Books - "history"
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The Drama of the Scharnhorst
A Factual Account from the German Viewpoint
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
The Climate of Treason: Five who Spied for Russia
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
Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
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
Augustus Hare in Italy
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
The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era
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
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
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
The Rise of the West 1754-1830
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
Dispatches from Africa
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
The Big Bang: A History of Explosives
Foreword by Adam Hart Davis
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
Photograms of the Year 1920
The Annual Review of the World's Pictorial Photographic Work
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
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
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
Nicaragua for Beginners
Dedicated to the Heroic Women of Nicaragua
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
Cuba For Beginners
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
Leonard Robertson, The Whangaroa & La Bella
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
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
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
Black Heart Man: A Journey into Rasta
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
Rae Budding or Slums in New Zealand
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
Living in a New Country: History, Travelling and Language
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
New Zealand: Its Resources and Prospects
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
The Oldest Manuscripts in New Zealand
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