Vincent Pyke (55 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 154p D-J (chips top FE, in archival wrapper) Plasticised boards Signature front pastedown With illustrations, the reprint edition of this historical record of the first gold discoveries in Otago from the 60s, with additional notes and personal memories at the end.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 154 pages. Dj worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. iv p5-154 D-J (chips, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards Name FEP The reprint edition of this 'exuberant romance' of the Otago goldfields.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second edition which is an exact copy of the original work from 1887. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. 154pp. Condition. A very clean copy with some minor dust dulling to the top edges and a tiny piece of marginalia. The jacket has very minor shelf wear only.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. very clean.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint of 1887 Edition. Octavo hardcover with bright red boards; 154 pp; pictorial front endpapers; b/w illustrations. Tight binding, clean throughout. Very Good. DJ: Light cover wear; one thin 0.5 inch pen mark to front wrap. Very Good. Reprint of Vincent Pyke's 1887 narrative, which provides a faithful history of the early gold discoveries in the Otago region of New Zealand. Blends official documents, newspaper records, and private information acquired by the author in his capacity as Goldfields Secretary.

Octavo, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus feps, 154pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (some bruising & creasing to upper edges, moderate staining, moderate browning to inside).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. (frontis Gabriel's Gully in 1862) vii 151p Red cloth binding, blind rules, gilt titles Wear top, bottom spine, fore-corners Marks covers Back hinge cracked but tight With illustrations, an historical record of the first gold discoveries, with additional notes and personal memories at the end.

Cloth. Condition: Good - VG. (frontis Gabriel's Gully in 1862) vii 151p Green cloth binding, blind rules, gilt titles Wear top, bottom spine, fore-corners Marks covers Owner's contemporary signature FEP Frontis repaired on hinge and back Gd - VG With illustrations, an historical record of the first gold discoveries, with additional notes and personal memories at the end.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. MaInly Portrats (illustrator). 1st reprint. Vincent Pyke was an influential administrator on the Otago gold fields as the warden of the diggings at the time of the first discoveries in the 1860s, continuing in this role over several fields for some years. In the 1870s he entered Otago politics, representing a number of electorates. In later life he began to record the gold fields' histories, creating a first-hand record of this important golden era for Otago, and NZ generally. This book was first published in 1887 with this first reprint (by the original publisher) in 1962. when the centennials of the gold strikes were being recalled. Illustrations are confined to portraiits of notable contempory personalities. wth the front end-papers depicting an artist's impression of Gabriels' Gully' in 1862, former owner small ink name/date extreme top edge of the front illustration -- the sole impediment to this copy.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

HB. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean red pebbled cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: foxing. Eps: illustrated drawing of Gabriel's Gully in 1862.; top margin with signature. Clean contents. Illustrated. Binding is As New. 154p Dj: moderate soiling and rubbings. Spine: head & foot with thin wear; head with small splits and chips. Head & foot of flaps spines with smal open wear and chips; 1cm split to rear flap spines foot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket is chipped and edgeworn with a bit of faint spotting. The text within is excellent.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Minor abrasion to front endpaper. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. A 1" tear to margin of dust-jacket on front panel. A couple of small 1/4" chips at tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1974 facsimile reprint of the 1889 edition. iv, (5)-154 pages. Maroon boards. Page dimensions: 214 x 138mm. An early New Zealand novel, set in the gold fields of the South Island. This novel was originally published in four parts in 1873. [Bibliographical Reference: c.f. Bagnall 4752 - "Pyke's narrative with its sectional 'flash-back' to Enderby's Victorian past (excellent for the Australian market) and the final denouement in Australia, makes a brisk, plausible and readable narrative with convincing dialogue."].

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b The Adventures of George Washington Pratt. A story of the New Zealand gold-fields.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Pyke, Vincent; br/b/b 1890.br/b/b iv. 204 p. ; 8ş.br/b/b 012631.h.58.br/.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tight binding. Pages have no written inscriptions. Green boards with gilt lettering. Boards are slightly bowed. Decorative endpapers. Black and white, two-page frontis is an illustration of Gabriel's Gully in 1862. 2.5" tear on frontis. Some toning of endpapers. Seven illustrations, including frontis. Fourteen appendices, including Maori Names for Gold; The First Mining Conference; Nuggets; Agricultural Settlement on the Goldfields; West Coast Exploration. 151 pp.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 151pp, illus, G+ (v heavy scuffing to spine- base of spine partially detached & flapping, moderate bruising & scuffing to board edges & corners, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, top edges of title page to pg12 removed- text unaffected, heavy cracking at gutters- mostly at rear, 3cm gash to rear ep, occasional pencil annotation, light soiling throughout).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to front board and blind rule to both boards, x + 76pp + cxxvii appendices, VG+ (v light wear, discolouration to pages).