Search Results: Titles starting with N from NZ Story

1868 Virtue Ldn h/b 12 vols Imperial 8vo gilted & blind-stamped cloth Maps good, & most of the content is remarkably clean & tight with only minor foxing here and there, an occasional loosening page, some light buckling from prior damp or 'too-tight' storage (without staining etc). But the set is externally very rough -- covers bruised, battered & stained, hinges broken or weak, some edges rubbed through, moth-eatenscarring, some backstrip missing on one or two books etc etc etc etc -- yet despite all faults appears to be a complete & substantially intact copy of a significant & RARE GENEALOGICAL TREASURE TROVE for England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales mid-1800's, just prior to the major colonial emigrations. The set comprises 3 official volumes (distributed over 12 actual volumes) Full SET 12 Gazetteer Britain & Ireland 1868

1991 1st Ed soft covers, Larger Format, col+b&w illus 149pp Inscription-free, tight & substantially clean copy despite showing wear at extremities a hint of damp-crinkling first few pages & covers, which are also edge-rubbed & sl creased. NZ Native Forests History (Halkett 1991)

A survey of NZ's native forests, illustrated with b+w photos.

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

FIRST & much larger & more comprehensive edition, accompanied by b&w and col photos and illustrations.

Illustrated Natural History of NZ, illustrated with col. photos.

1965 1st Edition h/b+dw b&w photos & drawings 285pp Clean & tight, penned name fep, covers vg, dw edges worn. Part-1: Rakiura, muttonbirdsPart-2: South IslandPart-3: Cook StraitPart-4: North Island Naturalist adventures in 1960's NZ (HB + dw)

1981. Hardcover; Larger format. Very Good/very good. Tight & clean, inscription free with some memento ephemera loosely tipped in, gilt spine-titles on navy ..[of course].. tips-rubbed cloth, original dw protected in mylar and fade free. 

NZ History, 1918-1939 illustrated with b + w photos.

History of NZ, illustrated with b+w photos.

All-colour collection of images from one of the great railway photographers of the 20th Century, covering 7 years in the 1950's.

Guide to the NZ Pohutukawa, Profusely illustrated with colour art.

A survey of NZ's Beech Trees, accompanied by b&w photos and illustrations.

1975 1st Edition h/b + dw Larger Format, col illus (Tight & clean, inscription-free but gift card glued to half-title, covers corners sl bumped & rubbed, ) 1970's NZ in close-up - a slightly controversial though worthy social record whose dw blurb asks "Life in New Zealand ... is it really any different from anywhere else?", answered by a pictorially poetic display of close-ups from across the land, including Joe McKinley receiving his weekly grocery order at Martins Bay (see pic - and just who is that in the background, Mike?), platform soles, bell-bottoms, too much hair, more fags in faces than is proper in our pc times, and more contentment in eyes than is seemly (what were they all on?) -- sums it all up more than any other book seen

First in what became series of short NZ biographies by R.M. Burdon.

A Weird Region. The Great Eruption of Mt. Tarawera in 1886. Paperback booklet 1953 re-print with b+w photos. Pages tight, binding loose but the body of the booklet is generally sound.

Critical review of NZ's post-1984 free market reforms

1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. With b&w photos; Slightly worn, foxed, inscribed, but sound reading copy without dw. True NZ Headline Stories (“Hokonui”, “Graham” etc etc)

1993 Diver's Guide for NZ Waters, illustrated with col. photos.

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,