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Autobiographical memoirs by the famous Australasian stage magician, who also wrote a book on how to beat insomnia.
stage magician, magic, entertainment, Australia
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Dust jacket has a few minor edge tears and small red marker stripe at top right corner.
First two pages of book clipped at top corner and with red marker stripe showing to corner of first page and corner of title page.
$15 C/B
Angus and Robertson 1957 First Edition, 206pp
[#5151 ]
A biographical memoir of the Reverend Edward Francis Barrar (1903-2004) by his son.
A very interesting family history, concerning the full stretch of the author's fathers life across a whole century.
The family moved about Canterbury and South Canterbury farming, as well as material on Adventist Church involvement.
This includes a lot of the history of his forebears and descendents.
James Thomas Barrar and Elizabeth Sarah Hill are the earliest ancestors mentioned.
Timaru, Fairlie, Avoca, Gebbies Pass, Seventh Day Baptist Church
VG+ softback
$45 C/C
Self-Published 2011 first edition, 280pp.
[#5152 ]
The Life Of Pat Cotter, Christchurch Surgeon and Tree Farmer.
More than just a biography of a remarkable man, this also has details of early New Zealand doctors and medical practce, Pat's own grandparents life as colonial settlers, the Otago Medical School and its lecturers in the 1940s, and the Christchurch surgical scene from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Includes photos of Pats friends and colleagues, and the buildings where he worked.
In retirement he began growing trees in various locations for investment purposes, setting up a company.
ISBN 9780473371357
medicine, surgery, silviculture, Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Pigeon Bay, Seskin Farm, Canterbury Medical Library
VG- softback, gift inscription to title page.
$25 C/B
The Cotter Medical History Trust 2016 first edition, 245pp.
[#5153 ]
Discovering A Natural Treasure, Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth, describes many uses of this mineral to Help People, Pets, Plants and the Planet.
For Homes, Gardens, Animals, Birds, Grains, Kennels, Farms, Crops, Orchards, Buildings, and the Environment.
ISBN 9780986043109
dinosaur dust, natural remedt, natural therapy, holistic health
VG+ softback
$20 C/C
Green ECO Inc. 2013 new edition, xv 414pp.
[#5154 ]
The natural healer's acupressure handbook Volume II.
Expands on authors first book with a method for finding and healing your own "root organs."
According to doctors of acupuncture, these malfunctioning organs are the true causes of disease and sufferning.
ISBN 071009535X
acupressure, health, healing, chinese, natural therapy
VG softback
$20 C/C
Routledge Kegan Paul 1983, xvi 248pp.
[#5155 ]
This work focuses on the complex issue of provincial identity to show what is unique about Otago and it's people.
Reissued in softcovers.
ISBN 0868680931
Murihiku, Scottish in New Zealand, colonial
VG softback
$40 B/C
John McIndoe 1983 reprint, xv 270pp.
[#5156 ]
New Zealand Vietnam vets talk about their war in oral interviews with Challinor.
Personal accounts of their time on active service as well as the ongoing legacy in their later lives.
Includes the Flinkenberg List, a nominal roll of New Zealand personnel that served in Vietnam, and is as complete a list as is possible from surviving records.
ISBN 9781869507718
vietnam, agent orange, war veterans, RNZIR, 161 Battery
VG- softback
$12 C/C
Harper Collins 2009, 304pp + plates
[#5157 ]
Green's famous novel set in Vietnam.
G hardback with no dust jacket, the page with printed quotes also has another handwritten in ink.
Some sporadic pencil notes in text.
$8 C/B
Heinemann 1956 third printing, 247pp.
[#5158 ]
Nice reissue of this classic tale, formerly in the collection of the actor Elric Hooper.
association copy, theatre, literature
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has soiling and edge wear with splits.
Free end paper has rubber stamp for Smith's Bookshop, 103 Manchester Street, and 'Elric James Hooper', the noted Christchurch actor.
$30 C/C
Hodder May 1948 reprint, 544pp.
[#5159 ]
A collection of Official Government Acts relating to Maori Affairs, especially pertaining to Maori Lands and Reserves.
Reprinted as on 31 December 1964
land courts, land rights, waitangi
VG softback with brown paper wrappers with titling and Arms of the Crown, hole punched for ring binder by publisher.
$20 C/C
Government Printer 1965 reprint, 275pp.
[#5141 ]
How the banking system is a scam, and how economies are doomed to recession following the current capitalist system.
By the founder of the Social Credit movement.
Economics, Social Credit, Bank System, Usury, One World Government, Socialism
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket browned to spine with light chipping top and bottom edges.
Small ink name top of front panel and repeated to fep, partially split lower joint.
$35 C/B
Chapman and Hall 1931 First Edition, 128pp.
[#5142 ]
Written by the famed Australian lawn bowls champion Dick "Boomerang" Harrison.
'Accepted text book in greater demand than any treatise ever written on the game; a complete course of modern instruction.'
Boomerang, lawn bowls, how to play, techniques
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Cloth faded, a few tidy pen bracket notations to margin.
$20 C/B
R. W. Hensell and Sons 1956 ninth edition, 220pp with plates.
[#5143 ]
A volume of poetry, from a prolific if often self published amatuer writer from Christchurch New Zealand.
Signed in pencil in a shaky hand L C Lesley House ChCh
VG softback with sheets folded once and stapled through spine, printed stiff paper wrapper.
$25 C/B
L. C. Lesley House undated about 1960? First Edition, 24pp.
[#5144 ]
A history of Melbourne's Wesley College, published for the centenary.
ISBN
Australian School History, Education, Old boys, Wesley College Melbourne
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Top corner of half title removed, short inscription to the bottom corner.
$20 C/C
Wesley College, Melbourne 1967 First Edition, 240pp + plates.
[#5145 ]
"An outstanding example of communion between the minds of two close friends on either side of the veil"
spiritualism, survival, christian spiritualist, Churches' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with a few tiny holes at head of spine.
Book has some minor pen notations to a few pages, clipped top corner of first blank page.
$20 C/B
The World Fellowship Press 1971,145pp.
[#5146 ]
This copy is the bearer of a Presbyterian Church Prize Plate pasted to first page, awarded to Dorothy McCallum of Mangaweka.
Good hardback with no jacket.
Sunned and rubbed spine, corners worn, some soiling, titling flaking, front hinge cracked and loose.
$20 C/B
Hutchinson 1929 reprint, 288pp + 16pp adverts for Spring 1929.
[#5147 ]
A new biography of one of the greatest political thinkers of all time.
A French aristocrat who lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, de Tocqueville spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France.
When he was twenty-five he travelled to America, encountering democracy for the first time, the experience contributing to his incisive writing on liberty and democracy.
His Le ancien regime launched the scholarly study of the French Revolution, and Democracy in America remains the best book ever written by a European about the United States.
ISBN 9780300136258
enlightenment philosophy, political theory, USA, history, biography
VG softback
$25 C/C
Yale University Press 2007, 724pp.
[#5148 ]
This biography of David Lange is written by his cousin, who was a senior cabinet minister in his Government, and gives the inside story of some of the most heady and turbulent times in New Zealand political history.
Bassett writes of the real David Lange, a hugely gifted but hugely flawed politician.
Based on diaries, private papers, and extensive interviews.
ISBN 9781869710941
new zealand political history, Fourth Labour Government, ANZUS, Mururoa tests, Oxford Union debate, Roger Douglas, Rogernomics, 1984 election
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
#30 C/D
Hodder Moa 2008 first edition, 648pp.
[#5149 ]
The history behind the loss of the Elingamite in 1902 north of New Zealand.
In 1968 a syndicate led by Wade Doak and Kelvin (Kelly) Tarlton suceeded in salvaging gold and silver from the wreck.
ISBN 0340107774
salvage, shipwreck, bullion, Kelly Tarlton,
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1969 first edition, 192pp + plates.
[#5150 ]
"Fourteen-year-old Neddy and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chicken-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into town. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is in fear for his sister's safety."
The scarce first edition printed by Angus and Robertson.
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with minor wear or short edge splits or chips.
$60 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1963 First Edition, 211pp. [#5136 ]
The Fourth Riverworld Novel
ISBN 0399123814
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with short tear with associated crease to top edge, same on the back panel
$20 C/C
Putnam 1980 First Edition, 339pp.
[#5137 ]
Covers first class matches of 1975 including visits from Scotland, Romania and Tonga.
rugby, nzfru, statistics, history
VG- Red card covers sunned to spine (faded to white with no title visible).
$10 C/B
Sporting Publications 1976 First Edition, 209pp + plates.
[#5138 ]
Covers first class matches of 1976.
rugby, nzfru, statistics, history
VG- Red card covers rubbed to spine edges.
$10 C/B
Sporting Publications 1976 First Edition, 228pp + plates.
[#5139 ]
Covers first class matches of 1977.
rugby, nzfru, statistics, history
VG- Card covers with small amount of insect damage to surface of cover.
$10 C/B
Sporting Publications 1978 First Edition, 226pp + plates.
[#5140 ]
Reissue of this novel first issued in 1928.
G+ brown cloth hardback with no dust jacket, name stamp to free end paper.
$10 C/B
Faber 1944 reprint (first thus), 418pp.
[#5128 ]
European Images of Maori 1840-1914 with illustrations throughout in black and white and colour.
ISBN 1869400623
colonial art, first contact, depictions of Maori, painting, drawing, sketches
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, slight soiling to surface, lightly faded upper panel, small circular stain to free end paper.
$55 B/C
Auckland University Press 1992 First Edition, xvi, 291pp.
[#5129 ]
People and Politics in the 1980s.
A personal view by Roger Douglas, mastermind of Rogernomics and the open market in New Zealand.
ISBN 090861070X
economics, new zealand economy, eighties, society, politics, history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, slight fade to spine.
SIGNED BY Roger Douglas to title page.
$30 C/C
David Bateman 1987 First Edition, 256pp + plates.
[#5131 ]
Ensign Alexander McCrae; Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin Number 3.
3 b/w reproductions of paintings - a portrait of Tooi (Tuai), a portrait of Teeterree (Titeri or Titari), and a group: Waikato, Hongi and missionary Thomas Kendall, all painted by James Barry.
A plate with list of Turnbull bulletins fixed to paste down by publisher.
VG Grey cloth with black lettering. Brown floral-patterned endpapers, very minimal soiling to the cloth.
$75 C/C
Alexander Turnbull Library 1928 First Edition, 33pp.
[#5132 ]
The Story of Teresa Grigolini, an Italian Missionary Sister in the Sudan, 1876-98.
Sister Teresa Grigolini was captured by the Islamist Mahdists in 1882, and with others of her community became a slave, constantly abused and threatened with death.
Some of them died in these appalling conditions, but no threat could persuade them to give up their faith as was demanded constantly of them.
The personal and tragic life events of Teresa Grigolini occur at the time of the rise of the Mahdists against the long and oppressive rule of the Sudan by Egypt, supported by English colonial interests, the 1885 fall of Khartoum, and eventually the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, and the re-taking of Khartoum and the Sudan by Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army.
In 1898 the remaining few of the missionary captives were freed after sixteen years in captivity, but life for Sister Teresa had changed forever.
Her story has been pieced together from her own and other letters, documents which enchant, edify, shock and sadden, but ultimately leave the reader with spirits raised for the love, strength and commitment of a remarkable woman.
ISBN 9781877399640
Originally published as: Tutti sapevano che ero stata suora.
19th century, catholicism, missionaries, Mahdi, islam, jihad, slavery, Women missionaries, El-Obeid, Rahad
VG softback
$45 C/B
Dunmore Publishing Limited 2012 first edition, 214pp.
[#5120 ]
An enthralling account of the experience of New Zealand aircrew flying bombing raids with the RAF.
1850 Kiwi airmen were killed serving in Bomber Command.
ISBN 9781869506445
75 squadron, 408 squadron, ww2, wwii
VG- paperback
$25 C/C
HarperCollins 2007 reissue without the index, 528pp.
[#5121 ]
New Zealand participation in Fighter Command and later in the Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF).
Kiwis served in the Royal Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
ISBN 9781869508449
ww2, wwii, aviation, rnzaf, raf
VG softback
$35 C/C
HarperCollins 2011 first edition, 368pp.
[#5122 ]
Nicely bound in linen with gilt to spine, but on reasonably cheap paper.
Still a nice copy for the collection.
Spanish literature, Chandos Classics,
VG cloth hardback with no dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Frederick Warne, London, undated ( c. 1900), xxxvi 567+4pp adverts.
[#5123]
Omnibus 3 in 1, first thus issue of the complete trilogy of Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match.
ISBN 0091677009
espionage, thriller, spy, fiction
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Jacket price clipped with minor chipping loss to corner tips, short split at head of upper joint, book tidy with map endpapers.
$30 D/D (2kg)
Hutchinson 1986 first edition, 857pp.
[#5125 ]
A revisionist history of state schooling in New Zealand.
ISBN 0864690649
Education, Schooling, Academic Training, State School
VG softback, used copy with wear to cover edges.
$25 C/C
Dunmore Press 1987 First Edition, 298pp.
[#5126 ]
Christian spiritual and faith healing.
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Papered boards dust soiled, some minor pen underlining, light foxing.
$10 C/A
Epworth Press 1952 First Edition, 23pp.
[#5127 ]
Distinctive Guild Publishing issue of the Allen and Unwin Fourth Edition.
With red leatherette hard covers with faux silver filleting.
Includes the maps and illustrations from the original.
LOTR, vintage, retro, first thus
VG- hardback with no dust jacket as issued, age browned paper, light wear and rubbing to cover corners and spine ends.
$30 C/B
Guild Publishing London 1978, 256pp
[#5115 ]
First British edition of this crazy illustrated story.
ISBN 0001953516
Theodore Geisel, Collectable Modern First Edition
VG hardback with no dust jacket, a clean copy.
$30 B/C
Collins 1969 first UK edition.
[#5116 ]
From a soldiers diaries and letters the author has created a vivid picture of the experience of a member of the NZ Division from the beginning of the war to the end of the North African Campaign.
Greece and Crete, Rommel etc.
Author served with 1st Echelon.
ww2, wwii, nz
G+ hardback in G dust jacket.
Book has lost 2 cm from tail of spine, foxed boards, jacket is rubbed chipped and foxed to edges.
$35 C/B
Privately Published (printed by Caxton Press New Zealand) undated (late 1940s) first edition, hardcover, 254pp.
[#5117 ]
Second World War in the Pacific, Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve coast watchers at Guadalcanal and the Solomons.
Includes the rescue of John F. Kennedy from PT 109 by the author.
ISBN 0589070894
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket, sunned spine and a few short taped edge tears.
$25 C/C
Reed 1970 first edition, xiv 256pp + plates.
[#5118 ]
The art of Frederick George Gurnsey, sculptor in wood and stone, most of his work being for religious/ church patrons.
ISBN 9780908812554
carving, wood carving, sacred art, canterbury, plastic arts
VG softback
$25 B/B
Canterbury University Press 1997 first edition, 84pp.
[#5101 ]
Centennial history of the Borough.
Black and white and colour photos throughout.
Manukau harbour, Maungakiekie, Fencibles,
VG hardback in G dustjacket with edge wear and tape repaired tear to spine.
$25 C/B
Onehunga Borough Council 1977 first edition, 104pp.
[#5102 ]
VG hardback with no jacket.
$12 C/B
Heron Press undated (1970s) gilt decorated leatherette, xxiii 288pp
[#5103 ]
Considered the first major philosophical book written in English (1605).
Bacon discusses scientific learning, knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities.
Bacon considers science as intended for 'the relief of man's estate.'
enlightenment philosophy, classical ideals
VG hardback with no jacket.
$12 C/B
Heron Press undated (1970s) gilt decorated leatherette, xiii 246pp
[#5104/PP31 ]
Radio broadcasting in New Zealand; a documentray.
A full history of the people, the stations, and the technology that brought radio programming to the widely spread and often remote and isolated settlements of New Zealand, helping to build the national identity.
Illustrated throughout.
ISBN 0868651001
media, RNZ, commercial radio, social history
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some soiling or sun-fading.
With 45 rpm disc at rear with sound samples related to the text.
$20 B/C
Methuen 1976 first edition, 174pp.
[#5105 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some soiling or sun-fading.
LACKS the 45 rpm sample disc.
$15 B/C
Methuen 1976 first edition, 174pp.
[#5106 ]
The report of the inquiry which found Thomas innocent and wrongfully convicted, and resulted in his Pardon and compensation.
Gives full details of the original criminal investigation, the uncovering of the planted (by Police) shell casing, and the subsequent efforts of Thomas' supporters to overturn his guilty verdict.
Gives the discussion and rationale for his compensatory payment.
justice, crime, pardon, police corruption, new zealand true crime,
VG+ softback
$25 C/B
Government Printer 1980 first edition, 125pp.
[#5108 ]
photographic survey of London and North Eastern Railways locomotives from the steam age.
Covers North Eastern and Scottish areas.
Black and white photos.
ISBN 0711001944
A1 Pacific, A3 Pacific, steam engines, railways, trains, British
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 B/C
Ian Allan1974,112pp.
[#5109 ]
The Industrial heritage of Briatin, which, as the world's first Industrial Nation, has some of the oldest technological installations which show the history and development of the new technologies such as steam power, coal, iron and steel production and use in construction, textiles and pottery.
Illustrated with photographs and diagrams ( black and white).
ISBN 9780715301340
engineering, architecture, commerce, industrial revolution, United Kingdom
VG softback, gift inscription at front.
$20 C/C
David and Charles 1993 third edition, 384pp.
[#5110 ]
Edited by John D. Jump, with introductory essays before the text of The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
ISBN0423757105
renaissance theatre, Mephistophiles, Mephostophilis, Mephistopheles, conjuring, theurgy, damned arts, grimoire, pact with the devil
VG softback, name at front.
$8 C/A
Methuen's English Classics 1986, 180pp.
[#5111]
Moir's Guide Book to the Tramping Tracks and Routes of the Great Southern Lakes and Fiords of Otago and Southland. (Northern Section)
Reprint of the edition revised by Hall-Jones, Chandler and Keen.
new zealand, outdoors, tramping, sport, southland, fiordland
VG softback.
$20 C/B
New Zealand Alpine Club 1984 (5th 1977 edn revised), xiv 103pp + plates.
[#5112 ]
Anthology of new writing from young New Zealand writers.
The 10th annual Re-Draft Collection.
ISBN 9780958288859
creative writing, anthology, fiction
VG softback
$10 C/B
Clerestory Press 2011, 152pp.
[#5113 ]
A history of the Living Springs Christian youth camp, established in 1972 in Allandale, Lyttelton Harbour.
With historical information about Allandale.
ISBN 9780473327866
banks peninsula, youth groups, social groups, venues
VG+ hardback with no jacket as issued.
$30 B/C
Davin Trust and Living Springs 2015 first edition, 173 pp.
[#5096 ]
A fully detailed autobiographical memoir of Morrie, mainly relating to his life and extended family in Christchurch.
Some of his yarns are bloody funny too.
Black and white and colour photos throughout.
local history, family history, genealogy, canterbury, memoirs
VG+ softback with signed presentation inscription from Morrie dated 2013
$35 B/C
Morrie Woodham Christchurch 2013(?) first edition, 246pp.
[#5097 ]
Souvenir booklet for the 50th Anniversary, 1911-1961.
With history of the club and its members, including photographs.
Dunedin, beach life, history, sports, social club, St Clair beach
VG stapled softback, name to first page
$35 C/A
St Clair Surf Life Saving Club / Otago Daily Times 1961, 64pp.
[#5098 ]
A basic information guide, mainly statistical and technical, with a bibliography.
aeroplanes, aircraft, rnzaf, nzpaf, cnzcr
VG stapled softcover
$15 C/B
Aviation Historical Society of New Zealand 1972, 56pp.
[#5099 ]
The Japanese air raid on Broome in March 1942 inflicted casualties on the Dutch and other Allied aircraft that were flying in refugees from the Dutch East Indies, which were under Japanese threat, as well as killing refugees and aircrew.
ww2, wwii, japanese air force, Carnot Bay
VG stapled softcover
$15 C/A
Royal Australian Air Force Association 1985, 32pp.
[#5100 ]
A sociological and literary study of the significance of the hero.
sociology, alienation, anomie, heroism, existentialism, existential psychology, Camus, Sartre, factor X, the will to power
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket strongly sun faded and with tape staining and short tear.
$55 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1955 first edition, 157pp.
[#5090 ]
Wilson expounds his theory that deviant sexual behavior is an effort to transcend normal consciousness into a higher reality.
Wilson uses the examples of sexual deviance and pornography from the Marquis de Sade (a complete chapter), Yukio Mishima, Lord Byron, James Joyce, T.E. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and others to support his theory.
ISBN 0246129743
Charlotte Bach, transvestism, deviance, gender, sexuality, trans sexual
VG- hardback with no jacket, boards handling soiled.
$20 C/C
Grafton 1988 first edition, 272pp.
[#5091 ]
Colin Wilson's intellectual meditations on various musical works and composers, modern, classical, operatic and jazz.
Mozart, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, jazz
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket. Minor pen and pencil to endpapers.
$35 C/C
John Baker 1964 first edition, 182pp.
[#5092 ]
A biography of George Bernard Shaw the man, his ideas, his work and his influence.
ISBN 090980107
British literature, theatre, playwright, GBS, Irish, criticism
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Hutchinson 1969 first edition, xiv 306pp.
[#5093 ]
A novel in which Harry Preston (a thinly disguised Colin Wilson) moves to 1950s London looking for adventure.
Moving into the impoverished and seedy world of the emerging Beat Generation, he lives in bed-sits and associates with actors, prostitutes and assorted Soho Bohemians.
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Jacket unclipped and tidy, slightly handling soiled. Book has minor foxing to closed edges.
$30 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1961 second impression before publication, 224pp.
[#5094 ]
A study of malicious encounters with supernatural entities including fairies, elves and ghosts.
A chapter on The Black Monk of Pontefract.
Survival after death, mediumship, table rapping etc.
ISBN0450048 802
haunting, ghosts, supernatural, parapsychology, SPR, Society for Psychical Research
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$25 C/C
New English Library 1982 second impression, 382pp.
[#5095 ]
An interview with Dean Koontz, with evaluations of film versions of his novels, excerpts from some of his writings, and an annotated bibliography of his novels.
ISBN 9780747208303
horror, collecting Dean Koontz books, Leigh Nichols, K.R. Dwyer, Brian Coffey
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$15 C/C
Headline 1994 first edition, 314pp.
[#5080 ]
Christian mysticism, includes chapters on the Benedictines, Hermits, St Bernard, Cistercian, Hildegarde, Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroeck, The Cloud of Unknowing, Imitation of Christ etc.
Faith and Fact Books: 40
VG hardback with no jacket.
$10 C/A
Burns & Oates 1961, 144pp.
[#5081 ]
A look at the state of affairs in world markets and the opportunities for investing in them, from the perspective of the post-war period as at 1928.
finance, capitalism, investing, USA, Europe, United Kingdom, Canada
VG cloth bound hardback with no dust jacket.
$10 C/C
A W Shaw & Co 1928 first edition, vii 224pp
[#5082 ]
Account of Operation Diadem by one who took part, culminating in the Fall of Rome.
ISBN 071341152X
second world war, Italy, Italian campaign
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
$15 C/C
Batsford 1969 first edition, 224pp + plates.
[#5083 ]
The story of The Jackal, a pro-Palestine terrorist active in Europe in the 1970s as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos.
Probably trained by the KGB, Carlos was involved in many of the 1970s worst terrorist incidents.
ISBN 0030194814
arab terrorism, Cold War, hijacking, Orly, Mohammed Boudia, Japanese Red Army, Black September, Munich olympics
VG hardback (but paper age browning) in G+ dust jacket with soem edge wear, chipping and short tears.
$10 C/C
Holt Rinehart 1977 first edition, 312pp + plates.
[#5084 ]
The importance of the Atonement in the Christian faith and theology.
ISBN 0853641765
christianity, the passion, soteriology, salvation
VG softback, corners have been tape strengthened.
$10 C/C
Paternoster Press 1979, 454pp.
[#5085 ]
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work.
The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor.
With blazing intensity, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free.
Translated by R. J. Hollingdale
ISBN 9780140441185
philosophy, existentialist
G+ paperback, some reading creases to covers.
$9 C/B
Penguin Classics 2003, 343pp.
[#5073 ]
This book is all you need to know about getting in touch with Archangel Raphael, and outlines the many ways he can help you in your own life.
Virtue shows you why Archangel Raphael has long been regarded as the healing angel, a nondenominational miracle worker who helps everyone who asks.
Discover how Raphael guides current and aspiring healers, as well as how he can help your friends and loved ones
ISBN 9781401924737
faith healing, angels, light work, prayer, new age angel healing
VG softback
$15 C/B
Hay House 2010 first edition, 177pp.
[#5074 ]
Watea Estate in the Manukau Harbour was absorbed by Auckland Airport in 1965, but before then was a community of farms situated near the Auckland Aero Club, Mangere Aerodrome and later RNZAF Mangere (1939-1944).
ISBN 0473102382
Westney, Te Wiroa Island, Westney Road Church, Noakes Homestead
VG softback
$25 C/A
Mangere Historical Society 2005, 62pp + folding photo at rear.
[#5075 ]
A measured Christian overview of Spiritualist beliefs including evidences for Survival, seances, and immortality from a Spiritualist and a Christian viewpoint.
G+ softback with age toned wraps, minor foxing, inscription to first page.
$10 C/A
Student Christian Movement 1941, 94pp.
[#5076 ]
The Story of N.Z. Forest Products Ltd.
A Company history of the paper milling and wood products firm.
ISBN 0340245443
VG hardback in VG dustjacket, with name to fep.
$35 C/C
Hodder 1982 first edition, 219pp + plates.
[#5077 ]
Studies in Public Administration No 16.
Essays on Pacific geopolitics etc.
politics, trade, foreign aid, development, pasifika, urbanisation
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with some wear
$15 C/B
New Zealand Institute of Public Administration 1970 first edition,125pp.
[#5078 ]
Edited by Svend Larsen, translated by R P Keigwin, with illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Froelich.
Nice 14x10 cm format, being 1 vol of a 4 vol set.
Hans Christian Andersen, original fairy tales
G+ cloth hardback, some surface rubbing, closed edges soiled.
$15 A/B
Flensted 1962 (reprint of 1950 original edition), 394pp+ col. frontis. port. of Andersen
[#5061 ]
Towards the Definition of Buddhist Thought.
Essays by Walpola Rahula.
ISBN 0900406690
buddhism, buddhist philosophy
VG hardback in VG dut jacket
$45 C/C
Gordon Fraser 1978 first edition, 160pp.
[#5062 ]
Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Basham MBE) broadcast each morning to the women and housewives of NZ from 1930 to 1963.
Her half-hour morning show was to promote household products, and later helped boost morale during WWII.
She also published seven cookbooks.
recipes, home economics, cookery
VG- softback, cover slightly creased, mild surface rubbing
$10 C/B
Hodder 1981, vi 218pp
[#5063 ]
Society and the Good Man in the writings of Philip Rieff, Norman Brown, Erich Fromm and Erik Erikson.
Can psychoanalysis provide man with a contemporary ideology?
ethics, morals, pschoanalysis, psychology
G+ softback, light cover wear
$10 C/B
Delta 1975, 266pp
[#5064 ]
Edited by Svend Larsen, translated by R P Keigwin, with illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen.
Nice 14x10 cm format, being the first volume of a 4 vol set.
Hans Christian Andersen, original fairy tales
VG- cloth hardback, some surface rubbing.
$15 A/B
Edmund Ward 1950 (British edition), 394pp + col. frontis. port. of Andersen
[#5065 ]
Moir's Guide Book to the Tramping Tracks and Routes of the Great Southern Lakes and Fiords of Otago and Southland. (Northern Section)
Reprint of the edition revised by W. Scott Gilkison and A. H. Hamilton, edited for the NZ Alpine Club by Chandler.
new zealand, outdoors, tramping, sport, southland, fiordland
G+ softback, cream covers show grubbiness from handling soiling.
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1961, xiv 94pp + plates and adverts.
[#5066 ]
A young adult story about a magnificent Stag who is hunted by wild dogs, a deer farmer, and a determined deer stalker.
The finale of the trilogy Fawn, Stag and White Patch
Illustrated by Bob Kerr.
ISBN 0340279893
deer, hunting, fiction, story
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1981 first edition, 144pp.
[#5067 ]
Murphet recounts some of the achievements of one of the most impressive men of miracles to appear in centuries, Satya Sai Baba.
His followers believe him to be a reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi who died in 1918, appears to have been born with phenomenal powers, which he used in childhood and has employed constantly and openly ever since.
They include all the varieties of E.S.P. and psychokinesis known to psychic science and more besides.
The author, a Westerner devoted to science and logic, spent many months with Satya Said Baba, and claims to have found that his unscientific, illogical miracles were, in fact, genuine yogic siddhis.
He found, too, that along with Christ-like miraculous powers went a Christ-like love, compassion and the God-knowledge that opens the door to a new vision of life.
ISBN 0877283354
Satya Sai Baba, Brindavanam, spiritual teacher, 20th century, faith healer, ashram
G+ softback, spine leans, some sruface rubbing, name at front.
$15 C/B
Weiser 1978 second impression, 208pp + index.
[#5068 ]
Simpson "Sam" Guillen originally played for the West Indies, but during the 1951-52 Tour of Australasia he decided to emigrate to New Zealand, where he continued his career in local and national Test Cricket.
Compiled by Carey Clement and edited by Sally van Beek.
ISBN 9780473100452
sport, biography, memoir, West Indian
VG+ softback.
$25 C/B
Old Sausage Publishers Ltd 2005 first edition, 102pp.
[#5069 ]
The Text of an extended diary-style letter written in the month of the Poet's Birthday, January 1930.
Hand set and printed by the Nag's Head Press in an edition of 220 numbered copies.
private press, new zealand literature, limited edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, Christ's College School Prize Plate awarded to S. E. Dickie in 1987 at front is tipped on along the top edge only.
$35 C/B
Nag's Head Press 1986 first edition, 47pp.
[#5070 ]
A centennial history of the Webb family of Cromwell and their orchard, Stonehurst.
ISBN9780473302504
otago, family history, John Robert Webb, Florence Harris, genealogy
VG+ softback
$20 C/B
Ainsley Webb 2014 first edition, 135pp illustrated throughout.
[#5071 ]
Anthology of Australian and New Zealand colonial verse, poems, bush ballads and songs.
A. B. Paterson (Banjo Paterson) -F. W. L. Adams -Emma F. Anderson -George Barrington -Alexander Bathgate -Thomas Bracken -Thomas Browne -Ada Cambridge -G. J. Carmichael -Ethel Castilla -Alfred T. Chandler -Marcus Clark -Robert Crawford -Alpha Crusis -J. L. Cuthbertson -V. J. Daley -D. H. Deniehy -Alfred Dommett -G. E. Evans -John Farrell -Barron Field -Mary Hannay Foott -William Forster -William Gay -Keighly Goodchild -A. L. Gordon -Lesbia Hartford -Charles Harpur -Rev. J. Hebblethwaite -P. J. Holdsworth -J. L. Kelly -Henry Kendall -Rev. Dunmore Lange -Henry Lawson -Arthur Patchett Martin -Patrick Maloney -J. B. O'Reilly -Dowell O'Reilly -Sir Henry Parkes -Robert Richardson -J. B. Stephens -Sir Archibald Strong -H. B. Twisleton -Mary Colborn-Veel -W. C. Wentworth -W. R. Wills -Anne Glenny Wilson -Davie McKee Wright.
ISBN 0908001347
Victorian, British colonies, british literature, colonial culture
VG hardcover in G+ dust jacket with sun-fading one small tear and edge wear.
$20 C/D
Currawong Press 1982 first edition, 320pp.
[#5053 ]
A textbook for learning how to climb.
Improve your skills climbing rocks, ice, glaciers etc.
Written by a team of professional climbers and continuously revised, this book covers every aspect of climbing, from setting up camp, choosing the right gear, to advanced climbing techniques.
ISBN 9780898863093
VG softback
$25 C/C
The Mountaineers 1992 5th edition, 447pp.
[#5054 ]
Bultmann claims to have produced a Gospel free of myth.
This book is an attempt to evaluate his theology, with particular emphasis on its challenge to the preacher.
Discusses Heidegger, ontology, John Macquarrie, H. W. Bartsch, existential vs. mythical faith.
christian theology, philosophy
VG hardback with no jacket.
Minor foxing, pencil to first page.
$10 C/C
SCM Press 1960 first edition, 232pp.
[#5055 ]
A Tale of Australian Bush Life.
Introduction by P.D. Edwards and with illustrations by Rod Waters.
deluxe, decorative binding
VG hardback in VG slipcase.
$15 C/C
The Folio Society 1998 first edition, 98pp.
[#5056 ]
What happened to European women after they arrived in the raw colony?
From their letters, diaries and cookbooks, the story of Colonial Women emerges.
Recording their struggles to find housing, food and friends, we learn how they kept food fresh without a refrigerator, how illnesses were treated without antibiotics and how they found entertainment without radio, tv or movies.
Pioneering women worked hard, often at backbreaking tasks like washing clothes without running water (let alone hot) or humping heavy iron cooking pots, and yet they recounted their happenings with humour and incredible optimism.
Some of their problems were unique: keeping the yeast alive, churning butter from pigeon fat, storing candles where rats would not eat them.
Other problems are the same as women face today: bearing loneliness and isolation, coping with culinary disasters, having the right clothes for the occasion and finding time to read.
ISBN 045602980X
domestic economy, women's history, colonial household
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and tape repair to reverse of spine.
Title page has top corner clipped off and the date 1982 in ink at bottom corner.
$20 C/C
Methuen 1982 first edition, 179pp.
[#5057 ]
Neva Clarke McKenna was too embarrassed and afraid to tell the story of her experiences as a clerical secretary in Italy during the Second World War.
With her participation in the award-winning film War Stories she raised the courage to write her own personal account, revealing herself as the person she was in her wartime diaries.
This is the experience of one ordinary NZ girl and how the war changed her life forever as she worked close to the NZ men in Italy, close to the killing, the wounding and the surviving.
It could be the story of many women, women who were once young girls whose lives crumbled with disillusionment, whose choices were stolen from them by the fact of war, yet who picked up the pieces and got on with life because there was no alternative.
ISBN 9780908884858
women's history, biography, 2nzef, wwii
VG- softback, some marks to cover, name at front.
$10 C/B
Tandem Press 1996 first edition, 176pp + photos.
[#5058 ]
Poems by Rewi Alley.
china, communist party, pacifist
G+ softback in faded stapled covers.
Name and address on verso of title, some minor insect damage to a few page corners.
$10 A/A
Caxton Press 1967 first edition, 25pp.
[#5059 ]
The true story of the war between Steve Tene and his father Carranza over the leadership of the Bimbo gypsy crime family.
ISBN 0224012525
gipsies, romany, roma, USA, crime, mafia, Chicago
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, inscription to first page.
$10 C/B
Cape 1976 first edition, 171pp.
[#5060 ]
A New Edition of the Murray Pocket Edition(1870).
Collects Lord Byron's works in small format books of 4x6 inches.
Childe Harold; Tales and Poems; Miscellanies (2 vols); Dramas (2 vols); Don Juan (2 vols).
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Poetry, English, 19th century
G- Each volume with rubber stamp of Waitaki Boys High School with F Milner as Rector.
Spines on some volumes missing sections.
Spine cloth on all volumes severely sunfaded.
Internally tight and clean, good cadidate for quarter leather rebacking.
$80 C/D 2.5kg
John Murray 1873 first thus New Edition, each volume approx 350 pp.
[#5050 ]
Jesuit Catholic religious philosophy.
An English translation of L'abandon.
Translated by Algar Thorold.
Christian, Catholicism, French,
G+ contact sealed paperback, starts with title page, paper stock age browned.
$8 A/B
Fontana 1971, 160pp.
[PB1699 ]
The work of potter, artist, craftsperson, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell.
Essays by David Craig and Gregory O'Brien and with both newly commissioned photographs by Haru Sameshima and historic images.
An essay by David Craig sketches out Brickell's history and career, then takes us through crucial themes, preoccupations and forms in his work, from sustaining domesticware to the influences of the medieval grotesque and Pacific and Sepik motifs; from realistic murals to bodily 'morphs'.
Brickell's personal preoccupations with energy and engineering, the body and conservation, are made clear.
His most well-known forms, for example, the 'spiromorphs', are large-scale spiral creations built from coiled clay, which twist and unfold in curves that parallel the spirals of his railway.
ISBN 9781869407636
nz art, pottery, ceramics, glass, monograph
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$75 D/D
Auckland University Press 2013 first edition, 217pp
[#5051 ]
An overview of the important craft artists of the period of the 1960s.
With text and monochrome photographs by Peter Cape, and colour photographs by Steve Rumsey.
David Brokenshire - potter, Len Castle - potter, Roy Cowan - potter and lithographer, Harry and May Davis - potters, Jack Laird - potter, Patricia Perrin - potter, Jeff Scholes- potter, Mirek Smisek- potter, Peter Stichbury - potter, Jim Allen -sculptor, Tany Ashken -sculptor and silversmith, Paul Beadle- sculptor and silversmith, Alison Duff - sculptor, Peter Janssen - sculptor metal and glassworker, Molly Macalister - sculptor, John Middleditch - sculptor, Greer Twiss - sculptor, Kobi Bosshard- jeweller, Jens Hansen - silversmith and jeweller, Guenter Taemmeler- goldsmith, Zena Abbott- weaver, Karin Wakely- weaver, Frank Finan- glass and ceramic worker.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some tape across top of spine and over a closed tear to back cover.
$20 C/C
Collins 1969 first edition, 173pp.
[#5052 ]
The History of the North Beach Surf Life Saving Club 1916-2016.
North New Brighton Beach, Christchurch.
ISBN9780473375287
swimming, beach culture, New Brighton, Brighton, Life Guards, club history
VG+ softback
$45 B/C
North Beach Surf Life Saving Club 2016 first edition, 240pp.
[#5048 ]
Ferguson, a shepherd, emigrated to Otago from Scotland in the 1870s and published some volumes of poetry and opened a bookshop.
Contents:
Prologue
Natural and Descriptive Themes
Historical and Heroic Themes
Humorous and Satirical Themes
Ballad and Lyrical Themes
Elegiac and Reflective Themes.
19th century, poetry, scots, scottish, colonial new zealand poetry
VG- mild wear, occassional faint foxing.
$40 C/C
James Horsburgh, Dunedin 1897 first edition, vii 232pp + frontis, errata.
[#5049 ]
New Age inspirational poetry in the vein of Kahlil Gibran, by a prominent re-birther.
ISBN 0959793011
Illustrated by Joy Pearce.
With the AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION in 5 lines facing the half-title.
Signed by Author
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Total Press Ltd 1990 First Edition, 72pp.
[#5045 ]
A memoir of time spent as the wife of the lighthouse keeper of Stephens Island in the Marlborough Sounds.
The island is most prominent as a nature reserve for tuatara and other endangered species.
ISBN9780908561872
coastal buildings, lighthouse, biography, Cook Strait, Takapourewa
VG- softback with mild crease to covers.
$20 C/B
Cape Catley Ltd. 2001 first edition, 228pp + plates.
[#3594/5046 ]
The sequel to Lighthouse Keeper's Wife.
Jeanette and her family has moved to Dog Island in Foveaux Strait, even more remote than Stephens Island, where they stayed for three years.
ISBN 9781877340093
Southland, Lighthouse Keeper
VG softback
$20 C/B
Cape Catley Ltd. 2007 first edition, 228pp + photographs.
[#5047 ]
A successful writer is held hostage by a captor unimpressed with his killing off of her favourite character, Misery Chastain, from his works.
ISBN 0340390700
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1987 first edition, 320pp
[#5041 ]
A rich portrait of Europe and its civilization in the 16th century - the moment when what had been known as Christendom first became Europe, an entity in the minds of its own inhabitants.
A gigantic portrait of the age, enlivened by a mass of detail about the lives of often obscure figures who Hale brings to life to give point to his multiplicity of arguments.
What precisely is meant by "civilization"?
How usefully descriptive of the period as a whole is "Renaissance"?
What, indeed, did "Italy" (for example) mean to contemporaries?
ISBN 0002153394
Europa, European history, heritage
VG softback
$35 C/D
HarperCollins 1993 first edition, 672pp.
[#5042 ]
A Centennial History of Piako County.
In the Kaimai Ranges, Piako County once included Matamata County. The three rivers Waihou, Waitoa and Piako flow through it.
ISBN 0868640018
regional history, Waikato.
THIS PRESENTATION COPY (#2747) has been signed by More to title page. A presentation plate, signed by the County Chairman and County Clerk, states this copy was presented to Robert Muldoon, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, at the Centennial Dinner function for the Counties of Piako, Waikato and Waipa. This plate is detached from where it was glued in, as the glue has dried out. It has left brown marks to the verso of the frontispiece.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly sunned spine.
$40 C/D
Wilson & Horton 1976, 366pp+ plates. [#2747]
VG hardback but lacks dust jacket. Names to free endpaper.
$25 C/D
Wilson & Horton 1976, 366pp+ plates. [#5044]
24 world famous trials recounted including; Edward Gibbon Wakefield (elopement and abduction etc) / Lizzie Borden / Roger Casement / The Battle of Taumatawiwi / Reichstag Fire / T G Wainewright.
An early NZ crime publication.
true crime, new zealand, international
VG softcover with stapled sheets in printed yapped edge wrapper of stiff card.
$35 A/B
Auckland: Oswald Sealy circa 1943, First Edition, 131pp.
[#5038 ]
Inspector Peroni investigates murder amongst the Gondoliers of Venice.
ISBN 0333318382
crime fiction, thriller
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Tidy ex-library copy, but with multiple stamps including to closed edges.
The unclipped dust jacket is slightly shorter than the boards and has a slightly sunned spine.
$10 C/B
MacMillan 1981 first edition, 223pp
[#5039 ]
After her husband, Flight Lieutenant Paul Gazley, was killed by an avalanche on Mt Cook, Karen recounts the many obstacles she overcame as part of her grieving, including summiting Mt Everest.
ISBN 9780958251501
new zealand, biography, faith, womens lives, mountaineering, Scottish highlands
VG softback, some soiling at top of cover.
SIGNED by the author.
$20 C/B
Nelligan Publishing 2004 first edition, 204pp + colour photo section.
[#5040 ]
New Zealander's involvement in the Australian Ford versus Holden V8 touring car series.
A strong look at New Zealand's involvement, including the drivers' and teams' stories, the fascination with Bathurst, and how the Ford v Holden battle, into its 13th year, has developed.
ISBN 9781869710606
Greg Murphy, Steven Richards, Paul Radisich, Bathurst 1000, Jason Richards, Simon Wills, Craig Baird, Jimmy and Ross Stone, Marcus Ambrose, motorsport, car racing
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 B/D
Hodder Moa 2006 first edition, 216pp.
[#5032 ]
Includes discussion of Hindu- Muslim affairs and the successes of Gandhi.
British Raj, Empire, India, independence movement
VG hardback with no jacket.
Sunned spine, edge wear, name to fep
$10 C/B
Victor Gollancz / Left Book Club Edition 1943 first edition, 223pp.
[#5033 ]
Indian Monism and Western thought + Indian Idealist Metaphysics.
G- hardback with G- dust jacket chipped with loss.
Book foxed throughout.
$10 C/B
Rider undated (1950s?) 7th impression, 48pp
[#5034 ]
G- hardback with no dust jacket chipped with loss.
Book foxed throughout.
$10 C/B
Rider undated (1950s?) 7th impression, 48pp
[#35 ]
A modern English translation of Plato's Socratic dialogue concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state and man.
Discusses the Platonic theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society.
Politeia, Kallipolis, Allegory of the Cave, timocracy, oligarchy, plutocracy, democracy, tyranny
VG hardback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Heron Press undated (1970s) gilt decorated leatherette, xl 325pp
[#5036 ]
A reconstruction of the events culminating in the atrocity of the Black Hole at Calcutta during the Indian Mutiny of 1756.
British Empire, Raj, East Indian Company, siege of Calcutta
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$8 C/B
Readers Union 1966 hard cover, 254pp.
[#5023 ]
A Veteran Newsman in Pursuit of Noah's Ark
Mount Ararat, Noah's ark, Turkey
G- hardback with G- dust jacket, chipped and rubbed.
$8 C/C
Pacific Press 1974 first edition hard cover, 207pp + plates.
[#5024 ]
The History of the First 25 Years of Round Table in New Zealand.
Limited to 100 numbered copies.
Spine title reads 'The Migratory Habits of the Lesser Spotted Kiwi'.
THIS COPY includes ephemera from the Twenty-first Anniversary Dinner, 1974.
VG softback
$25 C/C
Christchurch Printing Co Ltd 1979 first edition, 216pp.
[#5025 ]
Practical Chinese medicine and health, a blending of modern Western and Traditional Chinese medicine including acupuncture, massage and herbal remedies.
ISBN 0517474212
naturopathy, nature cure, holistic
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$35 B/D (2kg)
Gramercy/ Crown 1985, xxi 959pp.
[#5026 ]
A social history of New Zealand women of the nineteen-thirties.
ISBN 0589013750
gender studies, great depression, suffrage
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly sun faded spine.
$15 B/C
Reed 1981 first editon, 165pp.
[#5027 ]
Frank Alack was a pioneer guide at both the Hermitage and Fox Glacier, and has climbed many of New Zealand's famous peaks, guided both eager tourists and experienced climbers, and survived snow storms and avalanches.
Eventually, marriage to Dora Deal, a well known violinist from Christchurch, started to tug him away from his beloved mountains. But he never lost his active love of Nature.
Time and again he returned to the hills, and finally succeeded in visiting the Antarctic, just as in his youth he had reached the Arctic.
Edited By Les B Quartermain
autobiography, outdoors, mountaineering, climbing, guiding, Southern Alps
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, former owner name stamp to free end paper
$20 C/B
New Zealand Books/ Dunmore Press 1974 first edition, 220pp + plates
[#5028 ]
The Christian Bible in New Zealand Maori translation, no English.
te reo, christian
VG hardback with no dust jacket
$30 C/C
British and Foreign Bible Society 1968, 939+293pp
[#5029 ]
An account of Theseus' life including his encounter in the Minoan Labyrinth on Crete.
Written on the assumption Theseus was an actual Athenian King.
modern first edition, ancient greece, classical mythology, europa
VG hardback with VG dust jacket, some handling soiling.
$15 C/C
Longman 1962 first edition, 373pp
[#5030 ]
Classic British children's fiction from the early Twentieth Century.
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket.
Jacket has wear to edges and peice missing from head of spine.
On the reverse of the free endpaper map is a long pen inscription.
$10 C/C
Jonathan Cape 1962 reprint, 351pp.
[#5031 ]
A changing stock of individual titles of these well produced and bound classics.
Limp red leatherette cloth, some have top page edges gilt.
Quality paper, some on thinner rice paper.
11x16 cm.
Originally issued in a display/ travel case.
Image is represenatitve only.
modern literature, classics, deluxe, collectable set
VG sewn softbacks with flexible cloth/ leatherette.
$15 A/B
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, undated, various paginations.
Currently available;
Louisa M. Alcott - Little Women
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
R M Ballantyne - Coral Island
R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
Mrs. Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers
Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
Victor Hugo - Toilers of the Sea
Captain Marryat - Mr. Midshipman easy
Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
W. M. Thackery - Vanity Fair
Izaak Walton and Cotton - The Compleat Angler
[Gordon Classic Library box ]
King Arthur and the Legends of The Round Table, a new rendition by Keith Baines with an introduction by Robert Graves.
[MQ415]
King Arthur, British race, romance literature
VG paperback
$9 A/B
Mentor Classic 1962 first edition, 512pp
[PB1697 ]
ISBN 0860070255
fantasy, horror, eldritch, supernatural fantasy
VG- paperback with sunned spine, stamp to title page
$7 A/B
Futura paperback 1974
[PB1698 ]
An autobiographical account of climbs in the European Alps; Dolomites, Mont Blanc, and the Himalayas; Kangchenjunga, Kamet and Everest.
climbing, mountaineering, twentieth century
G hardback with G+ dust jacket, trimmed to vertical edges of flaps.
Ex library cancellation, with reading wear, stamps etc.
$15 C/C
Dent 1949 reprint, 228pp + plates.
[#5019 ]
The first ascent of the South-West Face of Everest.
G hardback with VG- unclipped dust jacket tidy under plastic sleeve.
Repair to spine joint, tape residue to endpapers with some offset to the first plate.
$15 CB/D
ISBN 0340208333 Hodder 1976 first edition 4to hard cover, 239pp + colour plates.
[#5020 ]
VG- paperback with reading crease to spine, name to fep
$6 A/B
ISBN 0099159406 Arrow 1977, 352pp + col. plts.
[#1155/1302 ]
Yellow Jacket
thriller, vintage
VG- softback with sewn sheets in printed wrapper.
Splits at joint ends, light dust soiling, occasional minor spots of foxing
$10 C/B
Hodder 1952 first printing in this edition, 255pp
[#5021 ]
Yellow Jacket
western, thriller, vintage
VG- softback with sewn sheets in printed wrapper.
minor splitting at spine ends, general reading wear
$10 C/B
Hodder 1953 first printing in this edition, 190pp.
[#5022 ]
Ian Middleton's first novel, shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1980.
ISBN 0908578156
ww2, wwii, Auckland, fiction
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with faintly sunned spine.
$20 C/C
Alister Taylor 1979 first edition, 208pp
[#1125 ]
VG softback.
$10 C/B
ISBN 0790001381
Heinemann Reed 1990, Pacific Writers Series, 188pp
[#5001 ]
Themes include Freud and Jung.
ISBN 0196480337
VG- softback.
$10 C/B
Oxford University Press 1985 First Edition, 76pp.
[#5002 ]
Number 1 in the Stories and Drawings series, this collection of ten short stories by O E Middleton is illustrated by Ralph Hotere.
VG softback.
Closed edges slightly foxed.
$25 C/B
Square and Circle 1972 first edition 112pp.
[#2418/5003 ]
Mulgan's novel about the inter-war period and the Great Depression, and the character of a returned soldier from the trenches, a 'man alone' in a harsh world.
Mulgan reveals the facts of the time, a mean-spirited capitalism, a country without a sense of community, [which] his Maori [characters], as much as Pakeha, looked at dead straight.
depression, social commentary, Spanish Civil War, masculinity
VG softback
$20 C/B
Longman Paul 1975 reprint, 207pp.
[#5004 ]
Collection of poems by Christchurch born author.
VG- softback.
$15 C/A
Pegasus Press 1973 first edition, 59pp.
[#2569/5005 ]
Poems by Cilla McQueen.
ISBN 0868680680
VG- softback with sunned spine and spine half of wrappers
$10 C/A
John McIndoe 1984 first edition, 48pp.
[#2423 ]
VG softback
$15 C/A
John McIndoe 1984 first edition, 48pp.
[#5006 ]
Poems; with prints by John Drawbridge.
ISBN 0195580478
VG soft cover with light handling soiling to wrappers.
$15 C/A
Oxford University Press 1980 first edition, 44pp + plates
[#2219/5007 ]
Poems.
ISBN 0195580907
VG softback
$15 B/B
Oxford University Press 1982 first edition, 63pp+ plates.
[#2572/5008 ]
In this superb collection of tales, Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance come together to form a fascinating, deep-seated and powerful interpretation of British history.
The tales include the story of the shape-shifter, Gwydion, who created a woman out of flowers; a murdered husband turned into an eagle; Math the magician; a magical board, dragons witches and giants.
ISBN 9780460872973
wales, welsh, myth, pagan,heathen
VG paperback
$9 C/B
Dent Everyman Library 1998, xxxi 240pp
[#5011 ]
In this seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way of dealing with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.
Tracing this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling.
Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism.
ISBN 9780141187426
middle east, cultural studies, arab, palestine
VG paperback, pen gift inscription to first page.
$10 C/B
Penguin Modern Classics 2003, xxv 396pp.
[#5012 ]
The second instalment of Shadbolt's New Zealand Wars trilogy.
Set in 1845 and the conflict between Maori factions, and the newly constituted authority of Queen Victoria in the land.
Preceeded by Season of the Jew.
ISBN 9780340549018
VG softback, spine faintly sunned
$10 C/B
Sceptre (Hodder) 1991 first thus edition, 308pp.
[#5013 ]
Translated from the German version of Franz Kuhn.
Also known as 'The Prayer Mat of Flesh', a classic Taoist pillow book in novel format, teaching of the dangers of excessive carnality.
tao, daoism, chinese, philosophy, history, tantra
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket, chipped and worn to edges.
$20 C/C
Deutsch 1965 first thus, 296pp.
[#4994 ]
A true story of survival in which Rod Ansell struggled to survive on his own in one of the most isolated corners of Australia for two months before he is rescued.
ISBN 0868191620
Northern Territory, Kununurra, outback, survival, bush,
VG softback, spine slightly sunfaded
$10 C/B
Currency Press 1986, 144pp.
[#4995 ]
A History of the Christchurch School of Nursing 1891-1987.
Well illustrated throughout.
ISBN 0473046768
nurses, RN, department of health
VG softback
Small pen name and small newspaper obituary of the author pasted to title page.
$35 B/C
Nursing History Christchurch Charitable Trust 1997 first edition, 111pp.
[#4997 ]
Fascinating history of the gold rushes in Otago and Southland.
Very well illustrated with photographs.
ISBN 0908629044
Preservation Inlet, Waiau, Orepuki, Round Hill, Mataura, Nokomai, Waikaia, Golden Site mine, Morning Star battery, quartz
G+ softback with name and address to spine edge of cover and first page.
$20 B/B
Craig Printing 1986, 76pp.
[#4999 ]
A new work by Gertrude, two-thirds of which is revised material from Isle of the Glowing Skies and The Little World of Stewart Island.
The landscape, the wildlife, and the people of Rakiura.
Foveaux Strait, Oban, Paterson Inlet, Port Pegasus, Mason Bay
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Reed 1967 First Edition, 208pp + plates, pictorial endpapers.
[#4983 ]
A guide book issued by the Education Rehabilitation Service of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East in World War Two to familiarise the troops with the culture and society of the countries they were fighting in.
Illustrated by S. M. Williams. 2 N.Z.E.F.
ww11, ww2, anzac
VG softback, sewn newsprint signatures glued into pictorial wrappers.
Contemporary ink name on contents page.
$25 C/B
Education Rehabilitation Service (1946) 91pp +4 plates
[#4984 ]
A guide book issued by the Education Rehabilitation Service of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Italian campaign, an introduction to Italian culture and society.
Illustrated by S. M. Williams. 2 N.Z.E.F.
ww11, ww2, anzac
VG softback, sewn newsprint signatures glued into pictorial wrappers.
Contemporary ink name on first page.
$25 C/B
Education Rehabilitation Service (1945) 123pp + 8 plates
[#4985 ]
Poetry by the author of The Bone People.
ISBN 086473042X
verse, modern poetry
VG softback, old pen price to first page.
$10 C/B
Victoria University Press 1985 reprint, 56pp.
[#4986 ]
Being a talk given by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji for seekers after truth.
VG stapled cover softback.
Name to inside wrapper, crease to rear corner.
$5 C/A
Sawan Kirpal Publications 1983, 32pp.
[#4987 ]
Riddles of ancient science.
Covers areas including ancient maps (Piri Reis etc), Astronomical anomalies, electricity and anti-gravity in antiquity, space flight , robots and automata, prediction and prophecy, Saint Germain and Nicholas Roerich.
ISBN 028562007X
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Souvenir 1971 first edition, 224pp + plates.
[#4988 ]
This compelling memoir written by a quietly heroic author, provides insight both into the mind of the author and the prevailing attitudes of wartime Britain and Europe.
Mulgan traces the path to World War II and the widespread reluctance of the population to accept the reality of hostilities.
Mulgan was appalled by the inaction of his peers and superiors, and by the weak and unrealistic reactions to aggression.
ISBN 0195581105
ww2, wwii, north africa, greece, anzac, politics of the second world war
VG softback
$10 C/B
Oxford University Press 1984, xii 150pp.
[#4974 ]
Three sequences of poems.
Nice book production.
ISBN 0909185093
new zealand, australian, poetry
VG- stapled softback, mild water mark to edge of cover.
$10 B/B
South Head Press 1981 first edition, 36pp.
[#4975 ]
Elephant handling in Burma.
By the author of Elephant Bill.
illustrations by Henry C Pitz
elephant workers
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with short edge tears, blank Book Society plate to fep.
Faint foxing to closed edges.
$8 C/C
Hart Davis 1953 first edition, 251pp
[#4976 ]
Huna magicians of Hawaii.
ISBN 0875160476
kahuna, magic, new thought,
G+ softback with covers rubbed, whited out name to title page
$15 C/C
DeVorss 1981 soft cover, x 408pp.
[#4977 ]
Left wing political take on the trend of post war government, policies and morals in war-ravaged Europe, and how the inhumane treatment of German civilians bodes ill for the future.
ww2, wwii, politics, cold war, post war, post war germany, allied war crimes
VG- hardback with no jacket.
Spine tail rubbed, age browned paper stock.
$30 C/B
Victor Gollancz / Left Book Club Edition 1946 first edition, 157pp.
[#4978 ]
A fascinating history of Canterbury's "River of Cold Rushing Water" and the people and settlements along it's course.
ISBN 0473005204
regional history, Springfield, Sheffield, Arthurs Pass, Torlesse, Porters Pass, Otira, Arthurs Pass National Park
VG hardback but this copy LACKS the dust jacket.
$45 D/D
Robert Logan 1987 first edition, 188pp + colour photographs
[#4979 ]
English translation of the German play based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Marat' as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade.
The published text allows the reader to see how skilfully Weiss has dramatised the paradox of de Sade, a black saint whose humanity must be set against the horrors of his imagination.
ISBN 9780714503615
theatre, playscript, modern theatre
VG paperback.
$10 C/B
Marion Boyars 2006, 124pp
With new introduction for students.
ISBN 9780714503615
[#4980 ]
VG- softback, some spotting to wrappers.
$10 C/B
Calder 1969, 124pp
[#1605 ]
The definitive history of the nineteenth century Westland gold boom and the subsequent expansion of the communities with the influx of miners , their families, and the merchants and publicans needed to supply them.
westland, 19th century, gold mining
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some wear, tears and minor edge chips.
$75 C/C
Pegasus Press 1962 first edition, 588pp + plates.
[#4966 ]
The definitive history of the nineteenth century Westland gold boom and the subsequent expansion of the communities with the influx of miners , their families, and the merchants and publicans needed to supply them.
westland, 19th century, gold mining
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor wear and one tape repaired chip to corner.
$75 C/C
Pegasus Press 1967, revised second edition, 560pp + plates.
[#4967 ]
The Humane Agenda.
How society can be compassionate to the less fortunate and economically feasible for all.
Galbraith outlines what he believes are necessary goals for society and discusses how these goals can best be achieved.
ISBN1856195090
ethics, economics, global economy, globalism
VG paperback
$15 C/B
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd 1996 first edition, 152pp.
[#4968 ]
After discussing the Old Religions and Christianity, Findlay discusses the reformation in belief brought by Jesus.
Next, Findlay advocates another Reformation, based on Spiritualist beliefs.
Part of the trilogy begun with On the Edge of the Etheric and completed by The Unfolding Universe.
In print almost continually since 1933.
survival, spiritualism, etheric body, communication with the dead, mediumship
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Spine on slight slant, some handling wear.
$25 C/C
Psychic Press 1968, 336pp.
[#4969 ]
G+ paperback, cover wear, age browning, opens flat at centre.
$10 C/B
ISBN 0947823042
Spiritualist's National Union 1986, 320pp.
[#576 ]
New Zealand's unspoken legacy of the Second World War.
In thi book seven of the more than 10,000 Kiwi veterans who have received pensions for psychiatric disorders finally talk about their post-war lives.
ISBN 9780908884674
ww2, wwii, new zealand soldiers, ptsd
VG softback THIS COPY with a signed presentation inscription by the author.
$30 C/B
Tandem Press 1995, 200pp.
[#4970 ]
The autobiography of Paul Owen, an award-winning motoring journalist and motorsport author.
The chief editor for New Zealand Autocar Magazine.
ISBN 9780958238878
motoring, motor sport
VG softback, small gift inscription on the inside front cover.
$20 C/B
Phantom House Books 2005 first edition, 192pp + plates.
[#4971 ]
Alan Sayers recounts the most interesting news stories from his career as a ground-breaking photo journalist.
ISBN 9780473280185
new zealand history,
VG softback
$25 C/C
Alan Sayers 2014 first edition, 288pp.
[#4972 ]
A biography of the author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famously persecuted by Stalinist Russia, who fictionalised his experiences in his novels.
ISBN 0349104433
russia, literature, cold war, soviet, stalin
G+ paperback
$8 C/B
Abacus 1973 soft cover 445pp+ plates
[#4949 ]
Mark Thewliss and his fianceboard the nine ton cutter Sea Flower to practise for a thrilling race on the sea.
A romantic story examining the lives of young 1920s socialites.
VG- cloth hardback, some edge foxing towards rear pages.
$25 C/B
Hodder 1930 first edition, 312+8pp adverts
[#4950 ]
A novel about the relationships between six people which deals with so many daring themes for its time.
British, fiction, first edition
G+ cloth hardback, top of fep clipped, joints rubbed, spine ends frayed.
$10 C/C
Chatto 1930 first edition, 318pp
[#4951 ]
A history of the Jewish banking family.
central banks, fiat currency, globalism
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some wear
$10 C/B
Readers Union 1963 first thus, 264pp
[#4952 ]
One of the Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature.
With The Gentle Maiden and The Landlady.
Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth.
Nice red leatherette gilt decorated, marker ribbon.
uniform edition, decorative, decor,
VG hardback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Heron Press (1970s?) 308pp + illustrations.
[#4953 ]
A Guide to customer-service excellence for New Zealanders
ISBN 0908610955
sales, marketing,
VG softback but has highlighting
$5 C/B
David Bateman 1989, 93pp
[#4956 ]
John Walker and 1976 Olympic Games.
Author Agnew followed John Walker to the Olympics, and his world record running at Goteberg.
athletics, track and field, running
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket, taped tear at top edge of front panel.
School prize presentation plate to free end paper.
$10 C/C
Marketforce Ltd 1976 first edition, 205pp + plates
[#4957 ]
An exhaustive survey and history of the Waitaki River catchment and the communities and infrastructure of the area.
ISBN 0473000806
north otago, south canterbury, regional history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Waitaki Lakes Committee 1981 first edition, xvii 169pp.
[#4959 ]
Autobiography by New Zealand's greatest pioneer aviator.
Jean Batten flew immense distances in record times and helped establish what later became airline routes.
This new edition is revised from her 1938 My Life.
ISBN 0906393019
aviation, long distance flights, new zealand, women, female pilots.
THIS COPY IS SIGNED with a presentation inscription by Jean, dated 1980.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$55 C/C
Technical Books 1979 first thus revised edition, 190pp + plates.
[#4960 ]
The story of the rare Chatham Island Black Robin and the program that brough it back from the brink of extinction.
The Black Robin was nearly extinct, reduced to one breeding pair, when the program described in this book was was put into effect.
The innovative techniques used by the team responsible for this effort are described in detail and will allow wildlife biologists around the world to adopt similar strategies suited to their own needs.
The book's co-authors participated in the black robin program.
ISBN 9780195582604
ornithology, chatham islands, conservation, DOC, rare bird
VG softback, THIS COPY SIGNED by Don Merton.
$95 C/C
Oxford University Press 1992 first edition, 294pp.
[#4961 ]
An illustrated social history of the suburb of Beckenham, which began to be developed in the early 20th century.
ISBN 0473020769
christchurch, regional history, suburbs
VG- softback
$30 C/B
Beckenham Neighbourhood Association 1993 first edition, 110pp.
[#4962 ]
Paparua County is situated to the west of Christchurch, including Prebbleton, Broadfield, Templeton, Weedons, West Melton and Hornby.
ISBN 0908868154
canterbury plains, local history
VG softback, ownership stamp to first page.
$30 C/B
Canterbury Public Library 1990, xvi 127pp.
[#4963 ]
Twenty three essays on topics relevant to the Lake and surrounding ecosystems.
ISBN 0473029074
Conservation, natural resources, environmental protection, ecology
VG- softback
$30 C/B
Lincoln University Press 1994, 134pp.
[#4964 ]
A history of New Zealand's West Coast Irish.
From the 1860s, the West Coast's two major goldfields attracted hopefuls from all over the world, including Irish miners, many of whom stayed on after the goldrushes as part of a community with its own distinctive character.
This is the first study on the history of those Irish; where they came from, who they were, how many women came and what they did, how people sustained their family connections, what they believed in the context of the history of the larger Irish diaspora.
ISBN 9781877372445
immigrants, gold mines, mining, Ireland, emigration, westland, colonial
VG softback
$30 C/B
Otago University Press 2007 first edition, 203pp.
[#4965 ]
Wilson's account of his experience in the field at the Somme, Arras, Messines and Ypres, where he was an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
Wilson travelled from New Zealand to Great Britain to secure a commission.
From the library of military historian Vincent Orange with his bookplate on front pastedown.
ww1, wwi, Passchendaele, Lys, Canal du Nord, 116 Siege Battery
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has minor edge wear.
$75 C/B
Keeling & Mundy (1954) first edition, 115pp+ photos and maps.
[#4944 ]
A study in political drama as expressed in William Shakespeare's plays.
With a foreword by Gunnar Boklund and a good bibliography of sources.
ISBN 087081009X
theatre, plays, Elizabethan England, royalty, criticism
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket which is a bit handling soiled.
$20 C/B
Colorado Associated University Press 1971 first edition, xiii 138pp.
[#4945 ]
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare retold by Marchette Chute in detailed summary.
All the plays of the First Folio, thirty-six comedies, tragedies and histories.
A nicely produced book.
synopsis, prose, shakespeare in summary
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Some old faint tape rust to paste downs.
$20 C/C
John Murray 1963, 351pp.
[#4946 ]
A companion volume to Professor Wall's New Zealand English
Preface: "This little book is a reprint, with some necessary modifications, of the articles which have appeared in [newspapers] since July 1935".
Wall was an expert on how New Zealand's British English language was evolving over time.
G+ softback stapled through spine.
lacks title page, and rear advertising page is glued down to rear free end paper.
Cover price is 2/-
$8 A/B
Reed ( 1920s?)137pp.
[#4947 ]
70th Jubilee celebration historical publication for this area to the west of Timaru, New Zealand, 1867-1948, the era of the Pioneers.
Originally part of the Levels Station, extending from the Opihi River to the Pareora River.
Roxburgh, Rosebrook, Kingsborough, Hadlow Estate, Glengummel, Mount Horrible, South Canterbury, regional history
VG softback
$75 C/A
Timaru Herald 1948 first edition, 45pp+ plates.
[#4948 ]
Seven essays on various aspects of the province of Otago and its natural and human history.
regional history, physiography, climate, vegetation and soils, southland, fiordland
VG hardback with no jacket
$20 C/B
Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1948 first edition, 82pp + plates and folding map.
[#4936 ]
Details of Butler's residence at this High Country sheep-farming Run.
Together with Butler's Forest Creek Manuscript and his letters to Tripp and Acland.
Forest Creek, Mesopotamia Station, colonial, sheep station runs
VG stapled softback
$20 C/A
National Historic Places Trust with the Government Printer 1984 new printing with corrections, 66pp + illustrations etc.
[#4937 ]
A survey of the first hundred years of the iconic South Canterbury High Country sheep station.
canterbury history, rural, mustering, Samuel Butler, Prouting, Two Thumbs, forest Creek, Havelock River.
VG stapled softback with dust jacket.
Jacket has small chip from head of cover.
$45 C/A
Timaru Herald 1960 first edition, 55pp + plates.
[#4938 ]
Ted and Grace recount how they jumped at the chance to move from Christchurch to live at Manuka Point up the Rakaia near Mt Algidus Station.
They became well known characters in the area around Lake Coleridge, where Ted worked on the Harper Diversion, and Methven.
ISBN 0589004484
Rakaia headwaters, deershooting, hunting, angling, high country fishing, antarctic travel,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Presentation inscription from Grace penned to the title page.
$35 C/C
Reed 1970 first edition, 173pp+ plates.
[#4939 ]
A record of the inquests, court hearing and the trial, conviction and execution of the 'baby-farmer' of Winton.
Southland, female murder, infanticide, hanged
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Book lacks free end paper, and the jacket has some large areas of chipping loss to bottom of front panel.
$30 C/B
Times Printing Service 1973 first edition, 82pp+ plates.
[#4940 ]
The Story of a New Zealand Fighter Pilot in the Pacific War.
This book gives many detailed accounts of the squadrons and pilots serving in the South Pacific betwen 1942-1947.
Author served with occupation forces in Japan.
ISBN 0091727413
RNZAF Corsair squadron, solomons, guadalcanal, green island, bougainville, jaquinot bay, new britain, japan, j-force
VG+ softback
$30 C/B
Century Hutchinson 1988 reprint, 290pp illustrated.
[#4941 ]
Mallorean book five
ISBN 0593012070
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket sunned to spine and top of front panel, some edge wear. Book spine slants a little.
$10 C/C
Bantam 1991 UK first edition, 431pp.
[#4942 ]
Fred escapes the corporate life of Auckland to South Island's West Coast.
On his journey he meets a curious collection of people, as recounted in Crump's own unique way.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and some closed tears.
$25 C/B
Crump Productions Ltd. 1972 first edition, 109pp.
[#4943 ]
This centenary publication charts the progress of the Association and its members.
canterbury developmental history, commerce, production, companies, commercial history, company history
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket
$15 C/B
Caxton Press for CMA 1980 first edition, 57pp + plates
[#4929 ]
Attempts to relate Shakespeare's treatment of the language and content of the law with the political ideas of his day.
Part 1. Shakespeare and the law
1. The law and lawyers in Shakespeare's England
2. The lawyers and Shakespeare
3. Shakespeare's use of legal terminology
4. Sir Edward Coke and Shakespeare
5. The law of nature, the Jus Gentium, and international law in Shakespeare
6. Local justice in Shakespeare's plays
7. The law of debt in Shakespeare
8. The bastardy of Falconbridge
9. Shylock v. Antonio
10. Three lesser trials
11. Lord chief justice Gascoigne
12. The death and burial of Ophelia
13. Some legal problems in Hamlet
14. Two legal problems in Richard III
15. Trail by battle in Shakespeare
Part 2. Shakespeare's political thinking
16. Shakespeare and the political thought of the sixteen century
17. The title to the crown in the histories
18. Shakespeare's view of the English kingship
19. The political background of King John
20. Jack Cade's rebellion
21. The death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
22. Richard III: the machiavellian hero
23. Henry VIII and his council
24. The politics of the Greek and Roman plays
25. Measure for Measure: social corruption and the criminal justice.
Elizabethan England, society, shakespearean society, Shakespeare studies, 16th century
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Presentation slip from Professor O. Hood Phillips pasted to free end paper.
$30 C/C
Pitman & Sons 1967 first edition hardcover, viii 417pp + plates
[#4930 ]
A study of Shakespeare's time and environment.
1. The Upstart Crow 2. Education of a Dramatist 3. Experiments
4. The Passing of an Eclipse 5. Maturity 6. The New Comedy 7. The Globe
8. The Lost Leader 9. Tumultuous Interludes 10. The Tragedy of Hamlet 11. End of an Epoch.
VG- softback with some discolouring to foot of rear pages and wrapper, name stamp to first page.
$10 C/B
University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 1958 sewn paperback, 325pp.
[#4931 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a VG dust jacket with a chipped head of the spine.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1964, lxxxv 224pp
[#4932 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a VG dust jacket.
Some minor pencil notation throughout.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1963, lxxxix 225pp
[#4933 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a G+ dust jacket with a chipped and torn bottom corner.
Some minor pencil and ink notation throughout.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1963, xci 188pp
[#4934 ]
Information on all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., such as Cyrene, Egypt, Sparta and other great city-states.
ISBN 0416750001
Greece, history, hellenic, hellenes, hellenismos
VG- softback, pencil to inside cover, top corner first two leaves clipped
$15 C/B
Methuen 1983, 354pp.
[#4916 ]
A Casebook 1918-1939
Plays by Witkiewicz, Toller, Brecht, Olyesha, Pirandello, Cummings and de Ghelderode, as well as essays by Witkiewicz, Brecht, Olyesha, Squarzina, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud.
ISBN 0690008481
VG- large format paperback with some age browning to paper
$15 C/C
Thomas Y. Crowell 1976, 591pp.
[#4917]
The Inner History of German Diplomacy and Her Scheme of World-Wide Conquest
The author was proclaiming Germany's expansionist warmongering for years before the outbreak of war, and here reviews German belligerance leading up to the outbreak.
ww1, wwi, great war, armaments, prussianism
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Bookseller stamp to free end paper, some age browning.
$25 A/B
Hodder 1914 first edition decorative cloth 16mo xxvii 220pp + frontis, newsprint stock but sewn binding.
[#4918 ]
FRITHJOF SCHUON Paradoxical Aspects of Sufism
MARCO PALLIS A Fateful Meeting of Minds; A. K. Coomaraswamy and R. Guenon
MICHAEL NEGUS Reactions to the Theory of Evolution
KURT ALMQVIST Aspects of Teilhardian idolatry
RAMA P. COOMARASWAMY The Destruction of the Christian Tradition II
metaphysics, cosmology, traditionalism, perrennial philosophy, gnosis
VG stapled wrappers
$15 C/B
Perrennial Books 1978, pp 131-256.
[#4919 ]
Science Fiction Book Club issue
VG hardback in VG dust soiled dust jacket.
Free end paper clipped at head, foxed top edge.
$10 C/B
Science Fiction Book Club 1964, 191pp.
[#4920 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 1
ISBN 0307023796
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Ron Villani.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 211pp.
[#4921 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 3
ISBN 030702377X
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Arnie Kohn.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 210pp.
[#4922 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 4
ISBN 0307023788
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Arnie Kohn.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 211pp.
[#4923 ]
A Superhero Adventure # 6
ISBN 0307023753
Illustrated by Ben Otero and Ron Villani.
VG pictorial harback with no jacket.
$10 C/B
Golden Press 1975, 212pp.
[#4924 ]
A Systematic Individual and Social Psychiatry.
The classic handbook to the principles of Transactional Analysis.
It was only after Dr Berne's Games People Play became an international bestseller in 1964, that Transactional Analysis, his highly original and innovative approach to psychotherapy, attained wide recognition outside the United States.
Since then the principles and practise of T A have intrigued not only professional therapists but all those who seek to understand human personality and the peculiarities of human relationships.
ISBN 0285647768
VG softback.
$15 C/B
Souvenir Press 1975, 270pp.
[#4925 ]
ISBN 0394172299
VG softback with name and address at head of title page.
$15 C/B
Grove Press /Evergreen 1961, 270pp.
[#4926 ]
Collects Frankl's speeches on logotherapy.
A seminal work of meaning-centered therapy.
Introduction; the situation of psychotherapy and the position of logotherapy / foundations of logotherapy; metaclinical implications of psychotherapy / self-transcendence as a human phenomenon / what is meant by meaning? / applications of logotherapy; the existential vacuum: a challenge to psychiatry / logotherapeutic techniques medical ministry / conclusion: dimensions of meaning/ English bibliography of logotherapy and Existenzanalyse.
ISBN 0285620029
psychology
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Name stamp at head of title, head of contents and closed top edge.
$15 C/B
Souvenir Press 1971 first edition, 179pp.
[#4927 ]
The old times in Derby, cut off by the wet season on the Indian Ocean coast.
Kimberleys, Myalls Well, Mungatty, Oobagooma Station, Fitzroy
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Inscription to half title.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951, 272pp + plates, map endpapers
[#4928 ]
Norman Conquest starts his latest adventure on a windswept moorland road where he meets a cycling damsel in distress and having extricated her what can Norman do but drive her home?
He finds that this is an ancient castle and that his damsel, Pattie is the daughter of the irascible Earl of Glaiswold, Norman, drawn to trouble like a needle to a magnet, discovers there is something wrong in the castle.
What has happened to the family fortune? Why can on one enter the West Wing?
In hell-for-leather style, Berkeley Gray tells a story of villainy and suspense in his most amusing, light-hearted vein.
Fontana 835
PBO, vintage thriller
G+ paperback, edge and joint wear, pen initials to first page
$20 A/B
Fontana 1963 first thus paperback, 160pp.
[PB1693 ]
Latin text edited, with introduction, notes and appendices by Robert Mitchell Henry.
rome, roman history, latin text, latin history
VG- cloth hardback, sunned and foxed spine.
$10 A/B
Arnold undated fourteenth impression, xxviii, 182 pp + map of central Italy.
[#4908 ]
Acceptable copy of a scarce title.
G- reading copy, ex-library, sections loosening, stamps etc lacks rear fep.
$20 C/B
Hutchinson 1956 first edition, 208pp.
[#4909 ]
The adventures of Commissioner Sanders and his assistant "Bones" among wild African river tribes.
Reset for this edition.
Hodder and Stoughton Yellowjacket
G+ digest sized paperback, light cover wear, split to tail, name to first page
$10 C/B
Hodder 1952 first thus, 192pp
[#4910 ]
In the south of France an English lady has been murdered and a beautiful American girl has disappeared.
There is a body with a severed hand and an opal bracelet somehow connected to devil worship.
A case for Inspector Hanaud of the Surete and his English friend Mr. Ricardo.
Reset for this edition.
Hodder and Stoughton Yellowjacket
G+ digest sized paperback, light cover wear, split to tail
$15 C/B
Hodder 1953 first thus, 191pp
[#4911 ]
Victoria and Albert Museum Small Picture Book No 32
SBN 112901565
VG stapled folded sheets in stiff paper wrapper.
$8 A/A
HMSO 1972, 36pp
[#4912 ]
Japanese castle and shojun cover art.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has light rubbing to joints, front panel has areas darkened by a greasy substance, has no affect but to darken the pigments of the design
Book has faint foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$15 C/B
The Book Club 1964 first thus, 184pp.
[#4913 ]
A gazetter of the sheep runs and stations in the Awatere Valley, from "Molesworth to the sea" with the history up to 1966 etc.
The photographs being photocopies are not of the best detail but they are informative.
An uncommon book.
Fair, water damaged paper wrappers, minor stain to some pages, still a good reference copy.
Xeroxed format with illustrated covers, staple bound, covers are well worn and rubbed and with rear wrapper damp stained, some minor water marking at top spine corner margin of pages.
$25 C/B
Awatere Valley Women's Division of Federated Farmers 1966, 190pp.
[#4914 ]
Translated by H T Lowe-Porter, and with a postscript by the author on The Making of the novel.
ISBN 0436272377
VG+ hardback in VG+ dustwrapper which is price clipped and bears Secker and Warburg logo to the tail.
$25 C/C
Nationwide Book Service 1979 reprint, 729pp.
[#4902 ]
An allegorical fantasy story of a child's soul in this world and the other.
Illustrated by Iris Guarducci and Doris Karsell.
Translated by Rosamond Reinhardt.
Full page colour plates.
Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophy
G+ trade paperback, some handling wear and soiling to covers, minor foxing.
$15 C/C
Waldorf Books 1972 first thus unspecified limited edition,192pp + plates.
[#4903 ]
A Practical handbook for self transformation using the techniques of creative visualization and meditation.
ISBN 0965083934
occult, kabbalah, western mystery tradition, pathworking
VG+ softback
$15 C/B
Sun Chalice Books 1998 first edition, 94pp.
[#4904 ]
A new edition of Priestess with the new title.
Dion Fortune was the magical name of Violet Mary Firth, founder of the Society of Inner Light.
She moved in Golden Dawn circles contemporaneously with Aleister Crowley and others.
ISBN 9781855380516
biography
VG softback with light crease to cover, bookseller label foot of first page.
$25 C/B
Aquarian Press 1991, 256pp + plates
[#4905 ]
First printing in this verison.
Hodder vintage Yellow Jacket
VG paperback, name to top corner first page, age browned paper stock
$15 C/B
Hodder 1954 reset edition, 189pp +1pp advert
[#4906 ]
Unearthed Iron Age corpses preserved in peat bogs, many as sacrifices or possibly executed criminals.
Good information on early European culture and clothing.
ISBN 0571110797
prehistory, iron age, europe, bog sacrficies, heathen, pagan
G+ softback but covers are sunfaded.
$8 C/B
Faber 1977 first soft covered edition, sewn sheets in wrappers, 200pp.
[#4907 ]
Technical and common sense information for hunters on how to maximise the efficiency and accuracy of their guns by correct choice of ammo and aiming technique etc.
Approved by New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
ISBN0589006991
stalking, hunting, firearms, accuracy, rifles
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Ex-library, boards rubbed and soiled, bumped, minimal amount of stamps, closed edges fingermarked, the first edition, a few notations to the ballistics tables at rear
$25 C/C
Reed 1972 First Edition, 270pp with photos and diagrams in the text.
[#4894 ]
The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King, the last days of King Arthur, his faithful magician and his animal teachers.
Unpublished in 1941 the text was found in the University of Texas archives in 1975 and is first published here.
A literary work that deals with the end of Arthur, Guenever and Lancelot.
ISBN0002220458
Illustrated by Trevor Stubley.
King Arthur, Modern English Literature, Fiction, Matter of Britain
VG+ hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket is unclipped and tidy but has a completely sunned spine showing as white with black author name and publisher but title illegible.
$25 B/C
University of Texas Press and Collins 1977 first edition, xx 137pp
[#4897 ]
Combined in one volume; 'Adam with Arrows' and 'Adam in Plumes' and the New Guinea chapters of Islands of Men.
melanesia, papua, ethnology, tribal peoples
VG hardback with no jacket
$20 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1962 first thus combined edition, cloth, viii 407pp + plates in black and white and 35 in colour.
[#4898 ]
Some New Zealand Founders with reference to fifty early pioneers in Marlborough, Manawatu, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington.
new zealand, colonial history, biography, genealogy, family history, ninettenth century, immigration
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with light surface rubbing.
$25 C/B
Reed 1966 first edition, 213pp.
[#4899 ]
Extracts from ancient sources, grouped together under topics related to the governing of the Empire.
ISBN 070991668X
rome, latin, latium, roman empire, classical history, sources
VG softback
$25 C/B
Croom Helm 1985 first edition, xvii 260pp + maps.
[#4900 ]
Greek history and civilization during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
The dual purpose of this book is to describe the greatest period of Greek history in all its aspects, political and military as well as economic and cultural, and to take into account the uncertainties of modern scholarship.
ISBN 0416777600
ancient greece, greek, history, sources
VG- softback with name to first page.
$10 C/C
Methuen 1981 second edition, 505pp.
[#4901 ]
The story of coins, tokens, promissory notes, bank notes and other forms of monetary exchange.
Invaluable information for coin collectors.
Southland Treasury Notes, numismatics, tradesmans tokens, reserve bank
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
$30 C/C
John McIndoe Ltd 1972 first edition, 197pp illustrated throughout.
[#4889 ]
History of the colonial settlement of Rangitikei from a surveyors journals.
Includes the story of the original Maori as well as the purchase and colonization of land between the Turakina and Oroua Rivers.
Facsimile of the 1914 Whitcombe and Tombs edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
Jacket is sun faded to the spine.
$40 C/C
Capper Press 1976, 260pp + index, 2 folding maps in pocket at rear of book.
[#4890 ]
Written by the famed Australian lawn bowls champion Dick Harrison.
Incorporates the previously separate works The Etiquette of Bowls, The Etiquette of Marking, The Romance of Bowls Manufacture.
ISBN 0959715207
lawn bowls, how to play, techniques
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/B
R. W. Hensell and Sons 1976 16th edition, 184pp + plates.
[#4891 ]
11 essays on various aspects of women's lives in New Zealand, from the past to the present (1980).
Includes essays on politics, Maori women, Women's Christian Temperance Union, sex and marriage, education, Jane Mander's literary heroines.
ISBN 0868610348
sociology, gender studies, feminism, W. C. T. U.
G+ softback with minor usage wear to covers.
$8 C/B
George Allen and Unwin 1980 first edition, 265pp
[#4892 ]
Being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma.
Morrison travelled upriver to Chungking, then walked overland 1,500 miles to Burma, then via Mandalay and Rangoon to Calcutta.
ISBN 0207124620
china, nineteenth century, imperial, chinese history, 19th century, travel writing
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with faded spine and minor corner wear.
$30 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1972 first thus facsimile, 299pp + plates and folding map at rear.
[#4893 ]
The True Story of the nanny they called a Witch.
Nanny Carole Compton was arrested for arson and attempted murder and was suspected of malefica and casting the evil eye by her Italian employers.
The Italian police kept her in custody for 17 months before she was freed
Has good insights into the nature of superstition and the belief in magic still current in many rural European areas.
An appendix discusses the possibiliy of poltergeist activity as an explanation of the events that aroused suspicions Carole was a malefic witch.
ISBN 0852238029
true crime, arson, pyromania
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Ebury Press 1990 first edition, 214pp.
[#4886 ]
An 87th Precinct novel
G hardback in G dust jacket.
Ex library with stamps and tape residue.
Jacket has light tape residue to top and bottom edges, chip from rear panel, rear fold in flap trimmed with loss to text, price clipped.
$10 C/B
Hamish Hamilton 1965 first edition hard cover, 175pp.
[#4887 ]
Book Three of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
ISBN 0002227150
VG hardback in VG un-clipped dust jacket with faint sunning to spine.
$15 C/C
Collins 1983 first edition, 509pp.
[#4888 ]
Revised by Theodore Betserman.
Originally published in 1902 and immediately recognised as a vital contribution to the literature of anthropology and primitive psychology.
An exhaustive survey of primitive marriage rites and customs focusing on the state of "taboo" arising from evil agents and influences.
Taboos affect primitive thought and action at every level of personal and social life and come into force at any time of private or communal crisis - at birth and puberty, in sickness and death, in famine and war - and particularly affect two basic spheres of activity, eating and sexual intercourse.
It is in the ceremonies and rituals surrounding marriage that the taboos are broken.
Crawley strongly rejects the "communistic" theory of primitive marriage and advances convincing evidence of its being generally regarded as a personal relationship - a joining together of two people previously regarded as mutually taboo.
His suggestions as to the psychological motivations of primitive marriage customs have been widely accepted by modern theorists, and the reissue of his famous book, in one volume for the first time, will be welcomed by students of sociology.
A fascinating and lucid account of a system of social behaviour on which many of our own, reputedly "civilised" beliefs and customs are modelled.
anthropology, sociology, marriage, sexuality, gender, ethnography
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Spring Books 1965 first thus reissue of 1927 revised edition, xx 340pp.
[#4876 ]
"A Priceless Gem in the Imperial Crown" by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Health.
An in depth overview of New Zealand in 1919 focusing on the economy and trade, parliament, finance and immigration.
statistics, twentieth century, demographics
G+ hardback with papered boards.
Upper joint split, Canterbury Education Board rubber stamp dated 1925 to free end paper and title pages, age browning and handling soiling to closed edges and covers.
$15 C/C
G W Russell Ltd Christchurch, [viii] 332 + 8pp well illustrated with photographs.
[#4877 ]
A predecessor of Max Cryer's grammatical studies this book collects some of the discussions on grammar from the New Zealand radio show "Words and their Ways"
grammar, language, usage, twentieth century , new zealand society
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Pegasus Press 1969 first edition, 111pp
[#4878 ]
Treatment of arthritis and precursors through sensible diet, includes diet plans.
ISBN 0437005003
health, diet, arthritis, cure, natural therapy
VG hardback in VG jacket.
Sunned spine, name to paste down.
$10 C/C
World's Work 1972, 249pp.
[#4879 ]
First UK edition of the Sequel to The Silence of the Lambs.
Printed in Australia, no publication price on the jacket.
ISBN 9780434009404
Hannibal Lecter, serial killer, cannibal
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Heinemann 1999 first edition, 486pp.
[#4880 ]
First UK edition of the Sequel to Hannibal.
Printed in Australia, no publication price on the jacket.
ISBN 9780434014088
Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs, serial killer, cannibal
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Heinemann 2006 first edition, 323pp.
[#4881 ]
Five writers
have collaborated with Ross to choose ten photographs each on a particular theme, which range from workshops, environmental portraits, domestic interiors, buildings demolished for
the Wellington motorway extension, and the use of natural light.
They have written short essays to accompany their selections.
Essays by John B. Turner, Karen Lee, Damien Wilkins, Emma Bugden and Peter Ireland.
ISBN 9780864735737
new zealand, photography, fine art, contemporary, Wellington, social history
VG hardback but MISSING the dust jacket
$25 B/C
Victoria University Press 2009 first edition,
[#4883 ]
A history of Field Surveying in New Zealand.
With early photographs from the author's collection.
geography, surveying, map making, colonial development, maori land, land court
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with some minor edge chipping or wear.
$30 B/C
NZ Institute of Surveyors 1975 first edition, x, 86pp.
[#4884 ]
A history of the Otago Harbour Board and the Ports at Dunedin and Port Chalmers.
A beautiful production with quality paper, many photo plates and maps including a folding one.
shipping, merchant marine, economic history
VG+ cloth hardback in VG- dust jacket with a few closed repaired tears.
$35 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1951 first edition, xx 428pp
[#4885 ]
Instrumented by Verity.
Channeled teachings on Cosmic consciousness etc.
new age, spiritualist, spiritualism, occult
VG softback in stapled wraps soiled to covers with a pen inscription on the rear cover.
Small split at tail spine, inscription to the first page.
$25 C/B
Heralds of the New Age, Auckland 1966 third edition, 73pp.
[#4867 ]
With I For One...and A Game of Hide and Seek
ISBN 0856160202
new zealand, novelette, fiction
VG hardback with VG dust jacket
$25 C/C
Caxton 1972 first edition, 233pp
[#1123/4868 ]
New Zealand Playscripts
Scarce, especially in this unmarked condition.
ISBN 0705506649
VG softback with light crease to cover
$30 C/B
Price Milburn 1978 first edition, 82pp
[#4869 ]
A Classic Detective novel, this is an unabridged republication of the original 1924 edition.
ISBN 0486234576
golden age, detective, crime
VG with quality paper sheets sewn into soft covers.
$15 C/C
Dover 1977 first thus, 318pp + adverts.
[#4870 ]
A history of Reikorangi and Waikanae Schools 1895-1996, well illustrated.
ISBN 0473039052
wellington, kapiti, education, local history
VG softback, glossy paper stock.
$30 C/C
Waikanae School Centenary Committee 1996 first edition, 328pp
[#4871 ]
Autobiographical account of the experiences of a down country lad who talks himself into mustering on the High Country Canterbury sheep station 'Erewhon'.
With no knowledge of mustering, and not even knowing how to work dogs, just with enthusiasm and the ability to talk his way into and out of things, McGinty stumbles and learns as he goes.
Tony was McGinty.
ISBN 9780473078485
The Potts block, Glenfalloch, 1960s
VG softback with small corner crease to cover.
Author's presentation inscription to first page.
$30 C/C
T. Robinson 2001 first edition, 270pp.
[#4872 ]
Life in the Waimea County Province of Nelson, 1876-1976.
Regional local history detailing colonial settlement and development.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Half title page has multiple signatures of people mentioned in the index.
Nelson, Marlborough, Tasman
$30 C/B
Waimea County Council (1976) first edition, 135pp+ index.
[#4873 ]
The Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli (1845-1921).
Vaggioli was among the first Benedictine Monks sent to New Zealand, arriving in 1879 and returning home in 1887.
He worked in Gisborne, Auckland and the Coromandel.
Vaggioli was unique amongst European commentators of the nineteenth century in his view that New Zealand belonged to the Maori, and that the British had no moral right to take it from them.
Translated by John Crockett.
ISBN 1877276111
Missions, Nouvelle-Zelande, religion
VG softback, faint sun fade at base of cover.
$35 C/C
University of Otago Press 2001 first edition, xx 271pp.
[#4874 ]
The famous ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment.
Edited by W G Archer.
Modern issue of the 1883 edition which was supressed until 1962.
hindu, veda, sex
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket chipped to corners.
Book has mild foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$10 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1963 fourth impression, cloth 8vo, 296pp.
[#4854 ]
Through personal reflections and more than 700 readings from writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Helen Keller, Barbara Kingsolver and Thomas More, the authors offer the reader the tools to see the world as infused with meaning.
ISBN 0684815338
Maya Angelou, Wendell Berry, Ram Dass. Annie Dillard, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Robert Fulghum. Eduardo Galeano, Thich Nhat Hanh, Barbara Kingsolver, Jonathan Kozol, Kathleen Norris. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Anne Tyler,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Scribner 1996 first edition, 608pp
[#4855 ]
An autobiography of Dr Doris Gordon who was a general practitioner of medicine who played an important role in the establishment of an efficient maternity service for New Zealand.
She was successful in organizing a national campaign to endow a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Medical School in the University of Otago.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket has minor edge wear or slight chipping, book has tape rust to endpapers.
$10 C/C
Faber 1955 second impression, 254pp + frontis
[#1718]
G hardback no dust jacket.
Sunned spine, school prize plate, a bit tired but a good reading copy.
$5 C/C
Faber 1955 second impression, 254pp + frontis
[#4856]
A wide ranging selection of world mythology.
Grouped into; The Far East, The Middle East, The West, Africa and the Americas, The Pacific
Illustrated by Eric Fraser.
ISBN 085613323X
myth, sacred stories, religion, pre-christian, pagan
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/C
Orbis 1982, 433pp
[#4857 ]
An Introductory Manual of Flying Training complete with Air Instruction.
ISBN 027300865X
Airplanes, Piloting, Aeroplanes, Flying, Manuals
VG hardback with printed boards, sunned spine.
$10 C/B
Pitman 1974 third edition, 207pp.
[#4858 ]
Three Volume complete set.
G+ cloth hardbacks, name and book label to paste down, spine lean, light wear.
$35 C/C
Ernest Benn 1926 first edition, 885pp. Stated Dominions and Colonies edition.
[#4859 ]
A prophetic synthesis of Eastern Mysticism and Western Science by a Sufi.
ISBN 091542407X
mysticism, sufism, spirituality
VG softback
$15 C/B
Sufi Islamaia / Prophecy Publications 1981, 110pp
[#4860 ]
New Zealand aviation history, including the pioneer long-distance flights in New Zealand.
aviation, aircraft, twentieth century
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket, light surface rubbing.
$20 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1966 first edition,192pp + plates.
[#4861 ]
The classic account of high country mustering, mainly in the Canterbury area.
ISBN 9780908676330
high country, farming, sheep, sheep stations, high country station, twentieth century, history, Mesopotamia, Grasmere, Mt White, Castle Hill, Winterslow
VG softback
$10 C/B
Beckett 1989 facsimile of the second edition, complete with photo plates, 149pp.
[#4863 ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with light wear.
$25 C/B
Reed 1966 reprint of second edition, 155pp
[#1624 ]
A history of the Bank of New Zealand, 1861-1961.
economics, banking, money, monetary policy
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/D
Bank of New Zealand 1961 first edition, 408pp.
[#4849 ]
A history of this period of rapid growth and modernisation of the Ashburton district.
ISBN 0473018837
south canterbury, municipal history
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Free end paper has Ashburton District Council Congratulations plate, signed by Bede O'Malley, Mayor.
$35 C/D
Ashburton District Council 1993, 388 pp.
[#4850 ]
A young adult story about a family hunt for an East Coast wild boar.
ISBN 0340366621
pigs, pig-hunting, fiction, story
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some rubbing and wear to book and jacket corners.
$25 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1984 first edition, 118pp.
[#4851 ]
Centennial history of New Zealands premier agricultural college, now a University
agriculture, farming, technical training, education, primary industry
VG hardback with no jacket.
$20 C/C
Lincoln College 1979 first edition, 360pp + plates.
[#4837 ]
A History of the New Zealand Federation of University Women 1921-1981
ISBN 0959762809
suffrage, emancipation, women's rights, education, women's education in New Zealand
VG softback
$20 C/C
New Zealand Federation of University Women 1982 first edition, 179pp, errata page slipped in at front.
[#4838 ]
C. Nelson Stewart wrote about occult mineralogy and states: "To the ceremonialist and student of magic, precious stones are especially valuable as wave-meters transmitting specialized psychic qualities, and this little book groups some forty-seven mineral species and varieties under the Seven Rays [of life]."
occult, new age, gemstones, crystals, gemology
VG+ cloth hardback with no jacket.
$35 C/B
Theosphical Publishing House 1939 first edition, 119pp.
[#4839 ]
A contemporary interpretation of Jesus, in which the author attempts to free Christ from "the perversions of religion, philosophy and even ecclesiology in order to show him in his essential secularity".
Vincent has a Doctorate of Theology from Basel.
ISBN 0718814916
christian theology, religious studies, christology, 20th century
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$10 C/C
Lutterworth Press 1968 first edition, 247pp.
[#4840 ]
Presented to F. L. W. Wood and J. C. Beaglehole on the occasion of their retirement..
New Zealand & Pacific / Oceania includes Samoa, Te Tikanga Pekeke, Governor Grey, Anzus Treaty, Missionaries etc.
pasifika studies, oceania, pacific academia
VG hardback in VG but rubbed dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Reed 1969 first edition, 274pp.
[#4841 ]
The elderly half-forgotten author Maurice Kingsley uses his beautiful fashion model niece Jessica's life as a model for a book, embroidering it with his own quirky insights into a surprise best-seller, a modern parable for a wasted life that becomes a candidate for the Booker Prize.
ISBN 0571150160
fiction, novel, british, The Singing Detective
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, but lacks fep, name and date to half title.
$10 C/B
Faber 1987 first edition, 184pp.
[#4842 ]
A detailed record of each Rugby Union All Black from 1884 to 1972.
rugby, all blacks, research, statistics
G+ softback with light rubbing, cancelled stamp to title, cataloguing marks to verso.
$10 A/B
NZRFU 1973, 166pp.
[#4843 ]
A study in English religious literature of the Seventeenth Century.
ISBN 0300001657
christianity, religious devotion, religious writing, verse, poetry
VG- softback with light surface rubbing
$15 C/C
Yale University Press 1976, xxv 375pp
[#4844 ]
A sequel to The View over Atlantis this covers sacred geometry, numerology, gematria, and the esoteric concept of the New Jerusalem. Chapters include ones on the symbolism and esoteric meaning of the numbers 666, 1080, and other important Gnosic numbers, and those associated wih the geography of Stonehenge and Glastonbury.
ISBN 0349123209
numerology, sacred geometry, geomancy, zodiac, Chartres, St. Mary's Chapel at Glastonbury, the Great Pyramid, the Temple in Jerusalem
VG softback with name to title page.
$20 C/C
Abacus/ Sphere 1973 first thus edition, 176pp.
[#4845 ]
Number 418 (i.e. Abrahadabra) of the signed edition limited to 999 numbered copies.
Michell's breathtaking research and scholarship into all aspects of Christian and pre-Christian myth and religious connections at Glastonbury allows the reader to prepare, understand, and learn how to better communicate with this sacred site.
ISBN 0906362148
Matter of Britain, arthurian, grail quest, Glastonbury Zodiac, earth mysteries, british folklore, Avalon, Celtic, British, English folklore, new age
VG hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued.
$145 C/C
Gothic Image Publications 1990 first edition (limited hardback), 180pp.
[#4846 ]
More from what the author claims is a received work wherein a formerly anti- spiritualism priest (Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson) who had written against after-death survival and contact has 'changed his tune' and related the contents of the book to the author, from the 'other side'.
ISBN 0853840059
survival, afterlife, speaking with the dead, contact
VG softback
$15 A/B
Psychic Press 1984, 160pp.
[#4847 ]
Collection of writings on Life After Death and spiritual survival, includes the ancient pagans, christians, poets etc.
poetry, verse, afterlife, survival, religious
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with small chip from lower corner of front panel, light wear.
$10 A/B
Edward Arnold 1962 first edition, 247pp.
[#4848 ]
Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series.
ISBN 0500400199
classical history, europe, greece, rome, democracy, politics
VG hardback with VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Name and address to free end paper.
$25 C/C
Thames and Hudson 1972 first edition, 271pp + plates.
[#4827 ]
Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series.
ISBN 0500400229
classical history, europe, greek, roman, games, athletes, competition
VG hardback with VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Name and address to free end paper.
$25 C/C
Thames and Hudson 1972 first edition, 288pp + plates.
[#4828 ]
The Hardy Boys Series #36
ISBN 0001605364
British printing
VG- hardcover pictorial boards, light wear.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 158pp.
[#4830 ]
Denniston 1893-1943
Gives the history of the activities and membership of this West Coast Freemasonic Lodge.
Masonic Lodge, westland
VG+ stapled card wrappers.
$45 C/A
A G Betts and Son Ltd (1943), 52pp.
[#4831 ]
A centennial history of Waikato Hospital 1887-1987, illustrated in the text with black and white photographs.
ISBN 0473004577
keywords
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/D
Waikato Hospital Board 1987 first edition, large 4to, vi 125pp
[#4833 ]
Celebrating the Centenary of the New Plymouth Boys' High School 1882-1982.
With colour plates, and illustrated in black and white in the text.
Taranaki, school history, education
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with a sunned spine.
$35 C/D
New Plymouth Boys' High School Centennial Committee 1982 first edition, large 4to, 188pp.
[#4834 ]
Annual school magazine from Archerfield, one of several schools delivering secondary education to girls in Dunedin.
It closed in 1944.
Dunedin, education, genealogy, school yearbook, history
VG- with stapled paper covers.
One plate detached and the verso has two names and addresses in contemporary ink, minor foxing, rear page (printers imprint) totally covered with signatures of school members.
$30 C/B
Otago Daily Times 1935, 39pp + 2 plates.
[#4835 ]
Annual school magazine from Archerfield, one of several schools delivering secondary education to girls in Dunedin.
It closed in 1944.
Dunedin, education, genealogy, school yearbook, history
VG with stapled paper covers, name at head of title page.
$30 C/B
Otago Daily Times 1937, 40pp + 2 plates.
[#4836 ]
A detailed history of the Addington Sale Yards, the Stock and Station Agents, Butchers, Traders, Transport companies and others who made it work for 120 years until it relocated in 1997.
ISBN 9780473234249 / ISBN 9400591900016
farming, stock yards, hagley park, christchurch
VG+ softback, Signed by Author.
$55 B/C
Robin Leech / Hilton Press 2013 first edition, x 350pp.
[#4812 ]
Captioned colour photographs of places of note in the Chatham Islands.
ISBN 9780908887256
Rekohu, Wharekauri, photo journalism, moriori
VG landscape format softback, has a long gift inscription on the inside of the front cover.
$45 B/B
Cosmos Publications 1999 first edition, 92pp.
[#4813 ]
The first comprehensive account of Maori life written by a Maori scholar, intended to be submitted for her degree at Oxfird University.
Reissue of the 1938 original.
ISBN 0908652119
maoritanga, customs, traditions, history, maori
G+ paperback, mild rubbing to cover
$30 C/B
New Women's Press 1986 first thus, xi 352pp.
[#4814 ]
Lydiard describes his training regime with new and expanded information on exercise physiology, diet, injury prevention and cure, and training schedules.
ISBN 0340323620
Athletics, track and field, running
VG softback, sewn binding.
$15 C/B
Hodder 1983 first edition, 209pp.
[#4816 ]
Social history of this eastern Banks Peninsula settlement by a resident, the grandson of George Mantell.
Historic photos and details of pioneering families and industry.
VG+ softback, stapled binding.
$30 C/B
Argosy Press 1978 first edition, 85pp + photo section at centre.
[#4817 ]
A complete guide to the use of trees and shrubs on farms and homesteads.
Includes propagation and maintenance of practical and ornamental plantings.
farming, silviculture, forestry, landscaping
VG+ softback
$15 C/B
Southland Farm Forestry Association 1994, 220pp.
[#4818 ]
A tidy first edition Harlequin romance with a New Zealand setting.
Harlequin 1124
romance, vintage paperback, collectible
VG paperback, name to first page
$10 A/A
Harlequin Books July 1967, first Canadian edition, 191pp.
[PB1688 ]
The story of Charlie Heberley of the whaling Heberley family of Tory Channel and Great Barrier Island.
ISBN 9780908561902
whaling, Perano, Worser Heberley, Marlborough
VG softback
$20 C/B
Cape Catley 2002 first edition, 212pp + plates.
[#4819 ]
A history of the mountain and huiman interaction with it.
From the earliest climbs to the (then) most recent.
Includes a list of ascents.
mountaineering, aoraki, Freda du Faur, Linda Route
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1968 first edition, 253pp + col. and black and white plates.
[#4820 ]
A biography of Peter Fraser, New Zealand's Scottish born WW2 Prime Minister.
Confirms the belief that Fraser was the country's greatest ever Prime Minister.
ISBN 9780140297935
wwii, labour party, politics,
VG softback
$30 C/C
Penguin 2000 first edition, 445pp + plates.
[#4821 ]
A biography of James K. Baxter (1926-1972), one of the major English language poets of the Twentieth century, and a deeply conflicted individual who presented many varied faces during his short life.
Catholic thinker, pacifist, husband, hippy guru, profound poet.
ISBN 9780195582659
new zealand poetry, literature, 20th century
VG softback
$25 C/C
Oxford University Press 1992, 320pp.
[#4822 ]
A sweeping, historically detailed novel of the rise to power of Gais Julius Caesar and his conflict with the Roman Senate.
ISBN 9780712638524
Australian issue with price in AUD to flap
roman history, historical fiction, masters of rome series
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/C
Century Hutchinson 1998 first edition, 664pp
[#4823 ]
An overview of the full field of ancient Greek myths, from the creation stories through to the tales relating to Perseus, Hercules, the Argonauts, Oedipus, Trojan War, Agamemnon, Odysseus,
Facsimile of the original published in the 1930s.
ISBN 9781859580097
hellenismos, hellenic myth, european, europe
VG paperback
$10 C/B
Senate 1994, xvi 440pp.
[#4824 ]
A fascinating account of a remarkable voyage to Campbell Island, one of a cluster of Sub-Antarctic island groups in a wild and isolated part of the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand.
Includes visits to Fiordland, Stewart Island, the Snares, the Auckland Islands, Campbell Island, Bounty Islands and Antipodes Islands.
Descriptions and photographs of the wildlife and environment, and stories of exploration, whalers and sealers, shipwrecks and castaways, and early attempts to farm this inhospitable land.
ISBN 9781869535018
natural history, new zealand offshore islands
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$35 C/C
David Bateman 2002 first edition, 143pp.
[#4806]
A history of a coal-mining family from Wales who migrated in 1905 to the West Coast, New Zealand, for a life of coal-mining on Denniston Hill.
Social history of Burnetts Face, to the east of Westport, as well as westport and Waimangaoa.
Ned Jones, Lizzie Jones, Aberdare Wales, collier Kumara
VG softback, Signed to half title by the authoress.
$40 B/B
Self published 1994 first edition, 147pp.
[#4807]
The Story of Waitaki Girl's High School 1887-1987.
Each author writes a chapter on a specific period of the school.
ISBN 0473004720
education, Otago, Oamaru, WGHS, girl's schools, M K Dunning
VG softback
$25 B/B
Waitaki Girls' High School Centennial Committee 1987 first edition, 218pp.
[#4808 ]
A History of Medieval Europe From Constantine to Saint Louis.
Franks, Saxons, Crusades
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with some foxing to spine.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1966, 421pp.
[#4790 ]
Sally Baxter, teenaged reporter, is sent for her third foreign assignment, as escort to the winner of the Evening Cry competition for Britain's Best Amateur Actress, Rosemary Hunter, to Hollywood where she stumbles on the mysterious case of Maria Teckla, a German girl who is also aspiring to fame.
young adult, series, girl's stories
VG hardback with no jacket, spine ends rubbed, name to first page.
$7 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[#4791 ]
G+ hardback with G+ jacket, lacks free end paper, jacket torn top corner but no loss, private library label and tape at base of backstrip of jacket.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[BGO 128 ]
"What's It Like to Be a Millionaire" is a light-hearted series of articles in the Evening Cry, and Sally Baxter, junior reporter, thinks she is lucky to be assigned to a rich man's yacht on a cruise in sun-lit waters. Sally loves the lavish life on the yacht with Marcia Carezza and her father, but she secretly yearns to join a crew of students whose broken-down boat sails the same course.
young adult, series, girl's stories
VG hardback with no jacket.
$7 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[#4792 ]
The Flying Goat / Unhappy Golliwog/ Puppy in Fairyland / Little Pink Pig / Pixie's Motor Bus / Enchanted Bellows / Little Light-Fingers.
British children's fiction, 1950s, british empire culture
G+ hardback, spine and corners rubbed back to the card, name to first page.
Souvenir of Royal Visit to New Zealand decal of the Queen and the New Zealand and British flags to paste down, internally VG.
No jacket.
$25 C/A
Pitkin undated first edition (?), 80pp
[#4793]
Illustrated by R. J. MacDonald in line and frontis in colour, scarce title.
G cloth hardback with no jacket.
Bottom quarter of upper joint split, boards rubbed, hinges cracked.
$30 C/B
Charles Skilton 1950 second impression, 236pp
[#4794 ]
Jacket spine has 14, being it's number in the Sovereign Series of uniform books by the publisher.
keywords
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket, price clipped with chipped edges, name to first page, booksellers rubber stamp to foot of title.
$8 C/B
Ward Lock undated (1950s) hardcover, 253pp + colour frontis and adverts.
[#4795 ]
A word picture of life in Auckland, one of the rarest books on early colonial life and one of the most readable.
From the wide range of the author's observations of early governors, officials and churchmen, as well as Maoris, move through its pages, which have preserved also intimate glimpses of family and social life.
As the wife of New Zealand's first chief justice, Lady Martin came to the colony in 1842.
colonial, Auckland
VG softback news print paperback.
$10 C/B
Wilson and Horton, Facsimile reprint of SPCK 1884 edition, 220pp + illustrations.
[#4796 ]
A vintage copy of the 1970s version of the Hobbit
ISBN 0048231266
LOTR, vintage, retro, Smaug cover art
G+ paperback, age browned paper, light wear and creasing.
$10 C/B
Unwin 1976 second impression of the 1975 edition, 253pp
[#4797 ]
Selections from "Testimonies for the Church" vol 4 and 5.
Seventh Day Adventist.
VG hardback with no jacket.
$15 C/C
Southern Publishing Association 1936 cloth, 630pp + adverts.
[#4798 ]
Just before her graduation from high school, Angela May acts out her burning desire to find and confront her father, whom her mother describes as having been the love affair of her life, but what Angela discovers is a hard, cold man who never cared for either her mother or herself.
ISBN 0460062247
young adult
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket.
Ex-library with donation plate to fep, only stamps are to the to front and rear free endpapers, minor paper residue from removed pocket to rear fep, otherwise a tidy copy.
$10 C/B
Dent 1985 First Edition, 185pp.
[#4799 ]
A collection of nine short stories that features fantasy tales of wizards, dancing wolves, and a hungry wind.
ISBN 9780385302545
Illustrated by Diana Catchpole
VG quarter cloth hardback in VG dust jacket.
Lacks front and rear free end papers otherwise tidy.
$10 C/B
Delacorte 1991 First US Edition, 106pp.
[#4800 ]
Also, Healing and Disease in the Light of Rebirth and the Stars.
This work collects metaphysical works formerly published as separate booklets.
VG hardback, lacks dust jacket.
Pale blue boards gilt titled, handling wear, A.C.LIGHTFOOT rubberstamp to paste down and foot of final page, name to fep.
$35 C/C
New Age Press (1960s?), 365 pages
[#4801 ]
Celtic origins, heroes, and stories.
A facsimile of the original 1911 book on the Myths and Legends of the Ancient Irish and Welsh.
Ulster, Red Branch, Ossian, Cymry
ISBN 9780946495849
Myths and Legends Series.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$12 C/C
Bracken Books 1992, 457pp
[#4802 ]
This is the story of an incredible journey.
Photographs and descriptions of a ten month journey by Peter Hillary and Graeme Dingle through the Himalayas, where they passed through Sikkim, Nepal, Garwhal, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet as well as Pakistan and India.
ISBN 9780340320402
adventure, climbing, alpine, mountaineering, travel, New Zealanders
VG hardback in VG dustjacket
$25 C/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1982 first edition, 232pp.
[#4803 ]
Serpentwar Saga 4
ISBN 0002246546
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$20 C/C
Voyager/ Harper Collins 1998 first UK edition, 417pp.
[#1148/4734 ]
Conclave of Shadows 2
ISBN 0002246821
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with two short repaired edge tears.
$15 C/C
Voyager 2003 first edition, 374pp.
[#4735 ]
New Zealand Government deer cullers in the Urewera.
Helmer spent time culling deer with Barry Crump in the bush, and he is mentioned.
Includes photos of the cullers.
G+ hardback with sunned spine and no dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 second impression, 180pp + plates. [#244 ]
VG+ hardback with name to free end paper in VG- dust jacket with edge wear.
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 first edition, 180pp + plates. [#4736 ]
Kersey Hooper brings back his new wife, the nominal 'Good Keen Girl', to Blackrange Station, and all hell ensues.
ISBN 0589004956
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 C/B
Reed 1970 first edition, 155pp.
[#1829/4737 ]
The Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and the Treaty of Waitangi Act (1975).
Sober, informed study of the Treaty of Waitangi and the sham Treaty act of 1975 which placed unwarranted emphasis on the documents relevance to current policy.
ISBN 047300934X
VG softback with contact sealed covers.
$25 C/B
Cadsonbury 1990 first edition, 226pp.
[#4738 ]
A complete guide.
ISBN 0589010948
fishing, trout, fly fishing, fly tying, fly tying, salmon, trout
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, lightly sunned to spine.
$20 C/C
Reed 1978 first edition, 151pp + colour plates.
[#4739 ]
Stated first edition.
G+ hardback with light soiling and fading to boards, inscription to half title, pencil name to title.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1922 first edition, 318pp, map end papers.
[#4740 ]
The importance of water in the outback, and how in some places it is scarce where in others overabundant.
australia, history
VG- soiled cloth, spine leans, neat inscription to fep.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson June 1949 cloth, 253pp + plates.
[#4741 ]
The unpublished facts behind the notorious Lonely Hearts killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez.
Covers right up to the execution in Sing Sing's electric chair.
murder, twentieth century, usa
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with mildly chipped spine ends, rubbed corners, name to fep.
$25 C/B
Andrew Dakers 1953 first edition, 232pp.
[#4742 ]
Nancy Drew series 36
ISBN 0001604368
British printing
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 156pp.
[#4745 ]
Nancy Drew series 7
ISBN 0001604074
British printing
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket. Small stamp to spine.
$10 C/B
Collins 1972 first thus, 160pp.
[#4746 ]
Nancy Drew series 28
ISBN 0001604287
British printing
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
Llight edge wear, age browned paper.
$10 C/B
Collins 1973 , 160pp
[#4747 ]
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 29, British edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor edge wear.
Book has a prize plate to free end paper.
$25 C/B
Sampson Low 1967 first UK edition, 160pp.
[#4748 ]
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 18, British edition.
VG hardback in VG- price clipped dust jacket with edge wear and head of spine chipped with loss.
Book has a prize plate to free end paper.
$25 C/B
Sampson Low 1964 first UK edition, 160pp.
[#4749 ]
Illustrated story of a Maori family by the sea, the Maori text translated by Hapi Potae.
Illustrated by Barbara Strathdee.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 B/B
Collins 1973 First Edition, 32pp.
[#4750]
A novel firmly based on the Moors Murders case, focusing on Brady and Hindley. Almost a piece of journalism on the murder.
British murder case, deadly couple, pedophilia, child killer, Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, Saddleworth Moor, Serial Killer, Nietzsche, Nietzschean, Superman
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Some handling wear or surface soiling to the white jacket.
$10 C/B
C/B World Books 1968 hardcover, 352pp.
[#4751 ]
The Yeti and Sasquatch in myth and reality.
ISBN 0224007963
Explores the validity of reported sightings of giant man-like apes in northwestern America, British Columbia, and the Himalayas.
G+ hardback in VG- dust jacket under plastic sleeve with some minor library marks.
Book ex-library with stamps etc but otherwise tidy.
$30 C/C
Cape 1972 first edition, 240pp + plates
[#4755 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Graham Kaye
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 190pp.
[#4758 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Charles Brey
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
ISBN 001622145
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1970 first edition thus, 160pp.
[#1587/4759 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Ray Johnson
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
ISBN 001622145
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 159pp.
[#4760 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Graham Kaye
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 191pp.
[#4761 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories.
Assumed first British edition.
110-150 printed to rear jacket flap.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear with short tears and chipping.
$20 C/B
Sampson Low undated, 192pp. decorative endpapers.
[#4762 ]
1950s or 1960s schoolboy detective style fiction.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping.
$8 C/B
Spring Books Halcyon Library undated, 208pp + colour frontis.
[#4763 ]
8 short adventure stories for boys by the author of Biggles.
Illustrated by Douglas Relf
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
School prize plate to paste down, lightly sunned spine, faint foxing.
$10 C/B
Thomas Nelson Panther Library 1955 first edition, 118pp.
[#4764 ]
A Lucid Treatise Dealing with all the Popular and more Abstruse Methods.
Divination with playing cards and includes English methods of Telling, Napoleon's Method and Tarot divination.
G+ hardback in mottled red cloth with faint water stain to bottom edges, some spotting to closed edges.
No dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Foulsham undated (1960s) 155pp + 5pp adverts.
[#4765 ]
Its Cultivation, Use, and Application to Psychotherapy.
Includes and outline and history of the science, and early experiments.
Hypnotic and Post-Hypnotic suggestion, stage hypnotism, self hypnotism, the hypnotic factor in Psychic Mediumship.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, price clipped, name stamp to free end paper.
$25 C/B
Rider 1956 fifth impression reprint, 158pp.
[#4766]
US first edition of this classic retro American young adult fiction.
VG- hardback in G dust jacket.
Name to half-title, paper scar to free end paper, jacket worn and chipped.
$15 C/B
Grosset & Dunlap 1954 first edition, 210pp.
[#4767 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories.
First UK edition.
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Green boards with red design, decorative endpapers.
$10 C/B
Sampson Low undated, 190pp.
[#4768 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories #8
ISBN 0448090880
9088
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Grosset and Dunlap 1973, 182pp.
[#4769 ]
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories #11
ISBN 0448090910
9091
VG pictorial hardcovers with no dust jacket.
Light surface soiling, inscription to paste down.
$10 C/B
Grosset and Dunlap 1974, 174pp.
[#4769 ]
Girl Guide Adventure Book No 1
VG hardback in G- dust jacket with some edge wear and short edge tears.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1965 first edition, 177pp.
[#4780 ]
Scouting Adventures for Boys
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some edge wear.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1964 first edition, 171pp.
[#4781 ]
Baron von Hügel offers spiritual guidance in response to the sometimes distressing events of his adult niece's life.
Informal and extremely personal, the letters provide a fascinating insight into the character of this important figure in the Catholic modernist movement.
ISBN 9781573831031
christian, modernist, philosophy
VG softback
$15 C/B
Regent College Publishing 1998, 171pp.
[#4782 ]
A Search for God through Awareness of the True Self.
Finley offers a guide to the difficult journey leading from an awareness of a false and illusory self to a realization of the true self.
In exploring Merton's thought, Finley offers fresh insight to a major spiritual thinker of our time, a guide to our spiritual journey and a participatory look at Merton's approach to prayer and contemplation.
Finley stayed at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative, for six years and wrote this book to share what he had learned on his spiritual journey under the guidance of one of the great religious figures of our day.
ISBN 0877931593
christian, spirituality, mysticism
G+ softback, minor spots of tape stain to inside covers.
$8 C/B
Ave Maria Press 1978, 158pp.
[#4783 ]
A discussion of the work of feminist thinkers from the last three hundred years, which features contributions from contemporary writers such as Ann Oakley and Alix Kates Shulman on the feminist intellectual tradition pioneered by the likes of Aphra Benn, Christabel Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf.
ISBN 9780704338890
gender studies, sociology, politics, theory
VG softback
$15 C/B
Women's Press Ltd 1992, 402 pp.
[#4784]
The Hardy Boys Series #34
ISBN 0001605348
British printing
VG- hardcover pictorial boards, rubbed edges, name to free end paper.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 160pp.
[#4785 ]
Edited by Greg Waite; Otago Studies in English 3
ISBN 9780959791495
arthurian, grail, British history, The Matter of Britain
VG- softback, minor insect damage to first page otherwise tidy
$15 C/B
English Department (University of Otago) 1993, xxxvii 187pp
[#4786 ]
New Thought Christian mysticism and spirituality
ISBN 852430108
VG softback, sewn binding.
$25 C/B
Fowler 1977 reprint, 242pp.
[#4787 ]
Most managers know that revitalization in their companies must occur from the ground up. But how can you get that message to your employees without applying the kind of pressure that makes them even less productive?
Empowerment is the answer, and it's easier to achieve than you may think. In this motivating book you will find specific strategies designed to help you empower your employees daily.
More concrete than other works on participative management, Zapp! shows you how to encourage responsibility acknowledgment, and creativity so that employees feel that they gown their jobs.
With hands-on examples, you will learn the basics that allow you to use this principle in every situation, from large meetings to one-on-one conversations to formal evaluations, and really get results.
Best of all, you can use the techniques in Zopp! to pursue any number of business goals, whether you're trying to increase productivity improve customer service, or innovate faster than the competition.
It's all here, in an accessible guide for the successful managers of tomorrow.
ISBN 9780449907058
self development, business, positive thought
VG softback
$10 C/B
Fawcett 1992, 197pp.
[#4788 ]
"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time."
The ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves.
Therefore, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading.
ISBN 070120625X
Second revised edition.
VG softback
$10 C/B
Hogarth 1985, 262pp.
[#4789 ]
A companion to the author's Sea Anglers Fishes of New Zealand.
Illustrated frontis by A Fraser-Brunner, other illustrations are black and white photos..
angling, big game fishing, shark, marlin
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket price with short tear top edge rear panel and short split at head of spine fold.
free end paper corner clipped, some mottling to lower edge of the cloth boards.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1958 First Edition, 127pp + plates.
[#4724 ]
Early Australian issues of these classic stories.
Sold as a bundle.
G+ hardbacks in green cloth.
Rubbed to edges, inscription to paste downs, lack free end papers, age browned paper, soiled closed edges
$30 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1940 / 1941 / 1940, 283 + 342 + 234pp.
[#4725 ]
One Hundred more of the Master's stories introduced by James Hilton.
Thin rice paper but still a hefty book.
VG hardback in VG- price clipped jacket with some wear.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1955 sixth impression, cloth, 1128pp.
[#4726 ]
UK first issue with GBP 16.99 publisher price to flap.
ISBN 0747208328
horror, fiction, collectible
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Headline 1993 first edition, 409pp.
[#4729 ]
Being a brief memoir of The Late Rev William Rickarby Campbell B. A.
Campbell was the first settled minister in the Amuri.
Many photos of early church buildings in the district
Bagnall; N3646
This copy has a presentation inscription by author on title page, and is annotated and corrected in the author's hand.
VG softback in paper wrappers.
$75 C/B
D N Adams 1926 First Edition, 33pp
[#4730 ]
Esperanto-English and English-Esperanto dictionary based on the language devised by Zamenhof.
Includes grammar, and the Esperanto versions of national and personal names.
universal language, lingusitics, european
VG hardback with no jacket.
Small amount of wear to cloth, extreme bottom corner of one page torn off with minor loss of text
$10 A/A
Nelson 1950 first thus revised and enlarged edition, ix 288pp.
[#4731 ]
In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border.
Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hundred years they had disappeared.
In this period occured the destruction of the Picts and the rise of the Scottish kingdom based on contemporary accounts from fragmentary sources which survive from this darkest period in Scottish history.
These important sources are presented in full and their value as evidence is thoroughly explored and evaluated.
ISBN 9780748612345
britain, scottish, celtic, history, pagan, anglo saxon, primary source, norse
VG+ softback
$45 C/C
Edinburgh University Press 2011, xv 384pp.
[#4733 ]
An insightful and well researched biography of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, and the times he lived in and how this affected his philosophy and writings.
Covers his political and theological ideas as well as his 'pornographic' writings.
Panther 171B
divine marquis, french philosophy, 18th century, libertine, atheist, atheist philosophy
G+ paperback with rubbed edges and reading creases etc. to cover, an 'adults only' label and a peice of surface lifted from top corner of front cover, generally VG internally.
$10 A/A
Panther 1964 reprint, 203pp.
[PB1685 ]