Books - "history"
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George Fox
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1896
KEYWORDS: George Fox biography biographies memoir history
The Paris Commune of 1871: The View from the Left
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Grove Press 1974
KEYWORDS: the Paris Commune politics working classes history
Passenger List (R M S Rangitane, Leaving London on 26th January, 1950 for Auckland via Curacao and Panama Canal)
Octavo stapled light card covers (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: The New Zealand Shipping Company N/D (c.1950s)
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical passenger lists New Zealand shipping company rms Rangitane London Auckland history historical journeys
The Piha Story
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR (with initial 'B' for Bob- her nickname), also signed as Mary Woodward on title page, oblong 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Mary D Woodward 2012
KEYWORDS: signed Mary Bob Woodward New Zealand Piha history
Ohakune School Centenary, February 9-11, 1996 (1896 / 1996)
Octavo stapled light card covers (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: Ruapehu Bulletin / Ohakune School Centennial Committee 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history centenary centennial Ohakune school
In Search of the Highlands: Mapping the Canada-Maine Boundary 1839: The Journals fo Featherstonhaugh and Mudge August to November 1839
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Acadiensis Press 1988
KEYWORDS: journals diaries George William Featherstonhaugh Richard Mudge history Canada Canadian land borders boundaries Canada Maine geography
Horizons West
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1969
KEYWORDS: cinema movies film studies history westerns cowboys wild west Anthony Mann Budd Boetticher Sam Peckinpah
Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: music popular music history criticism philosophy aesthetics culture
Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 1981
KEYWORDS: sound recording industry rock music history criticism
Studies of the Spanish Mystics
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Sheldon Press 1930
KEYWORDS: religion religious Spain Spanish history theology mysticism teresan period
Tales of Fishes
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Derrydale Press 2001
KEYWORDS: fishing hobbies Zane Grey literature history historical
A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three
The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914
This vol. only. Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 208; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; sticker peeled from front cover).
PUBLISHER: Volplane Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War 1 WW WW1 WWI Air Force Royal Great aviation planes aircraft
The Peep Show
Crown 8vo, pp. x + 230; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to central gutters; light to moderate foxing throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing; lg closed tear to lower spine extrem along rear joint fold; hole to spine).
PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1933
KEYWORDS: Walter Wilkinson England travel travelling journey social history puppet puppeteering
A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean's Maraekakaho- 1857 to Today
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 595pp, illus, folding map, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2013
KEYWORDS: signed Alan Scarfe New Zealand history Maraekakaho Hawke's Bay early settlers pioneers Sir Donald McLean
Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white & green lettering to spine, 775pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & chafing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1989
KEYWORDS: music history blues jazz musicians singers profiles
Mountaineering from the Milford Road: An Illustrated History of the First Mountaineering in the Milford Region 1895 to 1970
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, illus eps, 119pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, prev. bookseller's label to rear board, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Gerard Hall-Jones 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape Milford Lakes District south island Southern Alps history mountain climbing mountaineering Milfird Road
Pages from the Memory Log of G M Hassing: Sailor, Pioneer, Schoolmaster
SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, 74pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fraying to board edges, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- page block partially detached, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Southland Times Co N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history autobiography autobiographies memoir G M Hassing
History of North Otago for Centennial Period 1840 to 1940
Octavo, yellow light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, vii + 275pp, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to cover edges & spine, moderate fading & soiling to spine, minor ink markings to rear cover, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)
PUBLISHER: North Otago Centennial Committee 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history North Otago centenary centennial committee
The Royal Geographical Society: New Zealand Glaciers 1893
ARTICLE RECOVERED WITH FOLDING MAP, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, 10pp, folding map to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Royal Geographical Society 1893
KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology glaciers historic articles maps royal geographical society history
W O Bentley: The Man Behind The Marque
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Breedon Books Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: W O Bentley biography biographies memoir automotive history cars manufacturers design