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$15.00
xxdsg69503

Trafalgar


TERRAINE, JOHN

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: Wordsworth Editions Limited 1998

KEYWORDS: specials John Terraine military history naval warfare maritime battle Trafalgar Napoleonic Wars

$19.50
xxdsg69504

Messerschmitt Bf 109 in the West, 1937 - 1940


From the Spanish Civil War to the Battle of Britain

PAYNE, MICHAEL

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: Greenhill Books & Stackpole Books 1998

KEYWORDS: specials Michael Payne military history aviation aircraft German planes Messerschmitt World War II

$30.00
xxdsg69508

Battleships & Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy since 1861


COWARD, CDR B. R.

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: Ian Allan Ltd 1986

KEYWORDS: specials Cdr B. R. Coward RN ships boats nautical battleships battlecruisers Royal Navy military history

$25.00
xxdse69425

Faded Glory


Airline Colour Schemes of the Past

MORTON, JOHN K.

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: Airlife Publishing Limited 1991

KEYWORDS: specials John K Morton aviation history airline colour schemes decoration aircraft

$22.50
xxdse69427

Colonial Homes of Palmerston North


WRIGHT, EILEEN REVERE & WOODHOUSE, EDITH DORETTA

Hardcover oblong 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: A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd 1975

KEYWORDS: specials Eileen Revere Wright Edith Doretta Woodhouse New Zealand North Island Palmerston North colonial houses architecture history

$9.50
xxdse69434

Mao's Last Dancer


GUNXIN, LI

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: Penguin Viking 2003

KEYWORDS: specials li gunxin mao china biography politics dance history

$75.00
1g73/1

The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture


GARNSEY, PETER & SALLER, RICHARD

Scarce in hardcover, first edition, octavo, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, i + frontispiece map +231pp, VG+ (v small fingerprint mark to fep upper edge, tiny soil spot to front side of spine) in d/w VG+ (slight rubbing, some fading)

PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 1987

KEYWORDS: Peter Garnsey Richard Saller first edition Roman Empire economics government religion history

$65.00
1g73/5

Red Poll Cattle in New Zealand


The Beef Breed with Milk

CONDON, MICHAEL P.

Super octavo, red boards with gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, 264pp, illus, VG (date & notation in black ink to title page, chaffing to verso half-title page where glued letter removed) in d/w, VG (light bruising to edges, some rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Wanganui Newspapers Ltd 1985

KEYWORDS: Michael P Condon New Zealand agriculture farming Red Poll beef cattle herds breed history

$65.00
1g73/18

Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism: Volume 4 Modernism with a Vengeance 1957-1969


GREENBERG, CLEMENT & O'BRIAN, JOHN (Ed)

Octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering in gilt rule to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 341pp, VG+ (slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light sunning)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Clement Greenberg John O'Brian American essays articles art history painting modernism

$18.50
xxktk69633

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
1g73/24

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
1g73/31

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

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