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$27.50
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OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency


SMITH, R. HARRIS

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

$30.00
xxfsf107915

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


WEST, PHILIP

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

$15.00
xxfta107918

The pentecostal theology of Edward Irving


STRACHAN, C. GORDON

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

$22.50
xxfta107928

Soldiers in the Air


MEAD, PETER

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

$35.00
xxfta107929

Sail to New Zealand: The Story of Shaw Savill & Co 1858-1882


SAVILL, DAVID

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

$28.50
xxfta107939

Prince Wen Hui's Cook: Chinese Dietrary Therapy


FLAWS, BOB & WOLFE, HONORA LEE

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

$18.50
xxfta107955

From A to Y avoiding I: 125 years of railway motive power classification in New Zealand


MILLAR, SEAN

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

$30.00
xxfta107959

The Devil's Own War: The Diary of Herbert Hart


HART, HERBET & CRAWFORD, JOHN (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Exisle Publishing 2009

KEYWORDS: diary memoir journal herbert hart first world war one wwi ww1 gallipoli somme passchendaele new zealand anzac history

$25.00
xxfta107975

Traditions of Lancashire Volume Two


ROBY, JOHN

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

$18.50
xxftb107985

Charles Darwin: The Shaping of Evolutionary Thinking


WORKMAN, LANCE

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

$18.50
xxftb107988

Royal River Highway: A History of the Passenger Boats and Services on the River Thames


DIX, FRANK L.

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

$34.50
xxftb107990

Running with the Ball: The Birth of Rugby Football


MACRORY, JENNIFER

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

$18.50
xxftb107991

The Heyday of Natural History


BARBER, LYNN

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

$14.00
xxftb107992

Life in the Freezer: A Natural History of the Antarctic


FOTHERGILL, ALASTAIR & ATTENBOROUGH, DAVID (foreword)

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

$90.00
2s22/34

Tararua: The Story of a Mountain Range


MACLEAN, CHRIS

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

$95.00
2s22/38

All in a Day's Work: Seventy-Five Years of Caterpillar


NOLDE, GILBERT C. (ed)

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

$65.00
2s22/50

On Special Missions: The Luftwaffe's Research and Experimental Squadrons 1923 - 1945


PETRICK, PETER & CREEK, EDDIE J. & SMITH, J. RICHARD & HERRERA, CARLOS

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

$495.00
2s23/4

The Centurions


LARTEGUY, JEAN & FIELDING, XAN (trans)

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

$225.00
2s23/7

The New Zealand Herald: Book of the Century: 100 Years in Review by New Zealand Herald Staff, Past and Present


HILLARY, EDMUND (foreword) & SNOW, TERRY (ed)

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

$25.00
2s23/13

Borstal Boy


BEHAN, BRENDAN

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

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