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$25.00
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Maori Dunedin


GOODALL, MAARIRE & GRIFFITHS, GEORGE

Super octavo, illus white light card stapled wrappers with black lettering, 56pp, illus, VG

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1980

KEYWORDS: Maarire Goodall George Griffiths New Zealand Otago Maori Dunedin history

$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

$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

$130.00
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

$65.00
1p29a/1

Te Rauparaha: A New Perspective


BURNS, PATRICIA

First edition, super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, yellow illus eps, frontispiece, xx + 346pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, staining to lower board edges, light staining to prelims, highlighting, tanning & staining to page edges) in d/w, VG (staining to edges, fading to spine & to front fore-edge)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1980

KEYWORDS: first edition Patricia Burns New Zealand Te Rauparaha Maori history biography

$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

$245.00
1s21c/17

Skilled Handwork of the Maori: Being the Oldman Collection of Maori Artifacts illustrated and described


OLDMAN, W. O.

Super octavo, illus light card covers with brown lettering to spine & front cover, 41pp, illus, VG+ (soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Polynesian Society Wellington 1946

KEYWORDS: w o oldman maori ethnology history anthropology polynesia artifacts crafts

$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

$15.00
2e8a/21

Shaping The News: Waitangi Day on Television


ABEL, SUE

super octavo, illus light card covers, ix + 230pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Sue Abel new zealand news media communication television treaty waitangi Maori issues

$72.50
2e5a/20

Season of the Jew


SHADBOLT, MAURICE

SIGNED First edition super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 384pp, VG (lacks fep, prelims pasted to front board, prev. owner's name in pen to title, v slight creasing to spine, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, v light creasing to edges, some tanning to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1986

KEYWORDS: Maurice Shadbolt New Zealand literature historical fiction Maori

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