Books - "history"
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Port Arthur Railway Across Tasman Peninsula
Australia's First Railway
Softcover staple bound super octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Austrail Publications, undated
KEYWORDS: specials William A Bayley Australia transport railway locomotives trains Port Arthur Railway history
Our Bishops
hardback, no 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: J.B. Publishing House 1904
KEYWORDS: specials history church religion bishops ha thompson
Turbulent Years - A Commercial Pilot's Story
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1991
KEYWORDS: specials aviation pilots brian waugh autobiography new zealand history
House of Stone - The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
paperback octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Harper Press 2006
KEYWORDS: specials christina lamb biography rhodesia civil war history travel nigel hough briatin afria
The Roots of Evil - A Social History of Crime and Punishment
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Minerva Press 1968
KEYWORDS: specials christopher hibbert evil sociology crime history punishment criminology
Classic Art
hardback octavo, lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 1953
KEYWORDS: specials h wolfflin art history classical
Along Parallel Lines - A history of the railways of New South Wales 1850 - 1986
inscribed & signed by the author, first edition hardback octavo with 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: specials history australia new south wales tail trains railways john gunn travel transport
Old Homes of Lyttelton Harbour
2nd revised edition, saddle-stapled paperback with 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Pegasus 1966
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand lyttelton canterbury houses home history frances cresswell
Memories (Mainly Merry) of Marcus Marks
first edition, hardback octavo with worn 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: The Endeavor Press 1934
KEYWORDS: specials marcus marks new zealand history government printer hansard
History of the Southland Hospitals and Boards 1861-1968
(NR) saddle-stapled 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: N/A
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history hospitals health medicine south island
Judge Ward
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Geoff Adams 2011
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand colonialism history geoff adams dudley ward anne thorpe talbot women biography suffrage literature
The Voyage of Life - Eight addresses on some aspects of it
hardback with d/w, lacks fep. (VG-, tired copy, some loss to spine); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: N.Z. Book Depot
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand rutherford waddell history essays
Douglas Haig As I Knew Him
ex library, first edition hardback, lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1966
KEYWORDS: specials douglas haig scotland history religion gs duncan
Air of Battle
Ex library, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG- (some staining to front board, 5cm closed tear to lower spine, small ding to upper spine & front board corner, label-removal damage & sellotape-residue stains to feps, child's scribble & drawings in ink to half-title verso & title pages, moderate browning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (bruising & soiling to spine extrems & edges, some tanning, sellotape residue staining)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1974
KEYWORDS: Wing Commander William Fry First World War One WWI autobiography memoir air battle aviation history airmen Royal Flying Corps
'Helicopter' Pioneering with Igor Sikorsky based on a Personal Account by William E Hunt
Association copy with warm signed & dated inscription by author to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small stain to rear)
PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: William E Hunt Igor Sikorsky helicopters aviation aeronautical history biography air transport engineering design
Air of Battle
First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name stamp to front pastedown, v slight tannning to eps) in d/w, VG (heavy tanning to flaps, 2cm untidy tears to upper spine sides repaired neatly with tape, v slight bruising to edges, fading to fore-edges, creasing to rear upper edge)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1974
KEYWORDS: first edition Wing Commander William M Fry First World War One WWI aviation history fighter pilots flying flight Royal Flying Corps
Motorbike Memories: Extracts from On Two Wheels
Quarto, brown boards, pp 1583-1840, illus, VG+ (some light foxing to edges) in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine, v slight bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Orbis Publishing / Godfrey Cave Assoc 1984
KEYWORDS: motorbikes motorcycles history racing motorcycling motorcyclists riders Surtees Bert Le Vack Isle of Man Douglas Norton Scott Sunbeam sidecar racing racers tracks bikes
Main Trunk: Portrait of a Railway
A Celebration of 100 Years of North Island Railway History
Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus prelims, 152pp, illus, VG+ in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Grantham House / Ontrack NZ Railways Corp 2008
KEYWORDS: Christine Johnson Ruth Larsen Kevin ramshaw New Zealand North Island main trunk railway train transport history
Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)
Ex aviation library, super octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine & gilt bird motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 316pp, illus + several fold-out tables of take-offs & )flights, VG+ (bookseller's label to front paste-down, library label to fep, two stain spots to front board
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970
KEYWORDS: Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith aviation aeronautics history aircraft aeroplanes
Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story
Ex library, lacks fep, association copy, ownership signature of Ian Mackersey, aviation biography of Kingsford-Smith, & his pencil notations to index & throughout & lengthy pencil note to rear ep. Octavo, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, 190pp, illus, VG- (sellotape residue stains to boards & eps, lacks fep, light tanning to eps, some foxing & tanning) in d/w, (price clipped, some tanning, moderate tape residue stains to edges)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1966
KEYWORDS: Ward McNally Charles Kingsford-Smith biography aviation aeronautics history flying pilot