BRAILSFORD, BARRY

FIRST EDITION. Typed & signed letter and autographed bookmark loosely enclosed. Super octavo, illus. card boards, spine & front boardlettered in gilt; illus.; 192 pp.; VG+ (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges & eps).

PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori folklore history songs poems poetry

FLASHOFF, RUTH & BENNETT, The Right Reverend MANUHUIA (Fore)

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Central Hawke's Bay Printers and Publishers 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history Maori te ao Reremoana Hakiwai Hawke's Bay biography

BACON, R L & JAHNKE, R H G (Illus)

Quarto 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Child's Play / Waiatarua Publishing 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ children's literature picture books te ao Maori R L Bacon illustrated

FREEDMAN, SAM (Collected & Arranged for Piano by)

Quarto softcover, stapled (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: Seven Seas Publishing 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ music songs piano Maori traditional contemporary

SULLIVAN, ROBERT & BISHOP, GAVIN (Illus)

REPRINT, imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, teal lettering to blue spine, illus eps, 120pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, light chafing to boards, sl soiling to page edges, minor child's pencil scribble to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ myths legends te ao Maori culture illustrated children's Gavin Bishop literature

BRAILSFORD, BARRY

SECOND REVISED EDITION, WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED 2x HOLOGRAPH LETTERS LOOSELY ENCLOSED, ALSO SIGNED & IN SCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE, WITH FURTHER SIGNATURE TO FULL TITLE PAGE, super octavo, illus stiff card wrappers, white lettering to spine, printed eps, unpaginated prelims + 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine & wrapper edges, sl chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stoneprint Press 1996

KEYWORDS: signed Barry Brailsford New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Maori greenstone pounamu culture

DITTMER, W

FIRST EDITION, LACKS SPINE BUT OTHERWISE SOUND, lg quarto, red buckram boards, coloured illus & lettering to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 119pp, G+ (spine missing- binding still reasonably sound, moderate scuffing & fraying to board & spine extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, minor soiling to boards, moderate cracking to front & rear hinges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, reasonably modern eps- minor soiling, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, other minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1907

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Maori traditional myths traditions legends history te ao first editions

KEMPTHORNE, RENATUS

Quarto, light card covers; photos; 294 pp.; VG+ (light rubbing to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w sl curling; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Te Hui Amorangi o Te Waipounamu 2000

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Maori religion religious Christian Christianity mission

HOWES, EDITH

Sm octavo, grey buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus to front board, frontispiece, 224pp, publisher ads to rear, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG- (moderate scuffing & rubbing/soiling to spine, minor scuffing to board corners, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, moderate foxing throughout, heavy cracking to some gutters- boards shaky, foxing quite heavy to prelims with some minor pencil markings also)

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co 1936

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa te ao Maori literature fairy tales

STOKES, EVELYN & MILROY, J WHAREHUIA & MELBOURNE, HIRINI

Quarto, illus. stapled card covers, illus., photos VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling & foxing to covers, adhesive residue from backing to covers, prev ownership stamp to frontis. recto) (photos available on request).

PUBLISHER: University of Waikato 1986

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Maori

VENNELL, ROBERT

Super octavo, ivory white illus boards, black and mossy green lettering to front cover and spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, 255pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (light bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history plants native trees botany biology science Maori

WILSON, J A

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to front board and spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xv + 255pp, VG (faded colour to board edges & spine, minimal chipping and light bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, minor soiling throughout, ligh tcracking to rear gutter)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1907

KEYWORDS: first edition Te Waharoa Maori history art New Zealand

GATT, JAMES (Intro)

Quarto, printed light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, 305pp, VG+ (minor creasing & tanning/soiling to spine & wrappers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Te Uru Waitakere 2025

KEYWORDS: art photography Maori New Zealand history feminism women

CONNOR, KATH & OLLIVER, NARENA & ALLAN, ANNABEL

Quarto, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, 80pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate soiling and creasing to wrappers, minimal creasing and scuffing to extrems, minor foxing to page edges & inside wrappers)

PUBLISHER: Opotiki News Limited 1994

KEYWORDS: New Zealand women feminism Maori

GRACE, THOMAS SAMUEL & BRITTAN, S J (ed) & GRACE, A V (ed)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, dark navy blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 314pp, illus/photos, VG (front cover of d/w loosely enclosed, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor chafing & rubbing to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing/soiling & cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: G H Bennett & Co 1928

KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand Maori pioneers missionaries religion settlers history

COLENSO, W

FACSIMILE REPRINT, front cover and flaps of d/w loosely enclosed, light olive green heavy boards, dark green lettering to spine, illus/maps, VG+ (historical annotation to ffep - photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1971

KEYWORDS: Treaty of Waitangi Maori New Zealand NZ Aotearoa history

CROCKET, KATHIE (ed) & DAVIS, EUGENE (ed) Et Al

Super octavo, printed light card wrappers, yellow text to front wrapper, white lettering to spine, VG+ (photos available on request, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand therapy Maori biography history

MORRIS SCOBIE, J

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, oblong octavo softcover, stapled (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: Lake Tarawera Ratepayers' Association 1986

KEYWORDS: signed J Morris Scobie NZ New Zealand Lake Tarawera centennial centenary history geology pre-colonial Maori

COATES, ISAAC & MITCHELL, HILARY & MITCHELL, JOHN & CATCHPOLE, JULIE (essay)

Quarto, white illus heavy boards, black lettering to front cover and spine, illus/photos, VG+, in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2021

KEYWORDS: art photography Maori New Zealand Isaac Coates portraits

MACKAY, JOSEPH ANGUS

FIRST EDITION, octavo, light blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus terminals, illus/maps/photos, VG+ (minor fading and bruising to extrems, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional sl foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spine & edges, minor creasing & chipping/scuffing to edges, light general soiling)

PUBLISHER: J A Mackay 1949

KEYWORDS: First Edition New Zealand history poverty society memorial migration Maori settlers