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By: N/A
Price: NZ$58.00
Publisher: Dunedin, Knox College Association: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9236
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
No signatures. Slight rubbing to head of spine. ; 308 pages + plates + frontis. Grey papered boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 210mm x 134mm. "With the publication of this Register, Knox College records in permanent form its history and the achievements of Old-Knox Men. Knox College is young when compared with similar institutions in Australia and the United Kingdom, but nevertheless in its own way has achieved a worthy place among the residential Colleges and Halls of New Zealand." - from the foreword. ; 8vo View more info
By: N/A
Price: NZ$43.50
Publisher: London, Adams Bros.: (1913)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21306
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Covers rubbed. Corners of leaves creased and worn.; Uncommon. 32 pages. Printed grey wrappers. Page dimensions: 223 x 143mm. Illustrated. Tourist guide. Contents includes: Rajuputana Hotel; Temples of Dilwara; Achalgarh Fort and Temples; Nakki (Gem) Lake; Guru Sikhar; Trevor Tal; Walks and Hill Paths, &c. View more info
By: N/A
Price: NZ$72.50
Publisher: Ballarat, H. J. Summerscales: [1906]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21311
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Covers stained, with chips to corners. Title page with dust stains. Some creasing and curling to corners of leaves.; No date [1906]. [36] pages. Printed maroon covers. Page dimensions: oblong 360 x 144mm. Australian regional history, Ballarat, Victoria. View more info
By: N/A
Price: NZ$87.00
Publisher: Wellington, George Didsbury, Government Printer: 1872
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21312
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Heavy fading and dampstains to cloth boards. Front free endpaper torn out. Otherwise very good internally.; [2 (title leaf)], [2 (recto - Rules for the Library, verso blank)], 204 pages + 17, [1 (blank)] pages Supplementary Catalogue. Maroon cloth boards. Page dimensions: 239 x 148mm. A catalogue of titles held by the New Zealand government's General Assembly Library, arranged according to subject. View more info
By: N/A
Price: NZ$29.00
Publisher: Canterbury, N.Z., Burnham Camp: [c1916?]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21384
Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
No owner's names.; Greeting card. Inside is an aerial photogaph of Burnham Camp, laid down on white card, with tissue guard. Photograph measures oblong 146 x 91mm. Card covers measure oblong 176 x 125mm. View more info
By: N/A
Price: NZ$39.00
Publisher: [Dunedin], [s.n.]: [1969]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21390
Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
A few marks to covers.; Printed card covers, loose inside are 2 folded leaves listing 68 paintings, 7 graphics, 19 drawings and 2 sculptures by artist Ralph Hotere with dimensions and prices. Dimensions of covers: oblong 248 x 178mm. Dimensions of leaves: oblong 247 x 171mm. On the inside of the front cover is printed the poem "Hotere" by Hone Tuwhare, Centennial Burns Fellow. The poem begins: "When you offer only three / vertical lines precisely drawn / and set into a dark pool of lacquer / it is a visual kind of starvation:" The inside of the rear cover lists exhibitions of H... View more info
By: N/A
Price: NZ$50.00
Publisher: Saigon, The Vietnam Council on Foreign Relations: [c1970]
Seller ID: 21445
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inscription on title page dated 1972.; No date [c1970]. 60 pages. Colour illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: oblong 221 x 147mm. Black and white illustrations. Rear covers has: "Reprinted for the Information Centre of the Republic of Vietnam in the South Pacific by Bryce Francis Limited." Contents: The Land; The People; A Glimpse of History; The Republic of Vietnam; Foreign Relations; The Economy; Education; Intellectual and Artistic Expression; Faiths and Worship. View more info
By: "Ganpat" (M. L. A. Gompertz)
Price: NZ$43.50
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: (1963)
Seller ID: 21405
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Some foxing. Spine faded. 14mm tears to lower ends of joints. ; No date [1927]. viii, 304 pages + [8] pages advertisements for "A Selection From Hodder and Stoughton's List of 2/- Net Novels". Red boards with blind-stamped pattern on front board. Black lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 176 x 110mm. A novel, set in Ladakh. "Here is the book now finished - written mostly at the end of the day's marches in the Ladakh valleys, under the high passes." - from the author's printed dedication to Nan Wiseman. "Were they not the first people on the ground, and the... View more info
By: A Pakeha Maori [Maning, Frederick Edward]
Price: NZ$215.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder and Co.: (1863)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21310
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Boards slightly warped. 3mm missing at tail of spine. Paper adhering to upper margins of boards. Dampstains to endpapers. Narrow split to gutter at front hinge. Internally near very good. Minor dampstain to title leaf.; First UK edition, published in the same year as the first two New Zealand editions. viii, 216 pages. Original blind-stamped brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 124mm.Selected contents: First view of New Zealand; A Maori Chief's notions of trading in the Old Times; The Market Price of a Pakeha; Maori Mermaids; Maori Law; How I P... View more info
Price: NZ$43.50
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21325
Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket
Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Gutters split at hinges. Adhesive tape stains to boards and dust-jacket. Dampstain to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xi, [i], 177, [1] pages + 1 folding map. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and black panel on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. "Professor Aitken's account of a year in the life of a New Zealand infantryman, 1915-16, now first published nearly fifty years after the events which it describes, may be hailed with confidence as a classic contribution to the literature of the First World War." - from... View more info
By: Allen, Ralph
Price: NZ$29.00
Publisher: Dunedin, Otago Heritage Books: (1994)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7080
ISBN: 0908774028
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
A revised edition of an earlier work by William Martin. 80 pages. Illustrated in colour and b&w. Number 3 in the publisher's "Southern Heritage 150" series. Contents: Introduction; Salient Features of the Vegetation; How the Plants Speak; Plants of the Sea Coast; Plants of Swamp and Marsh; Plants of Bogs and Peaty Soils; Herbaceous Plants of the Forest Floor; Climbers, Scramblers, Perchers and Parasites; The Shrubs; The Trees; The Ferns and Lycopods; References; Index.; 8vo View more info
By: An Old Colonist [Pratt, William]
Price: NZ$116.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1877
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18663
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
No signatures. Cloth boards moderately rubbed. Some wrinkles to cloth spine. Small 1/4" chips to cloth at tips of corners of boards. 1/4" loss of cloth at tail of spine. Gutters split at hinges. Rear free endpaper replaced in non-matching colour (original endpapers are coated blue-green, replacement rear free endpaper is coated brown. The folding map has a 4" tear and moderate foxing.; Uncommon. vi, [2], 288 pages + folding map of the South Island. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped decoration to boards. Blue-green coated endpapers. The folding map, "... View more info
Price: NZ$58.00
Publisher: Adyar, Madras, Theosophical Publishing House: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21352
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Ex-Theosophical Society Library, Oamaru, New Zealand, with card pocket at rear. Front free endpaper cut out, and half-title page cut along half of inner margin. ; This copy with a "PRESENTATION COPY." rubber stamp on title page. vi, [2], 286, [2 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine, gilt lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 118mm. "The following chapters are reprinted from a series of Correspondence Studies on 'At the Feet of the Master' which I have been writing for the last two years on behalf of the Order of the Servants of the Star." -... View more info
By: Bartlett, Henrietta C. & Alfred W. Pollard
Price: NZ$250.00
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1939
Seller ID: 21272
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Previous owner's pencil signature. Newspaper clipping from 1867 pasted to rear endpaper. ; An edition of 500 copies. Revised and extended edition. The first edition of this title was published in 1939. This edition is revised and extended by one of the two original authors, Henrietta C. Bartlett. This edition gives details of additional copies. [2 (blank)], v, 165, [1], [2 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and publisher's emblem on spine. Page dimensions: 254 x 187mm (10" x 7 3/8"). For many of the early quarto editions of Shakespearian quartos, only half a dozen or... View more info
By: Bathgate, John; edited by A. H. Reed
Price: NZ$43.50
Publisher: Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed for the Dunedin Public Library Association: (1952)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21383
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Previous owner's pencil signature "G J Griffiths / July 1971". Large 110mm tear to front panel of dust-jacket, with adhesive tape stains. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Three newspaper clippings on John Bathgate loosely included, two are dated 1952, and the third 1954.; This copy is number 446 of the cloth-bound edition of 500 numbered copies, signed by the editor "A H Reed". 36 pages. Illustrated. Blue cloth boards with black title on front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 136mm. Dust-jacket title: "Bathgate Expeditions: Dunedin and New Zealand in the Sixties&... View more info
By: Best, Elsdon
Price: NZ$65.00
Publisher: Wellington, New Zealand, John Mackay, Government Printer: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002324
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Viii, 107 pages. Illustrated. Original paper wrappers. 1.25" tear to wrapper at head of spine. Some creasing and rubbing to wrappers. Wrappers browning. No signatures. Staples rusting. Bagnall B745.; 4to View more info
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By: Best, Elsdon
Price: NZ$500.00
Publisher: New Plymouth, The Board of Maori Ethnological Research: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21436
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Some fading to cloth. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper of each volume. Minor foxing. Volume two with wrinkle to cloth at corner of front board.; Two volumes (complete). Volume One: vii, [5], 1211 pages + 2 plates. Page dimensions: 212 x 135mm. Volume Two: 8, (47) pages of Genealogical Tables + folding sheet with two maps (1 on each side of the sheet) in pocket at rear. Page dimensions: oblong 271 x 211mm. "Apirana Ngata once said of Best that 'it may be doubted whether he had the gift of condensation'; however, this reluctance to generalise was more than compensated for b... View more info
By: Bhanu Hajratwala (Preface); illustrated by Bhupendra Hajratwala
Price: NZ$35.00
Publisher: Dunedin, India Society (Otago/Southland): (1977)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21346
Condition: Fair with No dust jacket as issued
Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Covers heavily rubbed. Adhesive tape on spine and covers.; Uncommon. [iv], 71, [1 (blank)] pages. Illustrated orange card covers. Page dimensions: 199 x 139mm. Contents: Preface; Introduction to Indian Cookery; Recipes - Snacks; Breads; Meat Dishes; Vegetable Dishes; Fish Dishes; Rice Dishes; Chutneys; Sweets. View more info
Price: NZ$70.00
Publisher: Dunedin, Stone, Son & Co.: (1931)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21382
Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
Some rubbing to corners of covers. Some foxing to covers. Some rusting to staples. ; Uncommon. [16] pages. Printed grey card wrappers. Cover title: "Centenary of Otago Settlement {"OTAKOU"} - Dunedin - 1831-1931 - History of Otago ["Otakou"]". Page dimensions: 217 x 137mm. 4 illustrations. Contents: Foreword by R. S. Black, the Mayor of Dunedin; List of members of the Centenary Committee; list of members of the Ball Committee; Official Programme; Foreword; "Antiquity of Man at Otakou" by R. H. Steele; "The Times of Taiaroa" by H. D. Skinner; "The Br... View more info
Price: NZ$65.00
Publisher: [Dunedin?], [A. H. & A. W. Reed]: [c1939]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21307
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Title leaf torn out.; New Zealand edition. (3)-286, [2] pages. Lacking the title leaf. Illustrated papered boards with green cloth spine. Black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 183 x 122mm. No plates in this edition. A description of the author's life in the Kingdom of Tonga. This New Zealand edition is not listed in Bagnall or in "The House of Reed -1907-1957". A UK edition was published in London by Arthur H. Stockwell, 1939. View more info
