COWAN, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, PLATE INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TIPPED IN, octavo, beige buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, xxi + 336pp, VG- (moderate bruising & tanning/soiling to spine- 935 ink numerals also, light bruising & rubbing to board extrems, moderate to heavy soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, sm ink numerals & minor scuffing to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps, occasional cracking to gutters, light foxing & soiling to pages throughout, sm ink stamp to base of pg193)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1911

KEYWORDS: first editions James Cowan New Zealand bush life Kimble Bent wild survival history historical signed

LAURENSON, Geo I

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 267pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners/extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine, moderate soiling, sm scuff to spine)

PUBLISHER: Institute Press (Printer) 1973

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori methodist mission missionaries religion Wesley Historical Society history