Books - "history"
Showing 15481 to 15500 of 45053 results.
Changi Days: The Prisoner as Poet
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: Kangaroo Press 2002
KEYWORDS: specials David Griffin literature poetry poems history
The Town That Saved Queensland
Oblong imperial 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: The National Trust of Queensland 1983
KEYWORDS: specials W E Mulholland Australia Australian Queensland building history
Hell's Foundations: A Town, its Myths and Gallipoli
Ex library, 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Geoffrey Moorhouse Gallipoli Lancaster military history
New Zealand
Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with green lettering to spine & front board, green tiki motif to front board, black & white decorative Maori tukutuku panelling to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 241pp, illus with 75 paintings with tissue guards & folding map to rear, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems, ding to front & rear upper fore-corners, slight foxing to eps & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black 1908
KEYWORDS: William Pember Reeves F W Wright New Zealand history geography scenery sport lifestyle
Great Passenger Ships of the World Volume 1: 1858-1913
First edition, imperial octavo, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 216pp, illus, VG (some tanning to page edges, slight staining to edges of eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, some tape residue staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens Ltd 1975
KEYWORDS: Arnold Kludas transport history passenger ships vessels
War Report: D-Day to Ve-Day
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: British Broadcasting Corporation 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Desmond Hawkins ww2 second world war military history
To Save A People
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: Hutchinson 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Alex Kershaw history biography Raoul Wallenberg ww2 second world war
Elsie & Mairi go To War
softcover octavo (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Arrow 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Diane Atkinson war history military ww1 first world war biography Elsie Knocker Mairi Chisholm
After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945
softcover octavo (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Pimlico 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Ben Shephard war history second world war ww2 military
Makers of Fortune: A Colonial Business Community and its Fall
Super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, vii + 240pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep, slight fading to boards, esp to upper spine extrem & upper board edges) in d/w, VG (some sunning, light rubbing to rear)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press / Oxford University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: RJC Stone New Zealand Auckland industry commerce business urban history companies
Indonesia after Soeharto
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: New Zealand Asia Institute / University of Auckland 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Chris Tremewan Indonesia economy politics economics history
Jack's War: Lower-deck Recollections from World War II
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: Wiliam Kimber 1985
KEYWORDS: specials GG Connell World War Two WW2 nautical maritime naval history memoir
The Animals of New Zealand
An Account of the Dominion's Air-Breathing Vertebrates
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: Whitcombe & Tombs 1923
KEYWORDS: specials Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton James Drummond New Zealand natural history fauna animals birds ornithology marine mammals reptiles
Preserved NZR Locomotives and Railcars
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: NZ Railway and Locomotive Society Inc. 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Neill J Cooper New Zealand Rail NZR locomotives railcars transport trains history
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
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: Faber & Faber 2012
KEYWORDS: specials matthew Sweet social history Second world war two London hotels letters
Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic
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: Vintage 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Katie Whitaker Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle biography history
Hell Fire
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 Press 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Ed Macy autobiography memoir war military history
Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World
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: Cambridge University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Greg Woolf Rome Roman history
Australia's Earliest Mining Era: South Australia 1841 - 1851
Ex library, oblong 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: Axiom 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Ian Auhl S T Gill Denis Marfleet South Australia Autralianmining history
A History of Spain and Portugal
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: Pelican / Penguin 1967
KEYWORDS: specials William C Atkinson Spain Portugal history