GLOVER, DENIS

ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by author to Jocelyn Fairburn, ARD Fairburn's wife, octavo, light card covers, 80pp, illus, VG (slight tanning to covers & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (v slight creasing)

PUBLISHER: The Catspaw Press 1974

KEYWORDS: Denis Glover New Zealand literature poetry poems short stories fiction association copy signed

CHADWICK, TIM

oblong octavo illus light card covers, 160pp illus VG+

PUBLISHER: harper collins 2009

KEYWORDS: transport automobiles cars tim chadwick new zealand zephyrs zodiacs

SKINNER, GWEN

quarto blue cloth boards, 272pp, illus VG in VG d/w

PUBLISHER: hodder and stoughton 1983

KEYWORDS: new zealand south pacific cuisine food cooking gwen skinner

SMITHER, ELIZABETH

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: Penguin 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature fiction novel first edition

SMITHER, ELIZABETH

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 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature fiction novel first edition

SMITHER, ELIZABETH

First edition, super 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 Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature poetry poems

DREW, LIEUT H. T. B. (Ed)

Octavo, yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, light brown decorative rule to front board, frontispiece, xxii + 276pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep, light bruising to spine extrems, slight tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1923

KEYWORDS: Lieut HTB Drew New Zealand Second World War Two WW2 military history

COX, ROY

Inscribed & signed by Coxy, octavo, illus light card covers, unpaginated, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: The author 1997

KEYWORDS: Roy Cox Coxy New Zealand memoir sport coaching soccer

WALL, ARNOLD & WALL, EDITH (Illus)

Octavo, light card stapled wrappers, black lettering & black illus to front cover, 16pp, illus, VG (some tanning & soiling to covers, moderate foxing to pages & edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Toms 1922

KEYWORDS: Arnold Wall Edith Wall New Zealand beer humour

SARGESON, FRANK

First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, 113pp + 2pp book ads, G+ only (heavy dampstaining & soiling to boards, front & rear hinges cracked, gutters cracked at several points, moderate tanning & foxing to eps, less so to page edges) in d/w, G+ only, (heavy staining & soiling, price clipped, damage with loss to flap folds and spine)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1940

KEYWORDS: Frank Sargeson New Zealand literature first edition

PARRY, GORDON

Signed by Gordon Parry & David Braithwaite, imperial octavo, illus white light card covers with green lettering to spine & front cover, 80pp, illus, VG (some soiling & staining to covers)

PUBLISHER: Montgomery Watson 1998

KEYWORDS: Gordon Parry New Zealand engineering history bridges roads dams hydro-electricity

AITKEN, ROBIN

Large quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering, illus rear ep, 224pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Robin Aitken 2010

KEYWORDS: Robin Aitken New Zealand Waiuku College school education history

ABERHART, LAURENCE & O'BRIEN, GREGORY & PATON, JUSTIN

Large oblong quarto, black cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering to front board, black eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight rubbing to boards) in d/w, VG (minor small closed tears, price label residue stain to front, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: Laurence Aberhart New Zealand art photography visual arts Gregory O'Brien Justin Paton photographs

FARRELL, FIONA

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 2012

KEYWORDS: specials Fiona Farrell New Zealand literature fiction novel

CATTON, ELEANOR

True first edition of Booker prizewinner & her first novel, octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, 317pp, VG+

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: Eleanor Catton New Zealand literature

SARGINSON, EUAN

Oblong folio, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, red textured light card eps, 96pp, illus, VG (heavy fading to board edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy tanning, some soiling to rear, several nicks to edges & corners, 3cm closed tear to front upper edge)

PUBLISHER: Moa Publishing 1972

KEYWORDS: Euan Sarginson New Zealand photography vintage cars driving motorcars sport transport

n/a

Plastic spiral binding, square imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Environmental Design Ministry o Works & Deveopment 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Russell town planning building architecture design

HULME, KERI & MORRISON, ROBIN (Photog)

Light fading to spine, oblong quarto, navy blue boards with silver lettering to spine, blue eps, 131pp, illus, VG+ in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light soiling and scuffing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1989

KEYWORDS: Keri Hulme Robin Morrison New Zealand photography scenery Okarito Moeraki Stewart Island

EARL, MAURIE (Ed)

This volume only, large quarto, illus cream light card covers with black lettering, pages 197 to 451, illus, VG (light soiling to covers, upper corner of first three pages cut off)

PUBLISHER: Gibbs Family (?) n/d

KEYWORDS: Isaac Gibbs Mary Ann Gibbs New Zealand family history genealogy

n/a

Folio, green light card covers with black cloth spine, black lettering to front cover, 6pp index + folding map + 1609pp, Vg- (scuffing with loss of surface to lower 5cm of spine and 1cm of upper spine, some staining & fading to rear cover, some staining & foxing to page edges, light creasing to lower corners of first few pages)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printer 1905

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Royal Commission notes of evidence land tenure settlement Crown lands Opawa Pareora District Rosewill Settlement