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$20.00
2g29/10

Hyde Railway Accident June 4, 1943


DANGERFIELD, J. A.

Quarto, light card covers with black lettering to front cover & black taped spine, 24pp, illus, VG

PUBLISHER: Otago Railway and Locomotive Society

KEYWORDS: JA Dangerfield New Zealand Otago Hyde railways transport trains steam engine accident disaster history

$100.00
2g29/34

Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Volume 6 Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Wellington


n/a

Lacks title page, quarto, half-bound blue cloth boards with gijlt lettering to leather spine & gilt motif to front board, patterned eps, lacks fep, xxvi + 767pp, illus, G+ (heavy rubbing & fading to boards, staining & dampstaining to boards, small portion of front board lower edge broken off, small hole to rear spine upper fold, soiling and rubbing to eps, owner's name in ink to verso ep, lacks title page, foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Cyclopedia Co Ltd (1908?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand cyclopedia Taranaki Hawke's Bay Wellington history towns cities districts people society

$32.50
2g29/35

Memoirs of a Peon


SARGESON, FRANK

First edition, octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, VG+ (inscription in ink to fep), in d/w, VG (price clipped, rubbing to front, three 1cm closed tears to lower edges, slight soiling to rear)

PUBLISHER: MacGibbon & Kee 1965

KEYWORDS: Frank Sargeson New Zealand literature fiction novel

$45.00
2g30/29

Trout and Salmon Fishing in Otago (Including the Southern Lakes District)


BENFIELD, G. J.

First edition, octavo, yellow boards with blue lettering to spine & front board & blue fishing motif to front board, 24pp adverts + frontispiece + 96pp + folding map to rear, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, foxing, tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago Angers' Association 1948

KEYWORDS: first edition GJ Benfield Otago Anglers New Zealand Otago fishing trout salmon angling sport history

$19.50
xxemb57868

Above New Zealand


POTTON, CRAIG

oblongo quarto 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Craig Potton & Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers 1995

KEYWORDS: Specials Craig Potton New Zealand Photography Scenery Landscape Photographer Aerial Photography

$16.50
xxemb57891

Big Country of the South Island


North of the Rangitata

NEWTON, PETER

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: A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd 1977

KEYWORDS: specials Peter Newton New Zealand South Island history farming

$20.00
xxemc57932

Risks & Rip-Offs


The New Zealand motorist's survival book

POLLY, DON

Softcover quarto (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. and A.W. Reed 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Don Polly transport vehicles car motorist guide buying and selling fixing road safety New Zealand

$20.00
xxemc57940

Nathan Astle


ASTLE, NATHAN & GIFFORD, PHIL

Signed. Softcover super 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: Hodder Moa 2007

KEYWORDS: signed specials Nathan Astle Phil Gifford New Zealand sport cricket biography

$20.00
xxemc57961

The Edge of the Town


Historic Caversham as seen through its streets and buildings

RUTHERFORD, ALMA

Softcover super 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: John McIndoe 1978

KEYWORDS: specials Alma Rutherford New Zealand history Caversham Dunedin Otago

$9.00
xxemd57994

The Wreck of the H.M.S. Orpheus


New Zealand's Worst Sea Disaster

HETHERINGTON, ROY M.

Ex-library Hardcover super 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: Cassell New Zealand 1975

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Roy M. Hetherington New Zealand maritime history chronicle shipwreck

$14.00
xxemd57998

Ruck Me!


Hilarious Rugby Yarns

WILSON, STU & KINGSLEY-JONES, PHIL

Signed by both authors ; hardcover super octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; 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: Moa Beckett Publishers Limited 1993

KEYWORDS: specials Stu Wilson Phil Kingsley-Jones signed by authors New Zealand sport humour rugby

$65.00
2g31/18

Rails to Roxburgh: The Story of a Provincial Railway


COWAN, W. J.

Quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 256pp, illus, nr. fine

PUBLISHER: Molyneux Press Ltd 2010

KEYWORDS: WJ Cowan New Zealand Central Otago transport railways trains steam engines history Roxburgh engineering

$150.00
2g31/19

New Zealand Prototypes: Volumes 1 & 2


Plans originally appeared in The NZ Model Railway Journal 1948-1960 & in New Zealand Railway Observer 1946-1947

JOHNSTONE, IAN T. G. (Ed)

Two-volume set, quarto, beige light card covers with cloth spine, cyclostyled typed foolscap pages, unpaginated, illus, VG (light staining to covers, tanning)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Model Railway Association 1962

KEYWORDS: Ian TG Johnstone New Zealand model railways scale drawings plans trains locomotives steam engines rolling stock goods vans wagons

$35.00
2g31/24

Straphangers and Grippers: The Ups and Downs of the Mornington Cable-car System 1883 to 1957


CAMPBELL, BILL & HARGREAVES, RAY

Signed by both authors, imperial octavo, illus yellow light card covers, 120pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1994

KEYWORDS: Bill Campbell Ray Hargreaves New Zealand Dunedin Mornington passenger transport cable cars cablecars engineering construction history

$47.50
2g31/29

As Directed by Train Control


COUSINS, KEN & COUSINS, DENISE

Signed, oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with yellow lettering to spine & front board, 145pp, illus + printed map to rear eps, VG+

PUBLISHER: Ken & Denise Cousins (year?)

KEYWORDS: Ken Denise Cousins New Zealand transport railways trains steam engines locomotives routes photographic pictorial history passengers freight

$45.00
2g31/31

Trains at Work in New Zealand


RADCLIFFE, G. T. & MURPHY J. A.

Re-bound in cloth boards with original paper illus covers included, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 240pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Railway Preservation & Museum 1973

KEYWORDS: GT Radcliffe JA Murphy New Zealand transport trains railways locomotives steam engines photographic pictorial history

$60.00
1b19a/2

New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Dunedin 1925-6: Official Souvenir Catalogue


n/a

Particularly nice copy of fragile item, octavo, illus light yellow paper covers, printed eps, folding map frontispiece, 228pp, illus, VG- (soiling to covers, creasing to page corners, esp upper corners to last 20 pages, tanning, esp to page edges)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Co 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Seas exhibition Dunedin souvenir catalogue

$25.00
2g30/6

Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971


LLOYD, WILLIAM G.

Imperial octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, vi + 129pp, illus, VG+ (v slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)

PUBLISHER: NZ Railway & Locomotive Society (Otago Branch) Dunedin 1974

KEYWORDS: WILLIAM G Lloyd New Zealand railways transport trains steam engines locomotives history

$15.00
2g30/8

DC-3 Southern Skies Pioneer


LOCKSTONE, BRIAN & HARRISON, PAUL

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 158pp, illus, near fine

PUBLISHER: Random House 2000

KEYWORDS: Brian Lockstone Paul Harrison New Zealand aviation DC3 airlines aeroplanes transport military aircraft RNZAF WWII commercial air services

$70.00
2g30/10

Nelson: A History of Early Settlement


ALLAN, RUTH M.

Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvii + 458pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems and board corners, light foxing to eps) in VG- (light chipping to upper spine extrems, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1965

KEYWORDS: Ruth M Allan New Zealand Nelson Maori Tasman Cook D'urville Wairau massacre history settlement

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