CARMAN, ERIC

SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card wrappers, frontispiece, 116pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing, soiling & foxing to wrappers, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & inside wrappers, prev. owners' details in ink to full title page)

PUBLISHER: The News Limited N/D (c.1980)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed history Eric Carman

TAYLOR, RICHARD

Quarto, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, red lettering to spine, 216pp, illus/photos, VG (minor water damage to head of wrappers & page block- minor wrinkling & staining, light chafing & soiling to wrappers, light tanning to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter, presentation plate tipped in to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Cosmos Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ military history Hauraki regiment

PHILLIPS, F L & GILMOUR, H R

FIRST EDITION, ex-library, quarto, burgundy heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated illus prelims, 383pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate fading & bruising/rubbing to base of spine & front board, spine sl cocked, light bruisng to extrems, moderate to heavy adhesive staining to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, adhesive strips to front & rear gutters, adhesive staining to front & rear eps & prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy adhesive staining, tidy tape reinforcement to internal creases/edges)

PUBLISHER: Richards Publishing 1980

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Aotearoa NZ military history 24th twentyfourth infantry battalion

CLEMENT, CHRISTINE (Ed) & ROBERTSON, LYNE (Ed) & LEWIS, MAREE (Ed)

SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS, quarto, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, 399pp, illus, VG (minor bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing/soiling & tanning to boards, light to moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's inscription in ink to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Te Puke History Project 2007

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Aotearoa NZ Te Puke history

LEWIS, LAURA

Quarto, illus light card wrappers, brown lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 165pp + family trees to rear, illus/photos, VG (light tanning & rubbing to spine, light to moderate creasing to wrapper edges, sl chafing & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor cracking to rear gutter)

PUBLISHER: Laura Lewis 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history early settlers genealogy Laura Lewis

SULLIVAN, ROBERT & BISHOP, GAVIN (Illus)

REPRINT, imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, teal lettering to blue spine, illus eps, 120pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, light chafing to boards, sl soiling to page edges, minor child's pencil scribble to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Random House 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ myths legends te ao Maori culture illustrated children's Gavin Bishop literature

N/A

SCARCE! Oblong octavo, illus stapled wrappers, printed inside wrappers, unpaginated, illus/photos, G+ (heavy scuffing/surface loss & moderate creasing to wrappers/edges, moderate soiling to wrappers, 2cm closed tear to base of wrappers & whole page block, other multiple sm tears to staples at spine area)

PUBLISHER: Wilson & Horton 1901

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ military history Auckland souvenir progarmmes programs imperial guard of honour honor

SIMMONS, ALFRED

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to board edges, folding map to prelims, 143pp, VG- (light to moderate soiling & rubbing/bruising to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters- boards shaky, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford 1879

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history colonial

AIKMAN, LORNA (ed.)

Quarto, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, 273 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to covers, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping, some loss to cover at tail; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Lorna Aikman 2023

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Opotiki Gisborne 19th 20th century social local

EDWARDS, HELEN

Quarto, yellow light card wrappers, blue lettering to spine & wrappers, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 103pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine & upepr edge of front wrapper, sl chafing to wrappers, sl soiling to page edges, inscription in ink [signed Helen Edwards 26/12/03] to title page)

PUBLISHER: Helen Edwards 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history letters correspondence McCulloch family

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

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

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