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Sub-title
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Author
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Publisher
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Published
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Pages
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Size
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Condition
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Price
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Comment
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NZ Post
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Aus & Pac Post
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Nth Am & Japan Post
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Europe Post
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Rest of World Post
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John and Charles Enys Castle Hill Runholders 1864-1891
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Abrahamson, Jenny
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Wily Publications
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2017
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239p (1p)
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Oblong 4to
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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50
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With illustrations and reproductions of Charles Enys' watercolours, a detailed history of this Canterbury farming area and its early pioneers
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5.500000
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21.000000
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42.000000
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44.000000
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46.000000
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An Anzac in the Family Private McAlpine of the 4th Reinforcements
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Abrahart, Sherryl
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Author Pub
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2018
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242
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With maps and illustrations, the biography of a New Zealand soldier who survived Gallipoli but died on the Western Front at 19
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5.500000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
|
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Arahura Pathway to the setting Sun
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Ackerley, Richard
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The Ackerley Family
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2000
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148
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Oblong 8vo
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P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the North-South, East-West traverse of New Zealand by the Ackerley Brothers in 1994-5, from the depths of Harwood's Hole to the summit of Aorangi/Mount Cook
|
6.000000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
|
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Reminiscences of Evelyn Acland 1871-1964
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Acland, Susan (comp)
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Author Pub
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1969
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95p (folding chart)
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Browning spine VG - Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, a life of Lady Acland, her life in England and then in New Zealand
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3.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
|
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Judge Ward
|
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Adams, Geoff
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Author Pub
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2011
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375
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
|
40
|
Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life of this early New Zealand judge, his wife and his mistress, and the mistresses' writing
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
|
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Watch the Down Wind
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Adams, Jeanette
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Author Pub
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1997
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264
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8vo
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P-B Slight bumping spine Half-title page cut at corner VG
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25
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Signed by the author, the story of Invercargill-born Flight Lieutenant Rod Hoffman, in Bomber Command during WW2, and his English-born wife, Jeanette
|
5.500000
|
16.000000
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32.000000
|
34.000000
|
36.000000
|
|
Thomas Dagger Adams
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|
Adams, Lucy S
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Reed
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1954
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71p
|
8vo
|
Blue cloth binding Owner's details FEP VG
|
25
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A memoir of a former Professor of Classics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, with illustrations
|
5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
|
25.000000
|
|
Descendants of William and Matilda Webber
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from England to New Zealand
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Adlam, Kellie A (et al)
|
Webber Family Reunion Cttee
|
|
172
|
4to
|
P-B VG - Near Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations and genealogical tables, the journey to New Zealand by the progenitors, then the New Zealand life of this Webber family
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
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24.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
|
Renwick the story of a pioneer family
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|
Airey, Elisabeth
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Author Pub
|
1979
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86
|
4to
|
P-B VG
|
40
|
With illustrations, the story of this pioneering European family around Nelson
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
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24.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
|
Our Decent Soldiers one family's story
|
|
Allan, Flora ; Sheard, Christine
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Christine Sheard
|
2005
|
151
|
8vo
|
P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine
|
35
|
Signed by the author, with illustrations, the letters home from New Zealand soldiers during World War One
|
5.000000
|
14.000000
|
28.000000
|
30.000000
|
32.000000
|
|
Stories for my Grandchildren
|
|
Allan, Grace
|
Author Pub
|
1982
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(2p) 53p
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
20
|
Family stories collected by the author so that they won't be lost to later generations, about the people, animals and happenings around the farm at Merton, north of Dunedin
|
5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
|
29.000000
|
|
The Years Intervening the story of the Allen family
|
|
Allen, Bill
|
Author Pub
|
2003
|
viii 84p
|
4to
|
P-B VG - Near Fine
|
40
|
With maps and illustrations, the story of the descendants of George and Mary Allen, leaving the UK in 1878 for Southern New Zealand
|
5.000000
|
14.000000
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26.000000
|
29.000000
|
29.000000
|
|
A Farm on the Wanganui River
|
|
Allen, Elizabeth
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Wanganui Newspapers Ltd
|
1980
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79
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
25
|
With map and illustrations, the author's family farm in the upper Wanganui River, from the 1920s
|
3.000000
|
11.000000
|
22.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
|
Dear Tyrant an extraordinary colonial life
|
|
Allom, Barrie
|
Wairarapa Archive, Fraser Books
|
2014
|
viii 315p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations, a biography of an early European surveyor, run-holder, mining manager, and the registrar of mines at Thames
|
5.000000
|
16.000000
|
32.000000
|
34.000000
|
36.000000
|
|
Being There
|
|
Anderson, Hugh
|
Author Pub
|
2017
|
372
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
|
With illustrations, the autobiography of this New Zealand motorcycle Grand Prix great
|
6.000000
|
20.000000
|
40.000000
|
45.000000
|
50.000000
|
|
Over the River
|
|
Anderson, Mona
|
Reed
|
1966
|
207
|
8vo
|
D-J (small piece missing top/bottom spine, fore-corners, in archival wrapper) Signature FEP VG - Near Fine
|
28
|
Signed by the author, the author's third book, more on Mount Algidus and high-country living, with illustrations
|
5.000000
|
16.000000
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30.000000
|
34.000000
|
34.000000
|
|
BJ the White Robe legacy the Brian Anderton story
|
|
Anderston, Brian ; O'Hearn, Wally
|
Wally O'Hearn
|
2013
|
151p (1p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Small owner's label HTP Near Fine
|
30
|
Signed by the author, with illustrations, the life of this Southern rider and trainer, and the White Robe stud
|
4.000000
|
12.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
|
The Traporrel
|
|
Andrew, Howard R
|
Kiwizimba Books
|
2013 2nd edition (2011)
|
67
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
|
With illustrations, the story of a family harmonium and its interweaving with a South African family through the late 1890s and the Boer War, and further travels, including New Zealand
|
3.000000
|
10.000000
|
20.000000
|
22.000000
|
24.000000
|
|
Set in a Long Place a life from North to South
|
|
Andrew, Maurice
|
Hazard Press
|
1999
|
373
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
20
|
Inscribed by the author, the wandering life of a New Zealand Presbyterian Minister, in and out of New Zealand
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
|
The World Book of Wylies
|
|
Anon
|
Halbert's Family Heritage
|
1995
|
165
|
4to
|
P-B Fading spine VG
|
25
|
The world-wide Wylies, with a section for the New Zealand branches
|
5.500000
|
14.000000
|
28.000000
|
31.000000
|
34.000000
|
|
A Grant Family Saga pine trees transplanted
|
A story of early Otago
|
Anon
|
Author Pub
|
1965
|
105
|
4to
|
Plasticised boards Slight underlining, up-dating on one page Slight tea stains VG
|
70
|
With illustrations, a scarce Southern family history, early settlers in and around Dunedin and out into Otago
|
5.000000
|
13.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
30.000000
|
|
Descendants of Daniel McLaren & Anne McMinn Romahapa January 1982
|
|
Anon
|
Author Pub
|
1982
|
35 leaves
|
4to
|
Soft card covers, spine strip, slight rubbing base VG
|
25
|
With illustrations, the extended family tree of this ex-Scottish couple, first in New Zealand together about 1863, first published for the family reunion
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
|
19.000000
|
23.000000
|
22.000000
|
|
Wartime Experiences
|
a collection of short stories from members of the Country Women's institute
|
Anon
|
NZCWI
|
1996
|
116
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
25
|
With illustrations, the WW2 experiences of New Zealand women in New Zealand and overseas
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
|
19.000000
|
23.000000
|
22.000000
|
|
Memories of Mangere
|
|
Anon
|
Mangere Historical Society
|
2001
|
88
|
8vo
|
P-B Fading spine Near Fine
|
30
|
With map and illustrations, memories of this suburb of Auckland, the personalities and the places
|
5.000000
|
13.000000
|
21.000000
|
25.000000
|
25.000000
|
|
The Bryants of Ohariu
|
|
Arabin, Shirley
|
Moyglare
|
1989
|
(2p) 85p (4p)
|
4to
|
P-B Signature TP VG
|
42
|
With illustrations, the history of this Wellington family, from their early arrival in New Zealand
|
5.000000
|
13.000000
|
21.000000
|
25.000000
|
25.000000
|
|
Artist & Bon Vivant a memoir of Bruce Henry
|
|
Ashworth, Norma ; Chisholm, Jocelyn
|
Steele Roberts, The Bruce Henry Book Trust
|
2001
|
96
|
4to
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations and reproductions, a celebration of the life of this New Zealand artist/post office worker
|
5.000000
|
16.000000
|
30.000000
|
37.000000
|
41.000000
|
|
A Legend in his Time the Artie Ashworth story 1920-1994
|
|
Ashworth, Vincent A
|
Author Pub
|
2012
|
xvi 301p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
38
|
With maps and illustrations, the life and flying careey of a New Zealander who flew in the RAF in Bomber Command, in the Pacific, and with the RAF after WW2
|
5.000000
|
14.000000
|
28.000000
|
30.000000
|
32.000000
|
|
So Many Good-Byes The Memoirs of AL Austin 1928-1953
|
|
Austin, Allie L
|
Pegasus
|
1984
|
142
|
8vo
|
D-J (slight repair) VG
|
28
|
Edition of 200 copies; missionary work in the Pacific Islands, then home to NZ
|
5.000000
|
13.000000
|
21.000000
|
25.000000
|
25.000000
|
|
William Colenso His Life and Journeys
|
|
Bagnall, AG ; Petersen, GC ; St George, Ian (ed)
|
Otago University Press
|
2012 (1948)
|
510
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
45
|
With maps and illustrations, a reprint edition of this biography, including Colenso's own 'Autobiography'
|
5.000000
|
18.000000
|
37.000000
|
41.000000
|
44.000000
|
|
A Surveyor in New Zealand 1857-1896
|
The recollections of John Holland Baker
|
Baker, Noeline (ed)
|
W&T
|
1932
|
(frontis) 336p
|
8vo
|
Blue cloth binding, blind rules, gilt titles Inscription FEP, verso frontis Spine repaied,thin strip missing back hinge Slight bump top, bottom spine Slight foxing Eps, FE Gd - VG
|
60
|
With illustrations, the life of this early surveyor, especially in Southland and Canterbury, including exploratory survey to the Auckland Islands, scarce
|
5.000000
|
19.000000
|
35.000000
|
41.000000
|
46.000000
|
|
Oswald Blumhardt New Zealand Plant Pioneer
|
|
Ballard, Catherine
|
David Ling
|
2006
|
119
|
4to
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
25
|
With illustrations, a life of a New Zealand plant breeder, his trips overseas for specimens, and his Koromiko Nursery
|
5.000000
|
11.000000
|
22.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
|
The Sea and the Soil
|
|
Ballinger, Ralph
|
Author Pub
|
2007
|
228
|
8vo
|
Laminated boards Near Fine
|
25
|
With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand horticulturalist, from WW2 service in the Royal Navy to working on the land in New Zealand, from writing three gardening books to being the only legal NZ morphine poppy grower
|
5.000000
|
16.000000
|
30.000000
|
37.000000
|
40.000000
|
|
Sergeant, Sinner, Saint & Spy the Taranaki War Diary of Sergeant William Marjouram, RA
|
|
Barber, Laurie et al (eds)
|
Random Century
|
1990
|
viii 102p
|
4to
|
D-J (fading spine) Near Fine
|
25
|
With illustrations and maps, the diary of this Royal Artillery NCO during his time in New Zealand 1855-1861, including serving in the Taranaki Wars
|
5.000000
|
16.000000
|
30.000000
|
34.000000
|
34.000000
|
|
Gateway to the Marshall Family
|
|
Barkman, Frances
|
Author Pub
|
1988
|
104
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
34
|
With map, illustrations and genealogical charts, a short history of Catherine and William Marshall and their descendants, settled in Omimi, just north of Dunedin
|
3.000000
|
10.000000
|
20.000000
|
22.000000
|
24.000000
|
|
The Whites of Merton Otago
|
|
Barkman, Frances (comp)
|
Author Pub
|
1985
|
96
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations, a short history of Jeany and Thomas White, arriving in Otago on the 'Jura' in 1858 from Edinburgh, and their descendants, a limited edition
|
4.000000
|
12.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
|
An Autobiography of George Barnes
|
Some of the happenings & accidents that I have had since my beginnings in 1928
|
Barnes, George
|
Author Pub
|
2002
|
184
|
4to
|
P-B VG
|
35
|
Inscribed by the author, his life in New Zealand and Australia, and around the world, especially in motorbikes, with illustrations
|
5.000000
|
17.000000
|
31.000000
|
35.000000
|
35.000000
|
|
Safe among the Cowpats
|
the story of a wartime childhood
|
Barr, Lucy Davis
|
Brian Riggir
|
2007
|
293
|
8vo
|
P-B Slight intitials FEP Near Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations, the memories of the author during WW2 in Britain, with accompanying historical events
|
5.000000
|
18.000000
|
31.000000
|
35.000000
|
37.000000
|
|
The McIlrath Letters a family history in letters from New Zealand to Ireland 1860-1915
|
|
Bassett, John (et al, eds)
|
The Killyleigh Branch, NIFHS
|
2009
|
(2p) 143p (1p)
|
Oblong 8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
28
|
With maps and illustrations, the letters from the New Zealand McIlraths back to their family in Ireland telling of their lives pioneering in Canterbury
|
5.000000
|
13.000000
|
27.000000
|
29.000000
|
31.000000
|
|
Coates of Kaipara
|
|
Bassett, Michael
|
Auckland University Press
|
1995
|
(2p) 325p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
22
|
With map and illustrations, a detailed life of this New Zealand politician, as Prime Minister and Minister, including the Depression and the World War Two coalition government
|
8.000000
|
18.000000
|
32.000000
|
36.000000
|
37.000000
|
|
Tomorrow Comes the Song A life of Peter Fraser
|
|
Bassett, Michael ; King, Michael
|
Penguin
|
2000
|
445
|
8vo
|
P-B Owner's plate covered inside front cover Near Fine
|
38
|
With illustrations, the biography of the New Zealand Wartime Prime Minister
|
5.000000
|
18.000000
|
32.000000
|
36.000000
|
37.000000
|
|
Gibbison Family History in New Zealand
|
|
Baucke, Dorothy
|
Author Pub
|
2003 Updated edition (1998)
|
211p (1p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Signature TP VG
|
38
|
With illustrations, a detailed family history, including letters, and a diary from Gallipoli
|
5.500000
|
16.000000
|
32.000000
|
34.000000
|
36.000000
|
|
Leading Lady the story of Mary Jolly
|
|
Bayfield, Pam
|
Author Pub
|
140p (folding genealogical table)
|
206
|
4to
|
Laminated boards Owner's small label FEP Near Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations, the story of this Central Otago, and Dunedin actress in her day, with memories and family trees
|
5.500000
|
17.000000
|
34.000000
|
36.000000
|
38.000000
|
|
A Life of J. C. Beaglehole New Zealand Scholar
|
|
Beaglehole, Tim
|
VUP
|
2006
|
(frontis) 559p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
50
|
With many illustrations, an absorbing life of one of New Zealand's greatest scholars, forever renowned for the Hakluyt 'Cook Journals' and 'Life of James Cook'
|
5.000000
|
23.000000
|
51.000000
|
54.000000
|
59.000000
|
|
Seventy Years in and around Auckland
|
|
Beale, GC
|
Reed
|
1937
|
(frontis) 88p
|
8vo
|
Green cloth binding, black titles, rules Slight rubbing top board VG - Near Fine
|
45
|
With illustrations, the experiences of an early European settler in Auckland, including service at Parihaka
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
|
19.000000
|
23.000000
|
22.000000
|
|
Seventy Years in and around Auckland
|
|
Beale, George Clarendon
|
Reed
|
1937
|
88
|
8vo
|
D-J (pieces missing, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding Light foxing FE VG
|
75
|
Limited edition, with illustrations, an adventurous life in and around Auckland starting in 1858, scarce
|
4.000000
|
12.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
|
A Passionate Affair Llewellyn Jones & Music (with CD)
|
|
Bean, Margaret
|
Steele Roberts
|
2015
|
x 205p (1p) CD in rear pocket
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
|
With illustrations and sheet music, a life of this New Zealand musician (1871-1950) and music teacher, with a CD of his music
|
5.500000
|
16.000000
|
38.000000
|
42.000000
|
46.000000
|
|
Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country
|
story of the famous sheeplifter
|
Beattie, Herries
|
ODT
|
1946
|
113
|
8vo
|
P-B Slight rubbing spine Slight marks covers VG
|
35
|
With maps and illustrations, the soft-cover version of this life of one of the early Southern characters
|
5.000000
|
13.000000
|
21.000000
|
25.000000
|
25.000000
|
|
Mackenzie the Sheep Stealer
|
further information considered
|
Beattie, Herries
|
Author Pub, ODT
|
1959
|
32
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
25
|
With illustrations, additional material to the author's 'Mackenzie of the Mackenzie country'
|
4.000000
|
13.000000
|
21.000000
|
25.000000
|
25.000000
|
|
Long Time Passing
|
the life story of 'Down to Earth' Beauie
|
Beaumont, HW
|
Richmond Village Bookshop
|
1992
|
208
|
8vo
|
P-B Owner's details TP VG
|
25
|
With illustrations, the ninety-year old memories of this long-time New Zealand teacher
|
5.000000
|
11.000000
|
22.000000
|
24.000000
|
26.000000
|
|
The Beer Family Saga
|
The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Beer
|
Beer, Elizabeth
|
Beer Family Reunion Cttee
|
1998
|
viii 360p
|
4to
|
D-J (slight chips top spine) Paper over boards Signature FEP Near Fine
|
120
|
With illustrations and lists, an excellent family history of this family which began in Wiltshire in 1838, moved to the goldfields of Otago, then settled around Lake Wakatipu
|
8.000000
|
26.000000
|
57.000000
|
65.000000
|
66.000000
|
|
The World of John Boultbee
|
Including an Account of Sealing in Australia and New Zealand
|
Begg, A Charles and Neil C
|
Whitcoulls
|
1979
|
329
|
8vo
|
D-J (slight fading spine) Near Fine
|
45
|
Following their usual practice, the authors follow the trail of their subject to the sealing and whaling grounds of Australia and New Zealand, with illustrations
|
5.500000
|
20.000000
|
37.000000
|
43.000000
|
47.000000
|
|
Burt Munro Indian Legend of Speed
|
|
Begg, George
|
Begg & Allen
|
2002
|
200
|
4to
|
P-B Light fading spine VG - Near Fine
|
80
|
Inscribed by the author, the first edition of this first study of Burt Munro, who took his modified Indian motorcycle to the Bonneville Flats and created land-speed history, with illustrations
|
5.000000
|
18.000000
|
33.000000
|
40.000000
|
43.000000
|
|
A Classic World & When the Engine Roars
|
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Begg, George
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Begg & Allen Ltd
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2000
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(3p) 234p
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4to
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Near Fine
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150
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Author inscribed and signed, a reprint and up-dating of one of NZ's scarcest motor racing books, the history of the author's early racing bikes and making racing cars, and what has happened to the author since the 1980 publication, a nice copy
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5.500000
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22.000000
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44.000000
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47.000000
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50.000000
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When the Engine Roars
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The motor racing life of George Begg
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Begg, George ; Lind, Clive A
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Craig Printing Co
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1980
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180
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4to
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Ex-lib, usual stamps, end pocket removed VG
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80
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Signed by the authors, with illustrations, the author's life in motor racing around the world and in New Zealand, starting at his workshed in Drummond, Southland
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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When the Engine Roars
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The motor racing life of George Begg
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Begg, George ; Lind, Clive A
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Craig Printing Co
|
1980
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180
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4to
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG
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130
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With illustrations, the author's life in motor racing around the world and in New Zealand, from the TT to his workshed in Drummond, Southland
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5.000000
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18.000000
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33.000000
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39.000000
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43.000000
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Ernest Dieffenbach
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Bell, Gerda
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The Dunmore Press
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1976
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165
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8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Signature TP VG
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22
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With illustrations, a life of this early European visiter to New Zealand, author of the two-volume 'Travels in New Zealand'
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5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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Hewn From the Rock A memoir of the Very Reverend JD Salmond
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Belmer, Roy
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Otago Church Bookstore
|
1976
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52
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8vo
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P-B VG
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24
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The Very Reverend JD Salmond, of Queenstown and Dunedin, was Minister Emeritus of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand when he died in 1976, and here the author uses the Rev Salmond's papers to build a momento of his life, with illustrations
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5.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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A Canterbury Tale the autobiography of Dr Francis Bennett
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Bennett, FO
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Oxford University Press
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1980
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249
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4to
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D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the author's memories as a doctor in Canterbury, and as a soldier in both World Wars
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5.500000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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37.000000
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40.000000
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The Bibby Family in New Zealand 1850-1977
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Bibby, Graham (et al)
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Bibby Family Reunion Cttee
|
1977
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27p (1p)
|
Oblong 8vo
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Spiral bound, card covers Fading, rubbing covers Gd - VG
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25
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With illustrations and genealogical trees, the New Zealand branches of this family, and early Waipawa
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6.000000
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18.000000
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38.000000
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42.000000
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46.000000
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The Legacy of Guilt
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a life of Thomas Kendall
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Binney, Judith
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Bridget Williams Books
|
1968
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xv (1p) 220p
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4to
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D-J (chips spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine
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38
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With illustrations, a study of one of the original CMS workers, his relationships with local Maori, and his work on the Maori language
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5.000000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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37.000000
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41.000000
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Looking for Answers
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A life of Elsie Locke
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Birchfield, Maureen
|
Canterbury University Press
|
2009
|
560
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Oblong 8vo
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D-J Laminated boards Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand writer and activist, a woman ahead of her time
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8.000000
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30.000000
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64.000000
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74.000000
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77.000000
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Diary of Andrew Boyes on a voyage from Edinburgh to Dunedin 1849
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|
Blackman, Gary (ed)
|
Editor Published
|
1999
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(frontis) 31p
|
8vo
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P-B Signature HTP Near Fine
|
20
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The diarist was a tailor in Edinburgh who decided to up stakes with his wife and two children and move to Dunedin, which had only just been founded. They never returned to Scotland
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4.000000
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24.000000
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Dorothy Theomin of Olveston
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Blackman, Margery
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The Friends of Olveston
|
2007
|
80
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8vo
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Card covers with Flaps Near Fine
|
25
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life of this Dunedin figure, mountaineer, photographer, traveller, and benefactor
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5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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Under the Southern Skies
|
the story of Missionary Gottlieb Blaess in New Zealand and Australia
|
Blaess, Eric R (ed)
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Author Pub, Lutheran Publishing House
|
1992
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viii 197p (folding family tree )
|
8vo
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Laminated boards Near Fine
|
45
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With maps and illustrations, the life history of this family, Blaess and Bensemann, and descendants, and mission work in Taranaki and in Australia
|
5.000000
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17.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Sixty Years in New Zealand
|
stories of peace and war
|
Blake, Andrew Hope
|
Gordon and Gotch
|
1919
|
(frontis) xii 242p
|
8vo
|
Green cloth binding, gilt titles spine Slight fading spine Light foxing FE VG
|
32
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A pioneer settler in the North Island shares his memories of the first 60 years of European settlement, chiefly of the Hawkes Bay and the Hauhau campaign
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield Builder of the British Commonwealth
|
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Bloomfield, Paul
|
Longmans
|
1961
|
xi (1p genealogical table) 378p
|
8vo
|
D-J (tape stains inside, chips, price-clipped, in protective plastic) Signature FEP Light foxing top FE, slight foxing FE VG
|
40
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A biography of a man important to the organised immigration to Australia and especially New Zealand, with illustrations
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Soldiering on a soldier's war in North Africa and Italy
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|
Blythe, John
|
Century Hutchinson
|
1989
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vi 185p
|
8vo
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P-B VG
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the author's war experiences of the New Zealand radio operator through the Desert and on into Italy, Cassino and further afield
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
|
|
Edward Stafford New Zealand's First Statesman
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|
Bohan, Edmund
|
Hazard Press
|
1994
|
432
|
8vo
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P-B Fadig spine VG - Near Fine
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30
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The complex life and career of NZ's first Premier, at a time of political and racial divide in early settler colonial New Zealand, with illustrations
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5.000000
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19.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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40.000000
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|
'Blest Madman' Fitzgerald of Canterbury
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Bohan, Edmund
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Canterbury University Press
|
1998
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369
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8vo
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P-B Fine
|
30
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A study of the man Fitzgerald, as editor, politician, and one of the founding fathers of Canterbury province
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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|
To Be a Hero
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a biography of Sir George Grey
|
Bohan, Edmund
|
HarperCollins
|
1998
|
374
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
30
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With maps and illustrations, the life of New Zealand's only multi-Governor, his effect on the country and its inhabitants, and the long-term consequences
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Edmund Hillary the life of a legend
|
|
Booth, Pat
|
Moa Beckett
|
1993
|
208
|
4to
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D-J Paper over boards Slight rubbing base Owner's small name sticker FEP VG - Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, a detailed celebration of the life up till then of Sir Edmund Hillary
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5.000000
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22.000000
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47.000000
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52.000000
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55.000000
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Edmund Hillary the life of a legend
|
|
Booth, Pat
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Moa Beckett
|
1993
|
208
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, a life which shows that the climbing of Everest was only a beginning, a nice copy
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5.000000
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20.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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38.000000
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The Brebners of Port Chalmers
|
|
Borne, David S (ed)
|
Brebner Family Reunion Cttee
|
1997
|
87
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4to
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P-B, taped spine Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine
|
40
|
With illustrations, the family history of Thomas and Mary Brebner who moved from Manchester to Otago on the first immigrant ship to Otago in 1848
|
5.000000
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13.000000
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27.000000
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30.000000
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33.000000
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|
Despite Captivity
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A doctor's life as a prisoner of war
|
Borrie, John
|
Whitcoulls
|
1975
|
240
|
8vo
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine
|
40
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With maps and illustrations, the WW2 POW life of this New Zealand doctor, captured in Greece then in camps in Germany
|
5.000000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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Crowded House Something so Strong
|
|
Bourke, Chris
|
Macmillan
|
1997
|
viii 376p
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
30
|
With illustrations, the inside, in-depth investigation into this truly Australasian rock group, from Enz to Zed, a lovely copy
|
5.000000
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20.000000
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36.000000
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42.000000
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44.000000
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The Tui's Call
|
|
Bourke, Kathleen M
|
Author Pub
|
1971
|
127p (1p)
|
8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
|
30
|
Inscribed by the author, experiences of farming in the Hawke's Bay
|
3.000000
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10.000000
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20.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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The Fastest Old Man in the World the Derek Turnbull story
|
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Boyle, Vince
|
Craig Printing
|
2006
|
256
|
4to
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Laminated boards Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the story of this Southland farmer and all his age-level world records
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6.000000
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25.000000
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50.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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Kiwi under Fire Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq
|
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Brandon, Gary
|
Willson Scott Publishing
|
2007
|
171
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations, a New Zealander serving as a private contractor in Iraq and other war-stricken areas
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Charles Brasch Journals 1938-1945
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Brasch, Charles ; Barrowman, Rachel
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Otago University Press
|
2013
|
646
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8vo
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Laminated boards Near Fine
|
40
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With illustrations, the War Years out of New Zealand of this New Zealand writer and poet, soon to be editor of 'Landfall', the literary journal he founded
|
6.000000
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30.000000
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70.000000
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68.000000
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72.000000
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Indirections A Memoir 1909-1947
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|
Brasch, Charles ; Bertram, James (ed)
|
Oxford University Press
|
1980
|
xiv 443p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the early years of this New Zealand editor and literary patron, up till the foundation of 'Landfall', a nice copy
|
5.000000
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21.000000
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41.000000
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47.000000
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49.000000
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The Predestined Choice Samuel Butler in Canterbury
|
|
Brassington, AC
|
The Pegasus Press
|
1972
|
31p (1p)
|
Small 8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps over card Slight fading spine VG - Near Fine
|
25
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Limited edition (#153 of 450), a discussion of Samuel Butler's life in Canterbury in the 1860s and why he left this life so quickly to return to England
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3.000000
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10.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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Pilot on the Run the epic escape from Occupied France of Flight Sergeant LSM (Chalky) White, RNZAF
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|
Brathwaite, Errol
|
Hutchinson
|
1986
|
185
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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20
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With map and illustrations, from the crash in Northern France to the Franco-Spanish border
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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From Thistle to Fern 150 Years of a Scottish Family in New Zealand 1848-1998
|
|
Bray, Heather (comp)
|
Author Pub
|
1998
|
266
|
4to
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P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, a detailed family developmental history, beginning in Scotland with the Gardner, the Wilson and the Lillie Families and spreading across the globe to Otago and New Zealand
|
5.000000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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A Scottish Mother
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Bray, Heather (ed)
|
Dunedin Family History Group
|
2012
|
148
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4to
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Laminated soft card covers with taped spine Small owner's stamp TP Near Fine
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32
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With illustrations, 23 stories, with family genealogies, of New Zealand families who had mothers who emigrated from Scotland
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5.000000
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13.000000
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27.000000
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30.000000
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33.000000
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The Soldier Tourist
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a personal account of World War II
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Brewer, Gunner NH (Joe)
|
Reed
|
1999
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231
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the author's letters home to family while he served in the New Zealand Artillery, along with a selection of his photographs and postcards, a nice creation
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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The New Zealand Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin
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Brodie, James and Audrey (ed)
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The Beechtree Press, Society of Friends
|
1989
|
(frontis) 88p
|
8vo
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P-B Near Fine
|
25
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The journeys of a Quaker to Australia and NZ in 1909 - 1911 on pilgrimage, to raise the dying flame in the colonies, with illustrations
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Richard Seddon King of God's Own
|
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Brooking, Tom
|
Penguin
|
2014
|
584
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8vo
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Paper over boards Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, a detailed life of, to date, New Zealand's longest serving Prime Minister, his political and personal life, and his 'kingship'
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5.500000
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22.000000
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45.000000
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50.000000
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55.000000
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Lands for the People the Highland Clearances and the colonisation of New Zealand
|
A biography of John McKenzie
|
Brooking, Tom
|
University of Otago Press
|
1996
|
363
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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35
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With maps, tables and illustrations, a biography of the Minister of Lands and Agriculture in the 1890s, and of the breaking up of the pastoral estates and the establishment of the small family farm in New Zealand
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6.000000
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21.000000
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45.000000
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50.000000
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55.000000
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The Way it Was a farming, shearing, hunting life
|
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Brough, Tom
|
Fraser Books
|
2011
|
x 325p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
38
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With map and illustrations, the author's life in farming and shearing in New Zealand and elsewhere, hunting in New Zealand and elsewhere, and travel
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5.000000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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Brief Memorials of an only Son
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Brown, Archdeacon AN
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DH Maxwell
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1964 Reprint edition
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(frontis) 38p (1p)
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8vo
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Library cloth binding, gilt titles Library bookplate FEP, stamps beginning and end VG
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35
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With illustrations of contemporary characters and places, a tidy library copy of this letter to the dead son's sister back in England from a father in the Anglican Church, dealing with the death of Marsh Brown, scarce
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4.000000
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12.000000
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A Fish in the Swim of the World
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Brown, Ben
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Longacre Press
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2006
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173
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Fine
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22
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With illustrations, family stories from the Motueka, Nelson area
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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Wine, Women and Song a spitfire pilot's story
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Brown, Hamish
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Stayer Ltd
|
2011
|
ix (1p map) 358p
|
4to
|
D-J Cloth binding Near Fine
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45
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Signed by Doug Brown, with map and illustrations, the story of this New Zealand Spitfire pilot, based on his letters and reminiscences
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5.000000
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25.000000
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53.000000
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59.000000
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63.000000
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Pickerill pioneer in plastic surgery, dental education and dental research
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Brown, Harvey
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Otago University Press
|
2007
|
(frontis) 271p
|
8vo
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D-J Cloth binding Near Fine
|
28
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With illustrations, the first biography of this pioneer in plastic surgery, whose work laid the foundations for the New Zealand School Dental Service
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5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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The Road Back
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Buchan, Robert
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Author Pub, JW Baty
|
1973
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(2p) 142p (1p)
|
8vo
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P-B Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine
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25
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A memoir of the experiences of a New Zealand headmaster over a career of some forty years
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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30.000000
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A Salute to the Captain
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celebrating the 100th birthday of Emeritus Professor JB Mackie
|
Buckenham, Michael (et al)
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University of Otago Devpt & Alumni Relations Office
|
2010
|
(1p) 192p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, discussing the contribution of Professor Mackie to the School of Mines and Surveying at Otago University, and his contribution to their work in New Zealand, then a collection of essays dealing with surveying around the world
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Reflections on a Lifetime
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Buckland, Shirley
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Author Pub
|
2007
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398p (2p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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32
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life time spent in and around the Marlborough Sounds
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5.000000
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18.000000
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33.000000
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39.000000
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43.000000
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Hayward Heritage the story of a pioneer family
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Bunn, Stuart (comp)
|
Author Pub
|
2000
|
167 leaves
|
4to
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P-B Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, the Hayward family in New Zealand, especially in the South, and the wider family, incling the late William Hayward Pickering, of NASA
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5.000000
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19.000000
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35.000000
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41.000000
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46.000000
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Dr A C Barker 1819-1873 Photographer, Farmer, Physician
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Burdon, Cotsford C
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John McIndoe
|
1972
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88p (24p plates)
|
8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Near Fine
|
40
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With illustrations, the life and photography of this pioneer New Zealand photographer, a nice copy
|
5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Dr A C Barker 1819-1873 photographer, farmer, physician
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Burdon, Cotsford C
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John McIndoe
|
1972
|
88p (24p plates)
|
8vo
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D-J VG - Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, the lives of this early New Zealand photographer
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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New Zealand Notables series 3
|
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Burdon, RM
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The Caxton Press
|
1950
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247
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8vo
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D-J (pieces missing) Cloth binding VG
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20
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Biographies of Thomas Kendall, Frederick Edward Maning, Sir Julius von Haast and John Grigg
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5.500000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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Rough Diamonds
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Burgess, Henry
|
Author Pub
|
2010
|
(1p) 149p
|
4to
|
P-B VG
|
32
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, memoirs of a life in South Canterbury
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5.500000
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15.000000
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31.000000
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34.000000
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37.000000
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A memento of the Fastier Family Reunion February 2000
|
|
Burrow, Jan ; Fastier, Fred
|
Amidine Publications
|
2000
|
34 leaves
|
4to
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations and genealogical tables, a short history of this New Zealand family
|
4.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Hadfield of the Kapiti Coast
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Burton, Ormond
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Author Pub
|
ND
|
32
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
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15
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A study of the man, and the beliefs of the later Bishop Octavius Hadfield from beginning as a minister on the Kapiti Coast
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3.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Flies, sand and unwashed socks Letters from WWII
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|
Cambridge, Susan (ed)
|
Editor published
|
2017
|
149p (4p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, a collection of RG (Dick) Harris' wartime letters home, from Egypt, Greece, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Italy
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5.000000
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Mary Lambie A Biography
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Campbell, Helen
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NZNursing Education and Research Foundation
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1976
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x 100
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
|
10
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A nurse who rose to the position of Director, Division of Nursing
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Reminiscences of a long Life
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Campbell, John Logan ; Stone, RCJ (ed)
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David Ling, The Cornwall Park Trust Board
|
2017
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334
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Oblong 4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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70
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With maps and illustrations, the life of this Auckland founding father and politician, mostly in his own words, covering the development of this quickly evolving city until 1907
|
8.500000
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28.000000
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65.000000
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72.000000
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79.000000
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Let Fly!
|
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Cardno, Barry
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Longacre Press
|
2009
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182p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B VG
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25
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With illustrations, the story of this young New Zealand flyer, his top-dressing aircraft's crash, and the aftermath
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4.500000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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Let Fly!
|
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Cardno, Barry
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Longacre Press
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2009
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182p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B VG
|
25
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Inscribed by the author, the ups and downs and trials of a young top-dressing pilot, determined to fly despite a crash which leaves him a paraplegic
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5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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John Robert Godley of Canterbury
|
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Carrington, Charles Edmund
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W&T
|
1950
|
xv 251
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8vo
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D-J (fading) VG
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25
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Biographical in nature, but also dealing with the development of the Canterbury Association and the area it settled
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5.000000
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15.000000
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34.000000
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Four Score Years an autobiography
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Carswell, James Hugh
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Author Pub
|
2010
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236p (6p)
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
|
40
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Signed by the author, eighty years in the farming community in Southland, including rabbit eradication and the formation of CRT
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32.000000
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34.000000
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When the Boats Ruled the Bay of Islands (AE Fuller & Family)
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Cates, Hazel (comp)
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Author Pub
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1985
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iv (1p) 69p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Slight inscription TP VG
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35
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With maps and illustrations, the life and history of this Bay of Islands boating family, operating transport and tourist launches
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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Bright Star Beatrice Hill Tinsley Astronomer
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Catley, Christine Cole
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Cape Catley
|
2006
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445
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Fine
|
32
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With illustrations, the life and work of this New Zealand-born astronomer
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5.000000
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20.000000
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35.000000
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39.000000
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41.000000
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The Interpreter The Biography of Richard 'Dicky' Barrett'
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Caughey, Angela
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Bateman
|
1998
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296
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8vo
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D-J Fine
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34
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Dicky Barrett stepped ashore on the Taranaki coast in 1828, married into the local Ati Awa, set up as whaler, moved to the Marlborough Sounds, translated for William Wakefield, and stepped into NZ history
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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A Year at Hawkswood 1865 (2 vols)
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Caverhill, Frances
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Nag's Head Press
|
1981
|
89p (2p) ; 75p (2p)
|
Small 8vo
|
D-J Cloth binding Near Fine
|
50
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In a limited edition of 300 copies, the year 1865 on a North Canterbury Run, filled with the Station Life of the times, and the trips away
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Samuel Ironside in New Zealand 1839-1858
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Chambers, WA
|
Ray Richards Publishing
|
1982
|
285
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4to
|
D-J (chip, fading spine) VG - Near Fine
|
25
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With maps and illustrations, a life of this Wesleyan missionary in colonial New Zealand, who had posts from the Hokianga to Port Underwood, in Marlborough
|
5.500000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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42.000000
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Rewi Alley of China
|
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Chapple, Geoff
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H&S
|
1980
|
230
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8vo
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D-J (in plastic) Near Fine
|
40
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The biography of a special kiwi who spent the majority of his active life in China, with illustrations
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Stranger than Fiction The life and times of Split Enz
|
|
Chunn, Mike
|
Govt Print
|
1992
|
272
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8vo
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P-B VG
|
50
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The story of New Zealand's first super-group, with illustrations, and the ups-and-downs of the subsequent groups, a nice copy
|
5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Seven Voices tales of madness and mirth
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Chunn, Mike
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The Purple Egg Press
|
1997
|
v 142p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps CD in end pocket Fine
|
40
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With accompanying 5 track CD, the author's story, including his time with Split Enz
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Beyond Expectations fourteen New Zealand women write about their lives
|
|
Clark, Margaret (ed)
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A&U, Port Nicholson Press
|
1986
|
(1p) 205p
|
8vo
|
P-B HTP clipped across top VG
|
20
|
A collection of essays by NZ women, ranging from poet Fleur Adcock to politician Margaret Wilson, detailing their rise in life, and reflecting the women's issues in New Zealand, a fascinating encapsulation of women's experience
|
5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Peter Fraser Master Politician
|
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Clark, Margaret (ed)
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The Dunmore Press
|
1998
|
216
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8vo
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P-B Fine
|
20
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With illustrations, a collection of pieces about Peter Fraser, from scholarly discussion to family memory
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Air-Marshall Sir Robert Clark-Hall KBE CMG DSO
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Clark-Hall, RH & JL
|
Author Pub
|
1995
|
xii 172p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
25
|
Inscribed by theith maps and illustrations, the life of this Boxer Rebellion veteran, WW1 commander of the Ark Royal at Gallipoli, immigrating to New Zealand with his family in 1934, then serving with the RNZAF in WW2, commanding the Group in the Solomons
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5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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Memories of Marie reflections on the life and work of Marie Clay
|
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Clay, Jenny
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Pearson Education NZ
|
2009
|
259
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, a compilation life of this New Zealand educator, the developer of Reading Recovery
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5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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Wings of Song
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Cockburn, Effie
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Author Pub
|
2010
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(7p) 250p
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8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
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Signed by the author, a chronicle of the fifty years plus the author spent in a musical life and theatre in Dunedin
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13.000000
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27.000000
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33.000000
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Rutherford Waddell memoir and addresses
|
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Collie, James (ed)
|
Reed
|
1932
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302
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8vo
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Cloth binding Light foxing FEs VG
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20
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With illustrations, a review of the life of this long-time minister of Dunedin's St Andrew's Church, followed by a selection of his addresses and sermons
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5.000000
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14.000000
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23.000000
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28.000000
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28.000000
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Charles Meryon a Life
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Collins, Roger
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Garton & Co
|
1999
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(frontis) xvii 299p
|
4to
|
D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
70
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With illustrations and reproductions, a fullsome biography and study of the life and art of this French artist, including his time as a 'draughtsman' with the 'Rhin' expedition into the South Pacific, and to New Zealand 1843-4, a lovely copy
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8.000000
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21.000000
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58.000000
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66.000000
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70.000000
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Ice on My Palette
|
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Conly, Maurice ; Peat, Neville
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Whitcoulls
|
1977
|
64
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Oblong 4to
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D-J (slight chip) Near Fine
|
34
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Author signed - Maurice Conly went to paint the ice and the human goings-on, and Neville Peat applies a text which reflects the awe of the environment
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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White Gujaratis Bramwell and Dorothy Cook
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Cook, H Bramwell
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Author Pub
|
2007
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238
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the inspirational lives of these two Salvation Army Officers and especially their times in India
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5.000000
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20.000000
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37.000000
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42.000000
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45.000000
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Diary of a Kiwi Soldier
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Coughlan, Cecil ; Coughlan, Garrie (ed)
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Reed
|
2006
|
(frontis) 50 leaves
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Small 8vo
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P-B Fine
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20
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With illustrations and maps, a 2NZEF war medic in North Africa and Italy narrates his experiences in diary form
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3.000000
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6.000000
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18.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Sir Donald Maclean
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The Story of a New Zealand Statesman
|
Cowan, James
|
Reed
|
1940
|
(frontis) xii (1p) 157p (6p ads)
|
8vo
|
Brown cloth binding Signature FEP VG
|
30
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The first full biography of this NZ politician, as Minister and Native Land buyer, much revised by modern historians
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5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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40.000000
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twenty-five okitio women from last century selected memories
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Cowan, Muriel
|
Author Pub
|
2000
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(2p) 91p
|
8vo
|
Spiral bound, soft card covers Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, short biographies of 25 women from this Wairarapa community
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5.000000
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12.000000
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22.000000
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Defence of Madrid
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an eye-witness account from the Spanish Civil War
|
Cox, Geoffrey
|
University of Otago Press
|
2006 new edition (1937)
|
213
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8vo
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P-B Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, a new edition of the author's 1937 published book, as a 26- year-old reporter for the 'News Chronicle' in Madrid during its defence by the Republican forces
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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I can do no other
|
a Biography
|
Crane, Ernest
|
H&S
|
1986
|
xii 338p
|
8vo
|
P-B VG - Near Fine
|
22
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A biography of Ormond Burton, Reverend, writer of War Histories, and Conscientious Objector
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Andris where are you?
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from Latvia to New Zealand: the family story of Andris Apse
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Crosby, Ron
|
Craig Potton Publishing
|
2013
|
254
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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32
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With illustrations, the family story of a New Zealand photographer, their life in Latvia then their life in New Zealand
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Andris Apse Odyssey & Images an illustrated biography
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Crosby, Ron ; Apse, Andris
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Reed
|
2006
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216
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Oblong 8vo
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D-J (curl on FEs, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
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60
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With illustrations and a selection of the author's photographs, the biography of the author's family from Latvia and life in New Zealand, a nice creation
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8.000000
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21.000000
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58.000000
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66.000000
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70.000000
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Such Absolute Beginners A Memoir
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Cross, Ian
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David Ling
|
2007
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151
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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28
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A memoir of this New Zealand writer, editor and broadcaster, with illustrations
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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22.000000
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Spencer The Gold Seeker
|
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Crumpton, EW
|
Batyprint NZ Ltd
|
1979
|
(frontis) (4p) 193p
|
8vo
|
D-J (chips, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, a narrative of two generations of a pioneer family that was involved in the West Coast gold rushes
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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Seeds in the Storm
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Dabrowski, Stanislaw ; Churchman, Geoffrey (ed)
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Maurienne House
|
2011
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56
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4to
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P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the life and experiences of a Polish immigrant to New Zealand who went through WW2 in Europe and rose to be the General Manager of the TAB
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3.000000
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10.000000
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20.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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Curved Horizon an autobiography
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Dallas, Ruth
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Otago University Press
|
1991
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(3p) 181p
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, the autobiography to 1991 of this NZ poet and children's writer
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Julius Vogel Business politician
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Dalziel, Raewyn
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AUP, OUP
|
1986
|
368
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the life of one of the most influential early politicians in New Zealand, where he served as both Treasurer and Premier
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5.500000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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A Doctor at War a life in letters 1914-43
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Daniell, Christine
|
Fraser Books
|
2001
|
vi 370p
|
4to
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a collection of Montie Spencer's letters from the outbreak of World War One to his untimely death in World War Two, in Libya, 1943, bring this New Zealand doctor's life to life
|
5.500000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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42.000000
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46.000000
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A Doctor at War a life in letters 1914-43
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Daniell, Christine
|
Fraser Books
|
2001
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(2p) 370p
|
4to
|
P-B Fading spine Near Fine
|
42
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Signed by the compiler, with many illustrations, a collection of letters which bring the various 'battles' of Montie Spencer to life, from medical orderly at Gallipoli to command of the 2NZEF hospitals in the Middle East
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19.000000
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35.000000
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43.000000
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A Controversial Churchman
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Davidson, Allan K (ed)
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Bridget Williams Books
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2011
|
292
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, a collection of pieces on this first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand and his roles in church and society at the time, including in Treaty and settler disputes, and his time as Bishop of Lichfield
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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The Turner Family London to New Zealand
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Dawson, Betty
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Betty & Chris Dawson
|
1994
|
239p (2p)
|
4to
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P-B Plastic spine strip Near Fine
|
45
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With illustrations, the descendants of Joseph and Frances Turner, who came to New Zealand in 1874 aboard the 'Buckinghamshire'
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Oma Leni my story
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De Bres, Leni
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Hill Family Publications
|
2010
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73p (4p for notes)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the life of a Dutch woman who came to New Zealand in 1954
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4.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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A biography of Norah Corson
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De Courcy, Noeline
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Author Pub
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1991
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36
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4to
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P-B Owner's small stamp page 1 Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a biography of a New Zealand nurse, including her war service
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3.000000
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10.000000
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24.000000
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From the Other End of the World memories of post-war immigrants to New Zealand from Great Britain
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Dean, Rachel Kathleen (ed)
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GWW Services
|
2010
|
216
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations, the experiences of 18 English immigrants who left all they knew in Britain after WW2, emigrating to New Zealand, and staying, making it their new homeland
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5.000000
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19.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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40.000000
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William Deans the passionate pioneer
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Deans, Louise
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Wily Pubs
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2018
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288
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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Based on the prolific letter writing of her ancestor, the author recreates the man's life and times, including the early life in Canterbury
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5.500000
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15.000000
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34.000000
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Ragnar Redbeard
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Derby, Mark
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Steele Roberts
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2017
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68
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a New Zealand writer and philosopher, perhaps Arthur Desmond by name, whose vision 'deteriorated from advanced socialist utopianism to a toxic strain of ultra-individualist bigotry'
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4.000000
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12.000000
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The Catlins through Kitty's eyes
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Deuchrass, Shirley
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Author Pub
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2001
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75
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8vo
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P-B Short inscription inside front cover VG - Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a life spent in the Catlins area of South Otago
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5.000000
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12.000000
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28.000000
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Owaka Jack the Jack McNab Story
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Deuchrass, Shirley
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Author Pub
|
2008
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viii 117p
|
4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
40
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With map and illustrations, the life of an Otago All Black in the 40s and 50s
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Elizabeth Yates
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the first lady mayor in the British Empire
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Devaliant, Judith
|
Exisle Publishing
|
1996
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160
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the life of New Zealand's first elected female politician
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5.000000
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13.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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An Architectural Journey
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Donnithorne, Don
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Author Pub
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2012
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(frontis) (3p) 93p (1p)
|
4to
|
Laminated boards Near Fine
|
60
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Inscribed by the author, with plans and illustrations, including the author's water colours, the author's travels in the architectural world, overseas and New Zealand
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5.000000
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15.000000
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34.000000
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Books and Boots the story of New Zealand publisher, writer and long distance walker Alfred Hamish Reed
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|
Dougherty, Ian
|
University of Otago Press
|
2005
|
252
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a life of this prolific New Zealander, founder of AH and AW Reed, and builder of library wealth for his fellow citizens
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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Arawata Bill
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|
Dougherty, Ian
|
Exisle
|
1996
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160
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8vo
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P-B Signature inside front cover VG - Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the life of a legendary gold prospector in West Otago and Westland, immortalised by Denis Glover
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3.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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Books and Boots
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the story of New Zealand publisher, writer and long distance walker Alfred Hamish Reed
|
Dougherty, Ian
|
University of Otago Press
|
2005
|
252
|
8vo
|
D-J Cloth bound Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, a nice copy of this study of a prolific writer, including of his own travels, a signed copy of which went to all the people he met
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Pulpit Radical the story of New Zealand social campaigner Rutherford Waddell
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|
Dougherty, Ian
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Author Pub
|
2018
|
296
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8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
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58
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Signed by the author, a life of an important New Zealand social reformer, and Presbyterian minister in Dunedin for over 38 years, instrumental in stopping 'sweating' in Dunedin, and through that, in New Zealand
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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Norman Kirk a portrait
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|
Dunmore, John
|
New Zealand Books
|
1972
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116
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8vo
|
D-J (slight wear extremities) Signature FEP VG - Near Fine
|
20
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An appraisal of the new Prime Minister in the first year of his Prime Ministership, from an NZ historian, looking at his background and what made him
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Sir Robert Stout
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Dunn, Waldo Hilary ; Richardson, Ivor LM
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Reed
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1961
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224p
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8vo
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Signature front paste-down Slight note on one page VG
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38
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With illustrations, a political and personal biography of this New Zealand Premier and Chief Justice
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A Fistful of Summer
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Dunstan, Peggy
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Whitcoulls
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1981
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142p (1p)
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
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20
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A nice copy of this humorous record of the writer's growing up both sides of Cook Strait, nicely illustrated by Jean Oates
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Margaret and Frank Collins of Cattle Flat Ancestors and Descendants
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Earland, Irene Tannock
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Author Pub
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1995
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116
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38
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With map, illustrations and tables, details of this Southland family, Wendonside and beyond
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A Pakeha' s Recollections
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the reminiscences of Murray Gladstone Thomson
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Eccles, Alfred (ed)
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Reed
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1944
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(frontis) 120p
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8vo
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Blue cloth binding, black titles Light rubbing base, top spine, fore-corners Signs of water stain on 5 pages, not affecting text Short inscription FEP Owner's stamp TP VG
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90
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John Jones of Otago whaler coloniser shipowner merchant
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Eccles, Alfred ; Reed, AH
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Reed
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1949
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111
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8vo
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D-J (chips, piece repaired base front) Cloth binding, browning base VG
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60
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I've Lived another Year
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Ede, Jack
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Author Pub
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2004
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xiv p15-368
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8vo
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28
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Hot October
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Edmond, Lauris
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Allen&Unwin
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1989
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vii 239
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Small 8vo
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P-B Fine
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20
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The first volume of the author's autobiographical story, covering her childhood in Hawkes Bay, then into Wartime Wellington, and her marriage
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Hot October
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Edmond, Lauris
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Bridget Williams Books
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1991 (1989)
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239
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12
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An autobiography
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Edmond, Lauris
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Bridget Williams Books
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2001
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ix 420p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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38
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Waiting for the Revolution
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Edwards, James
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David Ling
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1998
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159
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15
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The eldest of 8 children, the son of an unemployment rights campaigner, tells a story of an early life brought up in NZ poverty
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Mihipeka Early Years
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Edwards, Mihi
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Penguin
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1990
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168
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8vo
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14
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The early years of a Maori woman growing up in rural New Zealand
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A Collection of my Recollections
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Elder, Jim
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Author Pub
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1989
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(folding map) 95p
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8vo
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22
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The memories of family and farming life in North Canterbury in the early years of the Twentieth Century
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Marsden's Lieutenants
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Elder, John Rawson (ed)
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Coulls Somerville Wilkie
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1934
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(frontis) 280p
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8vo
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D-J (small pieces missing spine, front, in archival wrapper) Blue cloth binding, leaching of blue colour at base Light foxing FE VG
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70
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Vasili
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The Lion of Crete
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Elliott, Murray
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Century Hutchinson
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1987
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175
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8vo
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P-B FEP removed Fading spine VG
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22
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Dudley Perkins (the 'Vasili' of the title) was an NZ soldier who was left in Crete after the withdrawal and earned the title given to him by the grateful locals, with illustrations
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Firth of Wellington
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Elliott, Sir James
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W&T
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1937
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228
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8vo
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D-J Slight foxing FEs Gd - VG
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30
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Firth was Headmaster of Wellington College from 1892-1920
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Edward's Legacy The Elworthys of South Canterbury
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Elworthy, David ; Henry, Ros
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Henry Elworthy Ltd
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2011
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416
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4to
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Near Fine
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90
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Born to be a Fighter
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Enright, Denny
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Author Pub
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2013
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120
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38
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With illustrations, the boxing life of this New Zealand boxer from Invercargill
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Porters in My Past
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Ewan, John
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Chateau Publishing Ltd
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2015
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159p (1p)
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8vo
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30
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With illustrations, the lives of three brothers imported into New Zealand in the mid 19th century, one to be a lawyer, one a surveyor, the other to be a farmer, establishing Castle Hill Station and 'discovering' what would be called Porters Pass
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Accidental Immigrants
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Ewan, John
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Chateau Publishing
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2017
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164p (2p)
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8vo
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35
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A Lifetown on the Land
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Ewers, Chris
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Author Pub
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1993
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(1p) 170p
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8vo
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32
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Signed by the author, German immigrants building farms in the Nelson area, the author's generation farming, and hop growing
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Something for the Birds
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Fahey, Jacqueline
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Auckland University Press
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2006
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(2p) 208p
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8vo
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32
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The Letters of ARD Fairburn
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Fairburn, ARD
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OUP
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1981
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xxv 272
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
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28
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Ed by Lauris Edmond; an important NZ writer and poet
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Nearly out of heart & hope
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The puzzle of a colonial labourer's diary
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Fairburn, Miles
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Auckland University Press
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1995
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(frontis) ix (1p) 275p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations, the fascinating study of a fascinating set of diaries written by an apparently common labourer in the Wairarapa at the end of 19th, beginning 20th centuries
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Isabel Maud from Devonport
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Fairgay, Joyce (ed)
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Devonport Library Associates
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2006
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47
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8vo
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20
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With illustrations, a life of Isabel Maud Peacocke, 1881-1973, New Zealand children's writer
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Coates' Tale
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Farland, Bruce
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Author Pub
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1995
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viii 200p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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22
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A study of the first NZ-born politician to serve a full term as Prime Minister 1925-28, as well as serve different ministries during the War and the Depression, with illustrations
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Silk amidst the Coal
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from Wales to Burnetts Face and beyond
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Fayen, Beatrice June
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Author Pub
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1994
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147
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8vo
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P-B Strip fading by spine Owner's details HTP VG
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40
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With map and illustrations, from coal-mining in Wales to coal-mining on the West Coast, a life on Denniston Hill in the early 1900s, and the coal mining days
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The Road to Castle Hill a High Country love story
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Fernyhough, Christine ; Callan, Louise
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Random House
|
2007 (reprint edition)
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335p (1p)
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4to
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D-J (chips top spine) over soft card covers VG - Near Fine
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25
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With map and illustrations, the author's experiences owning and learning to run Castle Hill Station, near Porters Pass in Canterbury
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Backtracking
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Field, Jim
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Wairarapa Times-Age Co Ltd
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1993
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x 248p
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the experiences of this New Zealand dog handler 1974-1987
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5.500000
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Just an Ordinary Guy
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From Scotland to New Zealand
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Findlay, Jim ; McCallum, Fay
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Author Pub
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2001
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158
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25
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Signed and inscribed by the author, his life before WW2, then during and after the War, including service in the Western Desert
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Tooth and Nail
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The story of a daughter of the Depression
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Findlay, Mary
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Reed
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1974 (1974)
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267 (1p ads)
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8vo
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D-J VG
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30
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The reality of the Depression in NZ
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Neil Finn Once Removed
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Finn, Neil ; Smith, Mark
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Sanctuary Publishing
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2000
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iii (1p) 131p (1p) (7p index)
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Oblong 4to
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42
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With illustrations, a period of life with Neil Finn, on stage and on travel
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My Dear Cousins a family history Pt 2 Humphrey Delves Cleaver
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Fitchett, Pauline Elwy
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Author Pub
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2000
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192
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35
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With illustrations and extensive family trees, a further exploration of three New Zealand families
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Where the Willows Weep The story of James and Mary Rutherford
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Fitts, Margaret R
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Author Pub
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1980
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(frontis) 89p (2 folding genealogical charts)
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8vo
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P-B VG
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30
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Inscribed by the author, the lives and experiences of a settler family in the Rangitata Gorge, South Canterbury, with illustrations and a map
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Growing up on the Hill
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Flynn, John J
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Author Pub
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2005
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160
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8vo
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25
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Signed by the author, a history of the market gardens in Pukekohe, through three generations of the author's family
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Ford, a family history
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Ford, Tony J
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Author Pub
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1980
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165
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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28
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From Ireland, through gold to NZ
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Memories of Yesteryear
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Fordie, Katherine CM
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Author Pub
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1983
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(3p) (illustration) 213p
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4to
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Soft card covers VG
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48
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Limited edition (#34/100), signed and inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a life in Scotland and New Zealand, from the early 1900s to the early 1940s
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Wild Waves and Isolation
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Fox, Lois
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Author Pub
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2003
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70
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20
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Memories of a childhood on Centre Island Lighthouse, Foveaux Strait, with illustrations
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An Autobiography
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3 volumes in one
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Frame, Janet
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Vintage, Random House
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1994
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437
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8vo
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45
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The limited, numbered edition of the author's 3-volume autobiography of her life in NZ and the world, with illustrations
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You do not travel in China at the Full Moon Agnes Moncrieef's letters from China 1930-1945
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Francis, Barbara (ed)
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Victoria University Press
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2017
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295
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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45
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With illustrations, a life experienced by this New Zealander during her humanitarian work in China, from 1930-1945
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And then there were ten The Francis' of Masterton
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Francis, Bill
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Author Pub
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1997
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248
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8vo
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35
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With illustrations, a family history which is rich in children and twins, life through the 20th century, with letters and diary entries
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William Ings
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Early Settler and Baptist Layman A biography
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Fraser, Natalie
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Author Pub
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1989
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(4p) 82p (4p)
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8vo
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25
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Signed and inscribed by the author, the life of an early settler in Otago and Baptist layman, with illustrations
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Self-Portrait
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Friedlander, Marti
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Auckland University Press
|
2013
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(2p) 258p
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, a life in photography, from the East End to New Zealand and all those so-recognisable portraits of New Zealanders, from obscure retired couples to leaders and politicians
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Ward, Simpson Family History 1861-1976
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Froggatt, Lucy I
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Author Pub
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1976
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12
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8vo
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15
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With illustrations and lists, information about this connected New Zealand family, from England to New Zealand
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The Ward History
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Froggatt, Lucy I
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Author Pub
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1975
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39
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8vo
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P-B Fading covers VG
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25
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With illustrations, a short history of this family from Otago and Southland
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Our Padre a biography of Walter Edmund Wilmshurst Hurst 1912-1987
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Fulton, Donald JP
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Author Pub
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2006
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208
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand priest who earned the title serving with the 2NZEF in World War II, and then his life serving in the Church after the war
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5.500000
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14.000000
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A Geologist Remembers recollections of fieldwork
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Gage, Maxwell ; Nathan, Simon
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Geological Society of New Zealand
|
1999
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52
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the photographs and memories of a New Zealand geologist who worked on major surveys on the East and West Coast of the South Island in the 1930s and 40s, and became Professor of Geology at the University of Canterbury
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Nola Millar a theatrical life
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Gaitanos, Sarah
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Victoria University Press
|
2006
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408
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With many illustrations, the life and career of one of New Zealand's theatrical mainstays, including Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, which she founded
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Shirley Smith an examined life
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Gaitanos, Sarah
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Victoria University Press
|
2019
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464
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealander, lawyer, worker for social justice, gender equality and legal reform, as well as being the wife of WB Sutch
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5.500000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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Behind Bars
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Garbett, Elaine
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Author Pub
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2009
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52
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations, experiences working in pubs in Featherston and Patea, and the life in these towns, including the closure of the Patea Freezing works
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Letters to Grace Writing home from colonial New Zealand
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Garner, Jean ; Foster, Kate (eds)
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Canterbury University Press
|
2011
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203
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, a collection of letters from four women of the Hall family from four farms in inland Canterbury in the 1860s and 1870s
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An Artist's Daughter with Christopher Perkins in New Zealand 1929-34
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Garrett, Jane
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Shoal Bay Press
|
1986
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192
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8vo
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P-B VG
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15
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With illustrations and reproductions, the few years this English artist and family spent in New Zealand, trying to 'act as midwife at the birth of a new, vigorous and indigenous art', and the inherent upsets and disappointments that resulted
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Clan Cameron New Zealand
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a history of the Clan Cameron Association of New Zealand 1935-2000
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Gavin, Dorothy Cameron
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Clan Cameron NZ
|
2004 Second edition (2003)
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x 310p
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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60
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With illustrations and pen portraits, a history of the various Clan Cameron branches in New Zealand and their activities in the 20th century
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20.000000
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41.000000
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The Ancestors and Descendants of Horatio Smith Mackay and his wife Janet McIndoe
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Gibson, Christabel
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Author Pub
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1998
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136p (4p genealogical lists)
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4to
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Spiral bound Plastic front, back Near Fine
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30
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Missions, Moons & Masterpieces The Giffords of Oamaru
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Gifford, Michael
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Heritage Press
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2005
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218
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4to
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P-B Last two pages slight scratches Near Fine
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35
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Signed by the author, the story of this multi-talented family, arriving in Oamaru in 1862
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The Seven Lives of Lady Barker
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Author of 'Station Life in New Zealand'
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Gilderdale, Betty
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David Bateman
|
1996
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xvi (1p) p18-312
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8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
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32
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With illustrations, the detailed biography of a writer whose publications in each of the countries she lived in have been successful, including New Zealand
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17.000000
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34.000000
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Postcards from Tukums a family detective story
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Gluckman, Ann
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David Ling
|
2010
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286
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, tracing a family out of Tukums, in Latvia, leaving for New Zealand in 1904, including a collection of postcards sent to them in New Zealand
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20.000000
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36.000000
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42.000000
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45.000000
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Mussolini, Bella Maria & Tojo
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a kiwi soldier's memoir
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Good, Lindsay
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Steele Roberts
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2003
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157
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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30
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With illustrations, a memoir of service in WW2, through New Zealand, Italy and then in Japan after the war
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12.000000
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Warm Milk and Apples
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Goodall, Evered H
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Author Pub
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2004
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196
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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35
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Inscribed by the author, a detailed memoir of his early life in the 1930s in Riwaka, Nelson province
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Warm Milk and Apples
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Goodall, Evered H
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Author Pub
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2005 Reprint edition (2004)
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196
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the life experience of this New Zealand retired farmer
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Only a Second Eleven Man
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Goss, Alan M
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Author Pub
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2002
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80
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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22
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Signed by the author, a memoir of a New Zealand Minister, his War service and the various ministries around New Zealand and abroad
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29.000000
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A Driven Man
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Missionary Thomas Samuel Grace
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Grace, David
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Ngaio Press
|
2004
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375
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps, slight fading spine Near Fine
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38
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With maps and illustrations, a detailed biography of this Wesleyan Minister, unpopular for taking the Maori view, especially regarding land ownership and confiscation, with extracts from his own writings
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Ned & Katina a true love story
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Grace, Patricia
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Penguin
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2009
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352
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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24
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With map and illustrations, the story of a New Zealand Maori Battalion soldier on Crete and his Cretan sweetheart who come back to New Zealand to settle
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Uncle Alec and the Grahams of Franz Josef
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Graham, Alec ; Wilson, Jim
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John McIndoe
|
1983
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224
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8vo
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D-J (fading, slight chip) Paper over boards VG
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35
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With illustrations, the diary of Alec Graham and his mountainous career, in and around Franz Josef and the Southern Alps
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37.000000
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41.000000
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Peter Graham Mountain Guide
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Graham, Peter ; Hewitt, HB (ed)
|
Reed, Allen & Unwin
|
1965
|
xiv 245p
|
8vo
|
D-J (chips, rubbing, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Short inscription FEP VG
|
28
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With maps and illustrations, the autobiography of an institution in New Zealand mountaineering, as Head Guide at Mt Cook from the 1890s to the 1920s, and the many mountaineers he climbed with
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5.000000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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The Mighty Totara the life and times of Norman Kirk
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Grant, David
|
Random House
|
2014
|
511p (1p)
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, the first detailed study of the rise and death of this New Zealand Labour Prime Minister, including the beginning of New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance
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6.000000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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A Working Holiday 1940-1945
|
|
Grant, L/T Donald RN(NZ)9
|
Allen & Hodden
|
1992
|
(5p) 246p (1p)
|
8vo
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P-B FEP clipped top fore-corner VG
|
22
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Thirteen 'trips' on the convoys to Russia, a New Zealand morse operator in the Royal Navy
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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We Travel Together
|
|
Gray, Ian
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Author Pub
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2014
|
vii 295p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
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Signed and inscribed by the author, the travels of the author and his wife, both in life and in distance
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5.500000
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15.000000
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34.000000
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Riemenschneider of Warea
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Greenwood, William
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Reed
|
1967
|
152
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the biography of a German Protestant minister who ministered in Taranaki for 14 years from 1844-1858
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Cutten
|
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Greif, Stuart W ; Knight, Hardwicke
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Authors' Pub
|
1979
|
80
|
8vo
|
P-B Slight foxing covers Near Fine
|
65
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Limited edition (#84/200), with illustrations, the life and letters of this early Dunedin businessman and landowner, and his Belmont House
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6.000000
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16.000000
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35.000000
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35.000000
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40.000000
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Parade of a Kiwi
|
|
Grieve, Gordon G
|
Author Pub
|
1986
|
(frontis) 166p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
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Inscribed and signed by the author, the political and social life of this New Zealander during the 1960s and 1970s, including as MP for Awarua, with illustrations
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Mark Cohen (1849-1928)
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Griffiths, George
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Author Pub
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2008
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24
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4to
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P-B VG
|
25
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With illustrations, the life of a Dunedin newspaperman and sportsman, the ODT and Evening Star, and Albion Cricket Club
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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Queenstown's King Wakatip
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Griffiths, GJ
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John McIndoe
|
1971
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(frontis) 156p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
30
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With maps and illustrations, including Rees' own drawings, a life of this pioneer run-holder in the Wakatipu area
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5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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The Blackstocks of 'Burnside' their ancestors & descendants
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Guise, Ian (comp)
|
Author Pub
|
1990
|
132p (1p)
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
40
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With maps and illustrations, the Blackstock family in Scotland and New Zealand, and descendant families, Wilson, McLean, Guise and Pirie
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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Dare to Achieve
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|
Guthrey, A Ron
|
The Caxton Press
|
1997
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(frontis) 284p
|
8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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38
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, the story of war service - coming back minus a leg - then building a business from Christchurch, family business and public service
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5.000000
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15.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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Metal Roads
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Hall, Aileen B
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Author Pub
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1984
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(frontis of framed author photograph TP) 16 leaves
|
4to
|
Plasticised boards, gilt titles Near Fine
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42
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Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the photocopied early years of this New Zealand woman born in Apiti, lived in Mangarimu, and Ruahine, following the making and metalling of the area's roads
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5.000000
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12.000000
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John Turnbull Thomson First Surveyor-General of New Zealand
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Hall-Jones, John
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John McIndoe
|
1992
|
114
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Oblong 8vo
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D-J (slight fading spine) Paper over boards Near Fine
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55
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With maps and illustrations, the life of the Chief Surveyor of Otago, then New Zealand, and the early mapping of New Zealand
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5.000000
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20.000000
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40.000000
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42.000000
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John Turnbull Thomson First Surveyor-General of New Zealand
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Hall-Jones, John
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John McIndoe
|
1992
|
114
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Oblong 8vo
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D-J (fading spine)Paper over boards Ex-lib stamps at beginning and end VG
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the life of the Chief Surveyor of Otago, then New Zealand, and the early mapping of New Zealand
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20.000000
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36.000000
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40.000000
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42.000000
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Indeterminate Sentence
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Handyside, Allan
|
Philip Garside Publishing
|
2005
|
viii 120p
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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35
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The biography of a New Zealand conscientious objector during WW2, with maps and illustrations
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5.000000
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12.000000
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22.000000
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Indeterminate Sentence
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Handyside, Allan
|
Philip Garside Publishing
|
2005
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viii 120p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With map and illustrations, the 4 years spent in Rangipo Prison by this New Zealand WW2 conscientious objector
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5.000000
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25.000000
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One Good Run the legend of Burt Munro
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Hanna, Tim
|
Penguin
|
2005
|
308
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a life of a true kiwi charachter, and world speed creator
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18.000000
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38.000000
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42.000000
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46.000000
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Kim the Kiwi on the Konig
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Hanna, Tim
|
Finish Line Publications
|
2010
|
(2p) 508p
|
4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
40
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With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand motorcycle racer in the 1970s
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6.000000
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30.000000
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65.000000
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65.000000
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70.000000
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The Girl who Stole Stockings
|
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Hardie, Elsbeth
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Australian Teachers of Media
|
2015
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344
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8vo
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P-B Bump top fore-corner VG - Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the story of Susannah Noon, and the women of the convict ship 'Friends', transported to New South Wales, and going on to New Zealand, to Nelson and thence Port Underwood, with lists
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5.000000
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17.000000
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All at Sea war and peace and other skirmishes
|
|
Harker, Jack
|
HarperCollins
|
2004
|
312p (6p catalogue)
|
8vo
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P-B VG
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25
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With illustrations, the life and experiences of this New Zealand writer of naval books, including 'Well Done Leander' and 'HMNZS Achilles'
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5.000000
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16.000000
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34.000000
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The Harrington Connection our branch of the tree
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Harrington, Jim (comp)
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Author Pub
|
1990
|
144
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8vo
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P-B VG
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40
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With maps and illustrations, a family which migrated from England to the United States and spread to New Zealand, lacks the New Zealand family tree as a separate sheet
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12.000000
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22.000000
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The Devil's Own War The First World War diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart
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Hart, Herbert ; Crawford, John (ed)
|
Exisle Publishing, New Zealand Defence Force
|
2008
|
336
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8vo
|
D-J Cloth binding Fine
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48
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With illustrations and maps, the diaries of this New Zealander who left for WW1 to serve as a major with the NZEF and rose to be a battalion, then brigade commander on the Western Front from 1916-1918
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5.000000
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20.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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38.000000
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Women of Westland 1860-1960
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Hawker, V (et al)
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Greymouth Branch, National Council of Women
|
1960
|
96
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8vo
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P-B Owner's details crossed out TP Crease forecorner front cover Wear top, bottom spine VG
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22
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The first volume of these little memories and biographies from the West Coast, with illustrations
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The Recollections of Frances Elizabeth Menzies
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Hector, Janet (comp)
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Menzies Reunion Cttee
|
2004
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124
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, memories of a life in rural New Zealand in the nineteenth century, in Southland and on Banks Peninsula
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High Country Legacy four generations of Aspinalls at Mt Aspiring Station
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|
Hedley, Alex
|
HarperCollins
|
2012
|
253p (3p)
|
4to
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
40
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With map and many wonderful illustrations, a family and farm history, Mt Aspiring Station, run by the one family since the 1920s, and now into its fourth generation
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5.000000
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20.000000
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37.000000
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43.000000
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47.000000
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A Blaze of Colour Gordon Tovey Artist Educator
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Henderson, Carol
|
Hazard Press
|
1998
|
256
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8vo
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P-B VG
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22
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With illustrAtions, the life and work of this New Zealand artist and art educator, including as the national art supervisor in New Zealand
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5.000000
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13.000000
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27.000000
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31.000000
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33.000000
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The Exiles from Asbestos Cottage
|
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Henderson, Jim
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Hodder & Stoughton
|
1981
|
248
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8vo
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D-J (fading spine, bump top spine) Paper over boards Short inscription HTP VG
|
25
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With illustrations, the withdrawn life of Henry Fox Chaffey and his Annie up behind the hills of Motueka
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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Jim Henderson's People
|
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Henderson, Jim ; Foster, Bruce
|
Reed Methuen
|
1986
|
179
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Oblong 8vo
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P-B Inscription HTP Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, short talks with Jim's people mostly in the Nelson-Golden Bay area
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5.000000
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16.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle and beyond
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Hennessy, Brian ; McMillan, Karen
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McKenzie Publishing
|
2017
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184
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, a memoir of a New Zealander who went through World War Two, the Britain of the Blitz, the English Army in Burma and the horrors of Hiroshima
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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The Descendants of John Angus McDonald and Grace McQueen (2 vols)
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Hey, Dorothy ; McDonald, Gordon
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Author Pub
|
1977, 1986
|
15p (1p) ; 48p
|
8vo
|
P-B Inscription front cover vol 2, writing inside cover VG
|
25
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With lists and genealogical tables, this Scottish immigrant family to New Zealand which settled in Southland and then spread
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14.000000
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Pizzles in Paradise the escapades of a travelling vet
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Hicks, John
|
Jovi Books
|
2007 Reprinr ed (2005)
|
223
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8vo
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Card covers with flaps Crease front cover VG
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20
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With illustrations, the life of a Southland vet, after more than thirty years of tending to bird and beast
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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The Hills of Herbert
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Hill, Dave E
|
Whitestone Publications
|
1998
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142
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the lives of this North Otago family in Herbert/Otepopo and beyond
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5.500000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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35.000000
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Richard Henry of Resolution Island
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Hill, Suzanne and John
|
John McIndoe
|
1987
|
364
|
4to
|
D-J (in archival wrapper) Pale blue paper over boards Near Fine
|
125
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With maps and illustrations, the story of one of New Zealand's first real conservationists, dedicating a part of his life to saving the endangered birds in Fiordland
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6.000000
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28.000000
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50.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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Westland Journal of John Hillary, emigrant to New Zealand 1879
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Hillary, JH
|
Acorn Editions
|
1979
|
xvi 111p
|
8vo
|
D-J (slight rubbing top spine) Paper over boards Slight foxing top FE VG - Near Fine
|
25
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With maps and illustrations, the journey to New Zealand, and back to England, by a family of immigrants, a nice copy
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5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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View From the Summit
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|
Hillary, Sir Edmund
|
Doubleday, Random House
|
1999
|
xi (1p map) 309p (1p)
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
25
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With maps and illustrations, Sir Edmund looks back over the climbing, the adventuring, the diplomacy, and the work in places like Nepal
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5.000000
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19.000000
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34.000000
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39.000000
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42.000000
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Swamp Fever a Golden Bay memoir
|
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Hindmarsh, Gerard
|
Craig Potton
|
2008 reprint edition (2006)
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193
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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28
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Signed by the author, life at the top of the South Island during the last part of the 20th century
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Angelina from Stromboli to D'Urville Island a family's story
|
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Hindmarsh, Gerard
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Craig Potton
|
2004
|
227
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a dramatisation of the lives of the author's immigrant forebears, from Italy to New Zealand
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5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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Taranaki between the wars 1918-1939
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the people, their lives, their stories
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Hitchcock, Valerie (et al, comps and eds)
|
Telford Media and Design
|
2008
|
240
|
4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the memories of men and women who lived through the between war years in Taranaki, and their day-to-day experiences of happenings and places
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8.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Character and Longevity a McIntosh Legacy 1859-2009
|
|
Hoban, James K W
|
Author Pub
|
2009
|
(5p) 180p
|
Oblong 8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
48
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With illustrations and genealogical tables, the life and descendants of Kenneth and Grace McIntosh in New Zealand, after 150 years
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5.500000
|
17.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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A Merchant Navy Man's Story
|
|
Hodgson, David Lionel
|
Author Pub
|
1998
|
(frontis) 192p
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
35
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, the war experiences of an engineer officer in the New Zealand Shipping Company 1939-1945, scarce
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Nothing but Grass and Wind the Rutherfords of Canterbury
|
|
Holm, Janet
|
Hazard Press
|
1992
|
279
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4to
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D-J Laminated boards Near Fine
|
55
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With illustrations and map, the detailed story of an early Canterbury European pioneer family who became owners of huge tracts of farming land in Canterbury and Otago
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5.000000
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23.000000
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50.000000
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53.000000
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58.000000
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Best of Both Worlds the story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau
|
|
Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa
|
Penguin Books
|
2010
|
344
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8vo
|
P-B VG - Near Fine
|
25
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With map and illustrations, the meeting of two minds and the threads of old Maori tales, and the source of much of what we know of pre-European contact Maori
|
5.500000
|
16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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My Seventy Years on the Chatham Islands
|
|
Holmes, David
|
Shoal Bay Press
|
1993
|
184
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8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
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105
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With illustrations, a fascinating mixture of Chatham Islands reminiscenses and history, from the 'official' historian, scarce
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5.000000
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18.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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38.000000
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Dear Sister letters between a pioneer Wairarapa family and relatives in rural England 1856-1883
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Holmes, Dr Robin ; Farley, Allan J (eds)
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Wairarapa Archive
|
2006
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x 221p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the correspondence over nearly 30 years between two sisters at opposite ends of the Earth, one in England, the other in New Zealand, and the varying lives they had
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5.000000
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13.000000
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Minnie Dean her life and crimes
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Hood, Lynley
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Penguin
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1994
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221
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps VG
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22
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A study of the 'Winton Child Murderer", the only woman hanged by law in New Zealand
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5.500000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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Sylvia!
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(The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner)
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Hood, Lynley
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Viking
|
1988
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264
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
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20
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The biography of a NZ educator-writer, whose educational theories and practice were at first too advanced for the authorities.
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5.000000
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18.000000
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33.000000
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36.000000
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40.000000
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Hoppertunity Knocks
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Hopper, Edith
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Author Pub
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ND
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125
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8vo
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Cloth binding Near Fine
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45
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Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a Hopper family story, including life in Whangaparaoa
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5.000000
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12.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Horncastle's Suitcase
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a New Zealand family story
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Horncastle, Graeme
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The Pavilions Hotel Ltd
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2011
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360
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the life of this family, especially on the West Coast, and developing into rising and falling fortunes
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5.000000
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20.000000
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37.000000
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43.000000
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47.000000
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The Diary of Alfred Domett 1872-1885
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Horsman, EA (ed)
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OUP
|
1953
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(frontis) (1p) 311p (1p)
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8vo
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D-J (in plastic wrapper, price clipped) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the late diary of an Englishman who spent 30 years in New Zealand in the middle of the 19th century in public service and writing
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8.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Goldfield Balladeer
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the life and times of Charles R Thatcher
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Hoskins, Robert
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Collins
|
1977
|
xii 194p
|
8vo
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D-J (slight chip, slight fading spine) Paper over boards Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations and song anthology, the 'rollicking' life of this songster, commentating on the scandals - and personalities - of the time, especially on the developing New Zealand goldfields
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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37.000000
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Singer in a Songless Land
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A life of Edward Tregear 1846-1931
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Howe, KR
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AUP
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1991
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241
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, a study of this NZ senior civil servant and Polynesianist, joint founder and editor of the Polynesian Society, author of articles and books on Maori-Polynesian origins and language
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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Ghosts of Anzac
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Howe, Onesimus William
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Langsford Publishing
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2015
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182
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the diary of a New Zealand soldier who fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
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3.000000
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10.000000
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20.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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Black Prince
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the biography of Fintan Patrick Walsh
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Hunt, Graeme
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Penguin
|
2004
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288
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8vo
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P-B Owner's plate covered inside front cover VG - Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand union leader who rose to take over as President of the Federation of Labour and 'win fulsome praise' in obituaries
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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The Hunt a history of an ordinary New Zealand family
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Hunt, Graeme
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Hunt Communications
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1989
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166
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4to
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P-B Rubbing extremities VG
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38
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With maps, illustrations, and genealogical tables, the lives of this New Zealand family as it became increasingly diverse
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6.000000
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23.000000
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50.000000
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54.000000
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58.000000
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In Flanders Fields
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the World War One diary of Private Monty Ingram
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Ingram, Neil ; Kittow, Peggy (eds)
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David Ling
|
2006
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175
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Owner's stamp covered TP, blacked-out FE VG
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20
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D-J Paper over boards Owner's stamp covered TP, blacked-out FE VG
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5.000000
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17.000000
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31.000000
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37.000000
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38.000000
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Q
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Irvine, Elizabeth Fines
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Author Pub
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2009
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(2p) 130p
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a Quartley family history, from England to New Zealand, especially the author's father
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Akatere A Place Far Away A Memoir
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Jameson, J Lyndsay
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Northland Historical Publications Society
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2001
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164
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8vo
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P-B Slight fading spine VG - Near Fine
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32
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With map and illustrations, the story of a Northland family's struggle for survival during the Depression
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4.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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Mollers a family business
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Jamieson, Bill
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Moller Holdings Ltd
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1982
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(3p) 168p
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4to
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P-B Paper wrinkle bottom fore-corner, with slight paper loss first five fore-corners VG
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30
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With illustrations, the spread of Mollers through New Zealand, from transport and motors to a spread of industries
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5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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In Command Phil Connolly
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Minesweeper captain and Labour parliamentarian
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Jamieson, Rosemary
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Steele Roberts
|
2009
|
321p (1p)
|
8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand parliamentarian, including his war service
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5.000000
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20.000000
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37.000000
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43.000000
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47.000000
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The Worlds of James Jeffery, Victorian Teacher
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Jeffery, WE
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Author Pub
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1995
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v 276p
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8vo
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Cloth binding, gilt titles Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations, a biography of a teacher from the earliest days of the national system of primary education in New Zealand (1879) who became a teacher politician and newspaper columnist
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5.000000
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15.000000
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32.000000
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35.000000
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38.000000
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From Norway with Love
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Johnson, Rachel M
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Author Pub
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2006
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232
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations, a recreation of the Anderson family and its settlement in the Manawatu
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5.500000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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38.000000
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The amazing Mr Joy an autobiography
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Joy, Ian Harper
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Author Pub
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2012
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86
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4to
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P-B Owner's signature inside front cover Repaired crease back cover VG
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25
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Signed by the author, the colourful life of a New Zealand entertainer and magician
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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Ngoingoi Pewhairangi a remarkable life
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Ka'ai, Tania M
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Huia
|
2008
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xxviii 144p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps CD in pocket inside rear cover Fine
|
35
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With 9 track CD, a bilingual celebration of this Maori leader, especially in the East Coast area, teacher, song writer, a weaver, suddenly dead in January 1985
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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A Soldier's Story a Mediterranean odyssey
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Kane, Pat
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Quality Pubs
|
1995
|
xi 147p
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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35
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With the author's signed plate, the illustrated experiences of this decorated New Zealand soldier in the Middle East and Italy
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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More Bygone Days in Lower Hutt
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Kaye, George
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Lower Hutt City Council
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1989
|
101
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8vo
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P-B VG
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20
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With illustrations, short historical pieces on the people and events of Lower Hutt
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6.000000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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40.000000
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44.000000
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By this we conquer
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Keene, Florence
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Author Pub
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1974
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149
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8vo
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P-B Owner's plate removed BEP VG
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28
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With illustrations, the life of ther Reverend Davis and his missionary labours in New Zealand, including at St John the Baptist Church in Waimate
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3.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Hocken Prince of Collectors
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Kerr, Donald Jackson
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Otago University Press
|
2015
|
424
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Inscription from paste-down VG - Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations, a life in collecting of this Dunedin doctor, his collection and its fate
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5.500000
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22.000000
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44.000000
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46.000000
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48.000000
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To Find a Fortune Women in the Thames Goldfield 1867-1893
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Killip, Rosemary
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Women's Studies, VUW
|
1995
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112
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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40
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With maps and illustrations, a study of the women who 'inhabited' the Thames Goldfield towards the end of the 19th century, women who had also come to Thames to make their fortune
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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37.000000
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40.000000
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Te Puea a biography New edition
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King, Michael
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Reed
|
2007 Reprint edition
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372
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations, a new edition of this detailed study of this Maori leader and her role in strengthening Maori values and institutions, including the development of Turangawaewae
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5.000000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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Frank Sargeson A life
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|
King, Michael
|
Viking, Penguin Books
|
1995
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478
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Light brown FEs VG - Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the masterly biography of this key New Zealand writer
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5.500000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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38.000000
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Tread Softly for you tread on my Life
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King, Michael
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Cape Catley
|
2001 2nd print (2001)
|
186
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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20
|
A collection of pieces written and gathered as sidelights to other, more weighty jobs, of history and biography, speeches for meetings and conferences, obituaries (Dame Whina Cooper), pieces for other writers
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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|
Being Pakeha Now
|
Reflections and Recollections of a White Native
|
King, Michael
|
Penguin
|
1999
|
251
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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30
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With illustrations, a re-thinking of the earlier 'Being Pakeha', carrying the cultural debate forward
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5.000000
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18.000000
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31.000000
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35.000000
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37.000000
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At the Edge of Memory
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a family story
|
King, Michael
|
Penguin
|
2002
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168
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8vo
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D-J Fine
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28
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With illustrations, further investigations of the author's family, here stretching through the USA back to Poland
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Wrestling with the Angel
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A life of Janet Frame
|
King, Michael
|
Viking
|
2000
|
583
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards, slight rubbing base VG - Near Fine
|
48
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Inscribed by the author, the long-awaited, weighty biography of Janet Frame, with illustrations
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5.000000
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25.000000
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52.000000
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56.000000
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60.000000
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The Collector Andreas Reischek a biography
|
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King, Michael
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H&S
|
1981
|
196
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Signature front paste-down VG - Near Fine
|
28
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With maps and illustrations, the journeys of an Austrian naturalist, sent out to New Zealand in 1877, and the collections he made of New Zealand flora and fauna
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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37.000000
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41.000000
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Wrestling with the Angel
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A life of Janet Frame
|
King, Michael
|
Viking
|
2000
|
583
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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35
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The long-awaited, weighty biography of Janet Frame, with illustrations
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5.000000
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25.000000
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52.000000
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56.000000
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60.000000
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The Turners of Huia
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Kirk, Alan ; Turner, Harvey
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Author Pub
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1966
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124
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards VG
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35
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Author's presentation copy; a family which started NZ's biggest fruit and vegetable market
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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The Ordeal of William Larnach
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Knight, Hardwicke
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Allied Press
|
1981
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136
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8vo
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P-B VG
|
20
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With illustrations, the various lives of William Larnach leading to his death in 1898 in Parliament
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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The Autobiography of a Maori
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Kohere, Rewiti T
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Reed
|
1951
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156
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8vo
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D-J (chips extremities, in archival wrapper) Slight foxing FEs Slight inscription front paste-down VG
|
175
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With illustrations, the auto-biography of the author of 'Te Konae Aronui', scarce
|
5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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From the Lowlands to the Hills
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Kolff, Tora
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Author Pub
|
1987
|
iv 205p
|
8vo
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P-B Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the author's life in Holland, and then in New Zealand, especially in the Riverside Community
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5.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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Pioneering Reminiscences of Old Wairoa
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Looking backward sixty years
|
Lambert, Thomas
|
Thomas Avery & Sons
|
1936
|
(3p) 208p
|
Small 8vo
|
P-B Slight foxing Fes Slight tea splash front VG
|
60
|
A series of reminiscences from an early European settler in the Wairoa area, including New Zealand Wars and experiences in the media
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5.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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Selections from the Writings of 'Tohunga'
|
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Lane, William
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Wilson & Horton
|
1917
|
142p (1p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Covers marked Small piece of spine paper missing top, bottom spine Signature TP Historical Society stamp beginning, end, on one other page Light foxing some pages Gd
|
45
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A collection of the author's articles from the New Zealand Herald, from 1900 to 1917, many of them dealing with the reports from WW1
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5.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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A Kiwi in the Shetland Scattald
|
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Laurenson, Graeme
|
Author Pub
|
1980
|
xvii 146p
|
4to
|
D-J (lightly foxed) Paper over boards Signature FEP VG
|
40
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With maps and illustrations, the lives (including some biographies) of Shetland Islanders who immigrated to New Zealand, and their contributions, especially in goldmining, farming and fishing
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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37.000000
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Earlybird the story of Phil Lightband
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Laurenson, Wendy
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Phil Lightband
|
1996
|
318
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8vo
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P-B Very slight tea spot back fore-corner Near Fine
|
20
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With maps and illustrations, the flying career of this motivator of the small aircraft industry worldwide
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Good Luck and Lavendar
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Lawry, Marie
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Author Pub
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1980
|
(5p) 144p
|
8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, a semi novelisation of the Lawry family and its experiences in New Zealand, includes family tree
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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The Not So Poor an autobiography
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Lee, Mary Isabella ; Cooper, Annabel (ed)
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Auckland University Press
|
1992
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163
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8vo
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P-B Fading spine VG
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20
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With illustrations, the autobiography of the mother of John A Lee
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5.500000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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West Coast Memories 2 vols
|
|
Legg, Paul Beauchamp
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Author Pub
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1999
|
(3p) 162p (2p) ; 221p (1p)
|
4to
|
P-B Owner's signature Vol 1 TP Near Fine
|
50
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Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a 'lifetime' of flying on the West Coast of New Zealand
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8.000000
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23.000000
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44.000000
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48.000000
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52.000000
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We've made it... to the Twenty-first Century
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Legg, Paul Beauchamp
|
Author Pub
|
2001
|
(1p) 226p
|
4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
35
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Signed by the author, the illustrated 73 first years of the author and his classmates from Feilding, experiences in other parts of New Zealand and other parts of the world
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5.000000
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19.000000
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35.000000
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39.000000
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42.000000
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As the Years Went By Between Greville and the Rai
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Leov, LCF
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Author Pub
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1970
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250
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8vo
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Brown cloth binding, gilt titles Slight foxing FEs Near Fine
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120
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With illustrations, the first edition of this memoir of life in the Marlborough Sounds area from 1897 to 1970
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5.000000
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26.000000
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30.000000
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Romantic Agony the love-letters of Charley Turner and Matilda McKenzie 1867-1870
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Leov, Nola M (ed)
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The Copy Press
|
2009
|
50
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With maps and illustrations, early life in European Nelson and the Pelorus Sounds
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4.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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Slough of Despond?
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Leov, Nola M ; Turner, Margaret J
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The Copy Press
|
2013
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44
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With maps and illustrations, more about the Turner family of Nelson in 1899
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4.000000
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13.000000
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30.000000
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The World of Emily Gracilla letters to the Turner family from their faithful English friends and relations 1883-1886
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Leov, Nola M ; Turner, Margaret J
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The Copy Press
|
2011
|
42
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With maps and illustrations, further details about the lives of the Turner family of Nelson
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Waiting 1895-1896
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Leov, Nola M ; Turner, Margaret J
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The Copy Press
|
2010
|
64
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With maps and illustrations, more about the Turner family of Nelson from 1895-1896
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From Tiger Moths to Test Pilot
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Lewis, Bernie
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Author Pub
|
2015
|
(1p) 162p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
34
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With illustrations, the fascinating life of this New Zealand pilot, as a member of the RAF, and then working for Bristol Siddeley, especially on helicopters
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5.500000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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Memories of Early Years and other writings
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|
Lilburn, Douglas ; Hoskins, Robert (ed)
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Steele Roberts
|
2014
|
150
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, a collection of written pieces and musical scores by this New Zealand composer
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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Willie Apiata VC the reluctant hero
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Little, Paul
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Penguin
|
2008
|
255
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand SAS trooper and his winning of the VC
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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The Falling A Memoir
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Loney, Alan
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AUP
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2001
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(2p) 130p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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18
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A memoir of an experience that bore threads through NZ society, the Tangiwai Disaster of 1953, and the confrontation with the author's own past
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The Printing of a Masterpiece
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Loney, Alan
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Black Pepper
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2008
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xi 113p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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28
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How the writer, printer, publisher 'created' the masterpiece of 'Leonardo on Nothingness'
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4.000000
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11.000000
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A Life on Gorge River New Zealand's remotest family
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Long, Robert
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Random House
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2010
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304
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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25
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Signed by the author, with map and illustrations, life for a family on the West Coast, north of Martin's Bay
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32.000000
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The Remarkable Life Story of Sir Joseph Ward 40 years a Liberal
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Loughnan, RA
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New Century Press
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1929
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234p (1p) (2p catalogue)
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Small 8vo
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P-B Browning pages VG
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25
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A relatively partisan biography of this New Zealand politician who became Liberal Premier, defeated by the Massey conservatives in the 1911 election
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Easily the Best the life of Helen Connon 1857-1903
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Lovell-Smith, Margaret
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Canterbury University Press
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1994
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139
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8vo
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P-B Owner's label covered HTP VG - Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations, a life of the first woman in the British Empire to graduate with a Masters Degree, the headmistress of the Christchurch Girls' High School, leading Canterbury, and New Zealand, academic and educationist
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14.000000
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From the Wistaria Bush
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Lowry, Vanya
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Auckland University Press
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2001
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viii (2p) 157p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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32
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With illustrations, portraits, book covers, the life of Bob Lowry, Auckland-NZ printer and typographer, and his family, by daughter Vanya, including moments with other NZ literary figures like Denis Glover, JK Baxter, ARD Fairburn
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A Lifetime Revisited the first 92 years
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Lundie, WJ (Jack)
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Author Pub
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2009
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(4p) 192p
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8vo
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P-B VG
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35
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Signed and inscribed by the author, a long life, including time on South Island high country farms
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Under the Lynwood Tree 1840-1940
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Lynn, Bob
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Author Pub
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1982
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(2p) 142p (4p index)
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8vo
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Soft card covers Small tea stain one page Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the detailed story of this family in New Zealand and Australia, a nice copy
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For Gallant Service Rendered the life & times of Samuel Austin
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Mabbett, Barbara
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Steele Roberts
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2012
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229
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With maps and illustrations, an Irish soldier with the British Army and his life in New Zealand, including in the New Zealand Wars, finishing with the Wanganui Native Contingent and the New Zealand Cross
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Imperial Patriot Charles Alma Baker and the history of Limestone Downs
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Macdonald, Barrie
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Bridget Williams Books
|
1993
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xiv 194p
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, the life of this New Zealander, beginning as a surveyor, making money in Malaya, then buying Limestone Downs, near Port Waikato, and its role as a teaching farm
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Going Abroad Second Edition revised and Enlarged
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The MacGibbon family and other early Scottish emigrants to Otago and Southland, New Zealand
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MacGibbon, John
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Ngaio Press
|
2002
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258
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4to
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P-B Signature inside front cover Near Fine
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45
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A very detailed, illustrated family history which describes much of early immigration by the Scots to New Zealand and their development as New Zealanders
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20.000000
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42.000000
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46.000000
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50.000000
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Going Abroad
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The MacGibbon family and other early Scottish emigrants to Otago and Southland, New Zealand
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MacGibbon, John
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Ngaio Press
|
1997
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231
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4to
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P-B Light fading spine VG - Near Fine
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40
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Signed by the author, a very detailed, illustrated family history which describes much of early immigration by the Scots to New Zealand and their development as New Zealanders
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20.000000
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42.000000
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46.000000
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50.000000
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Captain Jack Surveyor and Engineer
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the autobiography of John Mackie
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Mackie, John
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New Zealand Institute of Surveyors
|
2007
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(5p) 444p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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45
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With illustrations and maps, a very full life, including World War 2 and POW experience with the Japanese, and surveying back in New Zealand
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5.000000
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23.000000
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51.000000
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54.000000
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58.000000
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Wartime Correspondence
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|
Macky, Peter (comp, ed)
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Livadia Publishers
|
2007
|
323p (1p)
|
Oblong 4to
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Laminated soft boards Slight fading spine Near Fine
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35
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With maps and illustrations, the correspondence from Peter Russell Hay Allen to his mother from 1938 to April 1942, having enlisted in the Royal Navy and ending with the loss of his submarine, HMS Upholder
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9.000000
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38.000000
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85.000000
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80.000000
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85.000000
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John Pascoe
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Maclean, Chris
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Craig Potton Publishing, The Whitcombe Press
|
2003
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344
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Fine
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55
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With maps and illustrations, a detailed account of the author, historian, mountaineer and photographer who was John Pascoe, a nice copy
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5.000000
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22.000000
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48.000000
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52.000000
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54.000000
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Nursing in New Zealand history and reminiscences
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Maclean, Hester
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Tolan Printing Co
|
1932
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(frontis), 283p
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8vo
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Red cloth binding Slight wear top, bottom spine VG
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25
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With illustrations, the author takes the reader through her experiences as a nurse and administrator in New Zealand from the early 1900s, including service in WW1
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16.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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The Fighting Man
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a study of the life and times of T E Tylor
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Macleod, Nellie FH
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Dunbar and Summers
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1964
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(frontis) (10p) 143p
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
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24
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With illustrations, the life of an early New Zealand socialist and Mayor of Christchurch
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Hard Times on the Chain Hills
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MacManus, Vincent (et al)
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Author Pub
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2006
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152
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, memories of this Dunedin family, farming during the Depression and later
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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I, Duncan, from Skippers
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Macnicol, Duncan ; Trotter, Margaret
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Author Pub
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1987
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(frontis) (3p) 103p
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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40
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Signed by the co-writer, with maps and illustrations, the life of this early inhabitant of Skippers Canyon, in the Shotover Valley, near Queenstown, and his later experiences
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14.000000
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29.000000
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Our Lesser Stars twelve New Zealand Family Biographies
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Main, Colleen P
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New Zealand Society of Genealogists
|
1990
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328
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8vo
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P-B Light fading spine VG
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24
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With illustrations, a collections of essays about New Zealand families of the 19th and early 20th centuries
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There and Back the story of a branch of the Malcolm family through the centuries
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Malcolm, Lindsay
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Author Pub
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2008
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182
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With maps, illustrations and tables, the lives of the Malcolm families from around Oamaru
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15.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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A Blessed Life from Makarewa to Motueka
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Maloney, Father Pat
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Earl of Sutcliffe Art Workshop
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2008
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233
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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Inscribed by the author, a detailed autobiography of a New Zealand priest, overseas and in New Zealand, with illustrations
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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Some Reminiscences
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Mandeno, Harry
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Author Pub
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1968
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107
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8vo
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P-B Near fine
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55
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Signed and inscribed by the author, with illustrations, memories of this New Zealand architect, including the New Zealand Wars diary of his grandfather, published for private distribution
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Eighty Years in New Zealand
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embracing fifty years of New Zealand fishing
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Mannering, George E
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Simpson & Williams
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1943
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255
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8vo
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Cloth binding, red titles VG
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30
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With illustrations, the writer's reminiscences, including mountaineering and fishing in the North and South Islands
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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Standing my Ground a voice for nature conservation
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Mark, Alan F
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Otago University Press
|
2015
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312
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the life of this advocate for the preservation of areas of ecological importance in New Zealand
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50.000000
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Life and Work of Samuel Marsden
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Marsden, Rev JB (ed J Drummond)
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W&T
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1913
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x 232
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8vo
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Card covers Slight wearing spine Insc FEP VG
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35
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Studies the life and effect of Marsden in NZ
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Black Beech & Honeydrew
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Marsh, Ngaio
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Collins
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1966
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287
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8vo
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D-J (slight chips, price-clipped) Slight foxing FEs Small inscription FFEP VG
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28
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The author's autobiography, with illustrations, of life in NZ and beyond
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13.000000
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25.000000
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Happiness in Willowbank Home
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Martin, Gladys
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Author Pub
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2006
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(10p) 203p (xxiii) (1p)
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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25
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Signed by the author, the author's experience and guide to Diversional Therapy
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12.000000
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28.000000
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From Mountains to Meteorites
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Mason, Brian ; Nathan, Simon
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Geological Society of New Zealand
|
2001
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72
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the life of this internationally-known New Zealand geologist
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25.000000
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Three Score Years and Ten some thoughts along the rural way
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Mathieson, EH
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Author Pub
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1979
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55
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8vo
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P-B VG
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20
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A series of pieces which reflect on the author's rural life and economy, including the farmer's role in local government
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3.500000
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The Will to Win
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Mauger, Ivan
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Golden Key
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2010
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xvii (1p) 430p
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8vo
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D-J Laminated boards Near Fine
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38
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With illustrations, the autobiography of this New Zealand-born speedway rider who took on the world
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5.500000
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20.000000
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37.000000
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43.000000
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Bold Beyond Belief Bill Denz New Zealand's Mountain Warrior
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Maxim, Paul
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Maxim Books
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2011
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(4p) 307p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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42
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life in climbing in New Zealand and around the world with Bill Denz
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5.500000
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Bold Beyond Belief Bill Denz New Zealand's Mountain Warrior
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Maxim, Paul
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Maxim Books
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2018 reprint edition (2011)
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(4p) 307p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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42
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With illustrations, a life in climbing in New Zealand and around the world with Bill Denz
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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Recollections and Reflections of an old New Zealander
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Maxwell, Ebenezer
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Reed
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1937 3rd edition (1935)
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(frontis) xviii (1p) 233p (4p ads)
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Small 8vo
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D-J (slight chips, in protective plastic) Inscription FEP Slight foxing FEs VG - Near Fine
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65
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A nice copy of the memorial edition of 1,000 copies (the author had died), with many illustrations and a map, includes reminiscences of Wellington and Taranaki towards the end of the pioneer period and later
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Rock on Rarotoko Centre Island Revisited
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Maynard, Vaunda
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Author Pub
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2012
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80
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8vo
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28
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Signed by the author, life on this lighthouse island in Foveaux Strait in the 1940s
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Yours faithfully, Henry Tewsley
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McBride, Ally
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Author Pub
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2015
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227
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the letters of a settler in early Dunedin, covering the 1860s and 70s, including religion (the Congregational and Episcopelian churches), business (Sargood, Son, and Ewen, and the USSCo) and public service (Otago Harbour Board)
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Scattered Cedars stories from the Lebanese Community in Dunedin
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McCauley, Lisa (comp)
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Cedars of Lebanon Club
|
2013
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(4p) 138p
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Oblong 8vo
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D-J (slight bump fore-corner) Plasticised boards, slight bump fore-corner Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations and genealogical tables, the lives of the Lebanese settlers to Dunedin between the 1880s to 1930s and their families
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5.500000
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20.000000
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Jenkins Family History
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McClelland, Isabel (et al)
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Jenkins Family Book Cttee
|
1997
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280
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4to
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Laminated card covers Fine
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52
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With illustrations, a detailed compilation of material on the generations of this family from Scotland to New zealand
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Family Life on a Rehab. Farm Early Days at Atiamuri
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McClunie, Jessie
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Author Pub
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1996
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53
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8vo
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P-B VG
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25
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With illustrations, the author's life experiences, including on a Rehabilitation farm in Atiamuri, in the Rotorua district
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Alexander Turnbull
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(his life, his circle, his collections)
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McCormick, EH
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Alexander Turnbull Library
|
1974
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xvi 324
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Large 8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Cloth binding Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, a study of a man, his society, and his collecting
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5.000000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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37.000000
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39.000000
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The Gold Baron Central Otago's mining entrepreneur
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McCraw, John
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Central Stories Museum
|
2009
|
146
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
35
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With maps and illustrations, the busy and entreprising life of one of New Zealand's most innovative goldminers, stretching a small empire through Central Otago
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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The Beeby Fascicles 6 vols
|
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McDonald, Geraldine ; Benton, richard (eds)
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Te Aro Press
|
1992
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6 vols
|
8vo
|
Boxed set Near Fine
|
35
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A collection of essays as a festschrift for the retired first director of the NZCER in New Zealand
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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Shaking the Bee Tree
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McEldowney, Dennis
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AUP
|
1992
|
219
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Large 8vo
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P-B Fine
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12
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The author writes lovingly of the life of his wife and partner-in-life
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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An Absurd Ambition
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Autobiographical Writings of EH McCormick
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McEldowney, Dennis (ed)
|
AUP
|
1996
|
xviii 213
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
24
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By tracing through McCormick's writings, the editor creates a kind of 'autobiography' which shows the development of one of NZ's most thoughtful writers
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Charles Fleming Environmental Patriot
|
|
McEwan, Mary
|
Craig Potton
|
2005
|
(frontis) xxiii 382p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
50
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With maps and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand scientist, biogeographer, palaeontologist, zoologist and conservationist
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5.000000
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20.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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38.000000
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Te Oka pakeha kaumatua the life of Jock McEwen
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McEwen, Mary
|
Reviresco Trust
|
2016
|
xi 312p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, a life of this carver, government administrator, especially in the Pacific Islands, a man above all with a passionate interest in all aspects of Maori and Polynesian culture
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5.000000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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42.000000
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The First New Zealand Bushranger
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McGill, David
|
Silver Owl Press
|
2006
|
215
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8vo
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P-B Fine
|
22
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The life of the 'Goldfields' Robber', Henry Rouse, known as Henry Beresford Garrett, and the legends that have grown around him
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Will there be horses in Heaven?
|
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McGregor, Dorothy
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Author Pub
|
2017
|
230p (1p)
|
4to
|
Spiral bound, card covers Near Fine
|
40
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With illustrations, a life in nursing and farming in Southland, with horses
|
5.500000
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20.000000
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40.000000
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44.000000
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48.000000
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Castle on the Run
|
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McInnes, Gay
|
Pegasus Press
|
1969
|
189p (1p)
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Owner's details FEP VG
|
25
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Life on Earnscleugh Station in Central Otago as the author grows up
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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35.000000
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38.000000
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The Journal of Henry Sewell 1853-7
|
|
McIntyre, W David (ed)
|
Whitcoulls
|
1980
|
2 Vols 510-371
|
Large 8vo
|
D-J Fine
|
45
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Sewell was an important figure in early settler politics; in his journals are many judgements of the early politicians
|
5.000000
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19.000000
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36.000000
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41.000000
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43.000000
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The Rainmaker
|
A biography of John Ballance journalist and politician 1839-1893
|
McIvor, Timothy
|
Heinemann Reed
|
1989
|
xii 290p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, a substantial biography of this early NZ journalist who rose to become leader of the Liberal Party and Premier
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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|
the life of James K Baxter
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|
McKay, Frank
|
OUP
|
1990
|
xii 320p
|
8vo
|
D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards Nice inscription, owner's plate HTP VG - Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, the life of this 20th century New Zealand poet whose shadow falls long
|
5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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|
Four Sons of Skye the history of the Tolmie family from Skye Scotland to Otago New Zealand
|
|
McKay, James GH
|
Author Pub
|
2011
|
272
|
8vo
|
P-B Slight bumping fore-corners VG - Near Fine
|
45
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With maps, genealogical tables and illustrations, the spread of this family from its Scottish foundations to its Otago beginnings in the 1860s
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5.500000
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19.000000
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35.000000
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41.000000
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My Life My Story
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McKay, Leslie J
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Author Pub
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1993
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208
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the life of a long-time member of the New Zealand Labour Party
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5.000000
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13.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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30.000000
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The Gentle Giants
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McKenzie, Gordon
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Author Pub
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2010
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viii 156p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, working with bullocks in the Northland bush in 1938
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3.000000
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11.000000
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Footprints harnessing an inheritance into a legacy
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McKenzie, Roy
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Te Aro Press
|
1998
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vi 279p
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8vo
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P-B Near-Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the life of a New Zealand businessman, philanthropist, and the Roy McKenzie Trust
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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The Gardner Family of Rosemains
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McLaren, Ethel (comp)
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Author Pub
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ND
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33
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4to
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Plastic cover over soft card covers, taped spine Owner's small stamp covered at beginning and end VG - Near Fine
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25
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With maps, illustrations and genealogical table, a history of this family which came from England and Scotland and had lives in Australia and New Zealand, finally settling on the descendants who took up a farm, 'Rosemains', in South Otago
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4.000000
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11.000000
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Your Obedient Servant" perspectives of a soldier
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McLaren, ID
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Author Pub
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ND
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58
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With map and illustrations, the author's war experiences, 1942-46, as a member of the NZ transport division, especially in Italy
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5.500000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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28.000000
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Reflections of Yesteryear
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McLaren, ID
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Author Pub
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2004
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60
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the next collection of the author's memories of living in Otago and going off to War
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3.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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'Your Obedient Servant' perspectives of a soldier 1942-46
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McLaren, ID
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Author Pub
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56
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the war experiences of a New Zealand soldier in WW2, especially in Italy, and the incident in Trieste with Tito's men, and then in Japan
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3.000000
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11.000000
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Henry Ferris Norman and Mary Ann Edwards
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First reunion of Descendants Wanaka January 11-12 1986
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McLeod, Shirley (et al)
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Norman Reunion Cttee
|
1986
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68
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations and family trees, the history of this South Island family
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3.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Keith Harper Man with a mission
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McPherson, Suzanne
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Author Pub
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2012
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271
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8vo
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P-B Short crease front VG - Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the life of this Anglican minister, his service on the West Coast before WW2, then his service as Chaplain with the New Zealand Army, leading to his death at Cassino
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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By the Braes of Balquether
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McRae, Shona
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Author Pub
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1963
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111p (1p)
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8vo
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D-J (fading spine, slight chips, paper rubbing, in archival wrapper) Two-tone cloth binding Slight signature FEP VG - Near Fine
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60
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No 41 of an edition of 400, with maps, drawings and illustrations, the McRae family at the Glens of Tekoa, in the Amuri, Canterbury
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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From Archangel to New Zealand the diaries of Robert Henry Harding
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McShane, Gregor
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Rimu Publishing Co
|
1985
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106p (1p)
|
8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
|
22
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With illustrations, the background history of this period at the end of World War One in Russia, and the part played by RH Harding, in the Royal Navy at Archangel, from his contemporary diary
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3.000000
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10.000000
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24.000000
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Richard Taylor Missionary Tramper
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Mead, Arthur D
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Reed
|
1966
|
(frontis) 272p
|
8vo
|
D-J (slight chips) Light foxing top FE VG
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30
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Based on the diaries of Taylor, a recounting of the journeys and experiences of this Church Missionary Society pastor to the Maori in the North Island, from 1839 to 1873
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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A Teacher's Story
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Melser, June
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Fraser Books
|
2004
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(2p) 170p
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8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Title page rippled VG
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20
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With illustrations, the teachings and experiences of this New Zealand teacher, so important in teaching reading
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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A West Coast Holiday in the 1880s
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Menzies, Mary
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Menzies Family History Group
|
2003
|
50
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With map and drawings, from 26 June to 17 July 1883, a trip to the West Coast on horse-back, then up to Nelson, across the Strait, then back to Lyttelton by boat
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4.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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26.000000
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Mine Alone
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Mercer, Rosemary D
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Butterfly Creek Books
|
2007
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(6p) 277p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With map and illustrations, the lives of Joseph Taylor and his wife Annie and the Puponga coal mine at the top of the South Island, with the difficulties that arose
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8.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Yar" a man of the Northern Wairoa 1898- ? (1988 Epilogue)
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Meurant, Rae-Ola
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Author Pub
|
1998 Update-edition (1982)
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61p (2p)
|
8vo
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P-B Near Fine
|
40
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Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the life of a man raised in the Northern Wairoa around Dargaville
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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Joan's Journey the autobiography of Joan Millar
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Millar, Joan
|
Sycamore Print
|
1992
|
75
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8vo
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P-B TP clipped VG
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22
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Inscribed and signed by the author, the life of a Southland woman, especially farming at Browns, inland from Winton
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5.000000
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6.000000
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17.000000
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22.000000
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19.000000
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No Fretful Sleeper a life of Bill Pearson
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|
Millar, Paul
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Auckland University Press
|
2010
|
xi 380p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, an absorbing biography of the author of 'Coal Flat'
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5.000000
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19.000000
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35.000000
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41.000000
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46.000000
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Ronald Hugh Morrieson a biography
|
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Millen, Julia
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David Ling
|
1996
|
246
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the life and works of this New Zealand writer
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Capturing Light Roy Miller New Zealand Stained Glass Artist
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Miller, Brian
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Lifelogs Ltd
|
2016
|
272
|
4to
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
70
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Signed by the author, with wonderful illustrations, New Zealand stained glass windows and one of New Zealand's best stained glass artists
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5.000000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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Gold in the River
|
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Miller, Fred WG
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Reed
|
1974 Reprint edition (1946)
|
135
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8vo
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D-J Short inscription front paste-down VG - Near Fine
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25
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The author's life in Central Otago, looking for gold during the Depression, new, revised edition, with illustrations by John Husband
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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37.000000
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41.000000
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James and Ann Lawson Milne of Wyndham 1860-1985
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Milne, Emily C (comp)
|
Milne Family Reunion Cttee
|
1984
|
(frontis) 255p
|
8vo
|
Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
|
38
|
With illustrations, a detailed family history and their life in this Southland district
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5.000000
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20.000000
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36.000000
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41.000000
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43.000000
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|
Adventures by Sea and Land
|
|
Moffatt, Harry Louis
|
Nelson Historical Society
|
1979
|
(frontis map) 89p
|
4to
|
P-B VG
|
20
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With maps and illustrations, the life of an early traveller to New Zealand, including his experiences on the Nelson and Otago goldfields
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Adventures by Sea and Land
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Moffatt, Harry Louis
|
Nelson Historical Society
|
1979
|
(2p) 89p
|
8vo
|
P-B Signature crossed out front cover, Preface page VG
|
20
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With maps and illustrations, the author's autobiography from 12 - 70, his voyage to Nelson, New Zealand, and his experiences there
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3.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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Family Business an Italian-New Zealand story
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Moleta, Vincent
|
Canterbury University Press
|
2012
|
311
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations, the life of the Barnao family in New Zealand, and the fishing business which developed
|
5.000000
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19.000000
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35.000000
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42.000000
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46.000000
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Knocking about in New Zealand
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Money, Charles L
|
The Capper Press
|
1972 (1871)
|
viii 151p
|
8vo
|
D-J (slight crinkle front) Paper over boards Near Fine
|
25
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Six years working and travelling in New Zealand in the 1860s, including the diggings in Otago and taking a part in the New Zealand Wars
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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From Poverty Bay to Broadway the story of Tom Heeney
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Monin, Lydia
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Hodder Moa, Hachette Livre NZ
|
2008
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256
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the fighting life of a New Zealand boxer who just didn't win the Heavy Weight Championship
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5.000000
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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More than you know an autobiography
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Moore, Albert
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Jonathan and Rachel Moore
|
ND
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314
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand minister and Professor of Religious Studies
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5.000000
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18.000000
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34.000000
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38.000000
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41.000000
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Stewart Family Gathering 12th March 1988
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Moore, Charles Stuart
|
Author Pub
|
1988
|
76p (1p) (5p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the descending family from Donald Stewart (1734-1806), Edinample Balquhidder, Duncan Stewart 1776-1839, Alexander Stewart (1805-1879), Westwood Blairdrummond, includes Downies
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Anzac Jack
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Moore, Jack H
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Author Pub
|
2004
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136
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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28
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Signed by the author, the recollection, through the medium of his letters home, of this Kiwi ANZAC soldier who served with the Australian Army, from Gallipoli to the Western Front, with illustrations
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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From Pushchair to Railway Train
|
The Memoirs of a Marlborough Farmer
|
Moore, John
|
Author Pub
|
1996
|
ix 162p
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
25
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Not just the story of the writer's life, from wartime to peacetime farming, but also of life in the Marlborough area, and of the author's private mini-railway on the farm
|
5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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From a Distance the Waima River years
|
|
Mortimer, John
|
Northland Historical Publications
|
2000
|
vi 160p
|
4to
|
P-B Fading spine Near Fine
|
30
|
Signed and inscribed by the author, memories of country life in the 1950s in the backblocks of the Hokianga, with map and illustrations
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5.000000
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17.000000
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31.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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My Dear Bannie
|
Gerhard Mueller's Letters from the West Coast 1865-6
|
Mueller, MV (ed)
|
Pegasus Press
|
1958
|
237p (1p) (1p)
|
8vo
|
D-J (chip top spine, fading spine, in archival wrapper) Strip browning EPs VG - Near Fine
|
52
|
An edition of 750 copies, a nice copy of these letters from the West Coast gold rushes, describing his surveying experiences, with illustrations
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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35.000000
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38.000000
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The Story of Suzanne Aubert
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Munro, Jessie
|
Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books
|
1997 reprint edition (1996)
|
(3p) 364p
|
8vo
|
P-B Crinkle to end VG
|
25
|
With illustrations, the life of a 'missionary' who became a legend
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5.000000
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20.000000
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35.000000
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40.000000
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42.000000
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|
The Story of Suzanne Aubert
|
|
Munro, Jessie
|
Bridget Williams Books
|
2009
|
(3p) 464p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
38
|
With illustrations, the life of a 'missionary' who became a legend, a new edition
|
6.000000
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28.000000
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52.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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Letters on the Go the correspondence of Suzanne Aubert
|
|
Munro, Jessie (ed)
|
Bridget Williams Books
|
2009
|
xii 635p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
40
|
With illustrations, a selection of the letters written and received by Sister Suzanne Aubert over the years she spent in New Zealand and in Rome, and the work of the Sisters of Compassion, begun by her in 1892 on the Whanganui River
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5.500000
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24.000000
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50.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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Gently Down the Stream
|
|
Murray, Dorothy
|
Author Pub
|
1996
|
155
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4to
|
Laminated boards Near Fine
|
48
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a social history of the New Zealand Shoebridge family
|
5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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Captain Anthony Wilding
|
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Myers, A Wallis
|
Hodder & Stoughton
|
1916
|
(frontis) xii 306p
|
8vo
|
Blue cloth binding, gilt titles spine Fading spine Owner's signature FEP VG
|
40
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand-born tennis player before WW1, winner at Wimbledon, and killed in France
|
5.000000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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The Memoirs of Norman Alfred Nash
|
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Nash, Norman A
|
Author pub, The Manawatu Standard Ltd
|
1974
|
(4p) (71p)
|
8vo
|
Faux leather binding, gilt titles Author's card tipped-in Fine
|
25
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Numbered, limited, signed edition (#156/400), memoirs of a various life, including fishing in New Zealand, and newspaper work
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Harold Wellman a man who moved New Zealand
|
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Nathan, Simon
|
Victoria University Press
|
2005
|
272
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8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
35
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Signed by the author, with maps, diagrams and illustrations, the life of one of New Zealand's more influential geologists
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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The amazing world of James Hector
|
|
Nathan, Simon ; Varnham, Mary (eds)
|
AWA Science, AWA Press
|
2008
|
(3p) 185p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
|
With maps and illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with the multiplicity of James Hector's pursuits and achievements in 19th Century New Zealand science, as geologist, surveyor, botanist, and above all, organiser of scientific bodies
|
5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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This is Our Story
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Nees, Ernest and Doris
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Author Pub
|
1982
|
259
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8vo
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H-B VG
|
15
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Presentation copy; the foundation of a family and a family firm in Wellington
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Stonehenge & the Hore Family of Patearoa
|
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Newton, Barbara
|
The Hore Family
|
2012
|
176
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Oblong 8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
|
42
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Signed by the author and Charles Hore, an illustrated history of Stonehenge farm, between Roxburgh and Ranfurly in Central Otago
|
5.000000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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Life is a Barrel of Apples
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Niblock, Joan ; Ritchie, Rayma (comp)
|
Author Pub
|
2001
|
72p (8p)
|
4to
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, the life and experiences of a New Zealander who was in the First Aid Yeomanry (FANYs) during WW2
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
|
25.000000
|
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White Chief the story of a Pakeha-Maori
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Nicholson, John
|
Penguin
|
2006
|
256
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8vo
|
P-B Strip fading spine VG - Near Fine
|
25
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With maps and illustrations, a life of Judge Frederick Maning and his two-sided life and opinions
|
5.500000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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|
White Chief The story of a Pakeha-Maori
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The colourful life and times of Judge FE Maning of the Hokianga
|
Nicholson, John
|
Penguin Books
|
2006
|
256
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
35
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With maps and illustrations, the life of the author of 'Old New Zealand', a pakeha-Maori, member of the Land Court, and his role in 19th Century political life
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
|
|
A Parallel Universe
|
|
Nicol, Cheryl
|
Mary Egan Publishing
|
2017
|
189p (2p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, growing up in 1960s New Zealand
|
5.500000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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Two Lost Threads
|
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Nolan, Iris
|
Bateson Publishing
|
2003
|
vii 117p
|
8vo
|
P-B Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, covering two threads, her husband and the homeguard, especially Godley Head, and her husband and the New Zealand Institute of Town Clerks, especially service around New Zealand
|
3.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Women of the Catlins life in the Deep South
|
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Noonan, Diana (ed)
|
Otago University Press
|
2016
|
183p (2p)
|
Oblong 8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
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With B/W illustrations by Chris Antona, the 'lives' of twenty-six women of widely-differing ages in this area of Southern New Zealand
|
6.000000
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26.000000
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50.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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Douglas Lilburn His Life and Music
|
|
Norman, Philip
|
Canterbury University Press
|
2007 Revised edition (2006)
|
(frontis) 468p
|
4to
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
50
|
With many illustrations, a detailed and affectionately written biography of the leading New Zealand composer of the 20th century, the revised edition
|
8.000000
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26.000000
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55.000000
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59.000000
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64.000000
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Annie's War a New Zealand woman and her family in England 1916-19
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|
Norris, Susanna Montgomerie ; Rogers, Anna
|
Otago University Press
|
2014
|
255
|
8vo
|
P-B Slight rub top, bottom spine Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the diaries of Annie Montgomerie providing an account of one New Zealand family's life in England during WW1
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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A Plumber's Progress pilgrimage to the heart of Tibet
|
|
OConnell, WJ
|
Longacre Press
|
2003
|
222
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8vo
|
P-B VG
|
20
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With map and illustrations, the journey for a New Zealand plumber into another life, pushing the limits in Tibet
|
5.500000
|
14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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Picts and Porridge an Ogilvie family history
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|
Ogilvie, Gordon
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Alan Gibbs
|
2002
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viii 312p
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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50
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With maps and illustrations, with many biographies, a wonderful family history
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8.000000
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21.000000
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46.000000
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49.000000
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Little Feet in a Big Room Frances Ogilvie of China
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Ogilvie, Gordon
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Shoal Bay Press
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1994
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108
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Owner's details FEP VG - Near Fine
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20
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With map and illustrations, a life of this Presbyterian missionary in China during the 1930s and 40s, including being interned in Hong Kong's Stanley Civilian Internment Camp by the Japanese
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5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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Pioneers of the Plains the Deans of Canterbury
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Ogilvie, Gordon
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Shoal Bay Press
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1996
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296
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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50
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With illustrations, the Deans brothers as early European settlers in Canterbury, then the family and their impact
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5.500000
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40.000000
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44.000000
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48.000000
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The Riddle of Richard Pearse
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Ogilvie, Gordon
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Reed
|
1973
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xiii 251p
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8vo
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D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Owner's stamp FEP Near Fine
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30
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With map and illustrations, a study of this New Zealand inventor who was experimenting with powered flight at the same time as the Wright Brothers
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31.000000
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35.000000
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37.000000
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Denis Glover His Life
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Ogilvie, Gordon
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Godwit
|
1999
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544p
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
|
35
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The first comprehensive bibliography of this NZ man-of-letters and printer, a valuable addition to the field of NZ literary biography
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5.000000
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26.000000
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58.000000
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63.000000
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67.000000
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Looking for the Phoenix a memoir
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Oliver, WH
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Bridget Williams Books
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2002
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ix 178p
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8vo
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P-B VG
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20
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The author, historian, poet, teacher, editor, his life and thoughts on life, where 'memory takes many forms'
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5.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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James K Baxter a portrait
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Oliver, WH
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The Port Nicholson Press
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1983
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(frontis) 160p
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4to
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D-J (fading spine) Plasticised boards VG - Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand poet
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A People's History
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Illustrated Biographies from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
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Oliver, WH (ed)
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Bridget Williams Books, DIA
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1992
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xi (1p) 281p
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4to
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P-B Award plate HTP VG
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40
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With illustrations and plates, a very useful companion to the Dictionary of NZ Biography Vol 1
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5.000000
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20.000000
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33.000000
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The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vols 1-5
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Oliver, WH , Orange, Claudia (eds)
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A&U, DIA, Bridget Williams Books, AUP
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1990-2000
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5 vols
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4to
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D-J Signature FEP Vol 1 Fine
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400
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Hundreds of biographies covering New Zealanders from 1769 - 1960, a lovely set.
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20.000000
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44.000000
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100.000000
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110.000000
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124.000000
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John A Lee
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Olssen, Erik
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University of Otago Press
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1977
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xii (1p) 223p
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4to
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D-J (slight rubbing extremities) Paper over boards Near Fine
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25
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Signed by the author, a sympathetic life of this New Zealand politician, in and out of the first Labour Government
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Otway Family History
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Otway, Clive S (comp)
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Author Pub
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1982
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(3p) 28p
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4to
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P-B Spine tape VG
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28
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With illustrations, the family story of Irish immigrants Caesar Hastings and Julia Otway and their descendants in New Zealand 1864-1982, including the Trelawny Stud in Cambridge
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24.000000
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A Fighting Withdrawal the life of Dan Davin writer, soldier, publisher
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Ovenden, Keith
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OUP
|
1997 Reprint edition (1996)
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xxii 469p
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, a detailed life of this New Zealand ex-patriate writer and publisher for OUP
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21.000000
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50.000000
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Turning Back the Pages
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a family history 1656-2007
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Page, Roddy
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Author Pub
|
2007
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vii 174p
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the story of this family in New Zealand and overseas, with many illustrious members
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5.000000
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16.000000
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Champion New Zealand's first Olympic winner
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Palenski, Ron
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New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
|
2012
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114
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the story of Malcolm Champion, the first New Zealander to win an Olympic Swimming Gold Medal, and his life afterwards
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4.000000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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30.000000
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Away from it all
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Donald Sutherland of Milford Sound, NZ
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Parham, WT
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Whakatane and District Historical Society
|
1977
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(3p) 24p (8p illustrations) (folding map)
|
4to
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P-B with brown tape spine Marks covers VG
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50
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With map and illustrations, the life of this early explorer of Fiordland and fighter in the New Zealand Wars
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12.000000
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22.000000
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Man At Arms
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Capt John Richard Rushton NZ Militia
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Parham, WT
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Whakatane and District Historical Society
|
1977
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(4p) 25p (4p illustrations)
|
4to
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P-B with brown tape spine Marks covers VG
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35
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With map and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand Wars soldier, on both the West and East coasts of the North Island
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12.000000
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22.000000
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Lasting Legacy Alexander McMillan's contribution to the people of Otago
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Parry, Gordon
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Author Pub
|
2005
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55p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a biography of this Otago businessman, patron, benefactor, and the Alexander McMillan Trust
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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Lasting Legacy Alexander McMillan's contribution to the people of Otago
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Parry, Gordon
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Alexander McMillan Trust
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2005
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56
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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Inscribed by the author, a biography of one of Otago's modern benefactors
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Before We Say Goodbye
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Parsonson, Denys
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Whitcoulls
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1975
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199
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8vo
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D-J Near Fine
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20
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Farming and tourism in the Marlborough Sounds
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Mr Explorer Douglas
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Pascoe, John (ed)
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Reed
|
1969 reprint (1957)
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xviii (2p) 331p
|
4to
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D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper) Plasticised boards Signature HTP Slight foxing FES VG - Near Fine
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35
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With maps, drawings and illustrations, a study of the papers of Charles Douglas and his days in Westland, especially exploring the ranges of South Westland
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5.500000
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21.000000
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42.000000
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Mr Explorer Douglas
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Pascoe, John ; Langton, Graham
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Canterbury University Press
|
2000
|
320
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8vo
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P-B Fading spine VG- Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations, the revised edition of this study of Charlie Douglas and the exploration of the West Coast, with new illustrations and material
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25.000000
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45.000000
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55.000000
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Mr Explorer Douglas
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Pascoe, John ; Langton, Graham
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Canterbury University Press
|
2000
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320
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the revised edition of this study of Charlie Douglas and the exploration of the West Coast, with new illustrations and material
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6.000000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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Cassino to Trieste a soldier's story
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Paterson, EB 'Scotch'
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Steele Roberts
|
2004
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(frontis) 173p
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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32
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With illustrations, the author's experiences in the Italian campaign
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12.000000
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Patersons a story of land and sheep
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Paterson, Martin M (et al)
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Paterson Family
|
2016
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357
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4to
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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80
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With many illustrations, the Scottish, then New Zealand Paterson lineage, their Otago land and their sheep raising, with maps and lists
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5.000000
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21.000000
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44.000000
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48.000000
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52.000000
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Cowboys not what they used to be
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Patterson, Jack
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Countrywide Publications
|
1998
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85
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8vo
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P-B Fading spine VG
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20
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A collection of stories centred around experience of Central Otago, memories of farming and growing older
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3.000000
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11.000000
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The Next Patient in the Waiting Room essays on Edwin Keith Macleod physician, poet, thinker
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Paul, Charlotte ; Somerville, Gwynnedd (eds)
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Versal Press
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2016
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192
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the work and ideas of this Dunedin physician, through his words and those of his friends and colleagues
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15.000000
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A History of the Craig Family Scotland to Otago 1858-1990
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Pearce, Don & Winifred (et al, comps)
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Author Pub
|
1990
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(4p) 77p (folding chart)
|
4to
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Spiral bound, soft card covers Owner's small stamp Introduction page Near Fine
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45
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With illustrations and genealogical charts, a history of this family which spread from Scotland to Otago and out to New Zealand
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13.000000
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27.000000
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33.000000
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Seeking a See a journal of the Right reverend Henry Lascelles Jenner, DD, of his visit to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1868-1869
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Pearce, Rev John (ed)
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The Standing Cttee of the Diocese of Dunedin
|
1984
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228
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations, the journal of the first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin who was originally refused a see when he arrived in Dunedin
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32.000000
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Hurricane Tim
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the story of Sir Tim Wallis
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Peat, Neville
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Longacre Press
|
2005
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(frontis) 325p (3p)
|
4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
75
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Signed by the author and Sir Tim, a special copy of the first edition of this captivating biography, the life of one of New Zealand's premier entrepreneurs, with his plate tipped in
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5.000000
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20.000000
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33.000000
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37.000000
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38.000000
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Hurricane Tim
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the story of Sir Tim Wallis
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Peat, Neville
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Longacre Press
|
2005
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(frontis) 325p (3p)
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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40
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Signed by the author, the first edition of this captivating biography, the life of one of New Zealand's premier entrepreneurs, with illustrations
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Seabird Genius the story of LE Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the yellow-eyed penguin
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Peat, Neville
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Otago University Press
|
2011
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288
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life rich in importance for albatross research in New Zealand and around the world
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34.000000
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Wiremu Pere The Life and Times of a Maori Leader 1837-1915
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Pere, Joseph Anaru Te Kani (et al)
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Libro International, Oratia Media Ltd
|
2010
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440p (end pocket with 2 folding charts)
|
4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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80
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With illustrations, the life of this East Coast Maori leader and parliamentarian, living through the post-colonial struggles
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21.000000
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66.000000
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70.000000
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A Story of Five Generations the Alexander and Brooke Taylor Families
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Perry, Sydney (comp)
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Author Pub
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1980
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76
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4to
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P-B VG
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35
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With illustrations and genealogical tables, a history of this English emigrant family who arrived in New Zealand in 1858
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Brothers in Arms Gordon & Robin Harper in the Great War
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Phillips, Jock (et al)
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NZHistoryJock
|
2015
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180
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4to
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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32
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With illustrations, the war experiences of two New Zealand brothers in WW1, 1914-1916, including in Gallipoli and Palestine
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5.000000
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32.000000
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In Thy Toil, Rejoice the story of JJ Patterson, Taranaki pioneer
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Pickmere, Arnold
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Author Pub
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1991 revised edition (1990)
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(2p) 202p
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Inscription FEP VG - Near Fine
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25
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With map and illustrations, the revised edition of this study of a farming pioneer in Taranaki, in the shadow of the mountain
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The Children from the Lighthouse
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Pollock, Mabel
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Pollock Books
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2007 Revised edition (1993)
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(2p) 208p
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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45
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Signed by the author, experiences in a lighthouse keeper's family around New Zealand, with illustrations
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5.000000
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34.000000
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Kith and Kin the story of John and Christina Polson
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Polson-Genge, Adair ; Polson, Ruth Milmine
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Author Pub
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2004
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180
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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42
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With map and illustrations, from Scotland to Central Otago, in the Lindis and Bendigo districts from 1862
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14.000000
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32.000000
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A Journey in Search of Ancestors
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the English Cotswolds to the Wairarapa in New Zealand
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Pope, Christopher
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Fraser Books
|
2008
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viii 100p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations, a family history with a difference, an English cousin finds his family in the Wairarapa, New Zealand
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3.000000
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13.000000
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25.000000
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From the Balkans to the Antipodes memoirs of War and Peace
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Popoff, Boris
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Kingsclear Books
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2010
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(2p) 485p
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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34
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Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a life under communism in Bulgaria, then in New Zealand, teaching Commerce and travelling
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5.500000
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22.000000
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44.000000
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46.000000
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48.000000
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'My Hand will write what my Heart dictates'
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Porter, Francis (et al, eds)
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Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books
|
1996
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x 518p
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8vo
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P-B VG
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30
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A huge collection of letters written by 19th century New Zealand women covering all aspects of their new lives in this far away land
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5.500000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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Under the Nor' West Arch
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Porter, Grace and Ted
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Red
|
1970
|
173p (1p)
|
8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Signature HTP VG - Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a life of farming in the Canterbury high country at Manuka Point, up the Rakaia River
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5.500000
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17.000000
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Recollections of a Voyage to South Australia and New Zealand commenced in 1838
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Porter, William ; Law, Miranda and Garry (eds)
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Maruiwi Press
|
2007
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91
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8vo
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Paper wrapper over light card covers Near Fine
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24
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With illustrations and much extra material, reminiscences of a pre-colonisation voyage to Australia and New Zealand, including life in early settlement Auckland and Nelson
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3.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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Recollections of a voyage to South Australia and New Zealand commenced in 1838
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Porter, William ; Law, Miranda Field and Garry (transcribed, edited)
|
Maruiwi Press
|
2007
|
91
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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34
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With illustrations and family lines, a transcription of William Porter's recollections recorded in 1907, the journey to Australia, then life in New Zealand
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Green Sailor, Green Sea
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Powell, Paul
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Shag Point Press
|
2000
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xiii 226p
|
8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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The author's experiences on the convoy escorts in WW2, then service in the Pacific, with illustrations
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5.000000
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Just where do you think you've been?
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Powell, Paul
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Reed
|
1970
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211
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4to
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D-J (slight chips top FE, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the author's life in the mountains, both in New Zealand and overseas, answering the question in the title
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Banking under Difficulties or life on the goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand
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Preshaw, George Ogilvy
|
Edwards, Dunlop & Co
|
1888
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xii 179p
|
8vo
|
Cloth binding, gilt titles Fading, some water marks on covers Wear top, bottom spine Water stain inside front hinge Owner's small stamp FEP, HTP, TP VG
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70
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The experiences of a bank official in the Australasian goldfields in the 1860s
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Charles and Annie Aller and their six daughters
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Price, Susan ; Allardyce, Robin
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Gondwanaland Press
|
2000
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x p11-108
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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The family history of an English couple and their NZ-English children, with illustrations and family trees
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25.000000
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Morgan Price & Family
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Price, Trevor N
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Author Pub
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1991
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299
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8vo
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D-J Plasticised boards Fine
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64
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Signed by the author, a detailed family history of John Morgan Price 1835-1922, his wife Jane and their eight children from Athol, Southland, with illustrations, an excellent work
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34.000000
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Elespie & Ian memoir of a marriage
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Prior, Ian
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Steele Roberts
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2006
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152
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the fascinating family history of this New Zealand couple
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5.000000
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34.000000
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A Reluctant Pioneer the story of William Spikeman
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His life and times
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Prokhovnik, Rona M
|
Northland Historical Publications Society
|
1991
|
xiv 167p
|
4to
|
Laminated boards Family Tree stapled in at rear VG - Near Fine
|
32
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With maps and illustrations, the life of this Northland pioneer, includes the Family tree for the family of Theo and Elsie Gibbs and a copy of the Totara North/Kaeo petition for Women's Vote
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5.000000
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16.000000
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Carse Head and Crichton Park Farms a story of the land and its people
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the Trapski-Pullar family
|
Pullar, Margaret
|
Writes Hill Press Ltd
|
2013
|
viii 214p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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40
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Signed by the author, the story of a combined family who settled and farmed in Pukerau, Southland
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5.000000
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On the Road Again my story of life on the road droving with a young family
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|
Pullen, Gill
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Author Pub
|
1996
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96
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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Signed by both Pullens, with illustrations, a life in farming, including moving stock over miles of road
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4.000000
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Skirt Tales stories of the lives of 100 women of Upper Clutha Area
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|
Purdie, Margaret (ed)
|
Wanaka Women's Suffrage Cttee
|
1995
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175
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Quinn, Tony
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2016 6th printing
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334p (2p)
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The Snow Farmer John Lee of the Cardrona Valley
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Rae, Sally
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2016
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4to
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My Story a life fulfilled
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Ralston, Stan
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Author Pub
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2014
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127p (1p)
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30
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Memoirs of a minor Chemist
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Rands, Max
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Author Pub
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1993
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iii 89p
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30
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The life and travels of a New Zealand chemist who worked in the meat industry
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Was it all Cricket?
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Reese, Daniel
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Allen and Unwin
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1948
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(frontis) 568p
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8vo
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Born to Fly
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Reid, Bill
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Random House
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2014
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303
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8vo
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James Michael Liston a life
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Reid, Nicholas
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Victoria University Press
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2006
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412
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The life of a long-standing Catholic Bishop in New Zealand, with illustrations
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James Michael Liston a life
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Reid, Nicholas
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Victoria University Press
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2006
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412
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Yesterdays in Maoriland
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Reischek, Andreas ; Priday, HEL (trans)
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Whitcombe & Tombs
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1952
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(frontis) 311p (1p)
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8vo
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D-J (wear top, bottom spine, browning spine) Paper over boards Slight inscription FEP Browning EPs Slight foxing FEs VG
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Regular Soldier a life in the New Zealand army
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Rennie, Frank ; Hayes, Jack (ed)
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Willson Scott Publishing
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2012
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xii p13-330
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4to
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D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the military life and experience of the author, and the foundation of the NZSAS
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Cricketing Colonists the Brittan Brothers in Early Canterbury
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Rice, Geoffrey ; Ryman, Frances
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Canterbury University Press
|
2015
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328
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8vo
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35
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Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the biography of two of the forgotten early leaders in Christchurch, including in founding cricket in the town
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Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna the illustrated biography second edition
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Rice, Geoffrey W
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Canterbury University Press
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2008 2nd edition (2001)
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383
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8vo
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38
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Off the Sheep's Back
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Richards, Bill
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Benton-Guy Publishing
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1991
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171
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8vo
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20
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A Pioneer's Life
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Richards, Bill
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Benton-Guy Publishing
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1989
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93
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8vo
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25
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With illustrations, the author's life pioneering the land, being a bushman, and shearing, the sequel to 'Off the Sheep's Back'
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A Blighted Fame George S Evans 1802-1868 A Life
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Riddiford, Helen
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Victoria University Press
|
2014
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xxi (1p) 503p
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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55
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life of George Samuel Evans, barrister, editor, politician, a driver of the New Zealand Company in setting up the initial European settlements in New Zealand before following a parliamentary career in Victoria
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16.000000
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Conversations with Dorothy Jenkin
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Ritchie, Eve ; Miller, Naomi
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Author Pub
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2015
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145
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25
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With illustrations, and the artist's work in reproduction, a life of this eventual Stewart Islander
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Fitz the colonial adventures of James Edward FitzGerald
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Roberts, Jenifer
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Otago University Press
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2014
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392
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The Roberts- Orme Ancestry Vol 1 Roberts, Muir and Allied Families
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Roberts, John Douglas (ed)
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Author Pub
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1994
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ix 346p (2 folding charts)
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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40
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The first volume of this family history, concentrating on the history, and family relationships, of the American Roberts-Muir connections
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For the Duration
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2NZEF Officer Bruce Robertson on active duty and 'in the Bag'
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Robertson, Bruce ; Robertson, Rosanne (ed)
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Ngaio Press
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2010
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267
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8vo
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For the Duration 2NZEF Officer Bruce Robertson on active duty and 'in the bag'
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Robertson, Rosanne (ed)
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Ngaio Press
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2010
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287
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Hard Country a Golden Bay life
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Robilliard, Robin
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Random House
|
2014
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285p (1p)
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8vo
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25
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With map and illustrations, farming marginal land in Golden Bay, Nelson, and living with the neighbours
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James Fletcher: Builder
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Robinson, Neil
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Hodder & Stoughton
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1970
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189
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8vo
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D-J Plasticised boards Small owner's stamp FEP Near Fine
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22
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With illustrations, the story of the founder of Fletcher's Construction, from humble beginnings in Dunedin as a young immigrant carpenter
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Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels how the two lives of Grace Oakeshott defined an era
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Robson, Jocelyn
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Palgrave Macmillan
|
2016
|
xx 233p
|
8vo
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D-J (slight nick top FE) Paper over booards Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations and family trees, the life of an extraordinary New Zealander, nee British woman, a 'social activist' and reformer, who staged her own death and flew to New Zealand
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Johnny Rogers
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my life and times
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Rogers, Johnny
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Heritage Press
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1984
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127
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8vo
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20
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Autobiography of a famed NZ horse trainer-tamer, trick riding and stockman
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Clan Campbell Kamura in Aotearoa New Zealand 1800-2009
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Rogerson, Tom LC (comp)
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Clan Campbell Society of New Zealand
|
2009
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120
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25
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Brothers at War a Kiwi family's story
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Rolfe, Jim
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Penguin
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1995
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247
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8vo
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20
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With illustrations, the story of the Rolfe Brothers from Putaruru in WW2
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The Master
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JD Ormond of Wallingford
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Rolleston, Rosamund ; Wilson. Ormond
|
Reed
|
1980
|
(4p) 141p (2p catalogue)
|
8vo
|
D-J Near Fine
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25
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A nice copy of this family portrait and political study which reveals much of the political life, land dealings and social life of late 19th century NZ, with illustrations
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5.000000
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Recollections of a Chippie
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Ross, Alex
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The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit
|
1991
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v 79p
|
4to
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Spiral bound, plastic sheet over paper Small owner's stamp TP Near Fine
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30
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Women with a Mission
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rediscovering missionary wives in early New Zealand
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Ross, Cathy
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Penguin
|
2006
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208
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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25
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With map and illustrations, the gap-filling story of the wives who came with the CMS men into early settler New Zealand, including Elizabeth Colenso and Catherine Hadfield
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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William Stewart Sealing captain, trader and speculator
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Ross, John O C
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Roebuck Society
|
1987
|
xi 200p
|
4to
|
P-B Fading spine VG
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25
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With illustrations, the colourful sea-faring life of this combination of William Stewarts, the naming of Stewart Island, and the early history of sealing in Southern Waters
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5.500000
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Mixed Grill
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Ross, Mrs Malcolm (Forrest)
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Whitcombe and Tombs
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1934
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282
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8vo
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Card covers Water marked top back cover Gd - VG
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25
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A collection of stories, sketches and recollections by Forrest Ross and her son, Noel, who served in WW1 and died in London in 1917
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5.500000
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Hori Kaiporka the life and stories of George Richard Rotherham Gallipoli Veteran
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Rotherham, Jim
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Author Pub
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2013 Revised edition (2004)
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207
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8vo
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P-B Laminate lifting FEs VG - Near Fine
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28
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With illustrations, the life of this New Zealander, his experiences in WW1 and the further life in a changing New Zealand
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15.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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A Fringe of Reeds
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Rowe, Rosamund
|
HarperCollins
|
1997
|
(2p) 151p
|
8vo
|
Soft card covers with flaps Slight tea stain FE Owner's stamp TP VG
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22
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With illustrations, the transformation of a bare expanse into a country refuge for animals and the author
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5.500000
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12.000000
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A Humble Beginning the Rush family 1730-1999
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Rush, Steve ; Hartle, Dale
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Author Pub
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1999 2nd edition
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iv 229p (3p) (folding map)
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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55
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Limited edition (#239), with illustrations and genealogical tables, the story of the Rush family in New Zealand and earlier, in England, going back generations
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5.500000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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From Far Strathearn
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a family history
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Rutherford, Alma
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Author Pub
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1983
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48
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8vo
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P-B VG
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24
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With illustrations, the family history of the McEwans of Perthshire, then of Tokoiti and Browns, New Zealand, and the spread throughout New Zealand
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5.000000
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9.000000
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Venturer Courageous Group Captain Leonard Trent VC DFC
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Sanders, James
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Hutchinson
|
1983
|
266
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Signature, short inscription covered FEP VG
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25
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand-born pilot, shot-down in WW2, recognition after the War and the VC, then life after war, including taking part in the Suez Crisis
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5.500000
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17.000000
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35.000000
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38.000000
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41.000000
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Major of King's
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Sandford, LB
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Author Pub
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1973
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103
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the life of Charles Thomas Major and King's College, Auckland
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What Lies Beneath a memoir
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Sandys, Elspeth
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Otago University Press
|
2014
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223
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8vo
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25
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With maps and illustrations, a photographic record of many of the buildings of historical importance in Waimairi County, around the north of Christchurch, many of which now exist only in photographs
|
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Saunders, Ellen and Ann (comp)
|
L M Isitt
|
1927
|
(3p) (plate) 228p
|
8vo
|
Cloth over boards Slight rubbing spine, small piece of cloth missing base spine Fore-corner of front board missing cloth Inside Near Fine
|
42
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With illustrations, excerpts from the Saunders 'Family Memoirs' from the author of an early 'History of New Zealand' in 2 vols
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5.000000
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Edwin Stanley Brookes an Albertlander
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Savage, Kevin
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Kale Print
|
2012
|
148
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With map and illustrations, the life of this original Albertland settler from the 1860s, and through it the development of this settlement on the Kaipara Harbour
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12.000000
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28.000000
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Haddon of Glen Leith
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an ecumenical pilgrimage
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Savage, Murray J
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Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand
|
1970
|
88
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the life and teachings of this first Principal of the New Zealand Churches of Christ Bible College at Glen Leith, Dunedin
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5.000000
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Oscar X-Ray Calling the story of the Scarlet family in Papua New Guinea 1962-1971
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Scarlet, Betty
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Author Pub
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2005
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173
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the story of a family working with the United Church of PNG in the years before independence
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 2 vols
|
|
Scholefield, GH (ed)
|
DIA
|
1940
|
xxxii (1p) 512p ; vi (1p) 571p (1p)
|
4to
|
D-J (chips, piece missing top spine,short closed tear, in archival wrapper) Blue cloth binding, gilt titles Light foxing Fes, strip browning paste-downs VG
|
80
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The first, extended study of notable New Zealanders, both Maori and pakeha, still useful
|
8.000000
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43.000000
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79.000000
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88.000000
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98.000000
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Captain William Hobson first Governor of New Zealand
|
|
Scholefield, Guy H
|
Oxford University Press
|
1934
|
(frontis) 227p (folding map)
|
8vo
|
Red cloth binding, wear top, bottom spine, fore-corners Ex-lib Stamps beginning, end Lacks FEP Good
|
25
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With map and illustrations, the first serious study of New Zealand's first Governor and the Treaty of Waitangi
|
5.500000
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16.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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Tasman's Legacy the New Zealand - Dutch Connection
|
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Schouten, Hank
|
New Zealand - Netherlands Foundation
|
1992
|
264
|
4to
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D-J Paper over boards Owner's stamp front paste-down, small label FEP, signature FEP VG - Near Fine
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25
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D-J Paper over boards Owner's stamp front paste-down, small label FEP, signature FEP VG - Near Fine
|
5.000000
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17.000000
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34.000000
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36.000000
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38.000000
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In Remembrance
|
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Scott, A Robert
|
Author Pub
|
1994
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(1p) 179
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
38
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Inscribed by the author, the memoirs, with illustrations, of a Southlander who became a Presbyterian Minister around New Zealand, especially in Southland and Otago
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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A Radical Writer's Life
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Scott, Dick
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Reed
|
2004
|
342
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4to
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a life story by the author of 'Ask That Mountain'
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5.000000
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17.000000
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38.000000
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John Bathgate 1809-1886
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a sketch of his life and times in Edinburgh, Peebles and Dunedin
|
Scott, Sheila (ed)
|
Author Pub
|
1977
|
74
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8vo
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P-B VG
|
30
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With illustrations, the biography of this early Dunedin settler, using much of his own work, including the trip out to New Zealand, and early life in a growing Dunedin
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5.000000
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5.000000
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The World, the Flesh, & the Devil the life and opinions of Samuel Marsden
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Sharp, Andrew
|
Auckland University Press
|
2016
|
viii 926p
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
60
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With maps and illustrations, a detailed review of this man who in New Zealand was seen as the father of the Church in New Zealand, but also served in England, Australia, and the Society Islands
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12.000000
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26.000000
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59.000000
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65.000000
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70.000000
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Heaphy
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Sharp, Iain
|
Auckland University Press
|
2008
|
vii (1p) 232p
|
4to
|
D-J Paper over boards Fine
|
58
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With maps and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand artist, explorer, Victoria Cross winner
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8.000000
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23.000000
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50.000000
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54.000000
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58.000000
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From Rotenberg to Rector
|
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Shaw, Alon
|
Timaru High School Old Boys' Association
|
2005
|
271p (1p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, the life and career of Mervyn Ansley Bull, as soldier, churchman and teacher, especially at Timaru Boys' High School
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6.000000
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15.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
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34.000000
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The Shaws from shore to shore 19th century Irish emigrants to New Zealand
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Shaw, Leone
|
Author Pub
|
2012
|
38
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8vo
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P-B Extra information written in VG - Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the story of Irish emigrants Thomas Edward Shaw and Rachel McCullough and their descendants
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The Shaws from shore to shore
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Nineteenth century Irish immigrants to New Zealand
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Shaw, Leone
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Author Pub
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2012
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38
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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24
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With illustrations, the story of an Irish mixed-religion family who arrived in New Zealand in 1865 and their descendants
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, composer
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Shennan, Jennifer (et al, eds)
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Steele Roberts
|
2015
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256
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4to
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Plasticised boards Near Fine
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55
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With illustrations, a collection of contributions which highlight the life and music of this New Zealand composer, both home and abroad, just lovely
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5.000000
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20.000000
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40.000000
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42.000000
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44.000000
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The Path from Guadalcanal
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Shinya, Michiharu
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Outrigger Publishers
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1979
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160
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8vo
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P-B Fading spine VG
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25
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With map and illustrations, the life of a Japanese naval officer made POW in WW2, ending up in a camp near Featherston, in New Zealand, living through the 'Incident' and the three years that followed
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Beyond Death and Dishonour
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one Japanese at war in New Zealand
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Shinya, Michiharu ; Thompson, Eric H (trans)
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Castle Pub
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2001
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155p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the experiences of a Japanese POW sent to Featherston in WW2
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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Sailing Ships and Sheep Stations
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Shirres, Christian
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Photo Process Printers Ltd
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1964
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(frontis) 407p
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4to
|
Blue plasticised boards, gilt titles Signature TP Review affixed EPs Near Fine
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70
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Signed by William Vance, Timaru and Southern author, a nice copy of this study of the author's father and grandfather, their business partners in farming and sailing, with letters, diary entries and illustrations
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5.000000
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21.000000
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41.000000
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46.000000
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50.000000
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The Good Citizen a life of CE Daniell of Masterton
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Shoebridge, Tim
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Fraser Books, Wairarapa Archive
|
2009
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vii (1p) 279p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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29
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With map and illustrations, a biography of one of Masterton's early leading citizens, especially in its educational, commercial and infrastructural facilities
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Robert and Elizabeth Simmers
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a family saga
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Simmers, Keith (ed)
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Simmers Family Reunion Cttee
|
1984
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84
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8vo
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P-B VG
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38
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With map and illustrations, the lives of this extended family, settled from the UK in South Otago
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Bring on the Music
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A life in the law, arts and community
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Simpson, RSV (Dick)
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Steele Roberts
|
2002
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120
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Fine
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25
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, the life of this distinguished New Zealander, including his war service (aide-de-camp to General Alexander), letters home, then his service in society
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The Last Maopo
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the life and First World War sacrifice of Wiremu Maopo
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Simpson, Tania Te Ranginganngana
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Libro International, Oratia Media Ltd
|
2014
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157
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8vo
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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38
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With illustrations, the life and experiences of a 2nd Maori contingent soldier in WW1, and the subsequent lives on return to New Zealand
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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37.000000
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41.000000
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From Caithness to Southland
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Sinclair, John ; Trotter, Margaret
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Author Pub
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1994
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(frontis) (3p) 70p
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8vo
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P-B Slight tea stain bottom fore-corner front cover VG
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35
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With illustrations, the life of this Scottish immigrant who came to farming in Southland
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Yvonne Rust Maverick Spirit
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Sjoquist, Theresa
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David Ling
|
2011
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244
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, a life of an artist, educator, potter, inspirer, positive force for humanity from her Brewery Studio
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5.000000
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20.000000
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37.000000
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43.000000
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Early Adventures in Otago
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Smith, Edmund ; Stewart, W Downie (ed)
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Coulls Somerville Wilkie
|
1940
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(frontis) 60p
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Small 8vo
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D-J Cloth binding Attractive bookplate front paste-down VG - Near Fine
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50
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Signed by the editor, with illustrations, the memoirs of an early Otago European settler, working in and around, especially life in South Otago
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5.000000
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21.000000
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The Taylor Millions James & Elizabeth Taylor of Winton and their descendants
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Smith, George A (ed, comp)
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Taylor Family Cttee
|
1987
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358
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8vo
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Paper over boards Gilt titles Signature TP VG - Near Fine
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55
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With maps, illustrations and genealogical tables, a detailed history of this Southland family
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6.000000
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26.000000
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53.000000
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Footprints of the Cook Family Pioneering Sawmillers
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Smith, Janet
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Author Pub
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2013
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211
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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48
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With illustrations, the author's parents' life in Otago and Southland from the early 20th century until the 1970s, sawmilling, including on the Routeburn
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Minnie Lily & Netta memories of the Martins from Skerry
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Smith, Kathy
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Author Pub
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2001
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(2p) 38p (4p)
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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25
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Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the lives of three Irish sisters who emigrated to New Zealand in 1925
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Child of the Kauri
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Smith, Mavis ; Campbell, Paul
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Configureation Design Ltd
|
2006
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120
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Oblong 8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With maps and illustrations, the author's life at Totara House, overlooking the Kaipara Harbour, settlement in the Kaipara and working with the kauri trees
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Up the Blue a Kiwi private's view of the Second World War
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Smith, Roger
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Ngaio Press
|
2000
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271
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8vo
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P-B Fading spine Near Fine
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30
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The war experiences of an ordinary Kiwi soldier in the 24th Battalion in North Africa and Italy
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35.000000
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Working Class Son my fight against capitalism and war
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Smith, Ron
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Author Pub
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1994
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x p11-256
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4to
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, a collection of memoirs of a member of the New Zealand Communist party, reflecting on his times and the issues which aroused him
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King of the Castle
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A Biography of William Larnach
|
Snedden, Fleur
|
David Bateman
|
1997
|
xi 268p
|
8vo
|
D-J Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the detailed life of this New Zealand businessman and politician, the author's grea-great-grandfather
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18.000000
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32.000000
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36.000000
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37.000000
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No bugles no drums
|
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Snell, Peter ; Gilmour, Garth
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Minerva
|
1965
|
(frontis) (4p) 140p
|
8vo
|
D-J (rubbing around extremities, fading spine, in archival plastic) Signature FEP Small tea spots FE VG
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95
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Signed by both writers, a very good copy of this record of Peter Snell's life and running up to the 1964 Tokyo Games and beyond, with illustrations
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34.000000
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The Seeds of Wisdom 2 vols
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|
Snook, Barry
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Author Pub
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1998
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198p, 200p
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4to
|
P-B slight fading spine. VG - Near Fine
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45
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With illustrations, the experiences of Rotorua citizens which can inspire and motivate others to overcome their own troubles
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Snow in the Lindis an autobiographical ramble
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Snow, Madge
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Author Pub
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2014
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(1p) 480p
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8vo
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P-B Short crease back fore-corner Near Fine
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40
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Inscribed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the Snow family and the generations farming on Morven Hills, by Lake Hawea, and the author's rambles around the world, including with Sherpa Tenzing
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6.000000
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22.000000
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44.000000
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48.000000
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Snow on the Lindis my life at Morven Hills Station
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Snow, Madge ; Dawson, Bee
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PenguinRandomHou se
|
2015
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268
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8vo
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P-B Short inscription inside front cover VG - Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the Snow family and the generations farming on Morven Hills, by Lake Hawea
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Bruce wants to go faster Bruce McLaren from backyard racer to World Champion
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Sobanja, Dreyton
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Inspired Kids Ltd
|
2016
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63p (1p)
|
4to
|
Hardcovered Near Fine
|
25
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Signed by the author and Jan McLaren, a book about Bruce McLaren designed to inspire children to achieve great dreams
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20.000000
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46.000000
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52.000000
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The Otago Somervilles
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Somerville, Lenore
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Somerville Family Reunion Cttee
|
1972
|
48
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8vo
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P-B Short inscription, signature inside front cover VG
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35
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With illustrations, a short history of this 'Otago' family, up to the third generation, scarce
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The Green Years
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Soper, Eileen L
|
John McIndoe
|
1969
|
80
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8vo
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P-B Signature HTP VG
|
15
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With illustrations, the author's growing years in Invercargill and Dunedin
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3.500000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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Brother John the life of the Rev John Hobbs
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Spooner, TGM
|
Wesley Historical Society
|
1955
|
(frontis) 54p
|
8vo
|
Card covers with paper wrappers VG
|
25
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With illustrations, the life of a Methodist minister who arrived in New Zealand in 1823
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5.000000
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12.000000
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19.000000
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22.000000
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Give Your Thoughts Life William Colenso's Letters to the Editor
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St George, Ian (comp)
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Otago University Press
|
2011
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497
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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48
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A selection of the 50 years of letters to the editor written by Colenso from the 1840s to the 1890s, from letters to his nearby Hawke's Bay papers to those often much further afield
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20.000000
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37.000000
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47.000000
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South-West of Eden a memoir 1932-1956
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Stead, CK
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Auckland University Press
|
2010
|
ix 345p
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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25
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Memories of the first 25 or so years of this New Zealand writer
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14.000000
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32.000000
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Billy's Trip Home the remarkable diary of an All Black on tour
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Stead, William (Billy)
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New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
|
2007
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88
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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The diary of Billy Stead (the author of 'The Complete Footballer') as he and the team returned to New Zealand from the 1905 'Originals' rugby tour of Europe
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John Grigg of Longbeach
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Stevens, PG
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Whitcombe and Tombs
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1952
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xiii (1p) 63p (1p)
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8vo
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D-J (tears, small piece missing top spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG
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20
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Waggoner Jack and us
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Waggoning tales on the Crown Terrace Arrowtown to pioneering on the Southland peat
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Stevenson, Alma
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Author Pub
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2009
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84
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Oblong 8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the life of an Otago family around Arrowtown across the twentieth century
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A man of the land
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Stevenson, Brian ; Ramsay, Claire (ed)
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Author Pub
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2011
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77
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4t0
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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Signed by the author, the busy life of this Otago farmer, his services to farming and to the community
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Portrait of a Judge
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Sir Joshua Strange Williams PC
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Stewart, W Downie
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W&T
|
1945
|
(frontis) 112p
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Small 8vo
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P-B Owner's inscription HTP VG
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35
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The author's homage to a Dunedin Supreme Court judge, the book inscribed by J M Macandrew of Dunedin
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Born Lucky Colin Richardson's journey from town boy to rural legend
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Stirling, John (comp)
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Richardson Family
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2008
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96
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8vo
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P-B Inscription inside back cover VG
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25
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With illustrations, life as a farmer in South and West Otago, then in the politics with Federated Farmers
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Stokes Centenary 1879-1979
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Stokes, Bert
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Author Pub
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1979
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51p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B VG
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35
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Inscribed by the author, and with a short letter enclosed, the story of the Stokes family in the UK and New Zealand, arriving at Port Chalmers on the 'Wanganui' December 6, 1879, with illustrations and lists
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As it Was growing up in Grey Lynn and Ponsonby between the wars
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Stone, Russell
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David Ling
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2017
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240
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the author's life in another type of Auckland, his birth in 1923 till his war service began in 1941-2
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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James Dilworth
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Stone, Russell CJ
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Dilworth Trust Board
|
1995
|
xiii 269p
|
4to
|
D-J Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, the life of this Auckland businessman and the boarding school he founded, a lovely copy
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5.000000
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33.000000
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Bomber Barron
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Wing Commander James Fraser Barron
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Stowers, Richard
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Author Pub
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2009
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156
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Oblong 8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations, the war experiences of this New Zealander, holder of the DSO and Bar, DFC and DFM, Pathfinder pilot in WW2
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5.000000
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18.000000
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33.000000
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Musterer on Molesworth
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Stronach, Bruce
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Whitcombe and Tombs
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1953
|
(3p) 69p
|
8vo
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D-J (chips, small pieces missing) Cloth binding VG
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25
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With illustrations, experiencing mustering sheep on what was once New Zealand's largest sheep stations
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5.500000
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28.000000
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Graduate reminiscences and reflections of an octogenarian
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Stuckey, Freda C
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Author Pub
|
2005
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65p (1p)
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the life and travels of this Otago teacher/counsellor
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Allen Curnow Simply by Sailing in a New Direction
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Sturm, Terry ; Cassells, Linda (ed)
|
Auckland University Press
|
2017
|
xiv 717p
|
4to
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
58
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand poet and literary critic (1911-2001)
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10.000000
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32.000000
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62.000000
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70.000000
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80.000000
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A Way Home
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Sullivan, Jillian
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Potton and Burton
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2016
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199
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, how the author came to find peace-restored in the construction of a strawbale house in Central Otago
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13.000000
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Patearoa at War Central Otago Soldiers write Home during World War One
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Sullivan, Jim
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Rock and Pillar Press
|
2012
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197
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the Central Otago town of Patearoa and the mail that was sent there from its boys serving overseas in WW1
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29.000000
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The Essie Summers Story
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Summers, Essie
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Mills & Boon
|
1974
|
(2p) 212p
|
8vo
|
D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine
|
35
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Signed by the author, the autobiography of this prolific New Zealand romance author, complete to the year of publication
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5.000000
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My Dear Chick a New Zealand love story 1911-1948
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Sutherland, Beth
|
Fraser Books
|
2008
|
iv 271p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
20
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With illustrations, the lives of the author's parents, through letters and diaries, the one at war in France, the other at work in New Zealand
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Paikea the life of I L G Sutherland
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Sutherland, Oliver
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Canterbury University Press
|
2013
|
480
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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55
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With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand scholar known for his advocacy for Maori self-determination
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8.000000
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21.000000
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41.000000
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47.000000
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51.000000
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Stewart Island Days a district nurse looks back
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Swain, Gladys
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Author Pub
|
1970
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112
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8vo
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D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding Short inscription FEP VG - Near Fine
|
30
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With illustrations, life on Stewart Island in the 1930s and 1940s, from the point of view of a nurse
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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The Halls of Huirangi
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Swain, Maggie
|
Author Pub
|
2001
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iii 272p
|
4to
|
P-B Near Fine
|
58
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Inscribed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a detailed history of the Hall and Goodwin families from England to New Zealand, an edition of 160 copies
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5.000000
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19.000000
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38.000000
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40.000000
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42.000000
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Mike Sinclair King Kenny's spanner-man
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Swanson, Kerry
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David Bateman
|
2016
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335
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the story of a motorcycle racer who became crew chief for Kenny Roberts' Yamaha Grand Prix Team
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5.500000
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18.000000
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36.000000
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Te Ahiwera A Man of Faith The life of Benjamin Y Ashwell
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with his Reflections of a Waikato Missionary
|
Tagg, MA
|
Anglican Historical Society
|
2003
|
80
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8vo
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P-B Fine
|
30
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With maps and illustrations, the life, work and words of an early Church Missionary, especially in the Waikato, during the New Zealand Wars period
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The Family from the Terrace the Robert Wilson family history
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Taylor, Dorothy B (comp)
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Author Pub
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1983
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260
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8vo
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P-B VG
|
35
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With illustrations and family trees, the detailed history of the extended Wilson family in southern New Zealand
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12.000000
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28.000000
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Leslie Bourneman Neale A Man of Faith and Vision
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Taylor, Leah
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Dunedin Methodist Mission
|
2000
|
(1p) 125p
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4to
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P-B Fine
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30
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With illustrations, the life of a significant Methodist Church leader, 21 years as Superintendent of the Dunedin Methodist Central Mission
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5.000000
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17.000000
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31.000000
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35.000000
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35.000000
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Peter Fraser Hill of Fearn
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Taylor, Marjorie E
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Fearn Community Council
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2006
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66
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8vo
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20
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With illustrations, the origins of this wartime New Zealand Prime Minister, then his political experiences through the War
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3.000000
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24.000000
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As Darker Grows the Light
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Taylor, Peter
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H&S
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1975
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x 153
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Large 8vo
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D-J (fading spine) VG
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25
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With illustrations, a life, with family, in the New Zealand Lighthouse Service, from the late 1950s into the 1960s, from Moko Hinau to Nugget Point to Tiritiri
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16.000000
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37.000000
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41.000000
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The Lure of New Lands the family histories of the Taylors and the Brookings
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Taylor, Peter W
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The Bush Press
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2004
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160
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With illustrations, the establishment of these two families in the early New Zealand of the 1850s, and the subsequent generations
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5.500000
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15.000000
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A Sort of Conscience The Wakefields
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Temple, Philip
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Auckland University Press
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2003
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(2p) 583p
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8vo
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P-B VG
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30
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With illustrations, the lives of an English family who played a key role in the early European settlement of New Zealand
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5.500000
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24.000000
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48.000000
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52.000000
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56.000000
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A Sort of Conscience The Wakefields
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Temple, Philip
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Auckland University Press
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2002
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(2p) 584p
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4to
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D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
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50
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With illustrations, a detailed biography of the Wakefields (Edward Gibbon, William, Arthur, Jerningham) and their effect upon the creation of British colonial settlements through the 19th century
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6.000000
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21.000000
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58.000000
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66.000000
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70.000000
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Chance is a Fine Thing
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Temple, Philip
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Vintage, Random House
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2009
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272
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8vo
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P-B Owner's stamp covered EP VG
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20
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With illustrations, a memoir of an extraordinary New Zealander, writer, historian, mountaineer, campaigner
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5.000000
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The Problematical Journey the story of a New Zealand family
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The Templetons of Southland 1862-1997
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Templeton, Hugh
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Templar Press, Templeton Reunion Cttee
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1997
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351
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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45
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With maps and illustrations, a detailed history of this family from throughout Southland, with genealogical tables and lists
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5.000000
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May Your Shadow Never Grow Less
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Thomas, Helen
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Fraser Books
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2016
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v (1p) 489p
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4to
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Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine
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35
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With maps and illustrations, the life and times of Henry and Jane Holland in Canterbury 1863-1945, including life as farmer-politician and the social life in pioneering Canterbury
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5.000000
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22.000000
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47.000000
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52.000000
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56.000000
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And some found Graves
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The Goldfields diary of John Aspinall
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Thompson, AJ (comp)
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Hesperian Press
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2002 Second edition (1993)
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viii 87p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Inscription inside front cover VG
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25
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With illustrations, the diary of a goldminer in New Zealand's Central Otago who left for the goldfields of Australa
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Open Windows Women of the Mahurangi tell their stories
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Thompson, Dianne (et al, eds)
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Warkworth BPW
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1998
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224
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Oblong 8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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32
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With map and illustrations, a collection of the stories of 38 women from the Mahurangi
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5.000000
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14.000000
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32.000000
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Clearwaters of New Zealand 1838-1986
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Thompson, H&I (comp)
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Author Pub
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1986
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193
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4to
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Stiff card binders Fine
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80
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With illustrations and extensive genealogical tables, the descendants of Garrett Hopper Clearwater and Ann Clearwater (Stevenson) in their main branches of Palmerston, Otago Peninsula, Riversdale, Castlerock and Mataura
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9.000000
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19.000000
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34.000000
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39.000000
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42.000000
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Peter Fraser
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New Zealand's Wartime Prime Minister
|
Thorn, James
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Odhams
|
1952
|
288
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8vo
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D-J (slight repair spine, price-clipped, in archival wrapper) Signature FEP VG - Near Fine
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35
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Written by Fraser's Parliamentary Under-Secretary; covers background, years in Labour, Ministerships and subsequent trials in War; selected illustrations
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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The Long Long Trail
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Thorp, MM
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Author Pub
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1971
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110
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8vo
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D-J Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP Near Fine
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20
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With illustrations, the story of a long life, a childhood in the lower North Island, then nursing and travel
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5.500000
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13.000000
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26.000000
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Second Chance
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Todd, Mark
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Orion Books
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2012
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ix 272p
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8vo
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P-B VG
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20
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With illustrations, the autobiography of this legend of a Kiwi equestrian
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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Robert Butler Aus and NZ Criminal
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his early life from 1860 till his death (by hanging) 1905
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Tonkin, Lance C
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Author Pub
|
1980
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20 leaves
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8vo
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P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine
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15
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With illustrations, the life and death of this 'criminal' in Australia and New Zealand
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3.000000
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Memorials of J A Torrance
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Torrance, John Ainslie ; Chisholm, Rev James (ed)
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NZ Bible Tract and Book Soc, The Patients' and Prisoners' Aid Soc
|
1908
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(frontis) 158p
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8vo
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Cloth binding, gilt titles Browning spine Browning EPs Slight foxing FEs VG
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25
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A collection of 'sketches' of the author's experiences and considerations of improving the lots of those who became caught up inside Government institutions: the Gaol, the Hospital, the Lunatic Asylum, and the formation of the Prisoners' Aid Society
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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The Cowie Family
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Trotter, Margaret
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Author Pub
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1977
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141
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8vo
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Soft-card yapp covers Signature HTP VG
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the author's family history, early settlers in Southland
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5.000000
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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29.000000
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William and Isabella Trotter
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Trotter, Margaret
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Author Pub
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1983
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(frontis) 117p (1p)
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8vo
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Soft-card covers Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the family history of the author's husband, early farmers in the South and Southland, with extended family
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5.000000
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12.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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A Versatile Kiwi
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Trounson, Gordon Vivian
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Author Pub
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1999
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157
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8vo
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Spiral binding Card covers VG
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25
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The varied vocational life of a New Zealand tradesman
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5.500000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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Governor William Hobson his health problems and final illness
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Trubuhovich, Ronald V
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Author Pub, Auckland Medical History Society
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2015
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vii (1p map) 64p
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, a study of New Zealand's first Governor
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3.000000
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11.000000
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22.000000
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26.000000
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The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse
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Tunnicliff, Shirley (ed)
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Daphne Brasell Assoc
|
1992
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(2p) 121p
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8vo
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P-B Fine
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28
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With illustrations, the letters and life of the wife of the first Anglican Bishop of Nelson
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5.000000
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12.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
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Living at Mount Algidus
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Turner, Gail
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Hazard Press
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2006
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133
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With map and illustrations, the author tells the story of her son and his wife and their five years living on Mount Algidus Station, in the High Country of Central Canterbury
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The Lure of the Lakes
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Urquhart, DW Fraser
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K A Hawkes
|
1998
|
viii 159p (1p) xxv Appendices
|
4to
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
85
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Signed, numbered edition, pioneering around Lake Hawea, Central Otago, with various family extensions and illustrations
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5.000000
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24.000000
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52.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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Captain Charles Engineer of Charity
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the remarkable life of Charles Gordon O'Neill
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Utick, Stephen
|
Allen & Unwin
|
2008
|
xii 276p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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Signed by the author, the life of an Australian and New Zealand engineer, his philanthropy and the founding of the St Vincent de Paul Society
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8.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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A Deserter's Adventures
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the autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli
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Vaggioli, Dom Felice ; Crockett, John (trans)
|
University of Otago Press
|
2001
|
xx (2p) 271p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Owner's label covered inside front cover Fading spine VG
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30
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With map and illustrations, the New Zealand section of the author's autobiography written after his 8 years service as a Benedictine monk in New Zealand (1879-1887)
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5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
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34.000000
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Hell-Bent for Life
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Valentine, Dr John
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John Valentine Publishing
|
2009
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(8p) 360p
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8vo
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D-J Laminated boards Near Fine
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30
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With maps and illustrations, the first 30 years of the life of this New Zealand Doctor, including experience with lepers in the South Pacific and medical work in South Africa
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5.000000
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19.000000
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35.000000
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40.000000
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43.000000
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Bread in the bulkheads, bilges full of booze
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Bruce Vallely 1929-1999 Yachtie Commodore Columnist
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Vallely, Raema
|
Waiata Publishing Ltd
|
2001
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(2p) 56p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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24
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, a cruise through Bruce Vallely's recorded memories, and memories of others, a nice eulogy
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14.000000
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26.000000
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29.000000
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Growing up in Wartime
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recollections from chidren & adolescents of the 1940s
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Veitch, Isobel (comp) ; Palmer, Mervyn (ed)
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Author Pub
|
2009
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101
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8vo
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P-B Wear spine, fore-corner Gd - VG
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20
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With illustrations, the memories of over 30 people from Otago who portray their lives in WW2, from the children and wives at home in New Zealand and the UK, and servicemen in the field of battle
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3.500000
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Brown and the Elms
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Vennell, CW
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The Elms Family Home Preservation Trust
|
1984
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x 189p
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
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30
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With illustrations, the life of Archdeacon Brown, the history of his times, including the New Zealand Wars, and the house, Te Papa Mission Station/The Elms
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5.000000
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41.000000
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The Forgotten General
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Vennell, Jock
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Allen&Unwin
|
2011
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xiii 338p
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8vo
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P-B VG - Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, a biography of the commander of the New Zealand brigade at Gallipoli, then of the New Zealand Division on the Western Front
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5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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32.000000
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Man of Iron the exraordinary story of New Zealand WW1 hero Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone
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Vennell, Jock
|
Allen&Unwin
|
2015
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(x) 274p
|
8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With maps and illustrations, the story of the man before the War, then commanding the Wellington Infantry Battalion at Chunuk Bair, holding off Turkish attacks, only to be killed by a British shell
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5.000000
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13.000000
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27.000000
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The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast a New Zealand pioneer
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Von Haast, Heinrich Ferdinand
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Author Pub
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1948
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(frontis) xxi (1p) 1142p
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4to
|
Blue binding, gilt titles Light rubbing top, bottom spine Short inscription front paste-down VG
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70
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With maps and illustrations, a fulsome, if not always critical, life of the author's father, and his role in the early European exploration of New Zealand
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29.000000
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64.000000
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71.000000
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77.000000
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Out of the Ashes
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Waddington, EB
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Author Pub
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1971
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30 leaves
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8vo
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Plasticised boards Near Fine
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35
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With illustrations, the author's experiences as the Manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Napier after the earthquake of 1931, and the developments from the destruction, and later experiences
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Tales of a Port Doctor
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Walker, Norman
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Author Pub
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2006
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236p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, the author's medical life, expecially as a doctor in the port of Lyttelton
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5.500000
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The Black Singlet Brigade tales of adventure in the New Zealand bush
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Walsh, Tony
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Author Pub
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2013
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105p (3p)
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, outdoor life in New Zealand as the author-teacher meets characters from the bush and mountains and learns about a life now gone
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Down the Bay growing up in the shadow of Larnach Castle
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Walther, Margaret
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Printmax Christchurch
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2009
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65
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a childhood on Otago Peninsula in the 1930s
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Dear Lizzie a Kiwi soldier writes from the battlefields of WW1
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Ward, Chrissie (ed)
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HarperCollins
|
2000
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142
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8vo
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D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Near Fine
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32
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With maps and illustrations, the letters back to New Zealand of this Kiwi soldier in Flanders and France, an insight into day-to-day life in the midst of battle
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Miles Warren an autobiography
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Warren, Miles
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Canterbury University Press
|
2008
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vi 182p
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Oblong 8vo
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Laminated boards, cloth spine Near Fine
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50
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With illustrations and plans, a life in New Zealand architecture
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5.000000
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21.000000
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43.000000
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47.000000
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51.000000
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Sunnyside the Mitchell family of Mimihau
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Watson, Lindsay ; Berry, Lorraine ; Bray, Heather
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Lindsay R Watson
|
2018
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x 275p
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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40
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With maps and illustrations, the family Mitchell who left Scotland in 1868 and settled in Southland, New Zealand, and all their many descendants
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5.500000
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Courage Without Cash Pt 2
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Watson, Stuart
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Author Pub
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2002
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104
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4to
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P-B Spine tape VG
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28
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With illustrations, the continuation of the Watson Family story, including life in the Marlborough Sounds
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Scribbling in the Dark Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
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Wattie, Nelson
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Steele Roberts
|
2011
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64
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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25
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With illustrations, a introductory sketch/biography of this New Zealand poet
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13.000000
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25.000000
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How the Land Lies
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of longing and belonging
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White, Pat
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Victoria University Press
|
2010
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239
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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30
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With illustrations, a memoir of a New Zealander coming to grips with discovering a place to call home
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41.000000
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J John's Journey
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Whitelock, John
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Heritage Press
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2008
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389p (3p)
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
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45
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Signed by the author, a detailed story of the author's life, and with it, the development of the New Zealand Dairy Industry, especially in the lower North Island
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9.000000
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21.000000
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59.000000
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67.000000
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71.000000
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John's Journey
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Whitelock, John
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Heritage Press
|
2008
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389p (3p)
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4to
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P-B Small name blacked out HTP Near Fine
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38
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Signed by the author, with illustrations, the story of the author's rise from farmer to Chairman of the Board, and his commentary on the development of the contemporary dairy industry
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5.500000
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28.000000
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58.000000
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64.000000
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68.000000
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The Wilson Story
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Wierzbicka, Cynthia (comp)
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Author Pub
|
1973
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(frontis) 222p (folding map)
|
8vo
|
Green hard cover Owner's signature TP Near Fine
|
140
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Signed by the compiler, the family of the Wilsons of Hawick and the development of Ngaio station, scarce
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6.000000
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30.000000
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55.000000
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60.000000
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65.000000
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Model A Motorhome
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South Island journey in a Model A Ford Motor Car jan-Feb 1931
|
Wilkinson, Tom
|
Author Pub
|
2006
|
iii 134p
|
8vo
|
Spiral bound Paper covers VG - Near Fine
|
35
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With illustrations, a Depression journey down the South Island of New Zealand, including memorable moments on the West Coast
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5.500000
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12.000000
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Days and Ways at Boys' High
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Wilkinson, VF
|
Pegasus Press
|
1979
|
214p (1p)
|
8vo
|
D-J (slight chips) Paper over boards VG
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22
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With illustrations, life at Christchurch Boys' High School for over thirty-five years, the 1940s to 70s
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5.000000
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14.000000
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32.000000
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The Bell Family Affair
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Williams, Jean
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Author Pub
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1979
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xxvii 53p
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8vo
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Soft card covers Fading Some additions one page VG
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25
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A Bell family directory, with some biographies of notables, and extensive genealogical tables
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3.500000
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12.000000
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28.000000
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More Mosgiel Yarns
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Williams, Judy (ed)
|
NZSG Mosgiel Branch
|
2002
|
(5p) 72p
|
4to
|
P-B Spiral bound Near Fine
|
25
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With illustrations, a collection of stories by men and women who worked at the Mosgiel Woolen Mill south of Dunedin just prior to or during and after WW2
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4.000000
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12.000000
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To Build a Dream
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Williamson, Edith
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VM Press
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(4p) 132p (1p)
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8vo
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P-B VG
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28
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With illustrations, the story of the author's parents and family, setting up a farm in New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th century, 'Okoropong'
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5.000000
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John Hobbs 1800-1883
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Wesleyan Missionary to the Ngapuhi Tribe of Northern New Zealand
|
Williment, TMI
|
Govt Print
|
1985
|
xx 262p (1p)
|
8vo
|
D-J Paper over boards Near Fine
|
25
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With maps and illustrations, a study of the early Wesleyan mission to New Zealand and its impact on Maori, especially in the North
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5.000000
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20.000000
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42.000000
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Thorntons of the Glenroy
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Wills, Cecil
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Author Pub
|
1996
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(2p) 57p
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4to
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P-B Near Fine
|
32
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With illustrations, a family and district history for the Glenroy Valley, Murchison
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
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The Wilsons and Ngaio
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Wilson, Hamish
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Author Pub
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1982
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(2p) 75p
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8vo
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Plasticised boards Near Fine
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40
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With maps and illustrations, the Wilson family of Ngaio, in the Rangitikei, including family tree
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5.000000
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12.000000
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24.000000
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26.000000
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28.000000
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Intimate Stranger reminiscences of Dan Davin
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Wilson, Janet (ed)
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Steele Roberts
|
2000
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240
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8vo
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P-B Near Fine
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34
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With illustrations, a collection of essays by literary figures, family, friends and colleagues paying tribute to Dan Davin and his contributions to literature
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5.000000
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13.000000
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21.000000
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25.000000
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25.000000
|
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Free Lodgings
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Winter, Peter
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Reed
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1993
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143
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8vo
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P-B VG
|
22
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With illustrations, the author's war experiences, especially his POW life with the Italians and Germans, making a number of escape attempts
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
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19.000000
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23.000000
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22.000000
|
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Poetry and Exile letters from New Zealand 1938-1948
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Wolfskehl, Karl ; Wattie, Nelson (ed, trans)
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Cold Hub Press
|
2017
|
xlii 417p (1p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
35
|
With illustrations, letters from this German Jewish poet, who spent the last ten years of his life in New Zealand as a refugee from Nazi Germany
|
5.500000
|
19.000000
|
38.000000
|
40.000000
|
42.000000
|
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Being Chinese a New Zealander's story
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Wong, Helene
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Bridget Williams Books
|
2016
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182p (1p)
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8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
25
|
Signed and inscribed by the author, the results of the writer's quest to tie her two identities together, being ancestral Chinese, being native New Zealander, and thus find her place in the world
|
5.500000
|
14.000000
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28.000000
|
30.000000
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32.000000
|
|
Soldier, Sailor & Airman Too
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the fighting life of Group Captain AB 'Woody' Woodhall
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Woodhall, Group Captain AB ; Woodhall, Martin (ed)
|
Wilson Scott Pub
|
2008
|
285
|
4to
|
D-J Cloth binding Near Fine
|
35
|
With illustrations, the service life of this eventual New Zealander,including helping set up the sector covers for the defence of Britain in WW2, being a friend of Douglas Bader, and in control of the defence of Malta, a nice copy
|
5.000000
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20.000000
|
37.000000
|
43.000000
|
47.000000
|
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Bog Irish Micks the O'Brien Family from Seacliff
|
|
Woodley, Kath
|
Author Pub
|
2010
|
222p (1p) (CDRom in rear sleeve)
|
4to
|
P-B Near Fine
|
75
|
Signed by the author, with illustrations, a family tale from the despairs of Ireland to the flourishing in New Zealand
|
6.000000
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28.000000
|
45.000000
|
50.000000
|
55.000000
|
|
Herbert Woods a famous Broadland pioneer
|
|
Woods, Jennifer
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Captains Locker Publications
|
2002
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xiii (1p) 318p (2p)
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
40
|
Signed by the author, a daughter writes about her boat-designer father, with illustrations
|
5.000000
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14.000000
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28.000000
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30.000000
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32.000000
|
|
The Three Wings
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Cliff Emeny's Story
|
Woods, Tom
|
Zenith Pub
|
2004
|
(6p) 318p
|
4to
|
P-B Near Fine
|
38
|
With illustrations, the Air Force life of this New Zealand pilot, especially his time in WW2
|
5.000000
|
16.000000
|
30.000000
|
34.000000
|
34.000000
|
|
Emily Peter 1858-1927 A Nurse at War
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Woodward, Joan ; Mitchell, Glenys
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Te Waihora Press
|
2008
|
167
|
4to
|
Soft card covers with flaps Fine
|
35
|
With map and illustrations, the busy life of this New Zealand nurse who served in the South African War and in WW1
|
5.000000
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16.000000
|
30.000000
|
34.000000
|
34.000000
|
|
Sage Tea an autobiography
|
|
Woollaston, Toss
|
Te Papa Press
|
2001 Reprinted with corrections (1980)
|
(frontis) 268p
|
8vo
|
P-B Near Fine
|
20
|
The first part of this New Zealand artist's autobiography, up till the early 1930s
|
5.000000
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16.000000
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30.000000
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34.000000
|
34.000000
|
|
Thoroughly a Man of the World
|
|
Wright St-Clair, RE
|
W&T
|
1971
|
331
|
8vo
|
D-J VG - Near Fine
|
20
|
Sir David Munro; politician, scholar, explorer
|
5.000000
|
14.000000
|
22.000000
|
27.000000
|
26.000000
|
|
Tribal Wrights
|
|
Wright, Beatrice M
|
The Lantern Press
|
1989
|
71
|
8vo
|
P-B VG - Near Fine
|
25
|
With illustrations, the family history of this branch of a Wright family
|
5.000000
|
12.000000
|
19.000000
|
23.000000
|
22.000000
|
|
Terra Incognito
|
|
Wright, Douglas
|
Penguin
|
2006
|
251p (3p)
|
8vo
|
P-B VG
|
20
|
With illustrations, the sequel to 'Ghost Dance', further memoirs of this New Zealand dancer
|
5.500000
|
13.000000
|
26.000000
|
28.000000
|
30.000000
|
|
Samuel Marsden The great survivor
|
|
Yarwood, AT (Sandy)
|
Reed
|
1977
|
(frontis) xv (1p) 341p
|
4to
|
D-J (fading spine, chips, slight tea stain, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG
|
35
|
With maps and illustrations, a biography of this chaplain, pastor and missionary, in Australia and New Zealand
|
5.000000
|
18.000000
|
32.000000
|
36.000000
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37.000000
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