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A rare book that recounts the Airship scare of 1909, Kaikoura UFO sighting filmed by journalists aboard airliner, plus many less well known New Zealand sightings and encounters.
Includes a few illustrations.
ISBN 0864640048
close encounters, Argosy, Captain Startup
VG softback with light rubbing to wrappers.
$45 C/B
INL Print 1981 First Edition, 192pp.
[#5615 ]
Poetry
ISBN 0868680516
VG softback, name blacked out to fep.
$10 C/B
John McIndoe 1983 reprint, 56pp.
[#5616 ]
Poetry
ISBN 0196480264
VG- softback.
$10 C/B
Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press 1983 First Edition,61pp.
[#5617 ]
Mobil New Zealand Nature Series.
ISBN 0589014676
fisheries, identification, ocean
VG wire bound softback.
$12 A/B
Reed 1983 first edition, 79pp.
[#5618 ]
Mobil New Zealand Nature Series.
ISBN 04740001024
Mobil New Zealand Nature Series.
VG wire bound softback.
$12 A/B
Reed 1985 first edition, 80pp.
[#5619 ]
New Brighton Surf Bathing & Lifesaving Club's Journey Through 100 Years of Surf Service and Sport, 1910-2010.
ISBN 9780473712350
Well illustrated throughout.
VG+ softback.
$75 C/C
New Brighton Surf Bathing and Life Saving Club (2010) first edition, 360pp.
[#5620 ]
Facsimile of two works bound as one, reprints original artwork as well.
humour, satire
Illustrated by Lionel Lindsay, Ben Jordan.
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket under library style plastic cover spine may be trifle faded.
$15 C/B
University of Queensland Press, 1969 reprint, 106+104pp.
[#5594 ]
Facsimile of two works bound as one, reprints original artwork as well.
humour, satire
Illustrated by A.J. Fischer, A.H. Fullwood, Norman Lindsay.
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket under library style plastic cover spine may be trifle faded.
$15 C/B
University of Queensland Press 1970 reprint, 110+100pp.
[#5595 ]
The Anglican Diocese of Dunedin New Zealand.
THIS COPY includes a laid in letter of two leaves from Ngaere Evans asking someone (illegible) to do some calligraphy on a certificate including the arms of the diocese, they were obviously sent this book as the template for reproducing the arms which appear on the cover of the DW. The letter is sent from the Vicarage and dated 1978.
otago, anglican, history
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Full blue leather with titled spine. Owners name and date to free end paper.
$30 C/C
John McIndoe 1968 First Edition, 325pp + plates.
[#5596 ]
Mainly refers to birds although mammals and reptiles feature as well as the New Zealand frog.
fauna, wildlife, conservation
VG hardback in imitation crocodile skin quarter green cloth spine titled gilt to cover and spine, pale green cloth boards.
Some rubbing to spine ends, cover cloth starting to lift along join to spine cloth. Ink name to title dated 1904.
$75 C/D
Whitcombe and Tombs 1904 First Edition, xiv+ (15)-381pp. printed on gloss sized paper throughout. 147 illustrations in text.
[#5597 ]
Non fiction piece on the Nazi resistance (to Allied forces) movement named Unternehmen werwolf (werewolf) and who carried out attacks designed to harry the occupation forces in the hope of a national-socialist counterstrike.
Explains how a team of five men and a woman was chosen for "Operation Carnival", which was a plot to kill Franz Oppenhoff, the new mayor of Aachen, who the Germans saw as an American stool-pigeon and traitor.
Whiting is well known as Leo Kessler as well as writing other novels under this name and non-fiction as well.
ISBN 0850520975
guerilla, special forces
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some mild foxing to closed page edges.
$25 C/C
Leo Cooper, 1972 First Edition, 209pp+plates.
[#5598 ]
A comprehensive academic study of New Zealand politics.
Explains the main political institutions in the context of New Zealand society, and the general theories of the state, including pluralism, public choice market liberalism, and Marxism.
ISBN 9781869400934
VG- softback with some highlighting.
$10 C/C
Auckland University Press 1994, 324pp.
[#5599 ]
An excellent survey of the folklore of the undead.
By studying the historic and folkloric accounts of vampirism and revenants, in the light of modern knowledge, the author accounts for the vampire myth as an elaborate folk-hypothesis to account for the natural phenomena associated with death and decomposition.
ISBN 0300041268
Undead, Supernatural, Mythology, Historical Accounts of Vampirism, Superstition
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Ex-library, dust jacket under plastic sleeve with tape onto the boards, minor stamps, call number to dust jacket spine, labels to rear panel of dust jacket may not be removable.
$15 C/C
Yale University Press 198. First Edition, viii 236pp.
[#5600 ]
An introductory history to the movement in New Zealand.
religion, christian, charitable, crusade, salvationist
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/B
Salvation Army (1963) first edition hard cover, 84pp + plates
[#967/5602 ]
Passenger, Coaching, Bus Service, Company History
VG hardback in VG dust jacket SIGNED BY the author Len Anderson and the Managing Director of the Company Arthur Giles.
$45 C/B
Reed 1967 First Edition, 124pp + plates.
[#5603 ]
A biography of the man responsible for New Zealand's Air Force, and the whole of New Zealand's Civil Aviation set up.
Canterbury, Flying, Aeroplanes
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Pen name to fep, jacket with some rubbing fading to blue colour, light edge wear with some minor chipping loss to extremities.
$45 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1952 First Edition, xiv 145pp.
[#5604 ]
Volume 1 only, facsimile of original .
crime, outlaws, colonial australia
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket, unclipped dust jacket has some chipping loss to head of spine and lower joint, small arae at top of book spine worn away.
$20 C/C
Lloyd O'Neil, 1970. First Thus edition, 385pp.
[#5606 ]
A survey of English ghosts and hauntings.
Illustrated by John Farleigh.
Britain England Ghosts Supernatural Haunting Paranormal Non-Fiction
Good hardback with fair dust jacket.
Red cloth handling soiled, price clipped dust jacket is complete but split down the lower fold, all edges rubbed with minor chipping, tape rust to verso.
Book paste down and fep have presentation inscription with 13 signatures of the Richmond Committee (Kindergarten) dated 8/6/(19)50, the presentation on the paste down states it was given back to the kindergarten in memory of Mr Green who passed away 12/7/(19)52, some minor foxing.
$20 C/C
Batsford 1950 second edition, 184pp.
[#5607 ]
An extensively illustrated biography of an important participant in New Zealand education and teaching, with connections to Waitaki Girls High School, Otago Girls High School, Otago Boys High School and Dunedin Teachers College.
In 1977 Dame Purves was elected the World President of the International Federation of University Women.
ISBN 9781877161506
Otago, Dunedin, IFUW, women in education
VG+ softback
$15 B/B
Hazard Press 1998 First Edition, 167pp.
[#5609 ]
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 9780790001005
VG softback
$30 B/C
Reed 1990 5th edition fully revised, 422pp.
[#5610 ]
An unconventional domestic situation is approached through the minds of the four occupants of a Wellington household- four very different characters in age and outlook.
The first edition, printed in the UK, thiswas 18 years before the first New Zealand edition.
VG- hardback in VG - dust jacket.
Unclipped dust jacket has some tape stains, some tape stains top of boards and endpapers.
$10 C/B
Andre Deutsch, 1961. First Edition, 236pp. [#5611]
Contains compiled information on various well known contactees and ufology organisations etc.
includes mimeographed sheet with new address for Dr. Daniel W. Fry ( contactee, now residing near White Sands New Mexico).
ISBN 0960447806
VG- softback.
$15 C/B
Legion of Light 1980 First Edition,vii 214pp.
[#5612 ]
The history of the preeminent founding families of the South Island.
Rhodes of Purau and the Levels, Johnny Jones of Waikouaiti, Williams of Te Aute, Deans of Riccarton, Clifford of Stonyhurst, Bidwill of Pihautea, Morrison of Blairlogie, Robinson of Cheviot, McLean of Marae-Kakaho, Wilson of Rangitikei, Moore of Glenmark, Cracroft Wilson of Cashmere, Grigg of Longbeach, Teschmaker of Otago, Holden of Tikokino, Elworthy of Holme Station, Tripp of Orari Gorge, Westenra of Camla and Fitzgerald of the Springs
A limited edition of 800 copies.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with two short closed tears at head of front panel, mild rubbing, mild foxing to closed edges.
$25 C/B
Pegasus Press, 1949. First Edition, 140pp.
[#5613 ]
Moir's Guide Book to the Tramping Tracks and Routes of the Great Southern Lakes and Fiords of Otago and Southland, an extract covering the Northern District:Wakatipu-Wanaka-Olivine-Haast.
VG- stapled softcover.
$12 B/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1950, 40pp + one plate.
[#5614 ]
The Life of the 19th Century Surveyor Pictured in his Art and Writings, an account of the exploration and settlement of New Zealand, seen through the eyes of men whose curiosity and spirit drove them into the unknown.
Published for the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors.
ISBN 9780705514026
Contents: The surveyor as an artist / Introducing the colonial surveyor / Getting there and back / The survey camp / Cadets, chiefs, bosses, cooks and chainmen / Out in the field / Kai living off the land / Diversion /About the coasts / Around the towns / Out from the towns / Minerals and mountains / Tarawera, the Volcanic Plateau and Waitomo / Troubles / A toast to wives and sweethearts.
VG Hardback in VG dust jacket.
$45 C/C
Highgate/Price Milburn 1988 First edition, 175pp.
[#5587 ]
A Brief Survey of New Zealand Methodism's Involvement in Mission Overseas, 1822-1972.
christian, church history, missionary
G+ softback with sewn sheets, lightly soiled with piece chipped from top edge of cover.
$30 C/C
Wesley Historical Society 1973 First Edition, viii 245pp + plates and appendices.
[#5589 ]
Written by a DSIR toxicologist, this includes a history of non-medical drug use and an overview of the various drugs used in New Zealand.
ISBN 0456009000
drugs, psychedelics, social history
G softback.
Backstrip browned under clear tape, title page taped along spine edge to the front cover, front cover and title detached from book but held to it by tape, otherwise tidy copy,
$45 C/B
Hicks Smith and Sons 1971 First Edition, 106pp.
[#5590 ]
Kaiapoi School Centenary 1873-1973
VG- softback, small scuff to cover and pen number to title page.
$20 C/B
Centennial Committee 1973 first edition, 102pp, illustrated.
[#5591 ]
A register of notable and imoportant buildings classified by the Historic Places Trust with a photograph and details of their significance.
Some have since succumbed to the effects of the 2010-2011 earthquakes.
ISBN 9780477013291
heritage buildings, south island, architecture
VG- softback with light wear to covers.
$15 C/B
New Zealand Historic Places Trust 1988 second revised edition, 76pp illustrated.
[#5592 ]
The basis for this healing technique is that during the nine months preceding birth all our physical, mental, emotional and behavioural structures are formed.
Working on the spinal reflexes of the feet, hands and head refocuses on this formative period, thus allowing healing to take place.
ISBN 0906540208
energy healing, naturopathy, reflexology
VG- softback, some cover fading.
$15 C/B
Elelment Books 1982 first edition, 124pp.
[#5593 ]
An illustrated history of the pioneering explorers in New Zealand's Fiordland, location of the earliest European settlement and the realm of Moa and Lost Tribes.
ISBN 0589009737
Doubtful Sound, Dusky Sound, Preservation Inlet, Acheron Survey, Martins Bay, Wreck of the Waikare, Gold rush, Milford Sound, Richard Henry of Resolution Island, Donald Sutherland the hermit of Milford Sound
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
THIS COPY SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE
$65 B/C
Reed 1976 first edition, 148pp.
[#5581 ]
An illustrated history of New Zealand's Deep South.
ISBN 0589012568
Southland, Foveaux Strait, Acheron surveyTuhawaiki, Bloody Jack, Bluff, Wohlers, Kelly of Inverkelly, whaling, whalers, Invercargill
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Jacket has tape staining on reverse of jacket which shows through faintly.
THIS COPY SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE
$65 B/C
Reed1979 first edition, 165pp.
[#5582 ]
The Private Life of Donald McLean.
A biography of this hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century.
A government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures, provoking war between Maori along the way.
He may even have used his power as Minister of Defence to order the shooting of his own illegitimate son; the right-hand man of Te Kooti.
McLean's role as the powerhouse behind some of the dodgiest land controversies of settler-era New Zealand is well known.
Here Wright delves into the private Donald McLean, a man dogged by his upbringing, wrestling with his insecurities, a devout and fearful man who felt himself inadequate before God and who never recovered from the loss of his young wife.
ISBN 9780143572213
New Zealand, politics, colonial, history
VG softback
$25 C/C
Penguin 2015 first edition, 256pp.
[#5583 ]
Collects stories from The Gorse Blooms Pale, Breathing Spaces, and six previously uncollected stories.
ISBN9781877372421
VG hardback with no jacket as issued.
$25 C/C
Otago University Press 2007 new edition, 312pp.
[#5584 ]
An informal history of the suburb which began life as rural sections, before subdivision and development transformed it into one of Christchurch city's residential suburbs.
ISBN0473006936
christchurch, canterbury history
VG softback
$30 C/B
New Zealand Federation of University Women, Canterbury Branch, 1989 frst edition, 184pp.
[#5585 ]
From the time of the Maori, early surveyors and runholders, to the townships that sprung up during the Preservation goldrush.
Milford Sound, Preservation inlet, Reischek, Richard Henry, Mackinnon
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
THIS COPY SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE
$55 C/C
Reed 1968 first edition, 199pp+ plates.
[#5586 ]
Massive in scope and length, complete investigation of the cult of Christianity, from it's predecessors and influences to it's development and consolidation in the Fourth Century e.v.
Shows the prescence of mediumship and spiritualism, in these phases of religion and the development of Christianity which originally practiced mediumship during their worship services.
Chapters cover animism, Pagan Saviour-gods Bel, Osiris, Prometheus, Mithra, Krishna, the Mystery Religions, Jesus, Paul (Saul), the Life and Death of Jesus, and the cult of Christ.
spiritualism, etheric
VG cloth hardback with no jacket.
Corners and edges bumped, spine ends worn, private library stamp to rear free end paper.
$55 C/D
Psychic Press October 1939 second impression of first edition, 1200 pages
[#5564 ]
Tokology refers to the study of childbirth, midwifery, and obstetrics.
This book gave women knowledge about issues related to childbirth and helped them understand their own bodies and how they could optimize their own health.
Describes female anatomy and physiology during various stages in life in understandable terms with advice and tips on how to remain healthy throughout each stage.
Concentrates on conception, fetal development, pregnancy, and childbirth. Explains pregnancy in detail from a medical perspective, with chapters on how to remain hygienic and comfortable during pregnancy.
With chapters about caring for infants and diseases of infants, chapters on menstruation and menopause, and pages of diet advice and healthy recipes.
obstetrics, home-birth
VG- decorated cloth hardback, no jacket, booklet of gynaecological plates at rear.
$30 C/C
Butler & Tanner revised edition (1907), 368pp.
[#5565 ]
Edmund Hillary's own account of the first ascent of Mount Everest.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket is tidy and unclipped but does have some chipping loss to top of the spine fold ( see image).
Two small peices of tape hold jacket down to the paste downs.
$35 C/C
Hodder August 1955 second impression (after July) of First Edition, 224pp + plates.
[#5566 ]
The occult Science of Mind, taken from the author's personal notes and lectures.
occultism, hypnotism, meditation
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under a plastic sleeve.
$35 C/C
Fowler 1971, 226pp.
[#5567 ]
A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism
Contents: Initiation: What It Is and Is Not, The Sacrament of Communion, The Sacrament of Baptism, The Sacrament of Marriage, The Unpardonable Sin and Lost Souls, The Immaculate Conception, The Coming Christ, The Coming Age, Meat and Drink as Factors of Evolution, A Living Sacrifice, Magic, White and Black, Our Invisible Government, Practical Precepts for Practical People, Sound, Silence, and Soul Growth, The "Mysterium Magnum" of the Rose Cross, Stumbling Blocks, The Lock of Upliftment, The Cosmic Meaning of Easter, The Newborn Christ, Why I am a Rosicrucian, The Object of the Rosicrucian Fellowship.
VG+ softback
$20 C/B
Rosicrucian Fellowship 1977 first softcover edition (after 1922 original), 196pp.
[#5568 ]
Or, Mystic Christianity, An Elementary Treatise Upon
Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development.
The evolution of man and the universe in correlation to science and Christian mysticism.
This provides the fundamentals of Esoteric Christianity from a Rosicrucian perspective.
VG+ softback
$25 C/C
Rosicrucian Fellowship 1977, 610pp.
[#5569 ]
The Masnavi abridged and translated.
Masnavi I Ma'Navi, the Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-D-Din Muhammad I Rumi.
ISBN 0900860200
sufi, sufism, mystical literature, islam, muslim, Jalaluddin Rumi, Iran, Persia, dervish
VG- softback, sewn binding.
$15 C/C
Octagon Press 1973 first thus, 330pp.
[#5570 ]
Hodson, a noted occultist, medium and scholar, comments on the occult and spiritual meaning of the New Testament, interpreting the four accounts, or Gospels of the life of Christ, as put down in the King James version of the Bible.
Hodson asserts that the Bible should be considered in both its historical and its allegorical significance.
"Ever must it be remembered that the wondrous story (of Jesus the Christ) was never intended to be read as a record of external events alone, but rather as a revelation of the divine within man."
ISBN 0835604675
theosophy, mystical christianity, spiritualism,
VG softback
$55 C/C
Theosophical Publishing House Quest Book 1975, 460pp.
[#5571 ]
Hodson insists that "we can begin to be occultists wherever we are, whatever we are doing, however much we may seem immersed in the trivialities, even in the sordidness of material living."
ISBN
meditation, Great White Brotherhood, initiation, angels
VG hardback with no jacket.
$35 C/B
Theosophical Publishing House 1953 second edition (after 1937), xvi 136pp
[#5572 ]
Supersensory Powers, Their Nature And Application To Human Problems; The Nature And The Practical Value Of Supersensory Powers; Mind Reading And Telepathy; Self-training For Health, Happiness And Spiritual Unfoldment; Thought-powers And Thought-forms; Man, A God In-the-becoming; Supersensory Powers As Means Of Gaining Knowledge; Fourth Dimensional Consciousness; Angels And Archangels As Great Realities; The Hosts Of The Angels As Allies Of Man; The Normal And The Enforced Development Of Supersensory Powers; The Nature And The Destiny Of Man; The Pathway To Power And Peace; Spiritual Alchemy; Discipleship And How It May Be Attained; The Neophyte Finds His Master; The Spiritual Powers Of Man, Their Awakening, Unfoldment And Culmination; The Bible As A Source Of Secret Knowledge; The Mystery Drama Of The Christ Life; The Christmas Of The Soul; Christianity As A Power For Progress; The Way To Health And Happiness; Does Justice Rule The World?; The Origin And Nature Of True Love; The Assurance Of Happiness In Love.
theosophy, occult
VG hardback with no jacket.
$35 C/B
Theosophical Publishing House 1969 third printing, xxvii 199pp.
[#5573 ]
How Is Knowledge of the High Worlds Attained? - The Stages of Initiation - Initiation - Some Practical Aspects - The Conditions of Esoteric Training - Some Results of Initiation - The Transformation of Dream Life - The Continuity of Consciousness - The Splitting of the Human Personality during Spiritual Training - The Guardian of the Threshold - Life and Death, The Greater Guardian of the Threshold - Appendix.
VG- softback, sewn binding.
$15 C/B
Anthroposophic Press (later printing of 1947 third edition), xv 272pp.
[#5574 ]
How the unseen energies of others, of nature, of the buildings we inhabit, of the rituals we perform, and of our own habits and thoughts have on us, on every level.
ISBN 0835670074
theosophy,
VG- softback, sewn binding.
$35 C/C
Theosophical Publishing House 1974 (eighth edition of 1913 original), xvi 619pp.
[#5575 ]
The Continuity of Esoteric Teaching.
The constant reappearance of the Ancient or Ageless Wisdom, that body of inner or esoteric teaching handed down from remote times in a form suitable to the period, has always attracted the minds of thoughtful people.
VG- softback
$8 C/A
Lucis Press 1972, 96pp.
[#5576 ]
Dunedin and New Zealand in the Sixties.
Eyewitness account of the Dunedin and surrounds of the 1860s.
Illustrated.
otago history
VG softback with dust jacket.
$25 C/A
Reed for the Dunedin Public Library Association 1952 first edition, 36pp.
[#5577 ]
An illustrated collection of more than 300 fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
ISBN 9780517100837
23 colour illustrations.
VG quarter-cloth hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Gramercy 1994 (reprints 1909 original), 174pp.
[#5578 ]
RiftWar Legacy Book One.
ISBN 9780380977154
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with small tear at head of spine.
$15 C/C
Avon Books 1998 first edition, 376pp. INCLUDES CD-ROM game and demo.
[#5579 ]
A biography of the famous New Zealand crime writer and theatrical producer/ director.
ISBN 0908912064
Dame Ngaio Marsh, Christchurch drama, theatre
VG- softback
$9 C/C
Bridget Williams Books 1991 first edition, x 276pp + plates.
[#5580 ]
An exhibition catalogue and monograph on Leonard Booth, an early Twentieth Century New Zealand book illustrator and artist.
ISBN 0908874871
Canterbury Vignette Series, Cartoon, Caricature, Drawing
VG folded sheets in stapled wrapper.
$15 C/A
Robert Mcdougall Art Gallery 2000 First Edition, 32pp.
[#5553 ]
VG- hardback with no jacket.
Foxing to closed edges and into margins, faint soiling to boards.
$10 C/B
Robert Hale 1953 First Edition, 256pp.
[#5554 ]
VG hardback in G dust jacket.
Jacket rubbed to surface and edges, tears and chipping to spine ends and corners, light foxing to closed page edges.
$15 C/B
Thriller Book Club 1961 First Edition thus, 190pp.
[#5555 ]
Illustrated by W. M. Spence.
War Economy Standard Production so post 1940.
schoolgirl story, boarding school,
VG hardback with no jacket.
Faint spotting to boards, fep cut out, light foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$15 C/B
Blackie undated, 288pp + frontis and 3 plates.
[#5556 ]
New Zealand and the Legacy of a Turbulent Past.
MacDonald discusses the new political assertiveness amongst young Maoris he encountered in 1984 where young militants joined with their tribal elders to march to Waitingi to demand that the New Zealand Government and Crown honour the Treaty.
He writes of his experiences accompanying the Maoris on this march, and examines the background of unrest that has generated the new turbulence in New Zealand's race relations.
ISBN 9780340495834
treaty of Waitangi, grievances, maori politics, history
VG softback.
$30 C/C
Hodder 1989, 313pp.
[#5557 ]
More evidence from the Bermuda Triangle
Discusses weather and geo-magnetic anomalies over the Triangle, as well as the hypothesis that Atlantis is sunk beneath the seas in the area.
ISBN 0285622862
Atlanteology, Bahama Banks, UFO
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Sunned spine, small taped tear at head of upper joint.
$10 C/C
BCA 1977, 180pp + plates.
[#452]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Souvenir Press 1977, 180pp + plates.
[#5558]
VG- paperback with crease to cover, aged paper stock.
$5 A/B
Granada 1981, 222pp + plates. ISBN 0586045503
[PB930]
Authentic testimonies from Australian, New Zealand, British, Cretan, Greek and German participants in the Battle for Crete.
From the airborne invasion, to the surrender of the German Garrison.
ISBN 9781869411152
Kreta, fallschirmjaegar,
VG softback
$20 C/C
Random Century 1991, 328pp.
[#5559 ]
Moorehead revealed that the Gallipoli campaign should not be regarded as a blunder or a reckless gamble, but the most imaginative conception of the war, with potentialities almost beyond reckoning.
Still regarded as the best and definitive account of the Gallipoli campaign.
Later during WWII Gallipoli was a mine of information about the complexities of the modern war and the combined operation by land and sea and sky.
Correction of the errors made at Gallipoli was the basis of the victory of D-Day in 1945.
anzac, ww1, wwi, deluxe, Turkey
VG+ decorative leatherette hardback.
$20 C/C
Heron Books undated (1970s), 382pp + plates.
[#5560 ]
A history of New Zealand handmade folk art and artifacts.
Colour and black and white photos.
ISBN 9780670875511
toys, carving, tapestry, kiwiana, craft, domestic
VG- softback, top corner of first two page clipped off.
$20 B/C
Viking 1997 first edition, 152pp.
[#5561 ]
The Stories of 28 New Zealanders Who Won the Victoria Cross.
From Charles Heaphy in the Colonial Wars through the First and Second World War winners.
anzac, valour, decoration, military medals, awards
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with a few closed tears.
$15 C/C
Collins 1972 first edition, 181pp.
[#5562 ]
Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's go to man for special missions, infamously rescuing Mussolini with a daring glider operation.
wwii, SS, special operations, commando raids, nazi hero
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1954, 232pp + plates
[#1981/5563 ]
G+ paperback with cover wear.
$5 A/B
Great Pan GP52 1956 first edition paperback, 251pp + plates.
[PB1289 ]
Fifteen short pieces by CBHS Old Boys on their war time experiences followed by roll of honour, with photo portraits of those killed in action or as result of wounds sustained, sewn sheets on quality sized paper in stiff paper wrappers
With foreword by Kippenberger.
wwii, ww2, war memoirs, new zealand
VG in original paper covers.
$55 C/B
Christchurch Boys High School Old Boys Association 1945 First Edition, approx 120pp.
[#5546 ]
An illustrated, exhaustive overview of dragon sightings and myths in the British Isles (excludes Ireland).
Includes sea monsters, Nessie etc, historical, mythical and recent.
ISBN 0043980074
Dragons, Ley Lines, Earth Energy, Energies, Mythology, Folklore, Britain, Celtic, Anglo Saxon
VG-/VG- hardback.
Tidy cancelled ex-library with stamps and issuing slip residue, plastic sleeve taped down to endpapers, call number on label to spine.
$15 C/B
George Allen 1983 First Edition, 164pp.
[#5547 ]
The author of The Mystery of Iusa and A Thread in The Maze brings a tale of a vision of the Temple of Maut in Pharaonic times in Egypt.
The author, a New Zealander, has written other books on metaphysical themes so this has similar ideas within the story.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket dust soiled through handling, spine edge rubbed with chipping to head and tail, spine is browned and with a short tear.
$30 C/B
Rider undated first edition (pencil date 1940 at front), 96pp.
[#5548 ]
Uncommon book that investigates fresh water 'monsters' from around the world, past and present, includes much on Loch Ness monster.
ISBN 069810613X
lake monsters, dragons, cryptozoology
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Quarter cloth.
Small gift inscription, jacket unclipped and lightly rubbed.
$65 C/C
Coward McCann & Geoghegan 1974 First Edition, 354pp + plates
[#5549 ]
The theory and methods of hypnotism includingtherapeutic use and Hypnotic Colour Science.
Originally published 1936.
Good hardback with no jacket, light foxing, underlining, some of it in heavy pen.
$12 C/B
Rider 1950, 126pp + adverts.
[#5550]
Description of Coue's method of therapeutic hypnotism.
Originally published 1922.
VG hardback with no jacket, light soiling to cloth, one page has a few lines of pencil.
$10 C/B
George Allen 1949, 124pp + adverts.
[#5551]
Illustrated by E H Shepard.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Lacks free end paper, price clipped jacket withlight edge wear, mild chipping to spine ends and corners, faintly browned.
$15 C/B
Bodley Head 1945 reprint, 168pp.
[#5552 ]
Chronicles the activites of the Black Alchemist and the Friends of Hekate coven who are systematically defiling the sacred places of Britain.
Part of the psychic archaeology history by Andrew Collins following dark occult conspiracy threatening to seize power, involving a sinister network of extreme right-wing politics, American fundamentalist groups, the police and big business.
Includes black-magic rituals, supernatural battles and ritual murder.
ISBN 0099251515
psychic questing, Meonia
G+ paperback, wrappers lightly worn, bookseller label to first page.
$25 A/B
Arrow 1994 First Edition, 336pp + plates.
[PB1730 ]
Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Otago Harbour and Coast 1770-1860.
ISBN 9780908774678
Southern Heritage 150 series Number 11.
genealogy, immigration, history, records, shipping manifests
VG softback.
$25 C/B
Otago Heritage Books 2002 first edition, 272pp
[#5541 ]
A history of the Lyttelton Main School's first Century with all the expected lists of staff, pupils, notable happenings, and photos.
Christchurch, school history
VG softback
$25 C/B
The Lyttelton Main School Centennial Committee 1975, 128pp
[#5542 ]
The true story of how an Australian and New Zealand crew salvaged eight tons of gold from a ship sunk in the midst of a German laid minefield in the Tasman Sea in the midst of the Second World War.
The scarce war-time printing of this fascinating story.
Claymore, Niagara, shipwreck, deep sea diving, John Johnstone
VG- softback, folded sheets stapled in paper wrappers with photo of diver J Johnstone on front.
From the Kelly Tarlton Shipwreck Museum, with pen inscription and stamp to title page.
$75 C/B
Reed 1943 second printing after 1942, 51pp.
[#5543 ]
The true story of how an Australian and New Zealand crew salvaged eight tons of gold from a ship sunk in the midst of a German laid minefield in the Tasman Sea in the midst of the Second World War.
ISBN 9780864177667
Claymore, Niagara, shipwreck, deep sea diving, John Johnstone
VG softback
$20 C/B
Kangaroo Press 1996, 160pp.
[#5544 ]
A Centennial history of the Christchurch Yacht Club 1891-1991.
ISBN0473012758
sport, local history, Christchurch Estuary, sailing
VG- softback, name to inside of cover.
$30 C/B
Christchurch Yacht Club 1991 first edition, 188pp + map, frontis.
[#5545 ]
Succinct, informative one page articles on various aspects of the early days of colonial life in South Canterbury, with reference to early settlers and the individual immigrant ships that carried them.
ISBN 9780473173302 ISBN 9780473179007
history, Timaru, Le Cren, Rhodes, James McKenzie, The Shiner Slattery, sport
VG softbacks, staple bound
$30 B/B
Caroline Shoestring Publications 2010, 56 + 62pp.
[#5530 ]
Written by a local genealogist and historian researching the lives of the immigrants who first settled Timaru.
Includes a detailed account of the voyage and biographical notes about the migrants.
ISBN 9780473136949
South Canterbury, colonial, settlement, genealogy
VG softback
$45 B/C
South Canterbury Museum 2008 first edition, 176pp.
[#5531 ]
A well illustrated gazetter of the streets of Timaru with the history behind the naming and subsequent residents etc.
ISBN 9780473191801
Timaru, history, municipal, street names
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, with the loose Street Map included.
THIS COPY signed by K Bartholomew to title page.
$45 B/D
South Canterbury Museum 2011 revised and updated edition, 176pp.
[#5532 ]
The story of fruitgrowing in Canterbury with chapters on prominent hortucultural families and the pre-eminent growing regions (suburbs etc).
ISBN 0473035855
horticulture, Stanley, Bishop, Sisson, Frederick Wilding
VG- softback, some minor historic damp rippling to top of some pages, no water-stains.
$25 B/C
The Spotted Shag Press 1995 FIRST EDITION, 168PP.
[#5533 ]
The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, Murder and a Crusade for Justice.
Statman and Tate tell the Tate family's story in this rare glimpse at the post-trauma survival of a family, and how they have struggled to ensure the perpetrators are neither glorified or released from prison.
ISBN 9780062131867
manson murders, helter skelter, polanski,
VG softback
$12 C/C
HarperCollins 2012 first edition, 380pp + plates
[#5534 ]
Information on the people, settlements and history and myth of the various South Island Maori communities in the 19th/20th century.
Ngai Tahu, westland, otakou, otautahiMurihiku, Rakiura
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Jacket under removable plastic sleeve, name to free endpaper, one small pencil note to contents and on pp88.
Old tape residue to paste downs, a tidy copy.
$150 C/C
Bascands Ltd (1950) first edition, 196pp + plates complete.
[#5535 ]
Describes Cook's second voyage to New Zealand and the subsequent interactions between Maori and Pakeha.
Discusses first white settlers who often joined Maori communities becong 'Pakeha Maori'.
Also details the early visits of the missionaries Marsden and Kendall.
The companion to Two Worlds.
ISBN 9780670877874
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$150 D/D
Penguin / Viking 1997 first edition, 590pp.
[#5536 ]
The previously untold story of the 19th century penetration, annexation and colonization of southern New Zealand by Europeans, as it affected the local Maori inhabitants.
Based on contemporary primary sources it is a compelling narrative in which traders, sealers, whalers, missionaries, naval officers, Maori chiefs, colonists, government officials, Governors, judges, Royal Commissioners, politicians, ordinary Maoris, academics, and the modern Waitangi Tribunal all have their say.
A rare title.
ISBN 0908925077
Kemp purchase, Deans lease, Ngai Tahu, Maori reserves
VG softback
$95 D/D
Aoraki Press 1993 first edition, 582+ xxiii pp
[#5537 ]
Published as The Fiat Book of Birds 1, which later became the Mobil New Zealand Nature Series.
ISBN 0589002300
ornithology, birdwatching, native
VG soft back
$8 A/B
Reed 1974 reprint, 96pp. Illustrated.
[#5538 ]
Auckland Art Gallery Senior Curator Mary Kisler celebrates the many European treasures held in New Zealand public art galleries.
Companion to the exhibition of the same name, complementing the audience’s understanding of the European sensibilities found in the collection of works scattered throughout New Zealand collections, which was grouped into religion, history, landscape and portraiture.
"an engrossing and wide-ranging narrative of the history of European art on display in New Zealand. It is the type of volume that is indispensable to museum-goers in that country, and indeed in Australia." Anne Kirker, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Queensland College of Art.
ISBN 9781869621353
Due to the quality of the sized art paper used this is a very heavy book.
European art in New Zealand, art history, art collections
VG+ hardback with no jacket as issued.
THIS COPY is signed to the half-title by the author Mary Kisler.
$55 D/D
Random House 2010 first edition, 399pp
[#5522 ]
A scarce history of the Chinese who came to the West Coast of New Zealand during the gold-rush in the late 1860's and later.
Describes the experiences and contributions they made as gold-miners, merchants, cooks, market gardeners, and even as missionaries, to the West Coast's history and development.
Accounts of Chinese women, inter-cultural marriages and the achievements of individual Chinese.
ISBN 9780473155469
westland, china, chinese, chinese kiwis
VG+ softback
$75 B/C
Shantytown (West Coast Historical & Mechanical Society Inc.) 2009 first edition, 294pp.
[#5523 ]
The extraordinary untold story of New Zealand's Great War airmen.
During the 1914-1918 war, New Zealanders were keen participants in the new field of military aviation with 850 men, and a small number of women, held positions in the British and Australian air services.
Drawing on archival material from New Zealand, Australia and Britain, historian Dr Claasen explores the challenges facing the establishment of local flying schools and the journey undertaken by the New Zealanders from their farms and towns to the battlefields of the Great War.
In spite of modest numbers the New Zealanders’ wartime experiences were incredibly varied; New Zealand aviators could be found flying above the sands of the Middle East and Mesopotamia, the grey waters of the North Sea, jungles of East Africa, the sprawling metropolis of London and the rolling hills of northern France and Belgium.
Flying the open cockpit wood-and-wire biplanes of the Great War, New Zealanders undertook reconnaissance sorties, carried out bombing raids, photographed enemy entrenchments, defended England from German airships, strafed artillery emplacements and engaged enemy fighters.
By the time the war ended many had been killed, others highly decorated, some elevated to ‘ace’ status and a handful occupied positions of considerable command.
ISBN9780994140784
wwi, ww1, aviation, fighter pilot, RFC
VG+ hardback with no jacket as issued
$55 D/D
Massey University Press 2017 first edition, 496pp
[#5524 ]
A story of love and bravery and endurance.
"From the sheltered precincts of an English Public School to New Zealand's rugged Westland as a preacher in the country's remotest and wildest parish... to the life of a chaplain at the battlefront in the theatre of war in North Africa and then Italy...Keith Harper was a man who relished adventure with all its risk and challenges.
What motivated him to live this way? His own words as realted in this story provide the answer."
ISBN 9780473210892
ww2, wwii, Cassino, anglican church, Kumara, South Westland, A C K Harper (38853), 4 Regt 2NZEF, Padre Jack Harker
G+, glue has perished and some pages detaching, otherwise a tidy clean copy.
$20 B/C
McPherson 2012 first edition, 271pp
[#5525 ]
A record of traditional Fijian, social and ceremonial protocols.
ISBN 0960627219
polynesia, etiquette, traditions, ceremony, melanesia
VG softback
$20 C/B
MacDuff Press 1985, 142pp
[#5526 ]
Teachings from the Pleiadians.
Compiled from hundreds of hours of channeling, Barbara reveals the wisdom of the Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to help us discover how to reach a new stage of evolution.
They advise us to become media free, to work in teams, and to eliminate the words should and try from our vocabularies.
We learn how to go beyond fear, how the original human was a magnificent being with twelve strands of DNA and twelve chakra centers, and who our gods are.
Startling, intense, intelligent, and controversial, these teachings offer essential reading for anyone questioning their existence on this planet and the direction of our collective un/consciousness.
By remembering that we are a Family of Light and that we share an ancient ancestry with the universe around us, we become bringers of the dawn, consciously creating a new reality, a new Earth.
ISBN 9780939680986
new age, channelled teaching
VG- softback.
Sunned spine, former owner name label to first page.
$10 C/B
Bear & Co.1992, 246pp
[#5527 ]
Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels (1688).
With an informative introduction by Lore Metzger.
ISBN9780393007022
VG softback
$8 A/B
WW Norton (1973), xv 78pp
[#5528 ]
The first five books of Livy's History of Rome from the founding of Rome to the Gallic invasion in 386 BC, an era that witnessed the establishment of the Republic, unrest and brutal conflict.
Translated by Aubrey De Selincourt , Introduction by R M Ogilvie , Preface by Stephen Oakley
ISBN9780140448092
ancient history, Roman, Rome, pagan
VG- paperback with minor cover wear
$10 C/B
Penguin 2002, vii 488pp
[#5529]
In this novel Ayn Rand dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.
Peopled by larger than life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
ISBN 9780451191144
objectivism, philosophy, John Galt
VG paperback
$9 A/B
Signet 1996, introduction by Piekoff, 1079pp.
[PB1727 ]
Ayn Rand's first non-fiction work, a challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the 'atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion' that they create.
As incisive and relevant today as it was sixty years ago, this book presents the essentials of Ayn Rand's philosophy 'for those who wish to acquire an integrated view of existence.'
ISBN 9780451163080
objectivism, philosophy,
VG paperback
$8 A/B
Signet undated 216pp.
[PB1728 ]
This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982.
In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics.
According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal.
Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.
ISBN 9780451138934
objectivism, philosophy,
VG paperback
$8 A/B
Signet undated, introduction by Piekoff, 308pp.
[PB1729 ]
Zecharia Sitchin reveals the foundational research and the adventurous expeditions that resulted in his writing the bestselling The Earth Chronicles series.
These expeditions amazing discoveries unmasked established fallacies, detected the fate of mysterious artifacts, and revealed ancient connections to modern space facilities.
Sitchin shares his encompassing knowledge of antiquity and his field experiences, as well as the concrete evidence for his conclusions that ancient myths were recollections of factual events, that the gods of ancient peoples were visitors to Earth from another planet, and that we are not alone in our own solar system.
ISBN 9781591430766
alternate history, archaeology, ET, extra terrestrial, space gods
VG softback
$15 C/B
Bear and Company 2007 first paperback edition, 243pp + plates.
[#5515 ]
Memoirs of a leading children's author who writes engagingly about life as a writer, teacher and solo father.
William Taylor taught for many years in the Central and the Lower North Island, where he was Principal of Ohakune School and the town's Mayor.
ISBN 9781869508371
autobiography, memoir, new zealand writing,
VG softback.
$25 C/C
HarperCollins 2010 Uncorrected Proof of the first edition, 322pp.
[#5516 ]
Excellent guide to fishing off the coastal rocks of New Zealand, including fly-fishing.
ISBN 0908685262
angling, kai moana, new zealand fishing, rock fishing, coastal angling
VG softback
$10 C/B
Halcyon Press 1988 first edition, 90pp.
[#5517 ]
This illustrated guide decribes the history of the hundred most numerous surnames in Ireland, as well as listing over 1000 others.
An overview of each County is also included.
Illustrated with colour photographs.
ISBN 071711225X
celtic, gaelic, genealogy, Irish history
VG softback
$20 C/C
Gill and MacMillan 1985, 192pp
[#5518 ]
The history of the development of the New Zealand Villa style house.
With chapters on conservation and restoration.
ISBN 9780141004747
architecture, building, historic buildings
VG softback
$20 B/B
Penguin Books 2002 Revised and Updated Edition, 104pp
[#5519 ]
International Opera Singers of New Zealand.
A detailed study of world renowned singers and the roles they have performed in, including how they made their mark on the world stage of opera.
ISBN9780790002255
performing arts, music, opera, singing, biographies
VG softback with VG dust jacket.
$15 B/C
Reed1992 first edition, 283pp
[#5520 ]
Nearly 50 early examples of Church buildings from the length of New Zealand, described and photographed, with their histories.
ISBN 9780790008929
architecture, historic buildings, religious,
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has repaired tear to fold.
$20 B/C
Reed 2003 first edition, 183pp.
[#5521 ]
His disguises are many, his powers supernatural - the arch-criminal of the world is back!
Panther 1084
G+ paperback, spine leans, rubbing wear to edges, small inscripion to inside cover.
$8 A/A
Panther 1960 first paperback edition, 158pp + 2pp adverts.
[PB1724 ]
The true story of 'The Girl in the Box'.
Colleen Stan was a twenty-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to Southern California.
Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and chilling crime.
Cameron and Janice Hooker had literally made her their slave, forced her to endure twisted sexual perversions.
During these seven years the Hookers had two children, entertained their friends at home and held down jobs, all while Colleen was held captive in a coffin-like box under their bed.
Christine McGuire, the young, inexperienced deputy district attorney who prosecuted Cameron Hooker for kidnapping, explains why Colleen, waiving numerous chances to escape, stayed captive for so many years.
G+ paperback with reading wear, name at front.
$8 A/B
Star/ W H Allen 1990 first UK edition, 404pp + plates.
[PB1725 ]
Recounts the circumstances around the R-101 tragedy, and how medium Eileen Garrett's premonition of a dirigible tragedy, a fearful warning from a recently deceased airman to another mystic, Mrs. Earl, failed in delaying the much-publicized takeoff of the R-101 for India.
Finally, in a séance that included both mediums and the world-famous author and spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, deceased airman Captain Hinchliffe warned the navigator of the R-101 of its various structural problems.
All these spiritualist received warnings were ignored, and the airship broke up in flames as predicted.
ISBN0425042731
spiritualist, survival, mediumship, afterlife, aviation
G+ paperback with rubbing to covers.
$9 A/B
Berkley 1980 first thus paperback edition, 373pp + plates.
[PB1726 ]
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand.
This book details New Zealand's worst public health crisis, with over 8,500 New Zealanders dead from influenza and pneumonia in just six weeks.
Nearly a quarter of the victims were Maori, who died at seven times the death rate of European New Zealanders.
This book answers many questions about the November 1918 'Spanish' influenza pandemic.
First published in 1988, this edition has three new chapters, over forty first-hand eyewitness accounts, and over 200 photographs and cartoons, many here published for the first time.
ISBN 9781877257353
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket as issued.
$65 B/D
Canterbury University Press 2005 Revised and Enlarged Edition, 327pp.
[#5508 ]
Case studies and historical evidence show that the small, yet rapidly expanding firm, was a potent force in New Zealand's growth, and its entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand economy in the late 19th century.
ISBN 9781869403812
capitalism, industry, colonial
VG+ softback
$25 B/C
Auckland University Press 2007 first edition, viii 280pp.
[#5509 ]
This book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, Gallipoli in the Dardanelles and the Western Front, and the social repercussions back home.
ISBN 9780947506193
wwi, ww1, anzac, sociology
VG+ softback
$30 B/C
Oratia Books 2017 first edition, 390pp.
[#5510 ]
A detailed guide to Maori myths and legends, religious beliefs, folklore and history.
Arranged alphabetically, this work reveals the subtlety and complexity of the traditional Maori view of the world.
ISBN 9780908812479
maoritanga, tikanga, taonga, illustrated
VG- softback, some cover wear and edge soiling.
$25 B/C
Canterbury University Press 1996, 274pp.
[#5511 ]
Based on interviews with veterans of World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam.
Written, edited and illustrated by Turner, this history is well augmented by pastel illustrations as well as photographs.
ISBN 9780864178893
Royal Australian Air Force, aviation memoirs, pilots
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 B/C
Kangaroo Press 1999 first edition, 208pp.
[#5512 ]
Being an Account of the Men and Women Who Paved the Way in 1849 for the Canterbury Pilgrims in 1850.
ISBN9780908563951
colonial history, first four ships, Christchurch, Otautahi, Captain Joseph Thomas, Canterbury Association, Lyttelton, Survey
VG+ softback in card covers with french flaps.
THIS COPY signed to half title by Colin Amodeo.
$95 B/C
Caxton Press 2003 first edition, xii + 236pp, illustrated.
[#5500 ]
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to new theories about the FBI's involvement in one of the most infamous cases in American history.
When assigned a magazine piece about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, O'Neill found holes in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's narrative, long enshrined in the bestselling Helter Skelter.
During his twenty-year effort to rebut the 'official' story behind Manson, O'Neill finds law enforcement inaction and ties to the CIA's mind-control experiments, MKULTRA.
ISBN9781785152085
Spahn Ranch, conspiracy, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Bobby Beausoleil, COINTELPRO, hippies
VG+ trade paperback, top cm of first page trimmed off.
$20 C/C
Heinemann 2019 first edition,
[#5501 ]
McNeish covered the trial of David Bain for killing his complete nuclear family in Dunedin in 1994.
This book gives the details of the crime, the parties invovled, and the evidence of the crime scene, and finds that david was indeed the culprit, not the father as has been put forward by many.
ISBN 0908990464
true crime, spree killer, Dunedin
VG softback, name to first page.
$15 C/B
David Ling 1997 first edition, 281pp + plates.
[#5502 ]
dramatic stories of Europeans discovering and exploring New Zealand during the first half of the 1800s.
Ocean adventures, cross-country trekking, imperial and spiritual conquests, first contacts with Maori, artists seeking the 'sublime', scientific discovery and commercial pursuits all intertwine to form a fascinating portrait of a land undergoing immense change.
ISBN 9780143570554
Jules Dumont d'Urville, Samuel Marsden, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Charles Heaphy
VG softback, name to first page.
$20 C/C
Penguin 2014 first edition, 251pp + plates.
[#5503 ]
Contact and Communication with Other Intelligence.
Based on deciphering radio signals, the author believes he has found strong evidence of extra terrestrial contact, and/ or visitation in our recent past.
http://www.duncanlunan.com/manandthestars.asp
Illustrated by Ed Buckley and Gavin Roberts.
ISBN0285621297
Epsilon-Bootis, UFO, E.T., Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Souvenir Press 1974 first edition, x 324pp + plates.
[#5504 ]
An introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology - the basis of clinical psychiatry.
This standard text in the field concentrates on the psychopathological disorder of function rather than disease category.
ISBN 9780702017889
Table of contents:
Fundamental Concepts of Descriptive Psychopathology. Consciousness and Disturbed Consciousness. Attention, Concentration and Orientation. Disturbance of Memory. Disorder of Time. Pathology of Perception. Delusions and Other Erroneous Ideas. Disorder of the Thinking Process. Language and Speech Disorders. Disorder of Intellectual Performance. The Disordered Self. Depersonalisation. Disorder of the Awareness of the Body. Disorders of Gender and Sexuality. The Psychopathology of Pain. Affect and Emotional Disorders. Anxiety, Panic, Irritability, Phobia and Obsession. Urge, Drive and Will: Disturbance of Volition. Impulsive and Aggressive Acts. Disturbance of Movement and Behaviour. Psychopathology of Neurotic Disorders. The Expression of Disordered Personality. Eliciting the Symptoms of Mental Illness. Psychopathology and Diagnosis.
VG softback
$30 B/C
W B Saunders 1999 fifth rpinting of second edition, viii 422pp.
[#5505 ]
History of the city and environs from the earliest Pakeha settlers Price and the Deans, to the coming of the Canterbury Colony and the establishment of the city. Mainly an account of the municipal developments.
Canterbury Association
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket.
Gift inscription to free end paper and the blank fly, small chip head of jacket spine, jacket spine sun faded.
$45 C/C
Capper Press 1975 facsimile of 1949 edition, xii 499pp.
[#5506 ]
Musket wars, land wars or tikanga?
Warfare in Maori society in the early Nineteenth Century.
ISBN 9780143018896
VG+ softback
$25 C/C
Penguin 2003, 543pp.
[#5507 ]
Astronomy for New Zealanders.
ISBN 9780908812196
32 pages of colour photographs, with 80 other photos and illustrations.
Polynesian astronomy, sky watching, southern hemisphere
VG softback.
$25 B/B
Canterbury University Press 1992 first edition, 80pp.
[#5484 ]
How to bring Angelic help into your life.
Includes correspondences for the Archangels, chakras, how to use angel cards, personal growth.
ISBN 9781743081525
divination, spirituality, angelology
VG+ softback
$20 B/C
Hinkler Books 2012, 208pp.
[#5485 ]
A Mystical Interpretation of Reincarnation
A psychic's clairvoyant reading of the soul and reincarnation, including her readings for some of her clients.
survival, spirituality
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
$25 C/C
New Age Press 1965 first edition, 316pp.
[#5487 ]
An early textbook of New Zealand plant identification.
flora, botany
VG cloth hardback with no jacket.
$20 B/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. [1928] first edition, 188pp, + plates and map endpapers.
[#5488 ]
Ink sketches with accompanying text descriptive of notable Christchurch landmarks, some now destroyed.
Christchurch history, architecture, sketchbook series
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Rigby 1968 first edition, 62pp.
[#5489 ]
Historical accounts selected from early New Zealand writing.
ISBN 9780723306573
Contents; The decision to colonise / Purchasing land / The Maori as warrior / Town and country / Practical Christianity / Man against nature / Colonial types / Women's work / Farming and business.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Whitcoulls 1981 first edition, 287pp illustrated.
[#5490 ]
Towards a City Biography, 1850-2000.
Fourteen essays on the history and development of Christchurch city, New Zealand.
ISBN 9780908812875
Ngai Tahu, economics, settlement, colonial
VG softback
$30 B/C
Canterbury University Press 2000 first edition, 395pp.
[#5492 ]
VG softback, signed by John Cookson, Peter Perry and two others to half-title page.
$35 B/C
Canterbury University Press 2000 first edition, 395pp.
[#5493 ]
Recruited by the Illuminati, Stan Deyo was taken secretly to Australia in 1971 to design “flying saucer” propulsion systems with Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and learned shocking secrets that send people to an early death.
Thirty years later he was able to recover his passport with help from powerul government contacts and return to his native America.
The stories he tells of his “time away” are truly extraordinary, and after literally running for his life Deyo reveals why “they” keep the alien/UFO agenda from the public, and that soon you will know who “they” are.
Many have investigated this huge conspiracy from the outside looking in; but only one has come forward from an insider’s perspective.
Described is a world of black budgets, super advanced technology, and flying saucers.
ISBN 0908477007
Table of Contents
SECTION I: Flights of Reasons
CHAPTER 1 – Sightings and Suspicions
CHAPTER 2 – Electro-Gravitic Propulsion
CHAPTER 3 – Constructs of Reality
CHAPTER 4 – Radiant Genius: Tesla
CHAPTER 5 – Effecting Weather Warfare
CHAPTER 6 – The 1982 Alignments
SECTION II: Mysticism And Numerology: Mystery Babylon
CHAPTER 1 – Centuries Of Darkness
CHAPTER 2 – Orders of Illuminism
CHAPTER 3 – Seal of Deception
CHAPTER 4 – Model For ‘Peace’
CHAPTER 5 – It’s All Happening
CHAPTER 6 – Circles of Illuminati
SECTION III: Not Of Earth: Ichthus
CHAPTER 1 – In the Beginning
CHAPTER 2 – Conflicts Bear Witness
CHAPTER 3 – How to Survive
CHAPTER 4 – Taken to Safety
CHAPTER 5 – Horror With Grace
CHAPTER 6 – Until Sin Dies
CHAPTER 7 – Spread the Word
‘Survival Kit’: Reading List For Section III
Appendix No. 1 – New York Herald Tribune articles
Appendix No. 2 – Interavia Electro-Gravitics article
Appendix No. 3 – The Gravitics Situation (Gravity Rand Ltd.)
Appendix No. 4 – Copies of the Maxfield-Teller letters
Appendix No. 5 – Einstein’s Relativity Error
Appendix No. 6 – Electrodynamic Propulsion
Appendix No. 7 – Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System
G+ softback, spine taped.
$45 B/C
West Australian Texas Trading 1979 second printing completing 19,000 copies. 200pp.
[#5494 ]
A history of censorship and changing mores in New Zealand.
From literature to pornography in print, film and music, and the growing challenge of objectionable material on the new medium of The Internet.
ISBN 9780864693051
1993 Films, videos and Publications Act, Offic of the Censor, video nasties, banned books, film classification
VG softback.
$25 B/C
Dunmore Press 1998 first edition, 220pp.
[#5495 ]
Visits to old North Island Courthouses.
The author, a retired lawyer, visits nearly 100 courthouses in the North and has photographed and described their histories.
Many are now being used as Community Centres or for other purposes.
ISBN 9780473230821
architecture, regional, judiciary, law and order, historic buildings
VG hardback with no jacket as issued.
$30 B/C
Alibi Press 2013 first edition, 176pp.
[#5496 ]
The story of the creation of the famous Peace Rose.
ISBN 0571101186
roses, cultivation, Peace rose, Baccara rose
VG paper covered sewn binding on quality paper.
Title to spine faded away.
$15 C/B
Faber 1972 first edition thus after the hardbound, 254pp + plates.
[#5497 ]
The First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica.
ISBN0002117371
keywords
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some edge wear.
$15 C/C
Collins 1975 first edition, 223pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5498 ]
A cross-cultural study of the hero's journey.
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, which, by examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, considers not only the patterns and stages of mythology but also its relevance to our lives today.
According to Campbell, Myth is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen.
ISBN 9780691017846
religion, culture, archetypes
VG+ softback
$25 C/C
Princeton/Bollingen 1973, xxiii 416pp.
[#5499 ]
A history of the Birdsville Track, commemorating the Centenary of Marree 1883-1983.
Photographic illustrations throughout.
Kujani aboriginal tribal territory.
ISBN 0959173900
Dulkaninna, Eradunna, Mulka, Mungerannie, Cowarie, Kalamurina, Mirra Mitta, Clifton Hills, Pandi Pandi, Callanna, Muloorina, Finnis Springs, Innamincka, Moomba, Nappa Merrie
VG laminated pictorial covers.
$30 B/C
Privately Published 1983 second printing, x 198pp
[#5434 ]
ISBN 0851799124
Part of Rigby's pageant of Australia series.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with edge wear and small tears to corners.
$15 B/B
Rigby 1976 first edition, 63pp + 2pp col plates, black and white illustrations.
[#5435]
An annotated bibliography of original poems published in Australian newspapers, magazines and almanacks before 1850.
ISBN 0908094914
literature, georgian, victorian, ephemera
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/D
Hale and Iremonger 1982 first edition, 334pp + plates.
[#5436 ]
Commemoration Book
ISBN 0959636102
South Australia, Murray River, local history
VG+ hardback in laminated pictorial board.
$25 C/B
Morgan Centenary Committee 1977 first edition limited to 3000 copies, 136pp illustrated with black and white photos throughout.
[#5437 ]
Twelve prominent Australian writers who struggled with censorship are treated by the author.
ISBN 0730102696
Edward Smith Hall/ Charles Harpur / J F Archibald / Miles Franklin / Henry Boote / Norman Lindsay / Brian Penton / Frank Hardy / Dorothy Hewett / Terry Hayes / Chris Masters / Brian Toohey.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 B/C
Reed 1990 first edition, 399pp with illustrations.
[#5438 ]
The history of gold prospecting and mining in the Murchison goldfields of Western Australia.
Meekatharra, Peak Hill, Mt Magnet, Annean Station, Byrah Station
VG hardback in G but torn and chipped dust jacket.
Inscription to half title with a single 'cancelled' stamp.
$15 C/B
Rigby 1969 first edition, 169pp + plates.
[#5439 ]
Australian Church history.
With black and white photos.
NSW, Methodist Church in Australia
VG stapled wraps with light soiling and fading.
$30 C/B
Randwick 1973 stapled sheets in card wrapper, 47pp.
[#5440 ]
A history of Bunnings Limited, the Western Australian timber and hardware merchants.
ISBN 0958910804
Bunning Brothers Limited, Robert and Arthur Bunning, company history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Bunnings Ltd 1986 first edition, xii 296pp.
[#5441 ]
Writings from Stevenson's time in Samoa and the Pacific.
Includes Tutuila, Prayers for daily use at Vailima, Father Damien, A footnote to history, Letters from the South Seas.
Samoa, Lazaretto, politics, history
VG leather hardback with Otago Girls' High School arms embossed to cover, spine lightly sunned.
$10 C/B
Heinemann 1924 first edition thus as vol xxi in Tusitala edition of the works of RLS, 16mo 341pp blue leather top edge gilt and gilt to spine and cover.
[#5442 ]
A collection of many photographs of the architectural antiquities of Tasmania, beautiful Georgian buildings etc.
Australian architecture historic buildings photographic
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Slight faint watermark top edge of a few pages at front, wear to spine ends.
Dust jacket with sunned spine and loss of title and some staining to spine ends, tape rust to fold in flaps, closed edges dusty.
Internally tidy copy.
$30 B/C
OBM Hobart 1969 second edition, xii 78pp + plates.
[#5443 ]
Reminiscences from the Melbourne Zoo
Melbourne zoological gardens.
VG cloth hardback.
Minimal foxing, small tear fore edge title page.
$75 B/C
Whitcombe and Tombs nd (1918) printed red cloth, (xiv) 237pp + frontis.
[#5444 ]
The struggle for social and economic security in the face of poverty, unemployment and depression.
Originally published in 1942 this has been augmented by two-thirds extra material.
Labour, socialism, New Zealand political history, politics
VG sewn binding in stiff card covers, name to half title, minor pencil underlining.
$15 C/B
Oxford Univ. Press 1966 first edition, xvi 512pp.
[#5423 ]
A biography of George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, Melanesia and Lichfield.
Anglican Church, Maori Wars, colonial, missionary
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Top of blank fly leaf clipped.
$30 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1964 first edition, 298pp + plates and adverts.
[#5424 ]
'With supplememnt in reply to recent charges'.
One of a series of books published to answer the question why to choose Christianity over various other faiths.
Refutes the Philosophy, Science and Religion of 'Eddyism'.
Mary Baker Eddy, nrm, cult
Good only softback with chipped yapped edges to wrappers, ex library stamps to feps, shelf mark to spine.
$7 C/B
Epworth Press undated (1920s), 96pp
[#5425]
Good only softback with brown paper pasted over original wrappers, some pen underlining.
$7 C/B
Epworth Press undated (1920s), 96pp
[#5301]
Includes introduction, bibliography, glossary.
ISBN 0460116983
grail king arthur celtic myth romance
G+ softback, archival taped spine, light staining to prelims, worn wraps.
$9 C/C
Dent Everymans 1988, xxvi 526pp
[#5427 ]
Starts at title page which has some library notes to it.
Covers Genesis chapters I-VII.
Metaphysical Bible interpretation.
ISBN 0877850534
G+ tidy ex private library, contact sealed covers.
$15 C/C
Swedenborg Foundation New York 1985 reprint of 1813 English translation, 540pp
[#5428 ]
Intended to be used to interpret the symbology encountered in dreams, this relies heavily on Jungian symbolism.
ISBN 0586083510
VG- softback with crease to cover corner.
$15 C/B
Granada Paladin 1982, xv 459pp.
[#5429 ]
68 tales.
Unsure of edition used for the stories.
G+ hardback with no jacket.
The contents pages have minor edge tears to margin, title starting to detach at top.
$9 C/B
Thomas Nelson undated hardcover 364pp + col frontis.
[#5430 ]
An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt.
A study of medieval heresies including the Knights Templars, witches and the witch trials, magic, sorcery and maleficium.
ISBN 0586082352
witchcraft, buning times, mass hysteria, sociology
VG paperback with small nick from spine, remainder striped
$15 C/B
Paladin 1975 first thus paperback, 302pp+ plates.
[#5400 ]
A Study of Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Education.
ISBN 0710089449
Marxist Sociology of Education.
VG- softback with minor underlining/ highlighting.
$8 C/B
Routledge 1979, 224pp.
[#5401 ]
Continuity and change in a New Zealand Township.
ISBN 0868612898
sociology
VG soft cover, sunned spine, minor pencil underlining.
$15 C/B
George Allen Unwin 1980 first edition, 204 pp.
[#5402 ]
Collection of historical documentation from New Zealand history.
ISBN 198730101
G+ softback, covers creased and lightly worn.
$15 C/C
Oxford University Press 1971, xxix 489pp.
[#5403 ]
A New Zealand Golden Book.
Well illustrated with full page colour by Richardson.
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket.
$15 B/B
Golden Press 1976 first edition pictorial boards, approx 36pp.
[#5405 ]
A New Zealand Golden Book.
ISBN 0855583320
Well illustrated with full page colour by Finlayson.
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket.
3 letter initials to paste down.
$15 B/B
Golden Press 1976 first edition pictorial boards, approx 36pp.
[#5406 ]
By the author of Masquerade, an illustrated riddle book with full and double page art throughout in colour, with the title of the book hidden in clues in the text.
ISBN 0224019066
puzzle, quest, illustrated
VG+ hardback with pictorial boards, spine sunned to backstrip only.
$20 B/B
Cape 1984 first edition.
[#5408 ]
A Biography of Erich von Daniken
ISBN 0491023235
VG hardback in VG dust jacket price clipped with sunned spine.
Name to free end paper.
$20 C/B
WH Allen 1978 first edition hardcover, 158pp + plates.
[#5409 ]
''Warren embarks on a new career as a galactic troubleshooter. His first mission takes him to a water planet where a company producing a mind-blowing drug is having trouble with its alien workforce''.
ISBN 0575049189
The sequel to Who Goes Here?
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Iinscription to free end paper.
$20 C/B
Gollancz 1993 first edition hardcover, 217pp.
[#5410 ]
Theosophy and Romantic Occultism / Velikovsky and Incipient Catastrophism / Flying Saucers / Von Daniken phenomenon.
Also Occult Nazism, a good appendix of UFO researchers, societies and contactees, and a good bibliography.
'Examines how nineteenth century occultism, particularly theosophy has been revitalised in the guise of scientific speculation.
ISBN 0713467061
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Ex-library, one cancelled stamp to fep, shelf mark to imprint, stamp top edge.
Labels and stamps to dust jacket which is under a plastic sleeve.
$20 C/C
Batsford 1992 first edition hardcover, 223pp.
[#5411 ]
History and physical properties of the Stonehenge stone circle.
ISBN 0116700688
VG stapled wrappers
$10 C/B
HMSO 1977 stapled wrappers, 35pp + large folding plan map at rear, illustrated.
[#5412 ]
Weston explains how anyone can beat cancer and arthritis without expensive drugs, hospitalization, and doctors, just as he did.
Based on his own experiments with crops and animals, his conclusions have led to remarkable cures.
ISBN 9780646403137
naturopathy, mineral supplements
VG softback
$20 C/B
Bookbin publishing 2003, 161pp.
[#5386 ]
The exploits of Peter Williamson, a New Zealand undercover cop.
ISBN9781869581947
true crime, justice, non-fiction
VG+ softback
$20 C/B
Hodder 1995 first edition, 239pp
[#5387 ]
A novel about a successful academic married father, who cruises the gay underworld at night.
ISBN 9780790003825
new zealand literature, maori, queer, gay
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Secker and Warburg 1995 first edition, 304pp.
[#5388 ]
Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory.
ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists, British
G- reading copy, ugly worn library cloth rebind.
Internally reasonably tidy with minor library marks.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1940 first edition hard cover, x 255pp + plates.
[#5389 ]
Reminiscences of a former Mayoress of Dunedin including the first frozen meat shipment aboard the 'Dunedin' which her father participated in.
Much of her world wide travels and political career.
politics, travel, otago, high society, memoir, New Zealand women
G+ hardback with no jacket.
A small amount of red staining to the upper joint and lower fore edge board, signed across frontis by the author, minor foxing to closed edges.
$30 C/B
John McIndoe 1947 first edition cloth, 284pp + plates.
[#5390 ]
A Hercule Poirot story.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket minor edge chipping with some mild soiling to the rear panel, minor spotting to closed edges.
$10 C/B
The Book Club 1956 first thus edition, 192pp.
[#5391 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with small tear to bottom edge of front wrapper.
$20 C/B
Romance Book Club edition 1961 first thus, 190pp.
[#5392 ]
Third and much enlarged edition including all the most important discoveries up to the time of publication, with twenty-four explanatory plates, giving maps, plans, elevations, and sections.
Formerly belonged to Thomas [Dyke] Acland, 1846-1892, with his ink copperplate name and address to the half-title.
It seems upon Acland's death the book passed to L. Morrow, who has penned his name dated 1892.
VG- rubbed joints, spine ends and corners starting, blind embossed bookseller stamp to fep, 3 copperplate owners details to half title, one marginal pen line noted.
$175 C/C
Daldy Isbister & Co 1877, third revised edition, green cloth with gilt decoration and titling, xviii 626 +4pp adverts + plates.
[#5306 ]
A level headed investigation of dowsers and dowsing.
Well illustrated reprint of 1926 edition.
radiesthesia, dowsing, water diivining, earth energies
A record of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program, in images and text.
Scott Base, McMurdo Sound, Ross Ice Shelf
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor edge chipping or short tears.
$20 C/D
Reed 1964 first edition, 90pp + 207 photos, map end papers.
[#5308 ]
Five chapters on the greats of Antarctic exploration; Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, Byrd, Fuchs and Hillary.
antarctica, south pole, expeditions
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Name to fep, price clipped jacket, faint foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$30 C/B
Evans 1958 first edition, 191pp + plates.
[#5309]
A study of the ecological risk to Antarctica and the conservation of its natural resources.
ISBN0725103906
antarctica, ecology, conservation, south pole, wildlife
VG softback
$15 B/C
Sun Books 1982 first edition, 125pp + plates in colour.
[#5310 ]
An account of two and a half years spent on the sub-arctic island of South Georgia in the Falklands.
ISBN 0091085101
Grytviken, King Edward Cove, arctic circle, north pole, polar
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Name to fep.
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1971 first edition, 190pp + plates & colour frontis.
[#5311 ]
The Story of British Research in the Southern Seas.
antarctic circle, exploration, subantarctic
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light surface insect damage to cloth, name to fep.
$45 C/C
Odhams 1963 first edition, 255pp+ plates.
[#5312 ]
Reminiscences of the years activities in Repulse Bay and Igloolik in Canada's Arctic circle, amongst the Inuit eskimo.
ISBN 0888302258
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Library stamps to title and verso only, one leaf starting to detach, minor tape mark to lower board.
Dust jacket under plastic sleeve with sunned spine and shelf mark.
$10 C/B
Hurtig 1982 first edition hardcover, 192pp, photos in text, map endpapers.
[#5314 ]
One year at Scott Base, Antarctica: a personal impresson.
new zealand, south pole
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with slight fade to spine.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1968 first edition, 191pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5315]
Edmund Hillary's own account of his Transantarctic Expedition.
antarctic, south pole, crossing the pole
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket, lightly creased front board, inscription to fep, dust jacket price clipped with chipping loss at head of spine and corner tips.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1961 second impression of first edition, 255pp + plates.
[#5316 ]
The MV Greenpeace expedition to monitor the ecological balance in Antarctica, totally unsupported by any of the Governmental outposts on the continent
ISBN1869410203
VG+ softback
$20 B/C
Century Hutchinson 1988 first edition, 126pp + colour plates.
[#5317 ]
The yacht Solo's expedition for the Oceanic Research Foundation to the Antarctic Balleny Islands and Cape Adare.
ISBN 0002166720
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket which is lightly watermarked to top edges.
$20 C/C
Collins 1979 first edition, 144pp + colour plates.
[#5318 ]
"An arctic expedition, disaster, heroic rescue, and escape from the frigid,desolate desert that is Greenland's great ice cap."
ISBN
keywords
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket with sunned spine, large chip top left front panel with a tear across the front, rear panel with tears and some small loss.
$20 C/C
Robert Hale & Co. 1954 first edition,155pp + plates.
[#5319 ]
Translated from the French by Richard Graves.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Free end paper clipped, light foxing to prelims.
Dust jacket with lightly soiled lower panel and short edge tears to joints.
$20 C/C
Travel Book Club undated, first thus, 206pp + many plates.
[#5320 ]
U.S. Antarctic Program USA, antarctica, biology, oceanography, marine geology, geophysics, geology, meteorology
VG- softback with lightly soiled wraps.
$20 B/C
National Science Foundation 1977, 216pp.
[#5321 ]
An account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic
One of the fullest accounts of Scott's expedition.
G+ hardback.
Spine edges and corners rubbed and frayed, front hinge reinforced with pasted paper, lacks prelims, starts with frontis, minor foxing, rear hinge cracked, some plates have small rubber stamp to blank margins or are detached.
A good reading or reference copy.
$30 C/C
Duckworth September 1935 reprint, cloth with printed cover, xxvi 305 (+1) pp+ plates.
[#5322 ]
VG- hardback, cloth rubbed and lightly soiled, small fray head of spine, foxed prelims.
$35 C/C
Duckworth September 1949 reprint, xviii 300pp+ CXXXII plates.
[#5323 ]
A Glaswegians ten years as a fur hunter in Canada's north amongst the Eskimos.
ISBN 0261100122
Inuit, Franklin, Perry Island, Canadian northern provinces, anthropology
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Hinges loose, jacket has splits at joint and corner ends, some tape oxide to endpapers, some foxing.
$15 C/C
MacGibbon & Kee 1972 first edition, 285pp + colour plates.
[#5324 ]
Surveys the life and work of Russians within the Arctic areas of the (former) Soviet Union, including a chapter on the Gulags.
USSR, CCCP, history
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1937, 288pp + plates + folding maps + adverts at rear, decorative endpapers.
[#5325 ]
A travel to Vostok, the Russian base at the Southern Geomagnetic Pole, from the Australian base at Wilkes.
antarctic, antarctica
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Reed 1969 first edition, 192pp + plates.
[#5326 ]
Ananthology in English verse with original texts, from the 11th Century to the generation of 1898.
English and Spanish facing text.
european culture, literature, espanol
Good cloth hardback in Good dust jacket.
Ex-library with cancellation, stamps etc.
Dust jacket has edge wear and tears.
$10 C/C
The Johns Hopkins Press 1955 first edition, 452pp.
[#5327 ]
With daily aspectarian also monthly position of Pluto.
12 issues, for 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952,1953.
With advertising for Max Heindel Rosicrucian publications.
astrology, reference
G+ softback/ wrappers.
Staples rusted, a few covers are stained and/ or silverfished.
$35 C/C
Rosicrucian Fellowship California stapled wrappers, 36pp each.
[#5328 ]
make the most of your workplace for harmony, prosperity and success by utilising the ancient science of Feng Shui.
ISBN 9679786889
geomancy
VG+ softback
$10 C/B
Pelanduk 1999, 273pp.
[#5329 ]
Late Victorian Australian young adults fiction.
Plates by Percy F. S. Spence.
VG- decorated cloth, upper joint split, corners frayed, internally clean.
$20 C/C
Blackie undated, 288pp +6 plates and 32pp adverts.
[#5330 ]
The Story of John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission in the great outback of Australia.
ISBN
A.I.M.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge tears, chipping, creasing, some loss, and faded spine.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1959 reprint of the New Edition, xii 244pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#5331 ]
Western Australian gold rush centred on Perth at the turn of Twentieth Century.
Also Gold and Opal mining.
ISBN 0851794920
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine.
$25 C/C
Rigby 1973 first edition, 185pp +plates.
[#5332 ]
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi's 16th century expedition to the Phillipines.
Spanish empire, exploration, nautical, Pacific exploration
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Whitcombe & Tombs 1961 first edition, 214pp + frontis.
[#5333 ]
The Shipboard and Early Melbourne Diary.
An early Australian colonial diary in facsimile of original faced by type.
Illustrated.
ISBN 0646002287
australian colonial history, primary source, reference
VG softback
$25 C/B
J. B. Were 1990, xviii 309pp.
[#5335 ]
The men and the women of the Australian outback, both black and white and the lives they lead.
aboriginals, australian sociology, history
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Lacks free end paper otherwise tidy.
$15 C/C
Rigby 1966 first edition, 295pp + plates.
[#5336 ]
Wandering in Northern Australia, encountering Crocodiles, Buffalos, and Aboriginals in the Northern Territories.
G+ hardback with rubbed joints and edges, inscription to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1952, ix 241pp + plates.
[#5337 ]
Probably intended for visitors to the island as a guide, this is a history and gazetter of the islands places and resources.
Reprint of 1940 edition.
Slipped in is a three page letter from a resident of the island.
VG softback with a few minor spots to some margins, foxing to wrappers.
$15 C/B
Australis 1972 edition, 54pp + plates.
[#5338 ]
A text book for Oceanic studies.
Covers Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and South East Asia.
Illustrated with examples of stone tools etc.
ISBN 0846519380
pacific
VG- softback
$10 C/B
Cummings 1975 first edition, 125pp.
[#5339 ]
A journalists reports of travel about the entirety of Australia, from coast to 'red centre', tropics to the south.
Australian travel, history, first edition, outback
Good hardback with no dust jacket.
Rubbed cloth, lightly foxed throughout, mainly to margins, binding open at frontis, name to fep.
$25 C/C
Jarrolds 1937 first edition, buckram 8vo, 334pp +64pp adverts, plates and map end papers.
[#5340 ]
Uranium and other radioactive minerals prospecting in the Australian outback.
ISBN 0851791522
mining, nuclear fuel, geology,
Good hardback with no jacket.
Reading copy.
Ex-library with stamps and slips and shelf mark to spine in white ink.
$10 C/B
Rigby 1971 first edition, 172pp + plates.
[#5341 ]
Flying doctor in the Northern Territory and Indonesian archipelago.
medicine, outback doctor,
Good hardback with no jacket.
Worn and rubbed cloth, name to title page.
$15 C/C
Georgian House 1948 reprint, 261pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5342 ]
The story of the white police and aboriginal trackers in the North West territories.
Idriess rode with the men he writes about, as well as the aboriginal criminals they were hunting.
crime, judiciary, mounted police, aboriginal trackers
VG hardback with name to paste down, light foxing to prelims.
$35 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1936, 9th edition cloth, 330pp + plates and adverts.
[#5345 ]
VG+ hardback with no jacket.
Faint name to closed fore edge of pages.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1956, reprint of new edition, 272pp + plates.
[#5343 ]
An account of Australia's far north.
The story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and settlement in the tropic north, based on first-hand knowledge and experience.
Cattle-droving over wilderness, encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were inevitably covered by the relentless growth of vegetation, the first crossing of the continent, the building of the Overland Telegraph Line, and the incredible lives of men and women of three generations.
VG- cloth hardback, with no dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951 first edition, 454pp.
[#5344 ]
The Story of David Pausu and the United Church of South Bougainville.
Includes some local legends as well as an account of the area during the Second World War.
Photo offset with poor quality photos in the text.
ISBN 0473001691
WWII, US, GI, Pacific
VG stapled softcover in dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Coroprint 1979 second edition, 95pp.
[#5346 ]
An account of the early days of Opal Mining at Lightning Ridge, north of Sydney/
gemstones, mining, history
VG- hardback with no jacket.
Spine leans, bumped corners.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson April 1948 reprint, 234pp+ plates
[#5347 ]
Encompasses Cook's explorations to Antarctica, New Zealand, Fiji, Easter Island etc.
Illustrated with woodcuts by C W Bacon.
exploration, nautical, pacific
Good hardback reading copy.
Ex-library, cloth sunned and faded, shelf mark [12] to spine in marker, stamps to endpapers, title page and some page margins, covers and stamps only faults.
$45 C/C
Robert Hale 1953 first thus after Golden Cockerel limited edition, cloth, xx 214pp + folding map at rear.
[#5348 ]
An autobiography of a patrol officer in New Guinea, includes Sepik river head-hunters, and Second World War service.
Kassa Townsend, Japanese, WWII, Pacific
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Ex-library with stamps etc.
$25 C/C
Pacific Publications 1968 first edition cloth, 271pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5349 ]
Autobiography of a doctor in the Pacific Islands between the World Wars.
New Guinea, Fiji, Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
VG hardback, textured cloth, no jacket.
Gift inscription to half-title.
$25 C/C
Dent / Jaboor 1943 third edition, 421pp+ plates
[#5350 ]
A history of the Catholic Women's League in the Archdiocese of Sydney 1913-87.
ISBN 0868402583
religious organisations, Australia,catholicism, social history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light crease.
Inscription to half title, and errata slip.
$25 B/C
New South Wales University Press 1987 first edition, x 218pp
[#5351 ]
Wade Doak and his families boat travels about the Pacific, includes Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, diving expeditions etc.
ISBN 0340214511
marine biology, sea, ocean, yachting
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Gift inscription to half title, small chip head of jacket spine.
$20 B/C
Hodder 1976 first edition, 200pp + colour plates.
[#5352 ]
Woman fleeing in dark forest cover art.
James Bond first edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light rubbing to the edges, short splits to corners.
$25 C/B
The Book Club1962 first thus edition, 189pp.
[#5356 ]
Naked woman with arms raised cover art.
James Bond first edition.
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket with large chips/ loss to spine ends, only half of 'Dr' to spine present, rear panel chipping loss to top corners, splits to joints, book boards a little bumped, dust soiled closed edges.
$20 C/B
The Book Club1958 first thus edition, 248pp.
[#5357 ]
Black, white and gold design with eyes cover art.
James Bond first edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Light foxing to closed edges, light wear and tiny edge splits or short tears to unclipped jacket.
$25 C/B
The Book Club1960 first thus edition, 192pp.
[#5359 ]
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with light wear and edge splits or short tears.
Rubbed corners, chip from top left corner of front panel, chipped spine ends, name to fep dated July 1961.
$20 C/B
The Book Club1960 first thus edition, 192pp.
[#5360 ]
A Musterer's year on Ngamatea- New Zealand's biggest sheep station.
High country sheep farming, mustering in Hawkes Bay.
ISBN0340157763
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with light edgewear, inscriptions to fep, SIGNED by AUTHOR to half title dated 1971
$95 C/B
Hodder 1971 first edition, 176pp+ plates. [#5361]
A new translation of a yoga classic.
Includes Vairagya, Mumuksu Vyavahara. Utpatti, Sthiti, Upasama, Nirvana Prakaranam.
ISBN 0959069003
hindu, indian, philoophy
VG+ hardcover, has been professionally rebound in a cloth case with illustrated covers laid down.
Gilt titled spine.
$45 C/C
Chiltern Yoga Trust 1984 third Australian edition, x 382pp.
[#5362 ]
Young adult fiction set in modern Iceland.
Supernatural themes such as Trolls and Huldafolk.
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket.
Ex-library with stamps and tape etc.
Closed edges some foxing.
Price clipped jacket has small patch of discolouration to spine from label.
$15 C/B
Constable 1966 first edition, 144pp.
[#5363 ]
Jungian interpretation of Eliot's work.
Chapters: The mythical vision, The mythical method, Early poems 1909-1920, Gerontion, The waste land, The hollow men, Ash Wednesday, Ariel poems, Coriolan, Four quartets, "The voice of this calling."
British modern literature, criticism
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Discolouration to cloth boards, some mild foxing.
$15 C/C
Eyre and Spottiswoode 1950 first edition, 256pp.
[#5364 ]
A Miss Silver Mystery.
Cover art by Taylor.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some wear to edges and corners.
$10 C/B
Thriller Book Club undated, 255pp.
[#5365 ]
The Story of an African hunter, John Alfred Jordan.
Jordan started his African adventure before the Boer War, and hunted Elephant for ivory, and crocodiles for pleasure.
Uganda, Belgian Congo, natives
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Some minor foxing.
$35 C/C
Nicholas Kaye 1956 first edition, 248pp. Illustrated
[#5366 ]
A Glenn Bowman thriller.
ISBN 0002317052
G+ hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Ex-library with stamps and issue slips etc.
Jacket price clipped.
$15 C/B
Collins 1970 first edition, 192pp.
[#5367 ]
Adapted to the state and condition of all Orders of christians.
christian devotional
G+ hardback, creased lower board with cracked endpaper, name to fep, light foxing to endpapers.
$15 C/B
Methuen 1950 seventh edition, cloth 16mo, xliv 499pp.
[#5368 ]
Complete history of the founding of the British Trade Unions, covering up to the 1950s.
employment, civil rights
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and chipping .
Light foxing to book, soiled closed edges.
$25 C/C
Odhams 1954 first edition cloth, 448pp.
[#5369 ]
A "Lovely Mystery".
Eight other titles listed at the front.
G+ softcover digest, newsprint paper stock, some edge wear.
$75 C/B
Horwitz / Transport Publishing, Sydney, 1955 first edition(?), 98pp.
[#5370 ]
Wargaming rules book for a divisional level game of modern warfare.
Includes folding sheet of tables and charts.
wargaming, tabletop games
VG- softback.
$25 C/B
Self published by B. A. Rea-Taylor and A. Ashton 1986, stapled wrappers, 100pp.
[#5371 ]
Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, The Celestine Prophecy tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now...and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come.
ISBN 1863593195
new age
G+ softback
$7 C/B
Bantam, 247pp.
[#5372/638 ]
Biography and case studies of one of the foremost Criminal Pathologists of modern times.
Includes such infamous cases as; Hawley Harvey Crippen, The Brides in the Baths murders, Bonati Charing Cross Trunk case and more.
twentieth century, criminology, murder, pathology
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Rear hinge cracked, name whited out to free end paper, cloth boards rubbed, light spotting.
$20 C/C
Harrap 1951 first edition, 422pp + plates.
[#5373 ]
Yaqui shaman Don Juan divulges his teaching to Castaneda.
The main focus of this book, the fourth in Castaneda's Don Juan series, is the distinction between the sorcerer's world and the everyday world.
ISBN 0671218581
comparative religion, shamanism, amerindian
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with sunned spine.
Book has minor tape residue to paste downs and board edges, name stamp to fep and title.
$20 C/C
Simon and Schuster 1974 first edition, cloth, 287pp.
[#5374 ]
Yaqui shaman Don Juan divulges his teaching to Castaneda.
Teachings on religion and mythology and the use of hallucinogenic drugs in shamanic context.
ISBN 0340228350
comparative religion, shamanism, amerindian
VG hardback in a VG- price clipped dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping to top edge.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1978, 316pp.
[#5375 ]
An introduction to Australian history and culture. Part of the Stories of the Commonwealth series.
Illustrated throughout and with the dust jacket by B. Biro.
keywords
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Book has foxed endpapers and prelims, offset tape stains to boards (minor), light bumping to bottom edge of boards.
Jacket has tape stains to verso and tape residue to spine and fore edge folds where tape has dried and flaked off, better than it sounds!
$15 B/C
Ernest Benn 1959 first edition 4to, 64pp.
[#5376 ]
Consists mainly of full page full colour photographs with an emphasis on young Tahitian maidens unclothed.
polynesia, photography, french polynesia
G+ hardback with some silverfish surface damage to spine, no jacket.
$10 B/C
Seven Seas 1965 first edition, approx 120pp
[#5377 ]
A history of Bass Strait, well illustrated with full colour full page photographs as well as historic paintings etc.
ISBN 0589071165
australasia, Broken Hill Propriety Company, BHP, Tasmania
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 B/C
Reed 1973 first edition 4to, 112pp
[#5378 ]
History of the island settled by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian concubines, and the convict island where Australia's worst were sent.
Fully illustrated throughout in colour and line.
ISBN 0670815217
Fletcher Christian, Admiral Bligh, pacific islands
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 B/C
Viking 1986 first edition 4to, 189pp.
[#5379 ]
A coming of age novel concerning a young girl on a country estate.
VG hardback in G dust jacket with spine sunned, soiled, edge chipping, closed edges dusty.
$25 C/B
Spearmann 1953 first UK edition, 186pp.
[#5380 ]
The story follows 49 hours in the life of a small town attorney.
This award winner was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Turned into a feature film in with Lana Turner.
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket, soiled to spine, light edgewear.
Book closed edges dusty.
$10 C/C
Longmans 1958 first UK hardcover, 570pp.
[#5381 ]
In a dystopian future, one man holds the key to remedy the ills that plague the society that has rejected him.
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Top of fep clipped, top edge foxed.
$10 C/B
Science Fiction Book Club 1969 first thus, 176pp.
[# 5382]
The Story of the Sea Reconnaissance Unit.
Second World War amphibious commandos against the Japanese.
WWII, Pacific, S E Asia
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with light wear and soiling.
$20 C/C
William Kimber 1970 first edition hardcover, 168pp + plates.
[#5383 ]