Books - "history"
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It's Not Unusual: A History of Lesbian and Gay Britain in the Twentieth Century
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: Indiana University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Alkarim Jivani Britain British sexuality gay lesbian homosexual homosexuality history sociology
The Humble Little Condom: A History
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Aine Collier sex condoms birth control contraception history
The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
First edition, 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: Yale University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Dror Wahrman England English identity culture history first edition
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
First edition, 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: HarperCollins 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Simon Winchester America American great California earthquake history first edition
Concepts of Identity: Historical and Contemporary Images and Portraits of Self and Family
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: HarperCollins 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Katherine Hoffman art photography self identity family portraits history criticism
Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
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: Yale University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Laura Gowing England English women's gender studies sexuality sociology history
New Zealand in World Affairs 1990 - 2005
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Roderic Alley New Zealand world foreign international relations politics history
A Sketch of Otago from the Initiation of the Settlement to the Abolition of the Province
with a Record of all the Important Events in its History chronologically arranged
Octavo, illus light card covers, printed eps, viii pp adverts + 152pp + folding statistical tables at rear + 8pp adverts, VG+ (tidy archival tape repairs to spine, light insect damage to cover fore-edges, moderately heavy tanning & soiling to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, lighter foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: RT Wheeler 1878
KEYWORDS: Jas McIndoe New Zealand Otago local history politics government climate industry land climate products
The Maori and The Crown: An Indigenous People's Struggle for Self-Determination
warmly inscribed & signed by author, octavo, navy blue cloth boards with silver lettering in green decorative panel to spine & front board, xx + 178pp, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Dora Alves New Zealand Maori Pakeha the Crown government Treaty of waitangi history
Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Super octavo softcover (VG, damp wrinkling to first couple of pages); 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: University of Nevada 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Andrew Dunar Dennis McBride great depression hoover dam oral history interviews biographies memoirs
Innovation with Purpose: Lockheed Martin's First 100 Years
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: Lockheed Martin Corporation 2013
KEYWORDS: specials Lockheed Martin business engineering history
Faring South: Memoirs of a Pioneering Family: Including Gold Mining in New Zealand and The Kokopu
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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1952
KEYWORDS: specials J H Lyon New Zealand pioneers pioneering gold mining autobiography family biography history
Maori in the Great War
Small quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 263pp, illus, fine, in d/w, nr fine (some v slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: willsonscott Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: James Cowan New Zealand First World War One WWI Maori miitary history
Kiwi Sappers: The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers' Century of Service
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps & white lettering to spine, 207pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: Ian McGibbon Corps Royal New Zealand Engineers sappers military history
The New Zealand Division 1916-1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records
Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board and darker brown decorative rule to front board, xv + frontispiece + 634pp, illus plus folding maps, VG (some bruisng & slight fraying to spine extrems, owner's name in ink to fep and title, some tanning to page edges, occasional crease to edge of folding maps)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1921
KEYWORDS: Colonel H Stewart New Zealand Division military history World War One WW1
A History of the Second Battalion New Zealand Scottish
Ex library, octavo, maroon faux-leather boards with gilt lettering & gilt coat of arms to front board, illus eps, xv + 62pp, illus, VG (usu library markings, some staining from removal of library labels, creasing to edge of one photo page)
PUBLISHER: NZ Scottish Regiment Ex-Members Assoc 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Second Battalion Scottish 2nd Battalion
The Asquiths
Ex library, 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: John Murray 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Colin Clifford Asquith faily biography history
Flax Mills of the South
signed by author, quarto, illus light card covers, VG+ (some staining and marking to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Margaret Trotter 2004
KEYWORDS: signed Margaret Trotter new zealand southland otago flax mills milling industry history
The Why, How, When and Where of The Waihi Beach Story: Its Politics, Places and People
softcover super 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: Hank Hanlen 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Hank Hanlem waihi beach new zealand history illus
The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel
hardcover super octavo (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: Princeton University 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Margaret Cohen Carolyn Dever literature literary criticism history