Books - "history"
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Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warriors
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 2012
KEYWORDS: John Man ninja ninjas warriors history Japan Japanese
Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures
Super 8vo softcover (VG), some annotations; 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Michael Baxandall art history pictures pictorial interpretation criticism
The Olympian Soldier: G C Cooke
Signed & inscribed by author. Imp. 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Kath Beatson 2008
KEYWORDS: Kath Beatson military history live lifes biography G C Cooke
Victoria University College: an essay towards a history
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) lacking 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 costs
PUBLISHER: New Zealand University Press 1940
KEYWORDS: J C Beaglehole Victoria University Wellington history
Historical Inevitability
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1959
KEYWORDS: Isaiah Berlin history criticism lecture lectures
Meand and Ends: Reflections on the History of Fresco Painting
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1976
KEYWORDS: E H Gombrich art history fresco painting
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Kodansha International 2000
KEYWORDS: Yamamoto Tsunetomo Samurai Japan Japanese history
The Destruction of the Jews
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in slipcase (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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1971
KEYWORDS: Flavius Josephus social history the Folio Society
Pliny: A Self Portrait in Letters
Super 8vo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1978
KEYWORDS: Pliny the Folio Society classical ancient history
Selects from the Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
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PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1977
KEYWORDS: Captain Gronow Nicolas Bentley the Folio Society reminiscences history diary journal
Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon
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: Cassell 2024
KEYWORDS: motorsport history Enzo Ferrari biography biographies memoir
The Making of New Zealand: An Economic History
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: Cambridge University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history economics finance financial politics political
Sketches from the Life of William Paterson
Octavo stapled 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: None Stated
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otago Early Settlers' Association autobiography William Paterson
Methodism in Auckland During the Maori Wars: 1860-1864
Octavo stapled 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Wesley Historical Society (N.Z.) 1957
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori wars religion methodism methodist Auckland
The History of Greenhills
Octavo stapled 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: J E Bremer 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Greenhills district south island Southland J E Bremer
There's Gold in Them There Hills
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: Simpson & Williams N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand autobiography memoir D Mundy history
A History of Japanese in Hawaii
Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, xix + 431pp, illus/photos, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's label to ffep, sl occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: The United Japanese Society of Hawaii 1971
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history Hawaii Hawai'i US American America immigration immigrants
Prisoner in Japan
Octavo, red cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, VG (light bruising to board extrems, prev owners details crossed out with black marker pen on paste down) in d/w VG- (moderate chipping and scuffing to edges, moderate rubbing to covers, light foxing, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1945
KEYWORDS: ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 history pows prisoners of war hard labour Phyllis Argall Japanese Japan
Through Japanese Barbed Wire: A Thousand-mile Trek from a Japanese Prison Camp
Octavo, red buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, blind rule to front board, 184pp, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page egdes, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- internal yellowing tape repairs, light tanning to spine, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1944
KEYWORDS: prisoners Japan Japanese Stanley Peninsula prison camps survivors history Gwen Priestwood autobiography memoir
From Tokyo to Tiflis: Uncensored Letters from the War
Super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, red lettering & gilt ship motif to front board, teg, frontispiece, x + 340pp, illus, folding map to rear- all plates present, VG- (moderate bruising & rubbing to board edges & extrems, light to moderate chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, prev. bookseller's labels to front pastedown, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters- boards sl shaky, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters throughout, light foxing throughout, plate opp. pg 208 loose)
PUBLISHER: Hurst and Blackett 1905
KEYWORDS: war history Japan Russia letters correspondence