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$17.50
xxese60697

Atlas of Classical History


TALBERT, RICHARD J.A.

Ex-library hardcover imperial 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: Book Club Associates 1985

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Richard J A Talbert classical studies ancient history maps cartographs

$12.50
xxese60705

The Feminists


Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australiasia 1840-1920

EVANS, RICHARD J.

Softcover octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least imperial 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: Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Richard J Evans history feminism social movement politics suffrage

$40.00
1w8a/17

A White Boy among the Maoris in the 'Forties: Pages from an Unpublished Autobiography of James West Stack


Foreword by his Daughter Mrs Frank Coxon

STACK, JAMES WEST & REED, A. H. (Ed)

Octavo, illus brown heavy card boards, printed eps, frontispiece, 23pp + 1pp advert, illus, VG (light rubbing to spine, v slight bruising to boards corners & edges, owner's name in pencil to fep)

PUBLISHER: AH Reed 1934

KEYWORDS: James West Stack autobiography Mrs Frank Coxon New Zealand Maori history

$60.00
1w8a/18

Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka


SCOTT, DICK

First edition, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 216pp, illus, VG (sl. some foxing to page edgess, prev. owner's details in pen inside) in d/w, VG (minor chips and scuffing, light soiling and foxing)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann / Southern Cross 1975

KEYWORDS: Dick Scott New Zealand Parihaka Taranaki Te Whiti Tohu Maori history

$27.50
1w32/3

Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie


THOMSON, JOHN (Ed)

Octavo, orange light card covers, 216pp, illus, VG (slighty warped, slight fading to spine, light scuffing, small patch of surface loss to cover)

PUBLISHER: Victoria University press 2002

KEYWORDS: John Thomson Don McKenzie New Zealand bibliographer book production history of print culture essays anthology

$150.00
1w32/9

Early Rangitikei


A Few Notes, Collected from various Sources of the Settlement on the Rangitikei River of a number of Maoris of different tribes. A Short History of the Purchase and Colonization of the land between t

WILSON, JAMES G.

First edition, octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind stamped motif to front board, frontispiece, iv + 260pp, illus + two folding maps in pocket to rear, VG (moderate bruising and scuffing to spine extrems and board corners, moderate soiling to boards, prev owners name in ink to fep and bookplate to pastedown, moderate tanning to fep, gutter at title page cracked, foxing throughout textblock)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1914

KEYWORDS: First edition James G Wilson New Zealand Rangitikei Turakina history settlement Maori Te Rauparaha

$16.50
xxesd60629

At War with the Smugglers


Career of Dr. Arnold's Father

ARNOLD-FORSTER, D.

Ex-library First edition 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: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited 1936

KEYWORDS: ex-library first edition specials D Arnold-Forster biography English history Customs officers

$10.00
xxese60693

Dating Paul's Life


JEWETT, ROBERT

Ex-library 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: SCM Press 1979

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Robert Jewett biography St Paul history religion religious literature

$65.00
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The Super Men: Agricultural Aviation in New Zealand


ALEXANDER, GRAHAM & TULLETT, J. S.

Super octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, 158pp, illus, VG+ (v small fading spot to lower spine) in d/w, VG (light rubbing to boards & light creasing to ecges)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1967

KEYWORDS: Graham Alexander JS Tullett New Zealand farming agriculture aviation flying flight crop spraying aerial topdressing aircraft pilots history

$27.50
2e8a/36

The Masons of Lane Delph and the origin of Masons Patent Ironstone China


HAGGAR, REGINALD G.

Imperial octavo, maroon faux-leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xvii + 104pp, illus VG+ (b&w illus glued to fep)

PUBLISHER: Geo. L Ashworth / Percy Lund Humphries & Co 1952

KEYWORDS: Reginald G Haggar Masons Lane Delph Ironstone China ceramics pottery bone china biography history

$10.00
xxesf60720

Pig's Foot


ACOSTA, CARLOS

super 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: Bloomsbury 2013

KEYWORDS: specials carlos acosta literature novel cuba culture history fiction

$12.00
xxesf60724

Bones of Contention


Controversies in the Search for Human Origins

LEWIN, ROGER

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 Books 1991

KEYWORDS: specials roger lewin science palaeoanthropology ancient history archaeology

$20.00
xxesf60728

Ladies a Plate


Change and Continuity in the Lives of New Zealand Women

PARK, JULIE (ed)

super 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: Auckland University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: specials julie park new zealand history women's identity anthropology sociology ethnicity relationships alcohol socialisation gender

$30.00
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A History of Gonville and Caius College


BROOKE, CHRISTOPHER & SWAAN, WIM (Photos)

First edition, super octavo, light blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xv + 354pp, illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (v slight creasing to spine)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 1985

KEYWORDS: Christopher Brooke Wim Swaan Gonville and Caius College history university education religion politics Cambridge

$9.00
xxesf60758

South Africa


No easy path to peace

LEACH, GRAHAM

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Methuen London Ltd 1987

KEYWORDS: specials Graham Leach politics history South Africa sociopolitical commentary

$10.00
xxesf60768

Native Life in South Africa


PLAATJE, SOLOMON TSHEKISHO

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Longman Group UK Limited 1987

KEYWORDS: specials Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje history memoir South Africa apartheid African National Congress Natives Land Act 1913

$14.50
xxeta60782

Basilica, the Splendour and the Scandal


Building St. Peter's

SCOTTI, R.A.

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press Ltd 2007

KEYWORDS: specials R A Scotti Church history architecture St Peter's Basilica

$14.50
xxeta60784

Karori Streets: 1841 to 1991


CHAPMAN, WILLIAM G. & WOOD, KATHERINE M.

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Karori Historical Society (Inc.) Publications 1991

KEYWORDS: specials William G Chapman Katherine M Wood New Zealand history local landmarks Karori streets

$22.50
xxeta60786

Defense Positioning and Geometry


Rules for a World with Low Force Levels

GUPTA, RAJ

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 cost

PUBLISHER: The Brookings Institution 1993

KEYWORDS: specials Raj Gupta politics history Warsaw Pact defense positioning effective offense defense security calculations mathematics geometry

$14.50
xxeta60793

the Sinking of the Titanic


The Mystery Solved

COLLINS, L.M.

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press Ltd 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Captain L M Collins nautical history Titanic shipwreck

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