Books - "history"
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A Natural History of Man in Britain: Conceived as a Study of Changing Relations Between Men and Environments
First revised 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: Collins 1970
KEYWORDS: specials H J Fleure Britain British natural history anthropology first edition
Sink the Rainbow!: An Enquiry into the 'Greenpeace Affair'
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: Victor Gollancz 1986
KEYWORDS: specials John Dyson New Zealand Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior nautical politics history
The Sec rets of Bredon Hill: A Country Chronicle of the Year 1900
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: Coronet / Hodder and Stoughton 1975
KEYWORDS: specials Fred Archer Bredon Hill history
The History of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1840-1940
Imperial octavo, dark blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & blind-stamped lettering in decorative panel to front board, upper page edges stained blue, light blue eps, xv + 464pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to upper spine extrem, some light foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (browning to spine, staining to spine/front, heavy nicking & tears to edges, some soiling & tanning)
PUBLISHER: Presbyterian Bookroom 1940
KEYWORDS: John Rawson Elder New Zealand Presbyterian Church history
Requiem for a Gasworks
Large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 207pp, illus, VG (ding to lower spine extrem, slight staining to page fore-edges, slight wrinkling to some pages) in d/w, VG+ (scratch to front)
PUBLISHER: University of Canterbury 1987
KEYWORDS: John S Pollard New Zealand Christchurch engineering industrial architecture history
Mine Alone: The Unrelenting Struggle of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire for Recognition in Colonial New Zealand
Inscribed & signed by author, one-page holograph letter of author loosely enclosed, super octavo, black & red illus light card covers with white lettering, v + frontispiece map + 277pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Butterfly Creek Books 2007
KEYWORDS: Rosemary D Mercer New Zealand biography history Nelson mining engineer Joseph Taylor Puponga Coal Mine
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
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: Harper Perennial / HarperCollins 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Max Hastings second world war teo 2 II ww2 wwII Japan Japanese military history
Georgian London
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: Barrie & Jenkins 1988
KEYWORDS: specials John Summerson Georgian London architecture history
London: A Companion to its History and Archaeology
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: Kyle Cathie Ltd 1994
KEYWORDS: specials Malcolm Billings London archaeology history
The Pioneers of Port Nicholson
Oblong 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1984
KEYWORDS: specials David McGill New Zealand Wellington Harbour Port Nicholson history
Jazz
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1952
KEYWORDS: specials Rex Harris Jazz music history
Opera
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1945
KEYWORDS: specials Edward J Dent music opera history
The Prehistory of Southern Africa
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1959
KEYWORDS: specials J Desmond Clark Southern South Africa African history prehistory archaeology anthropology
High Flies the Cross: The 75th Jubilee History of St Andrew's College Christchurch, New Zealand 1917-1992
Inscribed & signed by author, quarto, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps, 267pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep & to half-title page, v slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Board of Governors St Andrew's College 1992
KEYWORDS: Gordon Ogilvie signed New Zealand St Andrew's College Christchurch school education history
An Excellent Recruit: Frederick Thatcher, Architect, Priest and Private Secretary in Early New Zealand
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 297pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Polygraphia Ltd 2007
KEYWORDS: Margaret Alington New Zealand biography Frederick Thatcher architect priest history
Studies in Oceanic Culture History Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Number 11 Pacific Anthropological Records
Three-volume set, quarto, beige light card covers with black lettering, printed eps, iii + 206pp, iii + 120pp, vii + 160pp (vols 1-3 respectively), illus, VG+ (v slight staining to covers, owner's name in ink to front cover or fep)
PUBLISHER: Dept of Anthropology Bernice Bishop Museum 1970
KEYWORDS: RC Green M Kelly archaeology anthropology essays Polynesian Oceanic pre-history research papers
Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677-1683
Super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + 388pp + 2pp book ads, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Jonathan Scott Algernon Sidney biography political history Charles II
England's Troubles: Seventeenth-century English Political Instability in European Context
First edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 546pp, fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: first edition Jonathan Scott English history 17th century politics
The Old Identities being Sketches and Reminiscences during the first decade of the Province of Otago
First edition, lacks title page but frontispiece present, original binding, octavo, purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt decorative rule to spine & front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, brown coated eps, frontispiece, iv + 395pp, illus, VG- (lacks title page, heavy browning to spine, fading & rubbing to boards, some bruising & fraying to top & base of spine & board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, some browning & soiling to prelims, 3cm tatty tear to page 1 upper edge, some sporadic foxing)
PUBLISHER: Mills Dick & Co 1879
KEYWORDS: first edition James Barr New Zealand Otago history
Unto the Hills: The Story of a Parish in the Mountains
First edition, illus light card covers with plain white spine & black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 78pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1967
KEYWORDS: first edition JD Salmond New Zealand Queenstown Frankton Glenorchy Skippers Arrowtown church history