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Kiwis in Captivity: Some Observations on the Famous Flightless Birds of New Zealand
As Told to Robert Gibbings by F. D. Robson. Fourth Edition (With Additional Material)
Octavo, stapled light card covers (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Bulletin of the Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum
KEYWORDS: specials F D Robson Robert Gibbings New Zealand naturl history animals animal behaviour kiwi birds ornithology
New Pacific Literatures: Culture and Environment in the European Pacific
Ex library, octavo 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Garland 1993
KEYWORDS: specials John McLaren European Pacific literature literary criticism culture sociology society history
The New Century in Rotorua: A History of Events from 1900
First edition imperial octavo, green boards with white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 428pp, illus,VG+ ( in d/w, VG+ light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Ray Richards Publisher & Rotorua District Council 1988
KEYWORDS: DM Stafford New Zealand Rotorua history
By Blueskin Bay
SIGNED; octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 92pp, illus, VG, lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times & Witness Newspapers 1957
KEYWORDS: RG Pullar New Zealand Waitati Blueskin Bay history pioneers early settlers signed
Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands 1855 - 1868
Super octavo, light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light brown patterened eps, frontispiece, xxviii + 289pp, illus, VG (light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (fading to spine, light soiling to rear, 1cm closed tear to lower front, light foxing to inside)
PUBLISHER: University Press of Hawaii / Hawaiian Historical Society 1981
KEYWORDS: Charles de Varigny Alfons L Korn French autobiography memoir Hawaii Honolulu Pacific Islands Hawaiian history travel culture politics
Kamahi: A District History
Inscribed and signed by author, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 264pp, VG (light soiling to board extrems, prev owners sign to prelim) in d/w, VG (light fading and small tears to upper extrems)
PUBLISHER: Merv Halliday 1990
KEYWORDS: signed Merv Halliday New Zealand Kamahi district history
Equality
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Polity 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Alex Callinicos history politics economics capitalism
Towards The Light
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2008
KEYWORDS: specials A C Grayling politics history women's rights equality
Kohimarama: A Collection of Fragments
Commemorating Kohimarama Yacht Club's Fift Years 1939 - 1989
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Frank Davis 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Frank Davis New Zealand Kohimarama Yacht Club sailing boats history
His Majesty's Regiments of the British Army
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (good+); 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Metro-Provincial Publications 1949
KEYWORDS: specials British Army regiments military history
Struan's War
Battlegrounds, Recreation and Sightseeing in North Africa, 1941 - 1944, in the Photographs and Diaries of New Zealand Division Gunner Struan MacGibbon
Oblong 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Ngaio Press 2001
KEYWORDS: specials John MacGibbon New Zealand Struan MacGibbon North Africa war photographs photography diary journal memoir pictorial history
Historic North Otago
Comprising a Selection from those Articles First Published on the Feature Page of the Oamaru Mail in the 1980's
Quarto softcover stapled wrappers (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 cost
PUBLISHER: The Oamaru Mail 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Syd Muirfield New Zealand North Otago Oamaru history
Wittgenstein
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Quarter 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy history biography
The Constitutional History and Law of New Zealand
First edition, small octavo, red textured cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, xii + 418pp, VG- (moderate fading to spine, some staining to boards, some browning & staining to page edges, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, browning & soiling to eps)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1914
KEYWORDS: J Hight HD Bamford New Zealand consititutional history law legal judicial system government politics courts justice
The Christ Face in Art
Inscribed & signed by author, octavo, cream boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule to spine, gilt-stamped Christ motif to front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxii + 252pp, illus with aprox 60 full-page plates, VG- (heavy browning to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, 1cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, chaffing to spine sides & extrems, light tanning to eps, some light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Duckworth & Co 1907
KEYWORDS: James Burns art history religion religious art Christ sculpture painting iconography
The Barbarian West 400 - 1000
hardcover 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1959
KEYWORDS: specials J M Wallace-Hadrill european history
The Renaissance
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: New American Library 1959
KEYWORDS: specials Walter Pater renaissance european history art culture
King of Counties
Inscribed, dated & signed by author, 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: Southland County Council 1977
KEYWORDS: signed specials FWG Miller New Zealand Southland County Council local government history
The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 Volume One
Paperback, this vol. only (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 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Edward Hallett Carr Soviet Union Russia Bolshevik revolution history
The Twelve Caesars
Super octavo 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: not stated
KEYWORDS: specials Matthew Dennison Roman emperors history biography Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian Titus