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$12.50
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The Bear Trap


YOUSAF, MOHAMMAD & ADKIN, MARK

first edition, ex library, hardback 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: Leo Cooper 1992

KEYWORDS: specials politics history afghanistan mohammed yousaf mark adkin war

$34.50
2g22/14

Nazism 1919-1945: Volume 1 The Rise to Power 1919-1934 A Documentary Reader; Volume 2 State, Economy and Society 1933-1939 A Documentary Reader


NOAKES, J. & PRIDHAM, G. (Eds)

Two volumes, octavo, light card covers, 194pp (vol 1), 195-609pp (vol 2), VG (owner's name in ink to fep, fading to spine, some underlining & annotation in pencil)

PUBLISHER: University of Exeter Press Vol 1 1995, Vol 2 1996

KEYWORDS: J Noakes G Pridham Germany history Nazism Adolf Hitler politics economy society propaganda SS third reich Fuhrer

$16.50
2g22/26

New Zealand and the Antarctic


QUARTERMAIN, L. B.

Super octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, xix + 269pp, illus + 2 fold-out maps + large folding map in rear pocket, VG+ (foxing) in d/w, VG (bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & corners, creasing & bruising to rear lower corner, soiling to rear)

PUBLISHER: AR Shearer Government Printer 1971

KEYWORDS: LB Quartermain New Zealand Antarctic history Ross Dependency

$60.00
2g21/2

The Frigate Captain


STYLES, SHOWELL

First edition, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine, 258pp, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, v slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG (price clipped, nicks to corners, bruising to spine extrems, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1954

KEYWORDS: first edition Showell Styles literature historical novel fiction Captain Lord Cochrane sea battles naval history

$37.50
2g21/8

Arrowtown Wildflower: Riverside & Trackside


TEELE, RITA LITTLEWOOD & TEELE, BENJAMIN W. & LAWR

Signed by all three authors, duodecimo, illus laminated light card covers, spiral bound, illus eps, 150pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: Lakes District Museum 2008

KEYWORDS: Rita Littlewood Teele Benjamin W Teele Rebecca J Lawrence New Zealand Arrowtown wildflowers flora natural history reference identification

$30.00
2g22/17

A Jubilee Story of Endeavour 1890-1940


North Canterbury Methodist Sunday School Union

PRATT, M. A. RUGBY

Octavo, orange & black light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, 44pp, illus, VG (fading to covers, esp spine, foxing, bruising to cover edges, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: North Canterbury Methodist Sunday School Committee 1940

KEYWORDS: Reverend MA Rugby Pratt New Zealand Canterbury Methodism history Sunday school

$37.50
2g23/18

Two Centuries of Railway Signalling


KICHENSIDE, GEOFFREY & WILLIAMS, ALAN

Quarto, grey boards with gilt lettering to spine, 248pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: Oxford Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Kichenside Alan Williams transport trains railways signalling signals history sempahore signal block system electric telegraph signal boxes photographic record

$24.50
2g23/21

An A-Z of Railways: A Nostalgic Tour of Britain's Railways


ATTERBURY, PAUL

Oblong imperial octavo, red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, green eps, illus double-spread title page, 176pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: David & Charles Books 2010

KEYWORDS: Paul Atterbury transport British rail railways Britain pictorial photographic history memorabilia trains steam engines stations tickets postcards ephemera livery turntables bridges

$36.50
2g23/23

Parliament's Library: 150 Years


MARTIN, JOHN E.

Signed bookplate loosely enclosed, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus fep, illus title page, 270pp, illus + folding pictorial timeline to rear, nr fine (bookseller's label to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Steel Roberts Publishers 2008

KEYWORDS: John E Martin New Zealand parliamentary library history politics government democracy culture signed

$52.50
2g23/24

Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction


RICHARDS, JEFFREY

First edition, super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, iii + 319pp, VG+ (foxing, esp to eps & page edges) in d/w. VG+ (foxing to interior, price label residue to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: first editoin Jeffrey Richards English public schools education literary criticism history British culture society fiction genre Thomas Hughes Frank Richards Kipling Dean Farrar EM Forster PG Wodehouse James Hilton literature

$25.00
2g23/33

The Killing Ground: The Battle of The Falaise Gap, August 1944


LUCAS, JAMES & BARKER, JAMES

Super octavo, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 176pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: BT Batsford 1978

KEYWORDS: James Lucas James Barker World War Two II second world war Germany Allied forces history battle Falaise Argentan

$20.00
2g23/35

Canterbury Voices: First-hand Memories of Canterbury's Past


SULLIVAN, JIM

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 272pp, illus, nr fine (bruising to rear cover lower corner)

PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 2007

KEYWORDS: Jim Sullivan New Zealand Canterbury memoirs history Radio New Zealand interviews local stories

$17.50
2g23/59

Visions of New Zealand: Artists in a New Land


BROWN, GORDON H.

First edition, quarto, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name stamp to half-title page, fading to spine & board edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling spots, slight creasing to lower edges)

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Gordon H Brown New Zealand art artists art history paintings drawings prints Angas Brees Chevalier Gully Heaphy Hodges Hoyte Kinder O'Brien Earle Sharpe Strutt Wilson Van der Velden

$40.00
2g22/51

The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas


PAN, LYNN (Ed)

Ex library, quarto, red cloth boards with grey lettering to spine & front board, 399pp, illus, VG (usu library markings, sellotape to boards, vertical crease to rear ep, sellotape residue stains) in d/w

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: ex library LynnPan China Chinese communities overseas encyclopaedia history

$60.00
2g22/55

Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy: Pope Pius XII Did Not Remain Silent


Reports, Documents and Records from Church and State Archives

LEVAI, JENO

First edition, super octavo, red boards with black lettering to spine, xii + 131pp, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to upper page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, bruising, rubbing & creasing to edges, folds & corners, 3cm tear with loss to upper rear, tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Sands & Co (Publishers) Ltd 1968

KEYWORDS: first edition Jeno Levai history Hungary Hungarian Jews Pope Pius XII Hochhuth Catholic Church persecution anti-semitism

$39.50
2g22/61

Antarctica


HATHERTON, TREVOR (Ed)

Ex library, first edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece map, xvi + 511pp, illus, VG- (soiling & sellotape residue to boards, front gutter shaken, sellotape residue stains to eps, label residue to eps) in d/w, VG-

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1965

KEYWORDS: Trevor Hatherton Antarctica oceanography marine life flora fauna natural history toppography meteorology polar ionosphere geomagnetic field

$14.50
xxhqs57364

Dressed for the Job: The Story of Occupational Costume


WILLIAMS-MITCHELL, CHRISTOBEL

Ex-library. Hardcover imperial octavo (G) 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: Blandford Books Ltd 1982

KEYWORDS: Ex-library specials Christobel Williams-Mitchell fashion history clothing evolution of trends

$16.50
xxhqs57366

Some Recollections of a happy Life


Marianne North in Australia and New Zealand

VELLACOTT, HELEN (ED)

First Edition Thus. Hardcover imperial 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: Edward Arnold Australis Pty Limited 1986

KEYWORDS: First Edition Thus specials Helen Vellacott Daniel Thomas Marianne North Australia New Zealand nonfiction history biography botany

$14.00
xxhqs57367

Bosnia: A Short History


MALCOLM, NOEL

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: Macmillan 1994

KEYWORDS: specials Noel Malcolm history Bosnia Easten Europe chronology

$12.00
xxhqs57373

Highland Peoples of New Guinea


BROWN, PAULA

Ex-library. 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 1978

KEYWORDS: Ex-library specials Paula Brown anthropology New Guinea history nonfiction

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