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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1924 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 378 Volume 1 Brett, Henry, Sir, 1842-1927.
Published by The Brett Printing Co. Auckland. ., 1924
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
First Edition
1st Ed. 366 PP with b/w illust. throughout and and one page of Index. Lacks the half-title page, title-page and 2 pages of the Index at rear. Blue cloth covers have some wear, otherwise a very good clean copy. 25 x 16. Ships and shipping history of New Zealand through anecdotes, gossip, extracts from diaries and newspapers.
Publication Date: 1924
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
1924, Auckland, The Brett Printing Company, Limited, volume one only, pp368, black and white illustrations, green cloth. Spine faded, damp marks on front cover, otherwise good.
Published by Brett Printing Company, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND, 1924
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Blue cloth lettered in white. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. BUT free endpapers removed and pastedowns have some repair.
Published by The Brett Printing Co., Auckland, NZ, 1924
Seller: Harbor Books LLC, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth boards with embossed white lettering including the price of 10/6 on the spine. Minor edgewear. 368pp with many illustrations, endpapers thinned and name on front endpaper, else contents clean, tight and unmarked. A nice copy.
Published by The Brett Publishing Company1924, 1924
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
This vol only, Super Octavo hardcover, blue buckram boards, white lettering to spine and front board, illus title page, 368 pp., illus, VG- (moderate scuffing to extrems with sl surface loss, light soiling to spine, moderate tanning & light foxing ot page edges, light staining and minor insect damage to eps, front and back. owners name inked on front paste down. light browning to interior pages. minor creasing to interior pages.).
Published by The Brett Printing Company, Auckland, 1924
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 368pp, index, bw ills. Or blue cloth lacking jacket. Minor edge wear to covers, white marking to rear cover (probably from paper adhesion), toning to endpapers and edges, prev owner (Capt J Cowper) on front free endpaper dated 1925. Size: 8vo.
Published by Capper Press, 1976
Seller: Vintage Books of Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 365p (13p Index) ; (frontis) 254p (12p Index) Reprint edition D-J (slight rubbing top spine, light fading spine, in protective wrappers) Paper over boards Light foxing top FE With illustrations, the ships that brought immigrants to New Zealand before 1900, and those who also brought trade.
Published by Capper Press, Christchurch, 1976
Seller: Browsers Books, Hamilton, NZ, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Capper Press Christchurch 1976 Facsimile of 1924 Edition illus (bw) VG (maroon cloth w title in gilt on spine, sl worn, head and foot of spine sl bumped, extrems sl scuffed, edges sl foxed, ta[e marks on boards both outside and in from previous cover) in VG DW (v sl rubbed and worn, spine faded, plastic protected) tidy set.
Published by Brett Printing & Publishing, Auckland, New Zealand, 1924
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Brett was originally a shipping reporter on the "Auckland Star" and an account of the smaller ships that traded inter-colonial across the Tasman Sea. A second volume was later published in 1928. CONDITION Blue bds has slight wear and stain to rear, pp 368 with 161 illus of ships, locations and captains portraits, rear page of index pasted to rear bd which has handwritten ships names and ladings. Previous owners names to front pastedown and free end page, moderately handled copy, clean with toned eps. OVERWEIGHT Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Brett, Auckland, 1924
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Chipped. Vol I. pp. 368. Illustrations (including portraits). Important record of early shipping in New Zealand.
Published by The Brett Printing Company, Publishers, New Zealand, 1924
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Blue cloths on boards with white titles; very faint dusting of just a little soiling. Spines: head & foot with thin bumping and moderate rubbed wear. Small wear to boards fore corners. Vol.I: with small indent bumps to fore-edge and top-edge. Light rubbing to some of the extremeties. Edges: light age yellowing and faint touch of a little soiling. Eps: age shadowings. Vol.I: head of refp with old thin insect damage. Vol.II: contains an illustrated bookplate of Percy James Hoyland White , another of which is in the Anderson bookplate collection (NZ). Both copies have clean contents. B/w illustrations. Bindings are VG. Vol.I: 363p Vol.II: 259p.