Books - "history"
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Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music
Imperial octavo, grey heavy card boards with black lettering to lighter grey cloth spine, xi + 593pp. Illus, VG (slight soiling to lower page corners) in d/w, VG (1cm tatty closed tears to upper corners)
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishers 1993
KEYWORDS: Mary Bufwack Robert Oermann country & western music history women
HonkyTonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972 - 1981
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: Chronicle Books 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Henry Horenstein country & western music history
Drama of the Engish Renaissance I: The Tudor Period
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: Macmillan Publishing 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Russel A Fraser Norman Rabkin English drama theatre literature history
I, The Aboriginal
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: Lansdowne 1980
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Lockwood Australia Australian Aboriginal biography autobiography memoir history
A History of Maori Tennis / He Hitori o te Tenehi Maori
Oblong quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, 272pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Aotearoa Maori Tennis Association 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport Maori tennis history
Small Libraries of New Zealand
Signed by author, oblong imperial octavo, illus light card covers, illus title page, vii + 98pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Bay of Plenty Polytechnic 2005
KEYWORDS: signed Margaret Jenner New Zealand architecture libraries history buildings
A History of Otago
Quarto, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, 270pp, illus, VG+ (v slight fading to spine extrems) in d/w, VG- (some creasing & rubbing, closed tears to all corners, archival tape repairs to closed tears to upper spine)
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe Ltd 1984
KEYWORDS: Erik Olssen New Zealand Otago history
From Greece to Crete, Before and After: Extracts from My Life Story
Large octavo, green & cream light card covers with red & black lettering to spine & front cover, illus eps, 127pp, illus, VG (bruising & wrinkling to front cover lower outer corner and to same corner of first 30 pages)
PUBLISHER: AH Lambert 2001
KEYWORDS: Arthur H Lambert autobiography memoirs Second World War Two WW2 Greece Crete New Zealand military history
Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships Recherche, Esperance and Coquille under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey 1793 and 1824
Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life 3 and 4
Large oblong quarto, light grey cloth boards with gilt lettering in black decorative panels to spine & front board, 219pp, illus, VG- (some fading & soiling to boards, prominent waterstain to boards, v slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library & Indosuez NZ Ltd 1986
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Bruni d'Entrecasteaux Louis Isidore Duperry Isabel Ollivier Maori life Esperance Coquille Recherche
Project Journey: The Newmarket Viaduct Replacement
Oblong quarto, blue boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 156pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine
PUBLISHER: NZ Transport Agency & NGA Newmarket 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history engineering transport architecture Mary Bell Elizabeth collins Greg Kempthorne
The Girl's Own Annual Illustrated Volume 37 (XXXVII)
Quarto, brown illus cloth boards with yellow lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, black & yellow decorative rule to spine & front boad, illus eps, title page with tissue guard, 720pp, illus, VG- (binding loose & cracked at page 2/3 gutter, some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, slight staining to rear board, fraying to front hinge, some browning to page edges & to tissue guard, occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: 4 Bouverie St 1916 (?)
KEYWORDS: Girls Own Annual literature fiction arts crafts sport fashion clothing natural history cooking art entertainment housekeeping
The Girl's Own Annual Illustrated Volume 48 (XLVIII)
Quarto, green cloth boards with red lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, green & red holly motif to spine & front board,, mounted illus panel to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page with tissue guard, 704pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, some foxing & tanning)
PUBLISHER: 4 Bouverie St 1928
KEYWORDS: Girls Own Annual literature fiction arts crafts sport fashion clothing natural history cooking art entertainment housekeeping
The Girl's Own Annual Illustrated Volume 44 (XLIV)
Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & green lettering to front board, illus to front board, black&white decorative rule to front board & spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page with tissue guard, 704pp, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems, 1cm tear to cloth of board fore-edge, slight fraying to board corners, light browning to page edges, owner'sname & date in ink to prelim, light tanning to tissue guard, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: 4 Bouverie St 1923
KEYWORDS: Girls Own Annual literature fiction arts crafts sport fashion clothing natural history cooking art entertainment housekeeping
The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Vol. XIII January to June 1897
This volume only, imperial octavo, light blue buckram boards with black lettering & black illus to front board and gilt lettering to spine, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece, 804pp, illus, VG (some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, board edges & corners, binding loosening, moderate browning to eps, 1cm missing portion to fep upper corner, some light foxing)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes 1897
KEYWORDS: George Newnes Strand Magazine illustrated monthly magazine literature history fiction geography exploration entertainment
Japanese Detail: Traditional Costume and Fashion
Large quarto, illus white light card covers with French flaps and black lettering, 138pp, illus, VG- (some soiling to front cover, moderate staining to rear cover, heavy diagonal crease to rear cover & flap, dampstaining to upper & lower edges of last few pages)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1989
KEYWORDS: Sadao Hibi Japan Japanese history tradition costume fashion clothing textile weaving cloth design
Almost HMNZS Neptune
Signed by author, octavo, illus light card covers ,335pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, v slight tanning to feps, v light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Moana Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Jack Harker HMNZS Neptune New Zealand World War Two cruiser naval maritime history ship crewmen
The Roman Empire 27 B.C. - A.D. 476
A Study in Survival
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxord University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Chester G Starr ancient history roman empire
Dark Journey
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015
KEYWORDS: specials Glyn Harper new zealand military war history
English Eccentrics
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 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Edith Sitwell literature history archaeology
Men of Mathematics
Volume One
this vol only, 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: Pelican 1953
KEYWORDS: specials E T Bell history mathematics archimedes descartes fermat pascal newton leibniz gauss