WRIGHT, THEON

paperback (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: Tower Books 1981

KEYWORDS: history crime Kidnapping United States

GARTRELL, MARJORIE

Frist edition, Octavo 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1957

KEYWORDS: Aborigines Northern Territory Sociology history Australia

PEAT, NEVILLE

First edition, Octavo 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Longacre 2001

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history science biology sea lion

KAVANAGH, GAYNOR (Ed)

Super octavo, black & grey light card covers, xv + 285pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Leicester University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand museums history

IDRIESS, ION L.

Ex library, octavo, pink-ish heavy card boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 232pp, illus, VG- (owners' names in ink x 3 to fep & front pastedown, heavy bruising with loss to spine extrems, heavy browning to page edges, some staining to boards, moderate tanning, v light library markings)

PUBLISHER: Anugs & Robertson 1951

KEYWORDS: Ion L Idriess World War Two WW2 Australian military history Horrie

COWAN, JAMES

Octavo, illus green heavy card boards with green cloth spine, frontispiece x 2, contents + clean folding map + 279pp, illus, VG (some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & creasing to spine cloth, some tanning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown & title page, some soiling to eps, v. occasional ink spot to pages)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printer 1908

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history geography travel tourism

WAUGH, RICHARD (Ed) & PHILLIPS, DAVID

Less common in this hardcover edition, quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards, illus eps, 120pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight fading to spine, puckering to last page)

PUBLISHER: Richard Waugh / Project Electra 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand aviation history Electra Lockheed 10 airline aeroplanes transport

YOUNG, VICTOR

Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to spine and yellow & white lettering to front board, printed rear eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 256pp, illus, VG+ (minor scuffing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Transpress NZ 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand ferry transport history passenger ships Cook Strait ferries boats ships

n/a

Original binding, quarto, red heavy card boar) with black lettering to front board, red cloth spine, frontispiece, 88pp + 63pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine, slight soiling to front board, some browning to page edges, heavy browning to eps, owner's name & address & date in ink to front pastedown & to frontispiece verso,

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Priner 1899

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori land legislation meetings law history

HECTOR, JAMES (Director)

Reports of 9th to 14th bound together, super octavo, half bound with dark grey textured cloth boards and gilt lettering to black leather spine, paged edges stained speckled red, brown coated eps, 35pp + 50pp + 28pp + 55pp + 39pp + 54pp, VG (heavy scuffing with loss of surface to spine extrems & board corners & spine sides, bookbinder's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to first title page, occasional light foxing)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury Government Printer 1874-1879

KEYWORDS: New Zealand colonial museum laboratory history reference

NOAKES< J. & PRIDHAM, G. (Eds)

Four-volume set, octavo, light card covers (vol 1 white, vol 2 red & vols 3+4 black) with black, white or red lettering to covers, 1237pp in vols.1-3 + 698pp in vol.4, VG (owner's name blacked out to feps, some staining to upper & lower page edges, slight tanning to page edges, some annotation & underlining in pencil)

PUBLISHER: University of Exeter Press 1996

KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany Nazism National Socialism German history World War Two

KEESING, FELIX M.

Super octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and white & black lettering to front board, red, black & white kowhaiwhai pattern to boards & eps, red eps, xvi + 198pp, illus, VG+ (moderate bruising to spine extrems, light scuffing and soiling to boards, light tanning to spine, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons 1928

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history

MUIR, SIR WILLIAM

Super octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, decorative panel to spine & front board lower edge, black coated eps, xv + 612pp, illus with 3 folding maps, VG- / poor (heavy browning to page edges, some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, front hinge cracked, rear hinge completely detached, paper to rear pastedown torn, internal gutter cracked at page 208/209, some annotation in pencil throughout, owner's name & address in ink to half-title page)

PUBLISHER: Religious Tract Society 1892 (2nd edition)

KEYWORDS: history Caliphate Bahrain Oman Medina Syria Mesopotamia Palestine Egypt

GOLDMAN, EDWARD A.

Imperial octavo, beige light card covers with black lettering to front, frontispiece large folding map, 309pp, illus, VG- (sellotape repairs to spine head & base, 2cm closed tear to front cover fore-edge, moderately heavy tanning & foxing to covers and page edges, owner's name address & date in ink to fep, moderate staining & tanning to eps). Many pages still unopened (uncut)

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution 1920

KEYWORDS: Panama mammals natural history zoology

BEST, ELSDON

First edition, large quarto, beige light card covers with black lettering to front & handwritten title to spine, iv + 312pp, illus, VG (archival tape repairs to spine and to open tear on front cover, moderate tanning to covers, rusting stains to staple surrounds, moderate foxing to eps and page edges)

PUBLISHER: Board of Maori Ethnological Research / Dominion Museum 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori Pacific history transport canoes wakas exploration travel

n/a

Large quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 329pp, illus, VG+ (ding to spine head) in d/w, VG+ (some creasing to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: Jubilee Committee of New Plymouth Boys' High School 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand New Plymouth Boys' High School education history

DAY, JOHN R.

Possibly uncorrected proof copy, octavo 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd 1960

KEYWORDS: transport history railways monorails guide-rail gradients Talgo moving platforms

BEST, ELSDON

First edition, large quarto, brown light card covers with black lettering to front cover, viii + 189pp, illus, VG- (moderately heavy browning to spine, loss of lower 4cm of surface to spine some browning to page edges & covers, owner's name stamp to front cover & fep)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history sociology games pastimes music song

BATHGATE, JOHN

First edition, octavo, brown textured cloth boards, yellow eps, frontispiece, 121pp + 3pp book ads, illus plus folding colour map at front & folding trade map to rear, VG+ (some fading to spine, some light tanning & foxing to page edges, v slight discolooration to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: W& R Chambers 1880

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history resources banking finance culture

RASHKE, RICHARD

paperback (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: Sphere 1983

KEYWORDS: Murder Oklahoma history true crime