BEST, ELSDON

FIRST EDITION, quarto, pink light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, viii + 339pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning & light creasing/cracking to spine- sl loss to extrems, light curling & moderate tanning & foxing to cover edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Dominion Museum 1927

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Maori culture customs Elsdon Best Pa villages defence defense Dominion Museum bulletins bulletin 6 history

LAURENSON, Geo I

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 267pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners/extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine, moderate soiling, sm scuff to spine)

PUBLISHER: Institute Press (Printer) 1973

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori methodist mission missionaries religion Wesley Historical Society history