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$25.00
1w33/17

Otago Harbour: Currents of Change


MCLEAN, GAVIN

Large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus half- and title pages, 358pp, illus, VG (some loosening to binding) in d/w, VG (moderately heavy fading to spine, 2cm tatty closed tears to upper spine extrem & front upper corner, some foxing to inside)

PUBLISHER: Otago Harbour Board 1985

KEYWORDS: Gavin McLean New Zealand Dunedin Port Chalmers Port of Otago Harbour nautical shipping history

$9.00
xxfgd79354

Day of Infamy


LORD, WALTER

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: Corgi Books 1971

KEYWORDS: specials Lord Walter literature historical novel Pearl Harbour history

$15.00
xxfge79409

Act of God


Tutankhamun, Moses & the Myth of Atlantis

PHILLIPS, GRAHAM

Super Octavo softcover (VG+) illus; 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: Sidgwick & Jackson 1998

KEYWORDS: specials graham phillips history detective

$12.00
xxfge79421

The Penguin History of the World


ROBERTS, J.M.

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: Penguin 1997

KEYWORDS: specials jm roberts history modern age

$9.50
xxfgf79452

Water in the Service of Man


With Sixty-Eight Text Figures and Eight Plates

VALLENTINE, H. R.

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: Penguin 1967

KEYWORDS: specials h r vallentine water science history economics

$12.00
xxfge79393

The World Since 1945


VADNEY, T.E.

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: Penguin 1990

KEYWORDS: specials te vadley history war ww2

$9.50
xxfge79397

Secrets of Mary Magdalene


An Untold Story of History's Most Misunderstood Woman

BURSTEIN, DAN & KEIJZER, ARNE DE

Paperback (nr fine) illus; 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 dan burstein arne de keijzer mary magdalene history christianity

$10.00
xxfge79399

The Jewel in the Lotus


A Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture in the East

EDWARDES, ALLEN

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: Tandem 1969

KEYWORDS: specials allen edwardes sexual cuture history religion psychology

$12.50
xxfge79402

American Dynasty


Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

PHILLIPS, KEVIN

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: Penguin 2004

KEYWORDS: specials kvin phillips america history politics george bush

$26.50
xxfgg79476

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self


FUSCO, COCO & WALLIS, BRIAN

Quarto hardcover (fine) in d/w (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: Harry N Abrams 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Coco Fusco Brian Wallis United States America nation photography history race identity essays

$26.50
xxfgg79479

Morgan: First and Last of the Real Sports Cars


LABAN, BRIAN

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Virgin Books 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Brian Laban cars automobiles sports car Morgan company history automotive engineering

$38.50
xxfgg79480

A History of King's College Choir School Cambridge


HENDERSON, R. J.

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: King's College Choir School 1981

KEYWORDS: specials first edition RJ Henderson King's College Choir School Cambridge history

$175.00
1w33/37

The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Seventeenth Congress: Abstracts September 9-15 2002


n/a

Large quarto, light card covers, printed eps, 325pp, VG+ (slight fading to spine, light creasing to cover corners)

PUBLISHER: Academia Sinica 2002

KEYWORDS: history philology prehistory archaeology anthropology ethnography abstracts academic papers

$16.00
xxfgg79501

Mates and Mayhem: World War II: Frontline Kiwis Remember


WATT, LAWRENCE

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 Collins 1996

KEYWORDS: specials Lawrence Watt New Zealand soldiers troops World War Two WW2memoirs oral histories military history

$50.00
1w33/25

Ko Te Hitoria Paipara Tawhito me te Kawenata Hou a To Tatou Ariki, a Hehu Kerito


He mea whakamaori mai no nga reo o mua

n/a

Octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind stamped cross to front board, aeg, patterned eps, 404pp, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep verso) TEXT IN MAORI

PUBLISHER: no date or publisher

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN MAORI short history of the old testament & the new testamant & a fable & Epistles & Gospels Holy Bible Paipera Tapu religion Christianity

$75.00
1w34/11

The Authentic and Genuine History of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6 1840


Being a Faithful and Circumstantial, though Brief, Narration of Events which happened on that Memorable Occasion; with copies of the Treaty in English and Maori, and of the three Early Proclamations r

COLENSO, WILLIAM

Super octavo, green cloth boards with darker green lettering to spine, 42pp + map, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate rubbing to covers with some colour loss to the edges)

PUBLISHER: Capper Press Facsimile Reprint 1971 (of Govt Printer 1890)

KEYWORDS: William Colenso New Zealand history Treaty of Waitangi James Busby

$40.00
1w34/13

New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919


FENTON, DAMIEN & LORD, CAROLINE & MCLEAN, GAVIN &

Large quarto, illus heavy card boards with white lettering to red spine, illus eps, 111pp, VG+, in matching slipcase, VG+

PUBLISHER: Ministry for Culture & Heritage & Penguin 2013

KEYWORDS: Damien Fenton Gavin McLean Caroline Lord Tim Shoebridge New Zealand First World War One WW1 military history

$60.00
1w34/15

The Christian Hell from the First to the Twentieth Century


BONNER, HYPATIA BRADLAUGH

First edition, duodecimo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule to front board, frontispiece, x+ 148pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, moderately heavy browning to eps, light tanning to page edges) in red d/w, VG (some browning to spine, light creasing to edges, 1cm closed tear to rear/flap fold)

PUBLISHER: Watts & Co 1913

KEYWORDS: first edition Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Christian religion hell eschatology sin history

$120.00
1w34/16

The Stranger Prince: The Story of Rupert of the Rhine


IRWIN, MARGARET

First edition in rare d/w, also with advertising band, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt coat of arms to front board, upper page edges stained red, frontispiece, xi + 592pp, VG (frontispiece loose, light fading & soiling to spine, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, 2cm hole to spine side, 2cm closed tear to lower spine extrem)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1937

KEYWORDS: Margaret Irwin Rupert of the Rhine Pauper Palatines biography Bohemia history English civil war

$27.50
1w34/18

Rememer Cobden


MINEHAN, JACK

Imperial octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 98pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to boards) in d/w, VG (2cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, tatty 1cm tear to upper spine, some chaffing, creasing to flap folds, sellotape residue stain to rear)

PUBLISHER: J Minehan 1986

KEYWORDS: Jack Minehan New Zealand Cobden Nelson history

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