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Centennial Souvenir Dunedin Diocese
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
British Fresh-Water Fishes (Third Edition)
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
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
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
Walks in London (2 Vol Set)
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
The Idler: March 1898 (Colonial Edition)
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
Northrop Flying Wings: A History of Jack Northrop's Visionary Aircraft
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
New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx
Octavo, illus heavy boards, 138pp, illus, VG+ (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Regency Press 1976
KEYWORDS: esoteric Atlantis sphinx Egypt ancient history
Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry
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
Lorries Illustrated: Atkinson
Oblong sm octavo, illus heavy boards, 112pp, illus, Near Fine (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Roundoak Publishing 2000
KEYWORDS: lorries trucks mechanics engineering history
The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, 294pp, Near Fine (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Blackstaff Press 1996
KEYWORDS: history military Ireland
Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles From Down Under
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
Doctor Who: The Doctor Who File
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
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts
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
The Six Million Dollar Man Annual 1979
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, 61pp, illus, VG+ (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Stafford Pemberton 1978
KEYWORDS: television TV series history science fiction
TV and te Tiriti: Key Factors in Aotearoa's Bicultural Surge
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
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
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
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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
Let's Settle This! Through Settlement to Sustainable Maori Enterprise
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
The Penguin Classics Book
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
The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft
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