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New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive
Limited numbered, facsimile reprint, double elephant folio, half bound, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt coat of arms to front board and dark brown leather spine, light grey eps, illus title page, ix + frontispiece + 40pp + 5pp list of 1973 subscribers, illus with 24 chromo-lithographs + 6 plain lithograph plates + aprox 30 woodcuts, VG+ (some staining to boards and text block, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Avon Fine Prints 1973 (Facsimile Reprint of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1877)
KEYWORDS: Charles D Barraud WTL Travers New Zealand art scenery landscapes history
Sallust: The Jugurthine War
The Conspiracy of Catline
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1963
KEYWORDS: specials s a handford sallust rome greek politics history warclassics
Hero: Stories of New Zealand
First edition, octavo, light blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 288pp, VG- (moderate fading to spine, slight warp to front board, moderate foxing to page edges, owner's name in red ink to front pastedown, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, review copy stamp to half-title page) in d/w, G+ (archival tape repair to spine to hold two halves of d/w together, portions missing to head & base of spine, closed tear to front, nicks to corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: Harry H Tombs 1935
KEYWORDS: James Cowan New Zealand history Maori pioneers
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board and black decorative rule to front board, frontispiece portrait Sir EWC Chaytor, xv + 284pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (heavy staining & fading to boards, light fraying to spine extrems, moderate tanning to eps, light bruising to board corners, front & rear gutters loosening)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1922
KEYWORDS: Lieutenant Colonel C Guy Fowles Major A Wilkie First World War One WWI New Zealand military history Sinai Palestine mounted brigade
The Civil War: Together with The Alexandrian War, The African War, and The Spanish War by Other Hands
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Caesar Jane F Mitchell classic literature war history
The Conquest of Gaul
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1960
KEYWORDS: specials Caesar S A Handford classic literature history
Fly and the Fly-Bottle
Encounters with British Intellectuals
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PUBLISHER: Pelican Books 1965
KEYWORDS: specials ved mehta interviews literature philosophy history england britian
The Persian Expedition
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1961
KEYWORDS: classics specials Xenophon Rex Warner ancient Greece Greek history
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1942
KEYWORDS: specials R H Tawney religion theology politics capitalism history
The Beginnings of Religion: An Introductory and Scientific Study
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PUBLISHER: Arrow Books 1958
KEYWORDS: specials E O James religion theology history
Music in England
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1947
KEYWORDS: specials Eric Blom England music musicians history
The Persian Expedition
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1949
KEYWORDS: specials Xenophon Rex Warner classic literature history
A Short History of English Literature
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1943
KEYWORDS: specials B Ifor Evans English literature history
The Music of the Louvin Brothers: Heaven's Own Harmony
Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Vol 61
First edition, super octavo, illus blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, vi + 153pp + 3pp book ads, VG+ (slight rubbing to board edges, corners & spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Edwin Mellen Press 1999
KEYWORDS: first edition Thomas L Wilmeth Ira Charlie Louvin Brothers music history interpretation American Gospel singing
Dragonfly
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PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Bryan Burrough Mir space station exploration astronomy astronauts cosmonauts history
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 2-volume set (an abridgement from the 12 volume edition)
With an Introductory Memoir of the Author by William Youngman
Two-volume set, complete but an abridgement, imperial octavo, half bound, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spines, speckled staining to page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard to vol 1, 1303pp in 2 vols, VG- (some damage to spine extrems incl. patches of loss, heavy chaffing to spine & board corners, some rubbing to boards, owner's name in ink to page 1, heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, light soilingto page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ball, Arnold & co 1840
KEYWORDS: Edward Gibbon Roman Empire Rome history
The War in South Africa prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff, Berlin
With maps and illustrations
Folding maps present, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & gilt coat of arms to front board, xi + 280pp, illus plus folding maps (all present), VG- (bruising & slight fraying to spine extrems, ding to board lower corners, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's signature & date in ink to fep, v light foxing throughout, closed tears to some folding maps)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1907
KEYWORDS: Colonel WHH Waters South Africa Boer War military history Germany
Defying Hitler: A Memoir
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: Phoenix 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Sebastian Haffner autobiography memoir Nazi Germany history
Malerisches Altes Europa: Romantische Ansichten von Stadten und Schlossern der Guten Alten Zeit
TEXT IN GERMAN, folio, oatmeal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt cathedral motif to front board, illus eps, illus title page, 191pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to title page, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning & foxing, light creasing to edges, bruising & small nicks to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Das Topographikon 1970
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN Rolf Muller Egon Schramm Europe architecture history historical cities
The Russian Album
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: Vintage 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Ignatieff Russia Russian history biography