Books - "history"
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High Performance Mustang IIs 1974-1978
SCARCE, imperial octavo, blue illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus rear eps, 100pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal foxing to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Brookland Books N/D
KEYWORDS: cars automobile history mechanics engineering Mustang automotive
Mercury Muscle Cars 1966-1971
UNCOMMON, imperial octavo, black illus light card wrappers, light blue and grey lettering to spine, illus terminals, 100pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing to wrappers, light foxing and tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Brookland Books N/D
KEYWORDS: cars automobile history mechanics engineering Mercury automotive
Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art
Quarto, illus light grey light card wrappers with french flaps, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, 303pp, illus/photos, VG+ with french flaps (light creasing to spine, light cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon 2021
KEYWORDS: art textiles photography history fabric cloth contemporary fashion Julia Hasting
The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity
Folio, white cloth boards, embossed and stamped blind lettering to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, illus front eps, extended frontispiece, illus title page, illus prelims and terminal, xiv + 270pp, illus/cartoons, VG+ (light to moderate foxing to front and rear boards, minimal foxing to feps and terminal, minimal tanning to title page and prelims, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped flap, 7cm tidy closed tear to rear with tidy tape repair to rear, light to moderate scuffing to upper edge of spine, paper repair to base of spine, minimal creasing to flap folds and spine)
PUBLISHER: Viking Studio Books / Penguin 1989
KEYWORDS: cartoons art history tv television vintage biography Hanna-Barbera
Weyers Flottentaschenbuch: Warships of The World 69.Jahrgang 2020-2022
TEXT IN GERMAN & ENGLISH, octavo, illus heavy boards, yellow lettering to front board and spine, frontispiece, lviii + 1087pp, illus/photos/diagrams, VG+ (sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in black marker pen to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Bernard & Graefe 2020
KEYWORDS: German & English text navy battles war warships military history engineering
Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 408pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate foxing and tanning/soiling to page edges, minimal foxing to eps, prelims, terminals and title page, prev. ownership ink markings to ffep) in d/w, VG- (loose protective cover, moderate fading to spine & edges fo front cover, moderate water staining to upper edges, general light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate foxing to flaps, two sm open tears to upper edge of rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Quartet Books 1985
KEYWORDS: first edition history sisterhood pre-raphaelite feminism
Ernst Haas: A Colour Retrospective 1952-1986
Oblong folio, light grey cloth boards, stamped gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 176pp, VG+ (minor wear) in d/w, Near FINE (loose protective cover)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1989
KEYWORDS: art photography history Ernst Haas
The Story of te Waharoa: A Chapter in Early New Zealand History Together With Sketches of Ancient Maori Life and History
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to front board and spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xv + 255pp, VG (faded colour to board edges & spine, minimal chipping and light bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, minor soiling throughout, ligh tcracking to rear gutter)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1907
KEYWORDS: first edition Te Waharoa Maori history art New Zealand
Log of Logs: Volume Two: A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and All Forms of Voyage Narratives, 1788 to 1993, for Australia and New Zealand, and Surrounding Oceans
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, dark green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, frontispiece, illus terminals, XII + 608pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minimal foxing to upper page edges and eps, minimal marking to front pastedown and lower page edges, minimal creasing to page corners from pages 481-496)
PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1993
KEYWORDS: navy maritime logs ships nautical Australia history biography New Zealand
Warship 2021
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards with photos, white lettering to front board and spine, illus title page, 224pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl creasing and bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Osprey 2021
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2018
Imperial octavo, illus blue heavy boards with photos, white lettering to front cover and spine, illus title page, 224pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to lower edge of spine)
PUBLISHER: Osprey 2018
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2019
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards with photos, white lettering to front cover and spine, illus title page, 224pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine)
PUBLISHER: Osprey 2019
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2017
Imperial octavo, illus dark navy blue heavy boards, white lettering to front cover and spine, illus title page, 208pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal bruising to spine)
PUBLISHER: Conway 2017
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2013
Imperial octavo, light brown heavy boards, gilt silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 208pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (minimal soiling to front and rear covers, minimal creasing & tanning to spine & extrems)
PUBLISHER: Conway 2013
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2016
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to front cover and spine, illus title page, 208pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Conway 2016
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2014
Imperial octavo, light blue heavy boards, gilt silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 208pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal scuffing to extrems, sl adhesion to pages) in d/w, VG+ (minimal creasing to upper edges of flaps and flap folds, sl tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Conway 2014
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
Warship 2015
Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 208pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl foxing to upper edge pages) in d/w, VG+ (minimal creasing to upper edges of flaps and 1cm open tear to upper edge of front cover. sl tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Conway 2015
KEYWORDS: navy military history engineering war battles ships warships
The Collins Class Submarine Story: Steel, Spies and Spin
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx + 364pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal foxing to page edges, minimal bruising to spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: first edition submarine navy naval Australia collins class submarine military history
Arctic Destroyers: The 17th Flotilla
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 237pp, VG (spine cocked, minimal fading and scuffing to extrems, light to moderate foxing and minor tanning to page edges, minimal foxing to eps and terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (loose protective cover, light tanning to spine, light chipping to edges of spine, minimal tanning and minimal creasing to extrems, minimal chipping to upper edge of rear flap fold, minimal foxing and tanning to rear flap, price clipped, prev. owner's name in ink to base of front flap)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1982
KEYWORDS: first edition Arctic Destroyers 17th Flotilla navy military destroyers ships history
A History of Carterton: The Story of The First Hundred Years of the Settlement of Carterton: 1857-1957
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to front board and spine, illus front pastedown, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 101pp, VG (moderate fading to spine & board edges, moderate water staining to top edges of boards, other minor soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, minor soiling sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: The Carterton Borough Council nd (1957)
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand history Carterton Charles Rooking Carter settlers