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A.R.D. FAIRBURN 1904-1957: a bibliography of his published work
Edition: First Edition
(Auckland, New Zealand): The University of Auckland, 1958. Octavo, tan cloth. pp 117, (3) + frontispiece portrait. Damp stain to front cover, else a VG clean and unworn copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 36699More details Price: USD $24.95 -
A Show of Justice: Racial `Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
Edition: First Canadian edition
University of Toronto Press, 1974. Tan cloth. (xvi), (383) pp + plates; indexed. Very nearly fine in like jacket, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25591More details Price: USD $19.00 -
ALBUM OF NEW ZEALAND VIEWS (cover title)
No place: No publisher, no date. Late 19th century? Squarish octavo, 18 cm, red decorated cloth stamped in black and gilt. Long folding sheet (20 sepia glazed lithographic views on 10 panels). One fold split neatly repaired on blank side; spine very lightly spotted; light spotting to front cover; VG+ bright and clean otherwise, no owner names. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 33863More details Price: USD $40.00 -
An incorrigible music : a sequence of poems
Edition: First edition.
Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland Press / Oxford University Press, 1979. Card covers with attached printed jacket. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30148More details Price: USD $18.95 -
BELL CALL
Edition: First US printing
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. Octavo, cloth & boards. Fine in VG jacket, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39654More details Price: USD $9.95 -
BEYOND THE WITHERED OAK TEN THOUSAND SAPLINGS GROW: Poems. Chosen and Edited by H. Winston Rhodes
Edition: First edition.
Christchurch, New Zealand: Printed at the Caxton Press, n.d. (1962). pp 69, [3], in attached printed jacket with flaps, title page printed in black & brown. Spine yellowed, soft crease to upper outer corners, light tide made to lower margin of late text and rear cover, VG otherwise. Ink inscription on half-title page "Joanne from [? Rewi?], Peking, 22/01/68". Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 29246More details Price: USD $24.95 -
BIRDS OF THE WATER. WOOD & WASTE.
Wellington, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1927. Second edition, original text with some new notes in the new author preface. Green pictorial buckram gilt. (viii), 207 pp + 77 photo plates. Very slight spine darkening, small ink inscription to front free endpaper; yellowing to page edges; else a fine copy of this nicely made book about New Zealand birds, specifically ones seen on a New Zealand sheep station.
Condition: Book: Near Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 7362More details Price: USD $19.95 -
COLLECTED PLAYS. Edited by Howard McNaughton
Edition: First edition.
Auckland, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Blue boards. pp xvi, 336. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks, else fine and unfaded.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29817More details Price: USD $29.95 -
DICK SEDDON'S GREAT DIVE: A Novel
Edition: First edition
Auckland, New Zealand: Robin Dudding, 1976. Comprising the whole issue of Islands 16, Vol. 9, No. 2. Card covers. Octavo, (113)-216 pp. Rubbed covers, lightly sunned edges, VG+ copy. Author's first novel.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 28959More details Price: USD $15.00 -
Dreams of Speech and Violence: The Art of the Short Story in Canada and New Zealand
Edition: First printing
University of Toronto Press, 1987. Green boards. pp 302. Notes, index. Fine in fine jacket (crease to rear flap), with review slip laid in.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49140More details Price: USD $14.95 -
FORTUNATELY THERE WAS A HAYSTACK
Edition: First UK edition
London: W.H. Allen, 1970. Green boards. Light sunning to margins of boards, small ink name at front, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has creases to front flap; nicks, scratch, minor rubbing, to front panel; VG otherwise. Set in Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand author's first novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30331More details Price: USD $18.95 -
FRANCIS THOMPSON. Man and Poet
Edition: First American issue
Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Press, 1960. Octavo, xi, 232 pp (includes Select Bibliography and Index) + frontispiece portrait. Maroon boards. White spots to front and rear cover (paper residue from inner jacket, damp; private owner's name rubber stamped on title page; a VG clean and tight copy otherwise. Thin yellow dust jacket has a bit frayed at spine tips and outer corners, VG otherwise, flap price intact. A study of the English poet by a New Zealand professor. Made from UK sheets. UK ed. was in 1959.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28875More details Price: USD $19.50 -
GREENSTONE LAND
Edition: First Edition
London: Macdonald, 1981. Uncorrected proof in light blue non-pictorial card covers. Octavo, 475 pp. Spine a little sunned, soft vertical crease to front cover and first third of book, VG copy otherwise. Scarce advance issue of this New Zealand novel.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 28816More details Price: USD $19.00 -
"HE’S FOR THE MORNING". Alfred William Page, His Journal. Also Some Recollections of his Life by his Aunts Ellen & Ann Saunders
Edition: First edition.
Christchurch, New Zealand: Alex Wildey, 1939. ctavo, green cloth. Pp x, (135) + portrait. + 2 (of 3) called-for plates. No plate at p. 31 (a specimen of his flower photography), and I don’t see any evidence that this copy ever had that plate. Light endpaper yellowing, minor rubbing to spine tips, else fine, no owner names. A memoir of this New Zealand socialist and pacifist (No More War movement) who died young.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 32404More details Price: USD $30.00 -
ICE COLD RIVER
Edition: First edition.
London & Hamilton, New Zealand: Constable / Paul's Book Arcade, 1961. Octavo, (viii), 257 pp; red cloth, spine stamped in silver. Yellowing to page edges, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has sizeable chips to fore corners of front panel, a few tears, some rubbing, just good. New Zealand author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29026More details Price: USD $20.00 -
KOWHAI GOLD: An Anthology of Contemporary New Zealand Verse
Edition: First edition.
London: Dent. 12mo, cloth and decorated boards. Nov. 1930 ink gift inscription and Auckland bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper, white spine lightly darkened, else a VG jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30260More details Price: USD $15.00 -
Massacre at Passchendaele: the New Zealand Story
Aukland, New Zealand: HarperCollins, 2000. Card covers, pp 205, index, notes, list of all New Zealanders who died at Passchendaele. Corner crease to front cover, ink owner name, else fine. The Kiwis lost 1000 dead and 2000 wounded in just a few short hours during their second attack on the German front lines.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47949More details Price: USD $18.95 -
MYSELF
Edition: First printing
London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. Red boards. Light yellowing to page edges, else a fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a very small chip to top edge of front panel, very slight sunning to red spine lettering, else fine. Autobiographical writings about her youth.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40076More details Price: USD $9.95 -
Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times and a History of the War in the North Against Chief Heke, in the Year 1845, Told By an Old Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe Also Maori Traditions. By a Paheka Maori. With an Introduction by Dr. Hocken
Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1930. Later printing. Octavo, green cloth lettered in black. pp xxviii, 386, (2, ads) + 18 plates. Cloth nicks at head of spine, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 33859More details Price: USD $30.00 -
PERSEPHONE IN WINTER. Poems
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 28068More details Price: USD $150.00