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$18.50
xxelf57766

New Zealand's First Talkies


Early film-making in Otago and Southland 1896-1939

PRICE, SIMON

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

$19.50
xxelf57780

Warm Milk and Apples


GOODALL, EVERED H.

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

$10.00
xxelf57789

Greek Literature in Translation


GRANT, MICHAEL (ED.)

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

$10.00
xxelf57806

The Dramatic Experience


A Guide to the Reading of Plays

STYAN, J.L.

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

$18.50
xxema57816

Political and Social Life in the Great Age of Athens


FERGUSON, JOHN & CHISHOLM, KITTY (EDS.)

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

$14.50
xxema57818

A History of the Roman World AD138 to 337


PARKER, H.M.D.

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

$15.00
xxema57821

Democracy in the Ancient World


GLVOER, T.R.

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

$22.50
xxema57822

Essays on Four Plays of Euripides


Andromache; Helen; Heracles; Orestes

VERRALL, A.W.

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

$20.00
xxema57836

Dunedin's Matchbox Railway


DANGERFIELD, J.A.

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

$18.50
xxema57837

British Railway Accidents of the Twentieth Century


HAMILTON, J.A.B.

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

$16.50
xxema57839

Social Values in Classical Athens


FISHER, N.R.E.

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

$10.00
xxema57840

Our Hellenic Heritage


Vol. II Part III. Athens - Her Splendour and Her Fall

JAMES, H.R.

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

$10.00
xxema57844

The Campaigns of Alexander


ARRIAN; DE SELINCOURT, AUBREY (TRANS.)

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

$22.50
2g29/5

The Route of the Coastal Pacific Express


CHURCHMAN, GEOFFREY B.

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

$30.00
2g29/6

North British Steam Locomotives built 1857-1956 for Railways Oversease


COURT, JOHN H.

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

$20.00
2g29/10

Hyde Railway Accident June 4, 1943


DANGERFIELD, J. A.

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

$35.00
2g29/22

Seneca


HOLLAND, FRANCIS

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

$26.50
2g29/24

Herodotus Father of History


MYRES, JOHN L.

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

$65.00
2g29/28

The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led: Deeds of Daring, Chivalry, and Renown


FRASER, EDWARD

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

$165.00
2g29/32

Forest Flora of New Zealand


KIRK, T.

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

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