Books - "history"
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Farewell to Old England: A Broadside History of Early Australia
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Rigby Limited 1964
KEYWORDS: specials Hugh Anderson Australia Australian early history
A History of Gay Literature : The Male Tradition
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: specials Gregory Woods gay homosexual literature sexuality homosexuality literary criticism history
Stewart Island Explored
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light blue illus eps, 216pp, illus, VG+ (slight wear to spine and board extrems, spine slightly cocked, prev owners details have been removed from fep using correction fluid) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Company 1994
KEYWORDS: John Hall-Jones New Zealand Stewart Island photographic pictorial local history
In the Grip of an Island: Early Stewart Island History
Signed & dated by author, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 171pp, illus, VG+ in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Co. Ltd 1982
KEYWORDS: Olga Sansom New Zealand Stewart Island local history signed
Handbook of the Forty-Fifth Annual Co-operative Congress, Aberdeen: Whitsuntide, 1913
Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to red spine, gilt lettering to front board, patterned eps, 134pp + 40pp ads, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to eps, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd 1913
KEYWORDS: George Bisset Aberdeen Whitsuntide cooperative congress souvenir handbook history
The Paisley Thread and the Men Who Created and Developed it with Notes Concerning Paisley, Old and New
Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt crests & coat of arms with black decorative rule to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, 206pp + 1pp book advert, illus, VG (front hinge cracked, slight bruising to spine extrems, foxing to tissue guard & to eps) remaining half of d/w loosely enclosed
PUBLISHER: Paisley / Alexander Gardner 1907
KEYWORDS: Matthew Blair Paisley textile industry thread cloth history trade business
Writers in Residence: A Journey with Pioneer New Zealand Writers
Super octavo softcover (near 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press2004
KEYWORDS: specials Jenny Robin Jones New Zealand authors writers biography history
The Presidents' First Ladies
Octavo, black cloth boards with red & gilt lettering to spine, red eps, 288pp, illus, nr fine (slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light soiling,, light bruising to edges)
PUBLISHER: Franklin Watts 1989
KEYWORDS: Rae Lindsay America American presidents first lady ladies biography biographies politics history
Albert Gleizes Kubismus: Bauhausbucher 13
Scarce in hardcover, imperial octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine & boards, black eps, 103pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, fraying to spine extrems & board corners, 11cm tear to rear external hinge, front external hinge starting to tear, front gutter cracked, light tanning to page edges, owner's name in ink to f.e.p.) Text in German.
PUBLISHER: Albert Langen Verlag Munchen / Bauhausbucher 1928
KEYWORDS: Walter Gropis L Moholy-Nagy Albert Gleizes text in German language art cubism kubismus kunst geschichte history
A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishers 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Angus McLaren contraception sexual health fertility birth control social history anthropology
Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Christina Simmons women's sexuality sex marriage gender studies relationships social history
Sculpture and the Museum
(Part of the Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture Series
Super octavo, white cloth boards with black lettering to spine, xviii + 265pp, illus, nr fine (slight soiling to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling, slight bruising to upper edges)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing Limited 2011
KEYWORDS: Christopher R Marshall sculpture art galleries museums art criticism history essays
Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies 1939-45
Super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine, 415pp, illus, FINE in nr FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: Penguin / Viking 2009
KEYWORDS: Gerald Hensley New Zealand allies second world war two ww2 wwII military history
The Book of Chinese Beliefs: A Journey into the Chinese Inner World
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Arrow 1983
KEYWORDS: specials frena bloomfield china chinese culture history
Naked Ape to Superspecies: A Personal Perspective on Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin
KEYWORDS: specials david suzuki holly dressel history environment science
Pausanias's Description of Greece in six volumes & one volume of illustrations
Seven-volume set, imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt urn motif to spine, xcvi + 613pp, 582pp, 652pp, 447pp, 638pp, 199pp + folding maps at rear, xii + 161pp + folding maps + plans (vols 1 to 7 respectively), illus, VG, many pages unopened (some staining to boards, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, browning to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's name in ink to fep of two volumes, owner's ex libris stamp to half-title pages)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1913 (and Vol.7 1930)
KEYWORDS: Sir James George Frazer Pausanias ancient Greece Greek history geography classical literature archaeology
Oriental Model
First edition, small folio, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, viii + 14pp + aprox 50 pp (unpaginated) black & white photographs, illus, VG (dampstaining to board corners, some browning to eps, patch of staining & scribble in pencil to fep upper corner, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy browning to spine, moderate creasing & nicks to al edges & corners, creasing to flap folds, 4cm portion of front flap lower edge missing, moderately heavy browning & foxing inside)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale Ltd 1955
KEYWORDS: first edition John Everard photography photographs art history
Sex & Pleasure in Western Culture
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Polity 2004
KEYWORDS: specials gail hawkes sexual culture gender politics history
The Story of Otago: Age of Adventure (to which is appended A Journey through Otago in 1872 by Anthony Trollope)
Super octavo hardcover (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1947
KEYWORDS: specials AH Reed New Zealand Otago history Anthony Trollope travel
The General Grant's Gold
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Exisle Pubishing Ltd 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Madelene Ferguson Allen Ken Scaddon General Grant nautical shipwreck history