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$42.50
2g32/44

The Hill Tribes of Fiji


A Record of Forty Years' Intimate Connection with the Tribes of the Mountainous Interior of Fiji with a Description of their Habits in War & Peace, Methods of Living, Characteristics Mental & Physical

BREWSTER, A. B.

Octavo, turquiose heavy card boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece, 308pp + folding map, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to boards, v slight rubbing to upper board corners, v v slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Johnson Reprint 1967 (reprint of JB Lijppincot Co 1922)

KEYWORDS: A B Brewster Fiji Fijian hill tribes anthropology sociology history

$19.50
xxeka68694

Great Land Battles of World War II


HOGG, IAN & CUNEO, TERENCE (Illus)

Imperial 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: Chancellor Press 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Ian Hogg Terence Cuneo second world war two 2 II ww2 warfare military history

$22.50
xxeka68695

American Battleships: A Pictorial History of BB-1 to BB-71, with prototypes Maine & Texas


NEWHART, MAX R.

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: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Max R Newhart America American naval nautical pictorial history battleships ships boats

$25.00
xxeka68701

Jungle Dive Bombers at War


SMITH, PETER C.

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: John Murray 1987

KEYWORDS: specials Peter C Smith aviation second world war two 2 II ww2 war air force military history

$26.00
xxeka68704

The Highland Railway


NOCK, O. S.

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: Ian Allen 1973

KEYWORDS: specials O S Nock highland railways trains railway locomotives history

$26.50
xxdzd68591

Crime in New Zealand - A Survey of New Zealand Criminal Behaviour


N/A

hardcover octavo 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: Dept. of Justice NZ 1986

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history crime government behaviour psychology

$27.50
xxdzd68597

LaPorte, Indiana


BITNER, JASON

first edition softcover super octavo (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: Princeton Architectural Press 2006

KEYWORDS: specials jason bitner americana photography art history indiana portraits alex kotlowitz

$245.00
2g32/38

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain in Eight Volumes


With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions

LODGE, EDMUND

8-volume set, small octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards & spine, frontispiece, with tissue guards, ix + 263pp / iv + 291pp / iv + 304pp / iv + 345pp / iv + 304pp / iv + 303pp / iv + 304pp / iv + 305pp (vols 1 to 8 respectively), illus, VG- (some bruising nicks & tears to spine extrems, light scuffing & moderate soiling to boards, some bruising to board corners, owner's name label to front pastedowns, some foxing, light tanning to page edges, occasional tissue guard loose, sporadic staining usu to lower page edges)

PUBLISHER: William Smith (circa 1880)

KEYWORDS: Edmund Lodge Great Britain British history biography biographies Wolsey Thomas Moore Catherine Parr etc

$22.50
xxdyf68355

The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge & the Search for Louis XVII


CADBURY, DEBORAH

Super octavo hardcover (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: Fourth Estate / Harper Collins 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Deborah Cadbury Louis XVII of France French king history revolution

$12.50
xxdyg68410

Chatto Curiosities of the British Street: Shop Fronts


POWERS, ALAN

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: Chatto & Windus 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Britain British shop fronts architecture architectural social history

$12.50
xxdyg68411

Chatto Curiosities of the British Street: Heraldry


ROBINSON, JOHN MARTIN

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: Chatto & Windus 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Britain British royal corporate personal heraldry history heraldic devices coats of arms

$15.00
xxdyg68412

Canterbury Grapes & Wines 1840-2002


SCHUSTER, DANNY & JACKSON, DAVID & TIPPLES, RUPERT

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: Shoal Bay Press 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Danny Schuster David Jackson Rupert Tipple New Zealand Canterbury wine grapes vineyards oenology viticulture history

$30.00
xxdze68626

A Room with a World View: 50 Years of Inter-Continental Hotels and its People: 1946 - 1996


POTTER, JAMES E.

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996

KEYWORDS: specials James E Potter Inter-Continental hotels resorts history travel accomodation

$24.50
xxdzf68664

Weapons of the Warriors: From Small Arms to Tanks


QUARRIE, BRUCE

Imperial 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: Guild Publishing 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Bruce Quarrie weapons guns tanks war Waffen-SS knives daggers swords rifles grenades military history

$10.00
xxdzf68676

Us Mob: History, Culture, Struggle: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia


MUDROOROO

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: Angus & Robertson 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Mudrooroo Australia Australian Aboriginals indigenous Australians culture history sociology anthropology Mudrooroo essays

$10.00
xxgaf68717

The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway: Part One Preliminary Survey


n/a

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: The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 1951

KEYWORDS: specials locomotive trains rail railway survey history transport

$12.00
xxgfa68725

The British Tram


WILSON, FRANK E.

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: Percival Marshall 1963

KEYWORDS: specials Frank E Wilson british tram transport rail history illustrated

$13.50
xxgeg68728

Great Barrier Calls


MEDLAND, GRACE M.

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: Wilson and Horton 1970

KEYWORDS: specials Grace M Medland new zealand great barrier island reef history

$17.50
xxgeg68733

Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitutde


BRUCE, ROBERT V.

hardcover 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: Cornell University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Robert V Bruce Alexander Graham Bell biography inventor telephone history

$38.50
xxgeg68734

The Aeroplane: An Historical Survey


GIBBS-SMITH, CHARLES H.

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: Her Majesty's Stationary Office 1960

KEYWORDS: specials Charles H Gibbs-Smith aviation aeroplane aircraft history

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