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Lucknow: A Veritable Goldmine - Local History Series # 2 ( Australia / Australian History ) ( Gold Mine )( Includes Shadforth ) ( Orange city related)

Price: $53.93 CAD

Publisher: Australia, Orange, NSW, Australia: Orange City Council 150th Anniversary Project, 1995, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1995

Seller ID: 153182

ISBN: 0959222782

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------large (quarto) softcover, a Near Fine copy with a bit of light wear, 165 pages, b&w photos throughout, contents include: 2 poems by Roberts about Lucknow; Foreword; Preface; Early Exploration; Early Settlement ( Summer Hill; Chinaman's Bend Cemetery; Agricultural Development ); Discovery of Gold ( History of Gold Discovery; Gold at Frederick's Valley; Wentworth Gold Field Company; Opening up of Lucknow Gold Fields; Early Claims and Mines ); Lucknow Village ( Naming of Lucknow; POst Office; banks; Stores; Hotels; Billiard Rooms; Miners' Hall; School of Arts; Public School; Churches;...
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Image for A Tour of East Antrim: Historic Photographs from the W A Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum ( Northern Ireland )( Vintage Photography / Photographic History )

A Tour of East Antrim: Historic Photographs from the W A Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum ( Northern Ireland )( Vintage Photography / Photographic History )

By: Corcoran, Doreen (from the Collection of W A Green )

Price: $17.48 CAD

Publisher: England, Belfast, Northern Ireland: Friar's Bush Press, 1990, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1990

Seller ID: 161353

ISBN: 0946872384

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------softcover, about 8.5w x 7h inches, a very Good+ example with just a wee bit of light rubbing to edges, 92 pages, packed with b&w photographs about all things East Antrim, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Paris on the Eve, 1900 - 1914 -by Vincent Cronin

By: Cronin, Vincent ( Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL, 24 May 1924 - 25 January 2011 )

Price: $22.88 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Collins, 1989, 1st edition, First Printing: 1989

Seller ID: 152881

ISBN: 0002176203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dustjacket, 485 pages, b&w photos, ---This portrait of Paris between 1900 and 1914, when it was the artistic centre of Europe, is evoked by a series of character sketches of important figures, such as Proust, Gide, Claudel, Debussy, Sarah Bernhardt, Picasso, Diaghilev and the Curies. By drawing together the threads of their lives the author distinguishes a subtlety and delicacy in artistic and intellectual life not present in the more pleasure-seeking 1890s. But dark political clouds were looming with the German occupation of ...
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Image for Retired Dallas Police Chief JESSE CURRY Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File -by Jesse Curry -a Signed Copy ( Retired Dallas, Texas Police Chief, in the lead car for the John F Kennedy procession )

Retired Dallas Police Chief JESSE CURRY Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File -by Jesse Curry -a Signed Copy ( Retired Dallas, Texas Police Chief, in the lead car for the John F Kennedy procession )

By: Curry, Jesse (signed)( Retired Dallas, Texas Police Chief, in the lead car for the JFK procession )

Price: $67.43 CAD

Publisher: Dallas, Texas, Dallas, TX: Jesse E Curry / American Poster and Printing Company, 1969, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1969

Seller ID: 166008

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------softcover, a Very Good+ example with a bit of light rubbing, signed by the author " Best wishes Jesse Curry", 133 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for Vaugondy Globe (facsimile) Par 1745 --by Robert De Vaugondy / Authentic Models Reproductions Nostalgia from Bygone Days (in Box )( Terrestrial Globe )

Vaugondy Globe (facsimile) Par 1745 --by Robert De Vaugondy / Authentic Models Reproductions Nostalgia from Bygone Days (in Box )( Terrestrial Globe )

By: De Vaugondy, Robert / Facsimile of the 1745 Vaugondy Globe

Price: $60.68 CAD

Publisher: Eugene, Oregon, Eugene, OR: Authentic Models, NO DATE (circa 2001 ), 1st Issue / Edition: 2001

Seller ID: 156614

Binding: Terrestrial Globe in Box

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------terrestrial globe, a facsimile of the 1745 globe be Robert de Gauvondy, the globe is FINE, it measures about 6 inches across, done in full colour, housed in a matching tube-shaped box, the globe is very nice and "floats" in the box, the interior of the box is faux marbling as one would see in a book with marbled endpapers, a very nice production that makes a lovely desk or room accent, , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for TWO VOLUMES: Lebensraum & Lebensraum, Extermination Camps of the Third Reich Photographs/Photography by Grant Delin ( Auschwitz, Belzec, Birkenau, Chelmno, Gross-Rosen, Majdanek, Plasow, Sobibor, Stutthof, Theresienstadt, Treblinka )( Nazi Death Camps)

TWO VOLUMES: Lebensraum & Lebensraum, Extermination Camps of the Third Reich Photographs/Photography by Grant Delin ( Auschwitz, Belzec, Birkenau, Chelmno, Gross-Rosen, Majdanek, Plasow, Sobibor, Stutthof, Theresienstadt, Treblinka )( Nazi Death Camps)

By: Delin, Grant (photographer / Photographs by); Afterword By Victor H Carroll

Price: $67.43 CAD

Publisher: London, England, No Place / London, UK: No Publisher ( Grant Delin - Self Published ? ) / Westzone, 1997 / 2001, 1st Edition, First Printing for Both: 2001

Seller ID: 160477

ISBN: 1903391121

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-------------2 volumes (ONE SHIPPING PRICE ), hardcovers, both are Near Fine copies, this listing is for TWO BOOKS, ---the first is simply titled LEBENSRAUM and does not have any publisher information, date at the rear of the book is 1997, it is a Near Fine copy, no dustjacket as issued, about 12.5w x 7.5h inches, coil bound with clear plastic covers, this contains about 30 b&w images presented on heavy card stock, all of these images appear in the other volume (EXTERMINATION ) except for one image (which I suspect was not an image Westzone wanted to include), all the images are from the deat...
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Image for Om Niet Te Vergeten: Hondred Jaar Vereniging Tot Stichting En Instandhouding Van Scholen Met De Bijbel Te Nieuwerkerkaan Den IJssel 1888 - 1988 ( Dutch School History / The Netherlands / Holland )

Om Niet Te Vergeten: Hondred Jaar Vereniging Tot Stichting En Instandhouding Van Scholen Met De Bijbel Te Nieuwerkerkaan Den IJssel 1888 - 1988 ( Dutch School History / The Netherlands / Holland )

By: den Boer, Adri en Mieke

Price: $53.93 CAD

Publisher: The Netherlands, The Netherlands: Hondred Jaar Christelijk Anderwijs Nieuwerkerk Aan Den Ijssel, 1988, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1988

Seller ID: 164420

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

------------hardcover, a Near Fine example, no dustjacket as issued, 160 pages, b&w photos, a schhol or school district history, all text is in Dutch, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in late Colonial North India by Venkat Dhulipala / Cambridge University Press

Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in late Colonial North India by Venkat Dhulipala / Cambridge University Press

By: Dhulipala, Venkat / Cambridge University Press

Price: $44.48 CAD

Publisher: Delhi, India, Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press ( CUP ), 2015, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2015

Seller ID: 158750

ISBN: 1107052122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

------------hardcover, about 6.25 x 9.25 inches, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, 530 pages, ---"This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of U.P. (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India. It argues that Pakistan was not simply a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but was popularly imagined as a sovereign Islamic State, a new Medina, as some called it. In this regard, it ...
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Image for WALLS: Travels Along the Barricades ---by Marcello Di Cintio -a Signed Copy ( West Bank / Ceuta / Melilla; Western Sahara; Indo-Bangladesh Fence; Nicosia / Lefkosa; US - Mexico Border; Belfast; The l'Acadie Fence, Montreal )

WALLS: Travels Along the Barricades ---by Marcello Di Cintio -a Signed Copy ( West Bank / Ceuta / Melilla; Western Sahara; Indo-Bangladesh Fence; Nicosia / Lefkosa; US - Mexico Border; Belfast; The l'Acadie Fence, Montreal )

By: Di Cintio, Marcello (signed)

Price: $20.18 CAD

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2012, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2012

Seller ID: 155377

ISBN: 0864926634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy, in a Near Fine dustjacket, signed with inscription by the author "Sandra, What a pleasure to meet you. I hope you don't write about me anytime soon. Marcello Di Cintio", 287 pages, ---"In this ambitious blend of travel and reportage, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the worlds most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire and answer the question: What does it mean to live against the walls? Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Moroccos desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circu...
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The Death of the Red King ---by Paul Doherty -a Signed Copy ( Rufus the Red / William II )

By: Doherty, Paul (signed and inscribed) ( AKA: Anna Apostolou, Michael Clynes, Ann Dukthas, C L Grace, Paul Harding )

Price: $13.43 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Greenwich Exchange, 2006, 1st edition, First Printing: 2006

Seller ID: 157954

ISBN: 1871551927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hard cover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, feels unread, signed and inscribed "Sister Teresa Best Paul Doherty", 180 pages, ---William II of England, nicknamed "Rufus the Red King" was killed by an arrow loosed by one of his own men. By concentrating on both old and new evidence, the author demonstrates that the king's death is highly suspect. Through the eyes of Anselm, the great philosopher and secret admirer of the Red King, the author develops a much more chilling interpretation of the Red King's death, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and n...
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HMS Ganges: Tales of the TROGS (and Nozzers ) -by John Douglas ( T.R.O.G.s - Trained Rating of Ganges )( H.M.S.)( RN / Royal Navy related)( Old Boys' Association )

By: Douglas, John

Price: $25.58 CAD

Publisher: England, Penmarth, Cornwall, UK: Second City Publishers / John Douglas / Douglas House, 1995, 1st Edition, First Prinitng: 1995

Seller ID: 161710

ISBN: 090681605X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------trade paperback, about 5.75w x 8.25h inches, a Very Good to Very Good+ copy with a wee bit of light rubbing, 263 pages, b&w illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo.///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///.
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HMS Ganges: Roll on My Dozen -by John Douglas -a Signed Copy ( H.M.S.)( Old Boys' Association )( RN / Royal Navy related)

By: Douglas, John (signed)

Price: $25.58 CAD

Publisher: England, Penmarth, Cornwall, UK: John Douglas / Douglas House, 1997, 3rd Edition, 1st Prinitng: 1997

Seller ID: 161711

ISBN: 0906816068

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------trade paperback, about 5.75w x 8.25h inches, a Very Good to Very Good+ copy with a wee bit of light rubbing, 167 pages, signed by the author, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo./// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///.
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Image for From Insult to Injury: My Life of Fun, Mayhem and Murder in the Royal Ulster Constabulary 1955 - 1988 -by Ivan F Duncan, Chief Inspector RUC ( Retd )( Northern Ireland / Police / Policing Autobiography / Biography )

From Insult to Injury: My Life of Fun, Mayhem and Murder in the Royal Ulster Constabulary 1955 - 1988 -by Ivan F Duncan, Chief Inspector RUC ( Retd )( Northern Ireland / Police / Policing Autobiography / Biography )

By: Duncan, Ivan F, Chief Inspector RUC ( Royal Ulster Constabulary )( Retd )

Price: $40.43 CAD

Publisher: England, Donaghee, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK: Figments Publishing, No Date (circa 1990 ), 1st Edition, First Printing: 1990

Seller ID: 162945

ISBN: 1901227030

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

------------hardcover, about 6w x 8.5h inches, a near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, 186 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for East Belfast Historical Society Journal Vol. 4 # 2 2005 (inc. Short History of The Belfast Ropework Company; Early Cycling; Ballymacarrett Library's First Century; Shipbuilding 1791-1974; Pigs on the Woodstock; The Major Bus Co.; etc)

East Belfast Historical Society Journal Vol. 4 # 2 2005 (inc. Short History of The Belfast Ropework Company; Early Cycling; Ballymacarrett Library's First Century; Shipbuilding 1791-1974; Pigs on the Woodstock; The Major Bus Co.; etc)

By: East Belfast Historical Society Journal; Wesley Thompson; Eileen Johnston; Charles Ludlow; William Neill; J M Becket; Noel M Brown; James Davidson; Norman Kennedy; Wm Montgomery; Lynn Wilson; Billy Kirkpatrick

Price: $26.93 CAD

Publisher: United Kingdom, Belfast, Northern Ireland: East Belfast Historical Society Journal Volume 4 No. 2, 2005, First edition, 1st Printing: 2005

Seller ID: 165440

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

------------softcover, a Near Fine example, looks new, 96 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for Remembrances of Life and Customs in Gilbert White's, Cobbett's, and Charles Kingsley's Country with Illustrations of Considerable Local Interest -by J Alfred Eggar

Remembrances of Life and Customs in Gilbert White's, Cobbett's, and Charles Kingsley's Country with Illustrations of Considerable Local Interest -by J Alfred Eggar

By: Eggar, J Alfred ( Charles Kingsley related)

Price: $20.18 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1925, 1st Edition, 1st Printing of the revised edition: 1925

Seller ID: 158260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

----------hardcover, about 5 x 7.5 inches, tan cloth with black lettering, a solid Very Good copy with light wear and rubbing, a bit of light soiling, 206 pages, b&w photos, the section at the back of the book is dated 1925, the earlier edition had 199 pages and was from 1924, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for History of Icelandic prose Writers, 1800 - 1940 / ISLANDICA: An Annual Related to Iceland and the Fiske Collection in Cornell University Library, Volumes xxxii and xxxiii - 1800-1940 -by Stefan Einarsson ( 32 / 33 )

History of Icelandic prose Writers, 1800 - 1940 / ISLANDICA: An Annual Related to Iceland and the Fiske Collection in Cornell University Library, Volumes xxxii and xxxiii - 1800-1940 -by Stefan Einarsson ( 32 / 33 )

By: Einarsson, Stefan, Professor of Scandinavian Philology The Johns Hopkins University / Islandica Annual

Price: $20.18 CAD

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1948, 1st edition, First Printing: 1948

Seller ID: 159131

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good (see description)

----------softcover, about 6 x 9 inches, a solid Good to Very Good copy, some light wear and rubbing, a bit of age toning to the spine, some small nicks, 269 pages, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Children's Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport ( Jewish Children's Transport from Nazi Germany )( Pre-WWII )

By: Fast, Vera K

Price: $26.93 CAD

Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: I B Tauris & Co., 2011, 1st edition, First Printing: 2011

Seller ID: 162450

ISBN: 1848855370

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, about 5.5w x 8.5h inches, a Near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, 270 pages, b&w photos, ---"In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport spared thousands of Jewish children from the terror of the Third Reich and provided them with host families in Britain. "Children's Exodus" offers an in-depth look at the people and politics behind the various chains of res...
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Image for Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories -by Jack Finney (inc. Murder of Harvey Burdell and the Trial; The Sinking of the SS Central America ([aka The Ship of Gold / Formerly the S S George Law ]; Stock Exchange, Etc)

Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories -by Jack Finney (inc. Murder of Harvey Burdell and the Trial; The Sinking of the SS Central America ([aka The Ship of Gold / Formerly the S S George Law ]; Stock Exchange, Etc)

By: Finney, Jack Finney, Jack ( Walter Braden Finney )

Price: $24.23 CAD

Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: Doubleday, 1983, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1983

Seller ID: 164154

ISBN: 0385177216

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Very Good+ price clipped dustjacket with a bit of very light rubbing, the majority of the book is devoted to the murder of Harvey Burdell and the ensuing trial nad outrageous incidents, another section is devoted to the sinking of the SS Central America; as well there is a short story about Christmas and the Stock Exchange as well as some other brief items, 290 pages, b&w illustrations, Finney makes the events of the late 19th century come alive especially in regards to the infamous murder trial, any image directly beside this listing is the actua...
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Image for Nineteenth Century Wars in Egypt and the Sudan: An Illustrated History of Selected Covers, Cards and Autograph Letters from the Collection Formed in the Nineteen Seventies ( Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund & Philatelic Auctions )( Stamps )( 19th C./ 1970's )

Nineteenth Century Wars in Egypt and the Sudan: An Illustrated History of Selected Covers, Cards and Autograph Letters from the Collection Formed in the Nineteen Seventies ( Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund & Philatelic Auctions )( Stamps )( 19th C./ 1970's )

By: Firebrace, John; ; Foreword By James Grimwood-Taylor / The Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund and Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd

Price: $40.43 CAD

Publisher: England, Bristol / Derby, UK: The Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund / Cavendish Philatelic Auctions, 1997, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1997

Seller ID: 159138

ISBN: 0952717735

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

------------softcover, about 8.25 x 11.5 inches, a near Fine copy, 218 pages, colour and b&w photos and illustrations, contents include: Foreword; Introduction; Map of Egypt and Sudan; The French campaign 1798 - 1801; The British campaign 1801 ( The Indian Contingent; Alexandria ); The Arabi Rebellion 1882 (The Indian Contingent ); The Mahdi 1881 - 85; Colonel Hicks' Disaster 1883; Suakin 1884; The Nile Expedition 1884 - 85 ( The Canadian Voyageurs; The Frontier Force 1885 - 91 ); The Suakin Expedition 1885 - 86 ( The Indian Contingent; The New South Wales Contingens 1886 - 91 ); The Captives...
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Down Among the Meths Men -by Geoffrey S Fletcher ( London Skid Row / Methylated Spirits )

By: Fletcher, Geoffrey S

Price: $53.93 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Hutchinson, 1966, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1966

Seller ID: 163781

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Very Good dustjacket with with some short closed tears, 94 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Category: History