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$80.00
2s13/5

Borneo: The Stealer of Hearts


COOK, OSCAR

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

$45.00
2s13/7

Old New Zealand Houses 1800-1940


SALMOND, JEREMY

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

$30.00
xxsgc95725

New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success


ELDER, CHRIS (Ed)

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

$47.50
2s13/13

Sea, Gold and Sugarcane, Attraction Versus Distance: Finns in Australia 1851 - 1947


KOIVUKANGAS, OLAVI

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

$24.50
xxsgc95760

Ireland and the Global Question


O'SULLIVAN, MICHAEL J.

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

$45.00
2s13/19a

Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who came from the West, Eastward


LAUT, A. C.

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

$35.00
xxsgd95764

Aggressors Volume 1 Tank Buster vs. Combat Vehicle


VANAGS-BAGINSKIS, ALEX & WATANABE, RIKYU (Illus)

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

$35.00
xxsgd95765

Aggressors Volume 4 Patrol Aircraft vs. Submarine


PRICE, ALFRED & WATANABE, RIKYU (Illus)

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

$30.00
xxsgd95766

Redmond: The Parnellite


MELEADY, DERMOT

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

$25.00
xxsgd95780

Bismarck


BLED, JEAN-PAUL

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

$16.50
xxsgd95784

The Endof Chilean Democracy: An IDOC Dossier on the Coup and Its Aftermath


BINS, LAURENCE (Ed)

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

$16.50
xxsgd95789

Here We Are: A Canterbury Album: Photos from the Press 1850-2000


PANKHURST, TIM (Ed)

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

$17.50
xxsgd95797

High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg


FERGUSON, NIALL

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

$42.50
2s13/26

The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand


MARTIN, JOHN E.

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

$9.50
xxsge95843

The Big Red Trainride


NEWBY, ERIC

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

$15.00
xxsge95860

Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara


CASTANEDA, JORGE

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

$24.50
xxsgf95904

Her Work and His: Family, Kin and Community in New Zealand 1900-1930


TOYNBEE, CLAIRE

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

$18.50
xxsgf95905

The Secret Servant: The Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Churchill's Spymaster


BROWN, ANTHONY CAVE

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

$15.50
xxsgf95917

Elephant Island: An Antarctic Expedition


FURSE, CHRIS

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

$15.00
xxsgf95919

A Family of Roses


MCGREDY, SAM & JENNETT, SEAN

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

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