Books - "history"
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Mutinies: Shocking Real-Life Stories of Subversion at Sea
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: Pier 9 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Barry Stone nautical maritime mutiny subversion history
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Bardia to Enfidaville
Tidy ex library, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, folding maps, xii + 416pp, illus, VG (light library markings mostly covered with white-out, slight tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG (light tape residue staining to edges, light browning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington New Zealand 1962
KEYWORDS: WG Stevens New Zealand Bardia Enfidaville second world war two ww2 wwII official military history
Vogue: History of 20th Century Fashion
Quarto, white heavy card boards with grey lettering to spine, grey eps, vii + 410pp, illus, VG+ ( slight bruising to spine extrems, v slight soiling to eps & boards) in d/w, VG (light fading, light browning & soiling, light bruising to edges with small chip to lower front edge)
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 1988
KEYWORDS: Jane Mulvagh Vogue fashion design clothing dress social pictorial history
False Dawn: The Story of Dan Judson, Pioneer
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: Books of Rhodesia Publishin Co. Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Hylda M Richards Dan Judson Rhodesia biography history
The Age of Scandal: An Excursion Through a Minor Period
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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: The Folio Society 1993
KEYWORDS: specials TH White history
The Principles of Greek Art
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: Macmillan Co 1921
KEYWORDS: specials Percy Gardner Greek art painting sculpture art history Greece
Boswell's London Journal 1762-63
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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: The Folio Society 1985
KEYWORDS: specials James Boswell Frederick Pottle literary criticism letters diaries literature London history biography
Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller
Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, grey eps, frontispiece, 272pp, illus, nr fine (v slight soiling to boards and upper page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing, light bruising to edges)
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Art, Washington 1997
KEYWORDS: Jan Steen H Perry Chapman Wouter Th Kloek Arthur K Wheelock art painting history biography
These Hundred Acres: The Story of Whitely Township, City of New Plymouth
Dated & signed by author, slim 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: H. D. Mullon 1969
KEYWORDS: specials Herbert D Mulon New Zealand Whitely New Plymouth local history
From the Toss of a Coin: The Story of Alpheus Hayes & Normanvale South Canterbury
Signed by author, octavo hardcover (VG, slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w (VG, light fading & rubbing); 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: Pegasus Press 1978
KEYWORDS: M Anna Hayes Alpheus Hayes Normanvale South Canterbury New Zealand biography history signed
Dunedin Teachers College: The First Hundred Years
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: Dunedin Teachers College Publications Committee 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Carol Morton Johnston Harry Morton New Zealand Dunedin Teachers College centenary history
Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928 - 1998
Ex library, 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: William Morrow and Company 1998
KEYWORDS: specials David Ehremstein Hollywood sexuality homosexuality sociology social history
Bid Time Return
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: J. H. De Bussy 1954
KEYWORDS: specials Basil Fuller Rhodesia memoirs biography history first edition
The Legendary Hispano Suiza
First edition, imperial octavo, yellow heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 235pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, slight soiling to eps & page edges, light foxing to eps) in d/w, VG (light soiling & browning, light bruising to edges with slight chipping to spine extrems
PUBLISHER: Dalton Watson Ltd 1977
KEYWORDS: Jonnie Green Hispano Suiza Spanish cars transport history first edition
Natal Province Descriptive Guide and Official Hand-book
Small quarto, light blue cloth boards with brown lettering & motif to spine & front board, gilt motif to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, foldings maps including one in rear pocket, xii + 574pp + 5pp ads, illus, VG (moderate soiling and light browning to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, ex-libris label to front pastedown, light tanning to eps & page edges)
PUBLISHER: South African Railways Printing Works 1951
KEYWORDS: AH Tatlow Natal Province South Africa African travel guide local history
A Century of Art in Otago: Being a Survey of the Work of Otago's Painters, Writers and Musicians
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG-, loss to spine); 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: Harry H. Tombs (nd)
KEYWORDS: specials HH Harry H Tombs New Zealand Otago art painting writing literature music biography biographies history
Zola Photographer
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Collins 1988
KEYWORDS: specials francois emile zola massin photography france history
From Herring to Seine Net Fishing on the East Coast of Scotland
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Camps 1956
KEYWORDS: specials ian sutherland herring seine net fishing scotland history
Kasimir Malewitsch (1878-1935)
Dual language (Russian + English), Quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: 1980
KEYWORDS: specials kasimir malewitsch art painting suprematist russia history
Famous Railway Photographers
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Reed 1975
KEYWORDS: specials derek cross trains railways new zealand history