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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - July 1981 [Vol. 61, No.1]

By: [King, Stephen (contributor)]; Edward L. Ferman (editor)

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: Cornwall, Connecticut, Mercury Press: 1981

Seller ID: 22144

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine faded to white. Front cover with price in green ink pen. Some age toning / browning to pages.; 159, [3] pages. Page dimensions: 193 x 130mm. This issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is the fourth of five issues that contained stories that later became Stephen King's novel "The Gunslinger". The story in this July 1981 issue is "The Slow Mutants".
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Maxwell's Guide Book to the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, from the Nith to the Cree.

By: [Kirkcudbright]

Price: NZ$89.01

Publisher: Castle Douglas, Printed and Published at the "Advertiser" Steam Press Works: 1878

Seller ID: 15318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Some rubbing to joints and edges of boards. Early owner's signature "Thomas Maclean".; Other ShareThis Tell A Friend About This Item Add to Shopping Cart Author Name: [Kirkcudbright] Title: Maxwell's Guide Book to the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, from the Nith to the Cree. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket Publisher: Castle Douglas Printed and Published at the "Advertiser" Steam Press Works 1878 Seller ID: 15318 Third edition. 133, [3] pages + small colour folding map "Kirdcudbright Shire" + plates + lviii, [1] pages advertisem...
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Snow White

By: [Kubasta, Voitech]

Price: NZ$67.50

Publisher: London, Bancroft & Co.: [1961]

Seller ID: 19083

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Previous owner's inscription.; No date [1961]. 8 pop-up scenes. Page dimensions: 253 x 190mm. Printed in Czechoslovakia.
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Volume VIII. Session 1855-56.

By: [Lancashire and Cheshire, Historic Society of]

Price: NZ$108.00

Publisher: London, J. H. Parker: 1856

Seller ID: 15228

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Staining and rubbing to boards. 1/2" missing to cloth at tail of spine. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature "Alfred Jones 1856". Foxing and dust stains. ; xxiii, [1], 274 pages + 16 plates, maps, and tables. Contemporary blind-stamped brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 223 x 137mm. Selected contents of this volume: "On the State of the Western Portion of the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland, down to the period of the Norman Conquest", by John Hodgson Hinde; "On the Saxon Element, in the Diction of English Poetry", by David Buxton; "On Babylon; and on the Discovery of the Cuneiform Chara...
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Report on the Mining Industry of New Zealand - Being Papers Laid Before the Parliament during the Session of 1886

By: [Larnach, W. J. M. (Hon.) (Minister of Mines); Gordon, H. A. (F.G.S., Inspecting Engineer)]

Price: NZ$162.00

Publisher: Wellington, George Didsbury: 1887

Seller ID: 20037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Some rubbing to boards. Some foxing. No signatures. A small a 1" split to gutter at top of front hinge. Split to gutter along length of rear hinge. ; [iv], 336 pages + plates (some folding). Folding tables included within the pagination. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 134mm. Black coated endpapers. Illustrations.
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Sword and Gown

By: [Lawrence, George Alfred]

Price: NZ$40.50

Publisher: London, John W. Parker and Son: 1859

Seller ID: 11708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Ex-library, Riwaka Library (a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library, Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka, in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island.) Rebound in 19th Century half-leather library binding. Remnants of paper library label on spine. A 2 1/2" split to leather at lower end of rear joint. Joints rubbed. 3/8" chips to leather at corners of boards.; [ii], 311, [1] pages + 2 pages advertisements. Lacking the half-title page? Half-calf binding. Gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Page dimensions: 182 x 120mm. A novel. "Here another champion of mu...
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Featherston Military Training Camp - Being a Record of its Wonderful Growth and Daily Operation - Soldiers in the Making - The Work of the Camp Described and Illustrated

By: [Lawson, Will]

Price: NZ$67.50

Publisher: Auckland, Brett Printing and Publishing Coy.: [1917]

Seller ID: 20662

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-private library, with library classification label on corner of front cover, and ex libris bookplate "Frank G. Glen" on inside of front wrapper. 2" tear at tail of spine. Small tears, chips, and rubbing to margins of wrappers. ; First printing. 112 pages + 4 colour plates + 2 folding panoramic plates. Page dimensions: 223 x 142mm. Numerous in-text illustrations. [Reference: Bagnall L246]
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Image for Le Sage's Historical, Genealogical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas, Exhibiting All the Royal Families in Europe, their Origin, Descent, Marriages, &c. [. . .]

Le Sage's Historical, Genealogical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas, Exhibiting All the Royal Families in Europe, their Origin, Descent, Marriages, &c. [. . .]

By: [Le Sage]

Price: NZ$607.50

Publisher: London, Printed for R. Juigne: 1818

Seller ID: 21091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Condition is fair only. Binding poor. Cloth boards heavily rubbed and stained. Hinges broken. Some chips to letterpress on some plates. One plate detached from the stub (Number XV, England), this plate also with some chips and tears to the letterpress. One plate with very heavy foxing (Number XXIX, Germany). Map of Americas is very good with light uniform foxing, but with upper border to the letterpress cropped. Double page world map with creasing. ; "Second Edition" stated on title page. [2 (recto: Title, verso: blank)], (1)-2 (Introduction), [2 (recto: Subscribers, verso: blank)] + 39 doubl...
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Image for A Short and Easy Method with the Deists: To which are added, A Letter from the Author to a Deist, upon his conversion by reading his book. And the Truth of Christianity Demonstrated, in a dialouge betwixt a Christian and a Deist: wherein the case of the Jew is likewise considered.

A Short and Easy Method with the Deists: To which are added, A Letter from the Author to a Deist, upon his conversion by reading his book. And the Truth of Christianity Demonstrated, in a dialouge betwixt a Christian and a Deist: wherein the case of the Jew is likewise considered.

By: [Leslie, Charles]

Price: NZ$47.25

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: [c1887]

Seller ID: 21575

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

40mm tear to cloth at tail of front joint. Narrow splits to gutters at endpapers. Previous owner's signature on title page. ; No date [c1887]. 141, [1] pages + [2] pages advertisements. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 175 x 102mm.Title page does not give the author's name. Front board however with gilt title "Leslie's Method with the Deists".
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The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL. D. , Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources

By: [Livingstone, David]

Price: NZ$310.50

Publisher: London, John G. Murdoch / Adam & Co.:

Seller ID: 000173

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

No date (c. 1878) . Viii, 632 pages + color map of Africa + color frontis + 18 tinted lithographs. All edges gilt. Full leather binding with elaboarate gilt decorations on both covers and spine showing foliage, a lion attacking a man, and a man in manacles. Hinges reinforced internally with tape. 6" split to leather along rear joint. 3" split to lower end of front hinge. One plate is detached but present. Book measures 12 1/4" by 9 7/8". ; 4to
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The Waif: A Collection of Poems

By: [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (ed.)]

Price: NZ$60.75

Publisher: Cambridge [MA], John Owen: 1845

Seller ID: 11406

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Poor. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Rebound. This book has old dampstains and mould stains to the margins of most leaves. A reading copy only, not in collectable condition. ; Stated "Fourth Edition" on title page, published in the same year as the first edition. xi, [3], 144 pages. Half-leather binding with patterned paper on boards. Boards detached. Spine missing. Leather rubbed and chipped at corners of boards. Internally good. Some foxing and light staining and fingermarks to leaves. Page dimensions: 177 x 103mm. Early inscription on front fly leaf: "To Fanny on her birth-day Oct...
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Image for The Hermit: or, the Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprizing Adventures, of Philip Quarll, an Englishman: Who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-sea; where he lived above fifty years [. . .]

The Hermit: or, the Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprizing Adventures, of Philip Quarll, an Englishman: Who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-sea; where he lived above fifty years [. . .]

By: [Longueville, Peter]

Price: NZ$155.25

Publisher: London, Printed for the Book-Sellers: 1790

Seller ID: 10523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

An imaginary voyage, in the "Robinson Crusoe" genre of fiction. iv, 272 pages. Lacking the frontispiece (facsimile of the frontispiece included loosely). Page dimensions: 165 x 95mm. Full leather binding, worn. Leather split along entire length of both joints. Loss of leather at corners of boards. A 2" x 1/2" piece of leather missing from rear board. Hinges broken. Internally good. Very early library label partly removed from front endpaper "Kendricks Circulating Library". Early owner's signatures, including "John Jones" on rear endpaper. ; 16mo
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The Settler's Handbook of New Zealand - Compiled by Direction of the Hon. the Minister of Lands

By: [Loughnan, Robert Andrew (1841-1934)]

Price: NZ$87.75

Publisher: Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer: 1902

Seller ID: 21753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued

"The Epsom Trust" label on front endpaper. Previous owner's signature in pencil on title page. Split to gutter between pages iv and v. Folding maps in very good condition. ; ix, [1], 320 pages + 2 large folding maps (North Island; South Island). No addenda facing page vi in this copy. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 137mm. "Of Crown lands there are available, roughly speaking, some 11,000,000 acres. They are for the most part situated in districts to which as yet no roads have been made." - page 1. Contents: Preface; Contents; The Public Lands; The Publ...
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Drifted and Sifted: A Domestic Chronicle of the Seventeenth Century

By: [Maclaren, Jessie]

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: London, William P. Nimmo: 1878

Seller ID: 15664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Ink gift inscription dated 1882 on the presentation leaf. Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper of James Horsburgh, Dunedin. Ex-libris Hardwicke Knight with his blind name stamp on the title leaf. Some dampstains to margins of endpapers, otherwise very good. ; vii, [1], 391, [1] pages + 1 colour plate ("Presented to" leaf at beginning) + [4] pages advertisements. Green cloth boards with elaborate gilt decoration to spine and front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. All page edges gilt. An historical novel. "Therefore, clambering all over the dark whinstone housefront were flowers of the most...
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Maggs - Catalogue 1312 - Botany

By: [Maggs Bros]

Price: NZ$27.00

Publisher: London, Maggs Bros: (2001)

Seller ID: 19647

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue. [120] pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 137mm. 894 items, totalling 347,600. Includes an interesting three page "Afterword" making comparisons between this catalogue and a 1970 catalogue on Botany prepared by the same cataloguer, and looking at how some of the high spot titles from the 1970 catalogue have since performed at auction.
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Maggs - Catalogue 1274 - Summer 1999 - Modern Literature

By: [Maggs Bros]

Price: NZ$27.00

Publisher: London, Maggs Bros: 1999

Seller ID: 19648

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued

Some marginalia.; Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue. [160] pages. Printed thin card covers. Page dimensions: 215 x 140mm. 448 items. Some illustrations.
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The Material Mansfield

By: [Mansfield, Katherine]; edited by Laurel Harris, Mary Morris & Joanna Woods

Price: NZ$74.00

Publisher: Auckland, Random House: [2008]

Seller ID: 22342

ISBN: 1869790146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

No signatures.; 120 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 230 x 209mm. A catalogue of items belonging to or associated with New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield, held in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Includes books, household items, postcards, tin trunk, locks of hair, passport, music scores, shot-gun, etc. Numerous colour illustrations.
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Image for Ko Nga Upoko Ewitu O Te Pukapuka A Te Poropiti A Raniera: Me Te Pukapuka Ano Hoki A Te Poropiti A Hona: He Kupa ra no te Paipera, ko ia hoki te Pukapuka a Ihowa te Atua pono [Maori Bible Extract]

Ko Nga Upoko Ewitu O Te Pukapuka A Te Poropiti A Raniera: Me Te Pukapuka Ano Hoki A Te Poropiti A Hona: He Kupa ra no te Paipera, ko ia hoki te Pukapuka a Ihowa te Atua pono [Maori Bible Extract]

By: [Maori Bible (Extract) ]

Price: NZ$162.00

Publisher: Paihia, He Mea Ta I Te Perehi O Nga Mihanere: 1840

Seller ID: 19261

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

A little wear to margins of covers, including a 1/2" tear to margin of rear cover. Pencil marginalia on front wrapper. Insitutional rubber stamp on inside of front wrapper. Foxing to title page. Some foxing to margins throughout. Leaves unopened at upper edges.; 32 pages. Original thick grey paper cover. This is a translation of the first seven chapers of the book of Daniel, together with the book of Jonah. The first six chapters of Daniel had been previously published (as BIM 66; Williams 43). This is the first appearance in Maori of the seventh chapter of Daniel. "The second issue of Puckey'...
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Ko Nga Upoko Ewitu O Te Pukapuka A Te Poropiti A Raniera: Me Te Pukapuka Ano Hoki A Te Poropiti A Hona: He Kupa ra no te Paipera, ko ia hoki te Pukapuka a Ihowa te Atua pono [Maori Bible Extract]

By: [Maori Bible (Extract) ]

Price: NZ$256.50

Publisher: Paihia, He Mea Ta I Te Perehi O Nga Mihanere: 1840

Seller ID: 21136

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Some foxing to title page. Pencil annotation on title page "dup 55/-". A nice copy of this title. ; 32 pages. Original thick grey paper covers. Page dimensions: 193 x 110mm. This is a translation of the first seven chapers of the book of Daniel, together with the book of Jonah. The first six chapters of Daniel had been previously published (as BIM 66; Williams 43). This is the first appearance in Maori of the seventh chapter of Daniel. "The second issue of Puckey's translation of the books of Daniel and Jonah as reviesd by [William] Colenso, with Colenso's translation of the seventh chapter o...
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Ko Te Kawenata Hou o To Tatou Ariki O Te Kai Whakaora O Ihu Karaiti [Maori Bible - New Testament]

By: [Maori Bible (New Testament)]

Price: NZ$648.00

Publisher: Ranana [London], He Mea Ta I Te Perehi O T. R. Harihona Raua Ko Tana Tama: 1852

Seller ID: 12099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Spine leather mostly missing. Leather boards rubbed. A 2 1/2" x 3/8" surface chip shaved from leather on front board. Boards nearly detached, just hanging on by the cloth tape of the hinges. Internally text block in good condition. One corner clipped from title leaf. ; The fifth edition of the New Testament in Maori (the first was in 1837). This is a particularly special and clearly has been a much-loved copy, with extensive neat early (19th century) handwritten marginalia. The front endpaper has closely written neat handwriting in Te Reo Maori (the Maori language) filling the two blank pages,...
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