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$30.00
2f8a/33

Wanaka and Surrounding Districts: A Sequel to Wanaka Story


ROXBURGH, IRVINE

First edition thus, octavo, teal boards with gilt lettering to spine, v + 232pp, illus, VG+, in d/w VG (moderate creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Publication Subcommittee Upper Clutha 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wanaka local history

$65.00
2f8a/48

More Footprints: Still Further Glimpses into the History of Nelson Province


NEWPORT, J. N. W. JEFF

Signed by author, small quarto, illus green light card covers with black lettering, vi + 121pp, illus, VG (fading to spine, some dampstaining & wrinkling to lower part of last 40 pages & rear cover, slight rubbing to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: JNW Newport 1987

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson local history

$60.00
1L7a/1

Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-45


ADES, DAWN & BENTON, TIM ET AL (Eds)

Very large quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 360pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Hayward Gallery 1996

KEYWORDS: Europe European art architecture history politics dictators Paris Berlin Rome Moscow

$15.00
xxhlg104621

The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth: Trends, Interpretations, and Resources with 21 essays


WINKS, ROBIN W. (Ed)

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w - insect damage (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: Duke University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: historiographical essays British Empire Commonwealth politics history

$75.00
1L7a/13

Worksop, The Dukery and Sherwood Forest


WHITE, ROBERT

Octavo, dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, black decorative rule & gilt floral motif to front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, frontispiece, illus half-title page, vii + large folding map + 338pp, illus plus folding charts, VG- (heavy browning to page edges, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some scuffing to boards, inscription in ink & owner's name & address in ink to front pastedown, some creasing browning & foxing to folding map, some foxing throughout, newspaper articles glued to fep & to rear ep)

PUBLISHER: Simpkin Marshall & Co 1875

KEYWORDS: Nottingham Workshop Sherwood Forest history priory zoology geology flora

$13.50
xxgua104696

The Dalton Journal: Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1929


DALTON, WILLIAM & GUNSON, NIEL (Ed.)

Quarto hardcover (VG+), signed by editor; 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: National Library of Australia 1990

KEYWORDS: australian seafaring history memoir journal william dalton diary maritime

$17.50
xxgua104698

Much Sounding of Bugles: The Seige of Chitral, 1985


HARRIS, JOHN

First edition, imperial 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: Hutchinson & Co Ltd 1975

KEYWORDS: imperialism british empire india colonialism history seige of chitral

$14.00
xxgua104705

A Tale of Tahiti


CLUNE, FRANK

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: Angus & Robertson 1958

KEYWORDS: tahiti tahitian history culture

$14.00
xxgua104717

The American Record: Images of the Nation's Past: Volume I: To 1877


GRAEBNER, WILLIAM (Ed.) & RICHARDS, LEONARD (Ed.)

Square imperial octavo softcover (VG+), THIS VOLUME ONLY, fifth edition; 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: McGraw Hill 2006

KEYWORDS: american history before 1877 1800s 1700s 1600s

$17.50
xxgua104722

Deception: Pakistan, the United Sates and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy


LEVY, ADRIAN & SCOTT-CLARK, CATHERINE

Imperial 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: Atlantic Books 2007

KEYWORDS: nuclear weapons conspiracy global military history

$17.50
xxgua104724

The Wolverine Way


CHADWICK, DOUGLAS H.

Imperial octavo softcover (VG+), Seagull fourth edition; 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: Patagonia Books 2010

KEYWORDS: science naturtal history zoology wolverine wolverines animal research

$67.50
ak2/10/1124

NAC: The Illustrated History of New Zealand National Airways Corporation 1947-1978


WAUGH, RICHARD & LAYNE, PETER & MCCONNELL, GRAEME

First edition, oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to red spine, printed rear ep, 320pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Kynaston Charitable Trust / Craig Printing 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NAC National Airways corporation aviation airline transport history

$245.00
1L7a/26

Ethiopia: A Cultural History


PANKHURST, SYLVIA

First edition, super octavo, burnt orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxviii + 747pp, illus, VG (lmoderate dampstaining to rear board with offset heavy staining to rear eps, moderate browning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Lalibela House 1955

KEYWORDS: Ethiopia history

$85.00
1L7a/27

Javanese Culture


KOENTJARANINGRAT

Octavo, black illus light card covers with yellow & white lettering, xiv + 550pp, VG (moderately heavy tanning to page edges & prelims)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: Java Javanese history culture

$50.00
1L7a/28

Abri and the Security of Southeast Asia: The Role and Thinking of General L Benny Moerdani


SINGH, BILVEER

Octavo, illus white light card covers with black lettering, 307pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Singapore Institute of International Affairs 1994

KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia Singapore Suharto Sukarno Indonesia Malaysai General Benny Moerdani politics history ABRI

$45.00
1L7a/33

The New Zealand Official Year Book 1919 (Twenty-Eighth Year of Issue)


BUTCHER, J. W. ET AL

Tidy ex-library, usual markings; octavo, beige heavy card boards with black lettering to spine & front board, xiii + frontispiece folding map + 968pp, illus, VG (moderate fading & staining to board, heavy browning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Marcus F Marks Government Printer 1919

KEYWORDS: New Zealand statistics history Year Book

$50.00
1L7a/37

Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation


BRACKLEY, FRIDA H. (Ed)

First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt wings to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xv + 695pp, illus,VG (some fading to spine extrems & board upper edges, some foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name & date in ink to half-title page verso, sporadic light foing) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing to spine extrems & upper edges, sellotape repairs to rear upper edges & upper flap folds, some staining)

PUBLISHER: NSB Miller 1952

KEYWORDS: Air Commodore HG Brackley Brackles biography civil aviation history RNAS RAF

$35.00
xxfpe104777

Ukraine Its History and Its Arts


KARDASH, PETER & LAWRIWSKY, MICHAEL

Inscribed & signed, very large quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Fortuna Company 1991

KEYWORDS: Ukraine history

$13.50
xxfnk104780

Creative Meddler: The Life and Fantasies of Charles St Julian


DIAMOND, MARION

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: Melbourne University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: Charles St Julian biography Australian Pacific history

$22.50
xxfnk104782

Cunderdin-Meckering: A Wheatlands History


STOKES, JOSPEH PLACID

Imperial 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: Hyland House 1986

KEYWORDS: Australian history Cunderdin Meckering Balardong tribe agriculture farming

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