Literature, Poetry And Classic Texts from NZ Story

A respectable first edition with 103 plates.

Very good copy of first edition. Red speckled cloth boards, gilet lettering on spine. Dust Jacket yellowed at top and spine.

Large format hard back with many photos. Good condition.Showing signs of slight foxing and yellowing at top edges. Also some slight foxing throughout the text. Neat Penned dedication on front endpaper and bookshop stamp on bottom of title page.

An informal biography of New Zealand poet and social commentator Rex Fairburn.

Victor Gollanz London, Left Book club edition.

An account of love legends by Ngata and Maori music by Siers accompanies Siers' account of Maori people, illustrated with col photos.

Includes work by Grace, Mataira, Hulme, Metge et al. EDITOR SIGNED.

An account of J B Priestley's visit to New Zealand, accompanied by col illustrations.

Collection of Short Stories by G.L. Becke/W. Jeffery. (Louis Becke is alternately known as George Lewis Becke).

Memoirs of a New Zealand literary great.

Voyage of the Hurunui, a NZ Maritime Poem.

1973 1st Ed h/b (laminated pictorial boards) + dw, Larger Format, col illus Very clean & tight, 'as new' but for a hint of edge-curl starting on dw -- VG & special hardback copy nz-childrens-genre collectible Title AUTHOR-SIGNED inscription 'To Thelma , who knows the inside story' ...Illustrated by Barbara Srathdee Crayfishing with Grandmother (1973 SIGNED)

1927 h/b quarter-cloth boards A bit scarred & stained, but sound enough From the 'Greek Anthology' combining Planudes & Cephalas. Others Abide

1924 1st Edition h/b 259 pages, b&w plates & illus Tight & cleanwith sl aging, pencilled name fep, closed edges and eps sl foxed, gilt spine-titles on edge-rubbed sunned red cloth Rudyard Kiplings 'Sussex' Country (1924)

1844 1st Edition h/b 2 vols 671pp + 816pp, b&w illus Vol-1 tight, occasionally stained & foxed, esp prelims, penned names on prelims, heavy-ish outer wear & sl edge-splitting, some spine leather missing (below lower rib).Vol-2 less tight with some closed tears (no loss), also foxed, worn covers detached & lacking spine Vol-1 in half-calf on marbled boards, unmatched… Read more about this item

1977 1st Edition h/b + dw, Large Oblong Format col+b&w illus Clean & tight, inscription-free, gilt spine-titles on orange cloth with edges sl sunned & rubbed, dw also sl edge-rubbed : nz-childrens-genre collectible New Zealand children's story for 8-12 year olds. illustrated by David Armitage. Reefs of Fire by Keith Sinclair (1977 HB)

1988 1st ed soft-covers b&w photos 323 pages VG bright & crisp condition, inscription-free. The woman who lived the challenge of women as artists. Katherine Mansfield -- 'woman artist', Boddy 1998

1944 Sydney Edition (Huston/Dial) h/b + dw 327 pages Tight, tear 1 page with sl marginal-only loss (text complete) & some foxing (not extensive), gilt titles on covers front & wrinkled spine, heavily edge-chipped dw with loss is also price-clipped First version of the famous novel. D H Lawrence's "First Lady Chatterley" 1944 HB

ND [ca1914] (Westminster) h/b quarter-cloth 50 b&w plates lge-8vo All 50 plates pages on high qualitygloss are in excellent condition, though the covers & prelims of book are damaged and stained. Selections from the famous "Venetian Architect" for the inspiration of architectural students, incl some ruins of ancient Rome. 50 architectural Etchings by Piranesi (1907)

1919 (Heinemann) EDITION LTD 525 numbered copies, h/b quarter-vellum, top edge gilt, 288 pages Not at all heavily worn, this volume is very square, tight & internally clean but age-foxed-darkened externally [eps, closed edges, covers (papered section)], inscription-free, not ex-library. Even with the external age-(discoloured)-patina, it is remarkable how books this fine seem to retain so much original… Read more about this item