Books - "new zealand"
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Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, frontispiece, 288pp, illus, VG+ (sunning to spine and covers)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history exploration adventure Tuai Ngare Raumati Maori Bay of Islands
Gabriel's Gully and Dunedin in 1861
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, stapled light card covers, white lettering to front cover, 23pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & moderate chafing/scuffing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1957
KEYWORDS: signed A H Reed New Zealand Otago Dunedin history Gabriel's Gully
From East Cape to Cape Egmont: A Pictorial Record of an East-West Walk
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light chafing & soiling to covers, minor rusting to staples, closed tearing to spine)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1962
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history A H Reed
100 New Zealand Craft Artists
INSCRIBED BY HELEN CLARK, quarto, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 216pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to edges/extrems, light foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl discolouration, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Godwit / Random House 1998
KEYWORDS: signed Helen Clark New Zealand art craft artists biographies
From East Cape to Cape Egmont: A Pictorial Record of an East-West Walk
DATED, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, white stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light chafing & curling to covers with light soiling & foxing, moderate closed tearing & scuffing to spine, minor rusting to staples)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1962
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand A H Reed history East Cape Egmont walking
Bernard Freyberg, VC: Soldier of Two Nations
FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP OF HISTORIAN MICHAEL BASSETT & EPHEMERA LOOSLEY ENCLOSED, super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 627pp, illus/photos, VG (sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, considerable adhesion to photo pages, some minor underlining in ink, occasional foxing throughout) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1991
KEYWORDS: Bernard Freyberg military history biographies memoir New Zealand England
The Long Pathway: Te Ara Roa
FIRST EDITION, DATED, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO SIR DOUGLAS MYERS, super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 263pp, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: William Collins 1986
KEYWORDS: first editions signed Denis McLean New Zealand travel writing literature
New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy
ALSO LOOSELY ENCLOSED INCIDENTS RELATING TO THE AUCKLAND DEMONSTRATIONS, super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xi + 443pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light crack to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Vietnam war politics foreign policy
Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca: Atlas of Plates
THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, unpaginated, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to plate 71 onwards, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay 1915
KEYWORDS: New Zealand molluscs marine biology zoology sealife
Tararua: The Story of a Mountain Range
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps to eps, 272pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing/discolouration to board edges & extrems, light foxing to page edges, sl foxing to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe Press 1995
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Tararua mountain ranges Chris Maclean
Sea Shells of New Zealand
Imperial octavo, brown paper covered boards,123pp + plates to rear, VG- (moderate chipping to cover edges, moderate tanning and foxing to covers, heavy scuffing to front cover with small patches of surface loss, moderate scuffing to rear cover, moderate foxing to eps and page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sea shells marine biology zoology sealife
Waiata
SCARCE, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR; Super octavo, stapled light card covers, 32pp, VG- (moderately heavy soiling/foxing to covers, moderate chipping & heavy creasing/folding to covers resulting in approx. 5cm closed tear at base of spine with archival tape repair, author's signature & inscription to inside front cover in black ink, heavy staining around staples from rust, otherwise only intermittent spots of soiling to text and light tanning to extrems) (Bagnall: SB1189a)
PUBLISHER: Queen City Press ca. 1945
KEYWORDS: scarce signed inscribed bryan bowles waiata bagnall collection sb1189a maori new zealand history folk music songs lyrics verses myths mythology legends
Frances Hodgkins; Paintings and Drawings
SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS; Square imperial octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece: Seated Woman, c.1926, ix+185pp, illus. colour plates, VG+ (light rubbing to board & spine extrems, author's signatures to half-title page in black & blue ink, light tanning/discolouration to page extrems/edges, a few spots of soiling to eps, prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling, moderate sun-fading to covers near spine)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: signed frances hodgkins paintings drawings michael dunn iain buchanan elizabeth eastmond new zealand expatriate art artists painters modernists british modernism avant garde britain england europe expatriatism
Homeplaces; Three Coasts of the South Island of New Zealand
SIGNED BY ROBIN MORRISON; Oblong super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 131pp, illus. colour photo plates, VG (light soiling to boards and light scuffing to board extrems, inscription to previous owner in blue ink to verso fep, Robin Morrison's signature in blue ink to half-title page, moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, prelims & terminals, otherwise light tanning & occasional spots of light soiling to page extrems throughout,) in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling, light creasing, moderate sun-fading to spine & covers near spine)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1989
KEYWORDS: signed keri hulme robin morrison homeplaces new zealand south island coasts coastlines ocean sea okarito moeraki stewart prose photography nature landscapes portraits
Yesterdays of Maungaturoto
Octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, 116pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & tanning/foxing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, inscribed yours sincereley Hazel C Williamson 2/9/79 in ink to inside front cover, light foxing to title page)
PUBLISHER: Hazel C Williamson N/D (c.1979?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maungaturoto settlers pioneers
Fabrications of Traditional Maori History Exposed
SCARCE, super octavo, cream light card covers, black lettering to spine, xi + 201pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & covers with minor soiling also, light foxing & soiling to page edges, occasional highlighting to text)
PUBLISHER: John Aramete Wairehu Steedman 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori customs history
Through South Westland: A Journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring New Zealand (Second Edition)
Octavo, teal buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, blue rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xviii + 219pp, illus/photos, folding maps- 1x detached but loosely enclosed at rear, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & scuffing to spine- 1cm crack to front hinge, minor chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims, occasional ownership signature in ink throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel writing literature history south island Haast Mount Aspiring westland A Maud Moreland
Identity and Involvement: Volume III Auckland Jewry into the 21st Century
FIRST EDITION, two letters from the author loosley enclosed, imperial octavo, yellow heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 460pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, minor fading & soiling to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Renaissance Publishing 2020
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Jewish community jewry ethnicity identity religion religious
Policing the River District 1886 to 1986: The First 100 Years of the Wanganui Police
SIGNED, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 320pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising & discolouration to board edges, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy chafing & surface loss, sm ink lettering to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Wanganui Newspapers Ltd (Printer) 1988
KEYWORDS: New Zealand law enforcement police history Wanganui centennial crime prevention signed Charles E Spicer
Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & decoration to front board, iv + 366pp, VG- (light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & dsicolouration to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edgeslight soiling to eps, sm ex-libris plate residue to front pastedown, heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1893
KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand bush life history customs anthropology culture