, light rubbing to boards, light foxing to eps and page edges )
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury Government Printer 1889
KEYWORDS: T Kirk New Zealand forest flora plants natural history forestry industry trees shrubs flowers systematic common Maori name distribution genus species timber