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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
Old New Zealand Houses 1800-1940
First Edition, imperial octavo, beige heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, 246pp, illus VG+ ( fading to board edges, light bruising to board corners and spine extrems, light foxing and soiling to page edges, light soiling to fep) in d/w, VG ( light creasing ans scuffing to edges, sunning to spine, sl rubbing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Reed Methuen 1986
KEYWORDS: Jeremy Salmond New Zealand houses homes architecture history construction
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
Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara
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: Bloomsbury 1998
KEYWORDS: Jorge Castaneda history Castro
Her Work and His: Family, Kin and Community in New Zealand 1900-1930
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand autobiography history memoirs
The Secret Servant: The Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Churchill's Spymaster
Hardcover super octavo (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1988
KEYWORDS: biography history stewart menzies
Elephant Island: An Antarctic Expedition
Ex-library. Hardcover octavo (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Anthony Nelson 1979
KEYWORDS: travel history anarctica
A Family of Roses
First edition. Hardcover super octavo (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1971
KEYWORDS: biography memoirs history roses