Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper. No dust-jacket.; 155 pages + frontispiece + plates. Green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 181mm x 122mm. "Here are stories and reminiscences of one who spent twenty years as a musterer on the big sheep stations of the South Island of New Zealand, stations that stretch thousands of feet up into the Southern Alps. Musterers were (and are) hard, tough men, living a lonely, strenuous and often adventurous life in the mountains, in extremes of summer heat and winter snow." First printing. This New Zealand author's first book. High country of South Island.