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PILLYCOCK'S SHOP
Edition: First US printing
New York: Franklin Watts, 1969. Quarto, colour illustrated yellow cloth. Fine copy. Dust jacket has chips and creased tears along top edges, and spine ends, just good. New Zealand author, twice a winner of the Carnegie Medal.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41806More details Price: USD $15.00 -
RUNNING BACKWARDS OVER SAND
Edition: First UK edition
Harmondsworth, England: Viking, 1985. Tall octavo, green boards. Thee small tan spots to fore edges, else fine. Jacket has lower corner of front flap clipped, with printed price of GBP 9.95 above the clip. A first novel by this New Zealander who co-founded in London The Women's Press.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30381More details Price: USD $19.95 -
SPINSTER: A Novel
London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. 5th UK printing. Octavo, maroon boards. Bookstore rubber stamp to lower inner corner of front free endpaper. Yellowing to page edges, else VG in VG slightly yellowed jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31672More details Price: USD $9.95 -
THE ADAPTABLE MAN
Edition: First US printing
New York: Braziller, 1965. Octavo, 177 pp. Green cloth. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has light rubbing to spine tips, creases at upper spine, VG unfaded example otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29843More details Price: USD $17.95 -
THE ANGEL IN THE COFFIN
Edition: First printing
London: Peter Davies, 1960. Dark blue boards. Light toning to text paper, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has shallow chips to spine tips, short tear to rear panel, small sticker scar to front panel; good. New Zealand author's second novel. Jacket art by Val Biro.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 28066More details Price: USD $17.00 -
THE COUNTRY BOY
Edition: First UK edition
London: Macmillan, 1967. Octavo, 191 pp. Mauve boards. Mild foxing to page edges, else fine, no owner names, in VG+ jacket, flap price intact. A novel of Florence by this New Zealand author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29032More details Price: USD $20.00 -
THE DAUGHTER OF THE DAWN. A Romance
London: Hodder & Stoughton. no date. Ca. 1920s reprint. Light blue cloth stamped in black. Octavo, 320 pp. 1927 ink name on front pastedown, light yellowing to page edges and endpapers, else a near fine, clean, tight and bright jacketless copy. First published in 1903, Bleiler (1978) p.100. Reginald 7265. A better lost race adventure novel. Survivors of Lemuria live in New Zealand. Maori legend.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 28071More details Price: USD $25.00 -
THE FERRYMEAD RAILWAY
Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, 1973. Squarish octavo, pp 8, stapled in paper covers. Photos. Soft creases, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43463More details Price: USD $9.00 -
THE FLYING FISH
Edition: First printing
London: Collins, 1964. Uncorrected proof in red paper covers with cover label. Spine a bit sunned; page edges yellowed; soft corner crease to rear cover and last few leaves. A novel of the Maori Wars in the 1860s by a New Zealand author.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 34097More details Price: USD $20.00 -
THE GREENSTONE DOOR
Auckland, New Zealand: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1957. 3rd printing (first was in 1914). Green boards. pp viii, 400. 1960 ink gift inscription and small paperclip stain on front free endpaper; covers have mild sunning, paperclip stain on front cover top; else a VG clean, tight & unworn copy in a chipped and torn jacket. Historicall novel of New Zealand by a noted NZ author. Maori, cannibalism.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29875More details Price: USD $12.00 -
THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE
Edition: First printing
Auckland & London: Collins, 1977. Quarto, glossy pictorial boards. [31] pp, colour illustrations throughout. Fine in fine jacket, no owner names, a very nice copy indeed. A story of the Maori, it won the Russell Clark Award for illustration. New Zealand author and illustrator.
Condition: Binding: Hard Cover
Book ID: 24451More details Price: USD $18.50 -
THE NEW ZEALANDER
London: Trollope Society, 1995. Octavo, decorated cloth. xli,226pp + 10 plates. Index. Fine without jacket, as issued.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46014More details Price: USD $14.95 -
THE POCKET MIRROR: Poems
Edition: First US edition
New York: Braziller, 1967. Octavo, 120 pp. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket a bit rubbed and lightly soiled, with a short tear to front panel, VG otherwise. Precedes the UK edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29844More details Price: USD $14.95 -
THE WINDEATER : Te Kaihau
Edition: First UK printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987. Black boards, spine gilt lettered. Octavo, 240 pp. Small, shallow bumps to fore edges of covers; yellowing to page edges and margins of text; else fine, no owner names, in fine dust jacket, flap price intact. First book of short stories from this New Zealand author, who won the 1985 Booker Prize for THE BONE PEOPLE.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28925More details Price: USD $19.00 -
THE WINDEATER : Te Kaihau
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Second UK impression, March 1987, same year as first. Black boards, gilt spine title. Octavo. 240 pp. Text paper toned, as always, else fine, no owner names. Black price-clipped jacket has light rubbing to the surface gloss, near fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28926More details Price: USD $15.00 -
VERSES. [by] R.O.G.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 32283More details Price: USD $65.00 -
WATCHMAN AGAINST THE WORLD: The Story of Norman McLeod and His People
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Ryerson, 1962. Octavo, black boards. pp 189, (3) + plates; 3 maps in text. Tidy ink owner name at front, else a VG+ copy in poor dust jacket (large chips and tears). Story of a community of Scottish immigrants who settled around the bay of St. Ann's on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. After 30 years they came under the spell of tyrant, magistrate, landowner, teacher and clergyman Norman McLeod, who lead them in six locallly built ships to settle at Waipu, New Zealand.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30839More details Price: USD $19.50