Books - "history"
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The Story of New Zealand Volcanoes
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: Collins 1977
KEYWORDS: specials GL Pearce New Zealand volcanoes geology volcanology natural history
Yakuza Diary: Doing Time in the Japanese Underworld
First edition, 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: The Atlantic Monthly 1996
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Christopher Seymour Japan history Yakuza true crime
Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol
First edition, Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Methuen 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Ultra Violet Isabelle Collin Dufresne Andy Warhol memoir history hollywood pop art biography
A Brief History of the Catholic Church
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: Catholic Publications Centre 1978
KEYWORDS: specials E. R. Simmons New Zealand history catholic church catholicism religion
The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter, Holocaust Survivor
First edition, 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: Victoria University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Sarah Gaitanos Clare Galambos holocaust war memoir history
Salt: A World History
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: Vintage 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Mark Kurlansky history politics science discovery religion culinary
The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
Paperback (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 1968
KEYWORDS: specials Alan Moorehead history South Pacific exploration
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
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