Books - "history"
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Unto the Hills: The Story of a Parish in the Mountains
Signed by author, octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering, frontispiece, 78pp, illus, VG (slight soiling to rear cover, surface loss to spine)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1967
KEYWORDS: signed JD Salmond New Zealand Queenstown Presbyterian Church history
Hokonui: The School and the People
First edition, signed & dated by author, octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 147pp, illus, VG, in d/w, VG (slight fading to spine, minor closed tearing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Hokonui Centennial Committee 1982
KEYWORDS: FWG Miller New Zealand Southland Hokonui local history
The War in New Zealand
Octavo, maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 268pp, illus with folding maps, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press Reprint 1973 (of Smith, Elder & Co 1866)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand William Fox history Hauhauism Land League King Movement wars
History of Waikaia; the golden century 1862-1962
Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 163pp, folding map, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, v slight soiling to covers, slight browning to eps & page edges) in d/w, G+ (slight fading to spine, untidy tearing & chipping with loss to edges & spine)
PUBLISHER: Waikaia Historical Committee 1966
KEYWORDS: FWG Miller Waikaia New Zealand local history
Alexandra, a Place in the Sun: A History of the Alexandra Borough Council Central Otago 1867 - 1989
Octavo, green cloth boards, v + 278pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG (slight fading to spine, light bruising & creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Central Otago District Council Alexandra New Zealand 1990
KEYWORDS: Gordon Ramage Alexandra Borough Council New Zealand history
Taka: A Vignette Life of William Tucker 1784-1817
Convict, Sealer, Trader in Human Heads, Otago Settler. New Zealand's First Art Dealer
SIGNED by author, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to blue spine, 157pp, illus,VG (light rubbing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Port Daniel Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Peter EntwisleWilliam Tucker New Zealand biography history
A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris 1919-1939
2 volume set, super octavo, white light card covers with red & black lettering to spine & covers, illus to front cover, xi + 292pp, xi + 343pp (vols I & II respectively), nr fine (v v slight soiling to covers, white sticker to lower spine and barcode sticker to front cover of volume II)
PUBLISHER: Algora Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: Florence Tamagne Europe European sexuality homosexuality Berlin London Paris sociology history
Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea
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: Arms and Armour 1993
KEYWORDS: specials john sweetman lord raglan war military army history
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
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: Michael Joseph 1994
KEYWORDS: specials eric hobsbawn history war politics
I Live Here Now: Sarah Campion in 1950s New Zealand
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: Shoal Bay Press 2000
KEYWORDS: specials rachel scott sarah campion new zealand history
Egypt: A Short Story
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Princeton Universtiry 2010
KEYWORDS: specials robert l tignor egypt history culture architecture
The Southland Rugby Football Union Annual 1933
Duodecimo, light green paper wrappers, 168pp, VG- (some soiling foxing & tanning to covers, light creasing to covers & page corners, scribble in blue ink to rear cover, some rust staining from staples, slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Southland Times Company Limited 1933
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southland rugby football union clubs sport annual statistics players rules history
Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel
Duodecimo, dark blue cloth boardswith blind rule & decoration to boards, gilt lettering & decoration to brown spine, pages unopened (uncut). 120pp + 8pp ads, VG- (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, 0.5cm of upper spine extrem missing, light rubbing to boards & board edges, 1cm fraying to upper rear board edge, 5cm closed to cloth of rear outer hinge, bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, slight soiling to eps, light tanning to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: John W. Parker 1844
KEYWORDS: John Smeaton Smeaton's Tower Eddystone lighthouse engineering biography history
Bikala Faet: Olketa Solomon Aelanda Rimembarem Wol Wo Tu / The Big Death: Solomon Islanders Remember World War II
Dual language, octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to green spine, x +242pp, illus, VG (v light soiling rubbing & foxing to covers, 1cm tear to lower spine extrem, slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, and the University of the South Pacific 1988
KEYWORDS: Solomon Islands Islanders second world war two II ww2 wwII military history memoirs biography
A Good Place to Be: Auckland Museum People 1929-89
Quarto, patterned white & blue light card covers with french flaps, blue & red lettering to front & spine, black illus to front cover, frontispiece, xiii + 502pp, illus, nr fine (v v slight soiling to front cover & lower page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ian Thwaites 2015
KEYWORDS: Ian Thwaites New Zealand Auckland Museum biography biographies history
The Wild Pig in New Zealand
First edition, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with white lettering to spine, illus brown eps, 257pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light fading to board edges, light rubbing to board edges & corners, small dents to front board edges)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1982
KEYWORDS: Philip Holden New Zealand wild pigs pig hunting natural history first edition
The Making of New Zealanders
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: Auckland University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Ron Palenski New Zealand identity sociology social history
Showtime 100: A History of the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association
Quarto 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: The Heritage Press 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Dell Adsett New Zealand West Coast Manawatu agricultural and pastoral A&P show association agriculture local history
National Resources Survey Part V: Otago Region
Folding maps in rear pocket, quarto 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: R. E. Owen, Government Printer 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Otago New Zealand national natural resources survey geography geology soil climate weather water irrigation agriculture forestry population employment industry transport tourism politics history
Sovereignty and Security: New Zealand's International Relations since 1945
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Heinemann Education 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Mark Laffey New Zealand international relations politics history