Books - "history"
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OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
First edition, imperial 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1972
KEYWORDS: us usa american history OSS O.S.S. secret service intelligence spy
The Last Horse and Wagon Circus Family: The Australian Traveller: A pictorial and written history of the last horse and wagon circus family in Australia
Small super octavo softcover (VG+), photocopy of letter from author loosely enclosed; 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: Bookbound Publishing 2009
KEYWORDS: australian circus history sooby family
The pentecostal theology of Edward Irving
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: Darton, Longman and Todd 1973
KEYWORDS: religion christianity christian pentecostal pentecostalism theology edward irving history
Soldiers in the Air
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: Ian Allen Ltd 1967
KEYWORDS: aviaton military history aeroplanes airplanes planes
Sail to New Zealand: The Story of Shaw Savill & Co 1858-1882
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: Robert Hale Ltd 1986
KEYWORDS: shaw savill new zealand colonial history settlement settlers
Prince Wen Hui's Cook: Chinese Dietrary Therapy
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: Paradigm Publications 1983
KEYWORDS: diet chinese medicine history nutrition dietary therapy
From A to Y avoiding I: 125 years of railway motive power classification in New Zealand
Quarto 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: Sean Millar 2001
KEYWORDS: railway railway engines train locomotives new zealand history classification
The Devil's Own War: The Diary of Herbert Hart
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: Exisle Publishing 2009
KEYWORDS: diary memoir journal herbert hart first world war one wwi ww1 gallipoli somme passchendaele new zealand anzac history
Traditions of Lancashire Volume Two
This vol only, ex library, Super octavo hardcover (G); 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: George Routledge & SOns 1867
KEYWORDS: Legends England Lancashire Folklore history
Charles Darwin: The Shaping of Evolutionary Thinking
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: Palgrave Macmillan 2014
KEYWORDS: History Naturalists England Biography
Royal River Highway: A History of the Passenger Boats and Services on the River Thames
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: David & Charles 1985
KEYWORDS: Passenger ships England Thames River - History Navigation Transport nautical
Running with the Ball: The Birth of Rugby Football
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: HarperCollins 1991
KEYWORDS: Rugby Union football Great Britain History sports
The Heyday of Natural History
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: Jonathan Cape 1980
KEYWORDS: Natural history Great Britain
Life in the Freezer: A Natural History of the Antarctic
Quarto 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: BBC Books 1994
KEYWORDS: Natural history Antarctica
Tararua: The Story of a Mountain Range
Quarto, purple heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, illus eps, 272 pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light scuffing to spine extrems) in d/w VG (moderate sunning to front cover, light rubbing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe Press 1995
KEYWORDS: Mountains New Zealand Wellington Tararua Range travel Hiking History
All in a Day's Work: Seventy-Five Years of Caterpillar
First edition, oblong quarto, black cloth boards with grey lettering to spine, printed eps, frontis piece, v + 280, Nr Fine (booksellers label to fep) in d/w VG+ (v slight scuffing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Forbes custom Publishin 2000
KEYWORDS: tranport machinery Power shovels Mining machinery technology history caterpillar
On Special Missions: The Luftwaffe's Research and Experimental Squadrons 1923 - 1945
Quarto, black heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, 128 pp, VG+ (v slight soiling to boards, light staining to title page) in d/w Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Classics 2003
KEYWORDS: Luftwaffe Versuchsverband Airplanes Military Technological innovations Germany History technology
The Centurions
First edition, Lovely Copy, octavo, red heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 487 pp, VG+ (moderate foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (some creasing to spine extrems, some staining to inside of french flaps)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1961
KEYWORDS: Algeria History Revolution Fiction Prisoners of war France literature modern first edition
The New Zealand Herald: Book of the Century: 100 Years in Review by New Zealand Herald Staff, Past and Present
Numbered limited edition signed by Sir Edmund Hillary, Small Folio, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 304 pp, illus, Nr Fine in slip case VG+ (some rubbing to case)
PUBLISHER: W & H Publications 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Edmund Hillary
Borstal Boy
First edition, Octavo, dark purple card boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 343 pp, VG- (occasional foxing to pages, some foxing to eps, heavy foxing to page edges, light rubbing to boards) in d/w VG- (heavy browning & staining to spine, moderate browning to covers, some bruising to spine extrems, 1.5cm closed tear to upper rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1958
KEYWORDS: Juvenile detention homes England Authors Irish Biography history