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$10.00
xxesb60493

Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent 1769-1889


HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER

Octavo softcover (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 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Christopher Hibbert Africa history exploration expeditions travel

$17.50
xxesb60507

The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places


GORDIMER, NADINE & CLINGMAN, STEPHEN (Ed)

First edition, super 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: Jonathan Cape 1998

KEYWORDS: speciasl Nadine Gordimer Stephen Clingman south Africa literary criticism essays politics history writers anthology

$60.00
1u5a/6

The Missionary Period in the History of Te Awamutu District


Te Awamutu Historical Society Bulletin No. 4

LAIRD, ERIC J.

Quarto, light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 2 hand-drawn maps + 43 pp, text typed on manual typewriter, VG (light tanning to cover edges & page lower edges)

PUBLISHER: Te Awamutu Historical Society Incorporated (nd)

KEYWORDS: Eric J Laird New Zealand Te Awamutu Maori missionaries settlers history

$33.50
1u5a/8

Sacred Soil: Images and Stories of the New Zealand Wars


FINLAY, NEIL

Quarto, illus light card covers, 160pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name to fep)

PUBLISHER: Random House 1998

KEYWORDS: Neil Finlay New Zealand Photography photographs photographic pictorial history wars memorials sites

$25.00
1u5a/9

Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People


Foreword by Laila Shukry El Hamamsy

FERNEA, ROBERT & GERSTER, GEORG & JARITZ, HORST

Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering in black decorative panel, frontispiece, xiii + 146pp, illus, fine, in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)

PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press 1973

KEYWORDS: ethnology nubia Egypt customs anthropology Robert Fernea Georg Gerster Horst Jaritz photographic history

$65.00
1u5a/11

Leo XIII Italy and France


SODERINI, EDUARDO

First edition, ex library, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind lettering to front board, frontispiece, v + 280pp, VG (usu library markings, bookseller's label to front pastedown, 3 library stamps to fep, v light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1935

KEYWORDS: first edition ex library Eduardo Soderini Leo XIII religion theology religious French Italian history Catholicism papacy pope

$25.00
1u5a/16

In a Class of Its Own: The Story of a Century and a Quarter of Teacher Education at the Dunedin Training College, Dunedin Teachers' College and the Dunedin College of Education


A Dunedin College of Education Anniversity History

KEEN, DAVID

Super octavo, purple boards with gilt lettering to spine, 220pp, illus, Nr fine, in d/w, Nr fine

PUBLISHER: Dunedin College of Education / Longacre Press 2001

KEYWORDS: David Keen New Zealand Dunedin teachers education training college of education centenary anniversary history

$80.00
1u5a/26

Photographic View Album of Whakarewarewa


n/a

Not in Bagnall, oblong super octavo, maroon leather boards with gilt lettering & rule to front board, textured cloth pastedowns, decorated title page, unpaginated but 16 pp of b&w photographs, illus, G+ (heavy rubbing to board edges resulting in loss of leather covering to front board fore-edge & lower edge and rear board corners, fading to boards, stitching to body of book loose, tanning to eps,)

PUBLISHER: Wildman & Lyell c. 1900

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Whakarewarewa geysers Maori portraits photographic pictorial history

$45.00
1u5a/27

Guide to the Hot Lake District Rotorua


n/a

Oblong super octavo, black leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, printed pastedowns, decorated title page, unpaginated but 16 pp b&w photographs, illus, G+ (rubbing, brusing & fraying to spine & spine extrems, damage to boards with loss of leather in two patches, heavy tanning to eps, stitching to body of book loose)

PUBLISHER: Iles c.1910

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua photographic pictorial history record travel geysers Whakarewarewa

$25.00
1u5a/28

The Graphic Series: Panoramic Photographic Pictures of Rotorua and NZ Wonderland


Second Edition

n/a

Long narrow oblong super octavo, illus light card sewn wrappers, unpaginated but 20pp b&w photographs, illus, G+ (bruising & creasing to front & rear card fore-edges, light soiling spots to cards, stitching to body of book loose, some foxing to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Graphic CB & Co Ltd (n/d) circa 1890-1900

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua Rotomahana Tarawera photographic pictorial history travel scenery

$60.00
1u5a/29

Auckland


n/a

Binding variant of Bagnall T59, oblong super octavo, string-tied brown light card stapled wrappers with brown lettering & brown motifs to front cover, unpaginated but 11pp of tipped-in b&w photogravures - one of which is fold-out, VG- (some fading & staining to covers, bruising to cover edges, creasing to cover corners)

PUBLISHER: Tanner Bros Ltd (c.1910)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland photographic pictorial history architecture harbour

$75.00
1u5a/37

Kaiwaka: A Photographic History / Ngo Taonga Whakatapu o Kaiwaka


HARGREAVES, L. J. ET AL

Quarto, illus green light card covers, printed eps, 100pp + folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (slight fading to spine

PUBLISHER: Quadrant Press / Kaiwaka & Districts Historical Society 1990

KEYWORDS: LJ Hargreaves RS Dowson JM Reynolds MR Wilson New Zealand Kaiwaka Pukekaroro Oneriri Hakaru Topuni photographic pictorial history photographs

$12.00
xxesb60522

Waiting for the Sun


The harrowing story of a peasant boy in occupied Tibet

CRAIG, MARY

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: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Mary Craig biography memoir history Tibet occupation China refugee exile

$12.50
xxesb60526

The Greatest Game Ever Played


Vardon, Ouimet and the Birth of Modern Golf

FROST, MARK

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: Time Warner Paperbacks 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Mark Frost sport golf history chronology

$10.00
xxesd60605

The Victims of the Mamertine


Scenes from the Early Church

O'REILLY, A.J.

Ex-library 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: M.H. Gill & Son 1897

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials A J O'Reilly religion religious history

$22.50
xxesd60607

The Drugs Epidemic


Deedes, William

First edition hardcover 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: Tom Stacey Ltd 1970

KEYWORDS: first edition specials William Deedes drugs narcotics sociology society social commentary history

$15.00
xxesd60613

The Church in the Pages of Punch


DUTHIE, D. WALLACE

Ex-library first edition 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: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912

KEYWORDS: ex-library first edition specials D Wallace Duthie religion Church history Punch magazine

$8.50
xxesd60651

Life in Shakespeare's England


A Bookf of Elizabethan Prose

WILSON, JOHN DOVER

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: Penguin Books Ltd 1951

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials John Dover Wilson history anthropology sixteenth century England sociology Shakespeare's England

$12.50
xxese60683

Revolution, Reaction, and the Triumph of Conservatism


English History 1558-1700

GRAVES, MICHAEL A.R. & SILCOCK, ROBIN H.

Softcover imperial octavo (VG) ; partial f.ep ; 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: Longman Paul Limited 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Michael A R Graves Robin H Silcock English history historiography

$10.00
xxese60685

The Greatest of the Borgias


YEO, MARGARET

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: The Bruce Publishing Company 1952

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Margaret Yeo biography religious history St. Francis Borgia

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