BRAILSFORD, BARRY

SECOND REVISED EDITION, WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED 2x HOLOGRAPH LETTERS LOOSELY ENCLOSED, ALSO SIGNED & IN SCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE, WITH FURTHER SIGNATURE TO FULL TITLE PAGE, super octavo, illus stiff card wrappers, white lettering to spine, printed eps, unpaginated prelims + 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine & wrapper edges, sl chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stoneprint Press 1996

KEYWORDS: signed Barry Brailsford New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Maori greenstone pounamu culture

ESLER, LLOYD

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & red lettering to spine, illus title page & prelims, 151pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & wrapper edges, light soiling to front wrapper, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, sm ink scribble on half titlle page)

PUBLISHER: Lloyd Esler 2014

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ whaling sealing maritime nautical south southern conservation

MULGAN, JOHN & WHITEFORD, PETER (Selected & Ed)

Super octavo, illus stiff card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxv + 317pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to spine & wrappers, light creasing & scuffing to wrapper edges- particularly to rear, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: letters correspondence John Mulgan autobiography New Zealand NZ Aotearoa

CAMPBELL, DUNCAN & MOLOUGHNEY, BRIAN (eds.)

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Massey University Press 2022

KEYWORDS: China Chinese New Zealand history

SCOTT, MARY-ANNE

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: One Tree House 2024

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature Mary Anne Scott Anne-Scott fiction

OLSSEN, ERIK

HISTORIAN GEORGE GRIFFITH'S COPY, WITH RESEARCH MATERIAL LOOSELY ENCLOSED, imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 270pp, illus/photos, VG (spine sl cocked, minor fading to board edges, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light wrinkling to ffep & rear eps, occasional light ink annotation throughout- most of notes are separate and lossely enclosed) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, minor scuffing to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Otago history Erik Olssen

BRAILSFORD, BARRY

5 VOL SET, VOLS 1-3 WARMLY SIGNED & INSCRIBED, FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spines, mixed pagination, mostly VG+ (minor scuffing & creasing to spine of vol 1, spines to all vols are lightly faded, sl chafing to wrappers, light tanning to page edges, sl creasing/rubbing to wrapper edges, light cracking to front gutter of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: Stoneprint Press N/D (c.1996-98)

KEYWORDS: NZ New Zealand Aotearoa literature novels signed Barry Brailsford chronicles of the stone series

DITTMER, W

FIRST EDITION, LACKS SPINE BUT OTHERWISE SOUND, lg quarto, red buckram boards, coloured illus & lettering to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 119pp, G+ (spine missing- binding still reasonably sound, moderate scuffing & fraying to board & spine extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, minor soiling to boards, moderate cracking to front & rear hinges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, reasonably modern eps- minor soiling, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, other minor foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1907

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Maori traditional myths traditions legends history te ao first editions

WILSON, ELLEN & GRIFFITHS, GEORGE

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown & green lettering to wrappers, 56pp, illus/photos, VG (3cm scuff to base of spine- partially flapping loose, other light scuffing to spine also, light to moderate tanning & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to inside wrappers, minor cracking to front & rear gutters- bottom 3cm separated but still very much attached)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books N/D

KEYWORDS: signed Ellen Wilson George Griffiths New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Clydevale rural farming history

McCRAW, JOHN

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, imperial octavo, stapled illus light card wrappers, 48pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling & glue wrinkling to rear wrapper, sl glue wrinkling to front wrapper, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's glossy photos of Alexandra glued into inside wrappers- ink annotations below photos)

PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1992

KEYWORDS: signed John McCraw New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Central Otago Alex Alexandra disasters mine fire history

CAREY, PETA

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2025

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Fiordland hunting helicopter deer pest control

HARRIS, NORMAN & BLAIR, BOB (foreword)

Small octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Last Side 2010

KEYWORDS: cricket sport Tangiwai disaster history New Zealand

RAMSDEN, ERIC & BUCK, PETER H (Intro) [TE RANGI HIROA]

Ex-library, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine [faded], frontispiece, xix + 295pp, VG- (usual library markings, heavy cracking to front & rear hinge- spine sl flapping, moderate fading & chafing/soiling to spine & boards, moderate scuffing to extrems- some minor surface loss, minor tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1936

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history pioneers early settlers colonialism

PEARCE, DONALD WILLIAM

Quarto, yellow light card wrappers- plastic spiral bound, black lettering to front wrapper, printed inside front wrapper, v + 115pp + 37pp appendices to rear, illus/photos, VG (light tearing to base of front wrapper & prelims, light soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Donald William Pearce 1995

KEYWORDS: family history genealogy Pearce English New Zealand south Canterbury Cornwall

McCORMACK, T

Quarto, plastic spiral bound beige light card wrappers, illus & black lettering to front wrapper, unpaginated prelims + 76pp, illus/photos, VG- (a number of black plastic 'teeth' of spiral binding missing- page block & wrappers partially loosened, light foxing/soiling & creasing to wrappers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: T McCormack 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history surveying mountaineering Westland department of conservation doc

SINCLAIR, BRUCE

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, green light card wrappers- plastic spiral bound, black lettering & illus to front wrapper, unpaginated prelims + 106pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & chafing/soiling to wrappers, light tanning to page edges, bottom spiral at rear wrapper untucked)

PUBLISHER: Bruce Sinclair / NZ Forest Service 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ forestry history timber industry West Coast

BULLER, WALTER LAWRY & KEULEMANS, J G (Lithographs) & TURBOTT, E G (Ed)

ARCHIVAL REPAIR TO SLIPCASE, folio, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt bird illus to front board, marbled eps, frontispiece, xviii + 261pp, 48 lovely colour plates- all counted & present, VG (light tanning to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, gift inscription in ink to half tite page, sl foxing to prelims, minor foxing to plates- isolated to edges only, minor discolouration to verso of plate pgs) in d/w, VG (minor creasing to creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling/tanning, all corners lightly clipped) in slipcase, VG- (heavy scuffing & cracking to edges- considerable [but tidy] archival tape repairs, moderate tanning & soiling, other patches of scuffing/surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls Publishers 1979

KEYWORDS: Buller's bullers birds art painting ornithology New Zealand NZ

STEWART, MARY

FIRST EDITION. Sm octavo, green card boards, spine lettered in gilt; 335 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims; heavy annotations in black ink to fep); in d/w VG- (moderate soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems w moderate chipping; moderate tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1861

KEYWORDS: Mary Stewart modern first edition novel New Zealand

KEMPTHORNE, RENATUS

Quarto, light card covers; photos; 294 pp.; VG+ (light rubbing to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w sl curling; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Te Hui Amorangi o Te Waipounamu 2000

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Maori religion religious Christian Christianity mission

WAEREA, JAMES

Second edition. Quarto, illus. light card covers; illus., unpaginated; VG- (moderate soiling to covers, some scribbed in pencil; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, some chipping to spine; light to moderate foxing & soiling to page edges & prelims/terminals).

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's books literature fiction illustrated