FIELD, ARTHUR NELSON

First edition, octavo, brown light card covers with black lettering in orange panels to spine & front cover, vi + 288pp, VG- - scruffy (heavy archival tape repairs to spine, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, moderate soiling & creasing to covers, some foxing throughout, occasional annotation in pencil, creasing to some page edges)

PUBLISHER: AN Field 1936

KEYWORDS: New Zealand politics journalism current affairs

BEST, ELSDON

First edition, large quarto, brown light card covers with black lettering to front cover, viii + 189pp, illus, VG- (moderately heavy browning to spine, loss of lower 4cm of surface to spine some browning to page edges & covers, owner's name stamp to front cover & fep)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history sociology games pastimes music song

BATHGATE, JOHN

First edition, octavo, brown textured cloth boards, yellow eps, frontispiece, 121pp + 3pp book ads, illus plus folding colour map at front & folding trade map to rear, VG+ (some fading to spine, some light tanning & foxing to page edges, v slight discolooration to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: W& R Chambers 1880

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history resources banking finance culture

HOLCROFT, M. H.

First edition, super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1952

KEYWORDS: new zealand autobiography m h holcroft

VON DADELSZEN, E. J.

Octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & black decorative rule to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece map, vi + 699pp, illus plus 2 folding tables to rear, VG (some browning to page edges, some staining to boards, owner's name address & date in ink to front pastedown, front & rear hinge paper torn, occasional foxing, 3cm closed tear to large folding chart at rear)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay GOvt. Printer 1902

KEYWORDS: New Zealand year book history statistics industry agriculture politics shipping transport

GRIFFITHS, GEORGE

Dated, signed & inscribed by the author to fellow hisotrian Ray Hargreaves, Association Copy, octavo, light card covers, 232pp, illus, VG+ (reading crease to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori place names placenames

BLAIR, W. N.

Octavo, green paper wrappers with black lettering to front, 62pp plus three folding tables/charts to rear, VG- (surface of spine rubbed off, moderately heavy staining, browning & creasing to covers, some tears with loss to cover corners, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, lighter foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Evening Star 1884

KEYWORDS: New Zealand industry industries

WAKEFIELD, EDWARD

Oblong elephant folio, illus cream heavy card boards with cream cloth spine, brown lettering to front board, VG+ (v. slight soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Price Milburn & Co 1981 (Facsimile reprint of AD Willis 1889)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history cities towns scenery portraits prints art

PONDER, W. FRANK

Small 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: Caxton Press 1996

KEYWORDS: South Pacific New Zealand Ministry of Works W Frank Ponder architecture design history biography Antarctic

n/a

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: John McGlashan College 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin John McGlashan school Old Boys World War Two biography

CAMPBELL, BILL & HARGREAVES, RAY

Small quarto 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1994

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin Morning cablecar transport history

KNOX, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: modern first edition New Zealand children's literature

SEARLE, E. J.

Super octavo stapled wrapper (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: Reprinted from New Zealand Geographer 1956

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland isthmus geology

CLARKSON, BRUCE & MERRETT, MERILYN ET AL (Eds)

Large quarto 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Waikato Botanical Society 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Waikato botany science

GUTHRIE, JOHN

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in tatty 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: Werner Laurie 1952

KEYWORDS: modern first edition New Zealand literature

WILSON, PHILLIP

First edition, octavo 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: Robert Hale & Co 1973

KEYWORDS: modern first edition New Zealand literature

ROXBURGH, IRVINE

First edition thus, octavo, teal boards with gilt lettering to spine, v + 232pp, illus, VG+, in d/w VG (moderate creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Publication Subcommittee Upper Clutha 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wanaka local history

NEWPORT, J. N. W. JEFF

Signed by author, small quarto, illus green light card covers with black lettering, vi + 121pp, illus, VG (fading to spine, some dampstaining & wrinkling to lower part of last 40 pages & rear cover, slight rubbing to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: JNW Newport 1987

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson local history

BROWN, HAMISH

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY DOUG BROWN, quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, ix + 358pp, illus, (VG+), in d/w (VG+)

PUBLISHER: Stayer Ltd 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Doug Brown spitfire pilot biography diaries World War Two

CLARKE, IAN T.

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: David Bateman Ltd 1994

KEYWORDS: new zealand water police policing auckland maritime crime