Search Results: Authors starting with C from NZ Story

H.C. Field's 1890 Survey of NZ Ferns.

Andersen's early twentieth century account of Maori tradition, customs and culture, accompanied by b+w illustrations.

1975 Facs-Reprint h/b+dw 264 b&w plates in 500+ pages Clean & tight, penned name fep, gilt spine-titles on maroon cloth with edges rubbed (unfrayed but with colour loss), in tatty sunned dwwith repaired rips & chips all corners. Old Christchurch Bldgs-Streets (Andersen 1975)

Good, sound copy of a highly collectable booklet with b+w photographs.

Aspects of local and personal history, illustrated with a few b+w photographs. Penned inscription on title page.

1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 248 pages with referential appendices, biblio & index, in a larger format illus with plates [coloured & b&w]. Tight, bright & clean but for sm light stain on top closed edge, gilt spine-titles on unrubbed vg chocolate cloth, and in a good dw with just one sm closed tear & sl curling top edge only. The stories of voyages by Polynesians, Spaniards, Dutch, British & French, cascading into Pacific waters for 2 millenia, are collated in this attractive volume

The fifty year history of the NZ Archaeological Association illustrated with b&w photos.

1974 1st Edition h/b + dw, Larger Format, col illus Tight & content substantially clean excepting prelims which are sl foxed, old tell-tale glue stains oneps reveal that dw must have once been cellotaped down in a few places , inscription-free, dw quite tatty and foxing on underside has transferred to staining surface of boards slightly, which are also sl edge-rubbed - in summary, good inside but rough-ish outside ...[price likewise!] ... Featuring 23 artists incl Curnow, Hanly, Mayo, Ramage etc .. illusory & deceptively simple dw-front (see photo) from a complex 'Homage to Milan' by Kees Hoss NZ Print-Making & Artists (Peter Cape 1974 HB)

History of NZ Post and Universal Postal Union.

1858 Edition (Chapman, London) h/b Blind-Decorated Cloth 300pp (incl index) + adverts 32pp EX-LIBRARY Minimal EX-LIBRARY WITHDRAWN markings in otherwise very tight copy with just very light wear for age, text-block substantially clean, dusty top edge & minor foxing around prelims & closed edges, open corners of covers & face sl rubbed, gilt spine-titles just sl dulled - very sound indeed - SCARCE. Discourses incl Model prisons, Downing Street, Parliaments, Jesuitism etc ... [first published 1850]

1974 1st Ed hb+dw Larger Format col+b&w illus 175 pages EX-LIBRARY Quite heavily worn, handled & marked ex-library, but quite sound copy nonetheless of sought-after title in FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. Rear Reference section of 25 pages reproduces heavily illustrated catalogues from Feldheim 1905, American 1908, Hunter & Alexander 1909, Lasseter 1914, Pears 1930 etc etc, and together with deeper discussions of Windsor, Bentwood, Kangaroo & other styles, affords identification by name for those now treasured antique 'ordinary' chairs from homes, businesses, hospitals, banks, railway stations and so on of NZ yesteryear, not to mention reproduction or repair techniques. Antique Cottage Chairs Catalogues & histories

Green cloth Boards with black lettering to front and spine, some fading to spine and top edges. penned and faded name on title page, map endpapers. Tight and clean copy.

nd [ca 1938] paper wraps, Larger Format, 55pp b&w illus Tight with a single glue crack, some foxing (mainly prelims), half-title penned inscription, covers sl edgeworn. Hitchin (Hertfordshire) with nice illustrations

1844 1st Edition h/b 2 vols 671pp + 816pp, b&w illus Vol-1 tight, occasionally stained & foxed, esp prelims, penned names on prelims, heavy-ish outer wear & sl edge-splitting, some spine leather missing (below lower rib).Vol-2 less tight with some closed tears (no loss), also foxed, worn covers detached & lacking spine Vol-1 in half-calf on marbled boards, unmatched to clothbound vol-2 Chambers Cyclopedia English Literature 1844

British Guide to Flyfishing for Trout, illustrated with colour photos.

Shipwreck of NZ Ship 'Hydrabad'.

NZ Hunting Stories from Cally Clarke

Sailing in NZ's Bay of Islands, accompanied by b+w illustrations and col. photos.

Illustrated exploration of Gordon Collier's Titoki Point garden.

Account of growing up in NZ sawmill country, illustrated with a few b+w photographs.