Bill Parham (12 results)

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Paperback Edition. 26 cm, 226 pp, maps, figs, b&w photo illus, soft covers. VG copy. A heavy book - overseas buyers please ask regards postage.

Card Cover. Condition: VG. 2nd (revised). Well illustrated account of the New Zealand native wars of the mid-19th century. 226pp. VG clean copy in card covers, has a very slight nicotine aroma but not obviously stained.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Revised Edition. 26 cm, 226 pp, pen & ink illus, b&w photo illus, soft covers - mild fade and two small bumps at spine. Still a VG copy. A heavy book - overseas buyers please ask for a freight quote.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The Colonial New Zealand Wars An Illustrated History with Colour Plates. Revised edition. By Tim Ryan, Bill Parham. Publisher: Grantham House Publishing 2002. Softback in very good condition, no inscriptions, a little creasing, shelf/edge wear, small chip and slight fading to spine, minor marks. 226 pages with colour plates. Since The Colonial New Zealand Wars was first published in 1986, there have been several attempts to give a 'modern' interpretation to the facts of history by writers, parliamentarians and others uncomfortable with the facts of New Zealand history. In this new edition of the book Tim Ryan refutes many of these claims. All over the world countries are rewriting their history to suit present day sensibilities (Japan is a prime example), but no matter how absurd the claims of political correctness may be, historical facts speak for themselves. To claim that the Maori invented artillery bunkers and trench warfare, as Professor James Belich did in the television series The New Zealand Wars, is clearly ludicrous when they were known in Europe since the invention of gunpowder many centuries earlier. The practice of attributing present day attitudes to people who lived in vastly different times is at best questionable. Revisionist historians do themselves no credit. No previous book has ever featured such a comprehensive pictorial coverage of this sad chapter in the history of New Zealand. Many photographs were published for the first time in the original edition, and this new edition contains a splendid colour section. Equally important are original paintings and drawings specially prepared for this book. Tim Ryan has collected what is probably the most complete collection of paintings and early photographs of the wars. It is an illustrated military history that describes in detail the camp.

First edition, small quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 226pp, illus, VG+ (v. v. slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+.

Illustrated Papered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 27 cm, 226 pp, pen & ink illus, b&w photo illus, d/w. VG copy. A heavy book - overseas buyers please ask for a freight quote.

Revised Edition, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 226pp, illus, (VG) sl rubbing to covers, sl scuffing to corners of covers, v sl soiling to page edges. prev owner's details in pen to fep., heavy fading to spine.

FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHORS. Imp. octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus., photos; [6] + 226 pp.; VG (light to moderate fading, scuffing & bruising to edges & extrems, light tanning throughout); in d/w, VG (light fading, some bruising to edges & extrems).

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. On title page signed & inscribed by Tim Ryan 1986. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt title. Moderate sunning to spine and thinly, faintly along boards top-edge. Top-edge: just a few very faint tiny spots. Clean contents. Generous b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 226p Dj: clean jacket. Shelf-sunned. Light crease to head of spine. Chips to head of front flap spine. By Author & Inscribed.

First edition thus publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). Quarto. 10'' x 8¼''. Contains 226 pp with archive monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. NEW ZEALAND (Aotearoa).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1971 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 170 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 170 Volume 42.