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$120.00
ak5/12/48

The Romance of the Rail: No 2 South Island Main Trunk, New Zealand


COWAN, JAMES

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION! Oblong octavo, illus stapled light card covers, illus title page, 64pp, illus/photos, VG (light rusting to staples- page block almost detached, moderate tanning & foxing to covers, light staining to top edge of front cover, minor closed tearing to edges of rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, signed bookplate (James Cowan) to verso of contents page)

PUBLISHER: Publicity Branch, New Zealand Railways 1928

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history trains rail travel south island main line Canterbury Otago Southland

$160.00
ak5/12/49

Castaway on the Aucklands: The Wreck of the Grafton, from the Private Journals of Thomas Musgrave, Master Mariner


MUSGRAVE, THOMAS & REED, A H (Ed) & REED, A W (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, illus stiffened boards, black lettering to spine & front board, printed/maps to eps, frontispiece, 125pp, illus, VG (light to moderate chafing/creasing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl creasing to eps)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1943

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand maritime nautical adventures exploration Thomas Musgrave journals diaries shipwrecks history

$245.00
ak5/12/50

The Home Teacher (5 Vol Set)


NEIL, SAMUEL (Ed)

5 VOL SET, quarto, red buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to spines & boards, 1440 pp total, illus/maps, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate to heavy soiling & chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate soiling to pages sporadically throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: William Mackenzie N/D (c.1886)

KEYWORDS: old teaching books home teacher series geography nature plants botany geopolitics history

$22.50
xxsqd215633

From Rotenberg to Rector: The Life and Career of Mervyn Ansley Bull


SHAW, ALON

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: Timaru High School Old Boys' Foundation 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand schools Mervyn Ansley Bull biography biographies memoir TBHS Timaru Boys High School history

$22.50
xxsqd215635

Hakataramea Hundred


PARRY, GORDON

SIGNED, 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: New Zealand and Australian Land Company 1968

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Gordon Parry Hakataramea Station

$20.00
xxsqd215636

Response to a Vision: The First Hundred Years of the Nelson School of Music


TUNNICLIFF, SHIRLEY

SIGNED, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Nelson School of Music 1994

KEYWORDS: New Zealand academic schools history educastion Nelson School of Music signed Shirley Tunnicliff

$10.00
xxsqd215640

Cathedral in the Octagon: The First Hundred Years of St Paul's, Dunein 1894-1994


PARRY, GORDON

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: St Paul's Publications N/D (c.1994)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Dunedin cathedrals churches St Paul's Cathedral octagon history

$22.50
xxsqf215643

The Sculpture of Henri Matisse


MONOD-FONTAINE, ISABELLE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1984

KEYWORDS: art history sculptures sculptors Henri Matisse appreciation criticism

$27.50
xxsqf215645

History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development, Volume I (Prehistory and the Beginnings of Civilization)


HAWKES, JACQUETTA & WOOLLEY, Sir LEONARD

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1963

KEYWORDS: UNESCO world history heritage antiquity

$10.00
xxsqf215648

The Legacy of England: An Illustrated Survey of the Works of Man in the English Country


BELL, ADRIAN et al

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: B T Batsford 1946-7

KEYWORDS: English history landscape farms villages country houses towns townships churches inns sport

$15.00
xxsqh215660

The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from 1700 to the Present


BUCHANAN, R A

Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 1992

KEYWORDS: technology history development social impact

$8.50
xxsqh215666

Brave Bess and the ANZAC Horses


BROCKER, SUSAN

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: HarperCollins 2010

KEYWORDS: children's literature war history ANZAC horses equine New Zealand Australia

$30.00
xxsqi215668

A Briefer History of Time


HAWKING, STEPHEN & MLODINOW, LEONARD

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: Bantam Press 2008

KEYWORDS: Stephen Hawking physics space time philosophy history of time

$16.50
xxsqj215674

The Lost Command


REVIE, ALASTAIR

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: David Bruce & Watson 1971

KEYWORDS: military history Alastair Revie aviation raf royal air force bomber command literature

$22.50
xxsqj215676

Legends of the South Sea


ALPERS, ANTONY

Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1970

KEYWORDS: anthropology history south seas exploration Polynesia Polynesian myths legends poetry art

$18.00
xxsqj215677

Narrative of a Residence in New Zealand - Journal of a Residence in Tristan da Cunha


EARLE, AUGUSTUS & McCORMICK, E H (Ed)

Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Tristan da Cunha

$20.00
xxsqk215681

Patearoa School & Cricket Jubilee 1870-1995


THE PATEAROA SCHOOL CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE & McSKIMMING, R K (Intro)

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: Central Otago News Limited (Printer) 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand schools jubilee centennial centenary Patearoa scholl cricket club history

$20.00
xxsqk215683

The Last War of Empires: Japan and the Pacific War


BARBER, LAURIE & HENSHALL, KEN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 1999

KEYWORDS: military war history Pacific Japan Japanese

$14.00
xxsqk215684

Jazz Changes


WILLIAMS, MARTIN

Ex-library, octavo stiffened 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: Oxford University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: jazz music appreciation history criticism

$27.50
xxsqk215685

The Diary of a Desert Rat


CRIMP, R L & BOWLBY, ALEX (Ed)

Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1971

KEYWORDS: military war history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 desert rats R L Crimp

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