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$18.50
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Running with the Fox


MACDONALD, DAVID & BARRETT, PRISCILLA (Illus) & MA

Quarto 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: Unwin Hyman 1989

KEYWORDS: specials David Jenny Macdonald Priscilla Barrett natural history foxes animals

$30.00
xxktk69636

Julius Caesar And His Public Image


YAVETZ, AWI

super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Thames and Hudson 1983

KEYWORDS: specials Awi Yavetz ancient history roman julius caeser biography anthropology

$30.00
xxktk69637

From Memory To Written Record: England 1066-1207


CLANCHY, M. T.

super 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: Blackwell 1993

KEYWORDS: specials Michael Clanchy history middle ages medieval europe

$10.00
xxktl69668

Slavery in Ancient Rome


Inside the Ancient World

MASSEY, MICHAEL & MORELAND, PAUL

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 1978

KEYWORDS: specials Michael Massey Paul Moreland ancient history rome anthropology

$65.00
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Kilim History and Symbols


VALCARENGHI, DARIO

Quarto, white cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 214pp, illus, VG (some tanning/foxing to board edges, light tanning to page edges, slight creasing to rear ep fore-edge, 5cm tear/damage patch to rear hinge) in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Electa/1994

KEYWORDS: Dario Valcarenghi Anatolian kilim craft textiles arts rugs furniture coverings wallhangings history

$18.50
xxkto69790

Faces of China: Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday


FOK, PAT (Photo) & TERRILL, ROSS

Quarto 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: Michael Joseph 1974

KEYWORDS: specials Pat Fok Ross Terrill China photography Chinese pictorial history

$40.00
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A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by Command of His Majesty for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty


including an account of the Mutiny on Board said ship & the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew

BLIGH, LIEUTENANT WILLIAM

Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in green decorative panel to spine, frontispiece portrait of Capt. Bligh, vi + folding Bounty ship's plan + 264pp, illus with folding maps, VG (some foxing to page edges, v slight tanning to eps, creasing to edges of one map due to mis-folding)

PUBLISHER: Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 121 Libraries Board 1969 (Reprint of Lords Commissioners of the A

KEYWORDS: Captain William Bligh naval nautical maritime voyage travel history mutiny HMS Bounty Fletcher Christian journals

$25.00
xxkto69791

Edgar Snow's China: A Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution Compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow


SNOW, LOIS WHEELER & SNOW, EDGAR

Quarto 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: Orbis Publishing 1981

KEYWORDS: specials Lois Wheeler Snow Edgar Snow China Chinese Revolution history

$40.00
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The Pioneers Explore Otago: A Record of Explorers, Travellers, Surveyors, Bushmen, Seekers of Pastoral Country, Inland Voyagers and Wayfaring Men


BEATTIE, HERRIES

First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, 160pp, illus, VG (some staining & soiling to boards, light fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps & to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times & Witness Newspapers 1947

KEYWORDS: first edition Herries Beattie New Zealnad Otago exploration explorers travellers surveying history

$9.00
xxkua69805

The Doctor and the Damed


HAAS, ALBERT

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: Panther Books 1985

KEYWORDS: specials albert haas war ww2 history

$75.00
1g74/18

Sir Alan Cobham's Book of the Air


LYONS, R. S. & COBHAM, SIR ALAN (Ed)

Uncommon in d/w, imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & maroon lettering to front board, upper edges stained red, frontispiece, 176pp, illus, VG- (fading patch to upper spine extrem & adjacent board upper corners, light staining to board edges, moderate foxing to page edges & prelims, lighter sporadic foxing elsewhere) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, damage to upper spine extrem & adjacent rear upper corner including 2cm x 4cm patch of loss, creasing & nicks to all edges & corners, rubbing to folds & to rear, some soiling)

PUBLISHER: Blackie & Son Ltd 1938

KEYWORDS: RS Lyons Sir Alan Cobham aviation aeroplanes aircraft flight flying history

$100.00
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Emanations of Silver Islet


MACDONALD, BILL (Ed)

Quarto, illus white light card stapled wrappers, printed eps, 56pp, illus, VG (light soiling to covers, label residue stain to rear cover, inscription in ink to page 1)

PUBLISHER: Porphry Press 1995

KEYWORDS: Bill McDonald Canada Silver Islet Mining Company Skull Rock William B Frue history

$45.00
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Emanations of Silver Islet Volume II (2)


MACDONALD, BILL (Ed)

Quarto, illus white light card stapled wrappers, printed eps, 56pp, illus, VG (light soiling to covers, label residue stain to rear cover, inscription in ink to page 1)

PUBLISHER: Porphry Press 1995

KEYWORDS: Bill McDonald Canada Silver Islet Mining Company Skull Rock William B Frue history

$39.50
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The Founding Years in Rotorua: A History of Events to 1900


STAFFORD, D. M.

Imperial octavo, pink heavy card boards with white lettering to spine, illus eps, 448pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, slight crease to spine) in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Ray Richards Publisher / Rotorua District Council 1986

KEYWORDS: DM Stafford New Zealand Rotorua history

$10.00
xxkua69821

The Naval and Military Club, Melbourne 1881-1962


COMMITTEE OF THE NAVAL AND MILITARY CLUB

Hardcover imperial 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: Melbourne University Press 1962

KEYWORDS: specials Committee of the Naval and Military Club history Australia military

$22.00
xxkua69826

Letters from the Battlefield


New Zealand Soldiers Write Home 1914-18

HARPER, GLYN (ED.)

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: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited 2001

KEYWORDS: specials Glyn Harper New Zealand military history soldier correspondence Great War World War I

$18.50
xxkua69827

The Winemaker


George Fistonich and the Villa Maria Story

TYACK, KERRY R.

Softcover super octavo (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: Random House New Zealand 2012

KEYWORDS: specials Kerry R Tyack New Zealand biography George Fistonich wine winemaking Villa Maria history

$25.00
xxkua69833

Cars of the Connoisseur


A Treasury of the Years of Grace

BUCKLEY, J.R.

First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG) in d/w (scruffy) ; 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: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1960

KEYWORDS: first edition specials J R Buckley transport automobiles cars history

$24.50
xxkua69835

Small Cars in New Zealand


Baby Austins, ford Prefects, Minis, VWs & More!

CHADWICK, TIM

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: Grantham House Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: specials Tim Chadwick New Zealand transport history automobiles cars

$16.50
xxkua69837

Tiwi Wives


A Study of the Women of Melville Island, North Australia

GOODALE, JANE C.

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: University of Washington Press 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Jane C Goodale anthropology history culture Australia Melville Island Tiwi people

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