HALKETT, JOHN

First edition, super octavo, illus light card dark green covers, 149pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, rubbing to spine & cover edges)

PUBLISHER: GP Books 1991

KEYWORDS: John Halkett New Zealand native forests trees dendrology evolution wildlife flora fauna forestry Maori logging timber industry management conservations

MCROBIE, ALAN

Scarce, quarto, light yellow boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 154pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w VG+

PUBLISHER: GP Books 1989

KEYWORDS: Alan McRobie New Zealand electoral atlas history electorates politics electoral districts redistribution process impartiality maps

MARTIN, JOHN E.

Signed bookplate loosely enclosed, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus fep, illus title page, 270pp, illus + folding pictorial timeline to rear, nr fine (bookseller's label to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Steel Roberts Publishers 2008

KEYWORDS: John E Martin New Zealand parliamentary library history politics government democracy culture signed

UDY, ALLAN & MITCHELL, ALEX

Octavo, illus light card covers, 116pp, illus, near fine

PUBLISHER: Historical Aviation Film Unit 2010

KEYWORDS: Allan Udy Alex Mitchell New Zealand aviation aviator vintage aeroplanes historic aircraft photographic record Sopwith Fokker Pfalz Bristol Halberstadt models

DUNSTAN, PEGGY

First edition inscribed & signed by author, octavo, cream boards with purple lettering to spine, 62pp, VG (foxing to boards, tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, heavy foxing to interior, tanning & foxing, rubbing to edges & corners)

PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1968

KEYWORDS: first edition Peggy Dunstan New Zealand poetry poems verse literature

BROWN, GORDON H.

First edition, quarto, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name stamp to half-title page, fading to spine & board edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling spots, slight creasing to lower edges)

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Gordon H Brown New Zealand art artists art history paintings drawings prints Angas Brees Chevalier Gully Heaphy Hodges Hoyte Kinder O'Brien Earle Sharpe Strutt Wilson Van der Velden

GULLY, JOHN

first edition elephant folio deep green buckram boards with blindrule and gilt lettering, a.e.g, illus, 15 mounted colour plates with new tissue guards. VG ( original binding with cracked gutters, hinges weakening, moderate wear to corners and spine but essentially sound, light foxing thorughout not affecting plates). RARE in original binding - especially given it has been popular to strip for the plates. Bagnell 2377

PUBLISHER: marcus ward 1877

KEYWORDS: new zealand art illustration john gully chromo-lithography landscapes

EASTON, BRIAN

Super octavo, illus light card covers, x + 343pp, VG+

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Brian Easton New Zealand economy economics business cycle growth finance investment farming industry energy market forces Rogernomics

DANNIN, ELLEN J.

Octavo, light card covers with yellow & white lettering, viii + 327pp, VG+ (some underlining & annotation in pencil, foxing, esp to feps)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Ellen J Dannin New Zealand employment law contracts labour reform labour laws economic social legal impact

WEDDE, IAN (Ed) [FOMISON, TONY]

FIRST EDITION, scarce small quarto, red illus light card covers with black lettering to spine & cover, frontispiece, 192pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers & cover edges, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: City Gallery Wellington 1994

KEYWORDS: Ian Wedde Tony Fomison art painting New Zealand exhibition catalogue art gallery

KING, VIRGINIA

Inscribed & signed by author, quarto, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, patterned eps, 120pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: David Bateman Ltd 2005

KEYWORDS: Virginia King New Zealand contemporary art sculpture sculptor essays Gregory O'Brien Kendrah Morgan Paul Judge Geoff Park Mark Amery

TUWHARE, HONE

First edition, octavo, black & white light card covers, 38pp, VG- (browning, tears & nicks to spine, light soiling to rear cover, tanning/soiling to front & rear hinges, 3cm soiling/staining to pages 24/25)

PUBLISHER: Blackwood & Janet Paul 1964

KEYWORDS: First edition Hone Tuwhare New Zealand poet literature poetry poems

VELLACOTT, HELEN (ED)

First Edition Thus. 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold Australis Pty Limited 1986

KEYWORDS: First Edition Thus specials Helen Vellacott Daniel Thomas Marianne North Australia New Zealand nonfiction history biography botany

BOORMAN, JOHN (?)

oblong imperial octavo lacks dw and title page (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, omplete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Reed (date?)

KEYWORDS: specials John Boorman New Zealand film antipodes Vincent Ward

REED, A. H. (Ed)

First edition, octavo, maroon cloth boards with black lettering to spine & blind lettering to front board, illus pastedowns, printed eps, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, VG (fading to spine & board edges, bruising to extrems, light foxing) in d/w, tatty (brown tape repair replacing most of rear cover and corner of front cover, chipping and small tears, creasing)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1936

KEYWORDS: first edition James West Stack AH Reed New Zealand autobiography travel history Maori

KING, MICHAEL (Ed)

Octavo, illus light card black covers, 191pp, VG- (prev owner SCRIBBLES in pen/highlight to fep)

PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1992

KEYWORDS: Michael King New Zealand Maoritanga essays articles anthology

BELL, C. NAPIER

First edition (author is the brother of Gustavus von Tempsky), super octavo, white cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and brown lettering with brown illus to front board, black eps, tissue guard to title page, xi + 318pp, illus, VG- (heavy soiling to rear board, fading, staining & rubbing to spine, soiling to front board & bruising to front board fore-edge & lower corner, dampstaining to feps, owner's name in pencil to helf-title page, tanning)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1899

KEYWORDS: first edition C Napier Bell New Zealand biography travel anthropology history Central America Mosquito Indians

SIMPSON, TONY

Super octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps & white lettering to black spine, 240pp, VG (Owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Godwit Publishing 1997

KEYWORDS: Tony Simpson New Zealand Great Britain migration immigration history

GOODALL, MAARIRE & GRIFFITHS, GEORGE

Super octavo, illus white light card stapled wrappers with black lettering, 56pp, illus, VG

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1980

KEYWORDS: Maarire Goodall George Griffiths New Zealand Otago Maori Dunedin history

AUNT DAISY (BASHAM, BARBARA)

Super octavo, light card covers with calendar-like page-turning, printed eps, 94pp, illus, VG (heavy tanning & foxing, creasing to cover corner,

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs (date ?)

KEYWORDS: Aunt Daisy New Zealand cooking cookery recipes food breakfast