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John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1897: Containing Full Scores and Bowling Analyses of the Chief Matches Played in 1896
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, rebound in leather & marbed boards, photo plate with tissue guard is present, lacks original wrapper, red speckling to page edges, gilt lettering & rule to spine, lxxx + 416pp, VG (moderate scuffing to leather spine, light scuffing to board edges, light tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light foxing throughout, minor soiling & foxing to photo plate & tissue guard)
PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1897
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket John Wisden almanacks past years 19th nineteenth century first editions
John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1879: A Record of the Full Scores and Bowling Summaries of the Principal Matches Played in 1878
WILLOWS LIMITED NUMBERED FACSIMILE REPRINT, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 239pp + ads to rear, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, light rubbing & soiling to eps)
PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1879 (Facsimile reprint)
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket John Wisden almanacks past years 19th nineteenth century facsimile reprints Willows
John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1884: A Record of the Full Scores and Bowling Summaries of the Principal Matches Played in 1883
WILLOWS LIMITED NUMBERED FACSIMILE REPRINT, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 268pp + ads, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, light rubbing & soiling to eps)
PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1884 (Facsimile reprint)
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket John Wisden almanacks past years 19th nineteenth century facsimile reprints Willows
John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1917 (Fifty-Fourth Edition)
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, rebound in leather & red buckram- original wrapper present, gilt lettering to spine, red speckling to page edges, 350pp + ads, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, sl fading to spine, minor tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)
PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1917
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket John Wisden almanacks past years 20th twentieth century first editions
John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1919 (Fifty-Sixth Edition)
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, rebound in leather & red buckram- original wrappers missing, gilt lettering to spine, red speckling to page edges- faint, 326pp + ads, VG+ (sl fading to spine, sl soiling to boards, minor tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)
PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1919
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket John Wisden almanacks past years 20th twentieth century first editions
Grammar of the New Zealand Language (Third Edition)
FRONT BOARD DETACHED BUT PRESENT, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, no lettering to spine or boards, G (front board detached but present, bottom half of spine missing, heavy cracking to remainder of spine- buckram flapping loose, heavy staining to boards & base of page block, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to front eps, ffep potentially missing, bottom half of terminal pages ripped out, rear board flapping loose from base but still hanging on bravely, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, pencil annotation/doodles to prelims)
PUBLISHER: W B Upton & Co 1867
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa language gramar historical history
The Playboy Book: Forty Years
Quarto, black buckram boards, illus/photos, VG+ in VG+ d/w (Photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Mitchell Beazley 1994
KEYWORDS: playboy history erotica Hugh Hefner business biography
Leica: The First 70 Years
Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ in VG+ d/w (Photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Hove Collectors Books 1995
KEYWORDS: art photography Leica history cameras
Oceanie
TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling) in cardboard presentation box
PUBLISHER: Gallimard 1963
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH art Oceania cultural artefacts history historical
The Pictorial History: NZ and South Seas Exhibition Dunedin 1925-26
Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, illus/photos, VG (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 1925
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ South Seas exhibitions history historical Dunedin exhibition
Waiheke Pioneers
SIGNIFICANT KNOWLEDGEABLE ANNOTATION ADDING INFORMATION OF IMPORTANCE TO THE BOOK, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, pink lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG- (moderate creasing to spine & wrapper edges, whole item warped, minor tanning & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor water damage/staining to edges of page block, extensive highlighting & annotioan in ink throughout, heavy crack to pg84-85 gutter)
PUBLISHER: The Waiheke Historical Society 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa Waiheke history signed Dixie Day pioneers early settlers