MARTIN, JOHN E.

Signed bookplate loosely enclosed, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus fep, illus title page, 270pp, illus + folding pictorial timeline to rear, nr fine (bookseller's label to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Steel Roberts Publishers 2008

KEYWORDS: John E Martin New Zealand parliamentary library history politics government democracy culture signed

ASTLE, NATHAN & GIFFORD, PHIL

Signed. Softcover super 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa 2007

KEYWORDS: signed specials Nathan Astle Phil Gifford New Zealand sport cricket biography

WILSON, STU & KINGSLEY-JONES, PHIL

Signed by both authors ; hardcover super octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; 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: Moa Beckett Publishers Limited 1993

KEYWORDS: specials Stu Wilson Phil Kingsley-Jones signed by authors New Zealand sport humour rugby

VEYSEY, ALEX [MEADS, COLIN]

First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG) in d/w (VG) ; signed by Alex Veysey and Colin Meads ; 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: William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd 1974

KEYWORDS: first edition signed copy specials Alex Veysey New Zealand biograhy sport rugby All Blacks Colin Meads

STUDHOLME, E. C.

first edition SCARCE Octavo, blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine & black bell motif to front board, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG (cellotape to head of spine) copy of historian F G Hall-Jones, with full page handwritten SIGNED letter from the author to Hall-Jones dated 1941 tipped in on rear ep

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1940

KEYWORDS: EC Studholme New Zealand South Island Waimate history Studholme Junction farming station settlement signed f g hall-jones

SUMMERS, JOHN

Signed limited numbered edition (35 of 150), duodecimo, light blue boards with darker blue cloth spine & blue lettering to front board, 32pp, fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight tanning to edges, 1cm pen mark to upper front edge)

PUBLISHER: Pisces Print 1985

KEYWORDS: signed John Summers New Zealand literature poetry poem

JOHNSON, MIKE

softcover octavo signed first edition (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 1991

KEYWORDS: specials Mike Johnson signed first edition fiction literature novel

WATSON, DON

Inscribed and signed 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: Polygraphia Ltd 2010

KEYWORDS: inscribed signed specials Don Watson New Zealand biography Vic Watson business commerce entrepreneur

HARDING, LEE

Dated, inscribed and signed first edition hardcover super 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia Limited 1977

KEYWORDS: dated inscribed signed first edition Lee Harding literature fiction novel

SUMMERS, JOHN

Limited numbered edition (46/300) signed, small octavo hardcover (fine) in d/w (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Pisces Print 1977

KEYWORDS: signed John Summers New Zealand literature fiction

SMITHYMAN, KENDRICK

First edition thus Softcover octavo (VG) inscribed, signed and dated by author to Judith Binney and Sebastian Black ; 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: Auckland University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: first edition thus signed inscribed dated by author specials Kendrick Smithyman New Zealand literature poetry poet poems

SMITHYMAN, KENDRICK

First edition Softcover octavo (VG) inscribed, signed and dated by author to Sebastian Black ; 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: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press 1972

KEYWORDS: first edition signed inscribed and dated by author specials Kendrick Smithyman New Zealand literature poetry poet poems

GORE, DA'VELLA & KEOWN, WALLACE (Illus)

Inscribed & signed by author, 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: DaVella Gore 2005

KEYWORDS: specials signed Da'Vella Gore Wallace Keown New Zealand Lake Hayes autobiography

HUSBAND, JOHN

inscribed and signed by author, softcover oblong quarto (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: Craig Printing Company 2002

KEYWORDS: specials John Husband inscribed and signed new zealand history drawing painting art invercargill

MACMILLAN, CAPTAIN NORMAN & BATTEN, JEAN

An historically significant Jean Batten ASSOCIATION COPY: dated, signed and inscribed by the AUTHOR in 1931 to VICTOR DOREE, a fellow pioneer WW1 Royal Air Corps pilot, who in 1932 bought JEAN BATTEN her famous 'Gipsy Moth' aeroplane. Thus, it is likely that this copy of this book was a deciding factor in determining that Jean Batten would fly a Gipsy Moth. From the library of Ian Mackersey, Batten's biographer. DESCRIPTION: Scarce in d/w. Small octavo, light blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering to front board & spine, 175pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps & page edges, 1cm tear with loss to lower corner half-title page,) in d/w, VG- (top 3cm portion of spine missing, bruising & nicks to lower spine extrem, creasing & nicks to rear upper edge & front lower edge, 1cm untidy tear to rear lower edge & to upper front/flap fold, some soiling)

PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1929

KEYWORDS: Captain Norman Macmillan Air Vice-Marshall Sir Sefton Brancker Victor Doree signed Association Copy aviation history aircraft flying pilot Jean Batten

MOHLER, STANLEY R. & JOHNSON, BOBBY H.

Warmly inscribed to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey and signed by author, small quarto, illus white light card covers, vii + 127pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning & rubbing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press 1971

KEYWORDS: signed Stanley R Mohler Bobby H Johnson Wiley Post Winnie Mae aviation history pilot pioneer pressured flight aeronautical science

JAKAB, PETER L. & YOUNG, RICK (Eds)

Inscribed, dated & usigned by Editor Peter Jakab, first edition, super octavo, creamy green cloth boards with orange lettering to spine, xii + 316pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institute 2000

KEYWORDS: signed first edition Peter L Jakab Rick Young Wilbur Orville Wright aviation history pioneers articles speeches interviews letters aircraft flights aeronautics

LEAR, WILLIAM P.

Warmly inscribed, dated & Signed by author to NZ aviation author Ian Mackersey, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 475pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Addax Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: signed William P Lear Jr Anthony W Levier aviation history biography pioneer pilot Lockheed air racing aerobatics Learjet LearFan test pilot

NEWPORT, J. N. W.

Signed by author, octavo, light blue/turquoise cloth boards with blue lettering to spine, 428pp, illus, VG+ (v sl bruising to spine extrems, sl tanning & foxing, slight creasing to edge of illus page at 32/33, inscription in ink to title page), in d/w, VG- (bruising & creasing to spine extrems with several nicks & tears, nicks to corners, slight creasing to edges, 2cm closed tear to front lower corner/flap fold, small ding to centre front, some rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1962

KEYWORDS: signed JNW Newport New Zealand Nelson history settlement pioneers Motueka Buller sheep stations droving routes goldfields

PEARSON, MARGARET MARY

First edition, dated, inscribed & signed by author, octavo, illus heavy card boards with canvas spine, illus eps, 23pp,. Illlus, VG- (heavy foxing, tanning & dampstaining to boards, rubbing & fraying to board edges & corner, title word on front board coloured in by child in pencil, body loose at lower staple, 2cm and 1cm closed tears to lower edge of page 5, moderate foxing & browning)

PUBLISHER: Australasian Pubishing Co 1945

KEYWORDS: Margaret Mary Pearson first edition signed children's literature verse rhymes poems