BUTOR, MICHEL & HOWARD, RICHARD (trans)

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: Jonathan Cape 1969

KEYWORDS: history charles baudelaire literature essays

NORTHROP, F. S. C.

Octavo hardcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: The MacMillan Company 1946

KEYWORDS: geopolitics history east west relations

SPENCE, JONATHAN D.

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1974

KEYWORDS: china emperor k'ang-hsi history biography

KAPLAN, JAMES

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Canongate 2024

KEYWORDS: miles davis john coltrane bill evans jazz blues musicology music history biography memoir

HOGBEN, LANCELOT

Super octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: Max Parrish and Co. 1949

KEYWORDS: human communication cultural anthropology art media history

FLEMING, DAVID

Super 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: The History Press 2022

KEYWORDS: evelyn waugh history hypocrites club

DVORNIK, FRANCES

Super 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Rutgers 1962

KEYWORDS: slav slavic history europe

MURRAY, K.M. ELIZABETH

EX LIBRARY, 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: Oxford University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: oxford english dictionary james a h murray words etymology history

ADAIR, JOHN

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: MacDonald and Co. 1969

KEYWORDS: william waller roundhead britain english civil war history

WILLSON DISHER, MAURICE

Superoctavo 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd 1949

KEYWORDS: melodrama mid-victorian history theatre theatrical

BUTLER, Capt W F

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spine, marbled page edges, x + 386pp, illus, folding map of British America to secret pocket to rear pastedown, VG (light to moderate rubbing & chafing/scuffing to leatherwork, light chafing & surface loss to boards, minor discolouration to page edges, light to moderate foxing & soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor soiling to map with 1cm loss to fold of map also)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1873

KEYWORDS: travel history writing literature America historical Captain W F Butler

MERCER, The Late GENERAL CAVALIE

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spines, marbled page edges, vol 1- xii + 369pp, vol 2- viii + 347pp, VG+ (minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor scuffing to spine extrems- sl surface loss, light tanning to page edges light to moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown of vol 1, occasional light smattering of foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1870

KEYWORDS: journals diaries war waterloo battles history military Napoleon Bonaparte General Cavalie Mercer campaigns 1815 first editions

JAMES, WILLIAM & CHAMIER, CAPTAIN

6 VOL SET, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, red speckling to page edges, frontispieces to vols 1+2 only, mixed pagination, illus, folding charts to rear, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light rubbing to spines, moderate crackling & bruising to sine of vol 6, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light to moderate soiling to eps, light cracking to some gutters, minor foxing & soiling throughout each vol, minor creasing & foxing/soiling to folding charts, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street 1837

KEYWORDS: military history Great Britain British navy naval early 19th nineteenth century warfare

BERRY, SUSAN (Ed) & HERBERT, THEO

Oblong quarto, illus heavy boards, red lettering to spine, illus eps, 333pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems & board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges & chipping)

PUBLISHER: The New Zealand Hunts' Association Incorporated 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand hunting history hounds Theo Herbert

HECTOR, JAMES

Super octavo, pink stiff card covers, blank brown cloth spine, black lettering to front board only, lxvi (total) + 472pp, illus/folding maps, VG- (heavy peeling to paper cover on heavy boards- cover paper completely missing to rear board, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, many page edges remain uncut, moderate tanning & soiling to eps, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair, Printers 1880

KEYWORDS: New Zealand institute transactions proceedings history historical reports 1879 19th nineteenth century

SMITH, N E (Compiled by)

Sm octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, printed/illus eps, 156pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing, scuffing & soiling to spine & covers with some foxing also, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout, loss of adhesion to glue at rear gutter- rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Ltd 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand flight aviation directories history past issues White's 60s sixties companies businesses

BENNETTS, ERIC (Compiled by)

Sm octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine & covers, printed eps, 224pp, illus/photos, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to spine, moderate soiling & creasing to covers, moderate staining at binding/string, light foxing throughout, gutters v delicate & heavily cracked- some pages detached but still present)

PUBLISHER: NZ Newspapers 1933

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rugby league sport history annuals 1930s thirties past issues years data statistics

SMITH, N E (Compiled by)

Sm octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, illus/printed eps, 160pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Ltd 1962

KEYWORDS: New Zealand flight aviation directories history past issues White's 60s sixties companies businesses

INGRAM, BRUCE (Ed)

Folio 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Illustrated London News 1954

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill former British prime ministers politics political leaders history historical tribute London News

COATS, ALICE M

Lg folio 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chancellor Press 1984

KEYWORDS: botany botanical art paintings flowers history historical