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$35.00
xxhud64391

Ships and Ship Models


MACGREGOR, DAVID R

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: Model and Allied Publications 1977

KEYWORDS: specials David R MacGregor journal ships boats sea vessels maritime history models modelling

$22.50
xxhud64392

Passage To The New World: Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants 1945-1851


HOLLETT, DAVID

hardcover super octavo (nr fine) in d/w (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: P. M. Heaton Publishing 1995

KEYWORDS: specials David Hollett ships maritime history vessels boats ireland

$17.50
xxhud64395

The Marist Brothers In New Zealand, Fiji & Samoa 1876-1976


GALLAGHER, PAT

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: New Zealand Marist Brothers' Trust Board 1976

KEYWORDS: specials Pat Gallagher new zealand history polynesia church religion theology

$17.50
xxdkb64408

The Falsification of Macedonian History


MARTIS, NICOLAOS K.

softcover imperial octavo (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Athens 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Nicolas K Martis history macedonia archaeology anthropology greece

$55.00
1b43/16

Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918


HARPER, GLYN

Super octavo, blue boards with sivler lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 720pp, illus, Nr fine, in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Exisle 2015

KEYWORDS: Glyn Harper New Zealand military history First World War One WWI letters diaries memoir biography

$60.00
1b43/30

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Supply Company


BATES, P. W.

Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 372pp, illus + folding maps, VG (light rubbing to spine extrems, moderate tanning to prelims & page edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch Dept Internal Affairs 1955

KEYWORDS: PW Bates New Zealand military history Second World War Two WW2 Supply Company

$75.00
1b43/32

Liquid Gold Ships: A History of the Tanker 1859-1984


RATCLIFFE, MIKE

Super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, viii + 181pp, illus, nr fine (bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (some creasing to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: Lloyd's of London Press 1985

KEYWORDS: Mike Ratcliffe transport shipping history petroleum oil tankers vessels international trade

$45.00
1b43/49

The Ploughing and the Sowing: A History of the Merrivale-Waiau Presbyterian Church


MOUAT, ALISON (Ed)

Octavo, illus blue light card covers with darker blue lettering to front cover, 96pp, illus, VG- (light soiling to covers, light tanning to spine & cover edges, label residue stain to front cover lower edge, notation in ink to front cover lower edge, some creasing to lower corner of first few pages)

PUBLISHER: Merrivale-Waiau Presbyterian Church Jubilee Committee 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southland Merrivale Waiau Presbyterian church history

$100.00
1b44/1

The Churches - East of the Tamaki


BUCKLE, H. G.

Small folio, maroon light card covers with black lettering to front cover, 162pp, illus plus folding map, VG (fading to spine, moderately heavy dampstaining to rear cover, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Anglican,Methodist, Presbyterian & RC Churches East of the Tamaki (?) 1973

KEYWORDS: Venerable HG Buckle churches history New Zealand Tamaki Presbyterian Anglican Methodist Roman Catholic

$50.00
1b44/5

Tales of the Turi: South Hillend Centenary


CAIRNS, MARJORIE & PLUNKETT, FRANK H. (Eds)

Octavo, dark brown boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 359pp, illus, VG+ (6cm x 4cm portion of fep upper corner cut out, light label residue stains to lower spine & front board lower corner)

PUBLISHER: South Hillend Centennial Cttee 1984

KEYWORDS: Marjorie Cairns Frank Plunkett New Zealand Turi South Hillend history Taringatura Aparima Oreti River Southland settlers pioneers

$60.00
1b44/11

The History of the Melanesian Mission


ARMSTRONG, E. S.

Ex library, dark blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule to boards, black coated eps, frontispiece, xxviii + folding map + 372pp, illus, VG- (some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, library labels to feps, moderately heavy foxing)

PUBLISHER: Isbister & Co Ltd 1900

KEYWORDS: ES Armstrong George Augustus Selwyn John Selwyn Bishop Patteson diocese mission church history Melanesia Norfolk Island Torres Islands

$55.00
1b44/14

The History of Broadcasting in New Zealand 1920-1954


HALL, JOHN HERBERT (BERT)

Quarto, blue light card covers with gilt lettering to spone & front board, iii + 203pp, VG- (heavy fading to covers, two 2cm closed tears to lower spine extrem & front cover lower corner, upper 1cm portion of spine missing, small nick to central spine, inscription in ink to fep, front gutter cracked/detached at staples, heavy foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand 1980

KEYWORDS: John Herbert Bert Hall New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation NZBC history pioneers radio wireless

$47.50
1b44/15

Fading Fast: Images from New Zealand's Rural South


TEELE, DAVID W & MCMILLAN, VAL & TEELE, RITA L.

Signed by all three authors, quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to red spine, vi + 160pp, illus, VG

PUBLISHER: Bunny Busters 2012

KEYWORDS: David Teele Rita Teele Val McMillan New Zealand South Island pictorial photographic history architecture buildings stations post offices farms

$50.00
1b44/19

The Pictish Nation: Its People & Its Church


SCOTT, ARCHIBALD B.

First edition, new fep to reinforce damaged original fep, imperial octavo, navy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 561pp, VG-(moderate bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light rubbing to board edges & corners, heavy foxing & tanning, esp to page edges, heavy browning to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: TN Foulis Publisher 1918

KEYWORDS: first edition Archibald B Scott Picts Pictish nation Scots history religion church Celtic Welsh Cymric

$40.00
1b44/22

Invercargill 150 Years: 1856-2006


ESLER, LLOYD

Super octavo, illus light card covers, 144pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Lloyd Esler 2006

KEYWORDS: Lloyd Esler new Zealand Southland Invercargill history

$40.00
1b44/25

Catlins Bound: William McPhee's Southern-Built Sailing Ships, New Zealand 1860-70s


Illustrated with Shipping Notices, Photographs, Maps, Adverts & Paintings by Fergus Sutherland; accompanied by Music by Maritime Crew

MCPHEE, MIKE & CHURCH, IAN (Ed)

CD loosely enclosed, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps & white lettering to blue spine, illus eps, 262pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Catlins Wildlife Ecotours 2009

KEYWORDS: Mike McPhee Ian Churcvh Fergus Sutehrland New Zealand Catlins Stewart Island shipbuilding maritime nautical history sailing ships

$16.50
xxezh64250

Violent Truce: A Military Observer looks at the Arab Israeli Conflict 1951-1955


Forewords by Major Gneeral Vagn Bennike, Lt Col WT McAninch, Major John R DeBarr USMC

HUTCHISON, E. H., USNR

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+); 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: John Calder Publishers 1956

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Commander EH Hutchison USNR history Israel Jordan Syria Iraq Arab-Israeli conflict warfare

$17.50
xxezh64255

Hawaii: Isles of Dreams


CHEGARAY, JACQUES

Uncorrected proof copy first edition, 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: Arthur Barker 1957

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Jacques Chegaray Hawaii history travel tourism culture

$12.00
xxezh64257

Being Indian: The Truth about why the Twenty-first Century will be India's


VARMA, PAVAN K.

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 2005

KEYWORDS: specials Pavan K Varma India social history religion cultural portrait

$55.00
1b44/37

Ashburton Borough: The Final Fifty Years 1939 - 1989


RICHARDSON, H. C.

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 338pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to lower spine extrem, small stain spots to fep lower edge) in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Ashburton District Council 1993

KEYWORDS: HC Richardson New Zealand Ashburton Tinwald history

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