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Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57
FIRST EDITION, hardcover 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: Putnam 1957
KEYWORDS: specials Owen Thetford first edition aircraft aviation RAF military history first edition
Prescott's Conquest of Peru
hardcover 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: J. M. Dent & Co 1909
KEYWORDS: specials Thomas Seccombe history war peru battle
A History of the United States: The Birth of the U.S.A
volume one
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 1961
KEYWORDS: specials R B Nye J E Morpurgo american history politics
New Vanguard 17: KV-1 & 2 Heavy Tanks 1941-1945
Imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Osprey Military 1995
KEYWORDS: specials military history weaponry tanks Steven Zaloga Jim Kinnear Peter Sarson
New Vanguard 20: T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944-1994
Imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Osprey Military 1996
KEYWORDS: specials military history weaponry tanks Steven Zaloga Jim Kinnear Peter Sarson
Freud for Historians
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: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Gay Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis psychiatry history
A Fez of the Heart
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: Picador 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Jeremy Seal trave sociology history turkey
The Married Life of Rachel Lady Russell
Lovely binding, first edition, small octavo, brown leather boards with gilt lettering to front board & dark brown decorative tooling to spine & boards, marbled eps with tooled leather edges, aeg, ii + 80pp + 17 blank pages, VG (some scuffing to boards, board edges & corners, 1cm scratch to rear board centre, owner's gilt name label to front pastedown, sporadic foxing)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Bosworth 1855
KEYWORDS: M Guizot Rachel Vaughan Lady Russell French biography history
Studies of New Zealand Life: Made in New Zealand
Small octavo, green buckram boards with black lettering to spine & front board, 38pp + 2pp book adverts, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to board corners & spine sides, bookseller's label to front pastedown, moderately heavy browning to eps, small stain spot to front board )
PUBLISHER: Society for Promotoing Christian Knowledge 1915
KEYWORDS: Mrs Wesley Turton New Zealand history Maori myths legends religion
The Life and Times of Charles James Fox Volumes 1, 2 and 3
First edition, three-volume set with a folded full-page holograph SIGNED letter from Charles Fox tipped in, magnificently re-bound, light brown leather boards with gilt decorative edging, five raised bands to brown leather spine with gilt lettering in coloured panels & gilt tooled decorative motif between raised bands, aeg, blue eps with gilt decorative tooling to front & rear pastedown edges, frontispiece portraits tipped in to each volume, xv + 366pp, viii + 380pp, xii + 404pp (vols 1 to 3 respectively), some slight discolouration to boards, owner's ex libris label to front pastedowns, some foxing & tanning but only to first few pages of each volume)
PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty 1866
KEYWORDS: Earl Russell Charles James Fox autobiography history politics
Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists and Other Jewish Holdings in the Lithuanian Archives
Quarto, beige light card covers with black lettering, 149pp, VG+ (slight fading to spine & rear cover edge, slight rubbing to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Avotaynu Inc 1996
KEYWORDS: Harold Rhode Sallyann Amdur Sack Jewish Lithuanian records reference history genealogy
Ragamala Painting
Small folio, oatmeal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt decorative motif to front board, orange eps, 305pp, illus, VG (light foxing to upper page edges, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light tanning to page edges/peripherals) in d/w, VG- (plastic coating lifting to all edges & corners, some bruising to spine extrems & edges, 2cm untidy closed tear to front flap upper edge, light tanning to inside)
PUBLISHER: Ravi Kumar 1973
KEYWORDS: Klaus Ebeling Ragamala art miniatures murals Indian poetry music painting Ragas art history regional schools traditions reference dictionary
Psychic Pets
The Secret Life of Animals
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: Perennial Library, Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1979
KEYWORDS: specials Joseph Wylder natural history pets animals psychic pets communication spirituality new age
A Wild Herb Soup
The Life of a French Countrywoman
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: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Emilie Carles autobiography memoir history France
Cantata No. 140
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ; Sleepers, wake
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: Ernst Eulenberg, Ltd., undated
KEYWORDS: specials Johann Sebastian Bach Arnold Schering music history cantata score
The Necessity for Capitalism
Hardcover 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: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 1929
KEYWORDS: specials Philip Vos economics capitalism history politics South America
Opera at Covent Garden: A Short History
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: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Harold Rosenthal history London Covent Garden music opera performance
Kairuri: The Measurer of Land
The Life of the 19th Century Surveyor Pictured in his Art and Writings
Quarto, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 175pp, illus, VG+ (slight foxing to page upper edges) in d/w, VG+ (v slight sunning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Highgate / Price Milburn 1988
KEYWORDS: Nola Easdale New Zealand history surveying Institute of Surveyors exploration setstlers
Porsche Boxster
Quarto, light grey boards with glossy light grey lettering to front board, light grey eps, 157pp, illus, fine, in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Dr Ing Porsche AG 2000 (Second Edition)
KEYWORDS: Clauspeter Becker Jurgen Lewandowski Herbert Volker Christoph Bauer Dieter Blum Conrad Piepenburg Peter Vann Stefan Warter Porsche motorcar vehicles sports car Boxster automotive engineering mechanics history photography
The New Story of the Kauri
Imperial octavo, green baords with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 363pp, illus, VG+ in dw VG
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1964 (revised enlarged 3rd edition)
KEYWORDS: AH Reed New Zealand history kauri forestry trees botany timber industry logging silviculture preservation