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$16.50
xxskh102182

Stendhal: A Biography


RICHARDSON, JOANNA

Super 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: Victor Gollancz 1974

KEYWORDS: biography history

$19.50
xxskh102185

Nasser: The Cairo Documents


HEIKAL, MOHAMED

Super 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: New English Library 1972

KEYWORDS: Egypt Foreign relations history

$14.00
xxskh102193

It was Twenty Years Ago Today


TAYLOR, DEREK

Super 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: Bantam Press 1987

KEYWORDS: history sociology

$35.00
xxskh102207

New Zealand Bowlers' Annual, 1906-07


ALLOO, W. (compiled)

Super octavo hardcover (G); 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: W. Alloo 1907

KEYWORDS: New Zealand sports history Bowling

$40.00
1c21a/17

Ferguslei to Hawthorne:The History of North East Valley: People and Places involved in its Development


HENDRY, CAROLE

Octavo, illus green light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, 32pp, illus, VG (light foxing and soiling to covers, prev ownership details blacked out with black permanent marker to fep, slight creasing)

PUBLISHER: Carole Hendry 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin North East Valley Normanby Ferguslei Hawthorne local history

$45.00
1c21a/18

One Hundred Grand Parades: A Centennial History of the Gore A&P Association 1882-1982


MORRISON, G. L. & MCARTHUR, J. F.

Small quarto, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, 204pp, illus, VG (slight foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing, light soiling, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: McArthur & Morrison / Gore A&P Assn 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Gore A & P centenary local history

$80.00
1c21a/20

Merchantmen-at-Arms: The British Merchants' Service in the War


BONE, DAVID W. & BONE, MUIRHEAD (Illus)

Large quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 260pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in ink to title page, bruising to spine extrems, some foxing to page edges & eps, insect damage to lower edge of page 41)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1919

KEYWORDS: Britain British merchants Merchant navy naval nautical maritime history

$40.00
1c21a/22

Bunyip Says So: A Tale of the Australian Bush


FLEMING, W. M.

Small quarto, beige heavy card boards iwth blue lettering & blue koala motif to front board, dark beige eps, ii + 96pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to boards & spine, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: New Century Press Pty 1939

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian children's literature natural history

$45.00
1c21a/24

Historic Worcestershire: Worcestershire Historical, Biographical, Traditional, Legendary and Romantic


BRASSINGTON, W. SALT

Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt city scene to front board, blind rule to rear board, marbled eps, frontispiece, xxiii + 329pp, illus, VG (moderate browning to page edges, light bruising to spine extrems, some scrating to rear board, occasional foxing)

PUBLISHER: Midland Educational Co. Ltd 1894

KEYWORDS: Worcestershire history architecture

$450.00
1c21a/26

Chinese Invasion of NEFA


JAHRI, MAJOR SITA RAM & CARIAPPA, GENERAL K. M. (Foreword)

First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with light blue lettering to front board, illus eps, 260pp, illus, VG- (heavy fading to lower spine & spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanningn & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, G+ (some browning, heavy creasing to edges, lower one-third of spine missing, tears with loss to upper spine, archival tape repairs)

PUBLISHER: Himalaya Publications 1968

KEYWORDS: China CHinese invasion NEFA military history

$300.00
1c21a/34

Yeomen of the South


THOMAS, M. C.

Dated inscribed & signed by author to FG Hall-Jones, scarce, octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to front cover & handwritten title to spine, 188pp, VG- (some soiling to covers, 1cm closed tear to lower spine, some tanning to spine & page edges, v. occasional annotation in pencil, light tanning, occasinoal creasing)

PUBLISHER: Southland News Company 1940

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southland history

$30.00
2c19a/4

New Zealand Historical Atlas / Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei


McKINNON, MALCOLM (ed) & BRADLEY, BARRY & KIRKPATRICK, RUSSELL

Folio, dark grey boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, 290pp, illus, VG, in d/w, VG

PUBLISHER: Bateman 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history geography geology

$135.00
2c19a/19

A Surveyor in New Zealand 1857-1896: The Recollections of John Holland Baker


BAKER, JOHN HOLLAND & BAKER, NOELINE (Ed)

Ownership & annotation of FG Hall-Jones, super octavo, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 336pp, illus, VG- (moderate browning & foxing to page edges, some staining to boards, relevant newspaper cuttings glued to front pastedown & prelims, bookseller's label to fep, annotation throughout)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1932

KEYWORDS: John Holland Baker New Zealand autobiography surveying surveyor history

$425.00
2c19a/20

A List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the Dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals and Captains; and Alphabetical List of the Post Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants of His Majesty's Fleet with


n/a

Ex Royal Victoria Yacht Club library, octavo, red leather boards with green leather spine, gilt decorative rule to boards& spine, gilt lettering in red decorative leather panel to spine, a.e.g, gilt dentelle to eps, patterned eps, 149pp + 207pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & boards, red leather title label to spine almost completely torn off, some soiling to upper page edges, Yacht Club label to front pastedown, some staining to eps)

PUBLISHER: M & S Brooke 1805

KEYWORDS: reference maritime nautical naval history

$80.00
2c19a/34

A Soldier's Diary: SOuth Africa 1899-1901


JACKSON, MURRAY COSBY

Note: someone has laminated boards. First edition, super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 366pp, illus, VG- (sticky-plastic covered boards, some fading to boards, heavy browning to page edges& eps, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, owner's address stamp to fep, some foxing & staining throughout)

PUBLISHER: Max Goschen Ltd 1913

KEYWORDS: Murray Cosby Jackson autobiography military history Boer War South Africa

$35.00
2c19a/35

English Freemasonry in Canterbury 159-1959: A Short History of the District Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canterbury New Zealand


HEWLAND, J. L. (Ed_)

Octavo, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 89pp, illus, VG (some fading & staining to spine, lighter fading to boards, light tanning to page edges, small stain to title page)

PUBLISHER: District Grand Lodge of Canterbury 1959

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury freemasons freemasony grand lodge masonic history

$30.00
2c19a/41

Shell in New Zealand


COOKE, PETER

Large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece map, 267pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight tanning)

PUBLISHER: Shell Heritage Society 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Shell company oil petroleum industry economics history

$150.00
2c19a/47

Moriori: A People Rediscovered


KING, MICHAEL

First edition, second impression, quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, 226pp, illus, VG+ (light wear to spine extrems and board corners, v sl foxing to uper page edges), in d/w VG (ligth fading to spine and upper edge of front cover, light rubbing to covers, light creasing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Viking 1989

KEYWORDS: Chatham Islands Rekohu Moriori history archaeology

$75.00
2c19a/50

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: War Surgery and Medicine


STOUT T. DUNCAN M.

Ex library, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 779pp, illus, VG- (relatively light library markings, moderately heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems, some staining to boards, some tanning to page edges, moderately heavy creasing & wear to photograph pages)

PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch 1954

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Second World War Two surgery medicine medical corps

$75.00
2c19a/52

Nineteenth Century Prints of Singapore


TEO, MARIANNE & CHONG, YU CHE & OH, JULIA

Oblong folio, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, yellow eps, 96pp, illus, VG+ (v light tanning to page edges, slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG (some fading)

PUBLISHER: The National Museum Singapore 1987

KEYWORDS: Singapore art prints pictorial history

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