Used books of New Zealand literature and fiction. Novels, poetry, plays and biographies of literary figures from New Zealand.
All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars, and there is a minimum order required of NZD$20 excluding postage.
Illustrated story of a Maori family by the sea, the Maori text translated by Hapi Potae.
Illustrated by Barbara Strathdee.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 B/B
Collins 1973 First Edition, 32pp.
[#4750]
As a left-wing response to fascism in Europe, New Zealand's "Phoenix group" of writers and poets was instrumental in a burgeoning cultural nationalism.
Includes chapters on The Left Book Club, The Cooperative Book Movement and The Progressive Publishing Society
ISBN0864732171
communism, left, politics, arts, literary movement, socialism, theatre, ARD Fairburn, RAK Mason, WB Sutch
VG softback
$35 C/C
Victoria University Press 1991 first edition, 287pp.
[#3947 ]
A novel that recounts the Blackball coal miner's strike of 1908. Includes the representations of young militant unionists, including Pat Hickey, Paddy Webb, and Bob Semple. Well researched.
ISBN0006349234
VG softback
$10 C/B
Fontana Collins 1985, 245pp. [#2780 new zealand fiction, historical fiction ]
A rare illustrated young adults book about a Chinese immigrant who goes to be the Cook on a sheep-station.
Contains what could now be considered offensive racial stereotypes.
Wonderfully illustrated by Turner.
G4843
new zealand book art, graphic art, illustration, godzone, kiwi, new zealand culture
VG hardback with illustrated papered boards.
$50 B/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1963 First edition, 37pp.
[#4501 ]
The Canterbury town of Waiweka and the doings of it's inhabitants.
ISBN0589004085
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket.
$10 C/C
Reed 1971 first edition hardcover, 254pp. [#2564, 1719 ]
A novel about adult infatuation. Scarce first edition from Caveman Press.
ISBN0908562012
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$35 C/B
Caveman Press 1980, 144 pp.[#2682 new zealand fiction]
Literary autobiography of New Zealand writer Charles Brasch, covering a period spent in Europe, the Middle East and New Zealand.
ISBN0195580508
biography, egyptology, Tell El Amarna, Landfall journal editor
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some light foxing to closed edges. $25 B/C Oxford University Press 1980, 433 pages. [#2275/4866 ]
First thus reissue after original printing in 'The Humour of Homer and other essays'.
A biographical sketch and overview of Butler's work in New Zealand and abroad.
erewhon, mesopotamia, canterbury new zealand
VG- hardback quarter cloth, decorated paper boards, paper spine label with some rubbed loss to edges, crossed name to paste down, 6 digit rubberstamp to fep as well as two pen lines and old price.
$20 A/A
Jonathan Cape 1921 First Thus, 60pp.
[#4210 ]
A Romance of Maoriland.
A novel about a love affair set in New Zealand.
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Foxed closed edges, name to free end paper.
$10 A/B
Wright and Brown 1959 first edition, 189pp
[#4915 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with short tears at tops of spine and corner folds $30 C/B Caxton 1973 first edition hard cover, 206pp. 15 short stories. [#2278 new zealand fiction]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with faint label ghost top corner $40 C/B Caxton 1973 first edition hard cover, 206pp. 15 short stories. [#1151 new zealand fiction]
"Raised by gorillas in the wild jungles of New Zealand, scarred in battles with vicious giant weta, seduced by a beautiful young scientist, discovered by Memphis record producer Sam Phillips and adored by millions, the dirt-to-dreams life story of Tarzan Presley is as legendary as his 30 number one hits."
First and original edition, this was banned from republication after legal action by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, due to trade mark violation. It was later revised and reissued with a different title and character names.
ISBN9780864734808
Elvis Presley, Tarzan, ERB, new zealand, science fiction
VG softback
$30 C/B
Victoria University Press 2004, 463pp.
[#3597 ]
Selected letters by Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (1896 1960) the New Zealand poet, journalist and writer, pertaining to the NZ literary scene of the time.
Cresswell blackmailed Charles Mackay, the Mayor of Wanganui, by threatening to expose his homosexuality, and Mackay shot and injured Cresswell. The mayor was convicted of attempted murder in 1920 and Cresswell moved to London.
He kept up a correspondence with Ursula Bethell, Frank Sargeson, Basil Dowling, Ormond Wilson, Roderick Finlayson, and also British figures.
new zealand writers, literature, criticism
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 C/C
University of Canterbury 1971 first edition, 256pp.
[#4317 ]
An unconventional domestic situation is approached through the minds of the four occupants of a Wellington household- four very different characters in age and outlook.
The first edition, printed in the UK, thiswas 18 years before the first New Zealand edition.
VG- hardback in VG - dust jacket.
Unclipped dust jacket has some tape stains, some tape stains top of boards and endpapers.
$10 C/B
Andre Deutsch, 1961. First Edition, 236pp. [#5611]
An unconventional domestic situation is approached through the minds of the four occupants of a Wellington household- four very different characters in age and outlook. First printed in the UK in 1961 this is the first New Zealand edition.
ISBN072330615X
VG- softback
$7 A/B
Whitcoulls 1979 , 236pp. [#2777 new zealand fiction]
The story of tough little Jimmy Sullivan, 'a boy that God has his eye on', as he slides into delinquency. First printed in the UK in 1958 this is the first New Zealand edition.
ISBN0723303568
VG softback, name at front
$7 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1972, 181pp. [#2778 new zealand fiction]
An autobiographical memoir by journalist and author.
Ian Cross (1925-1991) is most well known for The God Boy.
ISBN9780868615554
journalism, media, 20th century, writing, reporting
VG+ softback, signed by the author
$20 C/B
Allen and Unwin 1988 first edition, 242pp
[#5697 ]
Her first anonymously published work.
Limited edition of 200 copies. Hand set and hand printed.
new zealand, literature, caxton press, private press, women's writing
VG- softback with mild soiling.
$95 A/A
Caxton Press 1948 first printing, 12 pages (6 leaves).
[#3647 ]
Recollections of seven of Davin's friends, written soon after their deaths. Joyce Cary, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Enid Starkie, Dylan Thomas, Itzik Manger, W R Rogers and Louis MacNeice.
ISBN0195581385
VG softback
$8 C/B
Oxford University Press 1985, 189pp. [#2779 new zealand writing ]
Rare first edition of this collection of 26 stories based on Davin's experiences growing up in a poor Irish Catholic family in Southland, and his war service.
VG- hardback in cloth boards, with some minor foxing to closed edges, in a VG unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing or edge wear, two small holes worn to spine, and mild handling soiling.
$350 C/C
Nicholson and Watson, 1947 first edition, 216 pages. [#2555 ]
Collects stories from The Gorse Blooms Pale, Breathing Spaces, and six previously uncollected stories.
ISBN9781877372421
VG hardback with no jacket as issued.
$25 C/C
Otago University Press 2007 new edition, 312pp.
[#5584 ]
In The World's Classics series. 33 stories by 27 New Zealand authors. From Lady Barker to the authors of the 1950s.
ISBN0192505343
VG hardback in VG- slightly worn dust jacket.
$15 A/B
Oxford University Press, 1953 first edition, 426pp.. [#2915 nz fiction, literature ]
VG hardback in VG- slightly worn dust jacket.
$8 A/B
Oxford University Press, 1976 reprint, 426pp.. [#2916 nz fiction, literature ]
Anthology of new writing from young New Zealand writers.
The 10th annual Re-Draft Collection.
ISBN 9780958288859
creative writing, anthology, fiction
VG softback
$10 C/B
Clerestory Press 2011, 152pp.
[#5113 ]
Includes early uncollected stories, ones from Immanuel's Land and Summer in the gravel pit, and posthumously published works.
ISBN0196479932
new zealand, fiction, literature, the new zealand fiction series
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Auckland University Press 1981 first edition, 379pp.
[#3687 ]
Three stories; O'Leary's Orchard, An Appetite for Flowers, Riley's Handbook.
Part of New Zealand Short Stories series (number 1).
Rubricated title page.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket, name to free end paper.
$30 C/B
Caxton Press 1970 first edition, 185pp.
[#3264 ]
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$45 C/B
Caxton Press 1970 first edition, 185pp.
[#3264B ]
Tales of a young New Zealand girl at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
Illustrations by Lynley Dodd, the creator of Hairy MacLeary, in line and colour wash.
ISBN0340256915
children's fiction, historical
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear to head of spine.
$25 A/B
Hodder 1980 first edition 12mo, 91pp. [#2562]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light wear and short tears at ends of spine.
$20 A/B
Hodder 1980 first edition hardcover 12mo, 91pp. [#2646 ]
237 letters by Rex Fairburn to various New Zealand literary firends and colleagues, from 1924 to 1957.
ISBN 0195580761
FINE hardback in FINE dust jacket
$35 C/C
Oxford University Press 1981 first edition hardcover, xxv 272pp. [#2425 nz literature, letters, biography ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Oxford University Press 1981 first edition hardcover, xxv 272pp. [#2721 nz literature, letters, biography ]
Short story collection: The wedding gift; Christmas Day; On Top of the Hill; New year: Wi gets the gospel; Standards of Living; The totara tree; The Tangi; The Storm; By the Calm Waters; A man of good religion
Finlayson's first published work.
His "distinctive contribution to the writing of New Zealand was the Maori stories of his first two collections...(portraying) a people caught between two worlds, as the urban economy insinuated its influence into traditional communities...".
VG quarter cloth hardback with no jacket.
Pale lemon boards with small water stain to top corner of boards, minor cosmetic faults to covers.
Missing the paper title label from the spine.
$35 C/B
The Unicorn Press, Auckland 1938 First Edition, 86pp.
[#4438 ]
Edited and introduced by Bill Pearson, and includes bibliography, glossary and criticism.
Short story collection: The wedding gift; Rui's ship; Christmas Day; The everlasting miracle; Standards of living; New year; Wi gets the gospel; The totara tree; Hemi's daughter; A man of good religion; Tiki-Tiki; Johnny Wairua's wonderland; Like the Pakeha; Sweet Beulah land; Pakapoo; Tara does a job; They all go home to die; Two friends; A little gift for Harry; The new house; Another kind of life; Great times ahead.
Contains the contents of the original Brown Man's Burden (1938) and stories of Maori life taken from Sweet Beulah Land (1942) and Tidal Creek (1948).
Several stories written subsequently bring the time-span of aspects of Maori life upto the early 1970s.
His "distinctive contribution to the writing of New Zealand was the Maori stories of his first two collections...(portraying) a people caught between two worlds, as the urban economy insinuated its influence into traditional communities...".
ISBN0196479444
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with faded spine and worn edges, bookplate to free end paper.
$15 C/B
Auckland University 1973 first thus, xxv 147pp.
[#5089 ]
Three long stories linked by their views of love and marriage. 'Frankie & Lena', 'Tom & Sue', 'Jim & Miri'
ISBN 0908565097
G+ softback with rubbed spine and edges, light stain to spine margin of final pages. $10 C/A John McIndoe 1976 first edition sewn in softcovers, 136pp. [#2409 nz literature ]
Three long stories linked by their views of love and marriage. 'Frankie & Lena', 'Tom & Sue', 'Jim & Miri'
ISBN 0908565097
VG- softback with sunned spine light edge rubbing, light crease top of rear cover. $15 C/A John McIndoe 1976 first edition sewn in softcovers, 136pp. [#2410 nz literature ]
Edited and introduced by Dennis McEldowney for this new edition of the 1948 work.
Jake has two long visits to Tidal Creek, when he is thirteen, and again when he is twenty, and we follow his interactions with his Uncle Ted, an early conservationist of sorts.
ISBN0196479789
new zealand, novel, fiction
VG softback
$10 C/B
Auckland University Press 1979 new edition, 157pp
[#3542 ]
First edition in the New Zealand issue of the fifth novel by Janet Frame.
VG hardback with slight age toning to closed edges with faint watermark to top edge in G+ unclipped dust jacket that has a large chip out of top corner by the spine, and slight chipping or rubbing to the corners, short tear from top of front flap fold on the inside flap, top edge slightly soiled, a little faint stain to front cover, not very noticeable, better than it sounds!
$45 C/C
Pegasus Press 1965 first edition, 270pp.
[#2397 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with label-lift scar at top corner of front pnel. There is a pen inscription to front free end paper. Faint foxing to closed top page edges.
$45 C/C
Pegasus 1965 first edition, 270pp. [#3521 ]
Pegasus 1961 First edition, first printing which precedes the W H Allen edition.
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with number on fold in flap and tape residue to edges on the reverse of the jacket, name to free endpaper, faint foxing
$75 C/C
Pegasus 1961 First edition, first printing, hardcover. 219pp. [#2209 new zealand fiction]
Janet Frame's second work in the UK issue.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with small chips to corners, light foxing or soiling. Book has name to fep in pen, light foxing to closed edges
$45 C/C
W H Allen August 1962 second printing of First edition, 219pp. [#2396 nz fiction, literature ]
Fortieth anniversary publication, with pencil illustrations.
ISBN9781869410759
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket. A gift inscription has been blacked out to free end paper. Dust jacket sun faded to rear panel.
$15 B/C
Random Century 1990, 98pp.
[#3378 ]
First edition in New Zealand issue of the fourth novel by Janet Frame.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket lightly rubbed and handling soiled, book some foxing to closed edges etc.
$65 C/C
Pegasus 1963 first edition, 192pp. [#2398 nz literature, fiction, first edition ]
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 ]
An autobiography by one of New Zealand's most well regarded female authors.
ISBN0704328410
janet frame, biography, memoir, literature, women's writing
VG hardback lacking the dust jacket.
$15 C/C
The Women's Press 1983 First UK Edition, 253pp.
[#4444 ]
VG- softbacks
$30 C/C
Hutchinson 1986/ 1985/ 1986, 253+195+176pp.
[#4640 ]
Biographical account of Janet Frame from a personal viewpoint, her childhood and life rather than her writing. Includes over 100 private photographs. ISBN0143018388
VG+ softback
$35 B/C
Penguin 2002, 160pp. [#2716 new zealand literature, biography]
A humorous tale of 50 pages followed by 41 pages of humorous verse.
Good only copy, lacks front cover wrapper, disbound as staples perished, otherwise OK.
$45 A/A
James Horsburgh, Dunedin, 1893. 91pp + period advertising.
[#3182 ]
Gee's first published novel, based on a rugby player whose focus on the game is skewed by a fascination for a burglar and his girl.
VG hardback with no dust jacket, lacks fep otherwise tidy light bump to corner.
$12 C/B
Hutchinson 1962 First Edition, 199pp.
[#3299 ]
Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrists draws them together in a frightening adventure. They are summoned to the land of O in a desperate attempt to save the planet from cruel Otis Claw and the evil Halfmen.
ISBN0195580818
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with repaired tear at head of spine and some wear to spine ends. Name to end paper.
$20 C/C
Oxford University Press 1983 reprint, 204pp.
[#3049 ]
Rare first edition of Maurice Gee's thriller about a teacher who is suspected of the murder of his student.
Filmed in 2004, from a screenplay written and directed by Brad McGann.
ISBN0571098509
new zealand literature, crime, homicide, psychological thriller
VG hardback with very mild spotting to closed edges in VG price clipped dust jacket with minor handling soiling.
$250 C/B
Faber 1972 first edition, 175 pages.
[#2554 ]
Maurice Gee's scarce second novel.
new zealand lietrature, fiction, modern first edition, rare
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Single line name to free end paper top corner, tidy unclipped dust jacket.
$65 C/B
Hutchinson 1965 First Edition.
[#4720 ]
Illustrated by Russell Clarke.
new zealand, literature, poetry, writing, book reviews, writers
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with light edge wear with some minor chipping.
Gift inscription to end paper.
$15 C/C
Reed 1963 first edition, 181pp
[#4428 ]
Selected Poems.
This copy has a Presentation inscription to fep reads [For Robert Pinney | from ? ? of Pegasus Press | 9 Sept '64].
Children's stories in rhyme, by Denis Glover's wife, and illustrated by Sheila Natusch
VG stapled card wrappers with dust jacket with some minor wear
$10 B/ letter rate
The Catspaw Press 1982 first edition. 64pp.[#2576 new zealand poetry ]
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 ]
Pacific Paperbacks, 12 short stories. Reprin. ISBN0582717795
VG softback, sewn sheets.
$15 A/A
Longman Paul 1982 soft cover 108pp.[#2724 new zealand fiction]
A children's book for New Zealanders, Maori subjects, illustrated by Kerry Gemmill. ISBN 0670851353
VG+ hardcover in illustrated boards with no dust jacket
$15 B/C
Viking / Penguin 1993 first edition, landscape format with full colour illustrations throughout. [#2142 new zealand, childrens fiction]
Tyler Smith has found the wreck of the General Grant and he must get the bullion safely from the waters of Auckland Islands before his nemesis Rhys Baron intervenes. Thriller novel. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with "All the best, Andrew Grant" across the title page.
ISBN0908704992
VG used paperback with light reading crease to spine and light corner crease to rear wrapper.
$30 A/B
Shoal Bay Press 1999, 320pp. [PB1439 new zealand fiction]
Hawks is a tale of New Zealand's wild South-Westland, set during the early years of the venison recovery industry. This was a time when the cowboys rode choppers instead of horses and used semi-automatic weapons, not six guns. They lived, worked and sometimes dies in the most rugged and spectacular corner of this country - the vast Fiordland wilderness.
Hawks is a fictional tale but the fast action depicted here might very well have happened. It is the story of Gray, an enigmatic young man running from his past and the horrors of the Vietnam war. He returns to New Zealand's southern lands to find himself in a war of a very different kind - a dangerous war for the highest profits, set against some of the most inhospitable country in the world.
With the deadly skills he learned in the SAS, Gray becomes the top gun, the man every chopper pilot wants in the shooter's seat on his machine as the competition gets fiercer and men begin to take increasingly desperate risks. Some make mistakes and some die. Others are killed apparently having made no mistakes at all.
Gray's story encompasses life and death as well as love. Unashamedly robust, Hawks tells it like it really was, or could have been, as greed and jealousy and a woman named Mary combine in an explosive finale.
ISBN0908704798
VG- softback, reading crease to spine
$10 A/B
Shoal Bay Press 1998 first edition, 280pp [PB1503 nz fiction]
G+ softback, covers rubbed, spine leans.
$10 A/B
Shoal Bay Press 1998 reprint, 280pp [Item# 34 NZFCT]
A 19th Century Saga of Colonial Life. A novel set in Takaka Valley in the late 19th century. ISBN0863327818
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 1992 331pp. [#2745 new zealand, ficrion, historical novel, marlborough]
New Zealand Playscripts
Scarce, especially in this unmarked condition.
ISBN 0705506649
VG softback with light crease to cover
$30 C/B
Price Milburn 1978 first edition, 82pp
[#4869 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket $10 C/B John McIndoe1981 first edition, 208 pages. ISBN0868680427 [#2545 new zealand fiction literature ]
Alan Mulgan responded to the author's manuscript thus; "The tale is written with insight and sincerity and is at times most amusing".
Set in NZ, Paris and Belgium.
Pen name of Elsie McLeod Smith.
VG hardback with no dust jacket, name at front.
$15 C/B
Harry H. Tombs undated (pre 1965 by inscription) First edition, 114pp.
[#4567 ]
An extraordinary novel blending reality with dreams, melding Maori and Pakeha, weaving strange and hurtful pasts into strangely bright futures. A Booker Prize winner.
ISBN0340370238
G+ softback but has sun faded spine, pen name at front
$15 C/C
Spiral in association with Hodder 1985, 450pp.
[#3173 ]
ISBN0330296108
VG paperback
$7 A/B
Picador1986, 450pp.
[PB1546 + Box#11 ]
Collection of twenty stories include the award-winning Hooks and Feelers, about a mother who has inadvertently maimed her child, and A drift in Dream, which gives a pre-Bone People glimpse of Simon and his parents. Throughout Hulme experiments with language and the components of style, and reveals herself a writer of virtuosity and emotional power.
ISBN0864730195
VG- softback, name at front, foxed closed edges.
$10 C/B
Victoria University Press 1986 first softcover edition, 240pp.
[#3172 ]
First thus reissue of 1939 work with introduction by Challis and critical note by Hardy.
Hyde travels in China during the late 1930s as a journalist and comments on Sino-Japanese War etc.
ISBN0908652070
VG- softback
$30 C/C
New Women's Press 1984, xviii 318pp.
[#3340]
A strongly autobiographical novel about family life and the intensely felt world of a young woman in Wellington in the 1930s. Eliza Hannay is an aspiring poet, and her strong will and passions don't suit the prim world she resides in.
new zealand, women's writing, 20th century
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Spine and boards faded, with a lean to the binding. Some mild foxing to closed egdes and prelims. One small library stamp to front paste down ONLY.
$125 C/C
Hurst and Blackett 1938 First edition, First Impression stated, 296+16pp adverts.
[#3553 ]
Strongly autobiographical, vividly evokes the complexities of family life and the intensely felt world of a single-minded young woman in Wellington in the 1930s.
No. 2 in the New Zealand Fiction Series by Auckland University Press.
G+ softback with folded, sewn sheets. Minor wear to spine, pen name to first page.
$10 C/C
Auckland University Press 1974, xxi 236pp.
[#3150 ]
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 ]
First edition of the novel about Maori legends and family dynamics made into a film. With illustrations by John Hovell. Scarce title. ISBN0868636843
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. On the free end paper there is some paper residue where a greeting card was attached, this has been removed but has left some paper behind. Otherwise book in excellent shape.
reduced to $50 C/B
Heinemann 1987 first edition, 122pp.[#2687 new zealand fiction ]
An allegory on life through the trials of an angler, illustrated by Con Dimopoulos.
ISBN0002223147
angling, politics, bob jones, fishing, philosophy
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Collins 1984 first edition, 151pp + etchings.
[#64, 826 ]
A Superlunary Journey Through the Verdant Waste
Unusual self published and printed avant-garde fiction.
Final page lists two other works by the same author 'Children Born Without Conception' and 'Jesus-Gastropod'
VG softback.
Mimeographed sheets printed on recto only.
Stapled into plain black paper wrappers with black taped spine.
Front wrapper has tiny vertical title hand written in white along the spine edge beside the tape.
$75 C/B
Illiterature Nelson (New Zealand)1986 first edition, 24pp.
[#780 ]
Unusual self published and printed avant-garde fiction.
By the same author as 'Children Born Without Conception' and 'Jesus-Gastropod'.
VG softback in VG dust jacket with some tears at spine ends.
A faint marker 'S' to front of jacket.
Mimeographed sheets, stapled into plain black paper wrappers with black taped spine, front wrapper has tiny vertical title hand written in white along the spine edge beside the tape.
$75 C/B
Illiterature Nelson (New Zealand)1988 first edition, approx 180pp.
[#1730 ]
How the Kiwi lost his flight, and retreated to the soft embrace of the night-time world.
ISBN090857827X
illustrated, childrens, new zealand
VG hardback with no dust jacket
$20 B/C
Alister Taylor 1981 first edition, (28pp).
[#3971 ]
Humorous christmas tales with a New Zealand setting and feel. Includes one with a live Moa!
VG- card bound with G+ dust jacket
$45 A/B
Simpson and Williams 1936, 116pp.
[#3179 ]
Some confessions, some beer ballads, a dash of history, froth of personalities and an encyclopaedia. A literary celebration of beer in New Zealand.
G+ softback, with name at top of endpaper and mild handling soiling.
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs First Edition 1965, xii + 131pp
[#3007 ]
A ghostly canoe is seen on Lake Rotomahana prior to the Tarawera eruption.
Line illustrations by John Shelley.
ISBN0224022563
childrens fiction, Te Wairoa, Tama-o-hoi
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/B
Jonathan Cape 1984 First edition, 202 pages.
[#2291/4065 ]
A new edition of this classic historical novel set in 1859 when the Small family arrives in the Canterbury colony without a penny to their name. Mother and six children have a hard beginning to their new life - all the more since they are runaways from a cruel father and husband in Australia.
Based on real people and events.
ISBN 9780908790456
Lyttelton, Dyers Pass, Banks Peninsula, children's fiction
VG- softback this copy has a pen name inside the front cover.
$15 A/B
Hazard Press 1993, 175pp.
[#4685 ]
Just before her graduation from high school, Angela May acts out her burning desire to find and confront her father, whom her mother describes as having been the love affair of her life, but what Angela discovers is a hard, cold man who never cared for either her mother or herself.
ISBN 0460062247
young adult
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket.
Ex-library with donation plate to fep, only stamps are to the to front and rear free endpapers, minor paper residue from removed pocket to rear fep, otherwise a tidy copy.
$10 C/B
Dent 1985 First Edition, 185pp.
[#4799 ]
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn t the first time she d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened.
The horrifyingly evil Carmody Braque touched and branded her little brother and now Jacko was very ill, getting steadily worse. There was only one way to save him.
Laura had to change over: had to release her supernatural powers. And that meant joining forces with the extraordinary and enigmatic Sorenson Carlisle
A Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy, filmed in Christchurch in 2017 starring Timothy Spall and Melanie Lynskey
ISBN041652270X
new zealand, young adult fiction, first edition, supernatural
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$45 C/C
Dent 1984 first edition, 214pp. [#2813 ]
Paperback edition
ISBN 9780416522709
G+ paperback with minor wear and gift note to first page.
$6 A/B
Magnet 1986, 214pp
[PB1668 ]
A collection of nine short stories that features fantasy tales of wizards, dancing wolves, and a hungry wind.
ISBN 9780385302545
Illustrated by Diana Catchpole
VG quarter cloth hardback in VG dust jacket.
Lacks front and rear free end papers otherwise tidy.
$10 C/B
Delacorte 1991 First US Edition, 106pp.
[#4800 ]
Tempted by Pillycock's Shop, Teddy pawn's his sister Penny for a tin-monkey. He soon regrets his choice and must hurry to redeem his baby Penny before the sun sets and the store disappears. Full page illustrations by Carol Barker. This is one of Mahy's first three works published in 1969. A magical and eerie tale.
ISBN0234774738
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with repaired tear and corner wear.
$45 B/C
Dennis Dobson 1969 first edition, 24pp.
[#3243 ]
A scarce autobiographical essay by Mahy printed for the Montana estates essay series. ISBN0958237522
VG softback with VG dust jacket
$20 A/B
Four Winds Press 2003, 51pp. [#2723 new zealand biography, fiction, literature]
A novel in which an English woman marries a colonial man in an isolated timber settlement in the Kaipara.
ISBN0723303649
VG softback with sewn binding.
$10 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1974, 318 pages.
[#2288, 2685, 3609 ]
A biography of the first early New Zealand woman writer who came to international prominence.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Jonathan Cape 1954 (second impression in same month as first), 376pp + plates and index. Included with this copy are some newspaper cuttings, a card 'Katherine Mansfield's Birthplace Wellington' and a three page typescript by Frank Cotterell 'The Birthplace', about a pilgrimage by a French ambassador to Mansfield's birthplace. [#2707 new zealand literature, biography]
VG- hardback with no dust jacket. Stamp and inscription to fep, lightly faded spine, faint foxing to endpapers.
$15 C/C
Jonathan Cape 1954 first edition, xvi 376 xvipp + plates. [#461]
An in depth biography of Katherine Mansfield, regarded by some as the first 'modern' writer of the 20th century. Alpers drew on newly available material for this work.
ISBN0670428051
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with sun faded spine. Minor foxing to closed edges.
$25 B/C
Viking Press, February 1980 second printing, 466pp. [#2950 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
G+softback with worn wrappers with some creases
$6 C/C
OUP 1982 softcover, xxvi 467pp + plates [#2135 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Four Stories With an Illustrated Introduction.
A Birthday, The Wind Blows, Prelude, The Doll's House.
Includes 56pp intro and also bibliography etc.
ISBN086473297X
new zealand literature, katherine mansfield
VG softback with pictorial card wrappers with flaps.
Katherine Mansfield Birthplace sticker to fep, signed by author to title.
$25 C/A
Victoria University Press 1996 first edition, 143pp.
[#4022 ]
A study of Mansfield as a writer with critique of her themes and styles, and comparing her to Anton Chekhov.
ISBN
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with handling wear and short edge tears. Owner details to end paper.
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1951 first edition, 246pp. [#2967 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield]
The Chinese view of Katherine Mansfield
VG softback
$25 B/B
University of Otago Press 2001, 174 pages ISBN 9781877276040 [#2279 nz fiction ]
14 short stories by New Zealands best known author.
VG- hardback in red cloth, wear to spine ends, name to endpaper. Top edge gilt.
$15 A/B
Constable 1923 (seventh printing), 280pp.[#2969 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield ]
15 short stories by New Zealands best known author.
VG- hardback in red cloth, wear to spine ends, names to endpaper. Top edge gilt.
$15 A/B
Constable 1923 (fifth printing), 276pp.[#2968 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield ]
15 short stories by New Zealands best known author.
VG hardback with no dust jacket, black cloth spine titled gilt, covers show signs of use
$15 A/B
Constable 1942 reprint, 276pp. [#2925 new zealand literature ]
Collects 91 stories from Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension.
ISBN009156641X
VG- softback with sunfaded spine, name inside cover
$15 C/C
Hutchinson 1984, 793 pp.
[#3177 ]
Centenary Edition with an introduction by C A Hankin.
ISBN 1869410149
new zealand, women's writing
VG- softback, top of first page trimmed
$8 C/B
Century Hutchinson 1988, 107pp.
[#4641 ]
Centenary Edition with an introduction by C A Hankin.
ISBN 1869410157
new zealand, women's writing
VG- softback, top of first page trimmed
$8 C/B
Century Hutchinson 1988, 191pp.
[#4642 ]
Chronologically selected from 1907 to 1923
ISBN0140042016
G+ paperback
$5 A/A
Penguin 1977, 285pp. [PB1516 new zealand, literature, mansfield ]
Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of her Urewera Notebook during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly before she left New Zealand forever. This writing is an insight into her attitude to her life and country at the time.
ISBN0195580346
VG softback
$20 B/A
Oxford University Press 1978, 107pp. [#2964]
This biography of Mansfield examines her rebellious reaction to her colonial background, her self-destructive revolt against respectability and her emotional life. Includes accounts of her lesbian friendships, love affairs, miscarriage and abortion; her period of drugs and squalor; her one-day marriage, and her extraordinary relationship with John Middleton Murray. Her last years were dominated by her quest for health in France, Italy and Switzerland. Giving up hope of a cure from conventional medecine she resorted to the mysticism of Gurdjieff in whose hands she died at the age of thirty-four. Links the events of her life with her development as a writer and discusses the influence of her friendships with her contemporaries; D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ottoline Morrell and others, including a hitherto unknown meeting with James Joyce.
ISBN0340232102
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket. Book has gift inscription to paste down. Minor foxing to edges.
$15 C/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1978 first edition, 306pp + plates. [#2952 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Gathers Murry's letters to his wife, Katherine Mansfield, in which he talks about their relationship, their friends, and her work.
ISBN009153500X
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with sun faded spine. Minor foxing to closed edges.
$15 C/C
Hutchinson 1983 first edition, 394pp.[#2953 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
A collection of images of New Zealand at the turn of the century to illustrate the country she grew up in and places she knew. With quotes from her works.
ISBN0855583495
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly sun faded spine.
$15 B/C
Golden Press 1974, 80pp. [#2949 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Margaret Scott's world changed for ever at the age of 32 when her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her with two children and another on the way. It was Katherine Mansfield (a writer she had always loved) who helped to give shape and purpose to the difficult, lonely years that followed. For on becoming manuscripts librarian for the Alexander Turnbull Library, Margaret discovered a rich resource of Mansfield material. She spent most of the next 30 years deciphering her illegible handwriting, travelling to Europe and America in search of further Mansfield manuscripts and working towards the publication of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield and The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Recollecting Mansfield chronicles the delights and disasters that Margaret experienced as her life and Mansfield's intersected. She gives fascinating insights into the extraordinary people she encountered, from Mansfield's faithful companion Ida Baker to her own close friend Charles Brasch. This is a book of true charm and spirit, a moving, wise and witty account of a life spent in the company of one of this country's greatest writers.
ISBN9781869620769
VG hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Name at front.
$25 C/C
Godwit 2001 first edition, 172pp. [#2966 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield ]
Spanning three years in the life of writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to break through as a writer. As her brother and lovers are drawn into the conflict, Mansfield becomes ever more determined to write the new kind of fiction" that she feels the times demand. While sticking scrupulously to what is known of Mansfield's life and friends, this extraordinary novel takes the reader beyond biography into the mind and heart of its subject.
ISBN9780099468653
VG softback, owner details in pen to inside of cover
$8 C/B
Vintage 2004, 246pp. [#2965 new zealand fiction, katherine mansfield ]
Pursuing art across Europe, Mansfield lived and wrote with gusto, and when she died aged thirty-four, she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. A courageous, greatly gifted, haunted and haunting writer.
ISBN0670813923
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 B/C
Viking Press 1988 reprint, 292pp + plates. [#2951 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Autobiography by world famous crime novel writer and theatre director Ngaio Marsh. Although equally at home amongst the theatre crowd in London, and able to write the quintessential British Country House murder tale, Marsh was equally adept at portraying the New Zealand landscape and character, and continued to live and work in Christchurch (New Zealand).
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing loss to corners
$20 C/C
Collins 1966, 287pp + plates [#2824 new zealand, biography, literature ]
Something of a Decision
A Southland Girl
The Pannett Junction
The Beginning of an Old Man
The Cry for Barabbas
Crawford
The Philosopher
Promise Bluff
The Naming of Parts
One of the Majority
The Tsunami
The Monument
Descent form the Flugelhorn.
ISBN 0908568061
VG hardback in a Poor dust jacket with front panel severely damaged.
$10 C/B
Pegasus Press 1979 first edition,116pp.
[#4546 ]
G+ worn wrappers, name to inside cover, wrapper detached at lower staple.
$10 B/A
Price Milburn 1981 first edition stapled wrappers, 97pp. ISBN 0705507807. [#2577 new zealand literature playscript theatre ]
Mason's solo protagonist begins; Let me take you on a voyage into that territory of the heart that we call childhood. A boy's experiences with local eccentrics on a beach in the Auckland area during a summer holiday marks the end of his childhood and the beginning of adult awareness and compassion.
ISBN0705500101
play, theatre, new zealand identity, Takapuna Beach
VG softback with name to first page and slight foxing to inside of card wrappers and first and last pages.
$15 C/B
New Zealand University Press / Price Milburn 1970, 95pp.
[#3484 ]
VG softback $10 C/A Price Milburn 1979 sewn sheets in card wrappers, 99pp. ISBN 0705500209 [#2426 nz literature, theatre, playscript ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket rubbed to edges and joints, light foxing to endpapers, name at foot of fep $30 C/B Price Milburn 1963 second edition, 98pp. [#1131 new zealand fiction]
The Text of an extended diary-style letter written in the month of the Poet's Birthday, January 1930.
Hand set and printed by the Nag's Head Press in an edition of 220 numbered copies.
private press, new zealand literature, limited edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, Christ's College School Prize Plate awarded to S. E. Dickie in 1987 at front is tipped on along the top edge only.
$35 C/B
Nag's Head Press 1986 first edition, 47pp.
[#5070 ]
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 ]
In 1850, scandal, desperation and ambition create an upheaval in the lives of many English people. Some are encouraged to leave England and seek a new life in New Zealand. On arrival in the new colony, old habits die hard. In the mad scramble for fame and fortune, huge risks are taken, morals are compromised and those in authority hoodwinked. The Maori are ostracised and the religious ideals of the colony's founders ignored. Men spare no quarter to outwit their rivals in a race for fame and fortune. The struggle for survival of Patrick and Josephine Mahoney and their feud with Humphrey and Emma Robinson who are obsessed with wealth and power, is an inspiring human drama set amid the birth of a great nation. Wool becomes king and the new rich build their opulent mansions. The foundations of a nation are laid and the resilient and triumphant character of its people evolves. Today, their descendants live on, embracing their ancestral philosophies while facing trials and tribulations their forebears could never have envisaged.
ISBN9780473187811
VG softback
$15 A/B
McDonnell Publishing Company 2011, 398pp.
[#3351 ]
Ten tales of New Zealand high country musterers, their dogs and the flocks they tend.
Line illustrations.
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with short edge tears to spine folds, pen name to fep
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1959 first edition, 123pp. Illustrated in line. [#2806]
Ian Middleton's first novel, shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1980.
ISBN 0908578156
ww2, wwii, Auckland, fiction
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with faintly sunned spine.
$20 C/C
Alister Taylor 1979 first edition, 208pp
[#1125 ]
VG softback.
$10 C/B
ISBN 0790001381
Heinemann Reed 1990, Pacific Writers Series, 188pp
[#5001 ]
Number 1 in the Stories and Drawings series, this collection of ten short stories by O E Middleton is illustrated by Ralph Hotere.
VG softback.
Closed edges slightly foxed.
$25 C/B
Square and Circle 1972 first edition 112pp.
[#2418/5003 ]
Good only softback.
Bookshop stamp and pen writing to first page, covers curled.
$10 C/B
Square and Circle 1972 first edition 112pp.
[#5258 ]
VG name blacked out to fep, light edge wear, small split head of spine.
$25 C/B [Item# 61 NZFCT]
Glenco 1951 gilt decorated boards, 162pp, illustrations in line.
"Fourteen-year-old Neddy and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chicken-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into town. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is in fear for his sister's safety."
The scarce first edition printed by Angus and Robertson.
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with minor wear or short edge splits or chips.
$60 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1963 First Edition, 211pp. [#5136 ]
"Fourteen-year-old Neddy and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chicken-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into town. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is in fear for his sister's safety." First edition of the New Zealand printing after the scarce 1963 Angus & Robertson edition.
ISBN0868636770
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. There is a crossed pen name to fep, tiny area silverfish damage to first two pages
$35 C/C
Heinemann first edition thus 1976, 181pp. [#2427 ]
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket with lightly sunned spine.
$45 C/C
Heinemann first edition thus 1976, 181pp. [#3256 ]
A restless High Country farmer's wife takes up painting as an escape from monotony and embarks on an affair.
ISBN070912947X
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$15 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1971 FIRST EDITION, 239pp
[#3392 ]
Mulgan's novel about the inter-war period and the Great Depression, and the character of a returned soldier from the trenches, a 'man alone' in a harsh world.
Mulgan reveals the facts of the time, a mean-spirited capitalism, a country without a sense of community, [which] his Maori [characters], as much as Pakeha, looked at dead straight.
depression, social commentary, Spanish Civil War, masculinity
VG softback
$20 C/B
Longman Paul reprint, 207pp.
[#5004 ]
Run at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire on Monday 10 March 1890, with an appendix voicing Ecclesiastical disapprobation of the event. Reprinted by the Nag's Head Press from an old scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. A hand printed and bound, numbered limited editon of 135 copies. THIS COPY #95. The fiftieth title by the Nag's Head Press.
VG small format hardback with no dust jacket. Paper title label to cover, gift inscription to paste down.
$35 A/A
Nag's Head Press 1982, 30pp.[#2722 new zealand fiction, private press]
How do you escape from being the loblolly boy? The answer is simple: find the boy who stole your life and Exchange. But when the loblolly boy seeks help from the mysterious Captain Bass, he discovers it's not going to be simple. Standing in his way will be the Jugglers, the unpredictable Gadget Man and the sinister Sorcerer. Lost in a strange town with only one friend - the feisty Mel - the loblolly boy has to deal with the biggest obstacle of all: Benjy, the treacherous boy who stole his life.
Sequel to The Loblolly Boy.
ISBN9781877460692
young adult, fiction, new zealand author
VG+ paperback
$10 C/B
Longacre 2011, 297pp.
[#3539]
Works by the first generation of Maori writers to make use of literary forms that are European in origin. Includes selections from Rora Paki, Riki Erihi, Hone Tuwhare, Witi ihimaera, Nick Karaitiana, Rowley Habib, Rose Denness, Arapera Blank, Hirone Wikiriwhi, S.M.Mead, Harry Dansey, Patricia Grace, Mason Durie, and Katarina Mataira.
ISBN0589004476
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, name to first page.
$20 C/B
Reed 1974, 153pp.
[#3180 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Reed 1974 reprint, 153pp.
[#1111]
Novel set in the bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston on the West Coast during the 1880s.
ISBN1869415612
VG softback
$8 A/B
Black Swan 2004, 367pp. [#2701 new zealand fiction ]
VG softback
$8 A/B
Sequel to The Denniston Rose, a novel set in the bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston on the West Coast. Rose has now grown up and faces new challenges.
ISBN186941604X
A printed flier advertising three recent release by the Christchurch artisan Pegasus Press.
Stand in the Rain by Jean Watson, Port Before Breakfast by John Hamley and The Adaptable Man by Janet Frame.
ephemera, printing,
A4 sheet folded once to make four pages, minor light crease otherwise tidy example
$30 C/ letter rate overseas.
Pegasus Press (1965)
[#3989 ]
With I For One...and A Game of Hide and Seek
ISBN 0856160202
new zealand, novelette, fiction
VG hardback with VG dust jacket
$25 C/C
Caxton 1972 first edition, 233pp
[#1123/4868 ]
Collection of 46 short stories. Includes a bibliography of the stories collected here. ISBN0582717221
G+softback with some soiling and wear to tail of spine
$8 C/B
Longman Paul 1975, 351pp [#2781 new zealand fiction ]
Collection of 46 short stories. Includes a bibliography of the stories collected here. ISBN0582717221
G softback with reading wear and some minor insect damage to edge of first few pages.
$8 C/B
Longman Paul 1980, 351pp [#3355 ]
A Tale Of The New Zealand Gum Country in the far North at the turn of the 20th century.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor chipping loss and archival repaired edge tears. With the book label of Sadie Balkind.(06n9651nn)
$55 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1939 Third edition, 310pp.[#3386 ]
A Tale Of The New Zealand Gum Country in the far North at the turn of the 20th century. This edition edited and with an introduction by Kendrick Smithyman.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/C
Auckland University Press 1971, 222pp.[#2808 new zealand, fiction]
Novel of early colonial New Zealand, set in 1830-60. A Maori-Pakeha friendship at the times of the Land Wars, melodrama with historical background.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket and sunned spine, gift inscription, soiled closed edges.
$5 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1936, 400pp.
[#1093 ]
G- hardback with no dust jacket and sunned and soiled cloth, lower joint split, inscription and some stamps, reading copy
$5 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1936, 400pp.
[#1094 ]
A novel which explores New Zealand s opposition to nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
Based on Shadbolt s own voyage to Mururoa on board the protest vessel Tamure in 1972
ISBN0340202408
modern first edition
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing.
Signed across the title page by the author,
$45 C/C
Hodder 1975 First Edition, 206pp.
[#4535 ]
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket, title to spine sightly faded but only the colour to the title, with the black background unaltered,.
$25 C/C
Hodder 1975 First Edition, 206pp.
[#5130 ]
From one of the most vivid and heroic protests of the 1970s, where New Zealanders sailed into the Mururoa nuclear fallout danger zone, thereby helping to end French atmospheric tests in the Pacific, Maurice Shadbolt has distilled a strange and memorable story.
ISBN0340379537
Mururoa, Moana nui, nuclear testing, novel, pacific
VG softback, sewn binding.
$9 C/B
Hodder 1985, 206pp.
[#3643 ]
selected stories, first edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine, top of fep clipped, title glued along spine edge wider than usual $20 C/C Hodder 1978 first edition hardcover, 242pp. ISBN 0340234563 [#2422 nz literature, fiction ]
Playscript of the ANZACs at Gallipoli.
Photographs by Brian Brake.
ISBN 0340327448
theatre, play, ww1, wwi
Fine softcover, remainder stripe top edge.
$10 C/B
Hodder 1993, 106pp
[#129 ]
The second instalment of Shadbolt's New Zealand Wars trilogy.
Set in 1845 and the conflict between Maori factions, and the newly constituted authority of Queen Victoria in the land.
Preceeded by Season of the Jew.
ISBN 9780340549018
VG softback, spine faintly sunned
$10 C/B
Sceptre (Hodder) 1991 first thus edition, 308pp.
[#5013 ]
The third instalment of Shadbolt's New Zealand Wars trilogy.
Set in 1845 and the conflict between Maori factions, and the newly constituted authority of Queen Victoria in the land.
Preceeded by Season of the Jew and Monday's Warriors
ISBN0340599669
fiction, history, maori wars, novel
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 B/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1993 first edition, 294pp.
[#3695 ]
This is a collection of short stories which portray a selection of women who will not be defined by the music they listen to, the men they love (and leave), or the money they have (or don't have).
ISBN1869620089
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$15 C/B
Godwit 1997 first edition, 223pp
[#3163 ]
Stories, Articles, Poems by South Canterbury Writers
VG softback, gift inscription to inside cover
$10 B/ letter rate
Beynon Print Timaru 1973 first edition wrappers, 54pp [#2568 new zealand literature south canterbury]
Essays from In the Glass Case and Answering to the Language, plus nine new ones. Authors covered are Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, A R D Fairburn, R A K Mason, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Allen Curnow, John Mulgan, Hubert Witheford, Maurice Duggan, Kendrick Smithyman, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, David Ballantyne, Janet Frame, Lauris Edmond, James K Baxter, Maurice Gee, Witi ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Ian Wedde.
ISBN1869402723
VG softback
$15 C/C
Auckland University Press 2002, 386pp.
[#3174 ]
In The World's Classics series. 26 stories by 21 New Zealand authors. New works from the authors of the 1950s, and those who were influenced by them.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Name and address at front.
$15 A/B
Oxford University Press, 1966 first edition, 363pp. [#2917 nz fiction, literature ]
First edition
ISBN0002234793
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, small pen tick to fep, faint damp mark to reverse of rear dust jacket panel, remainder stripe bottom of closed page edges
$15 C/C
Collins 1989, 220pp. [#2414 nz literature, fiction, first edition ]
John Summers' autobigraphy and literary memoir.
Summers was well known in Christchurch for among other things his long-running bookshop in the city.
ISBN0473011808
biography, literary, bohemia, bon vivant
FINE hardback in FINE dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Pisces Print 1991 First Edition, 350pp+ frontis
[#4446 ]
A continuation of John Summers' autobigraphy and literary memoir. Summers was well known in Christchurch for among other things his long-running bookshop in the city.
ISBN0473017121
FINE new uncirculated copy in fine dust jacket
$20 C/C
Pisces Print 1993, 302pp + plates.
[#3234 ]
ISBN 0959781358
new zealand fiction
VG card covered
$15 C/C
Pisces Print 1974 first edition, 306pp
[#1415/5652 ]
VG single sheet of heavy paper ( 200 x 250mm) folded once into 4 pp. with text on three pages. Tiny amount surface insect damage at head, $30 A/ Letter rate, [#2355 new zealand fiction]
Poetry by one of Christchurch's flamboyant personalities and an antiquarian bookseller for a number of years.
Nicely printed and bound on good paper.
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with slightly faded spine.
Name and date to first page.
$25 C/B
Pisces Print 1974 First Edition, 96pp.
[#4459]
VG hardback with no dustjacket.
$15 C/B
Pisces Print 1974 First Edition, 96pp.
[#1417 ]
Two short fiction pieces.
pivate press, hand printed, Bob Gormack, Nag's Head Press
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$40 A/B
Pisces Print / Nag's Head Print 1980 first edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, this being #143.
Signed by the author to the half title page. 111pp.
[#3640 ]
Fernie Brae is a novella Summers was working on, which he has previewed in this book.
pivate press, hand printed, Bob Gormack, Nag's Head Press
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$40 A/B
Pisces Print / Nag's Head Print 1977 first edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, this being #133.
Signed by the author to the limitation page. 31pp.
[#3641 ]
Both copies VG softbacks $45 for both together B/A Pigeon Publishing 1992 first editions, stapled folded sheets in stiff illustrated wrappers, landscape, 32pp each, illustrated in colour. ISBN 0473016583 / 047301503X [#2388 nz fiction, Young adult, picture children's book ]
VG hardback with light foxing to closed edges in a VG dust jacket $20 C/B Bodley Head 1963 second impression, 207 pages. Author's first novel. [#2270 nz fiction ]
A discouraged young woman joins a group of strange people, the Balloon Watchers. The first title in the Kea New Fiction Series, and the author's second work.
VG softback but glue has perished and pages may soon start detaching unless read with care.
$15 A/A
Dunmore Press 1975 first edition, 97pp.
[#3261 ]
A semi-autobiographical work reflective of Watson's time as partner to Barry Crump. The author's first work.
VG hardback in G but worn and soiled dust jacket, with short tear at head of spine.
$20 C/B
Pegasus Press 1965 first edition, 150pp.
[#3262 ]
Watson's novels The Balloon Watchers, The World is an Orange and the Sun, Flowers for Happyever: A Prose Lyric, and Address to a King were influenced by her enquiries into Vedanta philosophy and a search for spiritual truth in a world dominated by materialistic values.
ISBN0908564139
nz literature, novel, women's writing, Jean Watson ONZM (1933 - 2014)
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/B
Dunmore Press 1978 first edition, 185pp.
[#4531 ]