Books - "history"
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The Blue Spur Bubble
Octavo stapled light card wrappers (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: Published by the author 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Jean Jackson New Zealand Blue Spur Gabriel's Gully Black Reef Glen Dhu Sandy Row Munro's Gully local history gold mining
Drink or Drought: Liquor Licensing and the Prohibition Movement
Octavo stapled light card wrappers (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: Craig Printing 1981
KEYWORDS: specials AJ De La Mare New Zealand prohibition liquor licensing pubs hotels drinking breweries history
Lawrence of Arabia: The Selected Letters
Imperial 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: Little Books 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Malcolm Brown Lawrence of Arabia TE Lawrence letters correspondence biography history politics military
The Immigrant Jews of New York 1881 to the Present
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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Irving Howe Kenneth Libo USA New York Jews Jewish history immigrants immigration
A History of Private Life: IV From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
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: Harvard University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Michelle Perrot social history 19th Century private life
Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body
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: Palgrave McMillan 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Christopher E Forth gender studies social history masculinity men male body
Humanism in the Renaissance
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: Weidenfel and Nicolson 1968
KEYWORDS: specials Sem Dresen renaissance art history humanism
Kamahi: A District History
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 264pp, illus, VG (front hinge cracking, three owners' names in ink to title page, author's business card glued to title page) in d/w, VG (light fading, 3cm crease & closed tear to front upper edge repaired with archival tape & also to upper spine extrem, creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Merv Halliday 1990
KEYWORDS: Merv Halliday New Zealand Southland Kamahi local history
Southlanders at Heart
Imperial octavo, brownish-red boards with gilt lettering to spine, 196pp, illus, VG+ (slight fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light soiling to spine, slight creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing 1988
KEYWORDS: John Meredith Smith New Zealand Southland Invercargill local history ballads poetry songs
The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly in three volumes (March to December 1940)
Three-volume set, folio, blue cloth boards half bound with blue leather spine & board corners, gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine between five raised bands, patterned eps, issues for each month paginated separately, illus, VG (some fraying to edges & spine extrems, some chaffing & soiling to boards, light browning to page edges, v. occasional creasing to pages) VERY HEAVY SET
PUBLISHER: The Sphere 1940
KEYWORDS: The Sphere weekly magazine current affairs news fashion WW2 Second World War Two art entertainment sport history advertising
The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly 1939/1940
Incomplete run of issues bound together in one volume (11 Feb 1939, 15 Apr 1939, 9 Dec 1939, 16 Dec 1939, 30 Dec 1939, 20 Jan 1940, 27 Jan 1940, 3 Feb 1940, 10 Feb 1940, 17 Feb 1940, 9 Mar 1940) folio, blue cloth boards half bound with blue leather spine & board corners, gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine between five raised bands, patterned eps, issues for each month paginated separately, illus, VG (red decorative panel to spine mostly missing, some chaffing & fraying to board edges & corners & spine extrems, some tanning to page edges, 15cm closed tear to one page, a few pages loose)
PUBLISHER: The Sphere 1939
KEYWORDS: The Sphere weekly magazine current affairs news fashion WW2 Second World War Two Spanish Civil War art entertainment sport history advertising
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader
Imperial 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Bill Ashcroft Gareth Griffiths Helen Tiffin post-colonial studies social cultural economic political history
Testament: The Bible and History
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: ABC Books / Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1996
KEYWORDS: specials John Romer the Bible theology religion art history archaeology
Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation
Super octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, patterned eps, x + 321pp, VG (highlighting to 15 lines on page 296, some underlining in ink to pages 244-245) in d/w, VG (some creasing to edges, light damage to spine base)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1996
KEYWORDS: Jan McMillen cultural history sociology gambling betting bingo slot machines cash addiction gambline industry
Rolls-Royce Cars and Bentley from 1931: The Complete History
First edition in original slipcase, small folio, dark blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spien & front board, RR photo mounted to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine, slight soiling to boards, light tanning to prelims & terminals) in original slipcase, VG (some tanning to edges, some creasing to fore-edges)
PUBLISHER: Dirk Nishen Publishing 1989
KEYWORDS: Halwart Schrader Rolls Royce Bentley cars automobiles Frederick Henry Royce Charles Stewart Rolls transport history
Wellington's Northern Suburbs 1919 - 1945
First edition, quarto, pale yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 128pp, illus, VG (some fading to boards & spine, bruising to upper spine extrem, very small patch of damage to cloth of upper spine extrem, owner's name in in to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light fadinglight creasing to upper edges)
PUBLISHER: Onslow Historical Society Inc 1987
KEYWORDS: Julie Bremner New Zealand Wellington northern suburbs local history first edition
The Chatham Islands: Their Plants, Birds and People
Octavo, pale blue boards with black lettering to spine, ix + 177pp, illus, VG (heavy bruising to upper spine extrem with small tear to cloth, sl bruising to other extrems, light foxing to eps and page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate soiling & rubbing, creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Simpson and Williams Ltd 1952
KEYWORDS: EC Richards Chatham Islands plants flora fauna birds ornithology natural social history
Flight of the Huia: Ecology and Conservation of New Zealand's Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals
Super octavo, illus blue light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, xii + 411pp, illus, VG+ (soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: Kerry0Jayne Wilson New Zealand animal conservation ecology environment natural history endangered extinct species
From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The New Zealand Division on the Western Front 1916 - 1918
Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, red eps, 408pp, illus, nr fine (v light soiling to page edges) in d/w, Nr FINE (light rubbing, light creasing to upper edges)
PUBLISHER: WillsonScott Publishing 2010
KEYWORDS: John H Gray New Zealand Division Western Front first world war one ww1 wwI military history
The Scottish Regalia
Super octavo, half-bound brown cloth boards, gilt tooling & lettering between raised bands of leather spine, t.e.g., marbled eps, frontispiece, 125pp, folding diagram, illus, VG- (rubbing to boards with some loss of surface to leather corners & spine, internal front hinge cracked, bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, owner's inscription to first blank page, light tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Neill and Company 1890
KEYWORDS: John J Reid Alexander JS Brook Scotland Scottish regalia royal weapons clothing dress crown furniture art history