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Preface to Religion


SHEEN, Rt Rev FULTON J

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

$19.50
xxpfa210518

The Training of the Twelve


BRUCE, A B

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

$22.50
xxpfa210521

St Edmund of Abingdon: A Study in Hagiography and History


LAWRENCE, C H

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

$10.00
xxpfa210525

Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude of Mind


VON HILDEBRAND, DIETRICH

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

$17.50
xxpfb210527

The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress


MOKYR, JOEL

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

$19.50
xxpfb210530

Cabbages & Kings: The Origins of Fruit & Vegetables


ROBERTS, JONATHAN

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

$15.00
xxpfb210532

Wogfood: An Oral History with Recipes


NEWTON, JOHN & TURNER, GRENVILLE (Photos)

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

$16.50
xxpfb210540

Lives of Three English Saints


AELFRIC & NEEDHAM, G I (ED)

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

$16.50
xxpfd210549

The Titanic: End of a Dream


WADE, WYN CRAIG

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

$19.50
xxpfd210551

Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit


ROSENBLUM, MORT

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

$15.00
xxpff210555

Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45


MINNS, RAYNES

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

$20.00
xxpff210557

Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present


FLANDRIN, JEAN-LOUIS & MONTANARI, MASSIMO & SONNENFIELD, ALBERT (English) & BOTSFORD, CLARISSA et al (Trans)

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

$40.00
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Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History


DURCHHOLZ, DANIEL & GRAFF, GARY

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

$48.00
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Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of all Time


BREAM, JON

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

$70.00
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A Fly in Amber, being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary: Sir Robert Bruce Cotton


MIRRLEES, HOPE

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

$40.00
ak4/1a/11

Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Part 1


KASPAROV, GARRY & PLISETSKY, DMITRY

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

$45.00
ak4/1a/12

Two Inspiring Deans: TDJ Leech, GCJ Dalton: The Auckland University College School of Engineering at Auckland and Ardmore 1940-1954


MATAGA, DES & MAIDEN, Sir COLIN

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

$100.00
ak4/1a/18

The Destruction of Dresden


IRVING, DAVID & SAUNDBY, Air Marshal Sir ROBERT (Fore)

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

$55.00
ak4/1a/22

The Sitmar Liners & the V Ships 1928-1998


ELISEO, MAURIZIO

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

$40.00
ak4/1a/23

Crossed Flags: The Histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries


LAXON, W A & FARQUHAR, I J & KIRBY, N J & PERRY, F W (Based on the Draft by)

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

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