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Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing to lower end of spine. A 13mm chip at corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [vii], 187 pages + black and white photographic illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 136mm. Illustrated with 15 black and white photographic illustrations. Hunting, deer shooting in New Zealand, history of the government deer culling programme. Contents: Preface; Beginnings; The Context; Deer Culler; Government Shooter; Private Shooter; Research; Meat Hunter; Deer Farmer; Politics; The Law; The Last Act; What is to be done?; Selected Bibliography. "If deer were not eliminated the forests would be destroyed, the riverbeds choked with the gravel of accelerated erosion, and the coastal cities ripped apart by colossal floods. At least that was the theory. But there were other fights going on: government department against government department, deerstalkers against the Forest Service; farmers against hunters, helicopters against other helicopers and private shooters against meat hunters." - from dust-jacket blurb. Seller Inventory # 26496
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Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owner's name. Some rubbing to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [vii], 187 pages + black and white photographic illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. Illustrated with 15 black and white photographic illustrations. Hunting, deer shooting in New Zealand, history of the government deer culling programme. Contents: Preface; Beginnings; The Context; Deer Culler; Government Shooter; Private Shooter; Research; Meat Hunter; Deer Farmer; Politics; The Law; The Last Act; What is to be done?; Selected Bibliography. "If deer were not eliminated the forests would be destroyed, the riverbeds choked with the gravel of accelerated erosion, and the coastal cities ripped apart by colossal floods. At least that was the theory. But there were other fights going on: government department against government department, deerstalkers against the Forest Service; farmers against hunters, helicopters against other helicopers and private shooters against meat hunters." - from dust-jacket blurb. Seller Inventory # 27213
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Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Deer Wars: The Story of Deer in New Zealand by Graeme Caughley. Publisher: Heinemann , 1983, First Edition. SCARCE. Very good hardback with jacket, minor rubbing and compression to edges, no inscriptions, pages very good with slight foxing. Jacket has light shelf-wear and minor fading to spine. 187 pages, illustrated. Seller Inventory # ABE-1721104496855
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Seller: The Secret Bookshop (FREE POSTAGE IN NZ), Tararua, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy which is signed by the author on the title page. Very slight bruising to the top leading board edges. The jacket has a tiny amount of dulling to the spine only. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 044619
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