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$10.00
xxkgt84038

CQB: Close Quarter Battle


CURTIS, MIKE

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 1998

KEYWORDS: specials Mike Curtis SAS autobiography memoir military history

$18.50
xxkgv84060

The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure


VAN DER VAT, DAN

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: Duckworth Overlook Peter Mayer Publishers 2009

KEYWORDS: specials Dan Van Der Vat Winston Churchill Dardanelles first world war one ww1 wwI Britain British military history

$40.00
1i45b/41

Fields of Memory: A Testimony to the Great War


ROZE, ANNE & FOLEY, JOHN (Photo) & ROUAND, JEAN (P

First edition, quarto, dark grey cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to lower spine extrem, slight rubbing to boards) in d/w, VG (light rubbing, slight bruising to edges, slight tanning to inside)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1999

KEYWORDS: Anne Roze John Foley Jean Rouland first world war one ww1 wwI pictorial military history photography first edition

$10.00
xxkgr83924

The Life and Works of Michelangelo


HARRIS, NATHANIEL

Square 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: Parragon Books 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Nathaniel Harris Michelangelo biography art painting history

$14.00
xxkgr83927

Augustans and Romantics 1689-1830


Introduction to English Literature Volume III

DYSON, H. V. D. & BUTT, JOHN

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: Cresset Press 1961

KEYWORDS: specials HVD Dyson John Butt Geoffrey Webb FJ Fisher HA Hodges literature Augustans Romantics art history religion philosophy

$45.00
1i45b/10

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Volume V: The Australian Imperial Force in France During the Main German Offensive 1918


BEAN, C. E. W.

This volume only, super octavo, illus light card covers, xxxiv + 825pp, illus, VG (slight foxing and soiling to page edges, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press / Australian War Museum 1983

KEYWORDS: Australian military history First World War One WW1 France Robert O'Neill CEW Bean

$200.00
1i45b/11

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Crete


DAVIN, D. M.

Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind-stamped coat of arms to front board, frontispiece map, xvii + 547pp, illus + many folding maps, VG (owner's name in ink to fep, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, slight creasing to a couple of maps) in d/w, G+ (in adhesive clear cover, heavy creasing & tears to edges & corners, 5cm section missing to rear slight soiling)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch Dept of Internal Affairs 1953

KEYWORDS: New Zealand official military history Second World War Two WW2 Crete

$245.00
1i45b/13

The Drama of Graf Spee and The Battle of the Plate: A Documentary Anthology 1914-1964


MILLINGTON-DRAKE, SIR EUGEN (Ed)

First edition, quarto, turquoise cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt battleship motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxvi + 500pp, illus + folding map, VG+ (bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, moderate foxing & light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (some damp-staining & wrinkling to spine, several small closed tears to spine extrems & to edges & corners, light staining to rear)

PUBLISHER: Peter Davies 1964

KEYWORDS: first edition Sir Eugen Millington-Drake Earl Mountbatten of Burma Sir Philip Vian naval history battles First Second World War One Two WW1 WW2 Coronel Falklands Plate navy sailors seamen Admiral Graf von Spee

$8.50
xxkgu84048

A History of Modern Japan


STORRY, RICHARD

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 1965

KEYWORDS: specials Richard Storry Japan Japanese history

$16.50
xxkgu84050

The Sinking of the Titanic: The Mystery Solved


COLLINS, CAPTAIN L. M.

Octavo 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: Souvenir Press 2004

KEYWORDS: specials Captain L M Collins Titanic nautical maritime shipwreck sinking theory history evidence

$40.00
1i45c/9

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Battle for Egypt: The Summer of 1942


SCOULLAR, J. L.

Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind coat of arms stamp to front, frontispiece, xv + 400pp, illus VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to lower board edges, slight tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG- (light fading to spine, 7cm tear with loss to upper edges, some chipping & bruising with loss to edges, repaired with tape inside, light rubbing with some loss)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand 1955

KEYWORDS: J L Scoullar New Zealand Egypt second world war two ww2 wwII official military history

$75.00
1i45c/16

A Personal Affair


WOODHOUSE, OWEN

First edition, super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front, lavender eps, frontispiece, xix + 480pp, illus,VG+ (v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling & rubbing, slight bruising to edges)

PUBLISHER: Magari Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: Sir Owen Woodhouse Peggy Woodhouse New Zealand biography autobiography correspondence letters army second world war two ww2 wwII history

$100.00
1i45c/19

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Prisoners of War


MASON, W. WYNNE

Super octavo, green cloth boardswith gilt lettering to spine, blind coat of arms stamp to front board, frontispiece, folding maps, xxvi + 546pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, slight tanning to eps, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, scruffy (creasing, chipping and tears to edges, light rubbing with some loss,adhesive tape to front and rear upper covers)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand 1954

KEYWORDS: W Wynne Mason New Zealand second world war two ww2 wwII Prisoners of War POW official military history

$10.00
xxkgv84089

The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust


MARKS, JANE

Octavo softcover (VG); all our pecials 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: Bantam Books 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Jane Marks Jewish children Holocaust survivors biography memoirs history

$10.00
xxkgx84136

A History of Our Time:: Readings on Postwar America


2nd Edition

CHAFE, WILLIAM H. & SITKOFF, HARVARD (Eds)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our pecials 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: Oxford University Press 1987

KEYWORDS: specials William H Chafe Harvard Sitkoff Postwar America American history

$9.50
xxkgy84170

The Reformation


CHADWICK, OWEN

Paperback (VG); all our pecials 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: Pelican / Penguin 1979

KEYWORDS: specials Owen Chadwick Christian church reformation religion theology history

$90.00
1i45c/38

The Life in the Forests of The Far East Volumes I and II


ST. JOHN, SPENSER

Two-volume facsimile reprint set, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, xix + frontispiece folding map + 400pp (vol.1), xviii + frontispiece folding map + 420pp (vol.2), illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to boards) in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1974 (facsimile reprint of Smith Elder 1862 edition)

KEYWORDS: Spenser St John Far East Sarawak Sabah East Malaysia Brunei history travel exploration James Brooke Dayaks

$40.00
1i45d/1

South African Airways: 50 Years of Flight


SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 144pp, illus, VG+ (red cancellation stamps to eps, slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG- (light scuffing, some creasing & nicks to edges & corners)

PUBLISHER: Da Gama Publishers (n/d)

KEYWORDS: South African Airways aviation aeronautic history transport airlines

$40.00
1i45d/3

Flying: An Epitome and a Forecast


GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE

First edition, small quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 263pp, illus, VG- (archival tape repairs to tears on page 97 but no loss of text, owner's name in ink to fep, some browning to spine, bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, light soiling & fading to boards, moderate browning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, lighter foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1930

KEYWORDS: first edition Claude Grahame-White aviation aeronautics flying aeroplanes aircraft history

$25.00
1i45d/6

The Celluloid Circus: The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre 1925-1970


BRITTENDEN, WAYNE

Square quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps & purple spine, printed eps, 304pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Godwit / Random House 2008

KEYWORDS: Wayne Brittenden New Zealand cinema picture theatre film social photographic history entertainment

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