PHIZ (illus)

COVERS DETACHED; Super octavo, illus stapled light card covers, adverts to eps, 53pp, illus. sketch portraits, G (covers fully detached, heavy chipping & soiling to covers, moderate discolouration & creasing to pages, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, fep & first page of text, bookseller's price label to fep)

PUBLISHER: The Christchurch Press Co. Ltd. 1892

KEYWORDS: new zealand politics politicians political history media journalism cartoons drawings sketches art illustrated phiz commentary commentaries christchurch press newspapers

N/A

2 VOL. SET; Quarto, half-bound in brown leather with burnt orange cloth boards, illus prelims/title pages, 270pp / 266pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards, light soiling & discolouration to pages, occasionally heavy with some black ink staining to page edges in parts)

PUBLISHER: The Office 1845

KEYWORDS: magazines collections cartoons humourous humorous satire satirical periodicals british english culture society politics illustrated punch london charivari

FISCHER, DAVID HACKETT

FEP TORN/CUT; Super octavo, blue & black heavy card boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 629pp, illus, VG (fep torn/cut, otherwise VG+ with light rubbing & soiling to boards and page edges) in d/w, VG (light rubbing & soiling, moderate creasing, bookseller's price label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: new zealand united states of america american u.s.a. comparitive history politics political culture cultural values society government democracy democratic liberty freedom individualism

WALEY, ARTHUR

Super octavo, light blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 238pp, family tree & folding map to rear, VG (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light foxing & occasional light creasing to pages) in d/w, VG- (light chipping & foxing, moderate-heavy browning esp. to spine)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1951

KEYWORDS: literary biography biographies asian eastern china chinese poets poetry poems politics political 9th ninth century history criticism

[King] JAMES I & MCILWAIN, CHARLES HOWARD (intro)

Ex-library; Quarto, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind-stamped lettering & publisher's coat of arms motif to front board, cxi + 354pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate fraying to spine extrems, light cracking to gutters, light-moderate soiling & tanning to pages, several small closed tears to page edges throughout & a few pages starting to come loose, usual library markings to prelims, terminals & spine)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1918

KEYWORDS: ex library king james i iv england english scotland scottish monarchs monarchies monarchy royals royalty crown history politics political works writings collected collections speeches

KATENE, SELWYN and RAHUI (Eds)

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: Huia Publishers 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori politics political leaders biographies government parliament

HUGHES, GARETH & SWARBRICK, CHLOE (Fore)

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: Allen & Unwin 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics political figures Jeanette Fitzsimons green party leaders biographies memoir mp

LENIN, V.I.

THIS VOL. ONLY, LACKS D/W; 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: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1960

KEYWORDS: russian russia history politics political economics history vladimir vi lenin collected writings works capitalism capitalist criticism communism leninism

DUNCAN, Hon. T Y.

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: New Zealand Department of Agriculture 1904

KEYWORDS: new zealand government departmental departments reports politics political history historical agriculture agricultural farming horticulture

HURGRONJE, Dr C SNOUCK & O'SULLIVAN, A W S (Trans) & WILKINSON, R J (Index)

2 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, blind stamp decoration to boards, frontispieces, vol 1- xxi + 439pp + foldng maps & diagrams to rear, vol 2- 384pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spines & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light discolouration to spines, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to eps with sm ink stains to ffep of vol 1, sm ink notation to title pages of both vols, moderate tanning/browning to pages throughout, light cracking to gutters, moderate creasing & chipping to brittle edges of diagrams, maps to rear of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: E J Brill 1906

KEYWORDS: Acheh culture cultural history travel writing literature Netherlands-Indian government reports religion religious politics political history Achenese

N/A

5 VOL SET, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, mixed pagination, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, some minor staining to edges of eps, prev. bookseller's sm labels to some ffeps) in d/w, VG (in adhesive protective wrappers- edges likely stained/damaged, light to moderate tanning to spines, light soiling, lg section of rear cover of vol 1 missing)

PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1964-65

KEYWORDS: politics political England English House of Lords history historical manuscripts parliament parliamentary records

SNOW, EDGAR

FIRST REVISED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, illus eps, xiv + 520pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, sporadic but heavy annotation in ink to text throughout)

PUBLISHER: Random House 1938

KEYWORDS: first REVISED editions China communism history Chinese politics

OBAMA, BARACK

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: Viking / Penguin 2020

KEYWORDS: Barack Obama autobiography politics autobiographies memoir US Presidents political

SINCLAIR, KEITH

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Auckland University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history politics political parliament government Prime Ministers Walter Nash biography biographies memoir

COXE, WILLIAM

4 VOL. SET; BINDING POOR; Super octavo, brown leather-bound boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, gilt decorative rule to boards, marbled eps, frontispiece portrait, xlii + 359pp / 436pp / 447pp / 428pp, illus plates + folding genealogical table, G+ (heavy chipping/cracking to spines with heavy surface loss, heavy scuffing to boards, light-heavy cracking to hinges/gutters - boards shaky with rear board of Vol. 2 almost entirely detached, some pages coming loose, light damp wrinkling to pages, light-moderate soiling/discolouration to pages throughout, prev. owner's name/annotation in ink & pencil to some prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1816

KEYWORDS: biographies biography memoirs england english british great britain politics politicians prime ministers history sir robert walpole

DALRYMPLE, Sir JOHN

3 VOL. SET; FIRST EDITIONS 1771-1788; Quarto, brown leather-bound boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, upper edges stained black, remaining edges stained red, illus title page to Vol. III, viii + 211pp / xiv + 246pp / xii +84pp, G (boards either completely detached, almost entirely detached, or heavily cracked at hinges/gutters, heavy scuffing & soiling to boards & spines, light-heavy soiling to pages throughout - moreso to prelims/terminals, prev. owner's names/labels/annotations in ink & pencil to eps, occasional annotations in light pencil throughout)

PUBLISHER: W. Strachan and T. Caddell / A. Kincaid & J. Bell, & J. Balfour / John Bell and William Creech 1771/1773/1788

KEYWORDS: history historical memoirs england english ireland irish great britain british politics political government parliament military imperialism empire

HIRSCH, DAVID & VAN HAFTEN, DAN & WILLIAMS, FRANK J. (foreword)

Super octavo; black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece portrait, xxiii + 439pp, illus tables & figures, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to boards & page edges) in d/w (light rubbing, soiling & creasing)

PUBLISHER: Savas Beattie LLC 2010

KEYWORDS: logic reason reasoning geometry geometric method communication writing writers speeches rhetoric oratory orators abraham lincoln united states of america american u.s.a. history politics politicians presidents government

GIROUX, HENRY A.

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to black spine, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light rubbing & creasing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2016

KEYWORDS: united states of america american u.s.a. sociology politics political society radical democracy imagination resistance authoritarianism

SIMPSON, CHRISTOPHER

SCARCE; SOME ANNOTATION AND HIGHLIGHTING; Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine, 204pp, VG (large but light horizontal crease to rear cover, light rubbing & soiling to covers, light scuffing to spine, light soiling to page edges, occasional moderate highlighting & underlining/annotation in ink throughout)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: scarce united states of america american u.s.a. government mass communication research cold war history politics psychological warfare propaganda

GILBERT, MARTIN

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988

KEYWORDS: biographies biography memoir Winston S Churchill British politics political leaders government prime ministers history