Books - "history"
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Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Documentary Guide
Octavo softcover (nr fine); 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Library of Congress 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Arthur G Renstrom Orville Wilbur Wright Brothers reference biography aviation aeronautical history flying pilots pioneers flight
Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur & Orville Wright
Octavo softcover (nr fine); 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Fred C Kelly Orville Wilbur Wright Brothers letters correspondence aviation aeronautical history flight flying
Convicts and Commandants of Norfolk Island
1788 - 1855
Softcover imperial 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Margaret Hazzard 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Margaret Hazzard Australia history Norfolk Island penal colonies detention
First Flight
The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane
First edition hardcover imperial octavo (NF) in d/w (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003
KEYWORDS: first edition specials T A Heppenheimer aviation Wright brothers biography history planes aviators
A Century of Summer Shows
Hardcover super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Southland A. & P. Association 1966
KEYWORDS: speciasl J O P Watt New Zealand history A & P Show Southland
Southland Provincial History
1930 - 1955
Softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: n/a
KEYWORDS: specials WDFF New Zealand South Island Southland provincial history
Dunedin Ambulance Division 1892 - 1967
A short history on the occasion of the Seventy-fifth Jubilee of the Dunedin Ambulance Division, St John Ambulance Brigade
Softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: St. John Ambulance Association 1967
KEYWORDS: specials St John Ambulance Association New Zealand South Island Otago Dunedin history
Hallucinogens
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Prism Press 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Marlene Dobkin de Rios hallucinogens mind altering plants history culture anthropology
A Brief History of Flying
From Myth to Space Travel
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967
KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history aircraft planes myth space travel invention
The World's First Aeroplane Flights (1903 - 1908)
And Earlier Attempts to Fly
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1969
KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history aircraft planes aeroplanes invention
The Wright Brothers
A brief account of their work (1899 - 1911)
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967
KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history Wright Brothers biography aircraft planes aeroplanes invention
Leonardo da Vinci's Aeronautics
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967
KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history Leonardo da Vinci aeronautics biography aircraft aeroplanes invention
Aircrew
The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
Softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Bruce Lewis autobiography memoir military history aviation Second World War WWII bombers
Studies in Words
Softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 196
KEYWORDS: specials C S Lewis languages English history of thought literature communication context meaning language
Struggle for Take-Off
The British Airways Story
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Coronet Books 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Duncan Campbell-Smith aviation history British Airways aircraft airlines
The Colony of New Zealand: Its History, Vicissitudes and Progress
First edition, octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, brown coated eps, large folding map, xii + 360pp, VG (heavy dampstaining patch to two-thirds of rear board, small nick to upper spine, light rubbing to board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, 2cm closed tear to one corner of folding map, some light tanning, lacks the two internal illustrations)
PUBLISHER: A Petherick & Co 1888
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand history geology agriculture industry Maori language colonisation Treaty
A Climber in New Zealand
Super octavo, fine green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & blind rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 316pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & fraying to spine extrems, heavy ding/crease to front board lower corner, light bruising & rubbing to other board corners, rubbing to rear board, board edges & spine sides, owner's name & date in ink to fep, moderate foxing throughout & to page edges (but not to photographs))
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1914
KEYWORDS: Malcolm Ross autobiography New Zealand mountains mountaineering climbing geography history Mount Cook Aorangi
Auckland from the Air
Obong quarto, brown illus light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, gilt black & red illus to front cover, unpaginated but aprox 22pp, illus, VG- (damage to spine around staples, 3cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, creasing to cover corners, esp front lower corner, v light soiling & occasional stain spots)
PUBLISHER: The Sun Newspapers Ltd 1930
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland pictorial aerial photographic history
Luftwaffe Colours Kampfflieger Volume Two
Bombers of the Luftwaffe July 1940 - December 1941
This volume only, large quarto, illus light card covers with yelllow & white lettering to black spine, printed eps, pp 97-192, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Chevron / Ian Allan Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: J Richard Smith Eddie J Creek aviation history bomber aircraft aeroplanes Luftwaffe colours camouflage
Sky High Irvin: The Story of a Parachute Pioneer
Foreword by Sir Douglas Bader
First edition, ex library, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1983
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Peter Hearn Douglas Bader Leslie Leroy Irvin parachuting aviation history aeronautical biography skydiving