Ted Ashby (18 results)

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket has some light fading to edges 129 pages. Foxing to outer page edges. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography; New Zealand; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0589011294. ISBN/EAN: 9780589011291. Inventory No: 279421. …

octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean copy in a very good jacket. Tiny hint of foxing only. Ted Ashby's Phantom Fleet is the definitive history of the Auckland scows — the flat‑bottomed, shallow‑draft sailing vessels that once dominated coastal trade around the Hauraki Gulf and northern harbours. Ashby, who grew up around scows and later worked with them, writes with both technical knowledge and personal affection. The book traces the rise of the scow fleet from the late nineteenth century, explaining why these unusual vessels were so well suited to New Zealand conditions: they could carry heavy cargoes, cross shallow bars, and load directly from beaches or bush landings. Ashby describes their construction, rigging, and handling, and he profiles many of the best‑known boats and the men who sailed them.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 129 pages. Inscribed by Author(s). Green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light foxi ng to page edges & ep's. D/J spine faded with slight edge wear. Inscribed by author in front. - 129 pages, black & white plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 129 pages. Dj faded, inside cover and page edge foxed, text in good condition, writing on inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blackie: A Story of the Old-time Bushman - By Ted Ashby Publisher: AH Reed 1978, First Edition. Very good hardback with jacket, minor rubbing and bumping, no inscriptions, minor marks. Jacket has shelf/edge-wear, chipping and fading. 129 pages, illustrated. This is the story of Blackie (Andrew Black), a legendary bushman who worked and fought and drank and gambled his way from Tasmania to Victoria to Otago to the King Country to Northland, and to the Solomon Islands where his bones now lie buried. It is also the story of his only love, Ettie, whose heart he nearly broke with his mania for grog and gambling. She married someone else, but . . . These two are seen through the eyes of author Ted Ashby, who first met them in the little timber-mill town of Powelltown, Victoria, where he went to work as a young Aucklander in the 1920s. He worked with Blackie there and later in the Solomons before World War II, and then met up with him in the Solomons again after the war ended, in circumstances that rounded off their association in a strangely nostalgic way. Then he went back to Powelltown and broke the news to Ettie. Blackie was an unforgettable character - a big man and, on occasion, a violent one; uneducated, but with a streak of philosophy that depened as he grew older and more mature; a man of immensely strong personality; a natural leader. His is a fascinating story of adventures, successes and failures in the tough world of timber-cutting and axemen's contests. But the book is more than the biography of one hardcase Tassie. It vividly recreates the rough life of the bushmen in the forests and sawmill townships of rural Victoria, New Zealand and the tropics; the skills and strengths demanded by timber-falling and by chopping contests; and the stresses of war in the Solomons, where Blackie and his launch took part in the stealthy activities of Coast Watchers. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.…

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 135 pages, b/w photos, line drawings, index, end-paper maps. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust-jacket which appears to have a trace of damp by the spine foot. Size: 8vo.

First edition, small quarto, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 167pp, illus, VG+ in d/w VG (archival tape repairs).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. VG h/c in like art DJ. Inked name etc FFEP. 129 pages, 28 b/w photos. The story of Andrew Black, a rough bushman who worked in Tasmania, Victoria, Otago (NZ), the King Country, the kauri bush of Northland to the Solomon Islands where he died in an freak accident just after WWII.…

Condition: Very Good. 8vo hardcover 129pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w with faded spine.

Condition: Used: Very Good. Libro usato, proveniente da una collezione privata. La copertina riporta gli usuali segni del tempo. Le pagine possono risultare imbrunite Consegna in 24/48 h. 61-n4.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xii 167p Reprint edition D-J (slight fading) Cloth binding Near Fine With illustrations, a memorial to the ketches and schooners which plied the Auckland seaways between 1873 and the 1920s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 129 pages, an excellent copy, no faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1975, 1st. Quarto. xii, 167pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, in the pictorial dust wrapper. Some minor edge wear and creasing to wrapper extremities. In clear plastic protective sleeve (removable). Overall a 'Very Good' copy.…

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 167pp. Some bowing of boards. Water damage, slight. Prior to order, please contact us using 'ask bookseller a question' option for availability and correct shipping. Size: 26 x 20cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. Light wear on spine tips and corners, excellent copy. Book.