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$20.00
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Bluebell: The Authorized Biography of Margaret Kelly, Founder of the Legendary Bluebell Girls


PERRY, GEORGE

Small quarto hardcover (VG+) 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Pavilon 1986

KEYWORDS: specials George Perry biography Margaret Kelly Bluebell Girls show-business history dance

$15.00
xxsds90824

Journey Across Russia: The Soviet Union Today


MCDOWELL, BART & CONGER, DEAN (photography)

Small quarto hardcover (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: National Geographic Society 1977

KEYWORDS: specials Bart McDowell Dean Conger photography history russia soviet union politics international relations

$34.50
xxsds90825

Undertones of War


BLUNDEN, EDMUND

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Blunden folio society war history prose poetry literature

$22.50
xxsds90828

Scott's Last Expedition: The Personal Journey of Captain R. F. Scott, CVO, RN, on his Journey to the South Pole


SCOTT, CAPTAIN R. F.

super octavo hardcover (VG) in slipcase (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1964

KEYWORDS: specials Captain R. F. Scott memoir expedition exploration adventure sole pole mountaineering history

$45.00
2g24a/28

A Concise History of Buddhist Art in Siam


LE MAY, REGINALD

Imperial octavo in slipcase, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt buddha motif to front board, gilt eps, frontispiece, xxiii + 169pp + 2 folding maps, illus with 205 b&w photos, VG (staining to rear eps, slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, slight creasing to edges) in cardboard slipcase, VG- (some soiling, owner's name in ink)

PUBLISHER: Charles E Tuttle Co 1963

KEYWORDS: Reginald Le May Siam Buddhism Buddhist art history sculpture architecture

$50.00
2g24a/41

The Prisoner of Chiloane; or, with the Portuguese in South-East Africa


MACKAY, WALLIS

Super octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering & black rule to front board, gilt lettering to spine, black coated eps, 184pp, illus, VG- (soiling & browning to boards, fraying & bruising to spine extres, light scuffing & rubbing to board edges & corners, insect damage hole to front board, browning to page edges, light tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Trischler and Co 1890

KEYWORDS: Wallis Mackay Portuguese South-east Africa Portugal travel history memoir

$16.50
xxsdg90870

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (28 Selected Chapters)


GIBBON, EDWARD

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: Wordsworth Editions 1998

KEYWORDS: specials Edward Gibbon Roman Empire ancient history

$40.00
2d23/2

Seeds of Change


HOBHOUSE, HENRY

Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 372pp, illus, Near FINE in Near FINE slipcase

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2007

KEYWORDS: Henry Hobhouse plants agriculture natural history Folio Society

$120.00
2d23/11

Shipping Wonders of the World: A Saga of the Sea in Story and Picture


WINCHESTER, CLARENCE (Ed)

Two-volume set, large quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt ship motif to spine, blind embossed lettering & bind embossed ship motif to front board, frontispiece, 1764pp in two volumes, illus, VG- (some rubbing & staining to boards, scuffing to board edges, light fraying to spine extrems & 2cm closed tear to upper spine side, some tanning & foxing to page edges, prelims & terminals, reference label to feps, v unattractive large diagonal browned sellotape repair to page 837) VERY HEAVY SET

PUBLISHER: Amalgamated Press (circa 1937)

KEYWORDS: nautical marine naval history shipping boats sailing trade whaling adventure the sea oceans travel

$70.00
2d23/29

Manly Affections: The Photographs of Robert Gant 1885-1915


BRICKELL, CHRIS

Imperial octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 208pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Genre Books 2012

KEYWORDS: Chris Brickell Robert Gant photography gender studies sexuality homosexuality masculinity art history

$45.00
1u31/9

Woodwork: My First Seventy Years


LYNN, BOB

Quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 120pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG+ (v light soiling & rubbing)

PUBLISHER: The Lynn Historical Woodworking Trust Inc.1992

KEYWORDS: Bob Lynn New Zealand woodwork woodworking craft timber tools history autobiography

$55.00
1u31/15

The Day Before Yesterday: A Short History of The Bay of Islands


HARCOURT, MELVILLE

Dated signed inscription by author tipped in to f.e.p., also a two page typed signed letter by author loosely enclosed, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xi +253pp + 5pp book catalogue, illus, VG- (light rubbing & soiling to boards & spine, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 16cm crack along outer rear hinge, light fading to spine, light foxing to eps & page edges, light tanning to page edge)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1940

KEYWORDS: Melville Harcourt New Zealand the Bay of Islands local history signed

$42.50
1u31/16

The Mighty Eighth: Units, Men and Machines (A History of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force)


FREEMAN, ROGER A. & RABBETS, JOHN B. (Illus)

Quarto, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 311pp, illus, VG- (lengthy owner inscription to front pastedown, occasional highlighting & annotation, slight bruising to lower spine extrem, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (some soiling, light tanning, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Doubleday and Company 1978

KEYWORDS: Roger A Freeman 8th US army air force aviation military history

$25.00
xxsdh90924

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death amd Doctors in Britain, 1650 - 1900


PORTER, ROY

Imperial 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2001

KEYWORDS: Roy Portter Britain British medicine medical doctors diseases health history

$28.50
xxsdh90955

Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840-1925: Changing Conceptions of the Slum and the Ghetto


WARD, DAVID

Octavo hardcover (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: Cambridge University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: specials David Ward American culture politics sociology economics history poverty

$30.00
xxsdh90956

Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America


SIGAL, PETE (ed)

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: The University of Chicago Press 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Pete Sigal homosexuality sexuality gender politics history Latin America culture eroticism colonialism

$10.00
xxsdh90957

We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians: The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage


CURTIN, KAIER

Ex lilbrary, Octavo softcover (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: Alyson 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Kaier Curtin sexuality homosexuality gay history criticism stage drama American theater broadway

$19.50
xxsdi90966

Wrinkly Tin: The Story of Corrugated Iron in New Zealand


THOMSON, STUART

Imperial octavo softcover (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: Steele Roberts 2005

KEYWORDS: specials Stuart Thomson corrugated iron New Zealand history pioneering architecture

$16.50
xxsdi90968

Vienna: 1841-1918: Designs for Architecture


WAGNER, OTTO

Imperial octavo softcover (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: Museum of Modern Art 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Otto Wagner Vienna modern design 20th century history art architecture

$22.50
xxsdi90977

Immortal Sails: A Story of the Welsh Port and some of its Ships


HUGHES, HENRY

Octavo hardcover (VG) 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: T. Stephenson & Sons 1969

KEYWORDS: specials Henry Hughes history Welsh Portmadoc North Wales ships sailing voyaging

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