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$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

$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

$37.50
1h95/55

My Dear Bannie: Gerhard Mueller's Letters from the West Coast 1865-6


MUELLER, M. V. (Ed)

Super octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, 238pp, illus, VG (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, moderately heavy browning to eps, split to rear hinge paper, some tanning to page edges) in d/w, G+ (large tears)

PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1958

KEYWORDS: New Zealand West Coast Gerhard Mueller letters correspondence 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

$45.00
1o19/14

Otepopo and Herbert Township


MCKENZIE, DOROTHY

Imperial octavo, dark blue small quarto with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, 131pp, illus,VG+ in d/w VG (light rubbing and soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Otepopo Herbert history

$35.00
1o19/20

Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific: The Story of New Zealand's Southern Islands


REDWOOD, ROSALINE

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece,125pp, illus, VG (light bruising and soiling to board extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate soiling and chipping to edges, light rubbing and soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands Auckland Islands Campbell Solander Bounty Leeward Antipodes Snares Codfish Island 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

$18.50
xxsht99847

Captain Charles: Engineer of charity


UTICK, STEPHEN

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: Allen & Unwin 2008

KEYWORDS: biography Charles Gordon O'Neill Australian history

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