Language: English
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1983
ISBN 10: 0340338830 ISBN 13: 9780340338834
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Reissued. Illstd in b&w by Alan Gilderdale. Very tidy, a little rubbing to edges. Dust jacket is intact, minor wear to top edge, slightly faded at the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by Hodder & Stoughton (Kotare Books), Auckland, 1983
ISBN 10: 0340338849 ISBN 13: 9780340338841
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Alan Gilderdale (illustrator). First Thus. Paperback: coners a little bumped, spine faded, slight foredge foxing and some lower page corners slightly creased, else vg. small 8vo, 198pp. Illustrated by ALAN GILDERDALE. Set in the 1860s during the NZ Maori Wars.
Published by A. H. & A. W. Reed 1960, 1960
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Ex library, super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-) in plastic cover; 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.
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, New Zealand
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. g henry evison (illustrator). 255 pages. backstrip has been reglued-foxing.
Language: English
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, Auckland, 1930
Seller: Browsers Books, Hamilton, NZ, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Terence Cuneo (illustrator). First Edition. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd Auckland 1930 First Edition 279pp illus (col frontis and bw illus) VG (illus blue cloth sl worn, illus on front board and spine, spine darkened and marked, head and foot of spine bumped, cloth bw spine and rear board coming away, edges and prelims sl foxed, binding sl cocked, inscription on front pastedown faded) lacks dw.
Published by A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1960
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illstd with b&w drawings by Denis Turner. Uniform browning in the edges, no marks. Dust jacket is price clipped, minor wear to spine ends and top corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1960
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 17.98
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Dennis Turner (illustrator). Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with a small tape repair to the spine ends verso. Insignificant age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over yellow boards with blue titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (0.8 kg); pp 208; Preface by George Burns; Includes: Black & white drawings; Maps (1); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204914 ||.
Published by A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1960
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with minor edge wear.
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, Auckland, New Zealand
Seller: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, Australia
Softcover (Stiff Boards). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 127 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Stitch-bound cover which has some wear and is discoloured. Enclosed in clear, protective sleeve. First blank page has been removed and stitching is visible to front and rear endpapers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children's::Children's Fiction; Children; Inventory No: 144389.
Published by Street & Smith Publications, Inc, 1933
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Original wraps show moderate wear, tear, and chipping, tanning, and a bit of writing. Pages tanned.
Published by New Century Press, 1927
Seller: Vintage Books of Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (frontis) 73p Card covers, cloth spine Slight water mark top, bottom FE covers, on back cover Light foxing FE Illustrated by Ken Alexander, a collection of the published and unpublished works of this New Zealand poet, dead at 39.
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, New Zealand, 1925
Seller: Ariel Books, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
US$ 21.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Authors first book, collection of stories that had been published in The Sun (Canterbury) including stories on Maori legends and view points. CONDITION Heavy card covers with Dj fixed at spine, 92 pages with woodblock illus. Copy is very bright and crisp, apart from foxing to eps caused by paste used to fix to bds, DJ very bright with short tear at spine heel due to yapped edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by A.H & A.W. Reed, 1960
Seller: BooksNZ, Palmerston North, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. D/J chips.
A H & A W Reed Wellington 1960. First edition. Cloth, illustrated (Dennis Turner), 208pp. Previous ownership stamps o/w a good copy in like jacket - small tears top spine.
Published by George G Harrap, London, 1927
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 33.21
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. G Henry Evison (illustrator). First Edition. Very good book in pictorial light green cloth covers; front cover shows a man with a rifle amidst trees coloured in white green and black Internally very good and free of inscriptions; coloured frontispiece and four b/w plates [one re-fixed]; front edges untrimmed; binding tight. No dust jacket. A scarce first edition by this New Zealand author about the Hawkes Bay uprising.
Published by Whitcombe & Tombes, New Zealand, 1927
Seller: Ariel Books, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
US$ 34.30
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Not Dated 1927 [NZNB T659]. Her first novel written for children enthasizing Maori-Pakeha relationships. The well-researched background was Te Kooti's uprising in Hawke's Bay, but the main characters are fictional. Illustrations are by G Henry Evison. Her writing is not dated still holding up well in modern times. CONDITION Green illustrated cloth, colour frontis plate, 252 pages with 4 plate illus in b/w. Cloth has very light insect damage to front eps and small drip mark to leading edge. Otherwise copy is bright and crisp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd, London, 1930
Seller: CURIO, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 24.91
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print (first printed 1928). Hardback copy in blue cloth pictorial boards, no dustjacket. 255pp. Colour frontispiece, and 3 of 4 b/w plates throughout (plate to page 168 missing). Not library copy, no inscriptions. Light page foxing. (15/6).
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs [1955], Christchurch, 1955
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Covers rubbed. Staples rusted. Chips to spine around staples. Previous owner's inscription.; No date [1955]. 1955 reprint of a title that was first included in the Whitcombe's Story Books series in 1934. 96 pages. Card covers illustrated in red and black. Page dimensions: 179 x 122mm. Three full page illustrations, small vignette on title page, 2 small maps. An abridged edition for younger readers, ages 10 to 12. Escott-Inman's original work was a novel, based on the true story of a shipwreck on the Auckland Islands (one of New Zealand's groups of subantarctic islands) in 1907. Twelve lives were lost in the wreck, and fifteen survivors had to fend for themselves on Disappointment Island for eight months until their rescue. [Reference: McLaren "Whitcombe's Story Books: A Trans-Tasman Survey" 547(d)].
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs [1925], Auckland, 1925
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. 25mm tears with paper tape repairs at corners of dust-jacket. 17mm chip to blank corner of rear panel of dust-jacket.; 92 pages. Frontispice and 9 full page illustrations by Carlton within the pagination. Illustration on title page. White card boards with illustrated dust-jacket attached at spine. Advertisements on endpapers. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. Children's stories, with Maori subjects. Story titles: The Coming of the Grey Bird; The Wedding Dress of Toria Topai; Piriki's Princess; Captin Ceroni's Atua; A Deserted Settlement; Mere Topai Washes Clothes; The Ghost-Canoe; Four Tons of Flax; The White Heron; The Weka. [Reference: Bagnall T658].
Published by Whitcombe & Tombes, New Zealand, 1927
Seller: Ariel Books, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
US$ 41.30
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Not Dated 1927 [NZNB T659]. Her first novel written for children enthasizing Maori-Pakeha relationships. The well-researched background was Te Kooti's uprising in Hawke's Bay, but the main characters are fictional. Illustrations are by G Henry Evison. Her writing is not dated still holding up well in modern times. CONDITION Green illustrated cloth, colour frontis plate, 252 pages with 4 plate illus in b/w. Cloth has very light shelf wear and slightly faded spine, gift inscription in pencil dated 1930, another name in pencil and one in ink to front. Copy is bright and crisp with light foxing to ends and pages opposing plates due to differing paper types. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1928
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
First Edition
Original Pictorial Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp.256. Frontispiece. Plates. Very nice original pictorial cloth. Prize certificate to ffep. A Rare New Zealand novel.
Language: English
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1930
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Scarce title. Light blue pictorial cloth, colour frontis and monochrome illstns by Terence Cuneo. Tight and square, clean boards, faint foxing in edges and endpapers. Dust jacket is unlipped and unfaded, but has loss to top edges and foot of spine, rubed at edges, in a clear protective sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1928, 1928
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
First edition in scarce d/w, octavo, green buckram boards with pink lettering to spine & front board and pink&black illus to spine & front board, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, VG (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, inscription in black ink to fep, some tanning & foxing to eps) in d/w, VG- (8cm x 3cm tear with loss to upper spine/rear repaired with archival tape, archival tape repairs to lower spine extrem, some creasing to upper edges, moderate soiling).
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Yonique Campbell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of Citizenship on the Margins: State Power, Security and Precariousness in 21st-Century Jamaica (2.
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
US$ 194.74
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketCondition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Yonique Campbell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of Citizenship on the Margins: State Power, Security and Precariousness in 21st-Century Jamaica (2.