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Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
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AbeBooks Seller since June 6, 2002
Ex-library, General Assembly Library of New Zealand, Parliamentary Library. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. Corners of boards softened. Library label on front endpaper. Owner's name and address on reverse of frontispiece. ; v, [5], 209, [6], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Green limp cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 179 x 118mm. [Reference: Bagnall 2818 : "The author's recollections of the first ten years of Canterbury with a generous infusion of supporting quotations from those of sharper memory."]. Seller Inventory # 24147
Title: Canterbury Sketches; or, Life from The Early...
Publisher: "Lyttelton Times" Office, Christchurch
Publication Date: 1879
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
1st Edition. Oiginal cloth boards with black dec border and lettering, tipped-in frontispiece original photograph (Christchurch, December 1852), pp 209. Binding separating between title page and preface. Some foxing. Good condition. Autobiographical. with some history of the Christchurch and Lyttelton region. Seller Inventory # 100422
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Archive, Sth Hobart, TAS, Australia
Cloth. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good with some occasional spotting , owners bookplate to fep, stains on the reverse of the frontis page gutter streched between title page and preface. PP 209, frontis features tipped in photo of christchurch dated 1852 , Blue cloth with black titles . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 009130
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Inscribed & signed by author + tipped in two page holograph signed letter from author explaining why f.e.p. is missing, octavo, green boards with black lettering & black ruling to front board, frontispiece, v + 213pp, VG (light rubbing to boards, light soiling to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, internal front hinge slightly cracked - prelims coming loose, litgh tanning & very light foxing to page edges). Seller Inventory # 2i15/40
Quantity: 1 available