WESTRA, ANS

SECOND EDITION, super octavo, illus stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, illus inside front cover, unpaginated, illus, 8pp publisher's note/pamphlet enclosed, VG+ (light curling & creasing to cover edges, moderate chafing to covers, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1964

KEYWORDS: second edition New Zealand Maori culture Ans Westra washday pa

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

BEST, ELSDON

REBACKED TIDY COPY, FIRST EDITION, quarto, brown buckram boards- no exterrnal lettering, viii + 339pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, ex-libris plate to verso of title page)

PUBLISHER: The Donimion Museum / Whitcombe and Tombs 1927

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Maori culture customs villages defence defense Pa Elsdon Best

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

JONES, PEI TE HURINUI (transl)

Sm 8vo, vi + 127 pp.; stapled light card covers, front cover lettered in black, VG- (light 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; rust to stapels).

PUBLISHER: n/p n/d

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

HAYWARD, JANINE (Ed)

SIXTH EDITION, imperial octavo, patterned/illus light card covers, white & blue lettering to spine, xxii + 569pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges, minor pencil annotation & folded page corners)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand academic textbooks government politics political science policies parties foreign relations nationalism Maori

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

Department of Maori Affairs

Super octavo journal, staplebound (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: Pegasus Press 1964

KEYWORDS: te ao maori affairs magazine hone tuwhare

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

BUICK, T LINDSAY

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, sm gilt motif to rear board, frontispiece, xvi + 350pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & extrems, light to moderate discolouration to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, moderate cracking to gutters- some pages may be either loose or missing, moderate soiling to prelims & terminals, pencil annotations to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1911

KEYWORDS: T Lindsay Buick New Zealand history biographies Maori leaders Te Rauparaha

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

BREWER, IAN H & FURLONGER, STEPHEN (Illus)

Oblong 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: R E Owen, Gov't Printer 1966

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori literature education primary school schools history historical

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