Hard To Find Books
Books

Search For Hard To Find Books

Advanced Search

Books - "new zealand"

Showing 18921 to 18940 of 22278 results.

$245.00
1q1a/14

New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History with Special Reference to the Results of Government Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson


VON HOCHSTETTER, Dr FERDINAND & SAUTER, EDWARD (Trans)

ALL PLATES & BOTH MAPS PRESENT, imperial octavo, teal/blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine, gilt illus & blind decoration to front board, marbled page edges, illus/patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 515pp, folding maps to rear, G+ (spine completely detached but present- with minor chipping also, moderate scuffing to board extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, 5cm tear to front gutter, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lettering to rear eps in pencil, minor closed tearing & foxing to folding maps)

PUBLISHER: J G Cotta 1867

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geography natural history geology Auckland Nelson

$65.00
1q27b/2

Shane Cotton


COTTON, SHANE & SAVAGE, PAULA (Preface)

Quarto, illus light card covers with lg french flaps, blue & black lettering to spine, 152pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: City Gallery Wellington / Victoria University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artists Shane Cotton contemporary exhibitions appreciation

$50.00
1y48a/31

The New Zealand Herald, Friday November 13, 1863 (Facsimile Reprint)


N/A

FACSIMILE REPRINT OF FIRST ISSUE OF NZ HERALD, elephant folio, facsimile reprint newspaper- folded, 6pp, VG+ (folded to size, occasional sl closed tearing to edges)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Herald 1863 (Facsimile Reprint)

KEYWORDS: printed news history NZ New Zealand Herlad facsimile reprints 1863 first issues past newspapers historical

$40.00
1y48a/42

Pioneering in Otago: The Recollections of William Ayson


AYSON, WILLIAM

SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & lettering to front board, frontispiece, 109pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate staining to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed N/D (c.1937)

KEYWORDS: signed limited editions William Ayson New Zealand history Otago autobiography autobiographies memoir pioneers settlers

$45.00
1u35a/9

Eye Surgeons and Surgery in New Zealand


HADDEN, O BRUCE & McGHEE, CHARLES N J (Fore)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ALSO HOLOGRAPH SIGNED DATED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENC., super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, frontispiece, 304pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, light chafing to boards, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Wairau Press 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand medical history opthamology eye surgery surgeons healthcare signed O Bruce Hadden

$125.00
w1a/11

Auckland Weekly News 1908, Christmas Number


N/A

Folio, illus stapled light card covers, printed inside covers, 64pp, illus/photos, VG- (v heavy scuffing to spine with surface loss, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to cover edges- some tape repairs to inside covers, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling throughout)

PUBLISHER: Wilson & Horton 1908

KEYWORDS: Auckland weekly news issues past years New Zealand papers history historical

$100.00
w14a/15

New Zealand, the Britain of the South; with a Chapter on the Native War, and Our Future Native Policy


HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES

2x FOLDING MAPS, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine & front board, folding map/frontispiece, xv + 519pp, VG (light to moderate rubbing & tanning to spine & board edges/extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, residue of ex-libris plate to front pastedown, light soiling to eps, some closed tearing & foxing to folding maps, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1861

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonial governance

$25.00
2f9d/24

Larry & Viv


LAY, GRAEME

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. 287; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Renaisance Publishing 2022

KEYWORDS: Graeme Lay 21st century fiction New Zealand Australia

$45.00
2f5b/12

Just who does he think he is? A theatrical life


WEBBY, GEORGE

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. 311; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep).

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2006

KEYWORDS: George Webby 20th century life lives biography autobiography memoir New Zealand

$40.00
2f5b/16

Dark Empire


HORROCKS, JOHN

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. 256; illus. light card covers; frontis., photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2020

KEYWORDS: John Horrocks 21st century New Zealand historical fiction

$40.00
2f5b/17

Sweeping the Courtyard: The selected poems of Michael Harlow


HARLOW, MICHAEL

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. [8] + 174; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Cold Hub Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Michael Harlow New Zealand poet poetry selected poems

$40.00
2f5b/21

Au pays du long nuage blanc: Journal: Wellington Aout 2003-janvier 2004


JULIET, CHARLES

TEXT IN FRENCH. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Sm 8vo, pp. 201; white light card covers; covers lettered in blue; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: P.O.L 2005

KEYWORDS: Charles Juliet France French New Zealand journal diary 21st century

$40.00
2f5b/33

New Zealand Manual for Male Chauvanist Pigs


BROOKS, BRIAN

12mo, pp. [4] + 68; pink light card covers; lettering to covers in white; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Brian Brooks male female relationships social behaviour liberty women women's liberation

$145.00
2f5b/36

Verse Alive


RHODES, H WINSTON & GLOVER, DENIS (ed)

Crown 8vo, pp. 38; yellow light card covers lettered in black; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1936

KEYWORDS: New Zealand verse poetry poets poems The Caxton Press 20th century

$50.00
w14a/27

Alone in the Sky


BATTEN, JEAN & WILLIAMS, L R (Drawings)

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED ON TIPPED IN PLATE, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, 190pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor tanning)

PUBLISHER: Technical Books / Airlife Publishing 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders aviation history aviators Jean Batten autobiography autobiographies memoir signed

$725.00
1y6a/1

Red Deer Stalking in New Zealand


DONNE, T E

Octavo, orange/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt stag illus to front board, blind rule to spine & board edges, teg, deckled/roughcut page edges, frontispiece, xii + 270pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (spine sl cocked, minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate soiling & discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Co 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand hobbies hunting red deer stalking camping history historical

$40.00
1y6a/4

Whim-Wham Verses 1943


WHIM-WHAM (CURNOW, ALLEN)

Octavo, stapled light card covers, black & green lettering to front cover, 47pp, VG+ (light to moderate tanning & sl foxing to covers- minor creasing also, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Progressive Publishing Society N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers literature Allen Curnow Whim Wham poetry poems verse

$40.00
1y6a/5

Notes on the Geography and Rocks of the Ranges Between the Pyke and Matukituki Rivers, North-west Otago


BENSON, W N & HOLLOWAY, J T

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY W N BENSON, super octavo, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 24pp + folding map & plates to rear, VG- (heavy creasing & tanning to cover edges, moderate to heavy tearing to base of spine area, moderate creasing to page edges, minor rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology landscapes geography rocks rock formations signed W N Benson J T Holloway Otago south island

$60.00
1y6a/6

The Man Who Would Have Been Blamed, and Other Stories


FOX, JULIAN PEASE

SIGNED, octavo, grey stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, VG (light to moderate creasing & tanning/soiling to covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: J P F (N/D)

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Julian Pease Fox literature

$125.00
2f5b/42

Inhale/Exhale


WARD, VINCENT; HORROCKS, ROGER & CLIFFORD, ANDREW

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Fol., pp. 155; illus. heayv card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderare bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate soiling throughout); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Ron Sang 2012

KEYWORDS: Vincent Ward New Zealand art artist photos photography photographer

site powered by - Turboweb :: Simple Web Manager