Search Results: Authors starting with E from NZ Story

Fishing, Mountaineering in NZ illustrated with b+w photos

Capper Reprint of an 1864 account of the struggle for sovereignty in New Zealand.

1958 1st Edition h/b, b&w photos Tight & clean, inscription-free, sl edge-rubbed covers have a crack under unbroken cloth esp rear, lacks dw - FAIR++ Cuthbertson's Lure of the Trout (NZ 1958 HB)

Price-List of Public Acts 1908-1938 and Publications On Sale at the Government Stationary Office, Wellington, NZ, and at the Chief Post Offices at Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin' - Official Publication of New Zealand Government

Easdale's account of interactions between Maori and missionaries in the further North Island, mid-19th century. Accompanied by col illustrations.

History of NZ Company, Market Gardeners Ltd, illustrated with b+w photos.

History text with b+w illustrations.

1981 1st Edition h/b + dw Tight & clean, penned name fep, covers edges rubbed in vg dw Women & Women's 'things' in 1930's NZ (1981)

History text with b+w illustrations.

1932 1st Edition Penguin Press H/B, 4 b&w plates (woodcut facsimiles) EX-LIBRARY Tight & substantially clean internally with occasional light smudge, ex-library WITHDRAWN markings/labels restricted to sl foxed eps & spine. Gilt almost entirely rubbed from upper spine-title but still partially present on lower imprint (beneath library mark). Early version of 'Penguin' insignia blind-stamped rear board. Covers tips sl rubbed and black cloth surface handled with some (but almost opaque, insignificant) staining visible when held to light. A very sound copy indeed of rare and important volume. Based on first English translation of the 1528 by J C Hotten[1860], with corrections from other sources. Content is important to the companion histories of language, publishing & printing (versions / interpretations / typefaces etc), and for modern publishing history (pre-paperback Penguin-- see title-page - Penguin' insignia imprint, also blind-stamped rear cover). The plates are reproductions of the woodcut… Read More

1976. First edition. hardback, oblong format. Ex-Private Collection, stamped/fair. Karen McEvedy. 311 pages copious b& w photos and drawings, glossary and index; VG, clean and tight, with penned name ffep; scarce dw less good & sl worn. a highly graphic & well laid out reference work,

(1974) Ldn 75th Edition h/b, col plates & foldout maps, 446 pages Clean & tight, inscription-free, edges sl rubbed, dw badly damaged [as in photo] front rh top with a little corresponding staining of cover beneath The UK, Europe, Africa, Australasia, Canada etc -- an international 'lonely planet' style guide packed with fishing & accomodation info, indexed by location. Lonely Planet' of Fishing 1973-74

1983. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Private Collection, stamped/good. b&w illustrations; very clean and tight with a hint of shelf-wear, VG; good dw that is encased in a clear protector taped down inside  USA focused

ND soft covers, spiral bound larger format, b&w illus + some col maps & foldout views 322 pages Inscription-free, vg condition Substantial section of references, glossary & appendices Ellesmere (Te Waihora) Natural Resources report

Edited journals of Ensign Best, a young British Army officer in NZ, from 1837-1843.

Includes work by Grace, Mataira, Hulme, Metge et al. EDITOR SIGNED.

1980 1st Edition 2-vols h/bs+dws, b&w photos, index, 881 pages Tight & clean set, a few inconsequential specks & dogears, inscription-free, silver spine-titles on vg black rexine (synthetic leather) covered boards, in vg dws (just 1 sm nick & price-sticker hidden on underside) - VG On the ground, blow by blow observations & analysis of settlement schemes - theories, commercialisations, politics - all that might have happened if allowed and what finally did happen etc .......... Henry Sewell's 'Canterbury & NZ' 1853-7 2 Vols VG

1973. First edition. Softcover. Ex-Private Collection, stamped. Sl worn & crinkled. A good reading copy ,with a clear protector over the cover and taped down inside. A task force report sponsored by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund

1993 First Edition soft-covers Larger Format col+b&w illus 120pp Content substantially clean but has suffered some moisture damage leaving half-title stained and final 3pp of resources-index with adhesion which will cause some loss if separated. NZ Feminist Representation in Art 1973-1993

1919 (Heinemann) EDITION LTD 525 numbered copies, h/b quarter-vellum, top edge gilt, 288 pages Not at all heavily worn, this volume is very square, tight & internally clean but age-foxed-darkened externally [eps, closed edges, covers (papered section)], inscription-free, not ex-library. Even with the external age-(discoloured)-patina, it is remarkable how books this fine seem to retain so much original charm -- untrimmed heavy-textured pages encased in gilt-tooled covers (cream-'aged' vellum backstrip + cream papered boards), whose outer corners are rubbed. 2 famous editors, with Wise not just a recognised authority on Swinburne but a publisher of his works and biographer, quite aside from his notorious fraudster activities (later exposed). Swinburne, Gosse, Wise - fine