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$15.00
xxerd60239

The Drama of the Scharnhorst


A Factual Account from the German Viewpoint

BUSCH, FRITZ-OTTO

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1956

KEYWORDS: specials Corvette Captain Fritz-Otto Busch Scharnhorst World War II naval history war battle

$10.00
xxerd60240

The Climate of Treason: Five who Spied for Russia


BOYLE, ANDREW

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1979

KEYWORDS: specials Andrew Boyle espionage Russia Soviet Union Philby Maclean Burgess Cambridge KGB MI5 history biography

$14.00
xxerd60242

Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries


HAY, DENYS

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Denys Hay political social cultural history Europe

$12.50
xxerd60247

Augustus Hare in Italy


HARE, AUGUSTUS & HENDERSON, GAVIN (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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Ecco Press 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Augustus Hare Gavin Henderson Italy travel history wood engravings

$10.00
xxerd60248

The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era


MEREDITH, MARTIN

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Abacus Sphere 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Martin Meredith Africa history economics economy politics

$12.50
xxerd60249

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat


MORRIS, JAMES [JAN]

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1982

KEYWORDS: specials James Morris history British Empire

$15.00
xxere60265

The Rise of the West 1754-1830


PHILBRICK, FRANCIS S.

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Harper Torchbooks / Harper Row 1966

KEYWORDS: specials Francis S Philbrick American USA history the West

$10.00
xxere60269

Dispatches from Africa


MARNHAM, PATRICK

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Abacus 1981

KEYWORDS: specials Patrick Marnham Africa history foreign intervention politics finance

$27.50
1r35/5

The Big Bang: A History of Explosives


Foreword by Adam Hart Davis

BROWN, G. I.

Imperial octavo, black cloth boads with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, iii + 256pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: GI Brown explosives uses social history gunpowder dynamite guncotton gelignite cordite ballistite TNT RDX TEPN ANFO atomic bombs H-bomb war terrorism

$35.00
1r35/7

Photograms of the Year 1920


The Annual Review of the World's Pictorial Photographic Work

MORTIMER, F. J. (Ed)

Quarto, brown light card covers with dark brown taped spine, frontispiece tipped in photogram, 34pp + 64 pp b&w plates + 30pp index & adverts, VG- (bruising to spine extrems, creasing to corners, 1cm closed tear to front cover upper edge & to rear cover fore-edge, owner's name in ink rubbed out to front cover upper corner, tanning to some page edges, creasing to a few page corners)

PUBLISHER: Iliffe & Sons 1921

KEYWORDS: FJ Mortimer photograms photography photographs art history

$30.00
1r35/8

The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change


HUGHES, ROBERT

Quarto, black light card covers with yellow, blue & pink lettering to spine & front cover, 446pp, illus, NR FINE

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1996 Updated & Enlarged

KEYWORDS: Robert Hughes BBC television series art painting sculpture architecture history 20th century C20

$12.50
xxere60273

Nicaragua for Beginners


Dedicated to the Heroic Women of Nicaragua

RIUS / DEL RIO, EDUARDO

Octavo Softcover (Good+); 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Writers and Readers 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Rius comics cartoons Nicaragua history politics humour

$12.50
xxere60277

Cuba For Beginners


RIUS / RIO, EDUARDO DEL

octavo softcover (Good+); 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Writers and Readers 1981

KEYWORDS: specials Ruis Eduardo del Rio cuba comics cartoon Cuban history politics humour

$25.00
1r35/12

Leonard Robertson, The Whangaroa & La Bella


CHURCHOUSE, JACK

Oblong quarto, khaki boards with gilt lettering to spine, khaki eps, illus title page, xiv + 162pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to board lower edges, 1cm ding to front board upper edge, soiling to 1cm of lower page edges, ) in d/w, VG (1cm closed tear to rear upper edge, some staining to inside upper edges)

PUBLISHER: Millwood Press 1982

KEYWORDS: Jack Churchouse Leonard robertson Whangaroa New Zealand nautical maritime history sailing shipwrecks barquentine topsail scow

$245.00
1r35/14

An Encyclopaedia of Geography: comprising a Complete Description of the Earth, Physical, Statistical, Civil and Political


Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Natio

MURRAY, HUGH et al

Two-volume set complete, super octavo, marbled heavy card boards, quarter velum, black lettering on label to spine, xii + 1567pp + 16pp adverts, illus with over 1000 wood engravings, maps & diagrams, VG- (upper 8cm of spine missing & front board/spine fold cracked & loose to volume 1, both vols - rubbing, fading & soiling to boards & spines, inscription to fep, tanning & foxing to eps, browning to page edges, light foxing to occasional pages)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman 1834

KEYWORDS: Hugh Murray William Wallace Robert Jameson WJ Hooker William Swainson encyclopaedia reference geography geology botany natural history zoology earth physical world politics government

$26.50
1s18a/5

Black Heart Man: A Journey into Rasta


BISHTON, DEREK

Imperial octavo, illus black light card covers, illus prelims, 136pp, illus, VG- (dampstaining to page lower edges & to rear cover lower edge)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1986

KEYWORDS: Derek Bishton Rastafarianism Rasta Africa history culture music lifestyle Ethiopia Jamaica Britain

$100.00
1s21c/8

Rae Budding or Slums in New Zealand


CAMPBELL, DAVID PATON

Octavo, brown light card covers with gilt lettering & gilt rule to front cover, frontispiece, 79pp, illus, G+ (dampstaining to front cover & first 15-or-so pages, damage with loss to front edges, creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to centre spine, crease to rear cover upper corner). Without the staining / damage to front cover, this book would be in pretty good condition, possible VG)

PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Co Invercargil 1934

KEYWORDS: David Paton Campbell New Zealand Rae Budding social history politics

$30.00
1s21c/13

Living in a New Country: History, Travelling and Language


CARTER, PAUL

First edition, Sebastian Black's copy, octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, x + 214pp, illus, nr fine (tanning to page edges), in d/w, VG+ (bruising & light creasing to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1992

KEYWORDS: Paul Carter first edition history language linguistics ethnography travel migration culture

$245.00
1s21c/15

New Zealand: Its Resources and Prospects


BATHGATE, JOHN

original wraps inside card covers, octavo, new grey heavy card boards with dark blue cloth spine covering original illus paper wrappers, frontispiece, iv + folding colour map + 123pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (some staining & discolouration to original wrapper, reasonably heavy foxing to prelims, browning to page edges, staining to page lower edges)

PUBLISHER: W & R Chambers 1884

KEYWORDS: John Bathgate New Zealand history resources climate land title agriculture farming gold cities shipping manufacturing banks transport revenue education colony

$25.00
1s21c/16

The Oldest Manuscripts in New Zealand


TAYLOR, DAVID M.

Super octavo, light blue boards wit gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 218pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Council for Educational Research 1955

KEYWORDS: David M Taylor New Zealand early manuscripts history art Bible

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