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xxere61302

Making and Thinking


SHEWRING, WALTER

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

$25.00
xxere60304

The People of Aristophanes


A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy

EHRENBERG, VICTOR

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

$12.00
xxere60305

Maria Theresa


CRANKSHAW, EDWARD

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

$12.00
xxere60310

St. Francis and The Song of the Brotherhood


DOYLE, ERIC

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

$8.50
xxerf60391

Commando


DURNFORD-SLATER, BRIGADIER JOHN

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

$14.00
xxesa60438

Father McShane of Maryknoll


Missioner in South China

WALSH, JAMES EDWARD

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

$12.50
xxesb60473

The Ern Malley Affair


HEYWARD, MICHAEL

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

$25.00
1u10a/8

The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography


CALLISTER, SANDY

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

$22.50
1u28b/13

The Pioneer Craftsmen of New Zealand


PEARCE, GILBERT L.

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

$85.00
1u28b/23

Hitler and the Christians


GURIAN, WALDEMAR

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

$15.00
xxesb60487

Sydney's Jewish Community


Materials for a Post-War (II) History

STAEDTER, JOSEPH & KIMMEL, HANS

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

$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

$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

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