MEADE, Lieut The Hon HERBERT

SECOND EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY - ownership bookplate of Rev Sidney Meade, brother of the author & of the editor of the book, with folding map to pg170, frontispiece features naked Maori maidens bathing - an image which isn't always present, super octavo, green half leatherbound buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt rule to boards, teg, marbled eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 375pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, light wrinkling to buckram on rear board, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing sporadically throughout, sm ownership ink stamp to title page)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1871

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SWIFT, JONATHAN (& ANONYMOUS)

A very scarce forged illegitimate third volume of Gulliver's Travels, issued in 1727, octavo, brown leather boards, remnants of gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, gilt rule/borders to boards, decorative blind stamp to board edges, (14) + 159pp, vignette to prelims, decorated headers at begininning of new chapter pages, G (boards & ffep completely detached but present, spine heavily crackled with severe rubbing & heavy surface loss, heavy scuffing to boards & board edges with age appropriate discolouration, heavy tanning & moderate soiling/staining to page edges, level of internal tanning & markings at level expected of books this age but text block still very clear, multiple prev. owners' names in ink to prelim pgs- historical)

PUBLISHER: LONDON: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVII. (1727)

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CRESSWELL, D'ARCY

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY - holograph ownership symbol of NZ author Helen Shaw, super octavo, brown buckram boards, brown lettering to cream buckram spine, 67pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor patches of foxing throughout, occasional pencil markings to margins) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate cracking/tearing to spine & edges, moderate tanning to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1956

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MURPHY, CARLYLE

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Scribner 2002

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McCORMICK, E H (SARGESON, FRANK)

ASSOCIATION COPY- INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY NZ AUTHOR FRANK SARGESON, FROM THE LIBRARY OF HELEN SHAW, dated Christmas 1981- one of the last books he signed, as he does in March 1982, imperial octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front board, frontispiece, 159pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to board edges/extrems, sl foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Auckland / Oxford University Press 1981

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HOWARD, BASIL

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY- warmly inscribed, dated & signed by author, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 415pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate fading & scuffing to spine extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, aforementioned inscription in ink to ffep, light foxing to prelims, sm pocket to rear pastedown, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- tidy archival tape repair, moderate tanning to spine, moderate staining to rear, light general soiling)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1940

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CAMPBELL, JOHN W (Ed)

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: The Conde Nast Publications 1966

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CAMPBELL, JOHN W (Ed)

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: The Conde Nast Publications 1966

KEYWORDS: analog copies past issues literature scifi science fiction anthologies

CAMPBELL, JOHN W (Ed)

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: The Conde Nast Publications 1966

KEYWORDS: analog copies past issues literature scifi science fiction anthologies

BAXTER, JAMES K

SCARCE, ex-library, octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to title plate on front board, 51pp, G+ (spine missing, usual library markings, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to eps & to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1948

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers James K Baxter literature poems poetry verse scarce copies

MENZIES, ARCHIBALD & OLSON, WALLACE M (Intro & Annotation) & THILENIUS, JOHN F (List of Botanical Collections)

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, loosley enclosed are letters signed from author & other ephemera, super octavo, green glossy illus light card covers, green lettering to spine & covers, frontispiece, xv + 247pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Alaska Press 1993

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BALOGH, MICHELLE

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Brio Books 2019

KEYWORDS: uncorrected proof copies biography biographies memoir Shan-Yi

CARROLL, LEWIS

FACSIMILE EDITION, PRINT ON DEMAND COPY, 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: Kessinger Publishing (Print on Demand copy) N/D

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BODE, CARL (Ed)

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: William Heinemann 1959

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YOKOYAMA, HIDEO & LLOYD-DAVIS, JONATHAN (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, super octavo, illus light card covers, red & black lettering to spine, (4) + 635pp, VG (light scuffing/bruising & peeling/surface loss to extrems, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Quercus Publishing 2016

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ROSE, HEATHER

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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 2019

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CHILD, LEE

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & boards, illus eps- front section of board cut-out for illus, (10) + 403pp + (6), VG+ (light chafing to boards, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 2018

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KERET, ETGAR & SHLESINGER, MIRIAM (Trans) & SILVERSTON, SONDRA (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006

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GARDNER, FRANK

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Bantam Press 2016

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HARDING, LISA

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Bloomsbury 2021

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