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Dragonfly


BURROUGH, BRYAN

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: Fourth Estate 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Bryan Burrough Mir space station exploration astronomy astronauts cosmonauts history

$245.00
1d29/34

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

GIBBON, EDWARD

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

$125.00
1d29/35

The War in South Africa prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff, Berlin


With maps and illustrations

WATERS, COLONEL W. H. H. (Trans)

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

$10.00
xxkxc75378

Defying Hitler: A Memoir


HAFFNER, SEBASTIAN

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

$40.00
1d29/33

Malerisches Altes Europa: Romantische Ansichten von Stadten und Schlossern der Guten Alten Zeit


MULLER, ROLF & SCHRAMM, EGON

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

$18.50
xxkxp75455

Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad


FLETCHER GENIESSE, JANE

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Pimlico 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Jane Fletcher Geniesse biography Freya Stark history

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xxkyb75528

The Russian Album


IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL

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

$15.00
xxkxu75510

The Chinese on the Art of Painting: Translations and Comments


SIREN, OSVALD

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Schocken Books 1976

KEYWORDS: specials Osvald Siren Chinese art painting criticism history

$35.00
1d29/44

Winkelmann: Images of Early New Zealand


EDWARDS, VIVIEN

Quarto, dark blue boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, vi + 146pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to eps), in d/w, VG+ (some foxing to inside, light rubbing and soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Benton Ross 1987

KEYWORDS: Vivien Edwards Henry Winkelmann New Zealand biography photographer photographs photographic history

$17.50
xxfaa75656

Saturday Nights With Daddy at the Opry


LEVERETT-CREW, LIBBY

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Rutledge Hill Press 2003

KEYWORDS: specials music biography country & western Grand Ole Opry Nashville Les Leverett history

$22.50
xxfaa75660

Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars


TICHI, CECELIA (Ed)

Super octavo softcover (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: Duke University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: specials music country & western cultural history anthology essays

$16.50
xxfab75692

A Destiny Apart: New Zealand's Search for National Identity


SINCLAIR, KEITH

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: Allen & Unwin / Port Nicholson Press 1986

KEYWORDS: specials Keith Sinclair New Zealand national identity Maori Pakeha sociology history

$22.50
xxfaa75636

The Secret Paris of the 30s


BRASSAI & MILLER, RICHARD (Trans)

Quarto 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: Thames & Hudson 2001

KEYWORDS: specials Brassai Richard Miller France Paris photographic pictorial history

$18.50
xxfaa75638

Phobic Raptures: Wicked Family Histories


ANDERSON, WAYNE

Imperial 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: Editions Fabriart 1991

KEYWORDS: specials Wayne Anderson gender human sexuality history anthropology art

$22.50
xxfaa75647

Journal of Researches inot the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle round the World


with a biographical introduction

DARWIN, CHARLES

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: Ward, Lock & CO (n/d)

KEYWORDS: specials Charles Darwin travel science geology HMS Beagle journals diaries natural history

$22.50
xxfaa75667

Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity


PETERSON, RICHARD A.

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Richard A Peterson music country & western history popular culture sociology

$9.50
xxfaa75671

Claudia: Daughter of Rome


MAY, ANTOINETTE

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: Orion 2007

KEYWORDS: specials Antoinette May Claudia biography ancient Rome history

$85.00
1d29/47

An Ulster Plantation: The Story of the Kati Kati Settlement


GRAY, ARTHUR J.

First edition, octavo, red buckram boards with black lettering to spine & front board, black rule to front board, frontispiece, xii + 145pp + 6pp book ads + folding map to rear, VG (some foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (archival tape repairs to spine extrems & corners, moderate nicks & portions of loss to edges & corners, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1938

KEYWORDS: first edition Arthur Gray New Zealand Kati Kati history

$75.00
1d30/4

Beeton's Annual: A Book for the Young


with Illustrations printe din Colours, and Many Woodcuts from Original Design by Eminent Artists

BEETON, S. O. (Ed)

All six chromolitho plates are present, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine & front board, blind-stamped decorative rule to front & rear boards, aeg, brown coated eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, iv + 491pp, illus + 6 chromolitho plates, VG (some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & 2cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, light staining to eps, inscription in ink to frontispiece verso, heavy bruising & creasing to fore-edge of frontispiece & tissue guard, some browning & foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Frederick Warne 1866

KEYWORDS: SO Beeton children's annual literature history hunting adventure

$16.50
xxfac75761

Victorian Life in Photographs


CHAPMAN, HAROLD & HILLELSON, JOHN (Eds) & SANSOM,

Imperial 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: Thames & Hudson 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Harold Chapman William Sansom John Hillelson photographic pictorial history Victorian society

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