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$100.00
w14a/15

New Zealand, the Britain of the South; with a Chapter on the Native War, and Our Future Native Policy


HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES

2x FOLDING MAPS, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine & front board, folding map/frontispiece, xv + 519pp, VG (light to moderate rubbing & tanning to spine & board edges/extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, residue of ex-libris plate to front pastedown, light soiling to eps, some closed tearing & foxing to folding maps, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1861

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonial governance

$100.00
w14a/16

The Book of the Lion


PEASE, Sir ALFRED E

FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & lion illus to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xix + 291pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling to boards, binding loose, heavy cracking to rear gutter & hinge- rear board shaky, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, plate opp. p154 detached but present)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1913

KEYWORDS: first editions literature lions lion hunting history Sir Alfred E Pease

$70.00
w14a/17

The Passing Years


RICHARD GREVILLE VERNEY LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor discolouration to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Company 1924

KEYWORDS: literature history Richard Greville Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke

$75.00
2f5b/2

Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Conncell


AKENSON, DONALD HARMAN

Provenance attributed to Vincent O'Sullivan. Super 8vo, pp. [14] + 538; red heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: McGill-Queen's University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: religion religious studies history Ireland Irish evangelicals 19th century Christian Christianity theology

$100.00
2f9d/19

Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover's Complaint


JACKSON, MACDONALD P

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. xii + 272; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Shakespeare poetry drama canon 16th century literature history critcism

$40.00
2f5b/6

John Keats: A New Life


ROE, NICHOLAS

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. xxiv + 446; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; photos, maps, illlus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: John Keats 19th century life lives biography poet poetry romantic social history England London

$45.00
2f5b/15

Imagination and Time


WARNOCK, MARY

Provenance attributed to Vincent O'Sullivan. 8vo, pp. xi + 193; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Blackwell 1994

KEYWORDS: Mary Warnock religion religious studies philosophy human nature Christian Christianity image metaphor history values custom habit social

$45.00
2f5b/19

Irish Divorce/Joyce's Ulysses


KUCH, PETER

SIGNED& INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. xxviii + 289; light card covers; VG (moderate scuffing, rubbing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2017

KEYWORDS: Peter Kuch Ireland Irish divorce social history marriage relationships

$40.00
2f5b/26

The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing


JACKSON, MICHAEL

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR FOR VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. xi + 205; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2013

KEYWORDS: American fiction 20th 21st century history criticism literature writing authorship

$40.00
2f5b/35

Zane Grey: A Photographic Odyssey


GREY, LOREN

FIRST EDITION. Imp. 8vo, pp. [8] + 211; grey cl bds, spine lettered in white; photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing, tanning & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Taylor Publishing Company 1985

KEYWORDS: Zane Grey fish fishing angler angling photos photograph photography pictorial history

$60.00
2f5b/38

A Man Holds a Fish


BUSCH, GLENN

4to; blue heavy card bds, F (in original plastic packaging).

PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press

KEYWORDS: Glenn Busch Te Papa Press New Zealand Auckland Christchurch photographs photography photographer photos social history

$70.00
2f5b/39

United Colors: The Benetton Campaigns


SALVEMINI, LORELLA PAGNUCCO

4to, pp. 159; grey heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in white; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderatebruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Scriptum Editions 2002

KEYWORDS: social history culture photos photgraphs photography photographer art artist 20th 21st century advertising marketing advert

$50.00
w14a/21

The Knapdale Run: Its Land and People


KERSE, ELIZABETH et al (Ed)

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, frontispiece, 339pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising, fading & adhesive staining to board & spine edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Knapdale Book Committee N/D (c.1980s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional history Knapdale Run 111 rural farming communities early settlers pioneers

$50.00
w14a/27

Alone in the Sky


BATTEN, JEAN & WILLIAMS, L R (Drawings)

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED ON TIPPED IN PLATE, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, 190pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor tanning)

PUBLISHER: Technical Books / Airlife Publishing 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders aviation history aviators Jean Batten autobiography autobiographies memoir signed

$100.00
w14a/29

An Old New Zealander, or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South


BUICK, T LINDSAY

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, sm gilt motif to rear board, frontispiece, xvi + 350pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & extrems, light to moderate discolouration to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, moderate cracking to gutters- some pages may be either loose or missing, moderate soiling to prelims & terminals, pencil annotations to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1911

KEYWORDS: T Lindsay Buick New Zealand history biographies Maori leaders Te Rauparaha

$40.00
w14a/31

Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre


GUTZWILLER, KATHRYN J

LACKS D/W, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 304pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to board edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Theocritus pastoral poetry literature writings Greek history criticism literary form

$100.00
w19a/4

Butler's Lives of the Saints (4 Vol Set)


THURSTON, HERBERT (Ed, Revised & Supplemented) & ATTWATER, DONALD (Ed, Revised & Supplemented)

4 VOL SET, ex-library, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt illus to front boards, top page edges stained red, illus title pages, mixed pagination, VG (usual library markings/pockets, sl rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic covers with adhesive edges- jacket edges likely stained, occasional minor creasing)

PUBLISHER: Burns & Oates 1956

KEYWORDS: theology religious figures saints ancient history antiquity religion

$60.00
w19a/7

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet, with Selections from his Correspondence


BUXTON, CHARLES (Ed)

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spine, gilt tooling/decoration & raised bands to spine, teg, marbled eps, frontispiece, xvi + 600pp, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork on spine/boards, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, remembrance plate tipped in & gift inscription in ink to recto of half title page, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1848

KEYWORDS: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton biography biographies memoir autobiographies literature letters correspondence history

$200.00
w19a/8

For Dauntless France: An Account of Britain's Aid to the French Wounded and Victims of the War


BINYON, LAURENCE (Compiled by) & CAMBON, HIS EXCELLENCY PAUL (Preface ) & DULAC, EDMUND et al (Illus)

LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 372pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & staining to spine, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate cracking to gutters, occasional minor foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton N/D

KEYWORDS: France French history Great Britain British casualties soldiers war red cross wounded ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war

$725.00
1y6a/1

Red Deer Stalking in New Zealand


DONNE, T E

Octavo, orange/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt stag illus to front board, blind rule to spine & board edges, teg, deckled/roughcut page edges, frontispiece, xii + 270pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (spine sl cocked, minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate soiling & discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Co 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand hobbies hunting red deer stalking camping history historical

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