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$12.00
xxkvb70701

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)

ROBSON, F. D. & GIBBINGS, ROBERT

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

$40.00
xxkvg70905

New Pacific Literatures: Culture and Environment in the European Pacific


MCLAREN, JOHN

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

$30.00
1g76/5

The New Century in Rotorua: A History of Events from 1900


STAFFORD, D. M.

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

$60.00
1g76/11

By Blueskin Bay


PULLAR, R. G.

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

$42.50
1g76/13

Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands 1855 - 1868


DE VARIGNY, CHARLES & KORN, ALFONS, L. (Trans)

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

$80.00
1g76/16

Kamahi: A District History


HALLIDAY, MERV

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

$12.50
xxkwa70908

Equality


CALLINICOS, ALEX

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

$12.00
xxkwa70919

Towards The Light


GRAYLING, A. C.

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

$22.50
xxdsm70597

Kohimarama: A Collection of Fragments


Commemorating Kohimarama Yacht Club's Fift Years 1939 - 1989

DAVIS, FRANK

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

$25.00
xxdsm70588

His Majesty's Regiments of the British Army


N/A

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

$18.00
xxdsm70574

Struan's War


Battlegrounds, Recreation and Sightseeing in North Africa, 1941 - 1944, in the Photographs and Diaries of New Zealand Division Gunner Struan MacGibbon

MACGIBBON, JOHN (Ed)

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

$32.50
xxdsm70577

Historic North Otago


Comprising a Selection from those Articles First Published on the Feature Page of the Oamaru Mail in the 1980's

MUIRHEAD, SYD

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

$12.00
xxkwa70929

Wittgenstein


BARTLEY III, WILLIAM WARREN

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

$60.00
1g76/20

The Constitutional History and Law of New Zealand


HIGHT, J. & BAMFORD, H. D.

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

$75.00
1g76/22

The Christ Face in Art


BURNS, JAMES

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

$9.50
xxkwb70971

The Barbarian West 400 - 1000


WALLACE-HADRILL, J. M.

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

$9.00
xxkwb70972

The Renaissance


PATER, WALTER

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

$39.50
xxkwb70977

King of Counties


MILLER, F. W. G.

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

$9.00
xxkwb70979

The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 Volume One


CARR, EDWARD HALLETT

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

$14.00
xxkwb70992

The Twelve Caesars


DENNISON, MATTHEW

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

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