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The Ultimate Kiwi Pub Crawl: 1,000 Pubs - 30,000km in Under 4 Years
Quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Heritage 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Rob Walters Mary Walters New Zealand history kiwi culture
A Long Patrol: An Illustrated History of No. 1 Squadron, RNZAF 1930-1984
Quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Century Hutchinson 2010
KEYWORDS: specials James Sanders New Zealand history RNZAF aircarft transport aviation military war planes
Profile Publications No.3: The V-12 Hispano-Suiza
Imperial octavo green & white paper stapled wrappers, 10pp (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Profile Publications 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Gordon C Davies V12 Hispano-Suiza cars automobiles motoring history
Profile Publications No.7: The Bentley 3 1/2 and 4 1/4 Litre
Imperial octavo green & white paper stapled wrappers, 10pp (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Profile Publications 1966
KEYWORDS: specials George A Oliver Bentley cars automobiles motoring history
Profile Publications No.93: The 2-Litre & 8-cylinder Ballots
Imperial octavo green & white paper stapled wrappers, 10pp (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Profile Publications 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Paul Frere Ballots cars automobiles motoring history
Profile Publications No.53: The 3.5 Litre Delahaye Type 135
Imperial octavo green & white paper stapled wrappers, 10pp (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Profile Publications 1966
KEYWORDS: specials JR Buckley Delahaye cars automobiles motoring history
Profile Publications No.83: The Tourist Trophy Replica Frazer Nash
Imperial octavo green & white paper stapled wrappers, 10pp (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Profile Publications 1967
KEYWORDS: specials John Teague Tourist Trophy Frazer Nash cars automobiles motoring history
Bristol Aircraft Since1910
First edition, octavo, dark blue cloth boards iwth gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 415pp, illus, VG- (some tanning to page edges, inscription in ink to fep, sellotape-residue staining & tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (sellotape-residue staining to flaps & rear)
PUBLISHER: Putnam & Co 1964
KEYWORDS: CH Barnes Bristol aircraft British aviation manufacturing history BAC Bristol Zodiac biplane aeronautical design specifications
Lockheed Aircraft since 1913
First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained blue, frontispiece, x + 526pp, illus, VG+ (slight staining to board edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: Putnam & Co 1982
KEYWORDS: first edition Rene Francilon Lockheed aircraft aeronautical engineering aviation history
Action Stations 1: Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945
Super octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 232pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & 1cm closed tear to rear upper edge, light creasing to other edges, slight tanning)
PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens Ltd 1979
KEYWORDS: Michael Bowyer East Anglia military airfields aircraft Britain British aviation history
The History of Maryborough and Wide Bay and Burnett Districts from the Year 1850-1895
Ex library, first edition, octavo, blind stamped decorative rule to dark blue/grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, frontispiece, 385pp + xxv pp adverts, illus, G+ (moderately heavy staining to boards, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, heavy browning to page edges & eps, some staining to page edges, tape reinforcement /repair to front hinge, 1st section of pages up to contents page loose, owner's name in ink to fep, occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cole, Outridge & Co 1897
KEYWORDS: George E Loyau Australian history Maryborough Wide Bay Burnett District
The Ford that Beat Ferrari: A Racing History of the GT40
Large quarto, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, illus title page, 480pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Haynes Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: John S Allen Gordon J Jones motor racing cars Ferrari Ford GT40 motoring history
History of New Zealand Curling
Uncommon, octavo, illus black & white light card staped wrappers, xiv + 97pp, illus, VG (some staining to covers, small stain to fep, small closed tear to upper spine)
PUBLISHER: The author (n/d)
KEYWORDS: Christine Cameron New Zealand sporting history winter sports curling
A Decade of Disasters: The Chatham Islands from 1866 to 1875
First edition, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to spine & front cover, illus printer's imprint page, 196pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Paremata Press 2009
KEYWORDS: first edition Rhys Richards Bill Carter Chatham Islands history disasters shipwrecks
The Irish in Australia
Ex library, octavo, yellow heavy card boards with black lettering, 349pp, G+ (usu library markings, tape repair to spine, heavy staining & scuffing to boards & spine, heavy browning to page edges, heavy browning & foxing to prelims & terminals, gouge to lower edge first two pages, small circular hole to rear ep, v occasional underlining in pencil, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: George Robertson & Co 1888
KEYWORDS: James Francis Hogan Australian history Irish immigration
Mails by Rail in New Zealand: The Story of the Railway Travelling Post Offices of New Zealand
Small folio, red boards wit gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 206pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Royal Philatelic Societ of New Zealand 2001
KEYWORDS: Robin Startup Albert Johnstone Allan Berry New Zealand railways transport post office postal delivery mail philately history
Miners in the Clouds: A Hundred Years of Scheelite Mining at Glenorchy
imperial octavo, illus light card covers, illus fep, 106pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Lakes District Museum 1997
KEYWORDS: Julia Bradshaw New Zealand Glenorchy scheelite mining history
Lyttelton Port and Town: An Illustrated History
Large quarto, illus red light card covers with yellow lettering, illus fep & verso, 164pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: Geoffrey W Rice New Zealand Lyttelton local history photographic portrait
Australians at War in New Zealand
Small quarto, blue boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, 299pp, illus, nr fine (small crease/indentation to front board) in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Willsonscott Publishing International 2011
KEYWORDS: Frank Glen Australians New Zealand colonies colonial military history
An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, from the Founding of the Colony in 1788 to the present day (in Two Volumes)
Ex library, two-volume set, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & gilt coat of arms to spine, black lettering & black decorative rule to front boards, xv + map + 461pp (vol.1), frontispiece folding diagram + xv + 523pp (vol.2), VG- (usu library markings, half of map to vol.1 missing, browning to page edges, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 3cm tear to spine side of vol 2, some occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Lows & Searle 1875
KEYWORDS: John Dunmore Lang Australia New South Wales colony history