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Lord Churchill's Coup the Anglo-American Empire and The Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
by Webb, Stephen Saunders
ANNE NEVILLE: Queen to Richard III
by Michael Hicks
Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing Limited, 2006. Hardcover. 254p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. The text is clean and the binding tight. A biography of Anne Neville and her tumultuous relationship to Richard III. Illustrated with black and white pictures.
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NZ$59.58
LIKE WOLVES ON THE FOLD: The Defence of Rorke's Drift
by Lt.Col. Mike Snook
London: Greenhill Books, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As New. 302p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Illustrated with a lengthy section of plates.
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NZ$25.53
THE CONVICT SETTLERS OF AUSTRALIA: An Equiry into the Origin and Character of the Convicts Transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1787-1852
by L.L. Robson
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 257p. Ex-library. A brown cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Uneven fading on spine and boards. Edges of spine are wearing through, but binding remains tight. Label on spine; stamps and labels inside. Text is clean.
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NZ$42.56
Victorian Military Campaigns
by Bond, Brian, editor
New York: Praeger. 1967 1st Am. ed. 328pp. illus. black cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover. Scholarly studies of seven British military campaigns fought between 1845 and 1899, from the Sikh Wars to the Reconquest of the Sudan, each written by a different historian. John Keegan, for example, covers the Ashanti Campaign of 1873-4.
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NZ$51.07
The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G., and His Times, Vol. I
by Ewald, Alexander Charles
London: Wm. MacKenzie, 1881. 240pp. frontispiece & 5 other portraits, a.e.g. orig. navy cloth sm 4to w/gilt decorations & titles: Good+ [light shelf wear; some antique dampstains in page margins that affect neither illustrations nor text; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Volume I only of five volumes commemorating the life of Britain's only Jewish prime minister the Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), published in the year of his death.
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NZ$42.56
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
by James, Lawrence
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 book club ed. 722pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of edge foxing; long gift presentation inscription on ffep; else a very nice clean and crisp copy]
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NZ$16.94
Early English Adventures in the East
by Wright, Arnold
London: Andrew Melrose, 1917. Hardcover. 331p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches, corners bumped, endpapers, first and last few pages, and foreedge foxed else good condition.
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NZ$170.22
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921-1952
by Chaudhuri, Nirad C
Reading, Massachussets: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.. 1989. Very Good condition. Spine very lightly sunned. 979 pages. The author's own story but within the framework of the larger story of India's drive towards Independence with incisive and iconoclastic portraits of Gandhi, Nehru, Mountbatten and Churchill. The author was regarded as an admirable historian and one of the best Indian writers of non-fiction. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Paperback...
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NZ$26.70
Charles W. Abel of Kwato, Forty Years in Dark Papua, By His Son Russell W. Abel. Introduction by the Rev. Charles R. Erdman
by Abel, R.W., (Russell)
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1934. Hardcover. 255p., illustrated with vignette silhouettes and with numerous b&w photos reproduced fullpage on glazed inserted stock, including a frontis photoportrait of the elder Abel. Casing is rather edgeworn, with a touch of card showing, fray and a short tear at the rims. Endsheets are very foxed, and on p.18 expect a marginal bracket in red pencil, else very good.
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NZ$34.04
Glimpses of the olden times, India under East India Company
by Wilson, C. R., W. H. Carey
Calcutta: Eastlight Book House, 1968. Hardcover. 199p., teal dj very worn at the corners with small tears, hardcover, pages toned, dj inside flaps very foxed and toned along the fold, small label on inside cover wrap in lower left corner of flap, previous price penciled in on upper rt corner of first blank page, else good reading copy.
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NZ$28.94
New Guinea Headhunt
by Mytinger, Caroline
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Hardcover. Second impression, viii, 441p., illustrated with sketched vignettes and fullpage paintings reproduced in b&w, hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch black cloth boards lettered pale yellow; lacks any jacket. Front endsheets are a doublespread line map, rear endsheets are blank except for an owner's bookplate (an interesting image belonging to one Maurice Chayet). Foxed copy with plenty of foxing and dust-soil to top edge of textblock, more to the other edges and to...
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NZ$28.94
BATTLE IN AFRICA 1879-1914
by Howard Whitehouse
Nottinghamshire: Fieldbooks, 1987. Paperback. 48p. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A large-format softcover book in fine condition. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated by Peter Dennis.
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NZ$42.56
Out in the Mid-day Sun (Midday)
by Gussman, Boris
London: George Allen & Unwin. 1962 1st ed. 179pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a torn dj with loss @ tail of back cover [short rem. line bottom edge; some foxing on fore edge; endpp. are foxed; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A scholarly study of European colonial attitudes toward Africans, written during the "winds of change" era of decolonization and concentrating on Central Africa and British racism.
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NZ$12.77
The Life of Hyder Ally with an Account of his Usurpation of the King of Mysore...to which is Annexed, a Genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the British Prisoners of War, Taken by His Son Tippoo Saib
by Robson, Francis
London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1786. First edition. Hardcover. Modern black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt with marbled endpapers. Fine. VI, 228 (3) pages. 22 x 14 cm. Signed by author at end of Preface. Hyder Alie was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India, or more famously known as "the Napoleon of South India" for his relentless fighting against the East India Company and their ambitions of expansion in South India. Having already fought a war with the East India Company,...
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NZ$1,276.65
Tomorrow in Africa. The Africa Bureau Anniversary Address
by Hailey, Lord
[London?]: The Africa Bureau, 1957. Pamphlet. 11p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound wraps; price sticker on front cover, otherwise unmarked and very good.
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NZ$20.43
The British Raj
by Judd, Denis
Hove, UK: Wayland, 1987 2nd ptg. 128pp. illus. hardback 8vo in pictorial boards: Fine/no dj [small price sticker remnant on pastedown; touch of ffep foxing; else a very nice clean and crisp copy] An attractive illustrated primer on the subject, a title in The Documentary History Series originally published in 1972.
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NZ$8.49
The British Dominions Year Book 1924
by Salmon, Edward and Worsfold, James (Edited by)
London: Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Company Limited. 1924. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Spine rubbed at edges with sticky-tape reinforcing to both ends. Light fading to edges and some minor marking to lower edge. Closed tear to front free endpaper (now repaired with document tape). A black & white photograph of the Delegates to the Imperial Conference as frontispiece and a black and white portrait of Stanley Baldwin. 8 pages of coloured plates - New Flags...
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NZ$38.94
BULA MATARI: Stanley: Conqueror of a Continent
by Jacob Wassermann
New York: Liveright Inc, 1933. Hardcover. 351p. A light brown cloth hardcover book in good condition. Rear hinge cracked. Spine text and panels rubbed. Otherwise, pages are clean. A good reading copy. Biography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Translated from German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Includes several black and white plates.
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NZ$25.53
Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend
by Warner, Philip
New York: Atheneum. 1986 1st Am. ed. 247pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A popular biography of the British general Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and of Broome (1850-1916), Conquer of of the Sudan.
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NZ$16.94
Sonnets of the Empire
by Strong, Archibald
London: Macmillan. 1915. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Some mild flecking to boards and light rubbing to spine ends. Some age-toning to page edges. Very lightly read as some of the pages are still uncut. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 69 pages. A selection of poems originally devised to celebrate the spiritual life of the British Empire through the lives of men who had made it. Archibald Strong was an Australian...
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NZ$27.82
The Savage Wars of Peace: Soldiers' Voices 1945-1989
by Allen, Charles
London: Michael Joseph, 1990 1st ed. 290pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some age foxing to top & fore edges; thin rem. line bottom edge; else a nice clean and crisp copy] Fascinating oral history featuring interviews with British soldiers beginning with colonial wars in Malaya and Borneo after World War II and moving on to Kenya, Cyprus and Suez, Southern Arabia and Oman and, finally, Northern Ireland.
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NZ$59.58
THE BOXER REBELLION
by Henry Keown-Boyd
NY: Dorset Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 276p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Illustrated account of the uprising of Chinese rebels against foreigners in China. Originally published in Great Britain under the title THE FISTS OF RIGHTEOUS HARMONY.
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NZ$29.79
Atlas of the British Empire
by Bayly, Dr Christopher (General Editor)
New York: Facts on File, Inc. 1989. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small remainder mark to base. A very nice copy. Illustrated with many colour and black & white plates and 39 full-page colour maps. Introduction by Professor Norman Stone. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. Charts the rise and fall of British dominance in world...
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Lancer at Large
by Yeats-Brown, Francis
New York: Garden City Publishing Co. 1939 reissue. 323pp. illus. red cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj in poly cover [ink name; bookplate; else nrF] A follow-on to Major Yeats-Brown's (1886-1944) "Lives of a Bengal Lancer."
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NZ$16.94
Dervish: The Rise and Fall of an African Empire
by Warner, Philip
New York: Taplinger, 1975 1st Am. ed. 235pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some newspaper clipping ghosts on front endpp; else VG+; dj = closed tear back cover; else VG] A popular history of the Victorian Sudan campaigns.
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NZ$25.53
