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$10.00
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The Wall of Night, Book One: The Heir of Night


LOWE, HELEN

Super octavo (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: Orbit 2010

KEYWORDS: specials Helen Lowe New Zealand fiction fantasy literature novel

$350.00
1w16a/29

Wild Pork and Watercress


CRUMP, BARRY & EVANS, MALCOLM (Illus)

SCARCE IN HARDCOVER & WITH DUST JACKET; First edition, super octavo, brown heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 163pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (some soiling, esp to rear, some creasing to edges, fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Beckett Publishing 1986

KEYWORDS: Barry Crump New Zealand literature humour

$30.00
1s8a/16

Anthology of New Zealand Literature


STAFFORD, JANE & WILLIAMS, MARK (Eds)

Small quarto, grey boards with black lettering to spine & front board, bue eps, xv + 1162pp, nr fine (small ding to base of spine) in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poetry poems anthology

$8.50
xxfnk92136

The Word Burners


FLETCHER, BERYL

NEW octavo softcover (nr fine); 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: Spinifex Press 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Beryl Fletcher New Zealand literature fiction novel

$100.00
1t19c/76

Versions from Verlaine


CURRIE, ERNEST

Warmly inscribed & signed by author, loosely enclosed cutting of newspaper obituary of author by Denis Glover, also a copy of the author's personal ex-libris bookplate, and a single page holographic letter signed by the author. Super octavo, mottled orange boards with black lettering to front board & darker orange satyr head to front, 32pp, VG (moderate fading to spine & upper board edges, some foxing to page edges & less so to pages, one correction in ink) in d/w, G+ (heavy fading, some foxing, moderate creasing & nicks to edges, 2cm tear with loss to upper spine, spine almost worn through)

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1961

KEYWORDS: Ernest Currie Paul Verlaine literature poetry poems signed New Zealand

$40.00
2d2a/35

Henwise - a poem sequence


OLIVER, STEPHEN & BARR, POLLY (cover illus)

First editoin, quarto, cream light card covers sewn with blue thread, 21pp, VG+ (slight tanning to edges) in blue light card covers with hen & mountains illus to front cover, VG (some browning to spine & peripheries)

PUBLISHER: Hawk Press 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poetry poem Stephen Oliver

$10.00
xxseb92463

The Windsor Conspiracy


PONDER, MIKE

Super Octavo (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: Bantam 2007

KEYWORDS: Specials Mike Ponder Literature Fiction Thriller New Zealand

$24.00
1g75a/12

Christopher Columbus: A Sequence of Poems


HART-SMITH, WILLIAM

First edition, octavo, brown heavy card boards with white title label mounted to front board, sailing ship motif to title page, 61pp, VG (heavy foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy tanning, light foxing, fading & wear to spine, 1cm nicks to corners & folds)

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1948

KEYWORDS: first edition William Hart Smith New Zealand literature poems poetry verse

$27.50
xxsef92667

Two Obscene Poems by James K. Baxter: With an Introduction by Max Harris


BAXTER, JAMES K.

Imperial Octavo (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: Mary Martin Books

KEYWORDS: Specials literature poetry New Zealand James K Baxter Max Harris

$50.00
2f51/15

162 Haiku: A Korean War Sequence


BERRY, ERNEST & KILBRIDE, JERRY

Signed by Ernest Berry, silver fern sellotaped to fep, octavo, illus red light card covers with yellow & black lettering, frontispiece, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (v slight fading to rear cover lower edge) in d/w, VG (some fading to spine, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Post Pressed 2000

KEYWORDS: Ernest Berry signed Jerry Kilbride New Zealand Korean poetry literature haiku

$60.00
2g34a/10

Forbidden Gold


LAWSON, WILL

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 184pp, VG- (heavy fading to spine & front board peripheries, moderately heavy browning to page edges & eps, some browning to page peripheries, owner's name in pencil to fep)

PUBLISHER: Oswald Sealy (n/d)

KEYWORDS: first edition Will Lawson New Zealand literature novel Cape Terawhiti

$12.50
xxsef92684

A. R. D. Fairburn,1904 - 1957: A Bibliography of his Published Work


JOHNSON, OLIVE

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 University of Auckland 1958

KEYWORDS: specials ARD Fairburn Olive Johnson bibliography New Zealand literature

$9.50
xxseg92707

I Got His Blood On Me


PRATCHETT, LAWRENCE

Octavo softcover (nr fine); 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: Victoria University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: specials Lawrence Pratchett New Zealand fiction literature novel

$125.00
2g18a/22

The Land of the Lost: A Tale of the New Zealand Gum Country


SATCHELL, WILLIAM

True first edition (adverts at rear are dated 1901), octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule to spine & front board, 310pp + 48pp book adverts, VG- (moderately heavy staining to boards & spine, moderately heavy browning to page edges & to eps, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1902 (adverts at rear are dated 1901)

KEYWORDS: first edition William Satchel New Zealand literature

$50.00
1p19a/5

Gallipoli and Other Poems


CAMPBELL, ALISTAIR TE ARIKI

First edition, duodecimo, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine, printed eps, 51pp, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Wai te Ata Press 1999

KEYWORDS: first edition Alistair Te Arii Campbell New Zealand literature poetry poems verse

$120.00
1p19a/9

A Song of Auckland and Other Verses


TORRENS, J. M. (AKA) MUNDO, H. V.

First edition, loosely enclosed articles about publications under author's other name HV Mundo, octavo, light card stapled wrappers with blue lettering to front cover, gilt decorative rule to front & illus to rear cover, double-page frontispiece, 39pp, VG- (staining to covers, some tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: JM Torrens 1900

KEYWORDS: JM Torrens HV Mundo New Zealand literature poetry poems verse

$55.00
1p19a/11

Stewart Island Verses and Others


SOUTHERNER (aka) AUGUST, SAMUEL

Inscribed & signed by author (as Southerner, real name Samuel August), small octavo, beige paper stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 55pp, VG- (owner's name & address to front cover, some staining to covers, rust-staining around staples, creasing & bruising to cover edges, some foxing to page edges, lighter foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Craft Agency 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southerner Samual August literature poetry poems

$20.00
xxsej92909

Plays Maori and Pakeha: Volume One, for Standards I-IV


MCLEOD, JANET & LOCKERBIE, LESLIE J. (Notes/Illus)

Signed by author, first edition, 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: A. H.& A. W. Reed (nd)

KEYWORDS: specials Janet McLeod Leslie J Lockerbie New Zealand Maori Pakeha children's literature theatre drama plays signed first edition

$20.00
xxsej92952

The Greatest Liar on Earth


CLUNE, FRANK

slim 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Hawthorn Press 1945

KEYWORDS: specials Frank Clune New Zealand Maori Literature

$28.50
xxsek92972

Ursula Bethell: Collected Poems


O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT (ed) & BETHELL, URSULA

FIRST EDITION, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Vincent O'Sullivan Ursula Bethell New Zealand Poetry Literature first edition

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