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Utu : A Story of Love, Hate, and Revenge
by Tua-O-Rangi [Margaret (Carson) Bullock (c1845-1903)]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Auckland: H. Brett. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, General Assembly Library of New Zealand, Parliamentary Library. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. Library label on front endpaper. Leather rubbed with superficial abrasions. 2mm missing to leather at head of spine.; [4], 191, [1 (blank)] pages. Chromolithograph front cover bound in. Rebound in half calf leather binding. Page dimensions: 199 x 129mm. A novel. With illustrations by Kenneth Watkins. [References: Bagnall B1719 : "Mrs Bullock's authorship is confirmed from letters by her to Sir George Grey in Grey collection. New Zealand section of story based on visit of Marion du Fresne."; Hocken p. 428 : "Illustrates the dominant Maori passion for utu - retributive justice, the lex talionis."] .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24148
- Title
- Utu : A Story of Love, Hate, and Revenge
- Author
- Tua-O-Rangi [Margaret (Carson) Bullock (c1845-1903)]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- H. Brett
- Place of Publication
- Auckland
- Date Published
- 1894
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Spine
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- New
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- Rebound
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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