Books - "history"
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Faces of China: Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday
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
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
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
Edgar Snow's China: A Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution Compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow
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
The Doctor and the Damed
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
Sir Alan Cobham's Book of the Air
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
Emanations of Silver Islet
Quarto, illus white light card stapled wrappers, printed eps, 56pp, illus, VG (light soiling to covers, label residue stain to rear cover, inscription in ink to page 1)
PUBLISHER: Porphry Press 1995
KEYWORDS: Bill McDonald Canada Silver Islet Mining Company Skull Rock William B Frue history
Emanations of Silver Islet Volume II (2)
Quarto, illus white light card stapled wrappers, printed eps, 56pp, illus, VG (light soiling to covers, label residue stain to rear cover, inscription in ink to page 1)
PUBLISHER: Porphry Press 1995
KEYWORDS: Bill McDonald Canada Silver Islet Mining Company Skull Rock William B Frue history
The Founding Years in Rotorua: A History of Events to 1900
Imperial octavo, pink heavy card boards with white lettering to spine, illus eps, 448pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, slight crease to spine) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Ray Richards Publisher / Rotorua District Council 1986
KEYWORDS: DM Stafford New Zealand Rotorua history
The Naval and Military Club, Melbourne 1881-1962
Hardcover imperial octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; 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: Melbourne University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: specials Committee of the Naval and Military Club history Australia military
Letters from the Battlefield
New Zealand Soldiers Write Home 1914-18
Softcover super 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: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Glyn Harper New Zealand military history soldier correspondence Great War World War I
The Winemaker
George Fistonich and the Villa Maria Story
Softcover super octavo (NF) ; 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: Random House New Zealand 2012
KEYWORDS: specials Kerry R Tyack New Zealand biography George Fistonich wine winemaking Villa Maria history
Cars of the Connoisseur
A Treasury of the Years of Grace
First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG) in d/w (scruffy) ; 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: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1960
KEYWORDS: first edition specials J R Buckley transport automobiles cars history
Small Cars in New Zealand
Baby Austins, ford Prefects, Minis, VWs & More!
Softcover super 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: Grantham House Publishing 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Chadwick New Zealand transport history automobiles cars
Tiwi Wives
A Study of the Women of Melville Island, North Australia
Softcover super 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: University of Washington Press 1980
KEYWORDS: specials Jane C Goodale anthropology history culture Australia Melville Island Tiwi people
Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith
Being Unpublished Letters from HHS Pearse, the Daily News Special Correspondent
Octavo, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind embossed decorative motif surrounding gilt title on front board, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, xii + 244pp, illus plus folding maps, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, v slight rubbing to spine sides, scratch to rear board, light bubbling to spine/front board fold, owner's name in ink to fep, moderate foxing to tissue guard, much lighter foxing to eps & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1900
KEYWORDS: HHS Pearse Ladysmith siege Boer War South Africa Britain military history
A Structural Analysis of Some Continental European Migrants in New Zealand
Thesis for MA Sociology, University of Canterbury
Unpublished thesis inscribed & signed by author, quarto, manila light card covers with brown tape spine, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, v + 220pp, VG (v slight bruising to cover fore-edge)
PUBLISHER: Unpublished thesis 1982
KEYWORDS: Yap Gim Wah MA thesis New Zealand sociology ethnology history european immigration immigrants
The Jesus Conspiracy
The Life and Invevitable Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
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: Lion Hudson Plc 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Gordon Thomas religion religious history religious literature Jesus Christ crucifixion
A Short History of the Royal Regiment of Wales
24th/41st Foot
Softcover staple bound super 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: Regimental Committee of the Royal Regiment of Wales ca. 1977
KEYWORDS: specials Lt Colonel John Margesson Colonel Lionel Evans Welsh history Royal Regiment of Wales military
The Wild Blue
The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
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: Touchstone 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Stephen E Ambrose military history aviation aerial warfare B-24 bombers World War II
A Matter of Character
Inside the White House of George W. Bush
Softcover super 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: Sentinel 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Ronald Kessler politics US history biography George W Bush presidency