Books - "history"
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The Twilight Hour: A Personal Account of World War I
Small octavo, blue faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, 111pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG (some soiling to rear, 1cm closed tear to front lower edge, label residue stain to front)
PUBLISHER: William Taylor / Arrow Press 1978
KEYWORDS: William Taylor New Zealand First World War One WWI memoir autobiography soldier military history
Catlins Rail: The Story of the Catlins River Branch Railway 1879-1971
Imperial octavo, illus green light card covers with black lettering, frontispiece, 80pp, illus, VG+ (reading crease to front cover, light rubbing to edges, previous owners details within)
PUBLISHER: Catlins Historical Society 1996
KEYWORDS: AR Tyrrell New Zealand Catlins River Branch transport history railway trains
Caught Mapping:The Life and Times of New Zealand's Early Surveyors
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering, frontispiece, 302pp, illus, VG (sunning to spine, prev owners name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Janet Holm New Zealand surveying surveyors biography history mapping exploration
One Family's War
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: Futura / Macdonald 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Patrick Mayhew second world war two ww2 wwII Lady Mayhew letters correspondence memoirs history biography
A Companion to Western Historical Thought
(Blackwell Companions to History Series)
Imperial octavo, white light card covers with black lettering to spine and illustration to front, xii + 520pp, VG+ (v light soiling & rubbing to covers, v slight bruising to front cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: Lloyd Kramer Sarah Maza history philosophy historical thinking thought multiculturalism post-colonialism technology essays
The Pipe-Rolls or Sheriff's Annual Accounts of the Revenues of the Crown for the COunties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Durham during the Reigns of Henry II, RIchard I, and John
Professionally re-bound, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, brown leather spine with gilt lettering between six raised bands, lxxv + 250pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine, some browning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne 1847
KEYWORDS: English history Cumberland Westmorland Durham Crown revenue finances government reference
Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World
Octavo, grey heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, xxix + 257pp, fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2006
KEYWORDS: Katherine O'Donnell Michael O'Rourke essays anthology homosexualtiy gender same-sex sexuality Renaissance Enlightenment history
Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women
Super octavo, blackcloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 394pp, illus, nr fine (slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (slight creasing to edges, v light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: University of Delaware Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Joan E Hartman Adele Seeff women gender studies politics economics social cultural history
Portrait of Patearoa
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: Patearoa School and District 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Patearoa school district local family biographies history memoirs
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
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: Bantam Press 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Kitty Kelley Bush family American politics biography history
Around Manhattan Island and Other Maritime Tales of New York
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Fordham University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Brian J Cudahy New York nautical maritime history memoirs autobiography
Greek and Roman Architecture
Second Edition
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1980
KEYWORDS: specials DS Robertson ancient Greek Roman architcture buildings history
The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Julie Summers Philip Toosey second world war two ww2 wwII military biography history
Dervorgilla, Lady of Galloway and Her Abbey of the Sweet Heart
Imperial octavo, grey light card covers with black lettering, frontispiece, xi + 155pp, illus, VG-- (6cm x 1cm T-shaped closed but untidy tear to spine, 2cm closed tears to upper & lower spine extrems, untidy creasing & chipping to cover edges, owner's bookplate to f.e.p. and front pastedown, owner's inscription to front pastedown, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: David Douglas 1913
KEYWORDS: Wentworth Huyshe F Fissi Dervorgilla Lady of Galloway biography history
The Town Council Seals of Scotland: Historical, Legenday and Heraldic
Quarto, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, xi +300pp, VG (bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing to page edges & some pages, light tanning & soiling to page edges, bookseller's sticker to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: W. & A. K. Johnston, Limited 1906
KEYWORDS: Alexander Porteous Scotland Scottish town council seals heraldry history
Scott Technology: 100 Years of Engineering
Folio 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: Scott Technology 2013
KEYWORDS: specials Jim Sullivan New Zealand Dunedin Scott Technology engineering company history
Dusting Off... West Harbour: The First 150 Years
Oblong 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: The Rothesay News Inc 1998
KEYWORDS: specials Anne Squires Cotton Val White New Zealand Dunedin West Harbour Port Chalmers Ravensbourne St Leonards Purakanui Rothesay Carey's Mansford's Sawyers Bay local pictorial history
Air Power: The Men. Machines, and Ideas that Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
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: Penguin 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Budiansky aviation war weapons military history
Roman Britain: A Sourcebook
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: Croom Helm Ltd 1986
KEYWORDS: specials S Ireland Roman Britain British geography political military religion commerce social history
The Last of the Human Freedoms
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: HarperCollins 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Keren M Chiaroni John Sanderson Yvette Patris New Zealand second world war ww2 wwII memoirs diary journal letters correspondence biography history