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Ian Middleton's first novel, shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1980.
ISBN 0908578156
ww2, wwii, Auckland, fiction
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with faintly sunned spine.
$20 C/C
Alister Taylor 1979 first edition, 208pp
[#5001 ]
VG softback.
$10 C/B
ISBN 0790001381
Heinemann Reed 1990, Pacific Writers Series, 188pp
[#1125/5001 ]
Themes include Freud and Jung.
ISBN 0196480337
VG- softback.
$10 C/B
Oxford University Press 1985 First Edition, 76pp.
[#5002 ]
Number 1 in the Stories and Drawings series, this collection of ten short stories by O E Middleton is illustrated by Ralph Hotere.
VG softback.
Closed edges slightly foxed.
$25 C/B
Square and Circle 1972 first edition 112pp.
[#2418/5003 ]
Mulgan's novel about the inter-war period and the Great Depression, and the character of a returned soldier from the trenches, a 'man alone' in a harsh world.
Mulgan reveals the facts of the time, a mean-spirited capitalism, a country without a sense of community, [which] his Maori [characters], as much as Pakeha, looked at dead straight.
depression, social commentary, Spanish Civil War, masculinity
VG softback
$20 C/B
Longman Paul 1975 reprint, 207pp.
[#5004 ]
Collection of poems by Christchurch born author.
VG- softback.
$15 C/A
Pegasus Press 1973 first edition, 59pp.
[#2569/5005 ]
Poems by Cilla McQueen.
ISBN 0868680680
VG- softback with sunned spine and spine half of wrappers
$10 C/A
John McIndoe 1984 first edition, 48pp.
[#2423 ]
VG softback
$15 C/A
John McIndoe 1984 first edition, 48pp.
[#5006 ]
Poems; with prints by John Drawbridge.
ISBN 0195580478
VG soft cover with light handling soiling to wrappers.
$15 C/A
Oxford University Press 1980 first edition, 44pp + plates
[#2219/5007 ]
Poems.
ISBN 0195580907
VG softback
$15 B/B
Oxford University Press 1982 first edition, 63pp+ plates.
[#2572/5008 ]
In this superb collection of tales, Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance come together to form a fascinating, deep-seated and powerful interpretation of British history.
The tales include the story of the shape-shifter, Gwydion, who created a woman out of flowers; a murdered husband turned into an eagle; Math the magician; a magical board, dragons witches and giants.
ISBN 9780460872973
wales, welsh, myth, pagan,heathen
VG paperback
$9 C/B
Dent Everyman Library 1998, xxxi 240pp
[#5011 ]
In this seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way of dealing with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.
Tracing this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling.
Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism.
ISBN 9780141187426
middle east, cultural studies, arab, palestine
VG paperback, pen gift inscription to first page.
$10 C/B
Penguin Modern Classics 2003, xxv 396pp.
[#5012 ]
The second instalment of Shadbolt's New Zealand Wars trilogy.
Set in 1845 and the conflict between Maori factions, and the newly constituted authority of Queen Victoria in the land.
Preceeded by Season of the Jew.
ISBN 9780340549018
VG softback, spine faintly sunned
$10 C/B
Sceptre (Hodder) 1991 first thus edition, 308pp.
[#5013 ]
Translated from the German version of Franz Kuhn.
Also known as 'The Prayer Mat of Flesh', a classic Taoist pillow book in novel format, teaching of the dangers of excessive carnality.
tao, daoism, chinese, philosophy, history, tantra
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket, chipped and worn to edges.
$20 C/C
Deutsch 1965 first thus, 296pp.
[#4994 ]
A true story of survival in which Rod Ansell struggled to survive on his own in one of the most isolated corners of Australia for two months before he is rescued.
ISBN 0868191620
Northern Territory, Kununurra, outback, survival, bush,
VG softback, spine slightly sunfaded
$10 C/B
Currency Press 1986, 144pp.
[#4995 ]
A History of the Christchurch School of Nursing 1891-1987.
Well illustrated throughout.
ISBN 0473046768
nurses, RN, department of health
VG softback
Small pen name and small newspaper obituary of the author pasted to title page.
$35 B/C
Nursing History Christchurch Charitable Trust 1997 first edition, 111pp.
[#4997 ]
A Hundred Years of Scheelite Mining at Glenorchy
ISBN 0473049023
Mt Judah, mine, Lake Sylvan, Paradise Mine, Dart River, Invincible Mine, Wakatipu, Otago
VG+ softback
$65 B/B
Lakes District Museum 1997 first edition, 106pp.
[#4998 ]
Fascinating history of the gold rushes in Otago and Southland.
Very well illustrated with photographs.
ISBN 0908629044
Preservation Inlet, Waiau, Orepuki, Round Hill, Mataura, Nokomai, Waikaia, Golden Site mine, Morning Star battery, quartz
G+ softback with name and address to spine edge of cover and first page.
$20 B/B
Craig Printing 1986, 76pp.
[#4999 ]
A new work by Gertrude, two-thirds of which is revised material from Isle of the Glowing Skies and The Little World of Stewart Island.
The landscape, the wildlife, and the people of Rakiura.
Foveaux Strait, Oban, Paterson Inlet, Port Pegasus, Mason Bay
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Reed 1967 First Edition, 208pp + plates, pictorial endpapers.
[#4983 ]
A guide book issued by the Education Rehabilitation Service of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East in World War Two to familiarise the troops with the culture and society of the countries they were fighting in.
Illustrated by S. M. Williams. 2 N.Z.E.F.
ww11, ww2, anzac
VG softback, sewn newsprint signatures glued into pictorial wrappers.
Contemporary ink name on contents page.
$25 C/B
Education Rehabilitation Service (1946) 91pp +4 plates
[#4984 ]
A guide book issued by the Education Rehabilitation Service of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Italian campaign, an introduction to Italian culture and society.
Illustrated by S. M. Williams. 2 N.Z.E.F.
ww11, ww2, anzac
VG softback, sewn newsprint signatures glued into pictorial wrappers.
Contemporary ink name on first page.
$25 C/B
Education Rehabilitation Service (1945) 123pp + 8 plates
[#4985 ]
Poetry by the author of The Bone People.
ISBN 086473042X
verse, modern poetry
VG softback, old pen price to first page.
$10 C/B
Victoria University Press 1985 reprint, 56pp.
[#4986 ]
Being a talk given by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji for seekers after truth.
VG stapled cover softback.
Name to inside wrapper, crease to rear corner.
$5 C/A
Sawan Kirpal Publications 1983, 32pp.
[#4987 ]
Riddles of ancient science.
Covers areas including ancient maps (Piri Reis etc), Astronomical anomalies, electricity and anti-gravity in antiquity, space flight , robots and automata, prediction and prophecy, Saint Germain and Nicholas Roerich.
ISBN 028562007X
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Souvenir 1971 first edition, 224pp + plates.
[#4988 ]
This compelling memoir written by a quietly heroic author, provides insight both into the mind of the author and the prevailing attitudes of wartime Britain and Europe.
Mulgan traces the path to World War II and the widespread reluctance of the population to accept the reality of hostilities.
Mulgan was appalled by the inaction of his peers and superiors, and by the weak and unrealistic reactions to aggression.
ISBN 0195581105
ww2, wwii, north africa, greece, anzac, politics of the second world war
VG softback
$10 C/B
Oxford University Press 1984, xii 150pp.
[#4974 ]
Three sequences of poems.
Nice book production.
ISBN 0909185093
new zealand, australian, poetry
VG- stapled softback, mild water mark to edge of cover.
$10 B/B
South Head Press 1981 first edition, 36pp.
[#4975 ]
Elephant handling in Burma.
By the author of Elephant Bill.
illustrations by Henry C Pitz
elephant workers
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with short edge tears, blank Book Society plate to fep.
Faint foxing to closed edges.
$8 C/C
Hart Davis 1953 first edition, 251pp
[#4976 ]
Huna magicians of Hawaii.
ISBN 0875160476
kahuna, magic, new thought,
G+ softback with covers rubbed, whited out name to title page
$15 C/C
DeVorss 1981 soft cover, x 408pp.
[#4977 ]
Left wing political take on the trend of post war government, policies and morals in war-ravaged Europe, and how the inhumane treatment of German civilians bodes ill for the future.
ww2, wwii, politics, cold war, post war, post war germany, allied war crimes
VG- hardback with no jacket.
Spine tail rubbed, age browned paper stock.
$30 C/B
Victor Gollancz / Left Book Club Edition 1946 first edition, 157pp.
[#4978 ]
A fascinating history of Canterbury's "River of Cold Rushing Water" and the people and settlements along it's course.
ISBN 0473005204
regional history, Springfield, Sheffield, Arthurs Pass, Torlesse, Porters Pass, Otira, Arthurs Pass National Park
VG hardback but this copy LACKS the dust jacket.
$45 D/D
Robert Logan 1987 first edition, 188pp + colour photographs
[#4979 ]
English translation of the German play based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Marat' as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade.
The published text allows the reader to see how skilfully Weiss has dramatised the paradox of de Sade, a black saint whose humanity must be set against the horrors of his imagination.
ISBN 9780714503615
theatre, playscript, modern theatre
VG paperback.
$10 C/B
Marion Boyars 2006, 124pp
With new introduction for students.
ISBN 9780714503615
[#4980 ]
VG- softback, some spotting to wrappers.
$10 C/B
Calder 1969, 124pp
[#1605 ]
The definitive history of the nineteenth century Westland gold boom and the subsequent expansion of the communities with the influx of miners , their families, and the merchants and publicans needed to supply them.
westland, 19th century, gold mining
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some wear, tears and minor edge chips.
$75 C/C
Pegasus Press 1962 first edition, 588pp + plates.
[#4966 ]
The definitive history of the nineteenth century Westland gold boom and the subsequent expansion of the communities with the influx of miners , their families, and the merchants and publicans needed to supply them.
westland, 19th century, gold mining
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor wear and one tape repaired chip to corner.
$75 C/C
Pegasus Press 1967, revised second edition, 560pp + plates.
[#4967 ]
The Humane Agenda.
How society can be compassionate to the less fortunate and economically feasible for all.
Galbraith outlines what he believes are necessary goals for society and discusses how these goals can best be achieved.
ISBN1856195090
ethics, economics, global economy, globalism
VG paperback
$15 C/B
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd 1996 first edition, 152pp.
[#4968 ]
After discussing the Old Religions and Christianity, Findlay discusses the reformation in belief brought by Jesus.
Next, Findlay advocates another Reformation, based on Spiritualist beliefs.
Part of the trilogy begun with On the Edge of the Etheric and completed by The Unfolding Universe.
In print almost continually since 1933.
survival, spiritualism, etheric body, communication with the dead, mediumship
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Spine on slight slant, some handling wear.
$25 C/C
Psychic Press 1968, 336pp.
[#4969 ]
G+ paperback, cover wear, age browning, opens flat at centre.
$10 C/B
ISBN 0947823042
Spiritualist's National Union 1986, 320pp.
[#576 ]
New Zealand's unspoken legacy of the Second World War.
In thi book seven of the more than 10,000 Kiwi veterans who have received pensions for psychiatric disorders finally talk about their post-war lives.
ISBN 9780908884674
ww2, wwii, new zealand soldiers, ptsd
VG softback THIS COPY with a signed presentation inscription by the author.
$30 C/B
Tandem Press 1995, 200pp.
[#4970 ]
The autobiography of Paul Owen, an award-winning motoring journalist and motorsport author.
The chief editor for New Zealand Autocar Magazine.
ISBN 9780958238878
motoring, motor sport
VG softback, small gift inscription on the inside front cover.
$20 C/B
Phantom House Books 2005 first edition, 192pp + plates.
[#4971 ]
Alan Sayers recounts the most interesting news stories from his career as a ground-breaking photo journalist.
ISBN 9780473280185
new zealand history,
VG softback
$25 C/C
Alan Sayers 2014 first edition, 288pp.
[#4972 ]
A biography of the author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famously persecuted by Stalinist Russia, who fictionalised his experiences in his novels.
ISBN 0349104433
russia, literature, cold war, soviet, stalin
G+ paperback
$8 C/B
Abacus 1973 soft cover 445pp+ plates
[#4949 ]
Mark Thewliss and his fianceboard the nine ton cutter Sea Flower to practise for a thrilling race on the sea.
A romantic story examining the lives of young 1920s socialites.
VG- cloth hardback, some edge foxing towards rear pages.
$25 C/B
Hodder 1930 first edition, 312+8pp adverts
[#4950 ]
A novel about the relationships between six people which deals with so many daring themes for its time.
British, fiction, first edition
G+ cloth hardback, top of fep clipped, joints rubbed, spine ends frayed.
$10 C/C
Chatto 1930 first edition, 318pp
[#4951 ]
A history of the Jewish banking family.
central banks, fiat currency, globalism
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some wear
$10 C/B
Readers Union 1963 first thus, 264pp
[#4952 ]
One of the Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature.
With The Gentle Maiden and The Landlady.
Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth.
Nice red leatherette gilt decorated, marker ribbon.
uniform edition, decorative, decor,
VG hardback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Heron Press (1970s?) 308pp + illustrations.
[#4953 ]
A Guide to customer-service excellence for New Zealanders
ISBN 0908610955
sales, marketing,
VG softback but has highlighting
$5 C/B
David Bateman 1989, 93pp
[#4956 ]
John Walker and 1976 Olympic Games.
Author Agnew followed John Walker to the Olympics, and his world record running at Goteberg.
athletics, track and field, running
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket, taped tear at top edge of front panel.
School prize presentation plate to free end paper.
$10 C/C
Marketforce Ltd 1976 first edition, 205pp + plates
[#4957 ]
An exhaustive survey and history of the Waitaki River catchment and the communities and infrastructure of the area.
ISBN 0473000806
north otago, south canterbury, regional history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Waitaki Lakes Committee 1981 first edition, xvii 169pp.
[#4959 ]
Autobiography by New Zealand's greatest pioneer aviator.
Jean Batten flew immense distances in record times and helped establish what later became airline routes.
This new edition is revised from her 1938 My Life.
ISBN 0906393019
aviation, long distance flights, new zealand, women, female pilots.
THIS COPY IS SIGNED with a presentation inscription by Jean, dated 1980.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$55 C/C
Technical Books 1979 first thus revised edition, 190pp + plates.
[#4960 ]
The story of the rare Chatham Island Black Robin and the program that brough it back from the brink of extinction.
The Black Robin was nearly extinct, reduced to one breeding pair, when the program described in this book was was put into effect.
The innovative techniques used by the team responsible for this effort are described in detail and will allow wildlife biologists around the world to adopt similar strategies suited to their own needs.
The book's co-authors participated in the black robin program.
ISBN 9780195582604
ornithology, chatham islands, conservation, DOC, rare bird
VG softback, THIS COPY SIGNED by Don Merton.
$95 C/C
Oxford University Press 1992 first edition, 294pp.
[#4961 ]
An illustrated social history of the suburb of Beckenham, which began to be developed in the early 20th century.
ISBN 0473020769
christchurch, regional history, suburbs
VG- softback
$30 C/B
Beckenham Neighbourhood Association 1993 first edition, 110pp.
[#4962 ]
Paparua County is situated to the west of Christchurch, including Prebbleton, Broadfield, Templeton, Weedons, West Melton and Hornby.
ISBN 0908868154
canterbury plains, local history
VG softback, ownership stamp to first page.
$30 C/B
Canterbury Public Library 1990, xvi 127pp.
[#4963 ]
Twenty three essays on topics relevant to the Lake and surrounding ecosystems.
ISBN 0473029074
Conservation, natural resources, environmental protection, ecology
VG- softback
$30 C/B
Lincoln University Press 1994, 134pp.
[#4964 ]
A history of New Zealand's West Coast Irish.
From the 1860s, the West Coast's two major goldfields attracted hopefuls from all over the world, including Irish miners, many of whom stayed on after the goldrushes as part of a community with its own distinctive character.
This is the first study on the history of those Irish; where they came from, who they were, how many women came and what they did, how people sustained their family connections, what they believed in the context of the history of the larger Irish diaspora.
ISBN 9781877372445
immigrants, gold mines, mining, Ireland, emigration, westland, colonial
VG softback
$30 C/B
Otago University Press 2007 first edition, 203pp.
[#4965 ]
Wilson's account of his experience in the field at the Somme, Arras, Messines and Ypres, where he was an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
Wilson travelled from New Zealand to Great Britain to secure a commission.
From the library of military historian Vincent Orange with his bookplate on front pastedown.
ww1, wwi, Passchendaele, Lys, Canal du Nord, 116 Siege Battery
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has minor edge wear.
$75 C/B
Keeling & Mundy (1954) first edition, 115pp+ photos and maps.
[#4944 ]
A study in political drama as expressed in William Shakespeare's plays.
With a foreword by Gunnar Boklund and a good bibliography of sources.
ISBN 087081009X
theatre, plays, Elizabethan England, royalty, criticism
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket which is a bit handling soiled.
$20 C/B
Colorado Associated University Press 1971 first edition, xiii 138pp.
[#4945 ]
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare retold by Marchette Chute in detailed summary.
All the plays of the First Folio, thirty-six comedies, tragedies and histories.
A nicely produced book.
synopsis, prose, shakespeare in summary
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Some old faint tape rust to paste downs.
$20 C/C
John Murray 1963, 351pp.
[#4946 ]
A companion volume to Professor Wall's New Zealand English
Preface: "This little book is a reprint, with some necessary modifications, of the articles which have appeared in [newspapers] since July 1935".
Wall was an expert on how New Zealand's British English language was evolving over time.
G+ softback stapled through spine.
lacks title page, and rear advertising page is glued down to rear free end paper.
Cover price is 2/-
$8 A/B
Reed ( 1920s?)137pp.
[#4947 ]
70th Jubilee celebration historical publication for this area to the west of Timaru, New Zealand, 1867-1948, the era of the Pioneers.
Originally part of the Levels Station, extending from the Opihi River to the Pareora River.
Roxburgh, Rosebrook, Kingsborough, Hadlow Estate, Glengummel, Mount Horrible, South Canterbury, regional history
VG softback
$75 C/A
Timaru Herald 1948 first edition, 45pp+ plates.
[#4948 ]
Seven essays on various aspects of the province of Otago and its natural and human history.
regional history, physiography, climate, vegetation and soils, southland, fiordland
VG hardback with no jacket
$20 C/B
Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1948 first edition, 82pp + plates and folding map.
[#4936 ]
Details of Butler's residence at this High Country sheep-farming Run.
Together with Butler's Forest Creek Manuscript and his letters to Tripp and Acland.
Forest Creek, Mesopotamia Station, colonial, sheep station runs
VG stapled softback
$20 C/A
National Historic Places Trust with the Government Printer 1984 new printing with corrections, 66pp + illustrations etc.
[#4937 ]
A survey of the first hundred years of the iconic South Canterbury High Country sheep station.
canterbury history, rural, mustering, Samuel Butler, Prouting, Two Thumbs, forest Creek, Havelock River.
VG stapled softback with dust jacket.
Jacket has small chip from head of cover.
$45 C/A
Timaru Herald 1960 first edition, 55pp + plates.
[#4938 ]
Ted and Grace recount how they jumped at the chance to move from Christchurch to live at Manuka Point up the Rakaia near Mt Algidus Station.
They became well known characters in the area around Lake Coleridge, where Ted worked on the Harper Diversion, and Methven.
ISBN 0589004484
Rakaia headwaters, deershooting, hunting, angling, high country fishing, antarctic travel,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Presentation inscription from Grace penned to the title page.
$35 C/C
Reed 1970 first edition, 173pp+ plates.
[#4939 ]
A record of the inquests, court hearing and the trial, conviction and execution of the 'baby-farmer' of Winton.
Southland, female murder, infanticide, hanged
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Book lacks free end paper, and the jacket has some large areas of chipping loss to bottom of front panel.
$30 C/B
Times Printing Service 1973 first edition, 82pp+ plates.
[#4940 ]
The Story of a New Zealand Fighter Pilot in the Pacific War.
This book gives many detailed accounts of the squadrons and pilots serving in the South Pacific betwen 1942-1947.
Author served with occupation forces in Japan.
ISBN 0091727413
RNZAF Corsair squadron, solomons, guadalcanal, green island, bougainville, jaquinot bay, new britain, japan, j-force
VG+ softback
$30 C/B
Century Hutchinson 1988 reprint, 290pp illustrated.
[#4941 ]
Mallorean book five
ISBN 0593012070
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket sunned to spine and top of front panel, some edge wear. Book spine slants a little.
$10 C/C
Bantam 1991 UK first edition, 431pp.
[#4942 ]
Fred escapes the corporate life of Auckland to South Island's West Coast.
On his journey he meets a curious collection of people, as recounted in Crump's own unique way.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and some closed tears.
$25 C/B
Crump Productions Ltd. 1972 first edition, 109pp.
[#4943 ]
This centenary publication charts the progress of the Association and its members.
canterbury developmental history, commerce, production, companies, commercial history, company history
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket
$15 C/B
Caxton Press for CMA 1980 first edition, 57pp + plates
[#4929 ]
Attempts to relate Shakespeare's treatment of the language and content of the law with the political ideas of his day.
Part 1. Shakespeare and the law
1. The law and lawyers in Shakespeare's England
2. The lawyers and Shakespeare
3. Shakespeare's use of legal terminology
4. Sir Edward Coke and Shakespeare
5. The law of nature, the Jus Gentium, and international law in Shakespeare
6. Local justice in Shakespeare's plays
7. The law of debt in Shakespeare
8. The bastardy of Falconbridge
9. Shylock v. Antonio
10. Three lesser trials
11. Lord chief justice Gascoigne
12. The death and burial of Ophelia
13. Some legal problems in Hamlet
14. Two legal problems in Richard III
15. Trail by battle in Shakespeare
Part 2. Shakespeare's political thinking
16. Shakespeare and the political thought of the sixteen century
17. The title to the crown in the histories
18. Shakespeare's view of the English kingship
19. The political background of King John
20. Jack Cade's rebellion
21. The death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
22. Richard III: the machiavellian hero
23. Henry VIII and his council
24. The politics of the Greek and Roman plays
25. Measure for Measure: social corruption and the criminal justice.
Elizabethan England, society, shakespearean society, Shakespeare studies, 16th century
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Presentation slip from Professor O. Hood Phillips pasted to free end paper.
$30 C/C
Pitman & Sons 1967 first edition hardcover, viii 417pp + plates
[#4930 ]
A study of Shakespeare's time and environment.
1. The Upstart Crow 2. Education of a Dramatist 3. Experiments
4. The Passing of an Eclipse 5. Maturity 6. The New Comedy 7. The Globe
8. The Lost Leader 9. Tumultuous Interludes 10. The Tragedy of Hamlet 11. End of an Epoch.
VG- softback with some discolouring to foot of rear pages and wrapper, name stamp to first page.
$10 C/B
University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 1958 sewn paperback, 325pp.
[#4931 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a VG dust jacket with a chipped head of the spine.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1964, lxxxv 224pp
[#4932 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a VG dust jacket.
Some minor pencil notation throughout.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1963, lxxxix 225pp
[#4933 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a G+ dust jacket with a chipped and torn bottom corner.
Some minor pencil and ink notation throughout.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1963, xci 188pp
[#4934 ]
Information on all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., such as Cyrene, Egypt, Sparta and other great city-states.
ISBN 0416750001
Greece, history, hellenic, hellenes, hellenismos
VG- softback, pencil to inside cover, top corner first two leaves clipped
$15 C/B
Methuen 1983, 354pp.
[#4916 ]
A Casebook 1918-1939
Plays by Witkiewicz, Toller, Brecht, Olyesha, Pirandello, Cummings and de Ghelderode, as well as essays by Witkiewicz, Brecht, Olyesha, Squarzina, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud.
ISBN 0690008481
VG- large format paperback with some age browning to paper
$15 C/C
Thomas Y. Crowell 1976, 591pp.
[#4917]
The Inner History of German Diplomacy and Her Scheme of World-Wide Conquest
The author was proclaiming Germany's expansionist warmongering for years before the outbreak of war, and here reviews German belligerance leading up to the outbreak.
ww1, wwi, great war, armaments, prussianism
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Bookseller stamp to free end paper, some age browning.
$25 A/B
Hodder 1914 first edition decorative cloth 16mo xxvii 220pp + frontis, newsprint stock but sewn binding.
[#4918 ]
FRITHJOF SCHUON Paradoxical Aspects of Sufism
MARCO PALLIS A Fateful Meeting of Minds; A. K. Coomaraswamy and R. Guenon
MICHAEL NEGUS Reactions to the Theory of Evolution
KURT ALMQVIST Aspects of Teilhardian idolatry
RAMA P. COOMARASWAMY The Destruction of the Christian Tradition II
metaphysics, cosmology, traditionalism, perrennial philosophy, gnosis
VG stapled wrappers
$15 C/B
Perrennial Books 1978, pp 131-256.
[#4919 ]
Science Fiction Book Club issue
VG hardback in VG dust soiled dust jacket.
Free end paper clipped at head, foxed top edge.
$10 C/B
Science Fiction Book Club 1964, 191pp.
[#4920 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 1
ISBN 0307023796
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Ron Villani.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 211pp.
[#4921 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 3
ISBN 030702377X
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Arnie Kohn.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 210pp.
[#4922 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 4
ISBN 0307023788
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Arnie Kohn.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 211pp.
[#4923 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 6
ISBN 0307023753
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Ron Villani.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 212pp.
[#4924 ]
A Systematic Individual and Social Psychiatry.
The classic handbook to the principles of Transactional Analysis.
It was only after Dr Berne's Games People Play became an international bestseller in 1964, that Transactional Analysis, his highly original and innovative approach to psychotherapy, attained wide recognition outside the United States.
Since then the principles and practise of T A have intrigued not only professional therapists but all those who seek to understand human personality and the peculiarities of human relationships.
ISBN 0285647768
VG softback.
$15 C/B
Souvenir Press 1975, 270pp.
[#4925 ]
ISBN 0394172299
VG softback with name and address at head of title page.
$15 C/B
Grove Press /Evergreen 1961, 270pp.
[#4926 ]
Collects Frankl's speeches on logotherapy.
A seminal work of meaning-centered therapy.
Introduction; the situation of psychotherapy and the position of logotherapy / foundations of logotherapy; metaclinical implications of psychotherapy / self-transcendence as a human phenomenon / what is meant by meaning? / applications of logotherapy; the existential vacuum: a challenge to psychiatry / logotherapeutic techniques medical ministry / conclusion: dimensions of meaning/ English bibliography of logotherapy and Existenzanalyse.
ISBN 0285620029
psychology
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Name stamp at head of title, head of contents and closed top edge.
$15 C/B
Souvenir Press 1971 first edition, 179pp.
[#4927 ]
The old times in Derby, cut off by the wet season on the Indian Ocean coast.
Kimberleys, Myalls Well, Mungatty, Oobagooma Station, Fitzroy
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Inscription to half title.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951, 272pp + plates, map endpapers
[#4928 ]
Norman Conquest starts his latest adventure on a windswept moorland road where he meets a cycling damsel in distress and having extricated her what can Norman do but drive her home?
He finds that this is an ancient castle and that his damsel, Pattie is the daughter of the irascible Earl of Glaiswold, Norman, drawn to trouble like a needle to a magnet, discovers there is something wrong in the castle.
What has happened to the family fortune? Why can on one enter the West Wing?
In hell-for-leather style, Berkeley Gray tells a story of villainy and suspense in his most amusing, light-hearted vein.
Fontana 835
PBO, vintage thriller
G+ paperback, edge and joint wear, pen initials to first page
$20 A/B
Fontana 1963 first thus paperback, 160pp.
[PB1693 ]
Latin text edited, with introduction, notes and appendices by Robert Mitchell Henry.
rome, roman history, latin text, latin history
VG- cloth hardback, sunned and foxed spine.
$10 A/B
Arnold undated fourteenth impression, xxviii, 182 pp + map of central Italy.
[#4908 ]
Acceptable copy of a scarce title.
G- reading copy, ex-library, sections loosening, stamps etc lacks rear fep.
$20 C/B
Hutchinson 1956 first edition, 208pp.
[#4909 ]
The adventures of Commissioner Sanders and his assistant "Bones" among wild African river tribes.
Reset for this edition.
Hodder and Stoughton Yellowjacket
G+ digest sized paperback, light cover wear, split to tail, name to first page
$10 C/B
Hodder 1952 first thus, 192pp
[#4910 ]
In the south of France an English lady has been murdered and a beautiful American girl has disappeared.
There is a body with a severed hand and an opal bracelet somehow connected to devil worship.
A case for Inspector Hanaud of the Surete and his English friend Mr. Ricardo.
Reset for this edition.
Hodder and Stoughton Yellowjacket
G+ digest sized paperback, light cover wear, split to tail
$15 C/B
Hodder 1953 first thus, 191pp
[#4911 ]
Victoria and Albert Museum Small Picture Book No 32
SBN 112901565
VG stapled folded sheets in stiff paper wrapper.
$8 A/A
HMSO 1972, 36pp
[#4912 ]
Japanese castle and shojun cover art.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has light rubbing to joints, front panel has areas darkened by a greasy substance, has no affect but to darken the pigments of the design
Book has faint foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$15 C/B
The Book Club 1964 first thus, 184pp.
[#4913 ]
A gazetter of the sheep runs and stations in the Awatere Valley, from "Molesworth to the sea" with the history up to 1966 etc.
The photographs being photocopies are not of the best detail but they are informative.
An uncommon book.
Fair, water damaged paper wrappers, minor stain to some pages, still a good reference copy.
Xeroxed format with illustrated covers, staple bound, covers are well worn and rubbed and with rear wrapper damp stained, some minor water marking at top spine corner margin of pages.
$25 C/B
Awatere Valley Women's Division of Federated Farmers 1966, 190pp.
[#4914 ]
Translated by H T Lowe-Porter, and with a postscript by the author on The Making of the novel.
ISBN 0436272377
VG+ hardback in VG+ dustwrapper which is price clipped and bears Secker and Warburg logo to the tail.
$25 C/C
Nationwide Book Service 1979 reprint, 729pp.
[#4902 ]
An allegorical fantasy story of a child's soul in this world and the other.
Illustrated by Iris Guarducci and Doris Karsell.
Translated by Rosamond Reinhardt.
Full page colour plates.
Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophy
G+ trade paperback, some handling wear and soiling to covers, minor foxing.
$15 C/C
Waldorf Books 1972 first thus unspecified limited edition,192pp + plates.
[#4903 ]
A Practical handbook for self transformation using the techniques of creative visualization and meditation.
ISBN 0965083934
occult, kabbalah, western mystery tradition, pathworking
VG+ softback
$15 C/B
Sun Chalice Books 1998 first edition, 94pp.
[#4904 ]
A new edition of Priestess with the new title.
Dion Fortune was the magical name of Violet Mary Firth, founder of the Society of Inner Light.
She moved in Golden Dawn circles contemporaneously with Aleister Crowley and others.
ISBN 9781855380516
biography
VG softback with light crease to cover, bookseller label foot of first page.
$25 C/B
Aquarian Press 1991, 256pp + plates
[#4905 ]
First printing in this verison.
Hodder vintage Yellow Jacket
VG paperback, name to top corner first page, age browned paper stock
$15 C/B
Hodder 1954 reset edition, 189pp +1pp advert
[#4906 ]
Unearthed Iron Age corpses preserved in peat bogs, many as sacrifices or possibly executed criminals.
Good information on early European culture and clothing.
ISBN 0571110797
prehistory, iron age, europe, bog sacrficies, heathen, pagan
G+ softback but covers are sunfaded.
$8 C/B
Faber 1977 first soft covered edition, sewn sheets in wrappers, 200pp.
[#4907 ]
Technical and common sense information for hunters on how to maximise the efficiency and accuracy of their guns by correct choice of ammo and aiming technique etc.
Approved by New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
ISBN0589006991
stalking, hunting, firearms, accuracy, rifles
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Ex-library, boards rubbed and soiled, bumped, minimal amount of stamps, closed edges fingermarked, the first edition, a few notations to the ballistics tables at rear
$25 C/C
Reed 1972 First Edition, 270pp with photos and diagrams in the text.
[#4894 ]
The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King, the last days of King Arthur, his faithful magician and his animal teachers.
Unpublished in 1941 the text was found in the University of Texas archives in 1975 and is first published here.
A literary work that deals with the end of Arthur, Guenever and Lancelot.
ISBN0002220458
Illustrated by Trevor Stubley.
King Arthur, Modern English Literature, Fiction, Matter of Britain
VG+ hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket is unclipped and tidy but has a completely sunned spine showing as white with black author name and publisher but title illegible.
$25 B/C
University of Texas Press and Collins 1977 first edition, xx 137pp
[#4897 ]
Combined in one volume; 'Adam with Arrows' and 'Adam in Plumes' and the New Guinea chapters of Islands of Men.
melanesia, papua, ethnology, tribal peoples
VG hardback with no jacket
$20 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1962 first thus combined edition, cloth, viii 407pp + plates in black and white and 35 in colour.
[#4898 ]
Some New Zealand Founders with reference to fifty early pioneers in Marlborough, Manawatu, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington.
new zealand, colonial history, biography, genealogy, family history, ninettenth century, immigration
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with light surface rubbing.
$25 C/B
Reed 1966 first edition, 213pp.
[#4899 ]
Extracts from ancient sources, grouped together under topics related to the governing of the Empire.
ISBN 070991668X
rome, latin, latium, roman empire, classical history, sources
VG softback
$25 C/B
Croom Helm 1985 first edition, xvii 260pp + maps.
[#4900 ]
Greek history and civilization during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
The dual purpose of this book is to describe the greatest period of Greek history in all its aspects, political and military as well as economic and cultural, and to take into account the uncertainties of modern scholarship.
ISBN 0416777600
ancient greece, greek, history, sources
VG- softback with name to first page.
$10 C/C
Methuen 1981 second edition, 505pp.
[#4901 ]
The story of coins, tokens, promissory notes, bank notes and other forms of monetary exchange.
Invaluable information for coin collectors.
Southland Treasury Notes, numismatics, tradesmans tokens, reserve bank
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
$30 C/C
John McIndoe Ltd 1972 first edition, 197pp illustrated throughout.
[#4889 ]
History of the colonial settlement of Rangitikei from a surveyors journals.
Includes the story of the original Maori as well as the purchase and colonization of land between the Turakina and Oroua Rivers.
Facsimile of the 1914 Whitcombe and Tombs edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
Jacket is sun faded to the spine.
$40 C/C
Capper Press 1976, 260pp + index, 2 folding maps in pocket at rear of book.
[#4890 ]
Written by the famed Australian lawn bowls champion Dick Harrison.
Incorporates the previously separate works The Etiquette of Bowls, The Etiquette of Marking, The Romance of Bowls Manufacture.
ISBN 0959715207
lawn bowls, how to play, techniques
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/B
R. W. Hensell and Sons 1976 16th edition, 184pp + plates.
[#4891 ]
11 essays on various aspects of women's lives in New Zealand, from the past to the present (1980).
Includes essays on politics, Maori women, Women's Christian Temperance Union, sex and marriage, education, Jane Mander's literary heroines.
ISBN 0868610348
sociology, gender studies, feminism, W. C. T. U.
G+ softback with minor usage wear to covers.
$8 C/B
George Allen and Unwin 1980 first edition, 265pp
[#4892 ]
Being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma.
Morrison travelled upriver to Chungking, then walked overland 1,500 miles to Burma, then via Mandalay and Rangoon to Calcutta.
ISBN 0207124620
china, nineteenth century, imperial, chinese history, 19th century, travel writing
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with faded spine and minor corner wear.
$30 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1972 first thus facsimile, 299pp + plates and folding map at rear.
[#4893 ]
The True Story of the nanny they called a Witch.
Nanny Carole Compton was arrested for arson and attempted murder and was suspected of malefica and casting the evil eye by her Italian employers.
The Italian police kept her in custody for 17 months before she was freed
Has good insights into the nature of superstition and the belief in magic still current in many rural European areas.
An appendix discusses the possibiliy of poltergeist activity as an explanation of the events that aroused suspicions Carole was a malefic witch.
ISBN 0852238029
true crime, arson, pyromania
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Ebury Press 1990 first edition, 214pp.
[#4886 ]
An 87th Precinct novel
G hardback in G dust jacket.
Ex library with stamps and tape residue.
Jacket has light tape residue to top and bottom edges, chip from rear panel, rear fold in flap trimmed with loss to text, price clipped.
$10 C/B
Hamish Hamilton 1965 first edition hard cover, 175pp.
[#4887 ]
Book Three of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
ISBN 0002227150
VG hardback in VG un-clipped dust jacket with faint sunning to spine.
$15 C/C
Collins 1983 first edition, 509pp.
[#4888 ]
Revised by Theodore Betserman.
Originally published in 1902 and immediately recognised as a vital contribution to the literature of anthropology and primitive psychology.
An exhaustive survey of primitive marriage rites and customs focusing on the state of "taboo" arising from evil agents and influences.
Taboos affect primitive thought and action at every level of personal and social life and come into force at any time of private or communal crisis - at birth and puberty, in sickness and death, in famine and war - and particularly affect two basic spheres of activity, eating and sexual intercourse.
It is in the ceremonies and rituals surrounding marriage that the taboos are broken.
Crawley strongly rejects the "communistic" theory of primitive marriage and advances convincing evidence of its being generally regarded as a personal relationship - a joining together of two people previously regarded as mutually taboo.
His suggestions as to the psychological motivations of primitive marriage customs have been widely accepted by modern theorists, and the reissue of his famous book, in one volume for the first time, will be welcomed by students of sociology.
A fascinating and lucid account of a system of social behaviour on which many of our own, reputedly "civilised" beliefs and customs are modelled.
anthropology, sociology, marriage, sexuality, gender, ethnography
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Spring Books 1965 first thus reissue of 1927 revised edition, xx 340pp.
[#4876 ]
"A Priceless Gem in the Imperial Crown" by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Health.
An in depth overview of New Zealand in 1919 focusing on the economy and trade, parliament, finance and immigration.
statistics, twentieth century, demographics
G+ hardback with papered boards.
Upper joint split, Canterbury Education Board rubber stamp dated 1925 to free end paper and title pages, age browning and handling soiling to closed edges and covers.
$15 C/C
G W Russell Ltd Christchurch, [viii] 332 + 8pp well illustrated with photographs.
[#4877 ]
A predecessor of Max Cryer's grammatical studies this book collects some of the discussions on grammar from the New Zealand radio show "Words and their Ways"
grammar, language, usage, twentieth century , new zealand society
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Pegasus Press 1969 first edition, 111pp
[#4878 ]
Treatment of arthritis and precursors through sensible diet, includes diet plans.
ISBN 0437005003
health, diet, arthritis, cure, natural therapy
VG hardback in VG jacket.
Sunned spine, name to paste down.
$10 C/C
World's Work 1972, 249pp.
[#4879 ]
First UK edition of the Sequel to The Silence of the Lambs.
Printed in Australia, no publication price on the jacket.
ISBN 9780434009404
Hannibal Lecter, serial killer, cannibal
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Heinemann 1999 first edition, 486pp.
[#4880 ]
First UK edition of the Sequel to Hannibal.
Printed in Australia, no publication price on the jacket.
ISBN 9780434014088
Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs, serial killer, cannibal
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Heinemann 2006 first edition, 323pp.
[#4881 ]
Five writers
have collaborated with Ross to choose ten photographs each on a particular theme, which range from workshops, environmental portraits, domestic interiors, buildings demolished for
the Wellington motorway extension, and the use of natural light.
They have written short essays to accompany their selections.
Essays by John B. Turner, Karen Lee, Damien Wilkins, Emma Bugden and Peter Ireland.
ISBN 9780864735737
new zealand, photography, fine art, contemporary, Wellington, social history
VG hardback but MISSING the dust jacket
$25 B/C
Victoria University Press 2009 first edition,
[#4883 ]
A history of Field Surveying in New Zealand.
With early photographs from the author's collection.
geography, surveying, map making, colonial development, maori land, land court
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with some minor edge chipping or wear.
$30 B/C
NZ Institute of Surveyors 1975 first edition, x, 86pp.
[#4884 ]
A history of the Otago Harbour Board and the Ports at Dunedin and Port Chalmers.
A beautiful production with quality paper, many photo plates and maps including a folding one.
shipping, merchant marine, economic history
VG+ cloth hardback in VG- dust jacket with a few closed repaired tears.
$35 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1951 first edition, xx 428pp
[#4885 ]
Instrumented by Verity.
Channeled teachings on Cosmic consciousness etc.
new age, spiritualist, spiritualism, occult
VG softback in stapled wraps soiled to covers with a pen inscription on the rear cover.
Small split at tail spine, inscription to the first page.
$25 C/B
Heralds of the New Age, Auckland 1966 third edition, 73pp.
[#4867 ]
With I For One...and A Game of Hide and Seek
ISBN 0856160202
new zealand, novelette, fiction
VG hardback with VG dust jacket
$25 C/C
Caxton 1972 first edition, 233pp
[#1123/4868 ]
New Zealand Playscripts
Scarce, especially in this unmarked condition.
ISBN 0705506649
VG softback with light crease to cover
$30 C/B
Price Milburn 1978 first edition, 82pp
[#4869 ]
A Classic Detective novel, this is an unabridged republication of the original 1924 edition.
ISBN 0486234576
golden age, detective, crime
VG with quality paper sheets sewn into soft covers.
$15 C/C
Dover 1977 first thus, 318pp + adverts.
[#4870 ]
A history of Reikorangi and Waikanae Schools 1895-1996, well illustrated.
ISBN 0473039052
wellington, kapiti, education, local history
VG softback, glossy paper stock.
$30 C/C
Waikanae School Centenary Committee 1996 first edition, 328pp
[#4871 ]
Autobiographical account of the experiences of a down country lad who talks himself into mustering on the High Country Canterbury sheep station 'Erewhon'.
With no knowledge of mustering, and not even knowing how to work dogs, just with enthusiasm and the ability to talk his way into and out of things, McGinty stumbles and learns as he goes.
Tony was McGinty.
ISBN 9780473078485
The Potts block, Glenfalloch, 1960s
VG softback with small corner crease to cover.
Author's presentation inscription to first page.
$30 C/C
T. Robinson 2001 first edition, 270pp.
[#4872 ]
Life in the Waimea County Province of Nelson, 1876-1976.
Regional local history detailing colonial settlement and development.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Half title page has multiple signatures of people mentioned in the index.
Nelson, Marlborough, Tasman
$30 C/B
Waimea County Council (1976) first edition, 135pp+ index.
[#4873 ]
The Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli (1845-1921).
Vaggioli was among the first Benedictine Monks sent to New Zealand, arriving in 1879 and returning home in 1887.
He worked in Gisborne, Auckland and the Coromandel.
Vaggioli was unique amongst European commentators of the nineteenth century in his view that New Zealand belonged to the Maori, and that the British had no moral right to take it from them.
Translated by John Crockett.
ISBN 1877276111
Missions, Nouvelle-Zelande, religion
VG softback, faint sun fade at base of cover.
$35 C/C
University of Otago Press 2001 first edition, xx 271pp.
[#4874 ]
The famous ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment.
Edited by W G Archer.
Modern issue of the 1883 edition which was supressed until 1962.
hindu, veda, sex
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket chipped to corners.
Book has mild foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$10 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1963 fourth impression, cloth 8vo, 296pp.
[#4854 ]
Through personal reflections and more than 700 readings from writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Helen Keller, Barbara Kingsolver and Thomas More, the authors offer the reader the tools to see the world as infused with meaning.
ISBN 0684815338
Maya Angelou, Wendell Berry, Ram Dass. Annie Dillard, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Robert Fulghum. Eduardo Galeano, Thich Nhat Hanh, Barbara Kingsolver, Jonathan Kozol, Kathleen Norris. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Anne Tyler,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Scribner 1996 first edition, 608pp
[#4855 ]
An autobiography of Dr Doris Gordon who was a general practitioner of medicine who played an important role in the establishment of an efficient maternity service for New Zealand.
She was successful in organizing a national campaign to endow a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Medical School in the University of Otago.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has minor edge wear or slight chipping, book has tape rust to endpapers.
$10 C/C
Faber 1955 second impression, 254pp + frontis
[#1718]
G hardback no dust jacket.
Sunned spine, school prize plate, a bit tired but a good reading copy.
$5 C/C
Faber 1955 second impression, 254pp + frontis
[#4856]
A wide ranging selection of world mythology.
Grouped into; The Far East, The Middle East, The West, Africa and the Americas, The Pacific
Illustrated by Eric Fraser.
ISBN 085613323X
myth, sacred stories, religion, pre-christian, pagan
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/C
Orbis 1982, 433pp
[#4857 ]
An Introductory Manual of Flying Training complete with Air Instruction.
ISBN 027300865X
Airplanes, Piloting, Aeroplanes, Flying, Manuals
VG hardback with printed boards, sunned spine.
$10 C/B
Pitman 1974 third edition, 207pp.
[#4858 ]
Three Volume complete set.
G+ cloth hardbacks, name and book label to paste down, spine lean, light wear.
$35 C/C
Ernest Benn 1926 first edition, 885pp. Stated Dominions and Colonies edition.
[#4859 ]
A prophetic synthesis of Eastern Mysticism and Western Science by a Sufi.
ISBN 091542407X
mysticism, sufism, spirituality
VG softback
$15 C/B
Sufi Islamaia / Prophecy Publications 1981, 110pp
[#4860 ]
New Zealand aviation history, including the pioneer long-distance flights in New Zealand.
aviation, aircraft, twentieth century
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket, light surface rubbing.
$20 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1966 first edition,192pp + plates.
[#4861 ]
The classic account of high country mustering, mainly in the Canterbury area.
ISBN 9780908676330
high country, farming, sheep, sheep stations, high country station, twentieth century, history, Mesopotamia, Grasmere, Mt White, Castle Hill, Winterslow
VG softback
$10 C/B
Beckett 1989 facsimile of the second edition, complete with photo plates, 149pp.
[#4863 ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with light wear.
$25 C/B
Reed 1966 reprint of second edition, 155pp
[#1624 ]
A history of the Bank of New Zealand, 1861-1961.
economics, banking, money, monetary policy
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/D
Bank of New Zealand 1961 first edition, 408pp.
[#4849 ]
A history of this period of rapid growth and modernisation of the Ashburton district.
ISBN 0473018837
south canterbury, municipal history
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Free end paper has Ashburton District Council Congratulations plate, signed by Bede O'Malley, Mayor.
$35 C/D
Ashburton District Council 1993, 388 pp.
[#4850 ]
A young adult story about a family hunt for an East Coast wild boar.
ISBN 0340366621
pigs, pig-hunting, fiction, story
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some rubbing and wear to book and jacket corners.
$25 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1984 first edition, 118pp.
[#4851 ]
Centennial history of New Zealands premier agricultural college, now a University
agriculture, farming, technical training, education, primary industry
VG hardback with no jacket.
$20 C/C
Lincoln College 1979 first edition, 360pp + plates.
[#4837 ]
A History of the New Zealand Federation of University Women 1921-1981
ISBN 0959762809
suffrage, emancipation, women's rights, education, women's education in New Zealand
VG softback
$20 C/C
New Zealand Federation of University Women 1982 first edition, 179pp, errata page slipped in at front.
[#4838 ]
C. Nelson Stewart wrote about occult mineralogy and states: "To the ceremonialist and student of magic, precious stones are especially valuable as wave-meters transmitting specialized psychic qualities, and this little book groups some forty-seven mineral species and varieties under the Seven Rays [of life]."
occult, new age, gemstones, crystals, gemology
VG+ cloth hardback with no jacket.
$35 C/B
Theosphical Publishing House 1939 first edition, 119pp.
[#4839 ]
A contemporary interpretation of Jesus, in which the author attempts to free Christ from "the perversions of religion, philosophy and even ecclesiology in order to show him in his essential secularity".
Vincent has a Doctorate of Theology from Basel.
ISBN 0718814916
christian theology, religious studies, christology, 20th century
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$10 C/C
Lutterworth Press 1968 first edition, 247pp.
[#4840 ]
Presented to F. L. W. Wood and J. C. Beaglehole on the occasion of their retirement..
New Zealand & Pacific / Oceania includes Samoa, Te Tikanga Pekeke, Governor Grey, Anzus Treaty, Missionaries etc.
pasifika studies, oceania, pacific academia
VG hardback in VG but rubbed dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Reed 1969 first edition, 274pp.
[#4841 ]
The elderly half-forgotten author Maurice Kingsley uses his beautiful fashion model niece Jessica's life as a model for a book, embroidering it with his own quirky insights into a surprise best-seller, a modern parable for a wasted life that becomes a candidate for the Booker Prize.
ISBN 0571150160
fiction, novel, british, The Singing Detective
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, but lacks fep, name and date to half title.
$10 C/B
Faber 1987 first edition, 184pp.
[#4842 ]
A detailed record of each Rugby Union All Black from 1884 to 1972.
rugby, all blacks, research, statistics
G+ softback with light rubbing, cancelled stamp to title, cataloguing marks to verso.
$10 A/B
NZRFU 1973, 166pp.
[#4843 ]
A study in English religious literature of the Seventeenth Century.
ISBN 0300001657
christianity, religious devotion, religious writing, verse, poetry
VG- softback with light surface rubbing
$15 C/C
Yale University Press 1976, xxv 375pp
[#4844 ]
A sequel to The View over Atlantis this covers sacred geometry, numerology, gematria, and the esoteric concept of the New Jerusalem. Chapters include ones on the symbolism and esoteric meaning of the numbers 666, 1080, and other important Gnosic numbers, and those associated wih the geography of Stonehenge and Glastonbury.
ISBN 0349123209
numerology, sacred geometry, geomancy, zodiac, Chartres, St. Mary's Chapel at Glastonbury, the Great Pyramid, the Temple in Jerusalem
VG softback with name to title page.
$20 C/C
Abacus/ Sphere 1973 first thus edition, 176pp.
[#4845 ]
Number 418 (i.e. Abrahadabra) of the signed edition limited to 999 numbered copies.
Michell's breathtaking research and scholarship into all aspects of Christian and pre-Christian myth and religious connections at Glastonbury allows the reader to prepare, understand, and learn how to better communicate with this sacred site.
ISBN 0906362148
Matter of Britain, arthurian, grail quest, Glastonbury Zodiac, earth mysteries, british folklore, Avalon, Celtic, British, English folklore, new age
VG hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued.
$145 C/C
Gothic Image Publications 1990 first edition (limited hardback), 180pp.
[#4846 ]
More from what the author claims is a received work wherein a formerly anti- spiritualism priest (Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson) who had written against after-death survival and contact has 'changed his tune' and related the contents of the book to the author, from the 'other side'.
ISBN 0853840059
survival, afterlife, speaking with the dead, contact
VG softback
$15 A/B
Psychic Press 1984, 160pp.
[#4847 ]
Collection of writings on Life After Death and spiritual survival, includes the ancient pagans, christians, poets etc.
poetry, verse, afterlife, survival, religious
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with small chip from lower corner of front panel, light wear.
$10 A/B
Edward Arnold 1962 first edition, 247pp.
[#4848 ]
Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series.
ISBN 0500400199
classical history, europe, greece, rome, democracy, politics
VG hardback with VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Name and address to free end paper.
$25 C/C
Thames and Hudson 1972 first edition, 271pp + plates.
[#4827 ]
Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series.
ISBN 0500400229
classical history, europe, greek, roman, games, athletes, competition
VG hardback with VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Name and address to free end paper.
$25 C/C
Thames and Hudson 1972 first edition, 288pp + plates.
[#4828 ]
The Hardy Boys Series #36
ISBN 0001605364
British printing
VG- hardcover pictorial boards, light wear.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 158pp.
[#4830 ]
Denniston 1893-1943
Gives the history of the activities and membership of this West Coast Freemasonic Lodge.
Masonic Lodge, westland
VG+ stapled card wrappers.
$45 C/A
A G Betts and Son Ltd (1943), 52pp.
[#4831 ]
A centennial history of Waikato Hospital 1887-1987, illustrated in the text with black and white photographs.
ISBN 0473004577
keywords
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/D
Waikato Hospital Board 1987 first edition, large 4to, vi 125pp
[#4833 ]
Celebrating the Centenary of the New Plymouth Boys' High School 1882-1982.
With colour plates, and illustrated in black and white in the text.
Taranaki, school history, education
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with a sunned spine.
$35 C/D
New Plymouth Boys' High School Centennial Committee 1982 first edition, large 4to, 188pp.
[#4834 ]
Annual school magazine from Archerfield, one of several schools delivering secondary education to girls in Dunedin.
It closed in 1944.
Dunedin, education, genealogy, school yearbook, history
VG- with stapled paper covers.
One plate detached and the verso has two names and addresses in contemporary ink, minor foxing, rear page (printers imprint) totally covered with signatures of school members.
$30 C/B
Otago Daily Times 1935, 39pp + 2 plates.
[#4835 ]
Annual school magazine from Archerfield, one of several schools delivering secondary education to girls in Dunedin.
It closed in 1944.
Dunedin, education, genealogy, school yearbook, history
VG with stapled paper covers, name at head of title page.
$30 C/B
Otago Daily Times 1937, 40pp + 2 plates.
[#4836 ]
A detailed history of the Addington Sale Yards, the Stock and Station Agents, Butchers, Traders, Transport companies and others who made it work for 120 years until it relocated in 1997.
ISBN 9780473234249 / ISBN 9400591900016
farming, stock yards, hagley park, christchurch
VG+ softback, Signed by Author.
$55 B/C
Robin Leech / Hilton Press 2013 first edition, x 350pp.
[#4812 ]
Captioned colour photographs of places of note in the Chatham Islands.
ISBN 9780908887256
Rekohu, Wharekauri, photo journalism, moriori
VG landscape format softback, has a long gift inscription on the inside of the front cover.
$45 B/B
Cosmos Publications 1999 first edition, 92pp.
[#4813 ]
The first comprehensive account of Maori life written by a Maori scholar, intended to be submitted for her degree at Oxfird University.
Reissue of the 1938 original.
ISBN 0908652119
maoritanga, customs, traditions, history, maori
G+ paperback, mild rubbing to cover
$30 C/B
New Women's Press 1986 first thus, xi 352pp.
[#4814 ]
Lydiard describes his training regime with new and expanded information on exercise physiology, diet, injury prevention and cure, and training schedules.
ISBN 0340323620
Athletics, track and field, running
VG softback, sewn binding.
$15 C/B
Hodder 1983 first edition, 209pp.
[#4816 ]
Social history of this eastern Banks Peninsula settlement by a resident, the grandson of George Mantell.
Historic photos and details of pioneering families and industry.
VG+ softback, stapled binding.
$30 C/B
Argosy Press 1978 first edition, 85pp + photo section at centre.
[#4817 ]
A complete guide to the use of trees and shrubs on farms and homesteads.
Includes propagation and maintenance of practical and ornamental plantings.
farming, silviculture, forestry, landscaping
VG+ softback
$15 C/B
Southland Farm Forestry Association 1994, 220pp.
[#4818 ]
A tidy first edition Harlequin romance with a New Zealand setting.
Harlequin 1124
romance, vintage paperback, collectible
VG paperback, name to first page
$10 A/A
Harlequin Books July 1967, first Canadian edition, 191pp.
[PB1688 ]
The story of Charlie Heberley of the whaling Heberley family of Tory Channel and Great Barrier Island.
ISBN 9780908561902
whaling, Perano, Worser Heberley, Marlborough
VG softback
$20 C/B
Cape Catley 2002 first edition, 212pp + plates.
[#4819 ]
A history of the mountain and huiman interaction with it.
From the earliest climbs to the (then) most recent.
Includes a list of ascents.
mountaineering, aoraki, Freda du Faur, Linda Route
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1968 first edition, 253pp + col. and black and white plates.
[#4820 ]
A biography of Peter Fraser, New Zealand's Scottish born WW2 Prime Minister.
Confirms the belief that Fraser was the country's greatest ever Prime Minister.
ISBN 9780140297935
wwii, labour party, politics,
VG softback
$30 C/C
Penguin 2000 first edition, 445pp + plates.
[#4821 ]
A biography of James K. Baxter (1926-1972), one of the major English language poets of the Twentieth century, and a deeply conflicted individual who presented many varied faces during his short life.
Catholic thinker, pacifist, husband, hippy guru, profound poet.
ISBN 9780195582659
new zealand poetry, literature, 20th century
VG softback
$25 C/C
Oxford University Press 1992, 320pp.
[#4822 ]
A sweeping, historically detailed novel of the rise to power of Gais Julius Caesar and his conflict with the Roman Senate.
ISBN 9780712638524
Australian issue with price in AUD to flap
roman history, historical fiction, masters of rome series
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/C
Century Hutchinson 1998 first edition, 664pp
[#4823 ]
An overview of the full field of ancient Greek myths, from the creation stories through to the tales relating to Perseus, Hercules, the Argonauts, Oedipus, Trojan War, Agamemnon, Odysseus,
Facsimile of the original published in the 1930s.
ISBN 9781859580097
hellenismos, hellenic myth, european, europe
VG paperback
$10 C/B
Senate 1994, xvi 440pp.
[#4824 ]
A fascinating account of a remarkable voyage to Campbell Island, one of a cluster of Sub-Antarctic island groups in a wild and isolated part of the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand.
Includes visits to Fiordland, Stewart Island, the Snares, the Auckland Islands, Campbell Island, Bounty Islands and Antipodes Islands.
Descriptions and photographs of the wildlife and environment, and stories of exploration, whalers and sealers, shipwrecks and castaways, and early attempts to farm this inhospitable land.
ISBN 9781869535018
natural history, new zealand offshore islands
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$35 C/C
David Bateman 2002 first edition, 143pp.
[#4806]
A history of a coal-mining family from Wales who migrated in 1905 to the West Coast, New Zealand, for a life of coal-mining on Denniston Hill.
Social history of Burnetts Face, to the east of Westport, as well as westport and Waimangaoa.
Ned Jones, Lizzie Jones, Aberdare Wales, collier Kumara
VG softback, Signed to half title by the authoress.
$40 B/B
Self published 1994 first edition, 147pp.
[#4807]
The Story of Waitaki Girl's High School 1887-1987.
Each author writes a chapter on a specific period of the school.
ISBN 0473004720
education, Otago, Oamaru, WGHS, girl's schools, M K Dunning
VG softback
$25 B/B
Waitaki Girls' High School Centennial Committee 1987 first edition, 218pp.
[#4808 ]
A History of Medieval Europe From Constantine to Saint Louis.
Franks, Saxons, Crusades
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with some foxing to spine.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1966, 421pp.
[#4790 ]
Sally Baxter, teenaged reporter, is sent for her third foreign assignment, as escort to the winner of the Evening Cry competition for Britain's Best Amateur Actress, Rosemary Hunter, to Hollywood where she stumbles on the mysterious case of Maria Teckla, a German girl who is also aspiring to fame.
young adult, series, girl's stories
VG hardback with no jacket, spine ends rubbed, name to first page.
$7 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[#4791 ]
G+ hardback with G+ jacket, lacks free end paper, jacket torn top corner but no loss, private library label and tape at base of backstrip of jacket.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[BGO 128 ]
"What's It Like to Be a Millionaire" is a light-hearted series of articles in the Evening Cry, and Sally Baxter, junior reporter, thinks she is lucky to be assigned to a rich man's yacht on a cruise in sun-lit waters. Sally loves the lavish life on the yacht with Marcia Carezza and her father, but she secretly yearns to join a crew of students whose broken-down boat sails the same course.
young adult, series, girl's stories
VG hardback with no jacket.
$7 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[#4792 ]
The Flying Goat / Unhappy Golliwog/ Puppy in Fairyland / Little Pink Pig / Pixie's Motor Bus / Enchanted Bellows / Little Light-Fingers.
British children's fiction, 1950s, british empire culture
G+ hardback, spine and corners rubbed back to the card, name to first page.
Souvenir of Royal Visit to New Zealand decal of the Queen and the New Zealand and British flags to paste down, internally VG.
No jacket.
$25 C/A
Pitkin undated first edition (?), 80pp
[#4793]
Illustrated by R. J. MacDonald in line and frontis in colour, scarce title.
G cloth hardback with no jacket.
Bottom quarter of upper joint split, boards rubbed, hinges cracked.
$30 C/B
Charles Skilton 1950 second impression, 236pp
[#4794 ]
Jacket spine has 14, being it's number in the Sovereign Series of uniform books by the publisher.
keywords
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket, price clipped with chipped edges, name to first page, booksellers rubber stamp to foot of title.
$8 C/B
Ward Lock undated (1950s) hardcover, 253pp + colour frontis and adverts.
[#4795 ]
A word picture of life in Auckland, one of the rarest books on early colonial life and one of the most readable.
From the wide range of the author's observations of early governors, officials and churchmen, as well as Maoris, move through its pages, which have preserved also intimate glimpses of family and social life.
As the wife of New Zealand's first chief justice, Lady Martin came to the colony in 1842.
colonial, Auckland
VG softback news print paperback.
$10 C/B
Wilson and Horton, Facsimile reprint of SPCK 1884 edition, 220pp + illustrations.
[#4796 ]
A vintage copy of the 1970s version of the Hobbit
ISBN 0048231266
LOTR, vintage, retro, Smaug cover art
G+ paperback, age browned paper, light wear and creasing.
$10 C/B
Unwin 1976 second impression of the 1975 edition, 253pp
[#4797 ]
Selections from "Testimonies for the Church" vol 4 and 5.
Seventh Day Adventist.
VG hardback with no jacket.
$15 C/C
Southern Publishing Association 1936 cloth, 630pp + adverts.
[#4798 ]
Just before her graduation from high school, Angela May acts out her burning desire to find and confront her father, whom her mother describes as having been the love affair of her life, but what Angela discovers is a hard, cold man who never cared for either her mother or herself.
ISBN 0460062247
young adult
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket.
Ex-library with donation plate to fep, only stamps are to the to front and rear free endpapers, minor paper residue from removed pocket to rear fep, otherwise a tidy copy.
$10 C/B
Dent 1985 First Edition, 185pp.
[#4799 ]
A collection of nine short stories that features fantasy tales of wizards, dancing wolves, and a hungry wind.
ISBN 9780385302545
Illustrated by Diana Catchpole
VG quarter cloth hardback in VG dust jacket.
Lacks front and rear free end papers otherwise tidy.
$10 C/B
Delacorte 1991 First US Edition, 106pp.
[#4800 ]
Also, Healing and Disease in the Light of Rebirth and the Stars.
This work collects metaphysical works formerly published as separate booklets.
VG hardback, lacks dust jacket.
Pale blue boards gilt titled, handling wear, A.C.LIGHTFOOT rubberstamp to paste down and foot of final page, name to fep.
$35 C/C
New Age Press (1960s?), 365 pages
[#4801 ]
Celtic origins, heroes, and stories.
A facsimile of the original 1911 book on the Myths and Legends of the Ancient Irish and Welsh.
Ulster, Red Branch, Ossian, Cymry
ISBN 9780946495849
Myths and Legends Series.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$12 C/C
Bracken Books 1992, 457pp
[#4802 ]
This is the story of an incredible journey.
Photographs and descriptions of a ten month journey by Peter Hillary and Graeme Dingle through the Himalayas, where they passed through Sikkim, Nepal, Garwhal, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet as well as Pakistan and India.
ISBN 9780340320402
adventure, climbing, alpine, mountaineering, travel, New Zealanders
VG hardback in VG dustjacket
$25 C/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1982 first edition, 232pp.
[#4803 ]
Serpentwar Saga 4
ISBN 0002246546
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Voyager/ Harper Collins 1998 first UK edition, 417pp.
[#1148/4734 ]
Conclave of Shadows 2
ISBN 0002246821
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with two short repaired edge tears.
$15 C/C
Voyager 2003 first edition, 374pp.
[#4735 ]
New Zealand Government deer cullers in the Urewera.
Helmer spent time culling deer with Barry Crump in the bush, and he is mentioned.
Includes photos of the cullers.
G+ hardback with sunned spine and no dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 second impression, 180pp + plates. [#244 ]
VG+ hardback with name to free end paper in VG- dust jacket with edge wear.
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 first edition, 180pp + plates. [#4736 ]
Kersey Hooper brings back his new wife, the nominal 'Good Keen Girl', to Blackrange Station, and all hell ensues.
ISBN 0589004956
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 C/B
Reed 1970 first edition, 155pp.
[#1829/4737 ]
The Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and the Treaty of Waitangi Act (1975).
Sober, informed study of the Treaty of Waitangi and the sham Treaty act of 1975 which placed unwarranted emphasis on the documents relevance to current policy.
ISBN 047300934X
VG softback with contact sealed covers.
$25 C/B
Cadsonbury 1990 first edition, 226pp.
[#4738 ]
A complete guide.
ISBN 0589010948
fishing, trout, fly fishing, fly tying, fly tying, salmon, trout
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, lightly sunned to spine.
$20 C/C
Reed 1978 first edition, 151pp + colour plates.
[#4739 ]
Stated first edition.
G+ hardback with light soiling and fading to boards, inscription to half title, pencil name to title.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1922 first edition, 318pp, map end papers.
[#4740 ]
The importance of water in the outback, and how in some places it is scarce where in others overabundant.
australia, history
VG- soiled cloth, spine leans, neat inscription to fep.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson June 1949 cloth, 253pp + plates.
[#4741 ]
The unpublished facts behind the notorious Lonely Hearts killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez.
Covers right up to the execution in Sing Sing's electric chair.
murder, twentieth century, usa
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with mildly chipped spine ends, rubbed corners, name to fep.
$25 C/B
Andrew Dakers 1953 first edition, 232pp.
[#4742 ]
Nancy Drew series 36
ISBN 0001604368
British printing
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 156pp.
[#4745 ]
Nancy Drew series 7
ISBN 0001604074
British printing
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket. Small stamp to spine.
$10 C/B
Collins 1972 first thus, 160pp.
[#4746 ]
Nancy Drew series 28
ISBN 0001604287
British printing
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
Llight edge wear, age browned paper.
$10 C/B
Collins 1973 , 160pp
[#4747 ]
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 29, British edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor edge wear.
Book has a prize plate to free end paper.
$25 C/B
Sampson Low 1967 first UK edition, 160pp.
[#4748 ]
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 18, British edition.
VG hardback in VG- price clipped dust jacket with edge wear and head of spine chipped with loss.
Book has a prize plate to free end paper.
$25 C/B
Sampson Low 1964 first UK edition, 160pp.
[#4749 ]
Illustrated story of a Maori family by the sea, the Maori text translated by Hapi Potae.
Illustrated by Barbara Strathdee.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 B/B
Collins 1973 First Edition, 32pp.
[#4750]
A novel firmly based on the Moors Murders case, focusing on Brady and Hindley. Almost a piece of journalism on the murder.
British murder case, deadly couple, pedophilia, child killer, Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, Saddleworth Moor, Serial Killer, Nietzsche, Nietzschean, Superman
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Some handling wear or surface soiling to the white jacket.
$10 C/B
C/B World Books 1968 hardcover, 352pp.
[#4751 ]
The Yeti and Sasquatch in myth and reality.
ISBN 0224007963
Explores the validity of reported sightings of giant man-like apes in northwestern America, British Columbia, and the Himalayas.
G+ hardback in VG- dust jacket under plastic sleeve with some minor library marks.
Book ex-library with stamps etc but otherwise tidy.
$30 C/C
Cape 1972 first edition, 240pp + plates
[#4755 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Graham Kaye
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 190pp.
[#4758 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Charles Brey
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
ISBN 001622145
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1970 first edition thus, 160pp.
[#1587/4759 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Ray Johnson
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
ISBN 001622145
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 159pp.
[#4760 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Graham Kaye
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 191pp.
[#4761 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories.
Assumed first British edition.
110-150 printed to rear jacket flap.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear with short tears and chipping.
$20 C/B
Sampson Low undated, 192pp. decorative endpapers.
[#4762 ]
1950s or 1960s schoolboy detective style fiction.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping.
$8 C/B
Spring Books Halcyon Library undated, 208pp + colour frontis.
[#4763 ]
8 short adventure stories for boys by the author of Biggles.
Illustrated by Douglas Relf
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
School prize plate to paste down, lightly sunned spine, faint foxing.
$10 C/B
Thomas Nelson Panther Library 1955 first edition, 118pp.
[#4764 ]
A Lucid Treatise Dealing with all the Popular and more Abstruse Methods.
Divination with playing cards and includes English methods of Telling, Napoleon's Method and Tarot divination.
G+ hardback in mottled red cloth with faint water stain to bottom edges, some spotting to closed edges.
No dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Foulsham undated (1960s) 155pp + 5pp adverts.
[#4765 ]
Its Cultivation, Use, and Application to Psychotherapy.
Includes and outline and history of the science, and early experiments.
Hypnotic and Post-Hypnotic suggestion, stage hypnotism, self hypnotism, the hypnotic factor in Psychic Mediumship.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, price clipped, name stamp to free end paper.
$25 C/B
Rider 1956 fifth impression reprint, 158pp.
[#4766]
US first edition of this classic retro American young adult fiction.
VG- hardback in G dust jacket.
Name to half-title, paper scar to free end paper, jacket worn and chipped.
$15 C/B
Grosset & Dunlap 1954 first edition, 210pp.
[#4767 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories.
First UK edition.
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Green boards with red design, decorative endpapers.
$10 C/B
Sampson Low undated, 190pp.
[#4768 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories #8
ISBN 0448090880
9088
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Grosset and Dunlap 1973, 182pp.
[#4769 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories #11
ISBN 0448090910
9091
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
Light surface soiling, inscription to paste down.
$10 C/B
Grosset and Dunlap 1974, 174pp.
[#4769 ]
Girl Guide Adventure Book No 1
VG hardback in G- dust jacket with some edge wear and short edge tears.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1965 first edition, 177pp.
[#4780 ]
Scouting Adventures for Boys
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some edge wear.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1964 first edition, 171pp.
[#4781 ]
Baron von Hügel offers spiritual guidance in response to the sometimes distressing events of his adult niece's life.
Informal and extremely personal, the letters provide a fascinating insight into the character of this important figure in the Catholic modernist movement.
ISBN 9781573831031
christian, modernist, philosophy
VG softback
$15 C/B
Regent College Publishing 1998, 171pp.
[#4782 ]
A Search for God through Awareness of the True Self.
Finley offers a guide to the difficult journey leading from an awareness of a false and illusory self to a realization of the true self.
In exploring Merton's thought, Finley offers fresh insight to a major spiritual thinker of our time, a guide to our spiritual journey and a participatory look at Merton's approach to prayer and contemplation.
Finley stayed at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative, for six years and wrote this book to share what he had learned on his spiritual journey under the guidance of one of the great religious figures of our day.
ISBN 0877931593
christian, spirituality, mysticism
G+ softback, minor spots of tape stain to inside covers.
$8 C/B
Ave Maria Press 1978, 158pp.
[#4783 ]
A discussion of the work of feminist thinkers from the last three hundred years, which features contributions from contemporary writers such as Ann Oakley and Alix Kates Shulman on the feminist intellectual tradition pioneered by the likes of Aphra Benn, Christabel Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf.
ISBN 9780704338890
gender studies, sociology, politics, theory
VG softback
$15 C/B
Women's Press Ltd 1992, 402 pp.
[#4784]
The Hardy Boys Series #34
ISBN 0001605348
British printing
VG- hardcover pictorial boards, rubbed edges, name to free end paper.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 160pp.
[#4785 ]
Edited by Greg Waite; Otago Studies in English 3
ISBN 9780959791495
arthurian, grail, British history, The Matter of Britain
VG- softback, minor insect damage to first page otherwise tidy
$15 C/B
English Department (University of Otago) 1993, xxxvii 187pp
[#4786 ]
New Thought Christian mysticism and spirituality
ISBN 852430108
VG softback, sewn binding.
$25 C/B
Fowler 1977 reprint, 242pp.
[#4787 ]
Most managers know that revitalization in their companies must occur from the ground up. But how can you get that message to your employees without applying the kind of pressure that makes them even less productive?
Empowerment is the answer, and it's easier to achieve than you may think. In this motivating book you will find specific strategies designed to help you empower your employees daily.
More concrete than other works on participative management, Zapp! shows you how to encourage responsibility acknowledgment, and creativity so that employees feel that they gown their jobs.
With hands-on examples, you will learn the basics that allow you to use this principle in every situation, from large meetings to one-on-one conversations to formal evaluations, and really get results.
Best of all, you can use the techniques in Zopp! to pursue any number of business goals, whether you're trying to increase productivity improve customer service, or innovate faster than the competition.
It's all here, in an accessible guide for the successful managers of tomorrow.
ISBN 9780449907058
self development, business, positive thought
VG softback
$10 C/B
Fawcett 1992, 197pp.
[#4788 ]
"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time."
The ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves.
Therefore, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading.
ISBN 070120625X
Second revised edition.
VG softback
$10 C/B
Hogarth 1985, 262pp.
[#4789 ]
A companion to the author's Sea Anglers Fishes of New Zealand.
Illustrated frontis by A Fraser-Brunner, other illustrations are black and white photos..
angling, big game fishing, shark, marlin
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket price with short tear top edge rear panel and short split at head of spine fold.
free end paper corner clipped, some mottling to lower edge of the cloth boards.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1958 First Edition, 127pp + plates.
[#4724 ]
Early Australian issues of these classic stories.
Sold as a bundle.
G+ hardbacks in green cloth.
Rubbed to edges, inscription to paste downs, lack free end papers, age browned paper, soiled closed edges
$30 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1940 / 1941 / 1940, 283 + 342 + 234pp.
[#4725 ]
One Hundred more of the Master's stories introduced by James Hilton.
Thin rice paper but still a hefty book.
VG hardback in VG- price clipped jacket with some wear.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1955 sixth impression, cloth, 1128pp.
[#4726 ]
UK first issue with GBP 16.99 publisher price to flap.
ISBN 0747208328
horror, fiction, collectible
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Headline 1993 first edition, 409pp.
[#4729 ]
Being a brief memoir of The Late Rev William Rickarby Campbell B. A.
Campbell was the first settled minister in the Amuri.
Many photos of early church buildings in the district
Bagnall; N3646
This copy has a presentation inscription by author on title page, and is annotated and corrected in the author's hand.
VG softback in paper wrappers.
$75 C/B
D N Adams 1926 First Edition, 33pp
[#4730 ]
Esperanto-English and English-Esperanto dictionary based on the language devised by Zamenhof.
Includes grammar, and the Esperanto versions of national and personal names.
universal language, lingusitics, european
VG hardback with no jacket.
Small amount of wear to cloth, extreme bottom corner of one page torn off with minor loss of text
$10 A/A
Nelson 1950 first thus revised and enlarged edition, ix 288pp.
[#4731 ]
In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border.
Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hundred years they had disappeared.
In this period occured the destruction of the Picts and the rise of the Scottish kingdom based on contemporary accounts from fragmentary sources which survive from this darkest period in Scottish history.
These important sources are presented in full and their value as evidence is thoroughly explored and evaluated.
ISBN 9780748612345
britain, scottish, celtic, history, pagan, anglo saxon, primary source, norse
VG+ softback
$45 C/C
Edinburgh University Press 2011, xv 384pp.
[#4733 ]
An insightful and well researched biography of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, and the times he lived in and how this affected his philosophy and writings.
Covers his political and theological ideas as well as his 'pornographic' writings.
Panther 171B
divine marquis, french philosophy, 18th century, libertine, atheist, atheist philosophy
G+ paperback with rubbed edges and reading creases etc. to cover, an 'adults only' label and a peice of surface lifted from top corner of front cover, generally VG internally.
$10 A/A
Panther 1964 reprint, 203pp.
[PB1685 ]
An insturction book for scaled group exercises designed to expand consciousness.
Pathworking and guided visualisation.
Clear instructions suggest how teachers, therapists, workshop, church, and community leaders, and everyone who wants to live and work with more focus, flow, and mental flexibility can use these games to maximize their potential
ISBN 08550007755
self development, rising on the planes, meditation, groupwork
VG- softback with some cover wear.
$15 C/B
Turnstone Press 1980 reprint, 246pp.
[#4718 ]
Author famous for his work with pendulum dowsing here investigates the pagan and historical roots of witchcraft.
Illustrations and diagrams in the text.
Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eventually became a religion of the suppressed classes.
Scarce title.
wicca, witchcraft, pagan, heathen, witch-cult, british, albion
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Ex-Library with stamps etc to fep, half title, title and copyright page.
The top corner of the fep and half title have been trimmed.
Shelf mark to spine.
$45 C/C
Routledge 1962 First Edition, 162pp.
[#4719 ]
Maurice Gee's scarce second novel.
new zealand lietrature, fiction, modern first edition, rare
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Single line name to free end paper top corner, tidy unclipped dust jacket.
$65 C/B
Hutchinson 1965 First Edition.
[#4720 ]
The Pacific endeavours of the Catholic order of Marist Brothers.
Sports, education etc.
church, religious orders
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Marist Brothers 1976 First Edition, 211pp + plates.
[#4721 ]
Colonial missionaries in the Pacific islands of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia.
Includes Australia and New Zealand.
ISBN 0589006843
colonialism, christian, missionary, missions
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Reed 1972 First Edition, 230pp+ plates.
[#4722 ]
New Plymouth regional history with 128 photos, some in colour.
VG hardback with no jacket.
$20 C/C
New Plymouth City Council 1981 First Edition, 350pp + plates, map endpapers
[#4723 ]
Compiled for Observer's from the larger work The Book of Garden Flowers by G A R Phillips.
With 150 illustrations in colour by Joan Lupton.
The Observer's Book #25
ISBN 0723215316
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
$15 A/A
Frederick Warne 1974 first edition, 192pp.
[#4700 ]
A young adult fantasy novel set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
Contains characters from Celtic and Norse mythology, as well as the local folklore of Cheshire.
The first book in the trilogy; The Weirdstone of Brisingamen / The Moon of Gomrath / Boneland.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with small tear along top of upper fore edge fold.
$45 C/B
Collins 1969 Evergreen Library second edition, third printing, 224pp
[#4701 ]
Selection from this beat generation associated American poet.
Bubbs Creek Haircut / Elwha River / Night Highway Ninety-Nine / Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise / The Market / Journeys.
G+ hardback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Fulcrum 1967 First Edition, 48pp.
[#4702 ]
A complete guide to the breed with details of the origin and development.
ISBN 0091225000
breeding, showing, gundog, gun dogs, canine
VG hardback with no jacket.
$10 C/C
Popular Dogs 1974 revised fifth edition, 245pp + plates.
[#4703 ]
First published in 1925, this novel of the Irish Rebellion won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
ISBN 0224605429
Irish literature, twentieth century, fiction, Ireland
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has strongly sunfaded spine, Pen gift inscription to inside of cover.
$10 C/B
Jonathan Cape 1971, 272pp.
[#4704 ]
One of King's most popular works, concerning a supernatural evil clown entity.
ISBN 0340364777
modern first edition, horror, It, clown, supernatural
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket.
Backstrip is split along joints and detached but present. Jacket unclipped with GBP 12.95 price intact.
$25 C/D
Hodder 1986 first UK edition, 912pp.
[#4705 ]
A story of interplanetary flight.
By the author of Biggles
With colour plates by Stead (one creased)
young adult fiction, rare, collectable, scifi
VG hardback in a G dust jacket.
Name to free end paper, tape scar to paste down, tape residue to rear paste down, light sunning to edges of boards.
Bottom quarter of dust jacket spine missing, front fold in flap detached, top edge worn and chipped.
$30 C/B
Hodder 1954 first edition,192pp
[#4709 ]
A story of interplanetary flight.
By the author of Biggles
With colour plates by Stead.
young adult fiction, rare, collectable, scifi
G+ hardback in a G+ dust jacket.
Name and address and name stamp and newspaper clipping advert for this title taped to free end paper.
Dust jacket is complete and would be VG but has had the edges (including joints) sellotaped, this is browing and may with time be removeable.
$35 C/B
Hodder 1956 first edition,190pp.
[#4710 ]
A story of interplanetary flight.
By the author of Biggles
With colour plates by Stead.
young adult fiction, rare, collectable, scifi
VG hardback in a G dust jacket.
Name to free end paper, tape scar to paste down, tape residue to rear paste down, light sunning to edges of boards.
Name stamps to the title page.
Dust jacket is complete would be VG but has had the edges (including joints) sellotaped, this is browing and may with time be removeable, small scuffed tear to rear panel.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1956 first edition,190pp
[#4711 ]
The first three decades of Arrow International, a construction firm formed in Dunedin in 1984 by Ron Anderson and Bob Foster.
ISBN 9780473359447
Well illustrated throughout.
VG+ softback
$45 D/C
Arrow International Group Ltd 2016 first edition, 240pp.
[#4713 ]
Many lightyears from Earth, Dellian and his clan of genetically-engineered soldiers are raised with one goal.
They must confront and destroy their ancient adversary.
The enemy caused mankind to flee across the galaxy and they hunt us still.
If they aren't stopped, we will be wiped out - and we're running out of time.
ISBN 9781447281320
Book One of the Salvation Sequence.
VG trade paperback
$20 C/C
MacMillan 1028 first edition, 532pp
[#4714 ]
With information on former members, sites, property and activities.
friendly society, cultural association, clubs
VG softback, light crease to cover, pen name to title
$30 C/B
Christchurch Workingmens Club 1980, unpaginated about 200pp, many photos.
[#4690 ]
A further development of Transactional Analysis and the script theory of Taibi Kahler, expanded into a complete theory of personality.
ISBN 0091516803
Transactional Analysis, psychotherapy, TA, Taibi Kahler
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/B
Hutchinson 1983 First Edition, 143pp
[#4691 ]
Centennial publication of New Zealands Westland province, home of coal and gold mining as well as forestry.
With lots of photos and advertisements.
official souvenir, Phil Ross May, mining, gold rush, Greymouth, Fenian uprising, coal mining, Hokitika, Grey River Hospital, Rotomanu, Reefton, Otira
VG- pictorial colour wrappers, rubbed to spine edges with short splits at ends, still fully attached etc.
$30 B/B
Westland Centennial Council 1960 First Edition, 176pp.
[#4692 ]
The sequel to Robot Adept
ISBN 0450429334
Christos Achilleos cover art.
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket, book spine leans, minor foxing to closed fore edge.
$12 C/C
New English Library, NEL 1990 first UK edition, hard cover, 303pp.
[#4696 ]
An account of the Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition (ABEE), with over 110 colour photographs.
ISBN 0867773189
nepal, mt everest, mountaineering, climbing, australia
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$35 B/D
Child and Associates 1989 first edition, 160pp.
[#4677 ]
Memoir by a woman who, although affected by ill health and the loss of her legs, became the primary caregiver of her two blind and deaf sisters, and strove to lead a normal productive life.
new zealand, biography, adversity, amputee, Cashmere Sanatorium, christchurch
VG hardback in G dust jacket.
Jacket has sun fading and some edge tears.
$8 C/C
Robert Hale 1967, 176pp.
[#4678 ]
Illustrated by John Kennedy.
Adventures from History Series 561
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Jacket spine very faintly faded, and some rubbing to edges.
Rear flap of jacket lists 16 titles ending with this one
$25 A/A
Ladybird Books (Wills & Hepworth) 1963 first edition, 51pp.
[#4686 ]
The experiences of Edward Lynch, an 18 year old Australian private during the First World War when he served with the 45th battalion of the Australian Infantry Forces on the Western Front at the Somme, which saw the most bloody and costly fighting of the war.
"It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying."
ISBN 9781741668940
wwi, ww1, A.I.F., military, memoir
VG+ paperback, name to first page.
$15 C/B
Random House 2008, xvi 347pp.
[#4687 ]
With a colour frontispiece, and monotone illustrations by John Tenniel in the text.
Top edge dusted teal blue, fore edges untrimmed.
alice in wonderland, dodgson,
VG- hardback, no jacket. A few pages have light creases.
$10 C/B
Junior Deluxe Editions, Garden City, New York, undated, approx 1960s, 189pp.
[#4688 ]
One of the best travel guides to New Zealand, with detailed historical information as well as current points of note. Valued by tour guides for the local history notes.
ISBN 9780790001555
VG softback
$20 B/C
Reed 1993 8th edition fully revised, 326pp.
[#4658 ]
In 1977 Dick Lee, of the Thames Valley Drug Squad, uncovered six million tablets of LSD and 120 people were arrested in regard to an estimated 100,000,000 pounds sterling worth of LSD.
This was the cumulation of two years of investigations in England, Wales and France.
ISBN 0491021763
illicit drugs, drug cartel, european crime, Richard Kemp
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$50 C/C
Hutchinson (Auckland) 1978 First Edition, 382pp + plates
[#4659 ]
A journal of channeled information pertaining to earth changes in the 1980s as well as various occult themes such as Atlantis, the Equinoxes, cosmo astrology etc.
ISBN 072120564
new age, channeling, contact
VG laminated pictorial hardcover, slightly soiled
$75 C/B
Regency Press 1979 First Edition, 185pp.
[#4660 ]
A biographical memoir of "Yar", which was the nickname of Ole, son of Ole Olsen and Annie Martin from Taheke in the Hokianga.
Dargaville, Dalice Brady, Maule's Gorge, Silver Shields, Abbotsford, Wairoa, Rifleman 78184, ww1
VG softback in stapled wrapper
$30 C/B
John Round and Son Ltd. 1982, 61pp+21pp of photos.
[#4661 ]
The fascinating history of Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.
ISBN 9781877228377
quarantine island, POW internment, enemy aliens, ww1, ww2
VG softback
$25 B/B
Steele Roberts 2001, 160pp
[#4662 ]
George Fyffe and his whaling station at Fyffe house had an important role in the establishment of colonial Kaikoura.
This is a detailed study of the building and it's association with the community.
ISBN 9780908577217
kaikoura, whaling, shore whaling, archaeology, Kai Tahu
VG softback
$12 B/B
New Zealand Historic Places Trust 1994, 56pp.
[#4663 ]
The social, cultural and natural history of this Auckland beach, and the role it has played in nurturing many creative New Zealanders
ISBN 9780908988174
surf, surfing, Karekare beach, film
VG softback
$25 B/D
Exisle Publishing 2001, 240pp
[#4664 ]
Informative historical publication with memories by former pupils, photos, maps, staff roll etc.
Includes two ephemera being programme for the centennial Celebrations on October 4th-6th 1974.
Kaiapoi Island, Days Run, Wai-iti, Canterbury
VG stapled wrappers
$30 C/A
Clarkville East Eyreton Schools Centennial Committee (1974), 44pp.
[#4609 ]
Informative historical publication with memories by former pupils, photos, staff roll etc.
Whiterock, Rangiora, Okuku River
VG stapled wrappers
$15 C/A
North Loburn School Centennial Committee (1980), 15pp
[#4610 ]
A Popular History of ;
(a) Minor Campaigns in which New Zealanders took part;
(b)Services not fully dealt with in the Campaign Volumes;
(c) The Work at the Bases during the First World War.
Supply of Reinforcements; Samoa; Philomel; Army Nurses; NZ Hospitals at Salonica, in Egypt, in UK; Hospital Ships; Dental and veterinary Corps; the Peace Conference; Education Services in the NZEF; War Finance; NZ Army Camps in England.
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket
$95 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1923 First Edition, 276pp with black and white photos.
[#4611 ]
Much on La Vey's Church of Satan as well as contemporary occult and Satanic organisations.
One of the first serious and well informed works to deal with real and contemporary satanism and associated beliefs.
ISBN 0246640502
crowley, anton szandor la vey, black magic, witchcraft
VG hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
16pp of plates a little damp rippled to lower corner as well as a few of the adjoining pages, quite a minor blemish, otherwise VG book.
$50 C/B
Hart-Davis 1971 First Edition, 211pp with index
[#4612 ]
Sarker founded Ananda Marga, a synthesis of Vedic and Tantric philosophies, as a spiritual and social organisation to offer instruction in meditation and yoga.
Indian, Philosophy, Religion Tantra, Hinduism, Spirituality
VG softback
$15 A/A
Ananda Marga 1991 reprint, 214pp
[#4613 ]
Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party built a network of roads stretching 4,000 miles across the almost unknown wilderness of Central Australia.
This book details his second road across Australia which was driven 1,000 miles from east to west through the heart of the Great Victoria Desert.
Construction took years, through the almost impenetrable mulga scrub and over sand ridges fianlly overcome by Beadell's bulldozer.
For five months his wife and infant daughter camped with him in the desert, commemorated by the Connie Sue Highway, a 400 mile stretch of road which extends from the Warburton Ranges to Rawlinna on the Nullarbor.
Beadell tells the story with an eye for the human and humorous details.
Beadell, one the last ot the true Australian explorers, was born on a farm at West Pennant Hills, NSW, in 1923.
As a surveyor and road builder he has worked all over the Australian outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert.
In 1958 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for his work in building the Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia.
ISBN 9780727015747
Australian engineering, transport, roadmaking, surveying, Maralinga, Serpentine Lakes,
VG softback
$25 C/B
Rigby Publishers Limited 1982, 163pp + plates.
[#4614 ]
A Memoir in which Eric Beardsley gives a candid account of his life, chronicling the reporter's experiences from his childhood in 1920s and 1930s Christchurch, New Zealand, to his achievements as lead writer at the Press and information officer for the University of Canterbury.
A vivid portrait of a life well lived, of a province and its university, and of New Zealand over the last eight decades.
ISBN 9781927145005
autobiography, academia, christchurch, canterbury
VG softback
$35 C/B
Canterbury University Press, 2012 first edition, 211pp+ plates.
[#4615 ]
Gives evidence for the existence of the soul from studies of consciousness; scientific theory by Schrodinger, Godel and Einstein; Quantum physics of Margenau and Bohm;and the synthesis of these in God.
Includes short piece on human animal communication as evidenced by shamanic practice.
An alternative view of human consciousness, a theory of mind and being independent of matter, time, and space.
As a physician, Dossey has often confronted events and miraculous cures in his patients that cannot be explained by conventional science.
Drawing from the latest research, Dr. Dossey synthesizes the ideas of eminent scientists such as Schrödinger, Einstein, Gödel, and Margenau, with the time-honored knowledge of visionaries and mystics to present convincing evidence for a nonlocal, holistic view of mind and reality that can explain transcendental experiences.
In short, he provides new proof of the existence of the soul.
Supported by thoughts from Lao Tzu and Jung, Meister Eckhart and Rilke, as well as from ancient texts such as the Upanishads
A penetrating exploration of the nexus of mysticism and healing, religion and physics.
ISBN 055334790X
G+ softback, sunned spine binding opens flat at centre.
$15 C/C
Bantam 1989, x 319pp
[#4616 ]
Noncausal dimensions of human experience, a lucid explanation of Jung's 'synchronicity.'
jungian, c g jung, psychology, tarot, I Ching, dreams
VG- softback, binding opens flat at centre.
$15 C/B
Delta 1975, 176pp
[#4617 ]
Edited D K Osbon, a selection of Campbells thoughts on the challenge of living, the process of spiritual awakening, the struggle of awareness and the art of living in the sacred.
ISBN 0060167181
comparative religion, Archetypal psychology, mythology
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, jacket has sunned spine.
Quarter cloth with marker ribbon.
$35 C/C
Harper Collins 1991 first edition, 311pp.
[#4618 ]
Generic fantasy role palying game campaign module adaptable to any RPG.
With four cultures with accompanying maps etc.
States first of the Loremaster Series.
rpg
VG- card wrappers, some insect damage to edges of front cover and first page.
$35 C/B
I.C.E. 1980 first edition, only 5,000 printed, 68pp.
[#4622 ]
Mech Record sheets for game keeping and combat reference.(1647)
ISBN 1555601413
rpg, accessory, unused
VG+ soft cover 4to, publishers hole punch to spine
$15 B/B
FASA Corporation 1990, approx 50pp.
[#4623 ]
Mech Record sheets for game keeping and combat reference.(1648)
ISBN 1555601421
rpg, accessory, unused
VG+ soft cover 4to, publishers hole punch to spine
$15 B/B
FASA Corporation 1990, approx 50pp.
[#4624 ]
Mech Record sheets for game keeping and combat reference.(1649)
ISBN 1555601464
rpg, accessory, unused
VG+ soft cover 4to, publishers hole punch to spine
$15 B/B
FASA Corporation 1991, approx 50pp.
[#4625 ]
Mech Record sheets for game keeping and combat reference.(1650)
ISBN 1555601472
rpg, accessory, unused
VG+ soft cover 4to, publishers hole punch to spine
$15 B/B
FASA Corporation 1991, approx 50pp.
[#4626 ]
Mech Record sheets for game keeping and combat reference.(1668)
ISBN 1555601774
rpg, accessory, unused
VG+ soft cover 4to, publishers hole punch to spine
$15 B/B
FASA Corporation 1992, approx 110pp.
[#4627 ]
Studies in Jungian Psychology 8.
Jungian approach to the Yaqui Indian shaman Don Juan's teachings as presented in Castaneda's work.
ISBN 0919123074
G+ softback, binding split at spine and is 'cracked' at centre but holding well, covers rubbed to edges
$10 B/B
Inner City Books 1981 first edition, 153pp
[#4628 ]
"These days, people study and train to become psychologists. Lord Buddha's idea is that everybody should become a psychologist. Each of you should know your own mind; you should become your own psychologist.
This is definitely possible; every human being has the ability to understand his or her own mind. When you understand your own mind, control follows naturally. "Don't think that control is just some Himalayan trip or that it must be easier for people who don't have many possessions. That's not necessarily true.
Next time you are emotionally upset, check for yourself. Instead of busily doing something to distract yourself, relax and try to become aware of what you're doing.
Ask yourself, 'Why am I doing this? How am I doing it? What's the cause?' You will find this to be a wonderful experience. Your main problem is a lack of intensive knowledge-wisdom, awareness, or consciousness, therefore, you will discovet that through understanding, you can easily solve your problems."
ISBN 1891868004
buddhism, mindfulness, therapy
VG softback
$10 C/A
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive 2002, 63pp.
[#4630 ]
The Story of the Church of England in the Diocese of Nelson, New Zealand 1858 to 1958.
Includes includes accounts of the Nelson area from 1842-1857, and the settlers of the third of the NZ Company's settlements.
local history, church centenary, Edmund Hobhouse, Andrew Burn Suter, Charles Oliver Mules, church institutions, Whakarewa School
VG- cloth hardback with G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has some chipping and tears with large area chipped to the fold of the rear flap
The book lacks the free end-paper.
$20 C/C
Diocese of Nelson 1958 first edition, 384pp + plates
[#4632 ]
Includes psychical research and survival as well as ESP as evidences for the soul.
ISBN 0835604047
reincarnation, past lives, theosophy
VG softback, private library rubber stamp at foot of preface
$15 C/B
Theosophical Publishing 1970 revised edition, xx 259pp.
[#4633 ]
The Dimensions of a Haida Myth.
American Indian myth and lore.
ISBN 0912516380
native american indian, anthropology, myth,
VG softback with light handling soiling to wrapper
$10 C/B
Grey Fox Press 1979, xix 133pp.
[#4634 ]
The Vampire Bat in fact and fantasy, includes the natural history, as well as the 'supernatural' mythology including modern popular vampire lore.
Illustrated.
ISBN 0874806011
keywords
VG softback
$15 C/B
University of Utah 1999 reprint, 147pp.
[#4635 ]
VG- softbacks
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1986/ 1985/ 1986, 253+195+176pp.
[#4640 ]
Centenary Edition with an introduction by C A Hankin.
ISBN 1869410149
new zealand, women's writing
VG- softback, top of first page trimmed
$8 C/B
Century Hutchinson 1988, 107pp.
[#4641 ]
Centenary Edition with an introduction by C A Hankin.
ISBN 1869410157
new zealand, women's writing
VG- softback, top of first page trimmed
$8 C/B
Century Hutchinson 1988, 191pp.
[#4642 ]
First 50 years of the Canterbury agricultural business, founded in 1919 when Pyne & Co. and Gould, Beaumont & Co., and Guinnes & Le Cren Ltd merged.,
ISBN
stock and station, mercantile, wool merchants, auctioneers
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. for PGG 1970, 152pp + plates.
[#2023/4643 ]
Being sketches of Up-Country life in New Zealand.
Includes early colonial accounts of Maori.
Illustrated by Dagmar Huie.
G+ cloth hardback.
Uniformaly dust soiled cloth, frontis detached and shows tape rust along spine edge of the frontis and the title, inscription dated 1918 to fep, rear joint split to top half
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs (1912) first edition of 1,000 copies (B401) viii 208pp.
[#4644 ]
A masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller, inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring and writing the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the two young killers who brutally murdered them.
An unflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil.
ISBN 9780141038391
crime spree, murder, documentary, non fiction, Clutter family Murder,Truman Capote, journalism
VG paperback
$9 A/A
Penguin 2008, 343pp
[PB1669 ]
A history of the Hawke's Bay Motor Company, with details of the early development of the Napier-Taupo Road and the communities it serviced.
Well illustrated with photographs.
coaching, transport, Gisborne, Hastings
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Some bumping to the covers, and some wear and short tears to the jacket.
Internally a tidy copy.
$25 C/B
Reed 1967 First Edition, 124pp + plates.
[#4592 ]
A good book for the beginner which details the most commonly found specimens, all 18 butterfly species and about 10 of the over 1,500 moths found in New Zealand.
Lepidoptera
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with plastic sleeve.
There is a 2x2 cm square cut from the blank back panel of the dust jacket.
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1966 first edition, 219pp + plates, some in colour.
[#4593 ]
Stories of Great Sounds Women, being a social history of thirteen pioneer women of the Marlborough Sounds.
Interviewed by Heather, these women recount the hardships and joys of life from the early years of the twentieth Century onwards.
ISBN 9780908561759
Ruby Heberley
Milly Watson
Lily Reeves
Ida Scott
Hazel Baker
Mary Kirk Williams
Florence Fishburn
Betty derbyshire
Mavis Thomas
Ida Hebberd
Olive Burdekin
Cape Jackson women
Helen McLauchlan
Betty Baker
VG softback.
$15 C/B
Cape Catley September 1999 second edition, 260pp.
[#4594 ]
Definitive collection of Mason's (1905-1971) poetry, with an introduction by Allen Curnow
A New Edition, the third revision.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket, with original advertising band around the book
$35 C/B
Pegasus 1971, 113pp
[#4595 ]
A full account with great detail of various British customs, including defunct ones.
ISBN 058608293X
social history, countryside customs, pagan, wassailing, furry dance, hobby horse, festivals
G+ paperback, browned pages
$10 C/B
Paladin 1978, 349pp.
[#4596 ]
A rebirth of the ancient religion of the Great Goddess.
A reference book of the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming ways in which readers can turn to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body, and spirit.
A comprehensive overview of the growth, suppression, and modern-day re-emergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion.
ISBN 9780060675356
wiccan rituals, invocations, exercises, magic, neo-pagan, gender studies
VG- softback with sunned spine
$20 C/B
Harper and Row 1979, 218pp.
[#4597 ]
The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed
From royal and suppressed archives comes documented proof of the heritage of Jesus in the West and the long awaited discovery of the Holy Grail.
New light is cast upon the Grail Code of Service and the venerated feminine element, upheld in chivalry but forsaken by the Church in order to forge a male dominated society.
Information concerning the descendent heirs of Jesus and his brother James.
Documents the hidden legacy of the Messiah and unveils facts about Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea.
Traces the sacred lineage through centuries of persecution and Inquisition, revealing a systematic suppression of authentic records and a strategic manipulation of the New Testament Gospels.
ISBN 9780141006154
christianity, arthurian, sion, jesus, conspiracy, religion
VG softback
$12 C/B
Penguin 2001, xvi 451pp + plates.
[#4598 ]
At the heart of the Grail mythos stands the question; who is Parzival?
Ravenscroft seeks to answer the many questions posed by readers of his Spear of Destiny, and to address a growing interest in the spiritual significance of the quest sagas of the Middle Ages.
ISBN 9780877285465
holy grail, christian, mysticism, arthurian cycle, king arthur
VG- softback
$20 C/B
Samuel Weiser 1997, 194pp.
[#4599 ]
The Life History of Charles, Baron de Thierry, King Of Nukahiva, Sovereign Chief of New Zealand.
Fictional story about the real French nobleman who claimed title to parts of colonial New Zealand.
women's writing, Iris Wilkinson, colonial historical fiction
G- hardback with no dust jacket.
Lower joint split and repaired, spine faded, ex-library with stamps etc to end-papers and the bottom of the chapter title for part two only
$35 C/C
Hurst and Blackett London, undated but states "2nd Impression", 288 + 48pp adverts for 1936
[#4600 ]
Irving shows Churchill as a belligerent warmonger forcing Britain and her colonies into an unnecessary and brutal war which cost the Empire and led to forty years of the Cold War as well as the nuclear age.
Irving's scholarship has never been doubted, although his conclusions have been denied.
ISBN 0947117563
winston churchill, ww2, wwii, political biography, politics
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with sun-faded spine
$85 D/D
Veritas 1987 first edition, 666pp.
[#4601 ]
Part of the New Zealand Art series.
Gives good photos and diagrams of examples, most of them from South Canterbury as well as a few from near Rotorua.
ISBN 0589004743
petroglyphs, primitive art, archeology
VG+ hardback, name crossed out to free end paper.
$25 B/B
Reed 1972 first edition, 32pp.
[#4602 ]
Discusses 75 of Binney's paintings, which are reproduced in full colour.
ISBN 9781869402884
nz art, modern art, monograph
VG- softback, some mild soiling to covers
$55 B/B
Auckland University Press 2003 first edition, 130pp.
[#4603 ]
This is a selection by Philip Edwards from Beagleholes four volume edition.
Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779, ranging from the Antarctic to the Arctic Sea.
He charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific.
It was not until the 20th century that the original journals were published in Beaglehole's definitive edition.
This edition of The Journals tells the story of these voyages as Cook wanted it to be told, radiating the ambition, courage and skill which enabled him to carry out an unrivalled series of expeditions in dangerous waters.
ISBN 9780140436471
Endeavour, Resolution, Discovery, first contact, British maritime
VG paperback
$12 C/B
Penguin 1999, 436pp + maps, glossary, indexes
[#4604 ]
Marks the Centennial of the order.
masonry, free masonry, friendly society
VG- black marker number to cover, first page, small spot of soiling rear cover
$10 C/B
Le Droit Humaine 1993, 73pp.
[#4605 ]
Ten lectures given in Basle 15-26th September 1909 translated by D S Osmand and Owen Barfield.
Discusses the universal mysticism found in the gospel with reference to Buddha, Zarathustra etc.
ISBN 0854402993
anthroposophy, christian, mysticism
G+ softback with some cover fading, marker number to first page.
$20 C/B
Rudolf Steiner Press 1975, 203pp.
[#4606 ]
A charming story of the innocent mischief a little lost witch can cause.
Illustrated by Charles Mozley.
Originally the story was published in the New Zealand School Journal.
ISBN 0460058002
new zealand, illustrated children's fiction
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
Spine has chipping loss at both ends, corners are rubbed.
Some minor foxing or soiling to edges.
$35 B/B
J M Dent and Sons 1970 first edition, 24pp.
[#4607 ]
Beautiful full page and full colour illustration of animals with a caption naming their grouping; i.e. A skulk of Foxes, an Ambush of Tigers etc.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
$20 B/B
Oxford University Press 1971, 32pp.
[#4608 ]
Second part of a 2 volume abridgement.
This volume includes Dying Gods, Corn Spirits, Scapegoats, Balder, Fire festivals.
mythology, fertility, indo-european
VG paperback
$10 A/B
MacMillan in the St Martins Librray 1957 first thus, viii 485-971.
[PB1662 ]
Three paperback volume set of Jean Plaidy's history of the Spanish Inquisition.
ISBN0352302119
Witchcraft, Heresy, Heretic, Torquemada, Religion, Christianity
VG paperback, vol 2 and 3 have remainder stripes to bottom edges.
$20 A/B
Star Books 1978 first paperback editions, 200-220pp per volume
[PB1663 ]
Judge Dredd Graphic paperbacks #2
Dredd must deal with Mega-City One's weirdest (and ugliest) entrepreneur, Otto Sump, whose disgusting stunts for making money can turn even a Judge's stomach.
The flabbiest, foulest and funniest stories of all time.
Reprints Dredd story from 2000 AD magazine in a paperback book format.
ISBN185286110X
graphic novel, 2000AD, british
VG- light wear to joints, minor soiling, corner crease
$10 A/B
Titan Books 1988 first edition, unpaginated, circa 150pp.
[PB1664 ]
A Faustian story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope.
A "savage indictment of bourgeois society".
This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of intellectual hypocrisy.
ISBN 9780141045535
Translated by Basil Creighton, revised by Walter Sorrell
VG paperback
$8 A/A
Penguin 2009, 253pp.
[PB1665 ]
Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible; but all seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule.
Step inside and meet them all; dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and the youngest, 'the General'.
Come and share in their lives, their laughter and their tears.
ISBN 9780143204862
australian, children's fiction, colonial
VG paperback
$8 A/A
Penguin 2010, 177pp.
[PB1666 ]
Four titles giving an overview of the philosophical thought of these important thinkers.
Levi-Strauss by Edmund Leach
Popper by Bryan Magee
Russell by A J Ayer
Wittgenstein by David Pears
ISBN 0006322557 / 0006329934 / 0006329659 / 0006324290
modern philosophers, twentieth century philosophy, introduction
VG- paperbacks
$20 A/B
Fontana 1974 / 1979 / 1972 / 1975, approx. 110-180 pages per book.
[PB1667 ]
Ancient Spells from Modern Witches, mainly to do with relationships and love, includes runic charms.
Incantations, aphrodisiacs, and love potion recipes, some dating from the fifteenth century.
ISBN 0806520205
wiccan, witchcraft
VG- softback.
$20 C/B
Citadel Press 1999, 152pp.
[#4550 ]
Testimonies from one hundred years of the healing ministry founded by Mary Baker Eddy
ISBN 0875100678
faith healing
VG softback.
$10 C/B
The Christian Science Publishing Society 1966, 256pp.
[#4551 ]
The secret tradition in Goetia, including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy.
Includes the rituals of Transcendental Magic, Composite Rituals, Black Magic, Solomonic Magic.
ISBN 0883560135
occult, grimoire
VG cloth hardback in VG dust jacket with minor wear.
$125 C/C
Causeway 1973 first edition thus, xxxv 337pp.
[#4552 ]
Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughn is the son of a Parliamentary officer, investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with Satanic rituals.
Led along a dark path to vampirism and beyond, he attempts to fight an evil killer.
A horror set in Restoration England and Salisbury Plain/ London, Murder, vampires, Dr John Dee, the Voynich mystery, by acclaimed author of The Vampyre and Supping With Panthers
ISBN 0316882488
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Little Brown 1997 First Edition, 406pp
[#4553 ]
The definitive investigation of the motive and meaning of the ' crime of the century'...and its aftermath
An insightful look into the characters of the two murderers and the trial that found them sane and guilty.
Sparrow asks whether they were not in fact insane in a way that the law does not recognise.
Why does the law ignore perversion as a form of insanity?
What part does sexual perversion play in murder?
Chapter X = The Sexual Pervert and the Law, XI= The Sex Slaves.
moors murders, Myra Hindley, Ian Brady, child killers, psychology
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Three line name inscription on end paper.
$20 C/C
Odhams 1966 First Edition, 191pp + plates.
[#4554 ]
The history of Riccarton Bush and its association with the Deans family encapsulates the natural and social history of Canterbury.
The Deans brothers established the first successful farm on the Canterbury plains in 1843.
Jane Deans ensured the Deans family had a role in the history of the settlement of Canterbury, and the gift of Riccarton Bush to the people of Canterbury 100 years ago started a new chapter in the forest's recovery and the restoration of both historic houses.
In 2010-11 earthquakes badly damaged Riccarton House, but this special place has survived through the Riccarton Bush Trust's heroic efforts to secure the house's future.
Includes colour illustrations, bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781869539030
Christchurch, Deans family, colonial, heritage,
NEW so VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$30 B/D
David Bateman 2015 first edition, 271pp.
[#4534 ]
Traditional Maori fairy tales and legends retold.
Illustrations are on plates line as well as four colour ones.
myth, folk tales, maoritanga
VG- cloth hardback with light wear to boards, light foxing, lacks fep.
$35 C/C
Ward Lock 1936 reprint, 224pp + plates +20pp adverts.
[#4514 ]
International Socialism Quarterly numbers 2 and 3.
Study of early Marxist martyr published as two issues of the Marxist Theory quarterly.
German socialist/ communist movement.
G reading copy, cloth boards mottled, minor soiling to prelims.
Starts at pp3 lacking fep.
$10 C/B
International Socialism Quarterly 1959 first edition, 96pp.
[#4515 ]
Poetry
This first UK edition has six new poems by McKuen and fourteen line drawings by Anthony Goldschmidt.
ISBN0491010516
VG hardback in VG price clipped dustjacket.
$15 C/B
W H Allen 1973 first edition, 96pp.
[#4516 ]
Non-christian (agnostic?) spiritual healing along New Thought lines.
English translation of Kokoro To Karada To Ummei.
Japanese, health, healing
G+ softback with old tape rust to spine, one page has the word 'Buddha' twice overwritten with 'Christ', otherwise tidy.
$8 B/B
Seicho-No-Ie truth of Life Movement 1977 First English edition, 133pp.
[#4517 ]
A Presentation of The Mental Science of Thomas Troward
ISBN0875160042
new thought, self help, mental powers, positive thought
VG+ softback
$10 A/A
DeVorss 1980 revised edition, 95pp
[#4518 ]
After time as an itinerant poet, Neville settled at Itteringham Mill, which he shared with the swans that are the subject of this meditation.
perrenial philosophy, spirituality,
VG softback with pictorial paper wrapper, one tiny tea spot to cover.
$15 A/A
Self published by the author undated. 8pp.
[#4519 ]
Essays selected from the White Cross Library
New Thought movement, Higher Thought, Law of Attraction
G hardback, bottom front corner nibbled, fep removed, bottom corners of pages lightly soiled.
$5 A/B
Bell & Sons 1957, 171pp.
[#4520]
A socialist comment on 'Your M.P., a generic Tory Member of Parliament.
British post war politics, socialism, wwii, ww2, u k
G+ cloth hardback with sunned spine
$8 C/B
Gollancz 1944 second impression before publication, 110pp
[#4521 ]
26 well known and succesful writers in the genre give advice on how to write good crime fiction.
ISBN0871161419
literature, how to write, reference
VG+ softcover.
$25 C/B
The WRITER INC. 1985 First Edition, 208pp.
[#4499 ]
Autobiography and local history of the Lower Hawkesbury area to the north of Sydney.
Holland lived there in the 1930s and 1940s, and recollects the people and places he knew.
There are details of life on the rivers, social life and notable characters.
ISBN0958744106
Berowra, Cowan, Brooklyn, Marramarra, Mooney mooney, Spencer
VG+ softback
$20 B/B
Deerubbin Press 1998, 78pp with photographs.
[#4500 ]
A rare illustrated young adults book about a Chinese immigrant who goes to be the Cook on a sheep-station.
Contains what could now be considered offensive racial stereotypes.
Wonderfully illustrated by Turner.
G4843
new zealand book art, graphic art, illustration, godzone, kiwi, new zealand culture
VG hardback with illustrated papered boards.
$50 B/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1963 First edition, 37pp.
[#4501 ]
Basic introduction to the zodiacal signs and the planets.
ISBN0862880483
divination, star signs, sun signs, horoscopes
VG softback with light wear
$5 C/B
Tophi Books, 276pp.
[#4502 ]
A biography of D H Lawrence which reveals his search for emancipation from his mother and the forging of his sexual identity.
Examines the influences and relationships that shaped the young Lawrence.
ISBN9780749003173
English Literature, biography, Twentieth century, british, modernist
VG- softback, corner creased.
$15 C/C
Allison and Busby 1998, 316pp + plates.
[#4503 ]
A rare and informative account of the defunct Freemasonic Lodges that had flourished during the first 100 years of New Zealand settlement.
Includes information on membership which will be of use to genealogists.
Freemasonry, masonic, friendly society, history, clubs, fraternal organisations
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Contemporary ink name and address to free end paper.
$175 C/B
Blundell Bros. 1935 first edition, 197pp.
[#4504 ]
A survey of New Zealand geography, anthropology, economy, trade, labour, Samoan Mandate and chapter on Amateur Radio, two chapters on Immigration.
Volume 1 of a series by the New Zealand Branch of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
G Quarter cloth, Ex-college library, stamps to paste downs and endpapers only, small ink numbers at foot of introduction.
$25 C/B
L M Isitt Limited 1929 First Edition, x 241pp.
[#4505 ]
The Story of Mount Isa Mines.
A history of this North West Queensland mining area south of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
metals, industry, mines, copper, gold, silver
VG+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with chipping and loss to spine ends and edges, name to fep.
$20 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1960 first edition, 242pp + plates.
[#4506 ]
Scarce title by an authority.
Blends Qabalah and the Western Mystery Tradition and covers the Four Symbolic Elemental weapons.
Includes Pentagram and Hexagram rituals, Enochian etc.
Illustrated with diagrams and photographs.
ISBN0850303362
occult, magic, kabbalah, Golden Dawn
VG softback with light edge rubbing
$55 C/B
Aquarian Press 1983 first edition, 160pp.
[#4507 ]
The Evolution of Man's Conception of His Place in Nature.
New age spiritualism / cosmic christianity.
history of religion, mysticism, spirituality, universalism, new religious movement, survival, life after death, contact, mediumship
VG cloth hardback with some age browning to page edges.
$25 C/C
Psychic Press 1965, 507pp + frontis.
[#4508 ]
The story of the Overleigh Horse Trekking business on Christchurch's Bank's Peninsula.
ISBN0473010070
Port Levy, Diamond Harbour, equestrian, business
VG softback.
$15 C/B
Overleigh Horse Treks 1990, 90pp.
[#4509 ]
In the pages of this book you will see the easy, natural, step-by-step way to release the miracle power that slumbers within you for healing and a fuller life.
With specific techniques designed to cure illness, relieve any injuries, increase your energy level a thousandfold, and protect yourself and your loved ones, the author shows how you can now begin to enjoy the happiness and security necessary for truly healthful living.
ISBN0135857783
health, healing, positive thought, prayer, new thought
VG contact sealed softback.
$10 C/B
Parker Publishing / Reward 1981, 206pp.
[#4510 ]
Centenary history of New Zealand's Christchurch Girls High School.
education, CGHS, history, girls schools, single sex
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Christchurch High School Old Girls Association 1977 First Edition, 230pp + plates.
[#4497 ]
Illustrated by Allen W Seaby.
Series 536
With full page colour paintings of the birds.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket which is priced clipped otherwise excellent, complete and intact
Book has former owners stamp on the page facing the title.
Dusty page edges
$15 A/A
Wills and Hepworth 1954 First Edition, approx 51pp.
[#4498 ]