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$16.50
xxshr99764

House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival


BALL, DEBORAH

First Edition, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Crown 2010

KEYWORDS: biography history fashion Italy

$8.50
xxshr99765

Dynasty


SPOTO, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Pocket Books 1996

KEYWORDS: Monarchy Great Britain History Biography

$30.00
xxksj99772

Ashburton County Coucil Centenary 1876-1976: Aspects of Local Government Growth in Mid-Canterbury


LETHAM, S. J. (Chairman)

Octavo light card 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: Ashburton County Council 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history Ashburton Canterbury

$17.50
xxshs99780

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History


FADERMAN, LILLIAN

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Mariner 2000

KEYWORDS: lesbian lgbt america history activism

$18.50
xxshs99783

Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927


ROBERTS, MARY LOUISE

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Chicago 1994

KEYWORDS: gender feminism culture history france

$14.50
xxshs99785

Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture


ISRAEL, KALI

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Oxford 1999

KEYWORDS: biography feminism literary criticism history

$10.00
xxshs99795

Uppity Women of Medieval Times


LEON, VICKI

Square 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: Conari 1997

KEYWORDS: medieval history women

$25.00
xxshs99798

Threatened Plants of New Zealand


WILSON, CATHERINE M. & GIVEN, DAVID R.

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: DSIR 1989

KEYWORDS: botany new zealand natural history field guide conservation

$150.00
1h95/37

Stewart Island's Kaipipi Shipyard and the Ross Sea Whalers


WATT, J. P. C.

SIGNED First edition, small quarto, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 273pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, light fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight fading and scuffing)

PUBLISHER: JPC Watt 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Stewart Island maritime history shipyards boat building whaling Ross Sea Norway Norwegians signed

$25.00
1h95/38

Maori Dunedin


GRIFFITHS, GEORGE & GOODALL, MAARIRE

Imperial octavo, white light card stapled wrappers with black lettering, 56pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning and soiling to wrappers)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin Maori history

$85.00
1h95/42

Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation


SEARS, JAMES T.

Super octavo, illus light card covers, xx + 586pp, illus, VG (creasing to rear cover, v slight soiling to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harrington Park Press 2007

KEYWORDS: homosexuality homosexuals gay gender history

$40.00
1h95/43

The Politics of Focus: Women, Children and Nineteenth-century Photography


SMITH, LINDSAY

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to blue spine, x + 136pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep & rear ep)

PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: photography photographic technology history

$35.00
1o19/9

Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in Photographs


HARPER, GLYN & NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM

Scarce in hardcover, very large square illus grey boards with white lettering to spine & front board and black lettering to rear board, window cut-out to front board allowing framed view of fep illus, illus eps, 399pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand First World War One WW1 photography photographic pictorial record military history

$350.00
1q19a/2

David Leslie: A Story of the Afghan Frontier Volumes 1 & 2


THORBURN, S. S.

Uncommon, two-volume set, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & gilt mountain landscape motif to front board, dark brown coated eps, vi + 293pp (vol.1), vi + 303pp (vol.2), some fraying to spine extrems, some staining to boards & spine, wear to vol 1 fep, owner's name & address in ink to vol.1 fep, some browning to page edges, prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1879 (2nd edition)

KEYWORDS: David Leslie biography Afghanistan history

$245.00
1q19a/5

Cavalry in Future Wars


VON BERNHARDI, GENERAL FREDERICK & FRENCH, SIR JOHN (Trans)

First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stained black, xxviii + 305pp + 2pp book ads, VG- (moderately heavy staining to boards, some fraying to spine extrems, ding to front board lower corner, some tanning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, owner's name & address stamp partially scored out to fep, 4cm stain to front hinge, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1906

KEYWORDS: mililtary history cavalry warfare war combat

$75.00
1q19a/23

Cambodia: The Years of Turmoil


NEVELU, ROLAND (Photog) & DAVIES, BEN (Ed)

Very large quarto, light grey boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, 160pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine,

PUBLISHER: Asia Horizons 2000

KEYWORDS: Cambodia history photography pictorial record photographs

$100.00
1q19a/25

Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle: Quatrieme Serie, Tome Sixieme


RATHBUN, MARY J. ET AL

TEXT IN FRENCH, re-bound, v large quarto, yelllow heavy card boards with black lettering to brown cloth spine, original title page mounted to new fep, pages 225 to 321, illus with aprox 18 full-page plates, VG+ (some light soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Masson Et Cie 1904

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH natural history zoology carcinology crabs crustacea science

$40.00
1q19a/35

A History of Goldmining in New Zealand


SALMON, J. H. M.

Imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 309pp, illus, VG- (moderate damp staining to front board, moderate bruising and scuffing to spine extrems, light foxing to eps) in d/w, scruffy (heavy creasing, chipping and scuffing with surface loss to spine extrems and cover edges, moderate rubbing and soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: RE Owen Government Printer 1963

KEYWORDS: New Zealand gold goldmining industry history

$135.00
1q19a/9191

An Early Surveyor in Singapore


HALL-JONES, JOHN & HOOI, CHRISTOPHER

First edition, square quarto, blue boards with white lettering to spine & front board, 135pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+ (slight fading)

PUBLISHER: National Museum Singapore 1979

KEYWORDS: John Turnbull Thomson Singapore Government surveyor biography history

$35.00
1q19a/41

The Renault File: All Models since 1898


DYMOCK, ERIC

Oblong super octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, black eps, frontispiece, 416pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG (moderately heavy foxing inside, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Dove Publishing / Haynes 1998

KEYWORDS: cars Renault motoring motorcar transport automotive history

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