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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh Came a Hot Friday
Sydney Angus and Robertson (1964) First Edition Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket
Previous owner's signature and bookseller's rubber stamp on front endpaper. Some bruising and rubbing to corners of boards and ends of spine. Some underlining and marginalia, mostly in pencil. No dust wrapper.; 234 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. The author's second novel (his first was "The Scarecrow"). "Came a Hot Friday" was made into a movie by New Zealand director Ian Mune in 1985. The cast included New Zealand comedian Billy T. James.; 8vo
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32.90 NZD
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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh Came a Hot Friday
Sydney Angus and Robertson (1964) First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Previous owner's rubber stamp on front endpaper. Bruising and rubbing to corners of boards and ends of spine. Several 1" and smaller tears and 1/2" chips at the corners of the dust wrapper and at the head and tail of the dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 234 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. The author's second novel (his first was "The Scarecrow"). "Came a Hot Friday" was made into a movie by New Zealand director Ian Mune in 1985. The cast included New Zealand comedian Billy T. James.; 8vo
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56.40 NZD
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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh Pallet On The Floor
Palmerston North The Dunmore Press (1976) 0908564155 / 9780908564156 First Edition Softcover Good with no dust jacket
Moderate rubbing to corners of wrappers and edges of spine. Moderate creasing to spine. Previous owner's signature "P A Simpson". With marginalia and underlining in pencil and ink.; 142 pages + [1] page advertisements. Blue illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 182mm x 122mm. "Life was hard enough for Sam Jamieson without Jack Voot's lechery and Miriam Breen's jealousy. The life at Kurikino erupted into a sensation of murder and blackmail, turning his life into a nightmare from which the efforts of Tinny Entwistle, Gigglejuice Saunders and the Remittance Man could not save him. But Spud McGhee had an idea." - publisher's blurb. By the author of "Came a Hot Friday", "Predicament" and "The Scarecrow". ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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82.25 NZD
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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh Predicament
Palmerston North Dunmore Press (1974) First Edition Softcover Fair with no dust jacket
Wrappers worn at edges and corners. Rubbing to wrappers. Creasing and fading to spine. A 1 1/2" piece missing at tail of spine. Previous owner's signature "P A Simpson 1978". Extensive marginalia and underlining, mostly in pencil.; Softcover edition. 248 pages. With a preface by Maurice Shadbolt. The third novel of a writer who has been termed a "literary enigma" by Gordon McLauchlan and a "boozy literary genius" by Iain Sharp. Morrieson's works are now critically studied as representatives of the genre of New Zealand gothic. "His magic is that of the first storytellers, and our delight is that of the first listeners to their wondrous tales." - Maurice Shadbolt.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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58.75 NZD
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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh Predicament
Auckland Penguin Books (1985) 0140088415 / 9780140088410 First Edition Softcover Good+ with no dust jacket
No signatures. Moderate creasing to wrappers. Some browning to pages.; Softcover reprint edition. 248 pages. Page dimensions: 180 x 109mm. With a preface by Maurice Shadbolt. The third novel of a writer who has been termed a "literary enigma" by Gordon McLauchlan and a "boozy literary genius" by Iain Sharp. Morrieson's works are now critically studied as representatives of the genre of New Zealand gothic. "His magic is that of the first storytellers, and our delight is that of the first listeners to their wondrous tales." - Maurice Shadbolt.; 12mo
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32.90 NZD
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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh The Scarecrow
London Angus & Robertson (1963) Hard Cover Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Owner's inscription. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine and along folds of dust wrapper. Series of 1/4" tears along head of spine. ; [iv], 211 pages. Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. First U.K edition. Page dimensions: 197mm x 124mm. "The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut." - the opening sentence. ; 8vo
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66.98 NZD
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Morrieson, Ronald Hugh The Scarecrow
Auckland Heinemann 1976 0868636770 / 9780868636771 First Thus Hard Cover Good in Good dust jacket
Moderate rubbing to edges of boards. Some bruising to tail of spine. Binding a little loose and shaken. Some tears and chips to corners of dust wrapper and to ends of dust wrapper spine. Previous owner's signature "P A Simpson 1978". With interesting marginalia and underlining in pencil and ink. With penciled list of the page numbers with misprints on rear endpaper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 181 pages. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. First New Zealand edition (the true first edition was published in Australia by Angus and Robertson in 1963). Page dimensions: 215mm x 138mm. "Before that moonlit night when the Scarecrow, a sex-fiend, stalked into Klynham, there was little more to excite the small town than a theft by some boys of their neighbours' fowls." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo
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37.60 NZD
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