EDMOND, MARTIN

First edition, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Martin Edmond New Zealand Waimarino essays anthology travel memoir

ROSS, JAMES (Ed)

Ex library, softcover oblong imperial octavo (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: Vision Warriors 2003

KEYWORDS: specials ex library James Ross Noel Lane New Zealand architecture building design

EARLE, AUGUSTUS

Octavo, green faux leather boards with gilt lettering and rule to front board and spine, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, VG (wear to extremities, light bruising to corners and head and tail of spine, light soiling to boards, ex-libris stamp, occasional foxing esp. to prelims and page edges), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1909 second edition (Bagnell E16)

KEYWORDS: new zealand history settlement augustus earle

COTTER, W

Ownership signature of Graeme Ramsay NZ entomologist to fep, super octavo, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xi + 382pp, illus, VG+ (v slight brusing to spine extrems, sellotape residue stains and browning to eps, foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: NZ DSIR 1953

KEYWORDS: W Cotter entomology New Zealand aphids plant diseases agphididae eriosomatidae insects

MASKELL, W. M

Ownership signature of Graeme Ramsay NZ entomologist to fep, super octavo, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black ruled design to front board, blind rule & design to rear board, patterned eps, iii + 116pp + xxiii pp description of plates + xxiii full-page plates, illus, VG (bruising & rubbing to spine extrems and board edges, sellotape residue stains and browing to eps, Wellington chrysanthemum show prize label inscribed in ink to prelim page, 2cm crease/tear without loss to title page, fading to page edges, foxing, 2 plates loose)

PUBLISHER: Geo. Didsbury, Govt Printer 1887

KEYWORDS: WM Maskell New Zealand entomology insects pests agriculture plants reference

LEES, SUSAN

First edition, scarce, octavo, beige stapled light card wrappers in yellow light card wrapper with black lettering and design to front board, unpaginated (26 pp), VG+ (slight foxing to boards and pages)

PUBLISHER: Hard Echo Press 1982

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Susan Lees poetry verse poems New Zealand

MCNAB, ROBERT

El library,octavo hardcover VG- (first two end pages torn out) in d/w VG- (rear flap edge trimmed, in clear plastic cover); 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: golden press

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history whaling ships seafaring sailing whales

VERNON, ADELE & SCHNEIDER, DEAN (photos)

square imperial octavo, illus heavy card boards, frontispiece, v + 44pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1991

KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history yellow-eyed penguin hoiho ornithology adele vernon dean schneider

MINISTRY OF WORKS

Quarto, green illustrated heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, frontispiece, vii + 233pp +7 large folding colour maps in rear pocket, illustrated, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: AR Shearer, Government Printer 1971

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hawke's Bay Min of Works history reference climate geology government transport population industry forestry agriculture

MOORE, ALBERT C

First edition, signed by author, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii +219pp, illustrated, near fine (v slight foxing to upper page edges) in VG+ d/w (fading & light soiling to upper internal edge and rear upper edge)

PUBLISHER: Pinter Publishers 1995

KEYWORDS: Albert C Moore Pacific arts religion Australia Melanesia Polynesia New Zealand music dance masks carving anthropology culture history geography

MCLEAN, GAVIN

Octavo, illustrated light card covers, 176pp, illus, VG (front gutter cracked, v slight rubbing to cover corners, slight soiling to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 1982

KEYWORDS: Gavin McLean Oamaru maritime history North Otago New Zealand port politics finance

DOUGLAS, SIR ARTHUR P

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering, illus eps, frontispiece, folding map at rear, VG (slight splitting at spine) 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Pitman & Sons 1909

KEYWORDS: specials Sir Arthur P Douglas New Zealand history geology Maori colonisation geography climate flora fauna government politics

FLEET, HARRIET

Hardcover imperial octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Harriet Fleet New Zealand trees forests timber flora fauna history logging forestry destruction pests deer

MAHY, MARGARET

First edition, hardcover octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1992

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Margaret Mahy New Zealand children's literature novel fiction

PATON, JUSTIN (Ed)

Oblong quarto, illustrated heavy card boards, black eps, 128pp (23pp text & 100+ pages photos), illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to boards, owner's name in ink to page 4)

PUBLISHER: Dunedin Public Art Gallery / Victoria University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Justin Paton Anne Noble New Zealand art photography photographs biography

DUFF, ALAN

Paperback (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Tandem 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Alan Duff New Zealand literature fiction novel

VON DADELSZEN, E.J

Very tidy copy, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, blind rule to rear board, black rule & decoration to front board & spine, patterned eps, folding colour map frontispiece, vii + 554pp, illus, folding statistical chart to rear, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, foxing & fading, gutters cracked, pages 199-203 have pulled through binding in the centre of text block and are loose.)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1895

KEYWORDS: EJ Von Dadelszen New Zealand history reference government politics farming agriculture population BDM exports imports industry

FLETCHER, T A ( REID, P G & PATERSON, A S illus)

imperial octavo illus paper stapled wrappers, 36pp, VG (lacks rear cover, cellotape stains & remnants to spine, light wear to extremities) RARE

PUBLISHER: lankshears 1928

KEYWORDS: new zealand rugby sport t a fletcher pg reid a s paterson

HALE, BEATRICE & HINDS, ELIZABETH

softcover imperial octavo (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Reed Methuen 1986

KEYWORDS: new zealand gardening herbs beatrice hale elizabeth hinds specials

HARRE, JOHN

first edition, hardcover octavo (VG) 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1966

KEYWORDS: new zealand history sociology mixed marriages john harre specials