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$70.00
1u31/32

The Twilight Hour: A Personal Account of World War I


TAYLOR, WILLIAM

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

$40.00
1u31/41

Catlins Rail: The Story of the Catlins River Branch Railway 1879-1971


TYRRELL, A. R.

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

$50.00
ak3/21/3943

Caught Mapping:The Life and Times of New Zealand's Early Surveyors


HOLM, JANET

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

$9.00
xxsdj91067

One Family's War


MAYHEW, PATRICK (Ed)

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

$40.00
2g11a/5

A Companion to Western Historical Thought


(Blackwell Companions to History Series)

KRAMER, LLOYD & MAZA, SARAH (Eds)

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

$245.00
2g11a/10

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


n/a

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

$75.00
2g11a/16

Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World


O'DONNELL, KATHERINE & O'ROURKE, MICHAEL (Eds)

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

$40.00
2g11a/18

Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women


HARTMAN, JOAN E. & SEEFF, ADELE (Eds)

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

$25.00
xxsdk91092

Portrait of Patearoa


N/A

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

$14.00
xxsdk91099

The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty


KELLEY, KITTY

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

$15.00
xxsdk91102

Around Manhattan Island and Other Maritime Tales of New York


CUDAHY, BRIAN J.

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

$14.50
xxsdk91103

Greek and Roman Architecture


Second Edition

ROBERTSON, D. S.

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

$14.00
xxsdk91104

The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai


SUMMERS, JULIE

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

$42.50
2g11a/24

Dervorgilla, Lady of Galloway and Her Abbey of the Sweet Heart


HUYSHE, WENTWORTH & FISSI, F. (Illus)

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

$50.00
2g11a/25

The Town Council Seals of Scotland: Historical, Legenday and Heraldic


PORTEOUS, ALEXANDER

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

$37.50
xxsdk91115

Scott Technology: 100 Years of Engineering


SULLIVAN, JIM

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

$35.00
xxsdk91128

Dusting Off... West Harbour: The First 150 Years


COTTON, ANNE SQUIRES & WHITE, VAL

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

$17.50
xxsdk91131

Air Power: The Men. Machines, and Ideas that Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq


BUDIANSKY, STEPHEN

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

$20.00
xxsdk91133

Roman Britain: A Sourcebook


IRELAND, S.

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

$18.50
xxsdk91139

The Last of the Human Freedoms


CHIARONI, KEREN M.

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

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