LEWIS, MARK EDWARD

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, grey gilt lettering to black buckram spine, unpaginated prelims + 356pp, illus, VG+ (spine lightly warped & bruised) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history tang dynasty antiquity

YU-LAN, FUNG & BODDE, DERK (Trans)

2 VOL SET, octavo, grey light card covers, blue & black lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxiv + 455pp, vol 2- xxv + 783pp, VG+ (light creasing to spines & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, single moderate crack to central gutter of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: Princeton Universtiy Press 1983

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history philosophy classical studies oriental historical antiquity

BEASLEY, W G (Ed) & PULLEYBLANK, E G (Ed)

Super octavo, red buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, viii + 351pp, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Japanese historians history historiography Asia

HYDE, ROBIN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1960

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Charles Baron de Thierry biography biographies sovereignty

KIDMAN, JOANNA et al

Paperback (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: Bridget Williams Books 2022

KEYWORDS: BWB texts series New Zealand authors writers literature Joanna Kidman history

HAYWARD, MARGARET (Ed) & COWLEY, JOY (Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Colonial Associates 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors women history portraits biographies

NEALE, J E & STRONG, ROY (Intro)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (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 Folio Society 2005

KEYWORDS: British monarchs folio society history queens Queen Elizabeth i 1st first royal family

HAMILTON, SCOTT & POWELL, IAN (Photos) & JANMAN, PAUL (Photos)

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: Atuanui Press 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history war Great South Road

KENNEDY, MELISSA

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xix + 255pp, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Rodopi N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori culture literary traditions Witi Ihimaera history literature

BORAMAN, TOBY

SIGNE D& INSCRIBED, super octavo, illus light card covers, red & white lettering to spine, x + 144pp, illus, VG+ (light curling to covers, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Katipo Books / Irrecuperable Press 2007

KEYWORDS: signed Toby Boraman New Zealand modern history anarchy anarchism civil unrest

JOHANSEN, J PRYTZ

Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 66pp, VG (light creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges, minor chipping & loss to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: I Kommission hos Ejnar Munksgaard 1948

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori culture history

HARLEY, J B (Ed) & WOODWARD, DAVID (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, VERY HEAVY- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quartom grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 970pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, occasional closed tearing to page edges of prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1994

KEYWORDS: maps history mapping cartography east southeast Asia exploration

MITFORD, NANCY & STRONG, ROY (Intro)

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & white illus to spine & front board, illus title page, xxi + (5) + 246pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, Near FINE (v sl bruising to corners)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2011

KEYWORDS: folio society literature Nancy Mitford history France French Louis xiv

FISHER, H A L & VINEN, RICHARD (Intro)

3 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, gilt decoration to front boards, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus/photos, Near FINE, in illus slipcase, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2011

KEYWORDS: folio society history Europe European

WEDGWOOD, C V & OLLARD, RICHARD (Intro)

3 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained maroon, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (light fading & chafing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2001

KEYWORDS: folio society England English civil war King Charles 1st i first history roundheads cavaliers

McCARTHY, CONAL

SIGNED, super octavo, illus light card covers, grey lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + (6) + 243pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & peeling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, sl soiling to page edges, ghost lettering from author's signature on title page)

PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2007

KEYWORDS: signed Conal McCarthy New Zealand history Maori colonialism culture cultural artefacts displays exhibitions

HARTOG, FRANCOIS & LLOYD, JANET (Trans)

Super octavo, black buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, xxv + 386pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1988

KEYWORDS: classical classic literature historians history antiquity Herodotus historiography criticism literary

LEONHARDT, JURGEN & KRONENBERG, KENNETH (Trans)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to black buckram spine, xiii + 332pp, illus, light bruising to spine, sl soiling & creasing to page edges, prev owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, minor patch of peeling to top edge of rear cover, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: languages Latin history linguistics colloquial philology literature vulgar teaching

ZHITIAN, LUO & HARRIS, LANE J (Trans) & CHUN, MEI (Trans)

Super octavo, patterned heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xxxviii + 451pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev owner's name in ink to ffep, light cracking to gutter of pgs 32/33)

PUBLISHER: Koninklijke Brill 2015

KEYWORDS: China modern history early 20th twentieth century learning education Brill's humanities in China library series academic academia

ZHAOGUANG, GE & HILL, MICHAEL GIBBS (Trans)

Super octavo, navy blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 201pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2018

KEYWORDS: China Chinese culture heritage history ethnicity territory foreign relations