TAPIATA, HANA

Octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2024

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori modern popular philosophy goddesses women atua wahine wisdom culture proverbs whakatauki purakau

N/A

ORIGINAL BINDING, SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, frontispiece, iv + 424pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate rubbing & tanning to spine, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims inc. map/frontispiece, minor cracking to gutters, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Charles Knight, Pall Mall East 1830

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history original bindings exploration development early settlers anthropology customs culture Maori

JONES, PEI TE HURINUI (transl)

SIGNED & DATED. Sm 8vo, vi + 127 pp.; stapled light card covers, front cover lettered in black, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate separation to spine; adhesive markings to tp; rust to stapels).

PUBLISHER: n/p n/d

KEYWORDS: Pei Te Hurinui Jones New Zealand Maori Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat

JONES, PEI TE HURINUI (transl)

SIGNED & DATED. Sm 8vo, vi + 127 pp.; stapled light card covers, front cover lettered in black, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate separation to spine; rust to stapels).

PUBLISHER: n/p n/d

KEYWORDS: Pei Te Hurinui Jones New Zealand Maori Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat

JONES, PEI TE HURINUI (transl)

SIGNED & DATED. Sm 8vo, vi + 127 pp.; stapled light card covers, front cover lettered in black, VG-(moderate scuffing, soiling, tanning & foxing to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; heavy separation to spine; rust to stapels).

PUBLISHER: n/p n/d

KEYWORDS: Pei Te Hurinui Jones New Zealand Maori Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat

MORRISON, SCOTTY

Super 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: Raupo 2011

KEYWORDS: te reo maori scotty morrison phrasebook language new zealand

CROSBY, RON

Super octavo, illus light card covers, red & black lettering to spine & covers, illus eps & title page, 206pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl soiling to page edges, occasional page corners folded at top)

PUBLISHER: Oratia Books 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history 19th nineteenth century conflict musket wars Maori politics colonial colonialism

ARCHEY, GILBERT

Quarto, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 136pp, illus/photos, VG (light foxing & tanning to board edges, sl foxing to front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims, minor scuffing to folding illus to rear)

PUBLISHER: William Collins 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical art Maori culture cultural artefacts artists tribal tribes

TUWHARE, HONE & HOTERE, RALPH (Graphics)

Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt decoration to front board, unpaginated prelims + 42pp, illus/graphics, VG (minor rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light fading to eps, light to moderate cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing, moderate sized patch of scuffing to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Caveman Press 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers poetry verse poems literature Hone Tuwhare illustrated Ralph Hotere Maori graphics

O'MALLEY, VINCENT

Imperial octavo, illus stiff card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 439pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover corners, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Vincent O'Malley wars Maori pakeha early settlers

TURNER, DENNIS; OPPENHEIM, ROGER (introd)

SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Obl fol. pp. [50] unpaginated; illus. heavy card bds; illus.; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to front gutters; light to moderate tanning throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1963

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori social history illustration illustrated pictorial

POMARE, Sir MAUI & COWAN, JAMES; PETERSON, STUART (illus.)

First edition, thus. Super royal 8vo, pp. xi + 320; brown cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt & decorated in gold koru; illus. eps, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev owner's stamp in blue ink to ffep, tp, p. 20, 47, 79, 143, 207 & colophon; sm closed tear to p. 191 at top edge; light foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Fine Arts (N.Z.) 1930

KEYWORDS: New Zealand early history Maori social history myth mythology legend

PENFOLD, MERIMERI & HOLDAWAY, LINDA

Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Anthropology Dept, Auckland University 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori te reo literature language

MEAD, S M

UNUSED WORKBOOK, octavo stapled light card covers (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1959

KEYWORDS: New Zealand te reo Maori language school workbooks languages

HARLOW, RAY

First edition. 8vo, pp. xxxi + 116; yellow light card covers, front cover lettered in red; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Linguistic Society of New Zealand 1985

KEYWORDS: New Zealand dictionary word word-list list Maori South Island first edition

KING, MICHAEL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 285pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, minor wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1983

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Maori biography biographies memoir Whina Cooper women wahine leaders activists political treaty waitangi land conflict

TE HURINUI, PEI

Octavo, green illus stapled light card covers, black lettering & illus/decoration to front cover, ix + 46pp, illus, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling to cover edges, moderate tanning & soiling/chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate separation of gutters at staples, moderate rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: J C Ekdahl, Printer N/D (c.1945)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori literature Pei Te Hurinui history historical

IHAKA, KINGI M (Adapted by) & FRIZZELL, DICK (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, oblong octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to spine & boards, sl cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann Publishers 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori Christmas Xmas children's literature picture books modern first editions illustrated

REED, A W & PATERSON, A S (Illus)

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 72pp, illus, VG+ (sl foxing/tanning to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic cover- easily removed if desired, price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed N/D (c.1950)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori folklore lore tales myths legends illustrated children's literature Maui spirituality

HARROP, A J

LIMITED FIRST EDITION- SCARCE IN SUCH A LOVELY CONDITION! Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 423pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, sl creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The New Zealand News / Whitcombe & Tombs 1937

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history wars conflict Maori pakeha England English