By Bush and Sea

This collection of 12 stories for young readers by A D Bright contains New Zealand tales with origins Maori, early European settlers, through to more contemporary times. The themes are imaginative, magical, mystical and traditional. The illustrations by Kennaway and Frank Wright are a colour frontis plus three b/w plates. First edition of 118 pages. Brown hard covers with black front and spine titles are VG+ with small tiki image lower right front, internally excellent, no inscriptions, Plain stiff paper DJ has small tear top front left adjacent spine, few chips and small perforation centre of rear flap fold, is VG and also has tiki image impressed loower front.