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$40.00
2i15a/19

Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941


EWER, PETER

Revised edition. Super 8vo, pp. x + 432; maroon heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning).

PUBLISHER: Scribe 2016

KEYWORDS: Peter Ewer Second World War 2 WW2 WW WWII II ANZAC Australia New Zealand military history Greece

$40.00
ak3/15a/22

Agape and Eros: Part I - A Study of the Christian Idea of Love; Part II - The History of the Christian Idea of Love


NYGREN, ANDERS & WATSON, PHILIP S (Trans)

Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 764pp, VG- (light to moderate creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, moderate tanning/fading & foxing to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, top corners of first two pgs removed, light to moderate foxing throughout, occasional ink markings)

PUBLISHER: Harper Torchbooks / Harper & Row 1969

KEYWORDS: religion Christian faith Christianity theology history antiquity spirituality

$50.00
ak3/15a/23

A Measured Pace: Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance


SPARSHOTT, FRANCIS

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, xviii + 580pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1995

KEYWORDS: dance philosophy history performing arts

$40.00
ak3/18a/1

Jazz Giants: A Visual Retrospective


ABE, K (Compiled by)

Quarto, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 280pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Columbus Books 1988

KEYWORDS: music musicians jazz history

$55.00
ak3/18a/10

Printing and the Book Trade in Early Nelson


KWASITSU, LISHI

Super octavo, blue light card covers, white lettering to spine, viii + 117pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Elibank Press 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand printing history Charles Elliott newspapers journalism

$50.00
ak3/18a/15

Historical Essays


TREVOR-ROPER, H R

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 298pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to board edges, sl tanning to spine, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional markings)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1957

KEYWORDS: literature history historical H R Trevor-Roper essays collection anthologies first editions

$165.00
ak3/18a/22

Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro


ROBERTS, ELIZABETH

FIRST EDITION, tidy ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 521pp, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, minor tape staining to board edges, light tanning/soiling & moderate foxing to page edges, sm brown smudges to some prelim pages (chocolate?) - still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG (in plastic cover- easily removed if desired, some library lables, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling- possibly just to plastc cover)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: Montenegro history geopolitics Europe first editions

$200.00
ak3/21a/19

In Search of the Southern Serpent


MILLER, HAMISH & BRAILSFORD, BARRY

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (of 1300), SIGNED FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus unpaginated prelims, 234pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to board edges, sl soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Penwith Press & StonePrint Press 2006

KEYWORDS: signed first editions limited Hamish Miller Barry Brailsford New Zealand history Maori heritage ancestors

$60.00
ak3/21a/25

No Simple Passage: The Journey of the London to New Zealand, 1842 - A Ship of Hope (Large Print)


JONES, JENNY ROBIN

LARGE PRINT, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, vi + 596pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine & covers/edges, light chafing & wrinkling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2011

KEYWORDS: large print New Zealand history pioneers early settlers London

$225.00
ak3/21b/3

Pasta, Prayer & Promise: The Story of Nelson's Italian Community, 1860-2014


PRICE, KAREN & STADE, KAREN

SCARCE, very tidy ex-library, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, maroon lettering to spine & boards, 448pp, illus/photos, (minimal library markings, minor bruising & rubbing to board edges & extrems, sl tape residue to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (minimal library labels/markings, sl creasing to edges- in plastic protective cover, easily removed if desired, light to moderate fading to spine & covers/edges)

PUBLISHER: Karen Price & Karen Stade 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Italian communities settlers Nelson region history

$60.00
ak3/21b/9

Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture, Volume II: In Search of the Divine Centre


JAEGER, WERNER & HIGHET, GILBERT (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 442pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, light to moderate chafing & soiling, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1957

KEYWORDS: ancient Greece Greek culture heritage antiquity history philosophy

$40.00
ak3/21b/19

Universal Business Directory, for Otago - Southland 1957


N/A

Octavo, illus/printed light card covers, blue & red lettering to spine, single punched hole to top of page block, printed eps, x + 801pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing/bruising to spine & covers/edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning/foxing/soiling throughout)

PUBLISHER: Arnold D Baldwin / Universal Business Directories Ltd 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand old business directories Otago Southland provincial businesses history historical

$200.00
ak3/21b/20

Supplement to the Genealogical History of the Families of Ogston


N/A

FIRST EDITION, PRIVATELY PRINTED, octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, blind rule to board edges, aeg, gilt edging to pastedowns/inside board edges, xvi + 175pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing & surface loss to spine & boards, sm chip to gilt at base of page block, light cracking to front gutter, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, minor occasional soiling to some pages) in home-made protective sleeve

PUBLISHER: Privately Printed 1897

KEYWORDS: first editions private printings genealogy Ogston family history families Scotland Scottish heritage research

$40.00
ak3/21b/22

Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places: Vol VI The Southern Suburbs


WALFORD, EDWARD

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, half leather bound maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, gilt trim to leatherwork on boards, marbled page edges, vignettes to prelims, xii + 636pp, illus, VG- (heavy cracking to front hinge- front board sl shaky, moderate scuffing to leatherwork, moderate chafing & fading/soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps with minor water staining also, binding still sound)

PUBLISHER: Cassell Petter & Galpin N/D

KEYWORDS: England English cities London City south southern suburbs history culture buildings heritage Edward Walford

$2450.00
ak4/1a/2

Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum & Arabicum


OEDERANO, Dn VALENTINO SCHINDLERO (SCHINDLER, VALENTIN)

Lg quarto, half leather bound beige buckram reasonably modern boards- contemporary eps also, gilt lettering to green leather title plate to spine, spine also has raised bands with gilt roman numerals, red speckling to page edges, string binding- somewhat exposed at front & rear gutters, (8) + 1992 individually numbered columns + unpaginated Rasche Theboth + unpaginated Index to rear, VG (light to moderate rubbing & scuffing/soiling to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown, sm historic annotation in ink to full title page, minor water staining to base of page block & some fore-edges, heavy creasing & moderate foxing to title page, light chipping to page edges, varying degrees of foxing throughout- some quite heavy, string binding exposed at front & rear gutters- only minor cracking to gutters themselves)

PUBLISHER: Francofurti ad Moenum, Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennai. MDCXII (1612)

KEYWORDS: Valentin Schindler Valentino Schindlero Oederano theology theological commentaries lexicons lexicon pentaglotton religion religious history Hebrew semitic languages Latin texts antiquarian books

$22.50
xxrfg210145

The Year of the Flying Machine: 1903


FOSTER, GENEVIEVE

Super 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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1977

KEYWORDS: modern history 20th century juvenline children's literature flying airplane aircraft

$19.50
xxrfg210156

An Empire of Plants: People and Plants that Changed the World


MUSGRAVE, TOBY & WILL

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: Cassell Illustrated 2002

KEYWORDS: Toby Will Musgrave plants plantlife world history tea tobacco opium cotton

$25.00
xxrfg210157

Samoa: ma le Fa'asamoa


RIETHMAIER, GREGORY (photos,; GOODMAN, RICHARD A

4to 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: Collins 1973

KEYWORDS: Samoa photography photography history topography food society culture environment wildlife

$22.50
xxrfg210161

Windows on the Past


WHITE, JEANIE; EDWARDS, PHILLIP (illus.)

4to 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: South Street residents, Nelson 1995

KEYWORDS: 19th century New Zealand local history Nelson

$25.00
xxrfg210162

Qui e Li: Here and There: A photo essay on the life and hometowns of Italian Australians


TAYLOR, JANE BURTON

Obl super 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: Red Egg Publishing 2006

KEYWORDS: Jane Burton Taylor Italy Italian Australia Australian social history photography migration

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