Books - "history"
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Victorian Olympus
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: Cardinal 1975
KEYWORDS: specials William Gaunt art history elgin marbles parthenon
Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days
First edition, black boards with silver lettering to spine, ix + 500pp, VG (tape residue to fep, date in ink to fep, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & corners, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1959
KEYWORDS: first edition Admiral Doenitz autobiography memoirs Nazi Germany naval history
Clifford of the Cabal: A Life of Thomas, First Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England (1630-1673)
First edition, inscribed & signed by current Cliffords, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 350pp, illus, VG- (some fading & spotting to boards, v light bruising to spine extrems, small ding to front board upper corner, moderate foxing & tanning) in d/w, VG (moderate browning to spine, some creasing to spine extrems, small tatty tear to upper spine extrem, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1937
KEYWORDS: first edition Thomas Lord Clifford of Chudleigh biography history Cyril Hughes Hartmann
Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 1 1788-1850 A-H
This volume only, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Pike Australian history genealogy biography social science reference
Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 2 1788-1850 I-Z
This volume only, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Pike Australian history genealogy biography social science reference
Inside the Olympics: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of the Games
Signed, first edition, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons 2004
KEYWORDS: first edition signed specials Richard W Pound Olympic Games Olympics sport history
An Account of the The Settlements of the New Zealand Colony
From Personal Observations during a Residence There
Ex library, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Capper Press Reprint 1971 (of Smith, Elder & Co 1842)
KEYWORDS: specials Hon Henry William Petre New Zealand history
'Blest Madman' Fitzgerald of Canterbury
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: Canterbury University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Bohan James Edward Fitzgerald New Zealand biography Fanny Erskine Draper Canterbury history
John Rutherford: The White Chief: A Story of Adventure in New Zealand
Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks fep; 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: Whitcombe & Tombs (n/d)
KEYWORDS: specials James Drummond John Rutherford New Zealand biography history
Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists, Volumes One and Two
Two-volume set, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1968
KEYWORDS: specials Richard M Dorson British folklore history myths legends
Redlands: The Story of An Australian Shire
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Derek Townsend 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Derek Townsend Australia Queensland history
Whose High Country? A History of the South Island High Country of New Zealand
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Roberta McIntyre New Zealand South Island high country history
Lost Cowboys from Patagonia to the Alamo
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Hank Wangford cowboys gauchos llaneros vaqueros myth folklore history USA North South Central America
The First Five Books of the Roman History
First edition, pages unopened (uncut), small quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to maroon leather spine & gilt rule to meeting of cloth & leather, viii + 480pp, VG (front board/hinge sloppy, heavy chaffing, fraying & bruising to spine & spine sides & extrems, portions of loss to spine extrems, fading to boards, some dampstaining to upper edges of first 50 pages, some light foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: W & C Tait 1822
KEYWORDS: first edition Titus Livius John Bellenden ancient Rome Roman history
Glasgow and its Clubs; or Glimpses of the Condition Manners, Characters, & Oddities of the City during the Past & Present Century
Original binding, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind stamped decorative rule to boards, printed eps, viii + 599pp + 8pp adverts, VG (heavy rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, some browning to boards, esp spine, 2cm tear to cloth at lower corner of front pastedown, front & rear gutter paper cracked, spine hinges sloppy, owner's name & address label to half-title page, some tanning)
PUBLISHER: Richard Griffin & Co 1856
KEYWORDS: John Strang Scotland Glasgow social history clubs
Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Arms & Armour Press 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Joachim Wieder Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel Second World War Two WW2 Russia Stalingrad military history siege
The Mound Builders
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Graphic Society 1970
KEYWORDS: specials Robert Silverberg Ohio Mississippi United States mounds myths Adena Hopewell Temple Mound people Indian history
Japan: The Coming Social Crisis
Paperback - heavily highlighted (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: Yohan Publications 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Jon Woronoff Japan Japanese life culture social history anthropology
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
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: Faber & Faber 2006
KEYWORDS: specials George Packer Iraq American invasion United States war George Bush political history
Vanuatu: 10 Years of Independence; 10 Yia Blong Independens; Dix Ans d'Independence
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Other People Publications 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Vanuatu history economy natural resources government religion politics