Aboard by Meyer, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. History of the railway transport to Lake Wakitipu and of shipping services on the lake. More than 50 illustrations, colour frontispiece, 3 maps and scale drawings of the Earnslaw. Grey hardcover is cupped and faded on edges. Some staining and small amount of scribble on rear e/p. Signed by aurhor on title page. Cover is foxed with extensive cracking and pieces missing. Signed by Author.

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to front board, frontispiece, x + 118pp, illus, folding diagrams to rear, VG (moderate brusiing to board edges & extrems, light to moderate fading/staining to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm patch of label residue to front pastedown, white out to front & rear eps) in d/w, G+ (v heavy chipping & tearing/loss to edges, light tanning & soiling, 2cm open tear to spine- tape repairs to interior).

1st edition of August 1963. Foreword by W. S. Shearer. X, 118 PP with 3 maps, 1 diagram and 55 b/w photos, plus 2 folding plans. Fp: Colour photo of S.S.Earnslaw (pasted down). Hard cover, dj. Signature on inside front and rear covers and a faint name stamp of previous owner on bottom of front endpaper, o/wise a fine copy. 23.4 x 15.8. Story of the locomotives going to, and the steamers sailing on, Lake Wakatipu after a century of existence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (frontis) x 118p D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper) VG - Near Fine The development of rail transport in the Lake Wakatipu district and the shipping services on the Lake, including the SS Earnslaw, with illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. x, 118pp, index, bibliography, appendices, folding ship plans, bw ills, col print laid in as frontis. Or cloth in jacket. Several tears and creases to jacket, prev owner name and brief gift note on title page, page edges evenly toned. The steamers of Lake Wakatipu and the trains from Invercargill and Dunedin that were integrated with the steamer services. Size: 8vo.

First Edition. Iron Horses to Wakatipu, and Shipping on the Lake. Pp. x+118, mounted coloured photograph as frontispiece, text illustrations including maps, 2 folding ship plans, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; light grey boards, lettered in black, fore-corners bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper worn and rubbed, small closed tears and silverfish damage to edges, verso a trifle browned and foxed; bookseller's stamp on the upper free endpaper, leaves browned; The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc., Wellington, 1963. First edition.