Books - "history"
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Preface to Religion
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: P J Kennedy & Sons 1946
KEYWORDS: religion religious theology history theosophy
The Training of the Twelve
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) jacket affixed to boards; 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: Kregel Publications 1975
KEYWORDS: religion religious history 12 twelve apostles Christian Christianity
St Edmund of Abingdon: A Study in Hagiography and History
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: Oxford University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: religion religious leaders figures theology hagiography history historical saints St Edmund of Abingdon biography biographies
Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude of Mind
Ex-library, sm 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: Image Books 1963
KEYWORDS: religion religious theology Christian Christianity history
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
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: Oxford University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: economics technology technological innovations history development
Cabbages & Kings: The Origins of Fruit & Vegetables
Square 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 2001
KEYWORDS: food history fruit vegetables country life rural living
Wogfood: An Oral History with Recipes
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
Lives of Three English Saints
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
The Titanic: End of a Dream
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 Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1980
KEYWORDS: investigations marine disasters nautical Titanic passenger liners history
Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
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
Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45
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
Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present
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
Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History
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
Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of all Time
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
A Fly in Amber, being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary: Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 395pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, sl fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1962
KEYWORDS: history historical figures Sir Robert Bruce Cotton biography biographies memoir courtiers nobility aristocrats aristocracy
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Part 1
Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 464pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Everyman Publishers 2003
KEYWORDS: games hobbies chess board games history development players strategy tactics Garry Kasparov Wilhelm Steinitz Emanuel Lasker Jose Capablanca Alexander Alekhine
Two Inspiring Deans: TDJ Leech, GCJ Dalton: The Auckland University College School of Engineering at Auckland and Ardmore 1940-1954
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
The Destruction of Dresden
ARCHIVAL REAPIR TO JACKET, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 255pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink & minor crease to ffep, prev. owner's name in red marker pen to title page, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, sl foxing to pages sporadically throughout) in d/w, G+ (moderate creasing & chippinbg/loss to edges with archival tape repairs, flaps almost completely detached but re-fixed with tidy archival reapirs, moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1963
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second world war two ii 2 German nazi Germany Dresden bombings operations
The Sitmar Liners & the V Ships 1928-1998
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
Crossed Flags: The Histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries
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