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$15.00
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Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 2 1788-1850 I-Z


PIKE, DOUGLAS (Ed)

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

$30.00
xxfbb76039

Inside the Olympics: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of the Games


POUND, RICHARD W.

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

$19.50
xxfbb76046

An Account of the The Settlements of the New Zealand Colony


From Personal Observations during a Residence There

PETRE, HENRY WILLIAM

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

$27.50
xxfbb76052

'Blest Madman' Fitzgerald of Canterbury


BOHAN, EDMUND

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

$45.00
xxfbb76072

John Rutherford: The White Chief: A Story of Adventure in New Zealand


DRUMMOND, JAMES (Ed)

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

$40.00
xxfbc76084

Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists, Volumes One and Two


DORSON, RICHARD M. (Ed)

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

$10.00
xxfbc76092

Redlands: The Story of An Australian Shire


TOWNSEND, DEREK

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

$25.00
xxfbc76106

Whose High Country? A History of the South Island High Country of New Zealand


MCINTYRE, ROBERTA

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

$18.50
xxfbc76107

Shackleton's Whisky: A Spirit of Discovery - Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the rare malt whisky he left behind


PEAT, NEVILLE

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: Longacre 2012

KEYWORDS: specials Neville Peat Ernest Shackleton antarctic expedition history biography

$25.00
xxfbc76125

Lost Cowboys from Patagonia to the Alamo


WANGFORD, HANK

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

$245.00
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The First Five Books of the Roman History


LIVIUS, TITUS & BELLENDEN, JOHN (Trans)

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

$85.00
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Glasgow and its Clubs; or Glimpses of the Condition Manners, Characters, & Oddities of the City during the Past & Present Century


STRANG, JOHN

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

$22.50
xxfbd76164

Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments


WIEDER, JOACHIM & VON EINSIEDEL, HEINRICH GRAF & B

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

$22.50
xxfbd76166

The Mound Builders


SILVERBERG, ROBERT

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

$10.00
xxfbe76209

Japan: The Coming Social Crisis


WORONOFF, JON

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

$15.00
xxfbe76229

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq


PACKER, GEORGE

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

$22.50
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Vanuatu: 10 Years of Independence; 10 Yia Blong Independens; Dix Ans d'Independence


WHYTE, JENNY (Ed)

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

$12.00
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Tutanchamun in Koln


n/a

TEXT IN GERMAN, 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: Verlag Philipp von Zabern 1981

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN specials tutankhamun Koln Museum exhibition archaeology art history

$80.00
1d31/4

Pasture, Coal Seam and Settlement: A Centennial History of Nightcaps and District 1880-1980


THOMSON, JOHN S.

Imperial octavo, light green card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 328pp, illus, VG, lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Nightcaps and District Centennial Committee 1979

KEYWORDS: john s thomson history centennial nightcaps morley valley railways mining transport farming agriculture new zealand

$15.00
xxfbf76285

New Zealand in the World


New Zealand Centennial Surverys XI

WOOD, F. L. W.

First 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs 1940

KEYWORDS: specials F L W Wood first edition New Zealand Centennial Survey history

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