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Making and Thinking
Ex-library 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: Hollis and Carter, undated
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Walter Shewring history literature art philosophy essays
The People of Aristophanes
A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy
Ex-library 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell, 1943
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Victor Ehrenberg classical studies history comedy theatre sociology society
Maria Theresa
Ex-library 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co, Ltd 1969
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Edward Crankshaw biography history Maria Theresa Habsburg Empire
St. Francis and The Song of the Brotherhood
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: The Seabury Press 1981
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Eric Doyle biography history Francis of Assisi religion theology
Commando
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: Tandem Publishing Ltd 1975
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Brigadier John Durnford-Slater military history special forces commandos World War Two
Father McShane of Maryknoll
Missioner in South China
Ex-library 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: Dial Press Inc., 1932
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials James Edward Walsh religion religious history biography missionary journeys China
The Ern Malley Affair
hardcover octavo in d/w first edition copy of sebastian black (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: University of Queensland 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Heyward first edition literary criticism hoax history
The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography
Super octavo, illus light card covers with black & red lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 150pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Sandy Callister New Zealand First World War One WWI military photography photographs history soldiers medics journalists
The Pioneer Craftsmen of New Zealand
Quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG- (light rubbing and soiling to covers, ruising and chipping to upper edge, archival tape repairs to upper front cover)
PUBLISHER: Wiliams Collins Publishers 1982
KEYWORDS: Gilbert L Pearce New Zealand artisan craftsmen craftsmanship history stone timber woodwork shipbuilders brick iron bridges dams wharves shoes clothing watchmaking engraving
Hitler and the Christians
first edition, ex library, octavo, black cloth boards with red lettering to spine, top edges stained red, ii + 175pp, VG (usu library markings, owner's stamp to fep)
PUBLISHER: London Sheed & Ward 1936
KEYWORDS: first edition ex library waldemar gurian adolf hilter christianity germany history
Sydney's Jewish Community
Materials for a Post-War (II) History
Super octavo hardcover (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: Australian Jewish Communities Series 1953
KEYWORDS: specials Joseph Staedter Hans Kimmel Australia Sydney Jews Jewish community history
Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent 1769-1889
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
The Missionary Period in the History of Te Awamutu District
Te Awamutu Historical Society Bulletin No. 4
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
Sacred Soil: Images and Stories of the New Zealand Wars
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
Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People
Foreword by Laila Shukry El Hamamsy
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
Leo XIII Italy and France
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
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
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
Photographic View Album of Whakarewarewa
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
Guide to the Hot Lake District Rotorua
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
The Graphic Series: Panoramic Photographic Pictures of Rotorua and NZ Wonderland
Second Edition
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