Books - "history"
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Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
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: Harvard University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: music popular music history criticism philosophy aesthetics culture
Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll
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: Pantheon Books 1981
KEYWORDS: sound recording industry rock music history criticism
The Orthodox Church
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: Penguin 1997
KEYWORDS: religion religious orthodox church Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia Timothy Ware theology worship history
Studies of the Spanish Mystics
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, 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: The Sheldon Press 1930
KEYWORDS: religion religious Spain Spanish history theology mysticism teresan period
Tales of Fishes
Quarto 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 Derrydale Press 2001
KEYWORDS: fishing hobbies Zane Grey literature history historical
A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three
The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914
This vol. only. Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 208; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; sticker peeled from front cover).
PUBLISHER: Volplane Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War 1 WW WW1 WWI Air Force Royal Great aviation planes aircraft
The Peep Show
Crown 8vo, pp. x + 230; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate cracking to central gutters; light to moderate foxing throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing; lg closed tear to lower spine extrem along rear joint fold; hole to spine).
PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1933
KEYWORDS: Walter Wilkinson England travel travelling journey social history puppet puppeteering
A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean's Maraekakaho- 1857 to Today
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 595pp, illus, folding map, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2013
KEYWORDS: signed Alan Scarfe New Zealand history Maraekakaho Hawke's Bay early settlers pioneers Sir Donald McLean
Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white & green lettering to spine, 775pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & chafing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1989
KEYWORDS: music history blues jazz musicians singers profiles
Golden Reflections
Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/map to rear eps, xv + 432pp, illus, VG (spine cocked/warped, light rubbing to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Waikaka Valley Historical Group N/D (c.1992)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Waikaka Valley
Preservation Inlet
Tidy ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/map to eps, unpaginated prelims + 131pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Times Printing Service 1971
KEYWORDS: New Zealand gold mining prospecting history J O P Watt Southland Preservation Inlet
Mountaineering from the Milford Road: An Illustrated History of the First Mountaineering in the Milford Region 1895 to 1970
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, illus eps, 119pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, prev. bookseller's label to rear board, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Gerard Hall-Jones 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape Milford Lakes District south island Southern Alps history mountain climbing mountaineering Milfird Road
History of Northern Southland
Octavo, red faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 183pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light soiling to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to frontispiece & illus/photos) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with loss to edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling, heavy fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: The Southland Times Company 1971
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history northern Southland
The Inch: The Story of Stirling and Inch Clutha
Octavo, cream light card covers, black lettering to covers, folding map to prelims, 182pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate creasing & heavy soiling to spine & covers, moderate tanning & staining to page edges, moderate staining to base of eps, moderate closed tearing to creases of folding map- also partailly detached)
PUBLISHER: Alma M Rutherford N/D (c.1950s?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Alma M Rutherford Clutha Southland Stirling Inch early settlers pioneers
Pages from the Memory Log of G M Hassing: Sailor, Pioneer, Schoolmaster
SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, 74pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fraying to board edges, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- page block partially detached, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Southland Times Co N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history autobiography autobiographies memoir G M Hassing
History of North Otago
Octavo, yellow light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, vii + 275pp, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to cover edges & spine, moderate fading & soiling to spine, minor ink markings to rear cover, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)
PUBLISHER: North Otago Centennial Committee 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history North Otago centenary centennial committee
Diary of E R Chudleigh 1862-1921 Chatham Islands
UNCOMMON, octavo, grey buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 474pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, minor foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling to rear)
PUBLISHER: Simpson and Williams (Printer) 1950
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Chatham Islands E R Chudleigh diaries journals autobiography autobiographies memoir
The Royal Geographical Society: New Zealand Glaciers 1893
ARTICLE RECOVERED WITH FOLDING MAP, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, 10pp, folding map to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Royal Geographical Society 1893
KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology glaciers historic articles maps royal geographical society history
W O Bentley: The Man Behind The Marque
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Breedon Books Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: W O Bentley biography biographies memoir automotive history cars manufacturers design
Remembrance of Friends Past: Testimonies and Memorials to Lives and Works of New Zealand Quakers Who Died from 1843 to 1998
Quarto, beige light card covers, black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 235pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & soiling to covers, sm ex libris label to base of front cover, sm ink numbers to rear cover, light tanning & soiling/ink staining to page edges, occasional light pencil markings)
PUBLISHER: The Beechtree Press 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders history quakers religion religious testimonies