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An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt.
A study of medieval heresies including the Knights Templars, witches and the witch trials, magic, sorcery and maleficium.
ISBN 0586082352
witchcraft, buning times, mass hysteria, sociology
VG paperback with small nick from spine, remainder striped
$15 C/B
Paladin 1975 first thus paperback, 302pp+ plates.
[#5400 ]
A Study of Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Education.
ISBN 0710089449
Marxist Sociology of Education.
VG- softback with minor underlining/ highlighting.
$8 C/B
Routledge 1979, 224pp.
[#5401 ]
Continuity and change in a New Zealand Township.
ISBN 0868612898
sociology
VG soft cover, sunned spine, minor pencil underlining.
$15 C/B
George Allen Unwin 1980 first edition, 204 pp.
[#5402 ]
Collection of historical documentation from New Zealand history.
ISBN 198730101
G+ softback, covers creased and lightly worn.
$15 C/C
Oxford University Press 1971, xxix 489pp.
[#5403 ]
A New Zealand Golden Book.
Well illustrated with full page colour by Richardson.
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket.
$15 B/B
Golden Press 1976 first edition pictorial boards, approx 36pp.
[#5405 ]
A New Zealand Golden Book.
ISBN 0855583320
Well illustrated with full page colour by Finlayson.
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket.
3 letter initials to paste down.
$15 B/B
Golden Press 1976 first edition pictorial boards, approx 36pp.
[#5406 ]
By the author of Masquerade, an illustrated riddle book with full and double page art throughout in colour, with the title of the book hidden in clues in the text.
ISBN 0224019066
puzzle, quest, illustrated
VG+ hardback with pictorial boards, spine sunned to backstrip only.
$20 B/B
Cape 1984 first edition.
[#5408 ]
A Biography of Erich von Daniken
ISBN 0491023235
keywords
VG hardback in VG dust jacket price clipped with sunned spine.
Name to free end paper.
$20 C/B
WH Allen 1978 first edition hardcover, 158pp + plates.
[#5409 ]
''Warren embarks on a new career as a galactic troubleshooter. His first mission takes him to a water planet where a company producing a mind-blowing drug is having trouble with its alien workforce''.
ISBN 0575049189
The sequel to Who Goes Here?
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Iinscription to free end paper.
$20 C/B
Gollancz 1993 first edition hardcover, 217pp.
[#5410 ]
Theosophy and Romantic Occultism / Velikovsky and Incipient Catastrophism / Flying Saucers / Von Daniken phenomenon.
Also Occult Nazism, a good appendix of UFO researchers, societies and contactees, and a good bibliography.
'Examines how nineteenth century occultism, particularly theosophy has been revitalised in the guise of scientific speculation.
ISBN 0713467061
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Ex-library, one cancelled stamp to fep, shelf mark to imprint, stamp top edge.
Labels and stamps to dust jacket which is under a plastic sleeve.
$20 C/C
Batsford 1992 first edition hardcover, 223pp.
[#5411 ]
History and physical properties of the Stonehenge stone circle.
ISBN 0116700688
VG stapled wrappers
$10 C/B
HMSO 1977 stapled wrappers, 35pp + large folding plan map at rear, illustrated.
[#5412 ]
Memoirs of an extraordinary life soldiering around the world from 1940 to 1970 by the author of Dare to be Free, New Zealander Sandy Thomas.
Uncommon title.
ISBN 0476006112
ww2, WWII, 23 NZ battalion,
VG soft back, signed to dedication page above the author's 'Best Wishes' rubber stamp giving his military decorations etc.
$45 C/C
Dryden Press 2004 first edition, sewn binding, 385pp. Illustrated.
[#5384 ]
Weston explains how anyone can beat cancer and arthritis without expensive drugs, hospitalization, and doctors, just as he did.
Based on his own experiments with crops and animals, his conclusions have led to remarkable cures.
ISBN 9780646403137
naturopathy, mineral supplements
VG softback
$20 C/B
Bookbin publishing 2003, 161pp.
[#5386 ]
The exploits of Peter Williamson, a New Zealand undercover cop.
ISBN9781869581947
true crime, justice, non-fiction
VG+ softback
$20 C/B
Hodder 1995 first edition, 239pp
[#5387 ]
A novel about a successful academic married father, who cruises the gay underworld at night.
ISBN 9780790003825
new zealand literature, maori, queer, gay
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Secker and Warburg 1995 first edition, 304pp.
[#5388 ]
Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory.
ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists, British
G- reading copy, ugly worn library cloth rebind.
Internally reasonably tidy with minor library marks.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1940 first edition hard cover, x 255pp + plates.
[#5389 ]
Reminiscences of a former Mayoress of Dunedin including the first frozen meat shipment aboard the 'Dunedin' which her father participated in.
Much of her world wide travels and political career.
politics, travel, otago, high society, memoir, New Zealand women
G+ hardback with no jacket.
A small amount of red staining to the upper joint and lower fore edge board, signed across frontis by the author, minor foxing to closed edges.
$30 C/B
John McIndoe 1947 first edition cloth, 284pp + plates.
[#5390 ]
A Hercule Poirot story.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket minor edge chipping with some mild soiling to the rear panel, minor spotting to closed edges.
$10 C/B
The Book Club 1956 first thus edition, 192pp.
[#5391 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with small tear to bottom edge of front wrapper.
$20 C/B
Romance Book Club edition 1961 first thus, 190pp.
[#5392 ]
Third and much enlarged edition including all the most important discoveries up to the time of publication, with twenty-four explanatory plates, giving maps, plans, elevations, and sections.
Formerly belonged to Thomas [Dyke] Acland, 1846-1892, with his ink copperplate name and address to the half-title.
It seems upon Acland's death the book passed to L. Morrow, who has penned his name dated 1892.
VG- rubbed joints, spine ends and corners starting, blind embossed bookseller stamp to fep, 3 copperplate owners details to half title, one marginal pen line noted.
$175 C/C
Daldy Isbister & Co 1877, third revised edition, green cloth with gilt decoration and titling, xviii 626 +4pp adverts + plates.
[#5306 ]
A level headed investigation of dowsers and dowsing.
Well illustrated reprint of 1926 edition.
radiesthesia, dowsing, water diivining, earth energies
A record of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program, in images and text.
Scott Base, McMurdo Sound, Ross Ice Shelf
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor edge chipping or short tears.
$20 C/D
Reed 1964 first edition, 90pp + 207 photos, map end papers.
[#5308 ]
Five chapters on the greats of Antarctic exploration; Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, Byrd, Fuchs and Hillary.
antarctica, south pole, expeditions
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Name to fep, price clipped jacket, faint foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$30 C/B
Evans 1958 first edition, 191pp + plates.
[#5309]
A study of the ecological risk to Antarctica and the conservation of its natural resources.
ISBN0725103906
antarctica, ecology, conservation, south pole, wildlife
VG softback
$15 B/C
Sun Books 1982 first edition, 125pp + plates in colour.
[#5310 ]
An account of two and a half years spent on the sub-arctic island of South Georgia in the Falklands.
ISBN 0091085101
Grytviken, King Edward Cove, arctic circle, north pole, polar
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Name to fep.
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1971 first edition, 190pp + plates & colour frontis.
[#5311 ]
The Story of British Research in the Southern Seas.
antarctic circle, exploration, subantarctic
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light surface insect damage to cloth, name to fep.
$45 C/C
Odhams 1963 first edition, 255pp+ plates.
[#5312 ]
Reminiscences of the years activities in Repulse Bay and Igloolik in Canada's Arctic circle, amongst the Inuit eskimo.
ISBN 0888302258
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Library stamps to title and verso only, one leaf starting to detach, minor tape mark to lower board.
Dust jacket under plastic sleeve with sunned spine and shelf mark.
$10 C/B
Hurtig 1982 first edition hardcover, 192pp, photos in text, map endpapers.
[#5314 ]
One year at Scott Base, Antarctica: a personal impresson.
new zealand, south pole
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with slight fade to spine.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1968 first edition, 191pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5315]
Edmund Hillary's own account of his Transantarctic Expedition.
antarctic, south pole, crossing the pole
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket, lightly creased front board, inscription to fep, dust jacket price clipped with chipping loss at head of spine and corner tips.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1961 second impression of first edition, 255pp + plates.
[#5316 ]
The MV Greenpeace expedition to monitor the ecological balance in Antarctica, totally unsupported by any of the Governmental outposts on the continent
ISBN1869410203
VG+ softback
$20 B/C
Century Hutchinson 1988 first edition, 126pp + colour plates.
[#5317 ]
The yacht Solo's expedition for the Oceanic Research Foundation to the Antarctic Balleny Islands and Cape Adare.
ISBN 0002166720
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket which is lightly watermarked to top edges.
$20 C/C
Collins 1979 first edition, 144pp + colour plates.
[#5318 ]
"An arctic expedition, disaster, heroic rescue, and escape from the frigid,desolate desert that is Greenland's great ice cap."
ISBN
keywords
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket with sunned spine, large chip top left front panel with a tear across the front, rear panel with tears and some small loss.
$20 C/C
Robert Hale & Co. 1954 first edition,155pp + plates.
[#5319 ]
Translated from the French by Richard Graves.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Free end paper clipped, light foxing to prelims.
Dust jacket with lightly soiled lower panel and short edge tears to joints.
$20 C/C
Travel Book Club undated, first thus, 206pp + many plates.
[#5320 ]
U.S. Antarctic Program USA, antarctica, biology, oceanography, marine geology, geophysics, geology, meteorology
VG- softback with lightly soiled wraps.
$20 B/C
National Science Foundation 1977, 216pp.
[#5321 ]
An account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic
One of the fullest accounts of Scott's expedition.
G+ hardback.
Spine edges and corners rubbed and frayed, front hinge reinforced with pasted paper, lacks prelims, starts with frontis, minor foxing, rear hinge cracked, some plates have small rubber stamp to blank margins or are detached.
A good reading or reference copy.
$30 C/C
Duckworth September 1935 reprint, cloth with printed cover, xxvi 305 (+1) pp+ plates.
[#5322 ]
VG- hardback, cloth rubbed and lightly soiled, small fray head of spine, foxed prelims.
$35 C/C
Duckworth September 1949 reprint, xviii 300pp+ CXXXII plates.
[#5323 ]
A Glaswegians ten years as a fur hunter in Canada's north amongst the Eskimos.
ISBN 0261100122
Inuit, Franklin, Perry Island, Canadian northern provinces, anthropology
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Hinges loose, jacket has splits at joint and corner ends, some tape oxide to endpapers, some foxing.
$15 C/C
MacGibbon & Kee 1972 first edition, 285pp + colour plates.
[#5324 ]
Surveys the life and work of Russians within the Arctic areas of the (former) Soviet Union, including a chapter on the Gulags.
USSR, CCCP, history
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1937, 288pp + plates + folding maps + adverts at rear, decorative endpapers.
[#5325 ]
A travel to Vostok, the Russian base at the Southern Geomagnetic Pole, from the Australian base at Wilkes.
antarctic, antarctica
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Reed 1969 first edition, 192pp + plates.
[#5326 ]
Ananthology in English verse with original texts, from the 11th Century to the generation of 1898.
English and Spanish facing text.
european culture, literature, espanol
Good cloth hardback in Good dust jacket.
Ex-library with cancellation, stamps etc.
Dust jacket has edge wear and tears.
$10 C/C
The Johns Hopkins Press 1955 first edition, 452pp.
[#5327 ]
With daily aspectarian also monthly position of Pluto.
12 issues, for 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952,1953.
With advertising for Max Heindel Rosicrucian publications.
astrology, reference
G+ softback/ wrappers.
Staples rusted, a few covers are stained and/ or silverfished.
$35 C/C
Rosicrucian Fellowship California stapled wrappers, 36pp each.
[#5328 ]
make the most of your workplace for harmony, prosperity and success by utilising the ancient science of Feng Shui.
ISBN 9679786889
geomancy
VG+ softback
$10 C/B
Pelanduk 1999, 273pp.
[#5329 ]
Late Victorian Australian young adults fiction.
Plates by Percy F. S. Spence.
VG- decorated cloth, upper joint split, corners frayed, internally clean.
$20 C/C
Blackie undated, 288pp +6 plates and 32pp adverts.
[#5330 ]
The Story of John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission in the great outback of Australia.
ISBN
A.I.M.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge tears, chipping, creasing, some loss, and faded spine.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1959 reprint of the New Edition, xii 244pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#5331 ]
Western Australian gold rush centred on Perth at the turn of Twentieth Century.
Also Gold and Opal mining.
ISBN 0851794920
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine.
$25 C/C
Rigby 1973 first edition, 185pp +plates.
[#5332 ]
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi's 16th century expedition to the Phillipines.
Spanish empire, exploration, nautical, Pacific exploration
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Whitcombe & Tombs 1961 first edition, 214pp + frontis.
[#5333 ]
The Shipboard and Early Melbourne Diary.
An early Australian colonial diary in facsimile of original faced by type.
Illustrated.
ISBN 0646002287
australian colonial history, primary source, reference
VG softback
$25 C/B
J. B. Were 1990, xviii 309pp.
[#5335 ]
The men and the women of the Australian outback, both black and white and the lives they lead.
aboriginals, australian sociology, history
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Lacks free end paper otherwise tidy.
$15 C/C
Rigby 1966 first edition, 295pp + plates.
[#5336 ]
Wandering in Northern Australia, encountering Crocodiles, Buffalos, and Aboriginals in the Northern Territories.
G+ hardback with rubbed joints and edges, inscription to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1952, ix 241pp + plates.
[#5337 ]
Probably intended for visitors to the island as a guide, this is a history and gazetter of the islands places and resources.
Reprint of 1940 edition.
Slipped in is a three page letter from a resident of the island.
VG softback with a few minor spots to some margins, foxing to wrappers.
$15 C/B
Australis 1972 edition, 54pp + plates.
[#5338 ]
A text book for Oceanic studies.
Covers Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and South East Asia.
Illustrated with examples of stone tools etc.
ISBN 0846519380
pacific
VG- softback
$10 C/B
Cummings 1975 first edition, 125pp.
[#5339 ]
A journalists reports of travel about the entirety of Australia, from coast to 'red centre', tropics to the south.
Australian travel, history, first edition, outback
Good hardback with no dust jacket.
Rubbed cloth, lightly foxed throughout, mainly to margins, binding open at frontis, name to fep.
$25 C/C
Jarrolds 1937 first edition, buckram 8vo, 334pp +64pp adverts, plates and map end papers.
[#5340 ]
Uranium and other radioactive minerals prospecting in the Australian outback.
ISBN 0851791522
mining, nuclear fuel, geology,
Good hardback with no jacket.
Reading copy.
Ex-library with stamps and slips and shelf mark to spine in white ink.
$10 C/B
Rigby 1971 first edition, 172pp + plates.
[#5341 ]
Flying doctor in the Northern Territory and Indonesian archipelago.
medicine, outback doctor,
Good hardback with no jacket.
Worn and rubbed cloth, name to title page.
$15 C/C
Georgian House 1948 reprint, 261pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5342 ]
The story of the white police and aboriginal trackers in the North West territories.
Idriess rode with the men he writes about, as well as the aboriginal criminals they were hunting.
crime, judiciary, mounted police, aboriginal trackers
VG hardback with name to paste down, light foxing to prelims.
$35 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1936, 9th edition cloth, 330pp + plates and adverts.
[#5345 ]
VG+ hardback with no jacket.
Faint name to closed fore edge of pages.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1956, reprint of new edition, 272pp + plates.
[#5343 ]
An account of Australia's far north.
The story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and settlement in the tropic north, based on first-hand knowledge and experience.
Cattle-droving over wilderness, encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were inevitably covered by the relentless growth of vegetation, the first crossing of the continent, the building of the Overland Telegraph Line, and the incredible lives of men and women of three generations.
VG- cloth hardback, with no dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1951 first edition, 454pp.
[#5344 ]
The Story of David Pausu and the United Church of South Bougainville.
Includes some local legends as well as an account of the area during the Second World War.
Photo offset with poor quality photos in the text.
ISBN 0473001691
WWII, US, GI, Pacific
VG stapled softcover in dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Coroprint 1979 second edition, 95pp.
[#5346 ]
An account of the early days of Opal Mining at Lightning Ridge, north of Sydney/
gemstones, mining, history
VG- hardback with no jacket.
Spine leans, bumped corners.
$15 C/C
Angus and Robertson April 1948 reprint, 234pp+ plates
[#5347 ]
Encompasses Cook's explorations to Antarctica, New Zealand, Fiji, Easter Island etc.
Illustrated with woodcuts by C W Bacon.
exploration, nautical, pacific
Good hardback reading copy.
Ex-library, cloth sunned and faded, shelf mark [12] to spine in marker, stamps to endpapers, title page and some page margins, covers and stamps only faults.
$45 C/C
Robert Hale 1953 first thus after Golden Cockerel limited edition, cloth, xx 214pp + folding map at rear.
[#5348 ]
An autobiography of a patrol officer in New Guinea, includes Sepik river head-hunters, and Second World War service.
Kassa Townsend, Japanese, WWII, Pacific
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Ex-library with stamps etc.
$25 C/C
Pacific Publications 1968 first edition cloth, 271pp + plates, map endpapers.
[#5349 ]
Autobiography of a doctor in the Pacific Islands between the World Wars.
New Guinea, Fiji, Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
VG hardback, textured cloth, no jacket.
Gift inscription to half-title.
$25 C/C
Dent / Jaboor 1943 third edition, 421pp+ plates
[#5350 ]
A history of the Catholic Women's League in the Archdiocese of Sydney 1913-87.
ISBN 0868402583
religious organisations, Australia,catholicism, social history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light crease.
Inscription to half title, and errata slip.
$25 B/C
New South Wales University Press 1987 first edition, x 218pp
[#5351 ]
Wade Doak and his families boat travels about the Pacific, includes Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, diving expeditions etc.
ISBN 0340214511
marine biology, sea, ocean, yachting
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Gift inscription to half title, small chip head of jacket spine.
$20 B/C
Hodder 1976 first edition, 200pp + colour plates.
[#5352 ]
Woman fleeing in dark forest cover art.
James Bond first edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light rubbing to the edges, short splits to corners.
$25 C/B
The Book Club1962 first thus edition, 189pp.
[#5356 ]
Naked woman with arms raised cover art.
James Bond first edition.
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket with large chips/ loss to spine ends, only half of 'Dr' to spine present, rear panel chipping loss to top corners, splits to joints, book boards a little bumped, dust soiled closed edges.
$20 C/B
The Book Club1958 first thus edition, 248pp.
[#5357 ]
Black, white and gold design with eyes cover art.
James Bond first edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Light foxing to closed edges, light wear and tiny edge splits or short tears to unclipped jacket.
$25 C/B
The Book Club1960 first thus edition, 192pp.
[#5359 ]
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with light wear and edge splits or short tears.
Rubbed corners, chip from top left corner of front panel, chipped spine ends, name to fep dated July 1961.
$20 C/B
The Book Club1960 first thus edition, 192pp.
[#5360 ]
A Musterer's year on Ngamatea- New Zealand's biggest sheep station.
High country sheep farming, mustering in Hawkes Bay.
ISBN0340157763
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with light edgewear, inscriptions to fep, SIGNED by AUTHOR to half title dated 1971
$95 C/B
Hodder 1971 first edition, 176pp+ plates. [#5361]
A new translation of a yoga classic.
Includes Vairagya, Mumuksu Vyavahara. Utpatti, Sthiti, Upasama, Nirvana Prakaranam.
ISBN 0959069003
hindu, indian, philoophy
VG+ hardcover, has been professionally rebound in a cloth case with illustrated covers laid down.
Gilt titled spine.
$45 C/C
Chiltern Yoga Trust 1984 third Australian edition, x 382pp.
[#5362 ]
Young adult fiction set in modern Iceland.
Supernatural themes such as Trolls and Huldafolk.
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket.
Ex-library with stamps and tape etc.
Closed edges some foxing.
Price clipped jacket has small patch of discolouration to spine from label.
$15 C/B
Constable 1966 first edition, 144pp.
[#5363 ]
Jungian interpretation of Eliot's work.
Chapters: The mythical vision, The mythical method, Early poems 1909-1920, Gerontion, The waste land, The hollow men, Ash Wednesday, Ariel poems, Coriolan, Four quartets, "The voice of this calling."
British modern literature, criticism
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Discolouration to cloth boards, some mild foxing.
$15 C/C
Eyre and Spottiswoode 1950 first edition, 256pp.
[#5364 ]
A Miss Silver Mystery.
Cover art by Taylor.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some wear to edges and corners.
$10 C/B
Thriller Book Club undated, 255pp.
[#5365 ]
The Story of an African hunter, John Alfred Jordan.
Jordan started his African adventure before the Boer War, and hunted Elephant for ivory, and crocodiles for pleasure.
Uganda, Belgian Congo, natives
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Some minor foxing.
$35 C/C
Nicholas Kaye 1956 first edition, 248pp. Illustrated
[#5366 ]
A Glenn Bowman thriller.
ISBN 0002317052
G+ hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Ex-library with stamps and issue slips etc.
Jacket price clipped.
$15 C/B
Collins 1970 first edition, 192pp.
[#5367 ]
Adapted to the state and condition of all Orders of christians.
christian devotional
G+ hardback, creased lower board with cracked endpaper, name to fep, light foxing to endpapers.
$15 C/B
Methuen 1950 seventh edition, cloth 16mo, xliv 499pp.
[#5368 ]
Complete history of the founding of the British Trade Unions, covering up to the 1950s.
employment, civil rights
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and chipping .
Light foxing to book, soiled closed edges.
$25 C/C
Odhams 1954 first edition cloth, 448pp.
[#5369 ]
A "Lovely Mystery".
Eight other titles listed at the front.
G+ softcover digest, newsprint paper stock, some edge wear.
$75 C/B
Horwitz / Transport Publishing, Sydney, 1955 first edition(?), 98pp.
[#5370 ]
Wargaming rules book for a divisional level game of modern warfare.
Includes folding sheet of tables and charts.
wargaming, tabletop games
VG- softback.
$25 C/B
Self published by B. A. Rea-Taylor and A. Ashton 1986, stapled wrappers, 100pp.
[#5371 ]
Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, The Celestine Prophecy tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now...and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come.
ISBN 1863593195
new age
G+ softback
$7 C/B
Bantam, 247pp.
[#5372/638 ]
Biography and case studies of one of the foremost Criminal Pathologists of modern times.
Includes such infamous cases as; Hawley Harvey Crippen, The Brides in the Baths murders, Bonati Charing Cross Trunk case and more.
twentieth century, criminology, murder, pathology
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Rear hinge cracked, name whited out to free end paper, cloth boards rubbed, light spotting.
$20 C/C
Harrap 1951 first edition, 422pp + plates.
[#5373 ]
Yaqui shaman Don Juan divulges his teaching to Castaneda.
The main focus of this book, the fourth in Castaneda's Don Juan series, is the distinction between the sorcerer's world and the everyday world.
ISBN 0671218581
comparative religion, shamanism, amerindian
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with sunned spine.
Book has minor tape residue to paste downs and board edges, name stamp to fep and title.
$20 C/C
Simon and Schuster 1974 first edition, cloth, 287pp.
[#5374 ]
Yaqui shaman Don Juan divulges his teaching to Castaneda.
Teachings on religion and mythology and the use of hallucinogenic drugs in shamanic context.
ISBN 0340228350
comparative religion, shamanism, amerindian
VG hardback in a VG- price clipped dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping to top edge.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1978, 316pp.
[#5375 ]
An introduction to Australian history and culture. Part of the Stories of the Commonwealth series.
Illustrated throughout and with the dust jacket by B. Biro.
keywords
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Book has foxed endpapers and prelims, offset tape stains to boards (minor), light bumping to bottom edge of boards.
Jacket has tape stains to verso and tape residue to spine and fore edge folds where tape has dried and flaked off, better than it sounds!
$15 B/C
Ernest Benn 1959 first edition 4to, 64pp.
[#5376 ]
Consists mainly of full page full colour photographs with an emphasis on young Tahitian maidens unclothed.
polynesia, photography, french polynesia
G+ hardback with some silverfish surface damage to spine, no jacket.
$10 B/C
Seven Seas 1965 first edition, approx 120pp
[#5377 ]
A history of Bass Strait, well illustrated with full colour full page photographs as well as historic paintings etc.
ISBN 0589071165
australasia, Broken Hill Propriety Company, BHP, Tasmania
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 B/C
Reed 1973 first edition 4to, 112pp
[#5378 ]
History of the island settled by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian concubines, and the convict island where Australia's worst were sent.
Fully illustrated throughout in colour and line.
ISBN 0670815217
Fletcher Christian, Admiral Bligh, pacific islands
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 B/C
Viking 1986 first edition 4to, 189pp.
[#5379 ]
A coming of age novel concerning a young girl on a country estate.
VG hardback in G dust jacket with spine sunned, soiled, edge chipping, closed edges dusty.
$25 C/B
Spearmann 1953 first UK edition, 186pp.
[#5380 ]
The story follows 49 hours in the life of a small town attorney.
This award winner was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Turned into a feature film in with Lana Turner.
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket, soiled to spine, light edgewear.
Book closed edges dusty.
$10 C/C
Longmans 1958 first UK hardcover, 570pp.
[#5381 ]
In a dystopian future, one man holds the key to remedy the ills that plague the society that has rejected him.
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Top of fep clipped, top edge foxed.
$10 C/B
Science Fiction Book Club 1969 first thus, 176pp.
[# 5382]
The Story of the Sea Reconnaissance Unit.
Second World War amphibious commandos against the Japanese.
WWII, Pacific, S E Asia
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with light wear and soiling.
$20 C/C
William Kimber 1970 first edition hardcover, 168pp + plates.
[#5383 ]
'With supplememnt in reply to recent charges'.
One of a series of books published to answer the question why to choose Christianity over various other faiths.
Refutes the Philosophy, Science and Religion of 'Eddyism'.
Mary Baker Eddy, nrm, cult
Good only softback with chipped yapped edges to wrappers, ex library stamps to free end papers, shelf mark to spine.
$7 C/B
Epworth Press undated (1920s), 96pp
[RM83]
Good only softback with brown paper pasted over original wrappers, some pen underlining.
$7 C/B
Epworth Press undated (1920s), 96pp
[#5301]
A Factual Analysis Of The Relationship Of Nazi-Fascism And Roman Catholicism.
Author sees Jesuit plot behind the Nationalism and Fascism of the pre war years as a symptom of Catholic reaction against the liberalism of the Enlightenment and Reformation.
Believes the work of the Jesuits is to support fascist regimes to bring about the Restoration of the Papal Holy Roman Empire.
Emphasis on Hitler's 'Positive Christianity', Mussolini's Lateran Treaty with the Vatican, and the role played by the Catholic Church in the Eastern European Fascist regimes. Uncommon
Political influence and meddling of the Catholic State in European affairs in regard to both World Wars, with an historical background.
Published in New Zealand by John A. Lee, and with adverts for John A Lee's Weekly and other publications.
conservative politics, Hitler, Laval, Franco, Mussolini, Pope Pius XII, Jesuits, Freemasons, Protocols of Zion, Leo Taxil. Papacy,
VG softback, some mild foxing, name to first page, light wear.
$65 C/A
Agora Publishing Co.1946, fourth printing, 93pp.
[#5302 ]
A Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying.
Methods of scrying (divination), as well as historical examples and examples in literature form various eras and places / cultures around the world.
VG hardback with no dust jacket. Cloth spine gilt, papered boards, pencil to fep.
$125 C/B
William Rider and Son 1924 first edition, xii 183pp.
[#5303 ]
Conversations with Krishnamurti, and his discourses on a number of questions relating to self-knowledge.
ISBN 057501556X
theosophy, new age, spirituality
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket. Jacket has some minor insect damage, book is a bit crushed at foot of spine, name to free end paper.
$10 C/B
Gollancz 1973 second impression, 207pp.
[#5304 ]
Illustrated By Harry Toothill with 19 line drawings and 4 colour colour plates.
Bound in Sundour cloth with special designs for the binding, end-papers, and jackets by Alexander H. Williamson.
ISBN 0460050443
Children's Illustrated Classics 44,
VG cloth hardback with G+ dust jacket with some edge wear and slight fade to spine.
$20 C/C
Dent and Sons 1971, 326pp.
[#5305 ]
Illustrated by E. H. Shepard with coloured plates and drawings.
A classic tale of the Victorian cab-driver, with elements of the fairy-tale and Scottish folklore.
A young boy is befriended by the North Wind who lets him fly with her on her assignments.
VG cloth hardback with G+ dust jacket with some edge wear and short edge tears.
$20 C/C
Childrens Illustrated Classics series number 36.
J.M. Dent 1959, 325pp + plates.
[#5275 ]
G+ paperback, red pen name to head of pp5 'Sadie G Balkind'.
Airmont Classics CL100 illustrated in line
$7 A/B
Airmont Books 1966, complete and unabridged, 288pp.
[PB1293 ]
This work discusses the problems that face most thinking people; the Endless Quest of the human soul and how Truth may be found by inner guidance, the study of science, evolution, medicine and psychology.
occult, new age, spirituality, New Zealand author
Good cloth hardback.
Ex-library with stamps etc.
$15 C/B
Rider and Co. undated [1965], 96pp.
[#5276 ]
Large format book that contains a collection of individual portraits in image and word of remarkable trees in New Zealand.
These trees have fascinating lives and histories spanning hundreds or thousands of years.
From the 800 year old pohutukawa that stands at 'the place of leaping' at Cape Reinga to the Moriori carved 'kopi' (karaka) trees of the Chatham Islands.
Examples include not only the oldest (the kauri 'Te Matua Ngahere' in Waipoua forest) and the largest trees, but also trees that have histories that are linked to our own, such as the Gallipoli Pine at Taradale Cemetery, grown as a memorial from the seed of Gallipoli's Lone Pine Tree.
ISBN 9781869712198
flora, natural history, garden, sacred trees, taonga
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket.
$65 C/D
Hodder Moa 2011 first edition, 208pp.
[#5277 ]
Mainly photographic account of the 243 kilometre multi-discipline race from Kumara to Sumner, year by year.
ISBN 9781869419400
Steve Gurney, Robin Judkins, athletics, cross country, alpine traverse
VG softback, but MISSING the CD that was included when new.
$15 C/B
Random House 2007, 64pp.
[#5278 ]
Introduces and describes our common sharks and rays, from the much-feared white pointer shark to the harmless dogfishes and peculiar-looking deep-sea chimaeras, as well as the stingrays and electric ray.
Looks at the relationships between sharks and people; shark fishing and shark attacks; sharks in history and in the Maori world, and the anatomy and evolution of sharks and rays.
ISBN 9780908812608
marine biology, illustrated
VG+ softback.
$35 C/B
Canterbury University Press 1997, 68pp.
[#5279 ]
Hunting Game Birds, Small and Feral Game in New Zealand.
Hints on gamebirds, waterfowl, small game and wild goats and sheep.
Where to find them and what guns to use.
ISBN 9780340519665
small game, hunting, gamebirds, shotguns
VG- hardback with pictorial boards.
$15 C/C
Hodder 1990 first edition, 246pp.
[#5280 ]
A compilation of seasonal weather images, with comments and descriptions from veteran weatherman Jim Hickey.
Colour photographs and diagrams throughout.
ISBN 9780473215514
meteorology, forecasting
VG-, last few pages have small grease stain.
$15 C/C
Tucker Media 2002, 184pp.
[#5281 ]
From Self-Government to National Sovereignty
Collected speeches on various aspects of the British Empire and it's relationships with it's former colonies.
Irish Free State, British Constitution, British Empire, Locarno Pact, treaties, Dominions, Irish Treaty
VG softback.
$20 A/B
OUP 1961, xlvii 501pp.
[#5282 ]
Titled Journey to the Polar Sea 1819-1822 to spine.
Everyman edition, with an introduction by Captain R F Scott.
The search for the Northwest Passage.
VG- cloth hardback, split at head of upper joint, no dust jacket.
$25 A/B
Dent/Dutton undated (1924?) first thus edition, x 434pp + maps.
[#5283 ]
The most adventourous scientific populariser of the age offers a summing up of a quarter of a century's study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications.
He proposes that the human brain has developed a terrible biological flaw, that it is working now against the survival of the race.
This mechanism is no longer necessarily a function which will lead us to a better world, but something demonic, possessed, perhaps even evil.
ISBN 0330258427
autonomic nervous system, philosophy, holon, materialism, reductionism, evolutionary theory, parapsychology.
VG- paperback, light age toning.
$10 C/B
Picador 1983, 354pp.
[#5284 ]
Verse, prose, poety and art.
First printings of some of the contents.
Includes Frank Sargeson, Alan Curnow etc.
literature, british, commonwealth, new zealand content
#27 Spring 1946.
G+ paperback
$10 A/B
Penguin Books, 192pp + plates.
[#5285-27 ]
#29 Autumn 1946.
G+ paperback
$10 A/B
Penguin Books, 186pp + plates and adverts.
[#5285-29 ]
Mueck creates 'hyperrealist' human sculptures out of fibreglass resin, anthropomorphic sculptures both gigantic and miniature.
His work is recognised internationally.
With essays and examples of his work in full colour photographs.
ISBN 9780724103157
australian artist, art, plastic arts, sculpture, lifelike
G+, has some slight rippling to pages from atmospheric moisture, with no stains or other marks.
$20 C/C
National Gallery of Victoria 2010, 189pp.
[#5286 ]
First edition in the New Zealand printing.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket is unclipped but has a few edge tears and chips.
Single pen name to free end paper and the closed page edges are discoloured, only shows to the closed outer edges.
$65 C/C
Pegasus Press 1967 first edition, 230pp.
[#5287 ]
The Stories of New Zealanders Who Served Their Country in Vietnam.
Photography by Paul Shackleton.
ISBN 9781877427244
RNZA, 161 Batt, RNZIR, RNZAF, RNZEME, RNZSigs, RNZAMC, NZSAS, RNZAC, Vietnam war
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, shows some handling.
Bookseller stamp to free end paper.
Half title page has a presentation inscription from 'Ross Milne, Col. Rtd, Pl Comd 2 Pl W2 Coy Vietnam 1968-69'.
$75 C/D
Willson Scott 2008 first edition, 339pp.
[#5288 ]
A history of the 1RNZIR in the Borneo conflict, by Brigadier Robert Maynard Gurr OBE.
ISBN 9781877427282
1RNZIR
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Willson Scott 2009, 167pp.
[#5289 ]
Over 400 native species described by Moore with 32 water colour plates and 80 pages of pencil drawings by Irwin.
ISBN0195580354
native flora, botanical, paintings
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with minor edge wear.
$35 B/D
Oxford University Press 1978 first edition, xxii 234pp.
[#5290 ]
Are Carlos Castaneda's accounts of Don Juan the Yaqui shaman fact or allegorical fiction?
De Mille builds a theory based on the facts of Castaneda's unorthodox UCLA career, and praises Don Juan for the knowledge he brings, while recognizing the shortcomings of his Way.
With exhaustive notes, bibliography and index.
ISBN0884960684
anthropology, shamanism, Yaqui,
VG softback, sunned spine and cover.
$25
Capra Press 1976 first edition, 205pp.
[#5264 ]
The Classic of Medieval Mysticism.
An exploration of the nature of reality, mysticism begins with the individual struggle toward a clear vision and culminates in a transformed consciousness.
This marvelous guide to the contemplative life originated with the reflection of an unknown fourteenth-century priest who believed that a "cloud of unknowing" separates people from God.
This cloud, he maintained, cannot be penetrated by intellect; only by love.
The Cloud of Unknowing offers an approach to contemplative life that finds holiness at a level deeper than physical experience and beyond language or image.
The author advise to place all thought and mental imagery behind a metaphorical "cloud of forgetting" while seeking to love the divine. through monologistic prayer, a single-word prayer, like a mantra, that assists in abandoning all extraneous thought.
Seekers can thus attain an inner silence, where they may "be still and know the sacred."
Written in everyday language and edited by a popular authority on mysticism, this can be understood and appreciated by any reader.
ISBN 9780486432038
christian, spirituality, contemplation, devotion
VG+ softback, with some minor, tidy pencil notes.
$10 C/B
Dover Publications 2003 facsimile of 1912 Stuart and Watkins edition, xxx 130pp.
[#5265 ]
Foreword by Ram Dass.
An essential guide to the topography of the spirit for every spiritual seeker.
For the beginning meditator, the book provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of the different kinds of meditation, from Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, Jewish, and Christian to Transcendental, Tantric, Kundalini, Tibeta Buddhist, Zen, and those developed by Gurdjeff and Krishnamurti, and introduces the reader to the basic elements of their practice.
For the experienced meditator, Goleman explores the distinct levels of consciousness developed as a result of long-term application.
New edition of The Varieties of Meditative Experience(1977).
ISBN 9780874778335
VG- softback, a few small stains to two pages before the title page.
$15 C/B
Tarcher/Putnam 1988 first thus, xxiv 214pp.
[#5266 ]
A study of the facts behind reincarnation.
Among discussing the history and philosophy of survival throughout the world includes references to Bridey Murphy, the Bloxham Tapes, Arthur Guirdham and the Cathars, Ann Ockendon, Joan Grant and more.
ISBN 0850302595
survival, life after death, karma, psychical research,
VG hardback with pictorial boards.
$20 C/B
Aquarian Press 1981,160pp.
[#5267 ]
This exploration of the direct experience of healing and of the divine through the witnessing of movement becoming conscious, based on the author's 35 years experience, uses sample sessions and descriptive theory to explain the discipline.
Explains the theory and practice of a unique body-based process that is cathartic, creative, healing, and mystical.
This Western awareness practice encourages the individual to experience the evolving relationship with oneself, another, the collective, and the divine through the natural impulses of conscious movement, compassionate witnessing, and clear articulation of experience.
Adler demonstrates that physical movement can invite direct experience of spiritual truths.
Designed for professionals and lay-persons interested in psychology, bodywork, mystic traditions, or personal transformation, the discipline of Authentic Movement is at the cutting edge of emerging Western healing practices.
ISBN9780892819669
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Inner Traditions 2002 First Edition, xix 242pp.
[#5268 ]
Pair of nice matching cloth-bound editions of the Jungle Books, with decorations in the text by J. Lockwood Kipling.
Printed on quality paper.
British Literature, the Raj, anthropomorphism, Mowgli, white man's burden
VG- cloth hardbacks.
Free end paper of Second book clipped at corner.
$40 C/C
MacMillan and Co. 1955, vii 277pp. and 1952, 299pp.
[#5269 ]
A novel set in New York.
VG- cloth hardback.
Ink name (H W Williams) at head of free end paper and title page.
Small ink stain to closed top edge of first 3 leaves.
$20 C/C
MacMillan and Co. 1895, 309pp + 54 page advertising catalogue for MacMillan dated September 1895.
[#5270 ]
A pocket guide to New Zealand birds with classification, distribution and population status.
Illustrated with full colour photographs.
ISBN 9781877246586
new zealand, ornithology, birds, wildlife, identification
VG+ softback
$15 A/A
New Holland Publishers 2002, 140pp.
[#5271 ]
A pocket guide to New Zealand ferns with classification, distribution and identifiaction hints.
Illustrated with full colour photographs.
ISBN 9781877246944
new zealand, flora, wildlife, identification
VG+ softback
$15 A/A
New Holland Publishers 2003, 132pp.
[#5272 ]
A pocket guide to New Zealand insects with classification, distribution and identification hints.
Illustrated with full colour photographs by Don Horne.
ISBN 9781869661519
new zealand, entomology, wildlife, identification
VG+ softback
$15 A/A
New Holland Publishers 2007, 143pp.
[#5273 ]
The Classic of Medieval Mysticism.
An exploration of the nature of reality, mysticism begins with the individual struggle toward a clear vision and culminates in a transformed consciousness.
This marvelous guide to the contemplative life originated with the reflection of an unknown fourteenth-century priest who believed that a "cloud of unknowing" separates people from God.
This cloud, he maintained, cannot be penetrated by intellect; only by love.
The Cloud of Unknowing offers an approach to contemplative life that finds holiness at a level deeper than physical experience and beyond language or image.
The author advise to place all thought and mental imagery behind a metaphorical "cloud of forgetting" while seeking to love the divine. through monologistic prayer, a single-word prayer, like a mantra, that assists in abandoning all extraneous thought.
Seekers can thus attain an inner silence, where they may "be still and know the sacred."
Written in everyday language and edited by a popular authority on mysticism, this can be understood and appreciated by any reader.
ISBN 0722400039
christian, spirituality, contemplation, devotion, stewart,
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
$45 C/B
Stuart and Watkins 1970 7th edition, 270pp.
[#5274 ]
Founded upon Five Hundred Scripture Proofs, Parts 1-4.
Early British-Israelite work claiming that the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic (Aryan) races are the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
With separate title pages for Flashes of Light being part 2, and Oxford Wrong in Objecting to the English Being Identical with Israel being part 3 and Hine's reply to Canon Rawlinson.
Also England's Coming Glories being part 4, which also contains Piazzi Smyth's The Glory of the Great Pyramid.
All bound into one volume.
Poor stained and worn decorated cloth, sections detached and some damage to bottom margin of first twelve pages.
First two pages are intact but very damaged, a disbound reading copy that may be salvageable for a tidy rebind, ink name and address to front paste down, ink name at head of title page.
$45 C/C
S W Partridge undated but the new edition of 1874, x 296pp.
[#5256 ]
A comprehensive description of the transformation of Christianity, the healing of Mother Earth , and the Birth of a Global Renaissance.
ISBN 9780060629151
theology, christian, mysticism
VG softback, name inside cover.
$15 C/C
Harper Collins 1988, 278pp.
[#5257 ]
A biography of the Warden of Selwyn College, Dunedin 1919-1950.
education, otago
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Pegasus Press 1977 first edition, 79pp + plates.
[#1942/5259 ]
This autobiographical novel is one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. For decades, friends and families around the world have shared the book that teaches the way of the peaceful warrior. Life as a peaceful warrior is a life of meditation, mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance.
When a young man, Dan expected that hard work would eventually bring a life of comfort, wisdom, and happiness.
Despite his many successes, he felt that something was missing.
Awakened by dark dreams one night, Dan found himself at a gas station with an old man named Socrates, and his world was changed forever. Guided by this eccentric old warrior, and inspired by a young woman named Joy, Dan began a spiritual odyssey into realms of light and shadow, romance and mystery, toward a final confrontation that would deliver or destroy him.
ISBN 9780915811892
self-help, new age, spirituality
VG softback
$10 C/B
H J Kramer 2000 new edition, 228pp.
[#5260+BOX2 ]
An introduction to the oldest form of Buddhist meditation.
Theravada meditation methods, vipassana and samatha, visualization exercises, posture breathing techniques.
ISBN 071261138X
mindfulness, buddhism
VG softback
$20 C/B
Rider Century Hutchinson 1986 first edition, 176pp.
[#5261/RM124 ]
Walsch's new book presents powerful material in a daily meditations format, enabling the reader to gain a little peace, strength and comfort from the readings.
ISBN 9780733608605
spirituality, self-help
VG- softback
$10 C/B
Hodder 1997, (365pp).
[#5263 ]
Collects religious broadcasts Lewis made on the radio in 1944.
christianity, theology
VG hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Name to fep, light tape rust to endpapers and jacket flaps.
$25 C/A
Geoffrey Bles 1944 second printing, 64pp.
[#5248 ]
With Babylon Destroyed and a continuation concerning The Last Judgement and concerning The Spiritual World, from the Latin
Spiritualist Christian Mysticism from the original Latin texts of the Eighteenth century mystic.
Concerns the state of various denominations and religions as they appeared to Swedenborg when he visited the spiritual realms, and his beliefs concerning their positions in the afterlife.
Christianity, Mystical, Mysticism
VG+ hardback in VG dust jacket with minor rubbing or split at head of spine, Swedenborg Centre stamp to rear fep.
$30 C/C
Swedenborg Society 1961 first thus, viii 144pp, errata slip.
[#5249 ]
Investigation of key points of Swedenborg's mystical Christianity based on his visions of the Spirit World.
ISBN 0949463043
Christianity, Mystical, Mysticism
VG- hardback with no dust jacket,small amount of pen underlining, Swedenborg Centre label to verso of title and a page near rear of book.
$20 C/B
Swedenborg Lending Library and Enquiry Centre 1981 first Australian edition, 167pp
[#5250 ]
Grace, virtues, sin, sacraments, prayer, perfection and the guidance of souls.
theology, christian,
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with number to top corner of cover, sunned spine, light tape stain at heel.
Book has name stamp to closed page edges.
$20 C/C
SPCK 1960 hardcover, xiv 344pp.
[#5251 ]
Intense Christian mysticism from a Swedish visionary
Christianity, Mystical, Mysticism
G+ Small pocket sized softback with soiled wraps, some light pencil notation.
$20 A/B
Swedenborg Foundation 1936 softcovered, xvi 624pp.
[#5252 ]
The Lord, The Holy Scripture, Life, Faith.
Intense Christian mysticism from a Swedish visionary
Christianity, Mystical, Mysticism
G+ Small pocket sized softback with soiled wraps, some light pencil notation, name to inside cover, bookseller stamp to front wrapper.
$20 A/B
Swedenborg Foundation 1954, four books in one, various pagination.
[#5253 ]
Classic work on early Christian convert from Gnosticism.
Useful for its account of the teachings of the Gnostics as seen by their Christian opponents.
Includes Pedagogue, Stromata, Description of a Gnostic, accounts of the various Gnostic sects and teachers, and Clements views of various Christian doctrines of the second century ev.
gnosticism, hermeticism, heresy, apologetics, theology
VG cloth hardback with no jacket
$40 C/B
Griffith Farran undated (c. 1900) cloth, gilt title to spine, viii 279pp.
[#5254 ]
Includes religion in the Myths of Plato, in Aeschylus and Euripides; Dionysius the Areopagite; Origen and Christian Philosophy; Browning's view of life; Relation of Christianity to Art; Christianity as the ultimate religion; Benjamin Whichcote.
religion, spirituality,
Good only cloth hardback.
Sunned spine, soiled boards, lacks endpapers, foxed paste downs, final page loss to bottom half not affecting text.
$15 C/C
MacMillan 1891 first edition cloth, 397 (+2) pp.
[#5255 ]
Published as part of the Theological Educator series.
Covers the main doctrines of Christian faith.
apologetics, theology, christianity, theism
G+ cloth hardback.
Bookplate removed from paste down, ex-library with stamps etc. to prelims upto page viii, rear hinge cracked, but apart from markings a tidy copy.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1899 (17th thousand), xvi 288 + 2 pp adverts.
[#5238 ]
The author shows Jesus to have been a rebellious reformer, an outsider in conflict with the State, Temple, family and social order.
Author is a Catholic Theologian and Philosopher.
ISBN 0002153726
jesus christ, historical jesus
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Collins 1972 first UK edition / translation, 157pp.
[#5239 ]
A refutation of British Israelite theory, particularly as espoused in British Israel Truth (1932).
ancient history, british isles,
VG- softcover with paper wrappers over sewn sheets, bottom of upper joint split, a few owner stamps etc.
$15 C/B
Mowbrays 1933 first edition, vii 100pp.
[#5240 ]
These letters cover a broad subject matter, and discuss topics as profound as the love of God and as frivolous as preferences in cats.
Lewis never intended these for publication, and they reveal facets of his character not shown in his scholarly writings; a man patiently offering encouragement and guidance to another Christian through the day-to-day joys and sorrows of ordinary life.
spirituality, christianity
G+ hardback in VG- dust jacket with sun faded spine.
Ex-Library with minor stamps, a few pages chipped to top edge margin, tape stains to endpapers and edges of dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1969 first edition, 121pp.
[#5241 ]
Posits the principle that there is an inner Grace available to all that does not operate through or by physical might or mental powers, and most people are not aware of this Grace, but when It is consciously realized, it will bring into expression everything that is necessary to our unfoldment.
But there is a price, and this Grace operates only when we are willing to relinquish faith in anything and everything less than God; even faith in the "God" the world thinks it knows.
Christian Spirituality, New Thought, mysticism.
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear.
One page has a few lines underlined in red.
$15 C/B
Harper and Row 1961 first edition, 192pp.
[#5242 ]
C. S. Lewis recounts his spiritual journey through his life to his eventual embrace of the Christian faith.
memoir, spiritual biography, christianity
VG hardcover, the title on the spine a little rubbed/ worn.
$45 C/B
Geoffrey Bles 1955 first edition, 224pp.
[#5243 ]
Positive Thought Mysticism firmly based on the bible.
evangelical new thought spirituality
VG hardback with VG jacket with light label residue mark.
$20 C/B
Fowler 1959 first edition, 238pp.
[#5244 ]
Spiritual healing and spiritual awakening within a Christian but mystical vein.
ISBN 0853050449
new thought, spirituality
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with wear and rubbing, short edge tear.
$15 C/B
Arthur James 1974, 192pp + plates.
[#5245 ]
A biography of the last pre-schism christian saint.
English church, theology, court of King Henry VIII
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Burns and Oates 1966, xv 220pp + plates.
[#5246 ]
A study of Occultism in the lIght of God's Word
Biblical based warnings against New Age or supernatural activities.
ISBN 0842306617
christianity, evil, occult warning
VG- softback with sunned spine, curled wrappers, aged.
$10 C/B
Tyndale House 1984, 209pp.
[#5247 ]
Photographic survey of the land, flora and fauna of New Zealand.
A mix of black and white and colour photographs with accompanying text.
ISBN 0589009141
wildlife, bush, conservation, great outdoors
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$20 B/C
Reed 1975 first edition, 156pp.
[#5224 ]
Based on his old work diaries, Manu gives a good account of the daily shenanigans of a power lineman's gang in the backblocks.
Manu was the foreman.
memoir, working class, power board, electricity, working men, linesmen
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has handling soiling and wear to edges.
$25 C/B
Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. 1967 first edition, 169pp.
[#5225 ]
Published to accompany the retrospective exhibition of Bill's work, focusing on his position as the pre-eminant modern painter of Canterbury scenes.
ISBN 9780908874995
new zealand art, modern art, twentieth century, 20th C
VG+ softback
$25 B/B
Christchurch Art Gallery 2003 First Edition, 127pp.
[#5226 ]
Crime thriller set in the South of France.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Minor edge chipping and wear, pen price to first page.
$25 C/B
Thriller Book Club 1963 first edition thus, 186pp.
[#5227 ]
ISBN 0709147597
G hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Ex library with stamps etc to prelims, dust jacket trimmed bottom edge so 10mm shorter than boards.
$8 C/B
Hale 1975 first edition, 189pp.
[#5228 ]
high country, sheep farm, new zealand, romance
VG hardback in G+ dustjacket.
$25 C/B
Mills and Boon 1965 First Edition, 188pp.
[#5229]
The Reverend Robert Stapleton (1866-1945) and Doctor Ida Stapleton (1871-1946) were American missionaries in Erzerum in the late Ottoman Empire and the years leading to the rise of modern Turkey.
With other in the missionary community they sought to help Ottoman Armenians, using the influence of New England Protestantism along with Western education and culture.
They witnessed the deportation of the city's Armenian population and the great battle for Erzurum between Turkish and Russian forces during World War I.
After the establishment of modern Turkey they returned to America to continue their charitable work among another disadvantaged group, the Appalachian poor in the Kentucky mountains during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Using the Stapletons private papers, as well as other primary and secondary sources, Rasch draws a picture of the missionaries everyday lives and struggles.
ISBN 9781909382237
Armenian genocide, ww1, near east, Turkey, genealogy, biography
VG+ softback
$35 C/C
Gomidas Institute 2016 first edition, 285pp.
[#5230 ]
English translation of Geborgenheit which bases it's investigation of spiritualist ideas on Nineteenth Century mediumship as contained in the Emmanuel Book, on Greber's Communication with the Spirit World, and on the teachings received by the Spiritual Lodge of Zurich
ISBN 0854351248
survival, spiritualism, life after death, spirit world, reincarnation, christian theology
G- hardback in G- dust jacket.
Ex-library with marks, stamps and tape reinforcements to endpapers and verso of dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Neville Spearman 1977 First Edition, 182pp.
[#5231 ]
A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook.
Contains many new translations of seminal Celtic texts, including stories, poems, and prose pieces, some dating from as far back as the seventh century.
Includes sections on The Shamanic Memory of the Earth, of the Trees, of Animals, and The Memory of Ancestors.
Vision Poets, Druids, and Shamanic Guardians, Initiations, Shapeshifting.
The Bright Knowledge of Prophecy and Divination, Healing and Soul Restoration, Dreams and Visions.
Otherworldly Journeys and Quests, The House of the Sidhe.
These ancient tales are accompanied by detailed commentaries, comprehensive background material, and practical shamanic insights.
By respected Celtic scholars.
ISBN 9781852305604
shamanism, initiation, shape shifting, prophecy, divination, sidhe, pagan, wiccan
VG softback
$25 C/C
Element 1994 irst edition, 456pp
[#5232/RM60 ]
Nice large size (130x200mm) reissue with John Tenniel illustrations in line.
ISBN 9780099512073
alice in wonderland, Tenniel illustrations, vintage classics
VG large format paperback
$7 C/B
Vintage Books 2007, 327pp.
[#5234 ]
Being the Version Set Forth in A.D. 1611 Compared with the Most Ancient Authorities and Revised. Printed for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Minion 8vo.
Revised edition [RV] of the Authorised King James Version.
The RV is regarded as the forerunner of the modern translation tradition, and is also considered to be more accurate than the King James Version in a number of verses.
The New Testament section was first published in 1885.
VG- limp leather bound, gilt to spine, all edges gilt, light wear and a few very short edge tears to half title.
$65 C/C
Oxford University Press/Henry frowde/ C J Clay, 1885, (xii) 696pp + xv 204pp + 6 col. maps.
[#5235 ]
Volume 1.
The basic book of seamanship for officers and men joing the Royal Navy.
Ship Knowledge and safety, Seamanship, Ship Organisation, Shiphandling and Navigation.
With diagrams etc.
Includes uses of rope, cordage, knots etc.
B.R.67(1)
VG hardback
$35 C/C
HMSO 1964 new edition, x 494pp.
[#5236 ]
An interesting hsitory of 'club life' in Canterbury (New Zealand), with particular regard to membership of the Armed Forces.
Well illustrated with photographs of notable members ( Charles Upham V.C. and Bar, Kippenberger, J. T. Burrows), this also has a colour plate section at rear with paintings of uniformed officers, as well as membership rolls etc.
ISBN 0473004550
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket as issued, errata slip included.
This copy being #133 has also been SIGNED by Stanley Newman at the foot of pp 107 being the last page of the history, before the appendices and illustrations.
$95 B/C
The Canterbury Officer's Club 1987 first edition, 152pp.
[#5237 ]
Vintage paperback first.
FB 687
murder mystery, thriller
G+ paperback, some surface lifting to cover, name inside cover, stamp to first page.
$20 A/B
Fontana 1962 first thus, 188pp
[PB1709 ]
Fred Ladd's memoir and autobiography gives a good account of early NZ commercial passenger aviation.
After flying with the RNZAF in the Pacific theatre of War, Fred Ladd flew for the N.Z. National Airways Corp (NAC), then started Fiji Airways and later as chief pilot he opened Tourist Air Travel of Auckland with a Widgeon amphibian aircarft. This company operated air charter and air taxi services using amphibious aircraft, across the Waitemata and Manukau harbours, the Hauraki Gulf, other Northland harbours, and various North Island lakes and waterways.
ISBN 0589006924
New Zealand aviation industry, NAC, Otago, Southland, Fiji airlines, Tourist Air Travel Limited Auckland,
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Reed 1972, 233pp + plates
[#5216 ]
In this autobiographical memoir, Geoffrey Moss recounts his adventures in many lands.
From beginnings as a Taranaki farm cadet the farming sector opened up the world to him.
As a senior United Nations development planner he travelled to the USA, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia and the Pacific nations of Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
ISBN 9780958353847 / 0958353840
Kaiwharawhara, Kuripapango, Waimarino, Cyclone Ofa, UN, Taranaki
VG softback, SIGNED with "Best Wishes" by Moss to title page
$25 C/B
Moss Associates Ltd 2000 First edition, 211pp.
[#5217 ]
A good introduction to the subject by a lecturer in zoology.
Provides a reference manual to identify the most common species.
Details 180 species commonly found in NZ.
Colour and black and white photos and line drawings.
entomology, lepidoptera, insects, reference
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with mild surface rubbling.
$25 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1966 First edition, 219pp + plates.
[#5218 ]
An attractive volume which includes a history of the school followed by the Register of staff and pupils from 1856 to 1926.
Marlborough, Tasman, genealogy, education
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Red cloth with gilt arms, spine titling dulled, marbled endpapers.
$45 C/C
The Nelson College Old Boys' Association 1926 third edition, 334pp+ plates
[#5203 ]
The Official History written to commemorate The Otago Regiment N. Z. E. F. in Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Flanders, 1914-1918.
Includes Gallipoli, the Somme, Messines, Third Ypres and the battles of 1918.
ISBN9781843425694
ww1, wwi, anzac, off hst, Otago, NZEF
VG+ softback
$52.50 C/C
Naval and Military Press 2009 reprint, 407pp + photos and maps.
[#5204 ]
The Official History written to commemorate The Otago Regiment N. Z. E. F. in Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Flanders, 1914-1918.
Includes Gallipoli, the Somme, Messines, Third Ypres and the battles of 1918.
ww1, wwi, anzac, off hst, Otago, NZEF
G+ cloth hardback, soiled, rubbed covers.
Collated as complete, this copy is a bit tired with minor insect loss to free endpaper and split at the foot of the front hinge (inner).
Holds well on binding the cords/ tapes.
$125 C/C
Undated First Edition [1921], xvi + 407pp+ illustrated title page, plates and 11 folding maps.
[#5205 ]
The story of Isaac Gilsemans, cartographer, illustrator and editor on the Dutch East India Company voyages of Abel Tasman 1642-3.
Anderson realised in 1985 that the illustrations by Gilsemans were accurate cartographic charts, rather than mere sketches.
Includes travel to Formosa, Japan, Tonga, Batavia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
ISBN9780909010751
Dutch, exploration, history, New Zealand, Maori
VG- softback, one small PUNCTURE to front cover (only).
$20 C/C
Te Papa Press 2001 first edition, 162pp+ plates.
[#5206 ]
Volume 9 Number 4 June-July 2002
ISBN9771039017000
conspiracy, alternative science, new age
VG magazine, newsprint
$10 C/B
NZ/South Pacific edition, 71pp+ adverts.
[#5207 ]
First British issue of this hardboiled thriller, set in the Cote d'Azure at the Cannes Film Festival.
crime, fiction
VG hardback with no dust jacket
$15 C/B
Robert Hale 1958 first edition, 204pp + adverts.
[#5208 ]
A lonely academic Englishman meets and exchanges places with his double, a French aristocrat, while visiting France, finding himself caught up in the intrigues and passions of the complex French family.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
Closed edges browned.
$10 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1957 first edition, 368pp.
[#5209 ]
Jo-Jo Peltz and his wife move to Alphabet City, a slum on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan.
Returning to the same block where his grandparents lived in 1903, he finds the neighborhood drastically changed by gangs and random crime.
ISBN9780586089217
New York, fiction
G+ paperback, cover creased.
$7 C/B
Paladin 1990 UK paperback original, 285pp.
[#5210 ]
the author of Other Halves explores the special magnetism of the music that draws its energy from sources that are socially unacceptable; like sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
It is also a story of growing older and new beginnings.
ISBN 9780340533192
new zealand fiction
VG softback, signed by the author to title page.
$15 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1990 first edition, 174pp.
[#5211 ]
Jonesy was there in the earliest days of Government deer-culling, starting in Ruatahuna in 1954, as a government shooter.
Choppers had not been invented so it was tent camps, fixed wing airdrops four months apart, run out of anything and it was a long walk out for more supplies.
Four bob a tail for deer, three shillings and sixpence for pigs, seven quid a week retainer.
He was in the thick of it, trying hard to be good enough so he would not be shipped out, like so many were, that could not make the grade.
Learning his bush craft and the ways of deer and pigs, hunting from fly camps and department huts.
Spending his days in the bush hunting the elusive deer and pigs that he was paid to kill.
ISBN 9781877256660
hunting, deer stalking, deer cullers
VG+ softback, small name to inside of front cover.
$40 C/B
The Halcyon Press 2007 First edition, 200pp.
[#5212 ]
In 1949 Bryan Todd met Walter Haensli in Sun Valley Ski resort in the USA, and persuaded him to come to New Zealand to look for a skiing area.
Haensli recommended Mt Ruapehu and founded a ski club, ran a ski school at the Chateau Skifields (Whakapapa Ski Area) from 1949-51.
ISBN 0473060264
skiing, new zealand ski fields, Swiss, memoir, biography
VG softback SIGNED by author to title page.
$45 B/B
Fire and Ice Publications 1999 First edition, 86pp.
[#5213 ]
Complete LOTR 3 books in three volumes, this is the Unwin Second Revised edition.
Ninth Impression (vol1) and Eighth Impressions (vol 2 and 3).
ISBN0048230456 , ISBN0048230464, ISBN0048230472
LOTR, lord of the rings, 3 vols, complete, Set, Tolkien, Collectable, Unwin Books Edition, Second Edition, Hardcover Set, Middle Earth, Revised Second Edition
VG hardbacks in VG dust jackets with minor rubbing, all dust jackets are price clipped.
3 volumes uniform in red cloth with dust jackets with the Ring and Elvish script about the Eye of Sauron.
Small pen name top corner of free end paper first volume, and some adhesive residue offset from the plastic sleeves on to the book cloth edges.
$350 D/D
George, Allen and Unwin 1974, 423+ 352+ 440pp. Includes maps etc.
[#5214 ]
This history of Helicopters (NZ) Ltd. is also a history of the use of commercial helicopters New Zealand wide.
Founded in 1955 by Doug Shears, Allan Hubbard and others, the company soon expanded from mainly agricultural services to construction, delivery and disaster relief, as well as SAR and venison recovery.
ISBN 9781877393310
HNZ, choppers, commercial aviation, company history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$45 B/D
Hazard Press 2006 first edition, 222pp.
[#5215 ]
1960's experimental novel.
A vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty novel which centres upon the members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Mohawk saint.
ISBN 0586035788
Early pulp edition.
VG paperback
$12 A/B
Panther 1973, 239pp.
[PB1707 ]
When her wrestler father left Trudi and her mother for another woman, Trudi had to take up where he left off, becoming a wrestler to support herself and her mother.
Here she recounts the seedy, predatory world of British wrestling, and her sexual experiences with the men and women she encountered.
ISBN 0450027686
British, female wrestler, memoir, pulp
G+ paperback
$20 A/B
New English Library 1976 first edition, 126pp.
[PB1708]
A Biographical Essay of this great pastoralist and farmer who transformed 30,000 acres of swamp between the Rangitata and Ashburton rivers to create his Model farm Longbeach, thought by some to have been the best in the world.
Ashburton, South Canterbury, farming, colonial, Cornwall, Cornish immigrant
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket.
Gift inscription to first page, tape rust from tape holding plastic sleeve to jacket offset to jacket and end-papers.
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1952 first edition, 64pp + plates
[#5197 ]
A fascinating and informative history of the settlement of the Canterbury farms by Colonial sheepfarmers, and the ups and downs of the meat and wool trade.
colonial, farming, Canterbury settlement, shepherds, frozen meat exports, Canterbury runs, pastoral lease
VG- hardback in G- dust jacket.
Tape rust from tape holding plastic sleeve to jacket offset to jacket and end-papers.
$30 C/B
Simpson and Williams 1949 first edition, 158pp + plates and maps.
[#5198 ]
A centennial history of the land, lake and people of Ellesmere on the East Coast of Canterbury, from 1864-1964.
Excellent reference on the Maori and European setllement and developmnt of the region.
Selwyn, Rakaia, Waihora, Kaitorete, Waikerikeri
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Jacket under a plastic sleeve with tape holding it to the book, the tape having begun to perish leaving some marks to the jacket and endpapers.
$20 C/C
Caxton Press for the Ellesmere County Council1965 first edition, 221pp.
[#5199 ]
The Story of Denniston, a coal mining township on the West Coast of New Zealand
mining, Westland, history
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has some tape rust and edge wear. Name stamp to first page.
$35 C/B
J.W. Baty Ltd.1971 first edition, 168pp + plates.
[#5200 ]
Swallows and Amazons
VG- cloth hardback with no dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Cape 1948, 399pp with illustrations and map endpapers.
[#5201 ]
Swallows and Amazons
VG- cloth hardback with no dust jacket.
Inscription to blank free endpaper and half title page.
$15 C/C
Cape 1939, 360pp with illustrations and map endpapers.
[#5202 ]
An informal history of Murchison, very well put together with good illustrations.
Covers early settlers, gold rushes, and later developments.
Published in an edition of 1500 copies only.
Tasman, Four Rivers Plain, Buller River, Matakitaki River, Mangles River, Matiri River, Maruia
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket.
Front few pages of book have some associated newspaper clippings taped in.
Title page has the author's signature, as well as former owner's details.
$30 C/C
Murchison Historical and Museum Society Inc. 1976 first edition, xvi 262pp.
[#5182 ]
A new book from the World's greatest Middle and Long Distance running coach.
A total guide and training plan is given.
ISBN 0340224622
Athletics, track and field, running, coaching, technique
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1978 first edition, 249pp + plates.
[#5183 ]
Safe, effective techniques for experiencing the Inner Worlds.
Simple magical rituals from a variety of traditions to enable the experience of interior realities safely.
Foreword by Gareth Knight.
ISBN 0850303141
Ritual magic, Qabalistic, Egyptian, Orphic, Celtic, Navaho, Chinese, Finno-Ugaric, Slavonic
Good only, with wear and sunfading to front cover.
$12 C/B
Aquarian Press 1982 first edition, 96pp.
[#5184 ]
Research into the 'Abominable Snowman', including fantastical accounts as well as evidence backed reports.
Foreword by Eric Shipton, and a postscript by H. W. Tilman, both experts on the Himalayas.
cryptozoology, yeti, humanoid, Tibet, Nepal, Sasquatch, Dinanthropoides nivalis
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with repaired tear to the spine.
$40 C/C
Robert Hale 1961 first edition, 174pp + plates.
[#5185 ]
An account of the Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition of 1954, the intent of which was to gather evidence and material to investigate the existence, or not, of the Yeti.
Map endpapers.
cryptozoology, yeti, humanoid, Tibet, Nepal, Dinanthropoides nivalis
VG hardback with G+ dust jacket with a repaired tear across the front.
$35 C/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1955 first edition, 302pp + plates.
[#5186 ]
Humorous memoir by Glover, serving to give his telling of his adventurous life as a naval rating, journalist, poet, literary editor, writer and printer.
Illustrated by Russell Clark
Denis James Matthews Glover, Caxton Club, Caxton Press
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, former owner details to first page.
$15 C/B
Reed 1962 first edition, 200pp.
[#5187 ]
Scottish-born Charlie Douglas was one of the great early European explorers of New Zealand.
From 1867 to 1916 he recorded the geography and topography of South Westland, as well as its ecology and wildlife, at a time when this was largely unknown.
New, revised edition of Pascoe's 1957 classic.
One third details Douglas' life and the rest presents his journals and sketches.
ISBN 9780908812950
Fiordland, Southland, Westland, exploration, 19th century, Gerhard Mueller, Harper, Harris
VG softback, small pen gift inscription at head of first page.
$35 C/C
Canterbury University Press 2000 first printing of this edition, 320pp + plates.
[#5188 ]
How to use Kundalini Power to draw the good things in life to you, and change your life in any way that you wish!
A New Thought style self-help work with exercises and meditations which show how to use Kundalini power to better your life.
ISBN 0135167817
prana, kundalini
VG hardback in G- dust jacket with some repaired tears and edge wear.
$20 C/C
Parker Publishing 1979 first edition, 239pp.
[#5189 ]
Shoestring Shipping in the South Pacific.
As a partner in the Silk and Boyd company of cargo carriers, Don recounts his life sailing the trade routes of the Pacific.
ISBN 9780908877492
maritime, shipping,transportation, merchant marine
G+ softback with minor wear, two digit number in pen inside front cover and to first page.
$20 C/B
Godwit Publishing 1994 first edition, 244pp.
[#5190 ]
The story of the early regional airlines, South Island Airways, Trans Island Airways and West Coast Airways and the maverick pilots who flew the rugged south island landscape.
ISBN 0908790317
aviation, commercial, flying, New Zealand
VG- softback
$20 C/B
Hazard Press 1991 first edition, 229pp.
[#5191 ]
Rethinking of New Zealand geological science in line with the acceptance of the theory of continental drift.
ISBN 0589011847
geology, seismic, tectonics
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, pencil name at front.
$30 C/D
Reed 1980 first edition, xxii 442pp.
[#5192 ]
The History of the New Zealand Customs Department.
ISBN 0959797904
customs and excise, border security, smuggling, government department, border control
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Silver Owl Press / New Zealand Customs Department 1991 first edition, 207pp.
[#5193 ]
The archeology of New Zealand, from early polynesian history through to the artifacts of the first European settlers.
ISBN 9780477014571
Maori material culture, new zealand history, evidence, taonga
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
$35 B/C
GP Books 1989 first edition, 128pp.
[#5194 ]
An insider's view of New Zealand Sheep Dog Trialling competitions and culture.
The author is well known as the presenter of Country Calendar and A Dog's Show.
ISBN 9780790006246
rural life, shepherding, mustering,
VG softback
$15 C/B
Reed 1998 first edition, 228pp.
[#5195 ]
Indigenous Tracheophyta, Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones.
Rice paper edition.
New Zealand plants, taxonomy, reference, research, ferns, conifers
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Government Printer 1961, liv 1085pp.
[#5195 ]
Indigenous Tracheophyta, Monocotyledones except Graminae.
New Zealand plants, taxonomy, reference, research, grass, grass-like flowering plants
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Government Printer 1970, xl 354pp.
[#5196 ]
Social and technical history of the steam era of New Zealand railways.
Well illustrated with b/w photographs, diagrams and colour paintings.
ISBN 0589003828
railways, steam locomotives, transport, new zealand
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 B/D
Reed 1974 reprint, 143pp.
[#5174 ]
The background to the conservation efforts to save New Zealand native birds, as well as an account of the extinct Moa and Huia.
With mentions of those who helped bring species back from the edge of extinction.
Includes Kea, Kiwi, Takahe, Black Stilt, Saddleback, Kakapo, Black Robin, Yellow-eyed Penguin, Kokako.
ISBN9781869410438
VG softback.
$20 B/C
TVNZ / Century Hutchinson 1989, 234pp.
[#5175 ]
Collection of letters between Jones and others through the 1980s.
ISBN 1869530195
politics satire signed raconteur belles lettres
VG hardback with VG dust jacket. Name at head of title page.
$15 C/C
Bateman 1990 first edition hardcover, 200pp.
[#1688 ]
VG hardback with VG dust jacket. Signed 'Bob Jones' to title page.
$30 C/C
Bateman 1990 first edition hardcover, 200pp.
[#5176 ]
A Tale of the Good Old Times, together with a History of the War in the North of New Zealand against the Chief Heke in the year 1845 as told by an Old Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe. Also Maori traditions.
VG- hardback with no dust jacket.
Name and some mild foxing to endpapers.
$30 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1930, xxxviii 386pp +plates.
[#5177 ]
Autobiography of a light house keeper and the times the family had manning New Zealand light houses.
maritime, shipping, Tiritiri, Akaroa, East Cape, Nugget Point, Cape Palliser, Cape Saunders, Stephens Island, Waipapa Point, Pencarrow Head, Puysegur Point, Cape Egmont, Cape Reinga
VG- hardback with VG- dust jacket.
Book boards and dust jacket have some surface wear or soiling.
$20 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 reprint, 152pp.
[#5178 ]
Transcripts of interviews Hunt made with the older generation still living in an isolated Golden Bay rural community.
ISBN 0589013599
Golden Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, social history, oral history, early settlers
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Spine lightly faded, gift inscription to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Reed 1981 first edition, 146pp.
[#5179 ]
The only authoritative account by an experienced aviation writer of the Air New Zealand Erebus tragedy.
ISBN 0723306419
Antarctic, aviation disaster, Mt Erebus, DC-10
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$30 C/C
Whitcoulls 1980 first edition, 278pp + plates.
[#5180 ]
When a millionaire film tycoon learns his daughter has died from an overdose of heroin he goes after the head of the international trade in the Middle East.
Jacket art by Norman Weaver
thriller, crime, heroin trade
VG+ hardback in VG price-clipped dust jacket with very minor edge wear.
$15 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition, 317pp.
[#5166 ]
For over thirty years Cynthia Lady Sandys has received clairaudiently these 'letters' from the other side of death.
With the assistance of Rosamond Lehmann she has collected these writings into this book.
ISBN 0859780333
survival, spiritualism, mediumship, life after death
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has severley sun-faded spine,and book has inscription to free end paper.
$45 C/C
Neville Spearman 1978 first edition, 189pp.
[#5167 ]
A New Zealand soldier's story from Stalag 383.
An account of captivity in Germany during the Second World War.
Dudley Muff (20th Battalion) was a POW 1941-45 in Stalag XVIIIB in Germany, and wrote this while incarcerated, for his niece in Timaru.
Originally printed by Bruce McLeod in the mid-1960s, this is a new edition edited and with an introduction by Pollard.
With a facsimile of Dudley's original illustrated notebook.
Written for a young child but with interesting information on daily life in a Stalag.
ISBN 9780143304609
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$20 B/B
Penguin 2009 first thus, (x) 55 (iv)pp. [#5168 ]
A historio-political study of the Reign of Terror, the Communes, and the French Revolution.
Kropotkin wrote that the Revolution "was the source and origin of all the present communist, anarchist and socialist conceptions."
The author was noted for her research into secret societies and subversive movements, now characterised as the New World Order.
Illuminati, Secret Societies, Freemasonry, Jacobins, French Revolution, Communism, Atheism, Occultism, Grand Lodge, Illuminism, One World Government, NWO
VG+ cloth hardback in VG dust jacket.
$125 C/C
Constable 1926 New and Corrected Fourth Edition, xv 519pp + 3 maps.
[#5169 ]
Foreword by Margaret Pope, Introduction by Finlay MacDonald.
Autobiographical memoir by the Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989.
Lange championed a nuclear-free policy during the last days of the Cold War, negotiated with the French over the punishment of the Rainbow Warrior bombing agents, and struggled with his cabinet over economic policy.
ISBN 9780143020875
politics, biography, memoir
VG+ softback
$15 C/C
Penguin 2006, 316pp.
[#5170 ]
All the known species of barnacles from New Zealand waters are described and illustrated.
ISSN 0083-7903
Cirripedia, Thoracica, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 69
VG hardback, inscription to free end paper.
$45 B/C
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute 1978 First Edition, 160pp. col frontis, 14 b/w plates, 74 figures.
[#5171 ]
Collected Poems 1973-2018, and related prose.
Denys has worked as a poet, biographer, essayist, editor and environmentalist.
Published in France, Germany, the UK, India, Australia and the USA.
In New Zealand he won the PEN Best First Book of Prose Award (1985) and was short-listed in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 1999 for the poetry book,Walking Into The Millennium.
ISBN 9780908595891
new zealand literature, verse, poetry
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$55 C/D
Brick Row Publishing Company 2019 First Edition, x 784pp.
[#5172 ]
Channelled teachings received by Schucman, allegedly direct from Christ.
Combined 3 Volumes with Preface, Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers, Clarification of Terms.
ISBN 0960638881
new thought, self improvement, spirituality
VG+ softback
$35 C/D
Foundation for Inner Peace 1992 Second Edition, x 667 + xiii 488 + iv 92pp.
[#5173 ]
The sixth book in the No-Eyes series, based on the visions of her Indian shaman teacher in Colorado.
Mary answers reader's questions about prophecy, Native American history, and metaphysics.
Extensive information on dream symbol interpretations, as well as The Phoenix Files a list of 'end-times' dangerous facilities and installations in the USA.
ISBN 9781878901149
new age, channelled teachings, pole-shift
VG softback
$12 C/C
Hampton Roads Publishing Co. 1991, 619pp.
[#5160 ]
The Memoirs of Gerald Hensley, a long-term New Zealand diplomat.
He was the head of the Prime Minister's Department under Muldoon and Lange, and was Secretary of Defence from1991 to 1999.
ISBN 9781869403789
politics, biography, David Lange, Robert Muldoon, civil service
VG softback
$30 C/C
Auckland University Press 2006 first edition, 320pp.
[#5161 ]
Christian New Age mysticism interprets the New Testament chapter by chapter unveiling the occult truths behind the allegories.
occult
VG- hardback with no dust jacket.
This copy has stamps from the library of the Christchurch Societas Rosicruciana In Anglia, donated by Athol Lightfoot.
$40 C/C
New Age Press 1969 third edition revised, 139pp.
[#5162 ]
Joel Goldsmith takes the reader deep into the principles of The Infinite Way, "the unfolding of consciousness. Our premise is that God, divine Consciousness, is unfolding, revealing, disclosing, and manifesting Itself as your individual being and as mine."
Goldsmith gives the foundation required for understanding how meditation and contemplation of scriptural truth help one come to the realisation that God is truly unfolding, revealing, and disclosing Itself as your individual being, and that you can trust that every issue of life - health, wealth, home, business, profession and relationships - will flow forth harmoniously.
new age, new thought, spirituality, christian mysticism
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
minor foxing to dust jacket and to the book's closed edges and endpapers.
A few minor instances of pencil underlining.
$35 C/B
Fowler 1959 second impression of first edition, 269pp.
[#5163 ]
A survey of historically informative early art relating to New Zealand and its inhabitants, both Maori and Pakeha settlers.
190 illustrations including 56 in colour.
ISBN 0908610750
new zealand art, artists, colonial, pre-colonial, victorian, nineteenth century
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with some wear and tears.
Small name blacked out to free end paper.
$20 C/C
David Bateman 1988 first edition, 192pp.
[#5165 ]
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 Pat’s 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 remedies, 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
$15 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 ]