DAY, DIXIE

First edition, octavo, illus light card covers with red lettering to covers, 190pp, illus, VG+ (slight tanning & soiling to covers, slight foxing)

PUBLISHER: Waiheke Historical Society

KEYWORDS: Dixie Day New Zealand Waiheke Island history pioneers stories local families settlers

MOORHEAD, MURRAY

Ex library, first edition, imperial octavo, white illus light card covers, iv + 374pp, VG (usu library markings)

PUBLISHER: Zenith Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: first edition ex library Murray Moorhead New Zealand Taranaki Rifle voluneers war New Plymouth military history

TROTTER, ANN

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 228pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Bridget William Books 2003

KEYWORDS: Ann Trotter Mary Potter Sisters of the Little Company of Mary Calvary hospitals nursing medicine women's history New Zealand psychiatry hospice care

BASSETT, MICHAEL

Inscribed & signed by author, octavo, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 68pp, illus, VG+ (rubbing to spine, light tanning to rear cover, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Peter J Harris 1979

KEYWORDS: Michael Bassett New Zealand politics history economy economics welfare foreign policy trade Muldoon

GRAY, ARTHUR J.

Small octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and cover, frontispiece, xvi + 153pp, illus + folding map to rear, VG (moderate bruising and tanning to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, gutter cracked at fep) in d/w scruffy (large section missing to rear cover and half of spine, heavy tearing and chipping to hinges and extrems, moderate rubbing and light soiling)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: Arthur J Gray New Zealand Katikati Kati Kati centenary Northern Ireland history settlers

GRAHAM, GEORGE & SIMMONS, D. R. (Ed)

Imperial octavo, illus light card brown covers, 39pp, VG+

PUBLISHER: Auckland Institute & Museum 1980

KEYWORDS: George Graham DR Simmons New Zealand Auckland Maori place names meaning history

MOORHEAD, MURRAY

Ex library, imperial octavo, blue light card covers, 178pp, illus, VG (usu library markings, rubbing to covers, archival tape reinforcement to front & rear hinges, crease to rear cover upper corner)

PUBLISHER: Zenith Publishing 2005

KEYWORDS: Murray Moorhead New Zealand New Plymouth pioneers history

AITKEN, A.C.; FENTON, P.C. (introd.)

octavo, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 123pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1995

KEYWORDS: a.c. aitken autobiography dunedin otago new zealand history mathematics

PARCELL, JAMES CROMBIE

octavo, tan cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, ix + 370pp, illus, VG (v light wear, light foxing to page edges) in VG d/w (light wear and rubbing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls Publishers 1976

KEYWORDS: james crombie parcell otago new zealand history cromwell bannockburn

GREEN, J.R.

handsome four volume set, super octavo, three quarter bound brown leather and brown buckram, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, five raised bands to spine, marbled eps and page edges, frontispiece, 1906pp running across all volumes, illus including VG+ folding diagram, VG+ (light wear and rubbing to boards, v light soiling, occasional foxing throughout all volumes), altogether a very lovely set

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1892-4

KEYWORDS: j.r. green history english people england britain kate norgate

MAXWELL, Sir HERBERT

undated, quarto, black buckram boards with gilt lettering and rule to spine, frontispiece, xii + 240pp, illus, VG (light wear and soiling to boards, light foxing to eps and page edges, slightly cocked)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswode

KEYWORDS: biography queen victoria her majesty british monarchy history britain england english sir herbert maxwell

HAROLD, CHILDE

rebound with original front cover, small quarto, heavy card boards with tan cloth and gilt lettering to spine, new eps, frontispiece, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light wear and soiling to boards, light foxing throughout esp. to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Art-Union of London 1855

KEYWORDS: childe harold illustrations arts history

MATHEW, BRIAN & REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH

quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, frontispiece, 240pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear and fading to boards, v light foxing to eps) in VG+ d/w (v light wear and rubbing, small closed tears to head and tail of spine)

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1982

KEYWORDS: brian mathew pierre-joseph redoute arts natural history botany flowers lilies

MITRA, NRIPENDRA NATH (Ed)

This volume only, super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + 420pp, VG (heavy rubbing to boards, bruising & fraying to board edges & corners, number 15 in red crayon to front board & half-title page, tanning to eps & page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Annual Register Office 1943

KEYWORDS: Nripendra Nath Mitra Indian public affairs politics economics industry education social history reference

PICTON, JOHN

Small quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, frontispiece, 144pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: Barbican Art Gallery 1995

KEYWORDS: John Picton African art textiles Barbican exhibition design manufacture cloth weaving materials history

TINBERGEN, NIKO

first edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 255pp, illus, VG (light wear and fading to boards, ink owner's name to fep, light foxing to page edges) in VG- d/w (torn: small segment missing to corner/front of jacket, moderate segments missing also to top of rear and top of spine, moderate chipping scuffing and closed tears also)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1953

KEYWORDS: niko tinbergen natural history naturalist herring gull birds ornithology

TEMPLE, PHILIP

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 584pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Philip Temple New Zealand history biography Wakefield family

CASTLEMAN, RIVA (Ed)

Quarto, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 160pp, illus, nr fine (v slight foxing to prelims), in d/w, VG+ (label residue stain to front upper corner)

PUBLISHER: Museum of Modern Art New York 1991

KEYWORDS: Riva Castleman modern art 1940s paintings sculpture European American Latin American drawing printmaking architecture design art history exhibition

OTAGO EARLY SETTLERS ASSN

Octavo, stapled paper wrappers (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Otago Early Settlers Association 1956

KEYWORDS: spepcials Otago Early Settlers New Zealand history pioneers

SUTTON, R. J.

Octavo, dark green cloth boards with white lettering to spine & white & orange stamp motif & rule to front board, frontispiece, 285pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing & soiling to prelims, owner's name in ink to fep) with d/w folded and enclosed at rear, G+ (very scruffy)

PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul 1959

KEYWORDS: RJ Sutton postage stamps philately history anecdotes people errors designs frauds forgeries counterfeits oddities