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$16.50
xxhqn57208

Waka Taua; The Maori War Canoe


EVANS, JEFF

ex library, imperial 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Reed 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Jeff Evans ex library New Zealand Maori war canoe waka

$37.50
2g23/15

The Native Forests of New Zealand


HALKETT, JOHN

First edition, super octavo, illus light card dark green covers, 149pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, rubbing to spine & cover edges)

PUBLISHER: GP Books 1991

KEYWORDS: John Halkett New Zealand native forests trees dendrology evolution wildlife flora fauna forestry Maori logging timber industry management conservations

$40.00
2g24/41

More Maoriland Adventures of J. W. Stack


REED, A. H. (Ed)

First edition, octavo, maroon cloth boards with black lettering to spine & blind lettering to front board, illus pastedowns, printed eps, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, VG (fading to spine & board edges, bruising to extrems, light foxing) in d/w, tatty (brown tape repair replacing most of rear cover and corner of front cover, chipping and small tears, creasing)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1936

KEYWORDS: first edition James West Stack AH Reed New Zealand autobiography travel history Maori

$24.50
xxelb57501

Whatiwhatihoe


The Waikato Raupatu Claim

MCCAN, DAVID

Ex-library softcover super octavo (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: Huia Publishers 2001

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials David McCan New Zealand nonfictin Maori history Waikato settlers history tanui treaty settlements te tiriti

$165.00
2g29/32

Forest Flora of New Zealand


KIRK, T.

Small folio, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & black decorative rule & black tree motif to front board, brown eps, xv + 345pp, illus + 142plates, VG (binding sl sloppy, heavy bruising and fraying to spine extrems and spine hinges, moderate scuffing to board edges & corners, light rubbing to boards, light foxing to eps and page edges )

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury Government Printer 1889

KEYWORDS: T Kirk New Zealand forest flora plants natural history forestry industry trees shrubs flowers systematic common Maori name distribution genus species timber

$70.00
2g30/10

Nelson: A History of Early Settlement


ALLAN, RUTH M.

Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvii + 458pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems and board corners, light foxing to eps) in VG- (light chipping to upper spine extrems, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1965

KEYWORDS: Ruth M Allan New Zealand Nelson Maori Tasman Cook D'urville Wairau massacre history settlement

$22.50
xxena58195

The New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary


BURCHFIELD, ROBERT (ed)

hardcover octavo (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: Oxford University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Robert Burchfield dictionary language new zealand english pronunciation maori vocabulary

$65.00
1j45a/10

Who are the Maoris?


NEWMAN, ALFRED K.

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 303pp, illus, VG -(lacks fep, browning to spine, bruising to spine extrems, staining & scratching to boards, binding sloppy, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, browning to page edges, foxing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs (date ?)

KEYWORDS: Alfred K Newman New Zealand Maori history culture art religion mythology anthropology

$120.00
1n11b/8

The Story of Te Waharoa: A Chapter in Early New Zealand History


Together with Sketches of Ancient Maori Life and History

WILSON, JOHN ALEXANDER

Octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board & black illus to front board, frontispiece, xvi + 255pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling and scuffing to boards, light sunning to spine and rear board, light foxing to page edges and prelims)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1907

KEYWORDS: John Alexander Wilson New Zealand Maori history Te Waharoa biography

$30.00
1o9a/13

Egmont and the Children of the Mountain Mist


MACE, HERBERT & CHAPMAN-TAYLOR, J. W. (Photog)

Imperial octavo, illus beige light card covers with brown lettering & Mount Egmont/Taranaki picture mounted to front cover, printed fep, illus rear ep, 32pp, ill) with b&w photos, VG (tanning & foxing to covers, bruising, nicks & creasing to cover edges & corners,

PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons (undated)

KEYWORDS: Herbert Mace JW Chapman-Taylor New Zealand Mount Egmont Taranaki photography photographs natural history scenery Maori myths legends hisgtory

$28.50
1r35/19

Prophets in the Wilderness: The Wesleyan Mission to New Zealand 1819-27


OWENS, J. M. R.

Ex-library, octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (fading to boards, tanning to upper page edges) in d/w, VG- ( bruising to spine extrems & edges, tanning to spine inside)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: JMR Owens New Zealand missionaries Wesleyan mission Whangaroa religiohn history Maori pakeha

$95.00
1s21c/22

Gilbert Mair: Te Kooti's Nemesis


CROSBY, RON

Super octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, 352pp, illus, VG+ (light wear)

PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: Ron Crosby Gilbert Mair Te Kooti New Zealand Arawa Flying Column biography history Maori

$45.00
1w5a/7

Te Ao Marama - Contemporary Maori Writing: Volume 3 Te Puawaitanga o te Korero: The Flowering


IHIMAERA, WITI (Ed)

First edition, signed, super octavo, illus light card covers, 339pp, VG (light creasing and bending, spine v sl sunned, light to moderate tanning to page edges and prelims, slight soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 1993

KEYWORDS: first edition signed Witi Ihimaera New Zealand Maori literature fiction anthology

$60.00
1u5a/6

The Missionary Period in the History of Te Awamutu District


Te Awamutu Historical Society Bulletin No. 4

LAIRD, ERIC J.

Quarto, light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 2 hand-drawn maps + 43 pp, text typed on manual typewriter, VG (light tanning to cover edges & page lower edges)

PUBLISHER: Te Awamutu Historical Society Incorporated (nd)

KEYWORDS: Eric J Laird New Zealand Te Awamutu Maori missionaries settlers history

$80.00
1u5a/26

Photographic View Album of Whakarewarewa


n/a

Not in Bagnall, oblong super octavo, maroon leather boards with gilt lettering & rule to front board, textured cloth pastedowns, decorated title page, unpaginated but 16 pp of b&w photographs, illus, G+ (heavy rubbing to board edges resulting in loss of leather covering to front board fore-edge & lower edge and rear board corners, fading to boards, stitching to body of book loose, tanning to eps,)

PUBLISHER: Wildman & Lyell c. 1900

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Whakarewarewa geysers Maori portraits photographic pictorial history

$40.00
1w8a/17

A White Boy among the Maoris in the 'Forties: Pages from an Unpublished Autobiography of James West Stack


Foreword by his Daughter Mrs Frank Coxon

STACK, JAMES WEST & REED, A. H. (Ed)

Octavo, illus brown heavy card boards, printed eps, frontispiece, 23pp + 1pp advert, illus, VG (light rubbing to spine, v slight bruising to boards corners & edges, owner's name in pencil to fep)

PUBLISHER: AH Reed 1934

KEYWORDS: James West Stack autobiography Mrs Frank Coxon New Zealand Maori history

$60.00
1w8a/18

Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka


SCOTT, DICK

First edition, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 216pp, illus, VG (sl. some foxing to page edgess, prev. owner's details in pen inside) in d/w, VG (minor chips and scuffing, light soiling and foxing)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann / Southern Cross 1975

KEYWORDS: Dick Scott New Zealand Parihaka Taranaki Te Whiti Tohu Maori history

$20.00
1w32/4

Languages of New Zealand


BELL, ALLAN & HARLOW, RAY & STARKS, DONNA (Eds)

Octavo, illus light card covers, 376pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: Allan Bell Ray Harlow Donna Starks New Zealand language linguistics essays anthology English Maori immigrants

$150.00
1w32/9

Early Rangitikei


A Few Notes, Collected from various Sources of the Settlement on the Rangitikei River of a number of Maoris of different tribes. A Short History of the Purchase and Colonization of the land between t

WILSON, JAMES G.

First edition, octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind stamped motif to front board, frontispiece, iv + 260pp, illus + two folding maps in pocket to rear, VG (moderate bruising and scuffing to spine extrems and board corners, moderate soiling to boards, prev owners name in ink to fep and bookplate to pastedown, moderate tanning to fep, gutter at title page cracked, foxing throughout textblock)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1914

KEYWORDS: First edition James G Wilson New Zealand Rangitikei Turakina history settlement Maori Te Rauparaha

$45.00
2e8a/54

Fretful Sleepers and Other Essays


PEARSON, BILL

First edition, super octavo, green boards with silver lettering to spine, ii + 168pp, VG (v slight foxing to feps) in d/w VG (fading to spine, v light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann Education 1974

KEYWORDS: first edition Bill Pearson New Zealand essays anthology Maori polynesian European heritage art literary criticism sociology

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