Books - "history"
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In the Land of Dwindle River: A Waihemo Journal
Signed numbered edition, Small quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) illus; 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage 1982
KEYWORDS: specials george griffiths waihemo new zealand local history
Rimutaka Railway
Oblong super octavo softcover (VG+) illus; 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society 2006
KEYWORDS: specials norman cameron trains rimutaka railway new zealand history transport
Memories of Manhatten: In the Sixties and Seventies
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG-) illus; 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Derrydale 1928
KEYWORDS: specials first edition manhatten new york american history
Vietnam: Anatomy of a War, 1940-1975
Imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Gabriel Kolko Vietnamese military history war
Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988: A Short History
Small quarto hardcover (VG+) in /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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: The Athlone Press 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Dr Richard L Hills papermaking history watermarking pulp wove paper pup esparto printing industry
Making Sexual History
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Polity Press / Blackwell Publishers 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Jeffrey Weeks sexuality morality social history ethics sociology gender studies essays articles anthology
On Active Service: New Zealand at War
Oblong quarto hardcover (nr fine) 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls Ltd 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Richard Wofe New Zealand war military history pictorial photographic record
Currency Lads & Lasses: Behind the Faces on Australian Banknotes
Large quarto softcover (fine); 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Lothian Books 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Geoff Hocking Australian banknotes portraits history biography Sir Joseph Banks to Sir Ian Clunies Ross Nellie Melba Banjo Paterson Henry Lawson
Wooden Walls to Distant Shores: A Maritime Concoction and the Regina Maris Saga
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: no details (Poss the author 1988?)
KEYWORDS: specials Capt John Aa Wilson maritime nautical history sailing Regina Maris windjammers square riggers
The Myth of the Paperless Office
Inscribed & signed by author, super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: MIT Press 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Abigail Sellen Richard Harper ethnography psychology business office paper usage social history
Aristodemocracy from the Great War back to Moses, Christ, and Plato: An Essay
First edition, super octavo hardcover (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1916
KEYWORDS: specials Sir Charles Waldstein war peace anti-militarism history politics philosophy ethics
Torpedo! Kiwis at Sea in World War II
Ex library, 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Random House 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Matthew Wright New Zealand Second World War Two WW2 naval military history Navy memoirs
Kohukohu
Quarto light card covers (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Eric Harrison (?) 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Eric Harrison New Zealand Hokianga Kohukohu history
New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: New York University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: specials John Spurlock Cynthia Magistro United States USA women psychology social history customs
A Canterbury Album
Collodion Photography in Canterbury 1857 - 1880
softcover oblong imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Te Waihora Press 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Joan Woodward New Zealand regional pictorial history photography canterbury illus
Eight Minutes Past Midnight
The Wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa
hardcover imperial octavo, (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER:
KEYWORDS: specials Steve Locker-Lampson Ian Francis new zealand history ship wreck maritime illus
A Handbook of Greek Art
hardcover imperial octavo, (VG) in d/w (G+); 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1963
KEYWORDS: specials G M A Richter greek ancient history visual fine art illus sculpture
People, Places & Paddocks
hardcover quarto (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Lansdowne Press 1987
KEYWORDS: specials John Gordon Conrad Sims new zealand history agriculture sociology farming illus photography
The First Human
The Race to Discover Our Eariest Ancestors
hardcover super octavo (fine) in d/w (nr fine); 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Ann Gibbons science archaeology biology evolution history
Captain Cook
English Men of Action
Octavo hardcover (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1894
KEYWORDS: specials Walter Besant history travel Captain Cook maritime