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$25.00
xxsdm91249

The Blue Spur Bubble


JACKSON, JEAN

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

$10.00
xxsdm91250

Drink or Drought: Liquor Licensing and the Prohibition Movement


DE LA MARE, ALAN J.

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

$25.00
xxsdm91260

Lawrence of Arabia: The Selected Letters


BROWN, MALCOLM (Ed)

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

$30.00
xxsdn91264

The Immigrant Jews of New York 1881 to the Present


HOWE, IRVING & LIBO, KENNETH

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

$30.00
xxsdn91265

A History of Private Life: IV From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War


PERROT, MICHELLE (Ed) & GOLDHAER, ARTHUR (Trans)

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

$30.00
xxsdn91267

Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body


FORTH, CHRISTOPHER E.

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

$12.50
xxsdn91274

Humanism in the Renaissance


DRESDEN, SEM

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

$60.00
2g11a/28

Kamahi: A District History


HALLIDAY, MERV

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

$35.00
2g11a/33

Southlanders at Heart


SMITH, JOHN MEREDITH

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

$995.00
2g11a/36

The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly in three volumes (March to December 1940)


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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

$345.00
2g11a/37

The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly 1939/1940


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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

$24.50
xxsdn91300

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader


ASHCROFT, BILL & GRIFFITHS, GARETH & TIFFIN, HELEN (Eds)

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

$12.00
xxsdn91311

Testament: The Bible and History


ROMER, JOHN

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

$45.00
2g11a/39

Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation


MCMILLEN, JAN (Ed)

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

$65.00
2g11a/51

Rolls-Royce Cars and Bentley from 1931: The Complete History


SCHRADER, HALWART & NORBYE, JAN (Trans)

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

$25.00
1a3d/8

Wellington's Northern Suburbs 1919 - 1945


BREMNER, JULIE (Ed)

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

$125.00
1a3d/9

The Chatham Islands: Their Plants, Birds and People


RICHARDS, E. C.

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

$45.00
1a3d/14

Flight of the Huia: Ecology and Conservation of New Zealand's Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals


WILSON, KERRY-JAYNE

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

$57.50
1a3d/15

From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The New Zealand Division on the Western Front 1916 - 1918


GRAY, JOHN H.

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

$65.00
1a3d/22

The Scottish Regalia


REID, JOHN J. & BROOK, ALEXANDER J. S.

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

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