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$12.50
xxsew93931

The Year of Adverbs


SMITHER, ELIZABETH

First edition, 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature poetry poems

$345.00
2s6/44

A Man and His Wife


SARGESON, FRANK

First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, 113pp + 2pp book ads, G+ only (heavy dampstaining & soiling to boards, front & rear hinges cracked, gutters cracked at several points, moderate tanning & foxing to eps, less so to page edges) in d/w, G+ only, (heavy staining & soiling, price clipped, damage with loss to flap folds and spine)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1940

KEYWORDS: Frank Sargeson New Zealand literature first edition

$10.00
xxsfc93968

Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist


With a Selection of Harry Holland's Verse

HOLLAND, HARRY & MCNEILL, DOUGALL (Ed)

Octavo softcover (nr fine); 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2016

KEYWORDS: specials Robert Burns Harry Holland Dougall McNeill poetry poet biography literature literary criticism New Zealand politics history

$10.00
xxsfd93997

The Broken Book


FARRELL, FIONA

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: specials Fiona Farrell New Zealand literature fiction novel

$8.50
xxsff94116

Children of the Dog Star


STUTTARD, MARIE

Softcover octavo (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1984

KEYWORDS: Literature science fiction Marie Stuttard New Zealand

$90.00
2s7/11

The Rehearsal


CATTON, ELEANOR

True first edition of Booker prizewinner & her first novel, octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, 317pp, VG+

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: Eleanor Catton New Zealand literature

$22.50
xxsff94145

In Fires of No Return: Poems


BAXTER, JAMES K

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Oxford Unversity Press 1975

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand literature poetry poems

$14.00
xxsfg94186

Winter I Was


O'BRIEN, GREGORY & O'BRIEN, BRENDAN (Ilus)

First edition, 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Gregory O'Brien New Zealand literature poetry poems

$30.00
xxsfj94470

The Seekers


GUTHRIE, JOHN

First edition. Hardcover octavo (VG) in d/w 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: Werner Laurie 1952

KEYWORDS: Literature New Zealand Maori fiction John Guthrie

$9.50
xxsfj94493

Coming Up Roses


LAING, SARAH

Paperback (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: Vintage Books 2007

KEYWORDS: Literature New Zealand Sarah Laing

$9.50
xxsfj94500

Risk


STEAD, C. K.

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: Maclehose 2012

KEYWORDS: Literature political fiction new zealand CK Stead

$10.00
xxsfj94514

The Blind Blonde with Candles in her Hair


STEAD, C. K.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1998

KEYWORDS: specials CK Stead New Zealand literature short stories fiction

$10.00
xxsfl94537

Holocaust Tours


NOVITZ, JULIAN

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Vintage Random House 2006

KEYWORDS: Julian Novitz New Zealand literature novel

$8.50
xxsfl94540

Visitng Ghosts


WHITE, JUDITH

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Sceptre 1991

KEYWORDS: Judith White New Zealand literature short stories

$220.00
2s10/24

Pipe Dreams in Ponsonby: Poems


MITCHELL, DAVID & HANLY, PAT (Illus)

Signed limited numbered first edition, affectionately inscribed, signed & dated to his friend Johnny Macnamara, quarto, black boards with silver lettering to spine & board, orange light card eps, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy tanning to page edges, some staining to boards, sporadic light foxing & tanning to page peripherals) in d/w, VG- (plastic-covered and attached to boards, heavy creasing & scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Association of Orientally FLavoured Syndics / Stephen Chan 1972

KEYWORDS: signed first edition David Mitchell New Zealand literature poetry verse poems

$180.00
1w28/178

The Orange Grove


MITCHELL, DAVID

Scarce first edition, super octavo, grey light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 6pp, VG- (moderately heavy tanning to board and page edges & peripherals, some soiling to wrappers)

PUBLISHER: The Poet's Co-operative 1969

KEYWORDS: first edition David Mitchelll New Zealand literature poetry poem

$75.00
2s11/1

Recent Poems: Allen Curnow, ARD Fairburn, Denis Glover, RAK Mason


CURNOW, ALLEN & FAIRBURN A. R. D. & GLOVER, DENIS & MASON, R. A. K.

First edition, super octavo, blue heavy card boards with darker blue lettering to spine & front board, 51pp, VG- (some tanning to board edges, bruising & light fraying to spine extrems, heavy browning to upper page edges, moderately heavy tanning & foxing to other page edges & eps, some sporadic foxing) in d/w, G+ (heavy browning to spine, moderate tanning & foxing elsewhere, some tatty creasing, chipping & nicks with loss to all edges & corners)

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1941

KEYWORDS: Allen Curnow ARD Fairburn Denis Glover RAK Mason New Zealand literature poetry poems

$10.00
xxsfr95075

Cross the River to Home


KELLY, KAYE

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: Black Swan/ Random House 2004

KEYWORDS: Kaye Kelly New Zealand literature fiction novel

$25.00
xxfij95197

Tales of the Maori Coast


COWAN, J.

Ex library, Capper Press facsimile reprint, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Capper Press 1976

KEYWORDS: J Cowan New Zealand Maori folk tales literature short stories fairy tales mythology

$25.00
ak4/18/2661

The Fig Tree Has Thorns: Poems & Clay Paintings


BEER, CHRISTINA

First edition, octavo softcover with French flaps (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: Alister Taylor 1974

KEYWORDS: first edition Christina Beer New Zealand literature poems poetry

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