Books - "history"
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Wiley: One Hundred and Seventy-five Years of Publishing
Super 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: John Wiley & Sons. 1982
KEYWORDS: Wayne Anderson wiley publishing company publishers history books literature
Really the Blues
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: Flamingo 1993
KEYWORDS: Mezz Mezzrow Bernard Wolfe music genre blues soul jazz america united states usa history
Waugh Declared - The Story Of Australia's Famous Cricketing Twins
SIGNED BY BOTH WAUGH TWINS ON BOOKPLATE, Imperial Octavo softcover, illus light card covers, 206pp., illus, VG (moderate creasing to covers, moderate rubbing to top right cover corner, severe bend to the right side of the book, mild foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ironbark Press 1992
KEYWORDS: history sports australia aus aussie oz cricket waugh twins
The Gay Liberation Youth Movement In New York - An Army Of Lovers Cannot Fall
Super Octavo softcover, illus light card covers, white lettering to covers and spine, xvi + 315pp., NEAR FINE
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2008
KEYWORDS: lgbt lgbtq gay youth activism new york nyc ny usa protest history
Borrowed Plumes - Letters From Edwardian Newspapers Of Male Cross Dressing
INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo softcover, illus light card covers, black lettering to covers and spine, illus half title page, illus title page, 144pp., illus VG+ (mild creasing to covers, mild rubbing to cover and spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Karn Publications 1994
KEYWORDS: lgbt lgbtq culture history trans crossdressing drag female impersonation
Microhistories - Demography, Society, And Culture In Rural England, 1800-1930
AUTHORS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE AND DATE (AUTHORS COPY), FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 290pp., 29 plates, VG+ (moderate bruising to board corners, mild soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (moderate curling to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: history sociology culture society demography rural england
The Languages Of Sexuality
Super octavo softcover, illus light card covers, black lettering to cover, white lettering to spine, 245pp., VG+ (moderate soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2011
KEYWORDS: lgbt lgbtq language semiotics history sexuality sex
Recognizing Transsexuals - Personal, Political And Medicolegal Embodiment
Super octavo hardcover, illus heavy card boards, white lettering to boards and spine, vii + 195pp., VG+ (moderate soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate 2011
KEYWORDS: lgbt lgbtq language semiotics history sexuality sex trans transgender
Possessing The Pacific - Land, Settlers, And Indigenous People From Australia To Alaska
Super Octavo hardcover, brown buckram boards with black spine, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 388, NEAR FINE, in d/w VG (heavy curling and scuffing to edges, mild fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: sociology anthropology colonialism history pacific indigenous
The Preceptor's Assistant; or, Miscellaneous Questions in General History, Literature, and Science
Small octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to front, gilt bands to spine, illus., 305pp+adverts at rear, G+ (front board detached and spine cracked; moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards, moderate tanning and occasional soiling within, prev. owner's name in ink to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper 1830
KEYWORDS: history literature science popular philosophy reference preceptor's assistant preceptor rev reverend williams david
Atlantic Sail: Ten Centuries of Ships in the North Atlantic
Oblong octavo (long) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 1992
KEYWORDS: maritime naval history boats ships atlantic sail sailing
A Melange of Musical Pipedreams and Pandemonium: Australian, New Zealand, African, Turkish and Middle Eastern Rock, Pop, Beat, R&B, Folk, Psych and Prog 1963 - 1976
Quarto illus. light card covers, illus., vi+762pp, nr. FINE (a touch of soiling to bottom edge text block, unobtrusive)
PUBLISHER: Borderline Productions 2017
KEYWORDS: vernor joynson discography reference music history australian new zealand turkish african middle eastern rock pop r & b rnb rhythm and blues folk psych psychedelic prog progressive record collecting collector
Splendours of the Narional Palace Museum: A New Edition
Quarto illus. light card covers, illus., pp, nr. FINE (tiny scuff to top of spine, minor, w. light creasing also)
PUBLISHER: National Palace Museum / Chou Kung-shin 2010
KEYWORDS: national museum palace taipei tawain tawainese chinese art history jade pottery antiques antique ancient art
African Majesty: A Record of Refuge at the Court of the King Bangangte in the French Cameroons
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo brown cloth boards, gilt (faded) lettering to spine, pp., VG (lacks d/w, light scuffing to boards, moderate tanning and light to moderate foxing to edges and within, prev. owner's name in pen to fep.)
PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1938
KEYWORDS: king bangangte cameroon central west africa african history french cameroons
Tsar Paul and the Question of Madness: An Essay in History and Psychology
Super octavo red cloth boards, white lettering to front & spine, pp., nr. FINE (a touch of tanning and foxing to edges, minor)
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press 1988
KEYWORDS: russia russian history tsar monarchy paul pavel psychology historiography europe european czar
The Silmarillion [boxed gift set]
Scarce boxed gift pack, comprising: (1) the book [small octavo grey heavy card boards, black text and decoration, xxxii+443pp+maps at rear, VG+ (light tanning, otherwise nr. FINE)]; (2) CD in grey card sleeve (Christopher Tolkien Reads an Excerpt From the Silmarillion); (3) a postcard (Tanequetil); & (4) another book [The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand and the Lands to the North, by Brian Sibley & John Howe; illus. light card covers with large folding map, nr. FINE]; all the above in grey card box VG (minor tears to interior, some v. sl. soiling to exterior)
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 1999
KEYWORDS: scarce limited tolkien j r silmarillion middle earth art maps history fantasy literature
Men and Rails
FIRST EDITION, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii+263pp., VG (light scuffing to boards, light to moderate soiling foxing and tanning to edges and within)
PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1913
KEYWORDS: rail railways train trains locomotive transport history engine engines engineering labour union unions strike workers unionism politics political all grades movement 1911 general royal commission
The Wanganui River: The Rhine of New Zealand
Ex-library octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. endpapers, 152pp, VG (very tidy ex-library, minimal markings; tape stain to spine and light soiling to boards; occasional light soiling and foxing (minor); lacks d/w)
PUBLISHER: Keeling & Mundy 1965
KEYWORDS: wanganui river new zealand local regional history
Doubtful Harbour
Includes loosley inserted Supplement to Doubtful Harbour (quarto white illus. light card stapled covers, 8pp, VG+ (sl. rust stains around staples)); actual book details: quarto green illus. light card covers, illus., 60pp., VG+ (a touch of fading & light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing 1984
KEYWORDS: doubtful harbour new zealand history maritime fiordland south island captain alessandro alaspina don felipe bauza spanish spain exploration captain john grono j l stokes sir james hector
The Mosquito Fleet of Canterbury: An Impression of the Years 1830 - 1870
Quarto illus. light card covers with French flaps, illus., 306pp, nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 2005
KEYWORDS: new zealand canterbury maritime regional history mosquito fleet ships naval sail sailing colonial settler pioneer shipping shipbuilding