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$65.00
ak1/19a/10

Folklore and Fairy tales of the Canterbury Maoris


TE MAIHAROA, TAARE & HAYTER, MAUD GOODENOUGH (MOSES, Mrs T) & BEATTIE, HERRIES (Ed)

Octavo, blue/teal stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 38pp, VG+ (light tanning/foxing & creasing to cover edges, sl foxing & soiling to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori heritage culture history folklore lore fairy tales Canterbury Taare te Maiharoa Maud Goodenough Hayter Mrs T Moses

$175.00
ak1/19a/14

Camp-Life in Fiordland, New Zealand: A Tale of the Sutherland Falls


McHUTCHESON, WILLIAM

LACKS MAP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp rule to spine & board edges, patterned eps, frontispiece, ix + 134pp, illus/photos, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to title page, light tanning & foxing/soiling throughout, map torn out & missing)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Gov't Printer 1892

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Suthlerland Falls Fiordland landscape

$40.00
ak1/19a/16

Early Days in Murchison: Unfinished Journal George McNee 1880-1946


McNEE, GEORGE

Quarto, green stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 25pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history diaries journals George McNee Murchison

$45.00
ak1/19a/17

Away FromIt All: The Life-Style of Donald Sutherland of Milford Sound, NZ


PARHAM, W T

Quarto, illus white light card covers, brown lettering to front cover, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 24pp + illus/photos to rear, folding map to rear, VG (light creasing & moderate tanning & foxing to covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, photo pages tanned)

PUBLISHER: Whakatane & District Historical Society 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Lakes District Milford Sound Donald Sutherland biography biographies memoir pioneers

$40.00
ak1/19a/18

Wakatipu's Golden Days


DE LA MARE, A J

Quarto, illus spiral bound covers, black lettering to front cover, illus/maps to prelims, unpaginated prelims + 121pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light cracking to top edge of front plastic cover, sl foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A J de la Mare 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Lakes District Wakatipu history early settlers pioneers

$350.00
ak1/19a/20

The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand: Reports on the Geo-physics, Geology, Zoology and the Botany of the Islands Lying to the South of New Zealand (2 Vol Set)


CHILTON, Chas (Ed)

2 VOL SET, FOLDING MAP TO REAR POCKET OF VOL 2, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt penguin illus to front boards, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spines & board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate scuffing & creasing to ffep of vol 1 with 2cm closed tear to base also, moderate scuffing & surface loss to page edges of vol 1 from prev. adhesion- text block mostly unimpeded, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of ffep, occasional scuffing & surface damage/loss to some pgs of vol 2 from prev. adhesion, minor foxing only to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1909

KEYWORDS: geology geography subantarctic islands exploration botany zoology reports history exploration New Zealand south southern

$40.00
ak1/19a/21

Diary of F S Pillans of Myres, Inch Clutha, 1st January, 1850 - 2nd June, 1852 (Copy Made in the Hocken Library from the Original Diary)


PILLANS, F S

Quarto, beige folder with metal clasps, handwritten black lettering to front cover, 72pp, VG+ (copied pages- expected black copy markings to page edges, page edges roughly cut, otherwise a reasonably tidy copy)

PUBLISHER: None Stated (1958?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers F S Pillan diary journal Inch Clutha Southland

$40.00
ak1/19a/22

Probing the Nelson Creek Area


EATON, PEACHES

Quarto, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 100pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & tearing to cover edges & spine, light soiling & chafing, sm numerals in ink to rear cover, minor wrinkling throughout, moderate staining to base of page block)

PUBLISHER: Stanley G P Eaton 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Nelson Creek gold mining prospecting goldmining

$200.00
ak1/19a/26

The Way Out (Italian Intermezzo)


KRIGE, UYS

Octavo, teal/aqua buckram boards, red lettering to spine, 384pp, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, light soiling & pencil annotation to ffep, light foxing & newspaper articles glued in to rear eps, light cracking to gutter of pg32/33) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, moderate tanning & rubbing to spine, light tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1946

KEYWORDS: Uys Krige autobiography autobiographies memoir military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war

$40.00
ak1/19a/27

Comrades in Bondage


FOSTER, FRANK & Fiel-Marshal Lord BIRDWOOD OF ANZAC AND TOTNES (Fore)

SIGNED, DATED & WARMLY INSCRIBED, WITH MODERATE WATER DAMAGE, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 144pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to board edges, moderate but faint water damage/staining top edges of spine & front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals, light damp wrinkling to frontispiece) in d/w, VG- (in fully adhesive plastic wrap- fully affixed, price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- sl loss, light rubbing to spine, minor tanning/foxing)

PUBLISHER: Skeffington and Son N/D (c.1946)

KEYWORDS: signed Frank Foster military history autobiography autobiographies memoir

$40.00
ak1/19a/29

The Naked Flagpole: Battle for Bataan, from the Diary of Richard C Mallonee


MALLONEE, RICHARD C & MALLONEE II, RICHARD C (Ed)

Octavo, faux leather brown boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 204pp, illus/maps, VG+ (sl bruising to spine & board corners, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Presidio Press 1980

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 campaigns battles Bataan diaries journals Richard C Mallonee Philippines Japanese occupation

$60.00
ak1/19a/30

It's Further via Gibralter


GIBBS, PATRICK

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 144pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading/tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with minor loss, moderate tanning to spine & joins/folds, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1961

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 raf royal air force pilots autobiography autobiographies memoir Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs British armed forces

$68.50
ak1/19a/31

Rumania 1866-1947


HITCHINS, KEITH

Octavo, deep blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 579pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing/scuffing to edges, sl tanning)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: Europe European history Rumania geopolitics geography

$42.50
ak1/19a/32

A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939


VITAL, DAVID

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, xviii + 944pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Jews Jewish history Europe politics government antisemitism holocaust ethnic ethnicity

$60.00
ak1/19a/34

Chatham Exiles: Yesterday and To-Day at the Chatham Islands


SIMPSON, FRANK A

Octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, map illus to eps, frontispiece, 182pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, sl foxing to prelims, Chatham Islands postage stamps affixed to verso of contents page) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, sm adhesive residue to front cover, newspaper cutting o f author taped to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Chatham islands history isolated Pacific

$40.00
ak1/19a/35

A Clinton Couple: Letters from Early Days in South Otago


SALINGER, LESLEIGH (Ed)

Octavo, teal buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to title plate on front board, 62pp, VG+ (sl soiling to boardssl foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges & folds, light fading to spine, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history South Otago Clinton letters correspondence Scottish settlers John Gormack Mary McDonald

$50.00
ak1/19a/36

Looking Back: Glenshee to Otago 1853-56 to 1953-56


AYSON, WILLIAM DOUGLAS

Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to covers, 142pp + unpaginated supplement to rear, VG- (moderate creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges, moderate chipping & tearing to base of spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to title page, minor cracking & rusting to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Clan Ayson of NZ Society N/D (c.1950s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history south island centenary centennial Glenshee Otago pioneers settlers

$350.00
ak1/19a/37

The Southern Districts of New Zealand; A Journal with Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines


SHORTLAND, EDWARD

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, folding map verso of title page, xiv + 315pp, G+ (heavy water damage to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & water staining to eps, inscription in ink to ffep, binding sloppy with some segments loosened, moderate closed tearing to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 1851

KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island Southland districts history

$40.00
2g13/45

Typefaces for Books


SUTTON, JAMES & BARTRAM, ALAN

Imp. 8vo, pp. 288; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; sl cracking to front gutters; prev ownership inscription in blue to ht).

PUBLISHER: The British Library 1990

KEYWORDS: type typeface lettering founding book arts design letterpress printing history

$75.00
2g13a/52

Newspaper Cuttings/Obituares 1896-1906


ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY SHERWOOD

This volume only. 4to, pp. 188; red buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate, rubbing scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; dates covered by work inscribed in blue ink to tp).

PUBLISHER: Dunedin Public Library 1975

KEYWORDS: Dunedin Public Library Otago newspaper cuttings obituaries 19th 20th century social history

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