Books - "history"
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Afganistan of the Afghans
first edition, ex library, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in dw (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 Octagon Press 1982
KEYWORDS: specials ex library first edition Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah Afganistan customs history social anthropology geography
Peter Lawford: Mixing With Monroe, The Kennedys, The Rat Pack and the whole damn crowd
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: Futura 1990
KEYWORDS: specials peter lawford celebrities fame cinema film actors entertainment biography patricia seaton politics amercia usa history jfk monroe
Freud and the Post-Freudians
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 1961
KEYWORDS: specials sigmund freud psychology science history sociology human behaviour
Shakespeare's History Plays
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 1969
KEYWORDS: specials william shakespeare emw tillyard literature literary criticism history theatre plays
Light Fantastic - Adventures in Theatre
ex library 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: Bloomsbury 1997
KEYWORDS: specials theatre history biography john lahr bulgakov mamet shaw wilde orton stoppard kushner albee odets
The Bear Trap
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
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
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
New Zealand and the Antarctic
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
The Frigate Captain
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
Arrowtown Wildflower: Riverside & Trackside
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
A Jubilee Story of Endeavour 1890-1940
North Canterbury Methodist Sunday School Union
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
Two Centuries of Railway Signalling
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
Moriori: A People Rediscovered
First edition, small quarto, dark green boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, 226pp, illus, VG+ (bruising to board corners and spine extrems) in d/w VG (light rubbing to covers, lightwear and creasing to extrems, small (1cm) open tear to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Viking/ Penguin 1989
KEYWORDS: first edition Michael King New Zealand Moriori history Chatham Islands archaeology Pacific
An A-Z of Railways: A Nostalgic Tour of Britain's Railways
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
New Zealand Electoral Atlas
Scarce, quarto, light yellow boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 154pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w VG+
PUBLISHER: GP Books 1989
KEYWORDS: Alan McRobie New Zealand electoral atlas history electorates politics electoral districts redistribution process impartiality maps
Parliament's Library: 150 Years
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
Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction
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
The Killing Ground: The Battle of The Falaise Gap, August 1944
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
Canterbury Voices: First-hand Memories of Canterbury's Past
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
Visions of New Zealand: Artists in a New Land
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