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Waitaruna : A Story Of New Zealand Life
by Bathgate, Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Fair with no dust jacket. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding poor internally, with spine glue perished and 6 gatherings detached and loose from the binding. Staples rusted. Page 49-112, 257-288 are detached and loose as 6 gatherings or signatures of 8 leaves / 16 pages. Darkening to endpapers. Previous owner's name and rubber stamp. Some rubbing to joints, 8mm and 3mm splits to cloth in front jointComplete but in need of rebinding, ; viii, 312 pages + 32 pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 174 x 112mm. A novel. Selected contents: Leaving Home; Life On The Ocean Wave; Land At Last; The Last Stage Of The Journey; Waitaruna; Big Creek; Ottalie Ewart; Muttontown; Under The Willows; Shearing; No Joke For Mike; The Doctors Letter. [References: Bagnall 347 - "Romance, with appropriate period dialogue, chiefly on an Otago High-Countory run."; Burns (1981) "New Zealand Novels and Novelists" p. 8 - "Success and failure among the pioneers in Otago."; Hocken p. 332 - "A pastoral story, with the scene laid in the southern part of New Zealand."] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25588
- Title
- Waitaruna : A Story Of New Zealand Life
- Author
- Bathgate, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1881
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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- New
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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