Books - "history"
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The Coming of the Maori to Ao-tea-roa
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, green stiff card covers, lg illus title plate to front cover, printed inside covers, frontispiece, 23pp, illus, VG (light bruising & soiling to covers- sl tanning also, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing throughout, prev owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1934
KEYWORDS: signed first editions New Zealand history Maori A W Reed
Romance of the Rail: Through the Heart of New Zealand
Octavo, illus stapled light card covers, 65pp, illus, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate tanning to covers, sm gouge to rear cover, moderate rusting to staples, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor tearing at front gutter to staples, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, author's signature tipped in to verso of intro page, light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: W A G Skinner, Govt Printer 1928
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history rail railways trains James Cowan
Japanese Terror in China
FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card covers, 222pp, VG- (heavy creasing/scuffing & fading/discolouration to spine, moderate creasing & tanning/foxing to covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, occasional minor cracking to gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Thacker, Spink & Co 1938
KEYWORDS: first editions military war history Japan China Japanese Chinese
With the Cameliers in Palestine
Octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece, 244pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking & soiling to spine, moderate scuffing to board extrems, heavy soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev, ownership markings to front pastedown, heavy scuff/paper residue to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters, some terminal pages may be missing, light to moderate soiling & foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1938
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history cameliers mounted imperial camel brigade Palestine middle east