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$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

$15.00
xxhic102247

Fastnet, Force 10


ROUSMANIERE, JOHN

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: WW Norton & Co 1980

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical sailing history Fastnet race yachting storm gale

$55.00
1i32a/5

Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains: The Deans Family of Riccarton and Homebush


DEANS, JOHN

First edition, signed by author on half-title page, octavo, red buckram boards iwth gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, ix + 178pp, illus plus folding family tree & folding licence to rear, VG+ (some tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams Ltd 1964

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Port Cooper Lyttelton Canterbury early settlers pioneers history

$25.00
1i32a/6

Isles of Solomon: A Tale of Missionary Adventure


LUXTON, C. T. J.

Octavo, greenish cloth boards with red lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus rear ep 220pp, illus, VG (heavy tanning & foxing, slight staining to spine, owner's name & address in ink to fep) in d/w, VG (moderate tanningn & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Methodist Foreign Missonary Society of NZ 1956

KEYWORDS: Solomon Islands John Francis Goldie biography missionary religion Methodism mission history New Zealand

$13.50
xxhid102258

The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism


BRADLEY, IAN

Octavo hardcover (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: Faber & Faber 1980

KEYWORDS: England English Victorian history politics philosophy culture

$65.00
xxhve102267

The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965-90


MCINTYRE, W. DAVID

Octavo 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: Canterbury University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Britain British Commonwealth CHOGM colonial history

$13.50
xxhvd102293

The Dark Invader: War-time Reminiscences of a German Naval Intelligence Officer


VON RINTELEN, CAPTAIN

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1937

KEYWORDS: German military history naval Captain von Rintelen memoir First World War One

$25.00
xxhvd102296

A Show of Justice: Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century New Zealand


WARD, ALAN

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: Auckland University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history legal systems law racism prejudice

$12.00
xxhoc102309

Changes in the Pa


FINLAYSO, RODERICK & SMITH, JOAN (Illus)

Octavo stapled wrapper (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: RE Owen Government Printer 1958

KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature Maori history primary school educational material

$10.00
xxhoc102310

The Coming of the Pakeha


FINLAYSO, RODERICK & SMITH, JOAN (Illus)

Octavo stapled wrapper (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: RE Owen Government Printer 1958

KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature Maori history primary school educational material

$40.00
1i32a/17

The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor


BIVONA, DAN & HENKLE, ROGER B.

Super octavo, illus purple & black glossy heavy card boards, xvi + 208pp, VG+ (v. slight rubbing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Ohio State University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: English England Victorian history social class masculinity poverty

$185.00
1i32a/23

The Coachbuilder Book of Designs (Second Edition) comprising engravings of Popular Australasian Vehicles with Tables of Measurements


n/a

Large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 260pp, illus, VG+ (slight taning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Facsimile reprint Dene Bindery 1979 (of JE Bishop & Co 1909)

KEYWORDS: transport coaches vehicles buggies carts gigs waggons traps brougham phaeton history

$65.00
1i32a/24

Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture


HARVEY, KAREN

Octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, ix + 261pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: sexual difference gender identity sexuality history literary culture

$60.00
1i32a/27

Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London


GOWING, LAURA

Octavo, navy blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, iii + 301pp, VG+ (owner's name in ink to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning 0

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: London social history women's role gender studies sex marriage

$60.00
1i32a/28

Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan


ALLEN, MATTHEW & SAKAMOTO, RUMI (Eds)

Octavo, glossy yellow heavy card boards with black lettering to spine, xiv + 226pp, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2006

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture globalisation pollitics economics colonialism immigration essays history sociology

$35.00
xxhie102347

First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicde in Chicago 1875-1920


ADLER, JEFFREY S.

First edition, 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: Harvard University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: USA America Chicago crime murder homicide history

$25.00
xxhie102351

The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I


HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin 1990

KEYWORDS: Queen Elizabeth I biography English history monarchy

$32.50
xxhef102354

Sea-Dogs of Today


VILLIERS, A. J.

Super octavo hardcover - scruffy (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: George Harrap & CO 1934

KEYWORDS: maritime naval seafaring history biography Carl Anton Larsen John Stewart Line sailors sailing

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