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Centennial Souvenir Dunedin Diocese


n/a

Oblong octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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 Catholic Diocese of Dunedin 1971

KEYWORDS: Dunedin history centennial souvenir Roman Catholic Diocese

$60.00
ak1/26/1

British Fresh-Water Fishes (Third Edition)


HOUGHTON, Rev W

Super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, decorated eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxviii + 231pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems- minor surface loss, moderate staining to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light scuffing & soiling to front eps, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, moderate foxing sporadically throughout- mostly prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Gibbings & Company 1900

KEYWORDS: hobbies fishing fish British freshwater marine history historical

$60.00
ak1/26/10

Te Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, Illustrating the Origin, Manners, Customs, Mythology, Religion, Rites, Songs, Proverbs, Fables, and Language of the Natives


TAYLOR, Rev RICHARD

Super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, folding map to prelims, frontispiece, xiv + 490pp + plates to rear [not counted presumed all present], illus, VG (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, historic prize plate & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional minor foxing throughout, moderate creasing to top corners of rear plates) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate creasing to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1974 (Facsimile reprint of Wertheim and Macintosh 1855)

KEYWORDS: NZ New Zealand Aotearoa history facsimile reprints Rev Richard Taylor customs culture te ao Maori

$180.00
ak1/26/12

Walks in London (2 Vol Set)


HARE, AUGUSTUS J C

2 VOL SET, REBACKED, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt illus to front boards, red rule to spines & boards, vol 1- xxxvi + 480pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 511pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing/chafing & soiling to boards, light bruising to extrems, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sm bookbinder's label to base of front pastdowns, minor glue staining to front eps, occasional moderate foxing throughout both vols)

PUBLISHER: Daldy, Isbister & Co 1878

KEYWORDS: antiquarian books history London walks travel tourism scenic suburbs buildings

$120.00
ak1/26/17

The Idler: March 1898 (Colonial Edition)


N/A (LE QUEUX, WILLIAM et al)

FEATURES ARTICLE ON CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA, imperial octavo, pink light card wrappers, red lettering to spine & wrappers, printed inside wrappers, xxii [total] + pgs152-292, ads to prelims & terminals, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing/crackng to spine- partial loss, moderate soiling to wrappers, prev. bookseller's ink stamp [historic] to front wrapper, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, bottom 6cm of prelims gutter detached/cracked, moderate staining to prelims, binding at rusted staples a little delicate in places)

PUBLISHER: J M Dent & Co 1898

KEYWORDS: sport history cricket stories articles Idler past issues Australia Great Britain British

$55.00
xxyfaa230477

Northrop Flying Wings: A History of Jack Northrop's Visionary Aircraft


PAPE, GARRY R & CAMPBELL, JOHN M

Imperial octavo, dark red heavy boards, 288pp, illus, Near Fine in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Schiffer 1995

KEYWORDS: military aviation history stealth bombers mechanics engineering

$45.00
xxyfaa230478

New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx


AMERY, COLIN

Octavo, illus heavy boards, 138pp, illus, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Regency Press 1976

KEYWORDS: esoteric Atlantis sphinx Egypt ancient history

$22.50
xxyfaa230485

Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry


INGRASSIA, PAUL & WHITE, JOSEPH B

Super octavo, light grey heavy boards quarter bound in red heavy boards, 496pp, illus, Near Fine in d/w, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 1944

KEYWORDS: history mechanics engineering cars economics America

$40.00
xxygaa230491

Lorries Illustrated: Atkinson


DAVIES, PETER

Oblong sm octavo, illus heavy boards, 112pp, illus, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Roundoak Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: lorries trucks mechanics engineering history

$22.50
xxygaa230495

The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down


STEWART, A T Q

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, 294pp, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Blackstaff Press 1996

KEYWORDS: history military Ireland

$30.00
xxygaa230496

Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles From Down Under


MORTON, JAMES & LOBEZ, SUSANNA

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, 408pp, illus, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Victory Books 2011

KEYWORDS: Australia history swindling gambling con-artists

$25.00
xxygaa230497

Doctor Who: The Doctor Who File


HAINING, PETER

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, 235pp, illus, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: W H Allen 1989

KEYWORDS: science fiction history Doctor Who

$24.50
xxygaa230500

Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts


ADAMS, DOUGLAS

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, 249pp, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1985

KEYWORDS: radio scripts science fiction TV television series history

$40.00
xxygaa230503

The Six Million Dollar Man Annual 1979


UNKNOWN

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, 61pp, illus, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Stafford Pemberton 1978

KEYWORDS: television TV series history science fiction

$32.50
xxygaa230505

TV and te Tiriti: Key Factors in Aotearoa's Bicultural Surge


LESLIE, D BRENT

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, XIV + 227pp, illus, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: David Brent Leslie 2023

KEYWORDS: TV television film history New Zealand

$37.50
xxygaa230509

Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age


WAHRMAN, DROR

Super octavo, black heavy boards, 275pp, Near Fine (minor creasing to extrems) in d/w, Near Fine (minor creasing to extrems) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: art letters history media biography memoirs Edward Collier

$28.50
xxygaa230512

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World


FERGUSON, NIALL

Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, XXV + 392pp, illus, Near Fine in d/w, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2003

KEYWORDS: history Britain politics

$30.00
xxygaa230513

Let's Settle This! Through Settlement to Sustainable Maori Enterprise


UNKNOWN

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, 112pp, illus, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development & Westpac New Zealand 2005

KEYWORDS: Maori history economics sustainability activism politics sociology society New Zealand

$60.00
3u8/1625

The Penguin Classics Book


ELIOT, HENRY

Super octavo, illus orange cloth boards, white lettering to front board and spine, illus/photos, Near Fine (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Henry Eliot 2018

KEYWORDS: bibliography poetry plays history philosophy

$70.00
3u8/1627

The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft


GUNSTON, BILL

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus/photos/diagrams, Near Fine (slight 0.5cm tear to front wrapper) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Osprey 2000

KEYWORDS: military aviation history Russia encyclopedias aircraft

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