Books - "history"
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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: Arrows Books 1990
KEYWORDS: specials bryan burrough john helyar american history rjr nabisco wall street
The Auckland Islands: Their Eventful History
First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with back lettering to spine, illus eps, 109pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, v. slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (moderate soiling, light scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: first edition Fergus B McLaren Auckland Islands sub-Antarctic history Enderby colony shipwrecks New Zealand
The Mystery Lady of Campbell Island
Signed & dated by author, super octavo, beige light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, printed eps, ii + 16pp, VG (v light soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: George Fowlds 1965
KEYWORDS: George Mathew Fowlds New Zealand Campbell Island Elizabeth Parr history Bonnie Prince Charlie legends
Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War Two (2)
Quarto hardcover (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: Reader's Digest 1970
KEYWORDS: specials Reader's Digest Second World War Two WW2 military history
Cook's Tours: The Story of Popular Travel
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: Blandford Press 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Swinglehurst Thomas Cook's tours travel tourism popular history holiday Wagons Lit
Pioneering a Vision: A History of the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind 1890-1990
Octavo softcover (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: Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Ken Catran Penny Hansen Royal Foundation for the Blind history
Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries 610-1071
First edition, 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: Barnes & Noble 1993
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Romilly Jenkins Byzantium ancient religious military political history
Reader's Digest: The War to End Wars 1914-18
Quarto hardcover (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: Reader's Digest 1999
KEYWORDS: specials world war one ww1 military history first world war
The Dam Busters
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: Pan Books 1956
KEYWORDS: specials Paul Brickhill history war 617 squadron Rpyal Air Force
Destroyer: The History of a Unique Breed of Warship
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: Arrow 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Ewart Brookes warships ships boats nautical history
The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot
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: Mandarin 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Antonia Fraser history biography Boadicea
The Occupation of Japan: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Anglo-Australasian Relations 1939 - 1952
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: University of Queensland Press 2001
KEYWORDS: specials George Davies Japan Japanese history Australia British Commonwealth Occupation Force BCOF World War II
Chinese in Fiji
Scarce, octavo, illus light card covers with green lettering to spine & front cover, 287pp, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: University of the South Pacific 2002
KEYWORDS: Bessie Ng Kumlin Ali Fiji Fijian China Chinese immigrants society settlers Pacific history
The Coming of the Maori to Ao-Tea-Roa
First edition, octavo, dark green heavy card boards with mounted pohutakawa coloured illus to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, 23pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to front board, v slight rubbing to rear board)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1934
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand Maori history Hawaiki migration
The Mystery of the Pyramids
Quarto hardcover (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: Marchall Cavendish Books 1979
KEYWORDS: specials Humphrey Evans pyramids Egypt archaeology ancient history
Song Full of Tears: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life at Xiang Lake
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: Westview / Perseus 2002
KEYWORDS: specials R Keith Schoppa China Chinese history zheijiang
Enemies: A History of the FBI
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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2012
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Weiner United States American FBI secret intelligence service security history journalism
Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire
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: Routledge 2002
KEYWORDS: specials cinema film movies actors actresses directors India Bollywood history portrait Vijay Mishra
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
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: Verso 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Vinayak Chaturvedi Indian history anthology essays articles Ranajit Guha Partha Chatterjee David Arnold Rosalind O'Hanlon Tom Brass David Washbrook
The Puppet Masters: Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events
Super 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Colonel John Hughes-Wilson espionage spying history KGB CIA military secret intelligence politics