MATTHEWS, ELLA

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 216pp, illus/photos, VG (light rubbing/bruising & minor staining to spine & board edges, 1cm chip to top spine extrem, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, sl soiling to photographic pages)

PUBLISHER: Ella Matthews 1957

KEYWORDS: first editions Ella Matthews New Zealand history Buller Nelson Tasman

BARKER, LADY

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, black rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 238pp + catalogue to rear, G+ (light bruising to board extrems, v heavy cracking to front spine/hinge - heavily flapping but still tentatively attached, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to half title page, light to moderate foxing & cracking of gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1871

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural life history historical accounts station stations farming agriculture Lady Barker anecdotes

BEATTIE, H

Octavo, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 20pp, VG (minor tanning & creasing to cover edges, moderate rust staining to staples, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, sl foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: H Beattie 1912

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history place names European south southern Herries Beattie

BEATTIE, HERRIES

SECOND IMPRESSION, octavo, cream light card covers, brown lettering to front cover, 74pp, VG+ (sl tanning & creasing to cover edges, sl cracking to middle of spine, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co 1941

KEYWORDS: Herries Beattie New Zealand history Moriori south island early settlers Polynesians

SIMPSON, IAN (Ed) & ROBERTSON, VIVIENNE (Cover & Sketches)

Octavo, illus white light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & tanning/soiling to spine & covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Waikoikoi District Centennial Committee

KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island history West Coast Waikoikoi

TE MAIHAROA, TAARE & HAYTER, MAUD GOODENOUGH (MOSES, Mrs T) & BEATTIE, HERRIES (Ed)

Octavo, blue/teal stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 38pp, VG+ (light tanning/foxing & creasing to cover edges, sl foxing & soiling to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori heritage culture history folklore lore fairy tales Canterbury Taare te Maiharoa Maud Goodenough Hayter Mrs T Moses

BEATTIE, H

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl soiling to eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, heavy loss to top edge of rear cover, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: TPS / Times Printing Service 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Herries Beattie Otago Southland pioneers

McHUTCHESON, WILLIAM

LACKS MAP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp rule to spine & board edges, patterned eps, frontispiece, ix + 134pp, illus/photos, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to title page, light tanning & foxing/soiling throughout, map torn out & missing)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Gov't Printer 1892

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Suthlerland Falls Fiordland landscape

JOHNSTON, TREVOR (Compiled by) & WRIGHT, LES (Ed)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, red lettering to spine, 276pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Kiwi Wild 2011

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Trevor Johnston Moonlight Atarau pioneers settlers George Fairweather Moonlight

McNEE, GEORGE

Quarto, green stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 25pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history diaries journals George McNee Murchison

PARHAM, W T

Quarto, illus white light card covers, brown lettering to front cover, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 24pp + illus/photos to rear, folding map to rear, VG (light creasing & moderate tanning & foxing to covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, photo pages tanned)

PUBLISHER: Whakatane & District Historical Society 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Lakes District Milford Sound Donald Sutherland biography biographies memoir pioneers

DE LA MARE, A J

Quarto, illus spiral bound covers, black lettering to front cover, illus/maps to prelims, unpaginated prelims + 121pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light cracking to top edge of front plastic cover, sl foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A J de la Mare 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Lakes District Wakatipu history early settlers pioneers

CHILTON, Chas (Ed)

2 VOL SET, FOLDING MAP TO REAR POCKET OF VOL 2, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt penguin illus to front boards, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spines & board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate scuffing & creasing to ffep of vol 1 with 2cm closed tear to base also, moderate scuffing & surface loss to page edges of vol 1 from prev. adhesion- text block mostly unimpeded, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of ffep, occasional scuffing & surface damage/loss to some pgs of vol 2 from prev. adhesion, minor foxing only to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1909

KEYWORDS: geology geography subantarctic islands exploration botany zoology reports history exploration New Zealand south southern

PILLANS, F S

Quarto, beige folder with metal clasps, handwritten black lettering to front cover, 72pp, VG+ (copied pages- expected black copy markings to page edges, page edges roughly cut, otherwise a reasonably tidy copy)

PUBLISHER: None Stated (1958?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers F S Pillan diary journal Inch Clutha Southland

EATON, PEACHES

Quarto, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 100pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & tearing to cover edges & spine, light soiling & chafing, sm numerals in ink to rear cover, minor wrinkling throughout, moderate staining to base of page block)

PUBLISHER: Stanley G P Eaton 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Nelson Creek gold mining prospecting goldmining

McCRAW, JOHN

Quarto, illus light card covers, pale yellow lettering to spine & covers, 146pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & chafing/scuffing to spine & covers/edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history gold mining miners prospectors Central Otago John Ewing biography biographies memoir

KRIGE, UYS

Octavo, teal/aqua buckram boards, red lettering to spine, 384pp, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, light soiling & pencil annotation to ffep, light foxing & newspaper articles glued in to rear eps, light cracking to gutter of pg32/33) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, moderate tanning & rubbing to spine, light tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1946

KEYWORDS: Uys Krige autobiography autobiographies memoir military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war

FOSTER, FRANK & Fiel-Marshal Lord BIRDWOOD OF ANZAC AND TOTNES (Fore)

SIGNED, DATED & WARMLY INSCRIBED, WITH MODERATE WATER DAMAGE, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 144pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to board edges, moderate but faint water damage/staining top edges of spine & front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals, light damp wrinkling to frontispiece) in d/w, VG- (in fully adhesive plastic wrap- fully affixed, price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- sl loss, light rubbing to spine, minor tanning/foxing)

PUBLISHER: Skeffington and Son N/D (c.1946)

KEYWORDS: signed Frank Foster military history autobiography autobiographies memoir

MALLONEE, RICHARD C & MALLONEE II, RICHARD C (Ed)

Octavo, faux leather brown boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 204pp, illus/maps, VG+ (sl bruising to spine & board corners, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Presidio Press 1980

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 campaigns battles Bataan diaries journals Richard C Mallonee Philippines Japanese occupation

GIBBS, PATRICK

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 144pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading/tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with minor loss, moderate tanning to spine & joins/folds, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1961

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 raf royal air force pilots autobiography autobiographies memoir Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs British armed forces