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Wogfood: An Oral History with Recipes


NEWTON, JOHN & TURNER, GRENVILLE (Photos)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Random House 1996

KEYWORDS: culture cultural cuisine ethnic food cookbooks cookery cooking recipes Australian Australia history

$16.50
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Lives of Three English Saints


AELFRIC & NEEDHAM, G I (ED)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Exeter Press 1979

KEYWORDS: hagiography saints English religion religious history manuscripts medieval

$19.50
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Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit


ROSENBLUM, MORT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: North Point Press 1996

KEYWORDS: food history olives olive trees heritage fruit industry trade

$15.00
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Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45


MINNS, RAYNES

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Virago Press 1999

KEYWORDS: military history domestic ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 women civil defence defense

$20.00
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Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present


FLANDRIN, JEAN-LOUIS & MONTANARI, MASSIMO & SONNENFIELD, ALBERT (English) & BOTSFORD, CLARISSA et al (Trans)

Super octavo softcover (VG) 3cm closed tear to front hinge; 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: Penguin 2000

KEYWORDS: food culinary history cooking

$40.00
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Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History


DURCHHOLZ, DANIEL & GRAFF, GARY

Imp. 8vo, pp. 224; illus. heavy card bds; photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Voyageur Press 2010

KEYWORDS: Neil Young 20th century musician life lives biography illustrated history

$48.00
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Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of all Time


BREAM, JON

Imp. 8vo, pp. 287; black heavy card bds; illus. eps & prelims, photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping

PUBLISHER: Voyageur 2008

KEYWORDS: Led Zeppelin 20th century music musicians band life lives biography illustrated pictorial history

$45.00
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Two Inspiring Deans: TDJ Leech, GCJ Dalton: The Auckland University College School of Engineering at Auckland and Ardmore 1940-1954


MATAGA, DES & MAIDEN, Sir COLIN

SIGNED BY DES MATAGA, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, viii + 307pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Opuzen Press 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand academia academic deans Auckland University College school of Engineering Ardmore TDJ Leech GCJ Dalton history

$55.00
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The Sitmar Liners & the V Ships 1928-1998


ELISEO, MAURIZIO

Quarto, blue cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, blue lettering & nautical illus to front board, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 239pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine & edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Carmania Press 1998

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history sitmar liners v ships boats vessels fleets

$40.00
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Crossed Flags: The Histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries


LAXON, W A & FARQUHAR, I J & KIRBY, N J & PERRY, F W (Based on the Draft by)

FIRST EDITION, quarto, red faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt maritime flags to front board, printed/illus eps, frontispiece, 196pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl foxing/soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: World Ship Society 1997

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand maritime nautical history shipping company steam navigation company

$345.00
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Joannis Buxtorfii P. Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum


FISCHERUS, BERNARDUS

TEXT IN LATIN, quarto, quarter leather bound brown buckram boards, marbled eps, contemporary prelim & terminal pages, xxviii + 1328pp, G+ (heavy chipping & rubbing to spine- partially detached with moderate surface loss, heavy scuffing & surface loss to board edges, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, heavy bruising & cracking to bottom corner of rear board, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, lettering in ink to page fore-edges, heavy foxing to title page & other prelim pages, heavy foxing to some terminal pages, moderate foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Londini: Asher & Co., 13 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, Lipsiae: Impensis Mauritii Schaefer MDCCCLXXIV (1874)

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN antiquarian books theology religion history historical texts scriptures

$40.00
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Ile de France


STANFORD, DON

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece, map at prelims, unpaginated prelims + 187pp, map to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to extrems & board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, moderate chafing & light foxing, minor ink smudges to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1960

KEYWORDS: first editions maritime nautical history passenger liners ships Ile de France French Line

$40.00
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The Sway of the Grand Saloon (Second Revised Edition)


BRINNIN, JOHN MALCOLM

SECOND REVISED EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xxii + 599pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate staining/discolouration to front board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light wrinkling & foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning, light fading to front, minro water staining to base of spine)

PUBLISHER: Arlington Books 1986

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history passenger liners ships

$275.00
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Reminiscences of a Long Life in Scotland, New Zealand &c &c (For Private Circulation)


CAMPBELL, ROBERT

SCARCE! INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE WIFE OF THE LATE AUTHOR TO GEORGE THOMSON- REMINISCENCES OF ONE OF DUNEDIN'S EARLIEST SETTLERS. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering, rule & decoration to front board only, frontispiece, (10) + 75pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board corners, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to title page)

PUBLISHER: Jolly & Braik, Moray Place 1904

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Dunedin local history early settlers pioneers Robert Campbell signed Scottish heritage

$40.00
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The Anchor Foundry: A History, and the Maritime Structures of Colonial Nelson, the Early Steamers, Ships of the Anchor Line, the Thomson Brothers, Marine Engineers


WIN, PAT W

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, SINGLE PAGE HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to front cover only, x+ 177pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, minor creasing to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Pat W Win 2010

KEYWORDS: signed Pat W Win New Zealand maritime nautical history Nelson engineers

$40.00
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PartnerShips to the World: Canada Steamship Lines: One Hundred and Fifty Years On


CHESTERMAN, A J & HILLIARD, F (Ed)

Oblong quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 96pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The CSL Group 1995

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history CSL Canada Steamship Lines Canadian business economics

$120.00
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The Sitmar Liners: Past and Present


PLOWMAN, PETER

Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 287pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Rosenberg Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical passenger liners cruiseships history Sitmar companies

$45.00
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Passenger Liners from Germnay 1816-1990


HANSEN, CLAS BRODER

Quarto, blue buckram boards, grey lettering to spine & front board, marbled eps, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Schiffer Publishing 1991

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history historical vessels passenger liners German Germany

$40.00
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Fremantle Port: A Pictorial History


DOWSON, JOHN

Oblong quarto, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Chart and Map Shop 2011

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Fremantle Australia Australian ports port

$200.00
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The Earth Brought Forth: The Milsons of Milsons Point 1806-1973


MILSON, SCOTT

Quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, (8) + 564pp + xlix, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: 4SQ Books 2006

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Milsons Point Milson family nsw New South Wales

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