Hard To Find Books
Books

Search For Hard To Find Books

Advanced Search

Books - "history"

Showing 19021 to 19040 of 43649 results.

$245.00
2s19/49

New Zealand, its Resources and Prospects


BATHGATE, JOHN

First edition, octavo, brown textured cloth boards, yellow eps, frontispiece, 121pp + 3pp book ads, illus plus folding colour map at front & folding trade map to rear, VG+ (some fading to spine, some light tanning & foxing to page edges, v slight discolooration to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: W& R Chambers 1880

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history resources banking finance culture

$8.50
xxgtc104395

The Killing of Karen


RASHKE, RICHARD

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: Sphere 1983

KEYWORDS: Murder Oklahoma history true crime

$8.50
xxgtc104419

The Fetterman Massacre


BROWN, DEE

Photos loose, 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: Pan Books 1979

KEYWORDS: history American West

$17.50
xxgtd104443

Blood Accusation: The Strange History of the Beiliss Case


SAMUEL, MAURICE

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: jewish publication society 1966

KEYWORDS: jews crime history

$17.50
xxgtd104444

Valhalla, Calvary and Auschwitz


SHOHAM, S. GIORA

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: Bowman & Cody Academic Publishing 1995

KEYWORDS: history Holocaust Jewish Germany

$25.00
xxgtd104452

Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews


GITLITZ, DAVID M.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: jewish publication society 1996

KEYWORDS: spain jews jewish history religion

$24.50
xxgte104490

Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War


TURNER, GEORGE EDGAR

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 costs

PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books 1992

KEYWORDS: american civil war rail trains locomotive steam train railroad railroads military history

$18.50
xxgte104493

Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American literature


CHEYETTE, BRYAN (Ed.)

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: jew jewish history media culture discrimination oppression representation critical literaray analysis

$14.00
xxgtf104503

The Legends of Genesis: The Biblical Saga and History


GUNKEL, HERMANN

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: Schocken Books 1970

KEYWORDS: archaeology anthropology religion old testament biblical history

$15.00
xxgtf104524

Banned! A Review of Theatrical Censorship in Britain


FINDLATER, RICHARD

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: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd 1968

KEYWORDS: theatre censorship british uk britain history

$30.00
xxgtf104532

The Trafalgar Companion


STILWELL, ALEXANDER (Ed.)

Quarto 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: Osprey Publishing 2005

KEYWORDS: battle of trafalgar napoleonic wars europe european military naval history guide companion

$95.00
2s19/50

The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom


GOLDIN, SIMHA & LEVIN, YIGAL (Trans)

Super octavo, illus maroon heavy card boards wityh yellow lettering, xiv + 399pp, VG (ding to front board lower edge & rear board upper edge, some annotation in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Brepols Publishers 2008

KEYWORDS: Judaism Jewish martyrdom Middle Ages history religion

$85.00
2s20/4

Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Community


BELL, DEAN PHILLIP

Super octavo, illus heavy card boards with white lettering to spine & black lettering to front board, xii + 188pp, VG+ (some underlining / annotation in red & blue pencil)

PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2007

KEYWORDS: Germany German Jewish Judaism identify history religion

$42.50
2s20/13

The Jews of Eastern Europe 1772-1881


BARTAL, ISRAEL & NAOR, CHAYA (Trans)

First English language edition, octavo, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 203pp, illus, VG+ (some annotation in pencil) in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005

KEYWORDS: Eastern Europe Jews Jewish Judaism history

$62.50
2s20/16

The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1902


VON DADELSZEN, E. J.

Octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & black decorative rule to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece map, vi + 699pp, illus plus 2 folding tables to rear, VG (some browning to page edges, some staining to boards, owner's name address & date in ink to front pastedown, front & rear hinge paper torn, occasional foxing, 3cm closed tear to large folding chart at rear)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay GOvt. Printer 1902

KEYWORDS: New Zealand year book history statistics industry agriculture politics shipping transport

$137.50
os2/47

New Zealand Illustrated: The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns also The Natural WOnders of New Zealand


WAKEFIELD, EDWARD

Oblong elephant folio, illus cream heavy card boards with cream cloth spine, brown lettering to front board, VG+ (v. slight soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Price Milburn & Co 1981 (Facsimile reprint of AD Willis 1889)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history cities towns scenery portraits prints art

$70.00
2s20/25

The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation


GARBER, ZEV (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine, 405pp, VG+ (v slight creasing)

PUBLISHER: Purdue University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: Judaism Jewish studies religion Jesus theology history essays

$60.00
2f8a/6

Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700


GRAIZBORD, DAVID L.

Super octavo, dark grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 261pp, VG+ (owner's stamp to fep, moderate underlining & annotation in pencil) in d/w, VG+ (crease to front flap lower corner)

PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 2004

KEYWORDS: Iberian peninsula religion religious history Jews Jewish diaspora Spanish Portuguese Christian converts

$1400.00
2f8a/14

The Beauties of the Bosphorus


PARDOE, MISS JULIA & BARTLETT, WILLIAM H. (Illus)

Eight-volume complete set, original bindings, quarto, red cloth boards with blind stamped decorative rule & gilt motif to front & rear boards & gilt lettering to spine, a.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard + illus title page (vol.1), unpaginated but aprox 23 full-page plates each with tissue guard in each volume, xii + 236pp over the eight volumes, 16pp to rear of vol.8, each volume has 4pp adverts to rear, VG- (moderate tanning to spines, loss of 2cm of surface to aprox 5 spine heads, moderate brusing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, small gouge to rear board lower corner of vol.1, some fading & staining to boards, owner's name & year in ink to front pastedown & one prelim in each volume, moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: George Virtue n/d but circa 1840

KEYWORDS: Bosphorus Danube Turkey history art travel

$40.00
2f8a/19

Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague


GOLDBERG, SYLVIE ANNE & COSMAN, CAROL (Trans)

Super octavo, yellow boards with gilt lettering to black cloth spine, xviii + frontispiece + 303pp, illus, VG (some light foxing & soiling to page edges, owner's name & address stamp to fep, sporadic annotation in ink) in d/w, VG (1cm closed tear to upper spine, slight creasing)

PUBLISHER: University Of California Press 1996

KEYWORDS: Prague Jews Jewish Judaism Ashkenazi history

site powered by - Turboweb :: Simple Web Manager