Books - "history"
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The South Pacific: An Introduction, Fourth Revised Edition
Softcover super octavo (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: Longman Paul/Reed Education 1978
KEYWORDS: Pacific history Ron Crocombe
Captain Cook, R. N: The Resolute Mariner: An International Record of Oceanic Discovery
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Oregon Historical Society 1974
KEYWORDS: Thomas Vaughan AA St C M Murray-Oliver Captain James Cook biography maritime exploration history library collections art artefacts
Fairs, Shops, and Supermarkets: A History of English Shopping
Ex library, 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1966
KEYWORDS: Dorothy Davis English social history shopping retailing markets
Huns in Palestine
Octavo, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt rule to spine & front board, 318pp, VG (slight bruising to spine extrems, slight fraying to board corners, small stain to front board, moderate tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Andrew Melrose Ltd circa 1912 (book advert pages list recent concurrent novels)
KEYWORDS: L de Sousa Palestine Jerusalem Assyrians history
Pioneer Shipowners
Scarce, small quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, iv + 163pp + viii pp index, illus, VG (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, two ex libris labels to fep) in d/w, VG- (archival tape repairs to closed tears to spine sides & head, nicks to spine extrems, some creasing to edges, light soiling, bookseller's label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Charles Birchall & Sons 1934
KEYWORDS: Clement Jones maritime nautical history biography shipowners Robert Wigram James Cropper Alexander Allan Samuel Cunard Arthur Anderson Thomas Wilson Duncan Dunbar James Anderson
Travelling Palaces: Luxury in Passenger Steamships
First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with blind stamped lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 310pp, illus + folding chart to rear, VG- (heavy staining to boards, some browning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, moderate browning to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, owner's name in ink to fep, sporadic light foxing & tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1913
KEYWORDS: RA Fletcher passenger steamships transport boats ships nautical maritime history
Borneo: The Stealer of Hearts
Octavo, brown heavy card boards with dark brown cloth spine & paper title label to spine, frontispiece, 286pp, illus, VG- (moderate dampstaining to boards & through to front pastedown, moderately heavy browning to page edges, heavy brownin to eps, bookseller's label to fep, owner's name & address in pencil to fep, slight staining to upper edges of first few pages, occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: Selwyn & Blount Ltd 1927
KEYWORDS: Oscar Cook Borneo travel history autobiography Civil Service
New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success
Small quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Chris Elder New Zealand China history literature poetry fiction memoirs oral narrative anthology
Sea, Gold and Sugarcane, Attraction Versus Distance: Finns in Australia 1851 - 1947
Imperial octavo, blue faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt motif to front board, 402pp, illus, VG+ (tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (creasing to edges, dampstaining to rear)
PUBLISHER: Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland 1986
KEYWORDS: Olavi Koivukangas Finland Australia Finns immigration emigration Finnish settlement settlers history
Ireland and the Global Question
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Cork University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: Michael J O'Sullivan Ireland Irish economics politics political business history foreign policy international relations
Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who came from the West, Eastward
Super octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., illus and cream lettering to front board, frontispiece, xviii + 349pp, illus, VG (light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some browning to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to front & rear pastedowns, bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown, sporadic light tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Company 1914
KEYWORDS: A C Laut exploration seafaring history Bering Benyowsky Cook Gray Drake Ledyard America
Aggressors Volume 1 Tank Buster vs. Combat Vehicle
Folio hardcover (nr fine) 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: Airlife Publishing 1990
KEYWORDS: Alex Vanags-Baginskis Rikyu Watanabe military history tanks WWII aviationShturmovik Henschel Hawker Hurricane
Aggressors Volume 4 Patrol Aircraft vs. Submarine
Folio hardcover (nr fine) 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: Airlife Publishing 1991
KEYWORDS: Dr Alfred Price Rikyu Watanabe military history WWII aviation aircraft submarines u-boats
Redmond: The Parnellite
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Cork University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Dermot Meleady Ireland Irish history John Edward Redmond biography
Bismarck
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. TEXT IN FRENCH
PUBLISHER: Perrin 2011
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH Jean- Paul Bled Bismarck biography German politics history
The Endof Chilean Democracy: An IDOC Dossier on the Coup and Its Aftermath
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: Seabury Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Laurence Bins Chile Chilean politics government history coup Salvador Allende Pinochet articles essays
Here We Are: A Canterbury Album: Photos from the Press 1850-2000
Large quarto stapled wrappers (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 Press Co. Ltd 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Christchurch The Press photography photographic history
High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Allen Lane Penguin 2010
KEYWORDS: Niall Ferguson Siegmund Warburg biography financier London finance financial history banking
The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers iwth red & yellow lettering, viii + 228pp, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to covers, light wear to extrems of covers, light foxing to page edges and end pages)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin/Trade Union History Project 1990
KEYWORDS: John E Martin New Zealand agriculture farming shearers labourers musterers history
The Big Red Trainride
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1978
KEYWORDS: Eric Newby history travel trains