McGREGOR, RAE

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: AM Publishing 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors signed literature Rae McGregor novels fiction

CURNOW, JENIFER (ed)

Super 8vo, pp. xii + 311; illus. light card covers; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Auckland Institute and Museum 1995

KEYWORDS: Jenifer Curnow New Zealand Maori manuscripts language genealogy literature history culture

STUART, IAN; SELKIRK, JOHN (photos)

Signed & inscribed by John Selkirk. Obl imp. 8vo, pp. 148; illus. heavy card bds; illus. eps, photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Reed 2003

KEYWORDS: Ian Stuart John Selkirk New Zealand history photographs photography

EWER, PETER

Revised edition. Super 8vo, pp. x + 432; maroon heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning).

PUBLISHER: Scribe 2016

KEYWORDS: Peter Ewer Second World War 2 WW2 WW WWII II ANZAC Australia New Zealand military history Greece

WARD, RAYMOND

Signed by author. 8vo, pp. 53; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in red; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate tanning).

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1965

KEYWORDS: Raymond Ward 20th century New Zealand poetry poet poems

GRATER, FLIP

Super 8vo, pp. 120; illus. light card covers, french flaps; photos, disc to rear; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2011

KEYWORDS: Flip Grater New Zealand music musician food recipes cookbook

SHAW, HELEN & KNOWLES, DEBORAH GROSSMAN (Ed)

LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (#73/200), FIRST EDITION, duodecimo, blue buckram boards, blind stamp lettering to front board, deckled page edges, 58pp, VG+ (light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Helen Shaw limited numbered editions first editions literature spirituality meditations

SHAW, HELEN

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES (THIS ONE UN-NUMBERED), sm octavo, beige cloth boards, black lettering & decoration to title plate on front board, 41pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 1985

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Helen Shaw limited editions first editions literature poetry poets writers poems verse

ASHER, RON

Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 424pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing & creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Tross Publishing 2020

KEYWORDS: global politics China Chinese influence New Zealand Australia political free trade foreign investment government

YOUNG, JIM

Ex-library- minor library markings only, quarto, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, x + 291pp, illus/photos, VG (minor library markings, light chafing & curling to spine & covers/edges, light tanning to rear cover, spine cocked, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, heavy tape reinforcement to front gutter, moderate crack to rear gutter)

PUBLISHER: Jim Young 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Jim Young maritime nautical boats yachts design boatbuilders

BLOEM, MARJA & BROWNE, MARTIN

Quarto, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 271pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate bruising to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- minor tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Craig Potton Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand artists Colin McCahon art painters

ALPERS, ANTONY (Ed)

BOOK INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW AUTHOR HELEN SHAW, loosely enclosed 4-page handwritten letter dated & signed by Antony Alpers to author Helen Shaw, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxii + 579pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: signed Antony Alpers Helen Shaw New Zealand literature writers authors Katherine Mansfield short stories fiction anthologies collections

KWASITSU, LISHI

Super octavo, blue light card covers, white lettering to spine, viii + 117pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Elibank Press 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand printing history Charles Elliott newspapers journalism

MANHIRE, BILL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, 61pp, VG (sm closed tear to top edge of front cover- tidy tape repair, minor discolouration & chafing/soiling to spine & covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Wai-te-ata Press 1977

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand poets writers Bill Manhire literature poetry poems verse

BIELESKI, R L (Ed) & FERGUSON, A R (Ed) & CRESSWELL, M M (Ed)

Imperial octavo, illus green light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 934pp + liv to rear, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & bruising/scuffing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking at front gutter, heavy cracking to rear gutter- partial separation of spine to page block, occasional light cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Royal Society of New Zealand 1974

KEYWORDS: botany plants plant growth bulletins bulletin 12 royal society of New Zealand biology

COTOGNI, ZACH (Ed) & COTOGNI, MICHAELA (Ed)

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, blue & red lettering to spine, 154pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges/extrems, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Blue Honey Publications 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand mental health drugs psilocybin magic mushrooms psychadelics treatment anecdotes trauma mental illness illegal class a mcp

JONES, JENNY ROBIN

LARGE PRINT, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, vi + 596pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine & covers/edges, light chafing & wrinkling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2011

KEYWORDS: large print New Zealand history pioneers early settlers London

SINCLAIR, KEITH

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, white stapled light card covers, 24pp, VG+ (light tanning to cover edges, sl foxing to top edge of rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl rusting of stapled to gutters) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning/fading/discolouration)

PUBLISHER: The Pegasus Press 1952

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand poets writers poetry poems verse literature Keith Sinclair

N/A

Octavo, illus/printed light card covers, blue & red lettering to spine, single punched hole to top of page block, printed eps, x + 801pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing/bruising to spine & covers/edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning/foxing/soiling throughout)

PUBLISHER: Arnold D Baldwin / Universal Business Directories Ltd 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand old business directories Otago Southland provincial businesses history historical

ORBELL, MARGARET; MOON, GEOFF (photos)

Ex-library. 4to hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: David Bateman 1996

KEYWORDS: Margaret Orbell Geoff Moon New Zealand Maori culture environement