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$24.50
xxeyb63236

Plain Tales from the Raj


ALLEN, CHARLES (ED.)

Hardcover oblong 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: Century Publishing Co., Ltd 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Charles Allen history India social life customs anthropology

$28.50
xxeyb63242

Marching as to War?


The Anglican Church in New Zealand during World War II

HAWORTH, GEOFFREY M.R.

Softcover quarto (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: Wily Publications 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Geoffrey M R Haworth New Zealand religion religious history military World War II Anglican Church Second World War

$38.00
xxeyb63247

A History of Children's Play


The New Zealand Playground 1840 - 1950

SUTTON-SMITH, BRIAN

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: New Zealand Council of Educational Research 1982

KEYWORDS: specials Brian Sutton-Smith New Zealand history children play playground

$8.50
xxeyb63259

Ladies Didn't - Recollections of an Edwardian Girlhood


MCNEIL, EUGENIE & CRAWFORD, EUGENIE

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: Penguin 1984

KEYWORDS: specials eugenie mcneil crawford edwardian memoir biography women history travel france

$15.00
xxeyb63260

The Official Tape-Recorded Confessions of The Boston Strangler


RAE, GEORGE W. (ed.)

paperback, spine glue cracking w/ some pages coming loose (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/Ortolan 1967

KEYWORDS: specials crime history america usa boston strangler tape-recording confession george rae memoir autobiography

$12.50
xxeyb63262

Then and There - a 1970s Diary


MCELDOWNEY, DENNIS

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: AUP 1995

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand dennis mceldowney diary journal auckland history

$12.50
xxeyb63276

Mayoress & Councillor - A Memoir


GOODMAN, DAME BARBARA

paperback (NF); 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: Holos Books 2012

KEYWORDS: specials barbara goodman dame history mayor new zealand autobiography auckland memoir

$37.50
xxeyb63280

Suffolk Houses - A Study of Domestic Architecture


SANDON, ERIC

hardback quarto with 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: Antique Collectors' Club 1986

KEYWORDS: specials suffolk england architecture buildings homes eric sandon history

$20.00
xxeyb63281

Port Taranaki - 115 Years of Elected Control


SCANLAN, BRIAN

Imperial 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: Westgate Transport Ltd. 1991

KEYWORDS: specials taranaki port brian scanlan new zealand history shipping industry

$22.50
xxeyb63282

Tatiara - The First 140 Years 1845-1985


JONES, ALAN

hardback super octavo, lacks 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: Tatiara District Council

KEYWORDS: specials tatiara history australia alan jones settlers agriculture industry nature

$20.00
xxeyc63293

Auckland City Life - A Celebration of Yesteryear


JOHNSON, DAVID

Hardback quarto (VG+) with 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: Bateman 1991

KEYWORDS: specials history new zealand auckland pictorial david johnson photography

$22.50
xxeyc63294

The Illustrated Story of Opera


NICE, DAVID

square hardback quarto with d/w, tear in front cover of 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: Chartwell Books, Inc. 1994

KEYWORDS: specials david nice history opera music classical theatre

$22.50
ak4/16/2205

The Life of Charlemagne


THE FRANK, EINHARD & THORPE, LEWIS (Ed)

Super octavo hardcover (fine) in slipcase (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 Folio Society 1970

KEYWORDS: Einhard the Frank Lewis Thorpe Charlemagne biography history Folio Society

$32.50
xxkhb63154

The Last Flight of Bert Hinkler


WIXTED, EDWARD P.

First edition, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Vantage Press 1992

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Edward P Wixted Bert Herbert Hinkler aviation history aviator biography pilot aeroplane crash

$10.00
xxeyc63313

Pius XII and the Third Reich


FRIEDLANDER, SAUL

first edition, ex library hardback 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: Chatto & Windus 1966

KEYWORDS: specials history nazis third reich saul friedlander

$12.50
xxeyc63319

Peter and Paul, Apostles - An Account of the Early Years of the Church


O'BRIEN, ISIDORE

ex library hardback with 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: St. Anthony Guild Press 1950

KEYWORDS: specials isidore o'brien peter paul apostles history religion

$165.00
1w2b/12

The Book of the War: The First Campaign Gallipoli To Sebastopol


Containing Full Details of the Battle of Alma, with a List of the Killed and Wounded

ST. JOHN, PERCY B.

Scarce, original binding, small octavo, orange light card covers with black lettering, printed eps, folding map at front, 128pp, VG- (archival tape repair to spine, rubbing & chaffing to covers, moderate soiling to covers, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate foxing & browning). NOTE: Contents are first edition. Cover is dated 1855 third edition with a slightly different title. Above details taken from title page rather than front cover

PUBLISHER: Ward & Lock 1854

KEYWORDS: Percy B St John military history Alma Balaklava Inkerman Sebastopol Crimean War

$195.00
1w2b/39

Russia and England from 1876 to 1880: A Protest and an Appeal


O. K. & FROUDE, JAMES (Preface)

Super octavo, half-bound, greyish cloth boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spine, gilt Athenaeum stamp to front board, frontispiece, xxi + 396pp, two coloured folding maps to rear, VG- (chaffing & bruising to spine & spine extrems, aprox 10 pinprick-sized holes to spine, heavy fading & soiling to bords, fraying to board edges, piece of light card glued to front pastedown, binding loose, some tanning to edges, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, & Co 1880

KEYWORDS: OK Kireeff James Anthony Froude military history war politics Russia England Britain

$100.00
1w2b/41

Oak Furniture: The British Tradition


A History of Early Furniture in the British Isles and New England

CHINNERY, VICTOR

Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 579pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG (1cm closed tear to lower front edge, slight creasing to edges, moderately heavy scratch across rear)

PUBLISHER: Antique Collectors' Club 1979

KEYWORDS: Victor Chinnery Britain British New England antique oak furniture history development Middle Ages to 1800

$29.50
xxkhb63333

41st Issue: The South and East African Year Book and Guide for 1935 with Atlas and Diagrams


BROWN, A. SAMLER & BROWN, G. GORDON

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: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1935

KEYWORDS: specials A Samler Brown G Gordon Brown guide book year book South East Africa travel history business railways wildlife

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