Books - "history"
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New Zealand Cruisers in Combat
Imperial 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: Dunmore 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Timothy Cambrill New Zealand history naval combat second world war ww2 navigations ships transport
All the Commissioner's Men
Super 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: Stentorian 2012
KEYWORDS: specails Chris Brit Crew murders New Zealand true crime history
Baradene: College of the Sacred Heart 1909-2009
Quarto softcover (nr fine) 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: Baradene College 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Margaret McClure education boarding school history religion cathlocism
Forgotten Armies: Britain Asian Empire & The War with Japan
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: Penguin 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Christopher Bayly Tim Harper history war Asia army military
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Paperback (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: Pan 1960
KEYWORDS: specials William L Shirer Nazi Germany war military history WW2
NZSAS: The First Fifty Years
First edition, imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy card boards wit white lettering to black spine, 464pp, illus, nr. fine (small smudge on fep., minor), in d/w, nr. fine
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2009
KEYWORDS: first edition Ron Crosby New Zealand SAS military history
Italy's War for a Desert: Being some Experiences of a War-Correspondent with the Italians in Tripoli
True first edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissueguard, xxxvi + 410pp +16pp book catalogue, illus, VG- (heavy fading & tanning to spine, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light fraying to spine extrems, 1cm chip to external front hinge, internal front hinge cracked, owner's address stamp to f.e.p. & rear pastedown & pg v, owner's ex-libris label to fe.p., remains of large bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown, 9cm crack to rear internal hinge, light foxing to preims & terminals but not affecting frontispiece, light tanning, light rubbing & fading to boards)
PUBLISHER: Herbert and Daniel 1912
KEYWORDS: Francis McCullagh Italy Italian Tripoliwar military history true first edition
Wetlands of New Zealand: A Bitter-Sweet Story
Folio, illus heavy card boads with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, nr. fine
PUBLISHER: Random House2007
KEYWORDS: Janet Hunt New Zealand natural history wetlands ecology flora fauna
Berlin Then and Now
First edition, folio, black faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 472pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (some creasing to upper edges, light foxing to inside) HEAVY ITEM
PUBLISHER: Battle of Britain Prints / After the Battle 1992
KEYWORDS: first edition Tony Le Tissier Germany Berlin military history World War Two WW2 German reunification Berlin Wall
The Battle of Britain Then and Now
HEAVY ITEM Folio, blue faux leather boards iwth gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 816pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Battle of Britain Prints / After the Battle 1989 (Fifth edition)
KEYWORDS: Winson G Ramsey Second World War Two Battle of Britain military history
One More Mile on the NZR
Inscribed, signed; quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to blue spine, 128pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: The Junction Press 2003
KEYWORDS: RC Bob Reid New Zealand rail NZR Otago Southland railways transport trains history
From Disaster to Recovery: The Hastings CBD 1931-35
Oblong imperial octavo, illus light card covers, xvii +238pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to lower spine extrem, slight creasing to cover corners, price sticker residue to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Michael Fowler Publishing Ltd 2007
KEYWORDS: Michael Fowler New Zealand Hastings CBD local history
Fire in the Hills: A History of Rural Fire-fighting in New Zealand
Quarto, illus light card covers, 343pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover corners, v slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Helen Beaglehole New Zealand rural fire-fighting fire-fighters firefighters fire brigade history
The Spirit of Man in Asian Art: Being the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Delivered in Harvard University 1933-34
First edition, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule to front board, xv + 217pp + 70pp plates, illus, VG (slight bruising to spine extrems, small red stamp to f.e.p., light foxing to page edges) in price clipped d/w, VG- (heavy tanning, some chipping to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1935
KEYWORDS: Laurence Binyon Asian art criticism history essays first edition
Schott's Almanac 2011
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: Bloomsbury 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Ben Schott American history biography collection reference politics
Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti; the Path to the Treaty of Waitangi
first edition, 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: David Ling Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Paul Moon New Zealand history Waitangi Treaty
The Foxes of the Desert
First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 370pp, illus, VG (moderate foxing & tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (some tanning, light staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1960
KEYWORDS: Paul Carell Afrika Korps Western Desert Tunisia Second World War Two WW2 Germany military history
Maori
Uncommon signed, oblong quarto, illus black & white light card covers with brown lettering to front, printed eps, 102pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling & rubbing to covers, some creasing to cover corners, light foxing to prelims, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Coromandel Press 1981
KEYWORDS: Barry Mitcalfe New Zealand Maori life culture art religion agriculture anthropology history
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, a Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
First edition, recased ex library, folding maps all present and clean, suer octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xx + 536 +32pp book catalogue, folding maps, illus, VG (usual library markings, v light soiling to boards, light tanning esp to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle& Rivington 1885
KEYWORDS: Henry O Forbes travel exploration natural history first edition
Public Ownership and the Telephone in Great Britain: Restriction of the Industry by the State and the Municipalities
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 386pp + 2pp adverts, VG- (some soiling to boards & spine, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, slight fading to spine, light browning to page edges & eps, small crease to several corners, split to front hinge paper)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Co 1907
KEYWORDS: Hugo Richard Meyer Great Britain telephone communication industry history