Books - "history"
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CQB: Close Quarter Battle
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
The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure
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
Fields of Memory: A Testimony to the Great War
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
The Life and Works of Michelangelo
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
Augustans and Romantics 1689-1830
Introduction to English Literature Volume III
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
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
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
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Crete
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
The Drama of Graf Spee and The Battle of the Plate: A Documentary Anthology 1914-1964
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
A History of Modern Japan
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
The Sinking of the Titanic: The Mystery Solved
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
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Battle for Egypt: The Summer of 1942
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
A Personal Affair
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
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Prisoners of War
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
The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust
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
A History of Our Time:: Readings on Postwar America
2nd Edition
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
The Reformation
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
The Life in the Forests of The Far East Volumes I and II
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
South African Airways: 50 Years of Flight
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
Flying: An Epitome and a Forecast
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
The Celluloid Circus: The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre 1925-1970
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