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$22.50
xx9pol226104

Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's Eccentric Saints are Challenging Fundamentalist Islam in Modern Indonesia


QUINN, GEORGE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Monsoon 2020

KEYWORDS: Indonesia history saints islam religion Java orthodox sunni modern Madura

$26.50
xx9pol226108

Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness


WHEELWRIGHT, JULIE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pandora 1989

KEYWORDS: gender war history culture male female identity military

$25.00
xx9pol226109

King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict


SCHULTZ, ERIC B & TOUGIA, MICHAEL J

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Countryman Press 2000

KEYWORDS: History USA united states America native peoples war imperialism colonisation Wampanoag New England

$38.50
xx10pol226112

Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600-1800


RAO, VELCHERU NARAYANA & SHULMAN, DAVID & SUBRAHMANYAM, SANJAY

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2006

KEYWORDS: history India Asia historiography society literature essays religion culture

$12.50
xx10pol226114

The Buried Army of Qin Shihuang


CAMPBELL, DUNCAN & CHAPLIN, GILLIAN & ET AL

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Auckland City Art Gallery 1986

KEYWORDS: ancient history China photographs exhibit archeology Qin dynasty

$20.00
xx10pol226117

The Great War and Modern Memory: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition


FUSSELL, PAUL

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: WW1 WWI world war one history Europe Britain UK British western front great war

$24.50
xx10pol226118

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European History


WINTER, JAY

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: WW1 WWI world war one history Europe Britain UK British great war cultural 20th century twentieth humanities

$30.00
xx11pol226119

War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict


EKINS, ASHLEY & STEWART, ELIZABETH & ET AL

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Exisle 2011

KEYWORDS: military warfare medicine 20th century twentieth Australia WW1 great war world WWI WWII two WW2 Vietnam history Afghanistan Korea PTSD shell shock medical

$30.00
xx11pol226120

Women in the Warzone: Hospital Service in the First World War


POWELL, ANNE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The History Press 2009

KEYWORDS: military warfare medicine 20th century twentieth WW1 great war world WWI women history hospital western eastern front medical

$25.00
xx11pol226122

Woman's Writing on the First World War


CARDINAL, AGNES & GOLDMAN, DOROTHY & HATTAWAY, JUDITH & 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: military warfare 20th century twentieth WW1 great war world WWI women female history western diaries letters personal account

$24.50
xx11pol226123

Elsie and Mairi go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front


ATKINSON, DIANE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Preface 2009

KEYWORDS: military warfare 20th century twentieth WW1 great war world WWI women female history western ambulance medical hospital

$35.00
xx11pol226124

In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917 - 1919


ZEIGER, SUSAN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: military warfare 20th century twentieth WW1 great war world WWI women female history ambulance medical hospital heiress corps AEF diaries letters American USA United States

$175.00
3n3/1

Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Epic Conflict


RYAN, IAN et al

Lg quarto, illus glossy boards, yellow lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 351pp, illus, VG (front board sl warped, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, binding a little sloppy, last page of index neatly removed along with copyright info) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Unavailable

KEYWORDS: scifi science fiction Star Wars old republic history guides character profiles

$95.00
3n3/3

War in the Air: Aerial Wonders of Our Time: A Pictured Story of Flying, Past, Present and Future


HAMMERTON, Sir JOHN (Ed)

Quarto, silver gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering & grey aeroplane illus to front board, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 804pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, minor surface loss to spine, minor rubbing/chafing & surface loss to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, bookbinder's sm label to front pastedown, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: The Amalgamated Press N/D

KEYWORDS: aviation history military aircraft aeroplanes flight

$345.00
3n3/5

John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1896 (Thirty-Thrid Edition)


PARDON, SYDNEY H (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ads to front & rear, lxxvi + 418pp, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps- minor foxing also, moderate cracking to gutters- some prelims & terminal pages partially detached but still present, minor tanning & foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1896

KEYWORDS: first editions sport history cricket cricketers' almanacks past years Wisden

$40.00
3n3/12

Tarikh-i-Akbari


QANDHARI, MUHAMMAD ARIF & AHMAD, TASNEEM (Annotated, Trans & Intro) & HABIB, IRFAN (Fore)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, decorated title page, xvii + 315pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, sl staining to contents pages) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, minor creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, sm adhesive labels to rear)

PUBLISHER: Pramod Kapoor / Pragati Publications 1993

KEYWORDS: history Emperor Akbar India 16th sixteenth century

$40.00
3n3/13

Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall: Autobiographical and Biographical Reminiscences


CLARK-HALL, R H & J L

SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, red & blue lettering to spine, xii + 172pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & wrapper edges, sl chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Raven Press (Printer) 1995

KEYWORDS: signed Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall military history autobiography biography memoir RFC Royal Flying Corps aviation

$40.00
3n3/15

History and Beyond: Interpreting Early India ; Time as a Metaphor of History ; Cultural Transaction and Early India ; From Lineage to State


THAPAR, ROMILA

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 189pp, VG (light creasing & fading to spine, sl creasing to wrapper edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, sl chafing & soiling to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: India history Indian Asia

$40.00
3n3/16

In the Footsteps of Du Fu


WOOD, MICHAEL

Octavo, illus heavy boards, white & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 191pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising/creasing to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, pgs13-20 partailly detached but present)

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2023

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir Du Fu poetry poets China Chinese history historical

$40.00
3n3/17

The New Cambridge History of India I.5 The Mughal Empire


RICHARDS, JOHN F

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 320pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & wrappers, sl chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: India history Mughal empire

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