OFFWOOD, DONALD

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, green lettering to spine, 268pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal marking to upper page edges, sl curling to wrappers)

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 2014

KEYWORDS: signed Donald Offwood British army Otago pioneer Auckland New Zealand Irish military history

VOWLES, JACK et al (Eds)

Super octavo, black and white lettering to front wrapper and spine, xii + 265pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (minimal creasing to extrems, minimal soiling to upper page edges, minimal soiling to front cover, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University 2004

KEYWORDS: politics parliament law elections New Zealand NZ Aotearoa

MCLEAN, JOHN

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 444p, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & fading to board edges, sl soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges)

PUBLISHER: John Mclean 2010

KEYWORDS: signed history New Zealand Nova Scotia Scotland highlanders sailors settlers sailing migration

BULLER, REV JAMES

FIRST EDITION, Sm octavo, illus dark grey buckram boards, black stamped lettering to front board and spine, folding map to frontis, viii + 202pp, illus/photos/ads, VG (archival repairs to closed tears of coloured folding map, 3cm crack to head of front hinge, light chipping to edges of spine, minor soiling & scuffing to spine, light bruising and minimal scuffing to extrems, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, newspaper clipping pasted to ffep, occasional minor pencil annotations & markings to margins, light to moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1880

KEYWORDS: First Edition New Zealand history

MEAD, RICHARD

Super octavo, denim blue heavy boards, gilt silver lettering to spine, IX + 309pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minimal creasing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword 2020

KEYWORDS: Royal New Zealand Air Force military aviation Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane biography Royal Navy WW2 World War II

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

MARSHALL, SIR JOHN (ed)

UNCOMMON, octavo, coloured light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, 238pp, VG (minor scuffing to extrems and spine, minor tanning and foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate foxing to inside wrappers & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page- partially detached but present, minor cracking to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Institute of Public Administration 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics reforms parliament law

EDMONDS, JUNE (ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, bound in brown faux leather, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps eps, 345pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, sl soiling & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Roydhouse 1987

KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand Alfredton history society settlers pioneers

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

SOLANDER, DANIEL & DUYKER, EDWARD

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, navy blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine with gilt decoration, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: The Miegunyah Press 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand nature natural history naturalist sailing biography Daniel Solander James Cook Joseph Banks exploration

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