BASSETT, MICHAEL & BASSETT, JUDITH

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY JOE BABICH, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 220pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal tanning and soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light soiling, sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: David Ling Publishing 2015

KEYWORDS: first edition signed Joe Babich biography wine New Zealand history

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

BAIRD, ROSEMARY

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white and light yellow lettering to front cover and spine, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2025

KEYWORDS: mining New Zealand Manapouri Wanganella hydroelectricity engineering

Unknown

FIRST EDITION THUS, INCREASINGLY UNCOMMON, folio, burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, unpaginated, VG (sl rubbing & soiling to spine, sl soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to pages throughout, minor yellowing tape repairs to facsimiles)

PUBLISHER: R E Owen, Government Printer 1960

KEYWORDS: first edition THUS Treat of Waitangi New Zealand NZ Aotearoa history Declaration of Independence

ANNABELL, ROSS & DONALD, MARION

Quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Parapara-Field's Track Historical Society Incorporated 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Parapara history

PALENSKI, RON (Compiled by)

Uncommon very tidy ex library, octavo, illus light card wrappers- stiffened, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, VG (missing front fep, large crack to front gutter- photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame 2013

KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature rugby New Zealand sports

QUIGLEY, DEREK

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red and blue lettering to spine, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Te Herenga Waka University Press 2024

KEYWORDS: memoir biography autobiography Derek Quigley politics New Zealand history

BURGESS, VIVIEN & BISHOP, GAI & COLE, GRANT & MOON, PAUL (ed)

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white and grey lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (photos available on request

PUBLISHER: West Auckland Historical Society 2020

KEYWORDS: Henderson New Zealand history society

MCLEAN, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus/photos, Near FINE (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Winter Productions 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand first edition signed history maritime pioneers sailing settlers exploration

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

DEVLIOTIS, CHERIE

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (photos available on request, prev. owner's name to title page)

PUBLISHER: Star Graphics (Printer) 2000

KEYWORDS: Brook Family Awhitu New Zealand history biography

RAMAGE, CAROL & RAMAGE, JAMES

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, illus, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: GEON PrintCo (Printer) 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Omaha ships maritime history log books exploration voyages

BAXTER, JAMES & DOESBURG, INGE (Solar Plate, Etching & Woodblock) & HOLMES, JOHN (Text Print) & GUBBINS, CATHERINE (Binding)

#12 of 85, SIGNED COPY, folio, pink triple fold boards with red cloth spine, black lettering to title plate on front board, beautiful scripted James Baxter poem inserted to central board, flanked by 2x illustrations with embossed blind stamp text & patterns to head & base inserts, all inserts printed on 230gsm paper, with tissue guard to centre, Near FINE (sl fading to red cloth spine)

PUBLISHER: The Bibliography Room, University of Otago, Dunedin 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa literature art James Baxter signed special limited numbered editions poetry verse poems

OLDS, PETER (Poems) & MADILL, KATHRYN (Images)

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 SIGNED NUMBERED COPIES, folio, light grey light card wrappers, red artistic lettering & yellow decoration to front wrapper, deckled page edges, Wayzgoose sheet loosely enclosed, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (light staining to rear wrapper, sl colour bleed-through from illus recto to Black poem, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Otakou Press 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa art literature poems poetry verse Peter Olds Kathryn Madill first editions signed

MAUNSELL, R

FRONT BOARD DETACHED BUT PRESENT, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, no lettering to spine or boards, G (front board detached but present, bottom half of spine missing, heavy cracking to remainder of spine- buckram flapping loose, heavy staining to boards & base of page block, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to front eps, ffep potentially missing, bottom half of terminal pages ripped out, rear board flapping loose from base but still hanging on bravely, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, pencil annotation/doodles to prelims)

PUBLISHER: W B Upton & Co 1867

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa language gramar historical history

TWISS, GREER & WILSON, Dr RODNEY (Fore)

Although not stated anywhere in this book, this is actually Greer Twiss's copy of this book, purchased from his estate in 2025/26 by the Hard to Find Books team, lg quarto, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, silver gilt page edges, illus/photos, VG (sl soiling to boards, sl soiling & discolouration to eps, occasional sl soiling & creasing to page edges, light creasing to some folding illus pgs)

PUBLISHER: Ron Sang Publications 2013

KEYWORDS: Greer Twiss art sculpture sculptors NZ New Zealand

FANNING, L S

Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, illus/photos, VG (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ South Seas exhibitions history historical Dunedin exhibition

CONNEW, BRUCE

SIGNED NUMBERED EDITION (#276/600), lg quarto, black cloth boards, white lettering to spine & boards, illus/photos, VG+ (soiling to boards- photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Vapour Momenta Books 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ art photography horses equine breeding Bruce Connew mating

DAY, DIXIE

SIGNIFICANT KNOWLEDGEABLE ANNOTATION ADDING INFORMATION OF IMPORTANCE TO THE BOOK, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, pink lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG- (moderate creasing to spine & wrapper edges, whole item warped, minor tanning & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor water damage/staining to edges of page block, extensive highlighting & annotioan in ink throughout, heavy crack to pg84-85 gutter)

PUBLISHER: The Waiheke Historical Society 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand NZ Aotearoa Waiheke history signed Dixie Day pioneers early settlers