JAMES, BILL

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: Kokoda Press 2006

KEYWORDS: kokoda track battlefields world war two wwii australia territory of papua new guinea guinean history

BROMAN, SVEN; PERRY, GABRIEL (trans.)

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: Bloomsbury 1992

KEYWORDS: greta garbo biography swedish actress film hollywood history

ANDERSEN, KRISTEN (ed.); WILLIAMS, ROBERT & MCCORMICK, CARLO & REID, LARRY

Oblong 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: Ignition Publishing / Last Gasp 2004

KEYWORDS: pop surrealism lowbrow art history illustrated mark ryden

NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

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 costs

PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Australia 1993

KEYWORDS: surrealism visual art history paintings exhibition

PODRO, MICHAEL

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: Yale 1983

KEYWORDS: art history critique german philosophers nineteenth century semper riegl wolfflin warburg panofsky aesthetics philosophy

RICHARDS, RHYS

SIGNED, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 152pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine, prev. owner's names in ink to prelims covered with white adhesive label)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical whaling hunting Burr Osborn history

BIDWILL, JOHN CARNE

LACKS D/W, LIMITED EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to title plates to spine & front board, illus title page, 128pp, VG (light fading to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, notation glued in to ffep, publication inscription in ink to half title page, prev. owner's name in ink to title pages with white adhesive label)

PUBLISHER: The Pegasus Press 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration John Carne Bidwill nature botany plants literature history

BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE & ROSS, Sir E. DENISON (Memoir)

FOLDING MAP TO REAR, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt motif & rule to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxii + 650pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl water staining to edges of eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1926

KEYWORDS: history exploration Persia autobiography memoir Edward Granville Browne culture travel

FITZGERALD, E. A. & CONWAY, Sir MARTIN ET AL (Contributions)

HEAVY STAINING, ALL PLATES PRESENT BUT SOME LOOSE, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spine, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 363pp, illus/plates, folding map to rear pocket, scruffy (heavy bruising & scuffing to board extrems/edges, heavy cracking & loss to title plates, heavy staining to boards, spine & pg corners, vv heavy staining to some middle pages & plates, v heavy cracking to gutters, heavy staining & closed tearing to folding map)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1896

KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration climbing Alps history travel E A Fitzgerald

WESTON, Flt.Lt. FREDERICK GEORGE

SIGNED, LETTER FROM AUTHOR TIPPED TO FFEP, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 299pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, errata slip tipped in to pg214) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Brewin Books 1999

KEYWORDS: aviation history autobiography memoir Frederick Weston military raf air force British

COSH, MARY

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 1105pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: John Donaldson Publishers 2003

KEYWORDS: history Scotland Edinburgh illustrated social 18th 19th century

EARL, MAURIE (Compiled)

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, iii + 209pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & covers)

PUBLISHER: Maurie Earl n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history Isaac Mary Gibbs genealogy Bromwell Cole Quinney Hodgkinson Elvines Trower Fenemor Stringer Ilton Mead Nelson regional pioneers settlers

EARL, MAURIE (Compiled)

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, illus stapled glossy light card covers, 170pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Maurie Earl n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history genealogy isaac Mary Gibbs Bromell Cole Quinney Hodgkinson Elvines Trower Fenemor Stringer Ilton Mead settlers pioneers

DANGERFIELD, J. A. (Compiled)

Lg quarto, yellow & white stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, v + 72pp, VG (light creasing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep with white adhesive label)

PUBLISHER: J A Dangerfield 1991

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history rail Otago railway Lewis Coal Mine Molyneux Coal Point trains

ABRAHAMSON, JENNY & ENYS, CHARLES (Illus) & O'MALLEY, JOHN (Photos)

Square imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 239pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Wily Publications 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Castle Hill sheep station farming agriculture Canterbury provincial John Charles Enys photos paintings art collection

HUGHES, QUENTIN & SMITH, GRAHAM (Photos) & WRIGHTSON, DAVID (Photos)

Quarto, black cloth boards, white lettering to spine, illus title page, xi + 180pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges & extrems, light fading & moderate scuffing to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Lund Humphries 1964

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings English British Liverpool history

JAY, FRANK

Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 255pp, illus/plates, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, ligth staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, plate opp. pg218 detached but present, light foxing to pgs throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co n/d

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Frank Jay military history mercenaries British Irish Spanish Italian

HECTOR, JAMES

BOARDS HANGING TENUOUSLY BY A COUPLE OF THREADS! Super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to title plate on spine, lxv + 471pp, tatty (boards v loose but stiil attached, heavy scuffing to spine extrems with some loss, moderate scuffing to board corners & edges, moderate to heavy staining to boards, moderate to heavy soiling to page edges, light cracking to gutters otherwise internally pretty sound, prev. owner's name plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair, Printers, 1885

KEYWORDS: New Zealand institute proceedings transactions history

TAYLOR, ALISTER

Lg quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus title page, 48pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing/curling & fading to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Alister Taylor Publishers 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand artists art Goldie Maori portraits history culture

FOGEL, JOSHUA A.

LACKS FEP, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 417pp, VG (lacks ffep, spine sl cocked, heavy creasing to pg xvii) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: China Chinese travel exploration history criticism writing Japanese