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$60.00
ak1/18a/24

The High Alps of New Zealand, or, A Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes with an Ascent of Mount Cook


GREEN, WILLIAM SPOTSWOOD

LACKS FEP, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 350pp, VG (spine cocked, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, ffep missing, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1883

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand alpine alps Mount Cook glaciers travel writing literature William Spotswood Green

$40.00
ak1/18a/25

Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia


FRANKLIN, JAMES

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 465pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (in fully adhesive protective wrapper- fully affixed, light creasing/wrinkling, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Macleay Press 2003

KEYWORDS: history philosophy Australia

$60.00
ak1/18a/27

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1958 (95th Year)


PRESTON, NORMAN (Ed & Preface)

LACKS D/W, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, xxxvi + 1035pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, top corners of pgs961-982 creased)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1958

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden past issues 1958 almanacks cricket statistics results

$50.00
ak1/18a/28

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1949 (86th Year)


PRESTON, HUBERT (Ed & Preface)

LACKS D/W, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board (heavily rubbed), printed eps, viii + 935pp, illus, VG- (heavy rubbing & cracking to spine & hinges, light rubbing to board edges, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to front gutter- binding sloppy, light cracking & foxing to gutters & pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1949

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden past issues 1949 almanacks cricket statistics results

$95.00
ak1/18a/29

The West Coast Sounds of New Zealand


ROSS, MALCOLM & HAWERIDGE, R (Illus)

Square octavo, illus string bound covers, red lettering to front cover, aeg, unpaginated, illus with tissue guards, VG- (heavy tearing to spine/covers, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to covers with sm ink stains also, light to moderate tanning & foxing throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: J Wilkie & Co N/D (c.1900s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated west coast sounds historic history historical

$120.00
ak1/18a/30

The History of Oamaru and North Otago, New Zealand, From 1853 to the End of 1889


ROBERTS, W H S

Octavo, black buckram boards, lettering to title plate on spine- heavilt rubbed, printed eps, 502pp, VG (moderate rubbing to spine, light bruising to board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light cracking to spine/hinges, moderate tanning & foxing/staining to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of preface page, light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Andrew Fraser 1890

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history north Otago Oamaru 19th nineteenth century early settlers pioneers

$45.00
ak1/18a/37

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1950 (87th Year)


PRESTON, HUBERT (Ed & Preface)

LACKS D/W & OTHER SM BLOCKS OF PAGES, sm octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed/illus eps & prelims/terminals, viii + 1003pp, illus, G+ (moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate staining & discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, v heavy cracking to gutters throughout- binding loose & sloppy, some sm blocks of pages missing)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1950

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden past years issues 1950 almanacks statistics results

$75.00
ak1/18a/38

Schlegelmilch Sportscar Racing 1962-1973


TREMAYNE, DAVID (Text) & SCHLEGELMILCH, RAINER W (Prologue)

Oblong quarto, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 539pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Konemann 2012

KEYWORDS: automotive motorsports motor racing cars history photography Rainer W Schlegelmilch art

$24.50
xx189pol208422

Subantarctic Campbell Island


BAILEY, ALFRED M & SORENSEN, J H

Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w, (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: Denver Museum of Natural History 1962

KEYWORDS: Campbell Island natural history subantarctic New Zealand

$22.50
xx189pol208423

Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornfish fishing town


ASH, LAMORNA

Super 8vo hardcover (VG+) in d/w, (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: Bloomsbury 2020

KEYWORDS: Lamorna Ash fish cornfish fishing town community social history

$35.00
xx189pol208425

Chaslands: Pioneering Days in Southern New Zealand


DEWAR, G E

8vo hardcover (VG-), lacking ffep; 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1953

KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Southern pioneering pioneer 19th century history

$25.00
xx189pol208429

Maori Fortifications


KNIGHT, IAN; HOOK, ADAM (illus.)

8vo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Osprey 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori military history fortifications war warfare

$35.00
xx189pol208490

Sheep May Safely Graze: The Story of Morven Hills Station and the Tarras District


DUFF, GEOFFREY

Ex-library. 8vo 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: Geoffrey P. Duff 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Island history Tarras Central Otago

$25.00
xx189pol208445

Mesopotamia Station: A survey of the first hundred years


NEWTON, PETER

Provenance of Peter Chandler. 8vo stapled light card covers (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 Timaru Herald Co. 1960

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Mesopotamia Station social history Canterbury

$30.00
xx189pol208447

The New Zealand Apline Journal Vol. III, No. 10, March 1921


FLETCHER, T A (ed)

8vo stapled light card covers (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: Warnes & Stephenson 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand alpine journal mountain mountaineering adventure climbing mountains history

$30.00
xx189pol208448

The New Zealand Apline Journal Vol. III, No. 11, December 1921


FLETCHER, T A (ed)

8vo stapled light card covers (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: Warnes & Stephenson 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand alpine journal mountain mountaineering adventure climbing mountains history

$19.50
xx189pol208450

The Otago Survey: The Future Site of Dunedin: Frederick Tuckett's Diary, March 28th to June 1st 1844


FRANKLIN, GERALD (ed)

8vo stapled light card covers (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 Frenchay Tuckett Society 2005

KEYWORDS: Frederick Tuckett Frenchay Tuckett New Zealand 19th century Otago history

$15.00
xx189pol208452

Borough of Lawrence Otago, N.Z.: Jubilee of the Civic Government 1866-1916


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8vo stapled light card covers (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: Tuapeka Times 1916

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Lawrence history borough jubilee

$10.00
xx189pol208453

Lawrence Waitahuna Presbyterian Church 1948-1961


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8vo stapled light card covers (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: Otago Daily Times [1961]

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Lawrence history Waitahuna Presbyterian Church 20th century

$10.00
xx189pol208454

Lawrence Peace Garden: In Memory of Gallant Men who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918


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8vo stapled light card covers (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: Tuapeka Times n/d

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Lawrence history 20th century

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