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$25.00
xx190pol208382

Passenger List (R M S Rangitane, Leaving London on 26th January, 1950 for Auckland via Curacao and Panama Canal)


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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: The New Zealand Shipping Company N/D (c.1950s)

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical passenger lists New Zealand shipping company rms Rangitane London Auckland history historical journeys

$25.00
xx190pol208386

The Piha Story


WOODWARD, MARY D

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR (with initial 'B' for Bob- her nickname), also signed as Mary Woodward on title page, oblong 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: Mary D Woodward 2012

KEYWORDS: signed Mary Bob Woodward New Zealand Piha history

$24.50
xx190pol208392

Ohakune School Centenary, February 9-11, 1996 (1896 / 1996)


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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: Ruapehu Bulletin / Ohakune School Centennial Committee 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history centenary centennial Ohakune school

$20.00
xx189pol208395

Security for New Zealand: A Paper for Public Discussion


WILDE, Hon FRAN (Fore)

Super 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: Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand security nuclear disarmament peace government policy activism

$70.00
2g9a/4

Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey 1793 and 1824


OLLIVER, ISABEL (transl)

Olb 4to, pp. 219; grey cl bds, black labels to spine & front board lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing, tanning & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderare tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown).

PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand journey travel voyage exploration explorers diary diaries journal journals ships ocean sea

$65.00
2g9a/5

A Vision of New Zealand: The Paintings of Harold Coop


COOP, HAROLD; MORPETH, DEBBIE (ed)

Signed by author. Obl imp. 8vo, pp. 119; illus. light card covers; frontis., photos, illus.; VG+ (light rubbing, scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Saint Publishing 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artist Harold Coop painting landscape painter

$45.00
2g9a/10

A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three


The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914

MARTYN, ERROL W

This vol. only. Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 208; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; sticker peeled from front cover).

PUBLISHER: Volplane Press 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War 1 WW WW1 WWI Air Force Royal Great aviation planes aircraft

$90.00
ak1/15a/21

A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean's Maraekakaho- 1857 to Today


SCARFE, ALAN

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 595pp, illus, folding map, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2013

KEYWORDS: signed Alan Scarfe New Zealand history Maraekakaho Hawke's Bay early settlers pioneers Sir Donald McLean

$45.00
ak1/15a/26

Fall Muster: The Annual Muster on Mount Nicholas Station


HOLDEN, PHILIP

SIGNED, super octavo, illus light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, illus prelims, unpaginated, illus, VG (light to moderate creasing to spine & covers, light fading/tanning to spine & covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1991

KEYWORDS: signed Philip Holden New Zealand sheep farming agriculture Nicholas Station rural

$45.00
ak1/15a/27

Mountaineering from the Milford Road: An Illustrated History of the First Mountaineering in the Milford Region 1895 to 1970


HALL-JONES, GERARD

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, illus eps, 119pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, prev. bookseller's label to rear board, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Gerard Hall-Jones 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape Milford Lakes District south island Southern Alps history mountain climbing mountaineering Milfird Road

$150.00
ak1/15a/30

Pages from the Memory Log of G M Hassing: Sailor, Pioneer, Schoolmaster


HASSING, G M

SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, 74pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fraying to board edges, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- page block partially detached, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Southland Times Co N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history autobiography autobiographies memoir G M Hassing

$68.50
ak1/15a/33

History of North Otago for Centennial Period 1840 to 1940


McDONALD, K C

Octavo, yellow light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, vii + 275pp, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to cover edges & spine, moderate fading & soiling to spine, minor ink markings to rear cover, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: North Otago Centennial Committee 1940

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history North Otago centenary centennial committee

$40.00
ak1/15a/35

The Royal Geographical Society: New Zealand Glaciers 1893


HARPER, A P

ARTICLE RECOVERED WITH FOLDING MAP, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, 10pp, folding map to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Royal Geographical Society 1893

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology glaciers historic articles maps royal geographical society history

$100.00
ak1/15a/36

In Care of the Southern Ocean: An Archaeological and Historical Survey of the Auckland Islands


DINGWALL, PAUL R (Ed) & JONES, KEVIN L (Ed) & EGERTON, RACHAEL (Ed)

Quarto, illus light card covers, blue, black & white lettering to spine, vi + 317pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 27 2009

KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology geology Auckland Islands New Zealand landscapes southern ocean

$60.00
ak1/15a/38

Remembrance of Friends Past: Testimonies and Memorials to Lives and Works of New Zealand Quakers Who Died from 1843 to 1998


WEST, MARGARET & BRODIE, AUDREY & BRODIE, JAMES (Ed)

Quarto, beige light card covers, black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 235pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & soiling to covers, sm ex libris label to base of front cover, sm ink numbers to rear cover, light tanning & soiling/ink staining to page edges, occasional light pencil markings)

PUBLISHER: The Beechtree Press 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders history quakers religion religious testimonies

$160.00
ak1/15a/39

Portrait of Frances Hodgkins


McCORMICK, E H (SARGESON, FRANK)

ASSOCIATION COPY- INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY NZ AUTHOR FRANK SARGESON, FROM THE LIBRARY OF HELEN SHAW, dated Christmas 1981- one of the last books he signed, as he does in March 1982, imperial octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front board, frontispiece, 159pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to board edges/extrems, sl foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Auckland / Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: signed Frank Sargeson association copies Helen Shaw art history biography biographies memoir Frances Hodgkins New Zealand

$50.00
ak1/18a/2

Fifty Years Syne: A Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago


CHISHOLM, Rev JAMES

DELUXE SIGNED EDITION, imperial octavo, cream buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, teg, printed eps, frontispiece, xi + 242pp, illus, VG- (light rubbing & moderate tanning & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, pencil annotation to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims, moderate creasing to bottom corner of pg241, light foxing to terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: J Wilkie and Co 1898

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history presbyterian church Otago churches jubilees

$50.00
ak1/18a/3

Mr Explorer Douglas


PASCOE, JOHN (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, xviii + 331pp, VG (moderate foxing & tape staining to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & tape staining to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, frontispiece sl detached at base of gutter) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate adhesive staining to edges of flaps, moderate creasing to spine, light chafing & soiling, moderate tape reinforcement to internal edges)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1957

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Charles Douglas West Coast Westland

$45.00
ak1/18a/4

Murihiku, Re-Viewed: A Revised History of the Southern New Zealand from 1804 to 1844


RICHARDS, RHYS

Quarto, red light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 152pp, VG+ (light creasing/rubbing to spine & cover edges, light fading & bruising to spine, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Lithographic Services 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Murihiku southern south early 19th nineteenth century

$45.00
ak1/18a/5

Catlins Rail: The Story of the Catlins River Branch Railway, 1879-1971


TYRRELL, A R

SIGNED, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 80pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Catlins Historical Society Inc 1996

KEYWORDS: signed A R Tyrrell New Zealand history Catlins transport trains rail railways Catlins River Branch

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