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$9.00
xxabb38750

The Beginnings of English Society


Volume II of the Pelican History of England

WHITELOCK, DOROTHY

ex library, 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: Pelican 1952

KEYWORDS: specials Dorothy Whitelock history England English history Anglo-Saxon Romans Battle of Hastings

$15.00
xxdbg39889

An Introduction to Design & Culture in the Twentieth Century


SPARKE, PENNY

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Routledge 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Penny Sparke design mass-production industry aesthetics technology economics history of modern design manufacturing art social history

$12.00
xxagaa40894

A History of the United States


CHESTERTON, CECIL & BROGAN, D. W (Ed)

Hardcover, red boards 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: JM Dent & Sons 1943

KEYWORDS: specials Cecil Chesterton DW Brogan history politics USA America United States military history

$9.00
xxasaa41315

Tudor England


BINDOFF, S. T

ex-library, 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: Penguin 1972

KEYWORDS: specials S T Bindoff history England Tudor English history

$60.00
2f13/6

Pure Gold and Rough Diamonds: Gems from the Scrapbook of a travelling Watchmaker & Jeweller in Otago & Southland


HISLOP, J. B

Signed by author, octavo, light card covers in attached yellow illustrated d/w with brown lettering to spine & front, 143pp, illus VG (heavy wear & bruising to front flap fold-in edge, 1cm chip to top front fold-in edge, some soiling spots to front & rear)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1943 (?)

KEYWORDS: signed by author JB Hislop New Zealand history Otago Southland travel history motorbike car travelling rep

$10.00
xxecb43537

A Short History of Educational Ideas


CURTIS, S.J. & BOULTWOOD, M.E.A.

exlibris, hardback octavo, lacks 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 tutorial press

KEYWORDS: specials education history curtis boultwood history politics

$14.00
xxecd43679

The Longest Day: June 6, 1944


The D-Day Story

RYAN, CORNELIUS

hardcover octavo (VG- heavy foxing) in d/w (VG-, torn); 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: Victor Gollancz 1960

KEYWORDS: ex library Cornelius Ryan D-Day 2nd world war WWII war history Germany Operation Overlord military history Allies

$72.50
xxeed44120

Policing Two Peoples: A History of Police In the Bay of Plenty 1867-1992


RORKE, JINTY

Quarto hardback, 450pp, illus (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: Bookprint Consultants Ltd 1993 (?)

KEYWORDS: specials Jinty Rorke New Zealand Police history Bay of Plenty crime law criminal history murder

$25.00
xxeed44123

Old Wellington in Colour from hundred-year-old picture postcards


PRICE, HUGH & PRICE, SUSAN

Hardover oblong imperial 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts Publishers 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Hugh Price Susan Price New Zealand Wellington history photographs pictorial history postcards colour illustrations

$40.00
1i48/38

Dunedin Churches Past and Present


CROOT, CHARLES

Quarto, grey/blue illustrated light card wrapper with French flaps and white lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 318pp, illustrated, VG (sunning to cover and spine)

PUBLISHER: Otago Settlers Association 1999

KEYWORDS: Charles Croot New Zealand Dunedin churches architecture history social history Taeri Mouth to Waikouaiti Maungatua to Macraes

$225.00
1i48/42

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Volume 6 - Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington Provincial Districts


Industrial, Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Facts, Figures, Illustrations

CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND

Very tidy copy in original binding, quarto, dark blue cloth boards with gilt embossed stamp to front board and leather corners and leather spine with gilt lettering, patterned eps, xxvi + 767pp, illustrated, VG (moderate scuffing and soiling to boards and spine, fading & foxing to prelims, gutter cracked at front & rear but not broken, fading & foxing to rear few eps, browning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cycopedia Company Ltd 1908

KEYWORDS: encyclopedia cyclopedia Taranaki Hawke's Bay Wellington province history geography biographies politics government education military social history business industry

$14.00
xxeha45175

Melville in the South Seas


ANDERSON, CHARLES ROBERTS

Ex library, 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 1966

KEYWORDS: specials Charles Roberts Anderson Herman Melville biography whaling South Seas US Navy history literature history lit crit

$20.00
xxeha45219

The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg


HANDLER, RICHARD & GABLE, ERIC

Super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Richard Handler Eric Gable Williamsburg American history consumerism culture education museums entertainment patriotism revisionism social history

$17.50
xxehc45331

The Anglo-Saxon Age c400-1042


FISHER, D. J. V

Ex library, 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: Longman Group 1983

KEYWORDS: specials DJV Fisher history England Anglo-Saxons conquest Normans Christianity religion church ecclesiastical history

$295.00
1m44/36

Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies: A Survey of the Literature Complete with Original Patterns 1747-Present


NEMES, SYLVESTER

First edition, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xi + 173pp, illus in full colour, fine, in fine d/w

PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books 2004

KEYWORDS: Sylvester Nemes sport fishing outdoors history angling anglers wet fly dry fly soft hackle trout 220 years' fly fishing history

$19.50
xxeib45616

Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail


FENDER, STEPHEN

Super octavo hardcover 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: Cambridge University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Fender America USA literature California Gold rush history 19th century american literary cultural history

$12.00
xxeic45758

Cochrane


THOMAS, DONALD

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Star Books 1978

KEYWORDS: specials Donald Thomas maritime adventure Admiral Lord Cochrane Sea-Wolf Napoleon biography history maritime history

$95.00
2c12a/20

Through the British Commonwealth


New Zealand, New Guineam, Papua, Hong Kong; The Lord Mayor's Show; Australia and Tasmania; The Opening of Parliament; India, Ceylonm, Burma & Singapore; Through Irak, Palestine to East Africa; Canada,

MEAD, STELLA & EULALIE (Illus)

12 parts (complete set), super octavo, illustrated stapled wrappers, approx 20pp per volume, illus, all vols VG (some rubbing & fading to boards, rust marks from staples, tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Amex Company Letchworth (year?)

KEYWORDS: Stella Mead Eulalie children's literature Brtish Commonwealth history geography history travel

$25.00
xxcva46366

Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River


DIETRICH, WILLIAM

Softcover super octavo (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: University of Washington Press 1996

KEYWORDS: specials William Dietrich Columbia River hydroelectricity exploration settlers irrigation fishermen farmer engineering industry history natural history politics

$22.50
xxcva46367

The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century


BOIME, ALBERT

Softcover imperial 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: Thames & Hudson 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Albert Boime art art history paintings exclusion repression social history USA America

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