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Title

Sub-title

Author

Publisher

Published

Pages

Size

Condition

Price

Comment

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John and Charles Enys  Castle Hill Runholders 1864-1891

 

Abrahamson, Jenny

Wily Publications

2017

239p (1p)

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

50

With illustrations and reproductions of Charles Enys' watercolours, a detailed history of this Canterbury farming area and its early pioneers

5.500000

21.000000

42.000000

44.000000

46.000000

An Anzac in the Family  Private McAlpine of the 4th Reinforcements

 

Abrahart, Sherryl

Author Pub

2018

242

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the biography of a New Zealand soldier who survived Gallipoli but died on the Western Front at 19

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Arahura  Pathway to the setting Sun

 

Ackerley, Richard

The Ackerley Family

2000

148

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

30

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

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Reminiscences of Evelyn Acland 1871-1964

 

Acland, Susan (comp)

Author Pub

1969

95p (folding chart)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Browning spine VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a life of Lady Acland, her life in England and then in New Zealand

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

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Judge Ward

 

Adams, Geoff

Author Pub

2011

375

8vo

P-B Small thumb mark base 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

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Watch the Down Wind

 

Adams, Jeanette

Author Pub

1997

264

8vo

P-B Slight bumping spine  Half-title page cut at corner  VG

25

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

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Thomas Dagger Adams

 

Adams, Lucy S

Reed

1954

71p

8vo

Blue cloth binding Owner's details FEP VG

25

A memoir of a former Professor of Classics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, with illustrations

5.000000

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21.000000

25.000000

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Descendants of William and Matilda Webber

from England to New Zealand

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

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Merchant Miner Mandarin the life and times of the remarkable Choie Sew Hoy

 

Agnew, Jenny Sew Hoy and Trevor

Canterbury University Press

2020

287

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

50

With illustrations, both the life of this businessman from 19th century China in New Zealand and his effect on New Zealand business, especially goldmining with the Chinese miners in Otago

6.000000

28.000000

65.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Renwick  the story of a pioneer family

 

Airey, Elisabeth

Author Pub

1979

86

4to

P-B VG

40

With illustrations, the story of this pioneering European family around Nelson

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Stories for my Grandchildren

 

Allan, Grace

Author Pub

1982

(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

14.000000

26.000000

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

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

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

Uncle John Watson Resident Magistrate

 

Amodeo, Colin

Caxton

2019

224

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the life of this magistrate and coroner in the pioneer world of Akaroa and Banks Peninsula

6.000000

28.000000

60.000000

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Uncle John Watson  Resident Magistrate

 

Amodeo, Colin

Caxton

2019

224

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

50

With illustrations, a study of Akaroa on Banks Peninsula and its magistrate, John Watson

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Mair Family

 

Andersen, JC ; Peterson, GC

Reed

1956

345p (folding genealogical table at end)

8vo

D-J (small piece missing top spine, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding  Signature FEP Small donation rubber stamp FEP, TP VG

38

With maps and illustrations, the story of a family that began in the Bay of Islands in 1824 and expanded through the family, from settlers to fighters in the New Zealand Wars, and after, including such as the Tarawera eruption

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

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

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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

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Both Sides of the River

 

Anderson, Mona

Reed

1981

181p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the author takes the story on from Mt Algidus

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

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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

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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

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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

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28.000000

No Fear of Rusting

a biography of the Rev Thomas Chapman

Andrews, Philip

Rotorua and District Historical Society Inc

2001

(2p) 352p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the life and work of Thomas Chapman, who came to New Zealand as a catechist for the Church Missionary Society in 1830 then spent 30 years in the field, from the Bay of Islands to Rotorua

6.000000

28.000000

55.000000

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Peter and Elizabeth Leitch  1839-1924  a short family history

 

Anon

Author Pub

1973

12 leaves

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the first family, and descendants of Peter Leitch, who arrived in New Zealand in 1958

6.000000

18.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

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

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

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19.000000

23.000000

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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

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

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Fergus  a memoir of Fergus Blair McLaren

 

Anon

Reed

1943 3rd edition (1943)

161p (1p)

8vo

D-J Cloth binding  Short inscription FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of this Otago man, including his pre-war hunting experiences and war experiences

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

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

The Baker Boys

 

Aonghais, Clinton mhic

Trafford Publishing

2014

xxiv 887p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a Baker family history which saw two members fighting in WW1, on the Western Front and Gallipoli/Egypt/Pales tine

6.000000

35.000000

80.000000

70.000000

80.000000

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

The Flying Doctor

 

Baldwin, Dave

Penguin Random House

2016

287p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a New Zealand doctor's experiences on the ground and in the air, as well as his hunting tales

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Don Merton The man who saved the black robin

 

Ballance, Alison

Reed

2007

364

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps VG - Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the 'life' of this world-renowned bird conservator, instrumental in bringing some New Zealand native birds back from the brink of extinction

8.000000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

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

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The Five Faces of Pat Vincent  a reconstruction of his life

 

Barley, Alan V

Author Pub

2001

142

8vo

P-B Near Fine

45

Signed by the author, an illustrated life of this All Black, singer and teacher, scarce

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

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

Within Sound of the Bell

 

Barr, J Rhoda

Whitcombe & Tombs

1953

(4p) 98p (1p)

8vo

D-J (browning spine) Cloth binding VG

20

With illustrations, the experiences of this New Zealand teacher in  New Zealand and overseas

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

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

Trimmer  Justice Be Thy Plea

 

Barrett, Dean

Hong Kong Publishing

1976

344

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the trials, both in court, and in life, of a respected businessman charged with theft and embezzlement, and his struggle to refute the charges

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

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

Letters from London at Coronation Time

 

Bateman, Helen

Nag's Head Press

1987

80

8vo

D-J Cloth boards with cover label  Near Fine

30

An edition of 150 copies, the author's experiences, in letter form, from June to August 1953

5.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

We Will Not Cease

 

Baxter, Archibald

Cape Catley

2003 Reprint edition (1939)

216

8vo

P-B Fading spine  VG - Near Fine

25

A reprint of this now-classic autobiography of a conscientious objector during World War One, the War to end all Wars

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

The Memoirs of Millicent Baxter

 

Baxter, Millicent Amiel ; Catley, Christine Cole

Cape Catley Ltd

1981

144

8vo

D-J (chips, in protective wrapper)  Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author tells of her life, including being wife to Archibald Baxter and mother to James K Baxter

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

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

The Olympian Soldier  GC Cooke

 

Beatson, Kath

Author Pub

2008

x 169p

4to

P-B Slight rubbing extremities  VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the life of New Zealander George Cooke, Olympic oarsman, and Corporal in the NZ army, killed on Crete 1941

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country

story of the famous sheeplifter

Beattie, Herries

ODT

1946

113

8vo

Cloth binding Owner's details TP VG - Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the hard-cover version of this life of one of the early Southern characters

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The First White Boy Born in Otago  story of TB Kennard

 

Beattie, Herries

Reed

1939

(frontis) (2p) 204p (6p)

Small 8vo

Cloth binding, wear, fading spine  Browning EPs  Owner's details front paste-down Gd - VG

120

With illustrations, a scarce Southern 'biography, covering the early days of European settlement in Otago and Southland, the land and the gold, and the people involved in both

8.000000

25.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

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

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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

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 (light fading spine) Paper over boards VG - 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

6.000000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

A Classic World & When the Engine Roars

 

Begg, George

Begg and Allen

2000

(3p) 234p

4to

D-J (slight repair top spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

120

With illustrations, George Begg's racing life, Part One his scarce 'When the Engine Roars', and Part Two the remainder of his experiences

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Classic World  & When the Engine Roars

 

Begg, George

Begg & Allen Ltd

2000

(3p) 234p

4to

D-J (light fading spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards Owner's stamp FEP, HTP Owner's signature HTP VG - Near Fine

145

Author 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

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

When the Engine Roars

The motor racing life of George Begg

Begg, George ; Lind, Clive A

Craig Printing Co

1980

180

4to

D-J (in archival wrapper)  Paper over boards VG

130

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

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Ernest Dieffenbach

 

Bell, Gerda

The Dunmore Press

1976

165

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Signature TP VG

22

With illustrations, a life of this early European visiter to New Zealand, author of the two-volume 'Travels in New Zealand'

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Jewish Lives in New Zealand  a history

 

Bell, Leonard ; Morrow, Diana (eds)

Godwit, Random House

2012

439p (1p)

4to

Card covers Near Fine

45

With illustrations, celebrating what Jewish New Zealanders have added to New Zealand, its society, and its culture

6.000000

35.000000

75.000000

68.000000

72.000000

Hewn From the Rock  A memoir of the Very Reverend JD Salmond

 

Belmer, Roy

Otago Church Bookstore

1976

52

8vo

P-B VG

24

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Subritzky Family  1843-1993 vol 1

 

Beniston, Maria M (comp)

Author Pub

1993

188

4to

D-J (chips, in archival wrapper)  Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

50

With many illustrations, family trees, reproductions, the first two volumes of this detailed research project into one of Northland's older pioneer families

6.500000

30.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Road from Saddle Hill

 

Bennett, FO

Alan A Brash

1982

(4p) 298p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations,the biography of Thomas Cuddie Brash, from his beginnings in poverty in Dunedin to head in New Zealand's dairy industry, and President of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

A Canterbury Tale  the autobiography of Dr Francis Bennett

 

Bennett, FO

Oxford University Press

1980

249

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's memories as a doctor in Canterbury, and as a soldier in both World Wars

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Memoirs of a New Zealand Business Man

 

Benson, Gerald

Author Pub

1961

70

8vo

Paper over boards  Slight mark FE VG

22

Inscribed by the author, a life in Dunedin business, with Bing Harris and developments

5.500000

18.000000

38.000000

32.000000

38.000000

The Bibby Family in New Zealand 1850-1977

 

Bibby, Graham (et al)

Bibby Family Reunion Cttee

1977

27p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

Spiral bound, card covers Fading, rubbing covers  Gd - VG

25

With illustrations and genealogical trees, the New Zealand branches of this family, and early Waipawa

6.000000

18.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions

 

Bidois, Ngahihi o te Ra

Spot On Publications

2009

111p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, a Maori takes back his past and reaches out to the audience

6.500000

20.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

The Legacy of Guilt

a life of Thomas Kendall

Binney, Judith

Bridget Williams Books

1968

xv (1p) 220p

4to

Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a study of one of the original CMS workers, his relationships with local Maori, and his work on the Maori language

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Looking for Answers

A life of Elsie Locke

Birchfield, Maureen

Canterbury University Press

2009

560

Oblong 8vo

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

48

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand writer and activist, a woman ahead of her time

8.000000

30.000000

64.000000

74.000000

77.000000

Diary of Andrew Boyes  on a voyage from Edinburgh to Dunedin 1849

 

Blackman, Gary (ed)

Editor Published

1999

(frontis) 31p

8vo

P-B Signature HTP Near Fine

20

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

4.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Dorothy Theomin of Olveston

 

Blackman, Margery

The Friends of Olveston

2007

80

8vo

Card covers with Flaps Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a life of this Dunedin figure, mountaineer, photographer, traveller, and benefactor

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Under the Southern Skies

the story of Missionary Gottlieb Blaess in New Zealand and Australia

Blaess, Eric R (ed)

Author Pub, Lutheran Publishing House

1992

viii 197p (folding family tree )

8vo

Laminated boards  Near Fine

45

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

17.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

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

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Edward Gibbon Wakefield   Builder of the British Commonwealth

 

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

A biography of a man important to the organised immigration to Australia and especially New Zealand, with illustrations

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Soldiering on  a soldier's war in North Africa and Italy

 

Blythe, John

Century Hutchinson

1989

vi 185p

8vo

P-B VG

25

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

To Be a Hero

a biography of Sir George Grey

Bohan, Edmund

HarperCollins

1998

374

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards  Fine

30

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

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

'Blest Madman'  Fitzgerald of Canterbury

 

Bohan, Edmund

Canterbury University Press

1998

369

8vo

P-B Fine

30

A study of the man Fitzgerald, as editor, politician, and one of the founding fathers of Canterbury province

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Edward Stafford  New Zealand's First Statesman

 

Bohan, Edmund

Hazard Press

1994

432

8vo

P-B Fadig spine VG - Near Fine

30

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

5.000000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Goneville  a memoir

 

Bollinger, Nick

Awa Press

2016

(2p) 293p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, part memoir of the 70s in New Zealand, and part development of New Zealand pop music during that time

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Edmund Hillary  the life of a legend

 

Booth, Pat

Moa Beckett

1993

208

4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a life which shows that the climbing of Everest was only a beginning, a nice copy

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Edmund Hillary  the life of a legend

 

Booth, Pat

Moa Beckett

1993

208

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight rubbing base Owner's small name sticker FEP  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a detailed celebration of the life up till then of Sir Edmund Hillary

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

52.000000

55.000000

The Brebners of Port Chalmers

 

Borne, David S (ed)

Brebner Family Reunion Cttee

1997

87

4to

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

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Crowded House  Something so Strong

 

Bourke, Chris

Macmillan

1997

viii 376p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the inside, in-depth investigation into this truly Australasian rock group, from Enz to Zed, a lovely copy

6.500000

28.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Tui's Call

 

Bourke, Kathleen M

Author Pub

1971

127p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

Inscribed by the author, experiences of farming in the Hawke's Bay

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

The McGregors of Mount Linton

 

Boyle, VG ; Bradstock, MC

Shoal Bay Press

2003

104

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the owners, especially the McGregors, and this Southland farm

6.000000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Fastest Old Man in the World  the Derek Turnbull story

 

Boyle, Vince

Craig Printing

2006

256

4to

Laminated boards  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the story of this Southland farmer and all his age-level world records

6.000000

25.000000

50.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Fiji Wilson  Wesleyan Missionary and Minister Fiji and Britain

 

Bradbury, Ruth M

Author Pub

2010

191

4to

P-B Ex-library  Stamps beginning and end Internal hinges strengthened  VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a life of this Methodist minister, serving in Fiji and Britain, a very tidy ex-lib copy

7.000000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

60.000000

The Land of Doing Without  Davey Gunn of the Hollyford

 

Bradshaw, Julia

Canterbury University Press

2022 Reprint edition

176

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With map and illustrations, 30 years of living in isolation farming in the Hollyford Valley, Fiordland

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Never a White Flag  the memoirs of Jock Barnes, waterfront leader

 

Bramble, Dr Tom (ed)

Victoria University Press

1998

256

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union and the political, and labour forces it fought, culminating in the 1951 lockout

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Kiwi under Fire  Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq

 

Brandon, Gary

Willson Scott Publishing

2007

171

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a New Zealander serving as a private contractor in Iraq and other war-stricken areas

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Charles Brasch Journals 1938-1945

 

Brasch, Charles ; Barrowman, Rachel

Otago University Press

2013

646

8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

40

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

30.000000

70.000000

68.000000

72.000000

Indirections A Memoir 1909-1947

 

Brasch, Charles ; Bertram, James (ed)

Oxford University Press

1980

xiv 443p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Fine

30

With illustrations, the early years of this New Zealand editor and literary patron, up till the foundation of 'Landfall', a nice copy

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Charles Brasch in Egypt

 

Brasch, Charles ; Scott, Margaret

Steele Roberts

2007

118p (1p)

8vo

P-B Light fading spine Signature FEP VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, this New Zealander at the excavation of the city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, the pieces that didn't make it into Brasch's autobiography

8.000000

24.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

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

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

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Pilot on the Run the epic escape from Occupied France of Flight Sergeant LSM (Chalky) White, RNZAF

 

Brathwaite, Errol

Hutchinson

1986

185

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

20

With map and illustrations, from the crash in Northern France to the Franco-Spanish border

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

From Thistle to Fern 150 Years of a Scottish Family in New Zealand 1848-1998

 

Bray, Heather (comp)

Author Pub

1998

266

4to

P-B Marks covers VG -Near Fine

40

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

8.000000

29.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

A Scottish Father

 

Bray, Heather (ed)

Dunedin Family History Group

2012

163

4to

P-B with plastic cover, spine strip Near Fine

35

With illustrations, 29 short biographies of Scottish immigrants into Otago

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

A Scottish Mother

 

Bray, Heather (ed)

Dunedin Family History Group

2012

148

4to

Laminated soft card covers with taped spine Small owner's stamp TP Near Fine

32

With illustrations, 23 stories, with family genealogies, of New Zealand families who had mothers who emigrated from Scotland

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

A Scottish Mother

 

Bray, Heather (ed)

Dunedin Family History Group

2012

148

4to

P-B Plastic cover with black strip spine Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of 23 female immigrants into Southern New Zealand

6.500000

22.000000

50.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Soldier Tourist

a personal account of World War II

Brewer, Gunner NH (Joe)

Reed

1999

231

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

30

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

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The New Zealand Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin

 

Brodie, James and Audrey (ed)

The Beechtree Press, Society of Friends

1989

(frontis) 88p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The journeys of a Quaker to Australia and NZ in 1909 - 1911 on pilgrimage, to raise the dying flame in the colonies, with illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Richard Seddon King of God's Own

 

Brooking, Tom

Penguin

2014

584

8vo

Paper over boards Near Fine

50

Signed by the author, wWith illustrations, a detailed life of, to date, New Zealand's longest serving Prime Minister, his political and personal life, and his 'kingship'

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Way it Was a farming, shearing, hunting life

 

Brough, Tom

Fraser Books

2011

x 325p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

38

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

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Brief Memorials of an only Son

 

Brown, Archdeacon AN

DH Maxwell

1964 Reprint edition

(frontis) 38p (1p)

8vo

Library cloth binding, gilt titles  Library bookplate FEP, stamps beginning and end VG

35

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

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A Fish in the Swim of the World

 

Brown, Ben

Longacre Press

2006

173

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

22

With illustrations, family stories from the Motueka, Nelson area

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Unconventional Career of Dr Muriel Bell

 

Brown, Diana

Otago University Press

2018

184

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations,  the life and achievements of this pioneering New Zealand nutritionist

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Wine, Women and Song  a spitfire pilot's story

 

Brown, Hamish

Stayer Ltd

2011

ix (1p map) 358p

4to

D-J Cloth binding  Near Fine

45

Signed by Doug Brown, with map and illustrations, the story of this New Zealand Spitfire pilot, based on his letters and reminiscences

5.000000

25.000000

53.000000

59.000000

63.000000

Pickerill  pioneer in plastic surgery, dental education and dental research

 

Brown, Harvey

Otago University Press

2007

(frontis) 271p

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the first biography of this pioneer in plastic surgery, whose work laid the foundations for the New Zealand School Dental Service

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Pickerill  pioneer in plastic surgery, dental education and dental research

 

Brown, Harvey

Otago University Press

2007

271

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed biography of this New Zealand plastic surgeon and Director of the Otago Dental School

6.000000

25.000000

55.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Strong is the Lion the story of the Bruces 1858-1971

 

Bruce, A (et al)

Bruce Family Reunion Cttee

1971

25

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the history of the Bruce family in Otago, from 1858, when Donald and Ann Bruce arrived in the 'Robert Henderson'

6.000000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

The Road Back

 

Buchan, Robert

Author Pub, JW Baty

1973

(2p) 142p (1p)

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine

25

A memoir of the experiences of a New Zealand headmaster over a career of some forty years

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

A Salute to the Captain

celebrating the 100th birthday of Emeritus Professor  JB Mackie

Buckenham, Michael (et al)

University of Otago Devpt & Alumni Relations Office

2010

(1p) 192p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

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

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Slippery Jim or patriotic statesman?  James Macandrew of Otago

 

Bunce, RJ

Otago University Press

2018

(frontis map) 375p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

42

With maps and illustrations, a life of this early Otago politician, who arrived from Scotland in 1851, and soon set about establishing his political and financial base

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Hayward Heritage  the story of a pioneer family

 

Bunn, Stuart (comp)

Author Pub

2000

167 leaves

4to

P-B Near Fine

48

With illustrations, the Hayward family in New Zealand, especially in the South, and the wider family, incling the late William Hayward Pickering, of NASA

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

41.000000

46.000000

Dr A C Barker 1819-1873  Photographer, Farmer, Physician

 

Burdon, Cotsford C

John McIndoe

1972

88p (24p plates)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life and photography of this pioneer New Zealand photographer, a nice copy

6.500000

21.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

New Zealand Notables series 3

 

Burdon, RM

The Caxton Press

1950

247

8vo

D-J (pieces missing) Cloth binding VG

20

Biographies of Thomas Kendall, Frederick Edward Maning, Sir Julius von Haast and John Grigg

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Rough Diamonds

 

Burgess, Henry

Author Pub

2010

(1p) 149p

4to

P-B VG

32

Signed by the author, with illustrations, memoirs of a life in South Canterbury

5.500000

15.000000

31.000000

34.000000

37.000000

A memento of the Fastier Family Reunion February 2000

 

Burrow, Jan ; Fastier, Fred

Amidine Publications

2000

34 leaves

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations and genealogical tables, a short history of this New Zealand family

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Hadfield of the Kapiti Coast

 

Burton, Ormond

Author Pub

ND

32

8vo

P-B VG

15

A study of the man, and the beliefs of the later Bishop Octavius Hadfield from beginning as a minister on the Kapiti Coast

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Kiwi in a Crow's Nest

 

Caldwell, Walter

The Dunmore Press

1978

138p (1p)

8vo

P-B Slight inscription HTP Near Fine

20

With illustrations, stories from this New Zealander who joined the merchant navy

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Flies, sand and unwashed socks  Letters from WWII

 

Cambridge, Susan (ed)

Editor published

2017

149p (4p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a collection of RG (Dick) Harris' wartime letters home, from Egypt, Greece, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Italy

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Captain William Thomson  his life

 

Cameron, Shirley

Author Pub

2009

vi 228p

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of the first Harbour Master of Otago

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Reminiscences of a long Life

 

Campbell, John Logan ; Stone, RCJ (ed)

David Ling, The Cornwall Park Trust Board

2017

334

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

70

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

28.000000

65.000000

72.000000

79.000000

Back to the Bluff

 

Cantrick, Ross

Author Pub

2010

120

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a history of the author's extended family, and life in mid-century Bluff

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Let Fly!

 

Cardno, Barry

Longacre Press

2009

182p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, the story of this young New Zealand flyer, his top-dressing aircraft's crash, and the aftermath

4.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

John Robert Godley of Canterbury

 

Carrington, Charles Edmund

W&T

1950

xv 251

8vo

D-J (fading) VG

25

Biographical in nature, but also dealing with the development of the Canterbury Association and the area it settled

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Four Score Years  an autobiography

 

Carswell, James Hugh

Author Pub

2010

236p (6p)

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, eighty years in the farming community in Southland, including rabbit eradication and the formation of CRT

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Gadfly  The life and times of James Shelley

 

Carter, Ian

Auckland University Press, Broadcasting History Trust

1993

vii (1p) 339p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand educator and one-time Director of Broadcasting

6.000000

27.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Dead People I have Known

 

Carter, Shayne

Victoria University Press

2019

406

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life in music in New Zealand and around the world, and the Dunedin Sound

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

When the Boats Ruled the Bay of Islands (AE Fuller & Family)

 

Cates, Hazel (comp)

Author Pub

1985

iv (1p) 69p (1p)

8vo

P-B Slight inscription TP  VG

35

With maps and illustrations, the life and history of this Bay of Islands boating family, operating transport and tourist launches

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Bright Star   Beatrice Hill Tinsley  Astronomer

 

Catley, Christine Cole

Cape Catley

2006

445

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

32

With illustrations, the life and work of this New Zealand-born astronomer

5.000000

20.000000

35.000000

39.000000

41.000000

The Interpreter The Biography of Richard 'Dicky' Barrett'

 

Caughey, Angela

Bateman

1998

296

8vo

D-J (slight rub top spine) Paper over boards Near Fine

34

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

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

A Year at Hawkswood 1865 (2 vols)

 

Caverhill, Frances

Nag's Head Press

1981

89p (2p) ; 75p (2p)

Small 8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

50

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

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Samuel Ironside in New Zealand 1839-1858

 

Chambers, WA

Ray Richards Publishing

1982

285

4to

D-J (chip, fading spine) VG - Near Fine

25

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

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Rewi Alley of China

 

Chapple, Geoff

H&S

1980

230

8vo

D-J (in plastic)  Near Fine

40

The biography of a special kiwi who spent the majority of his active life in China, with illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Seven Voices  tales of madness and mirth

 

Chunn, Mike

The Purple Egg Press

1997

v 142p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps CD in end pocket  Fine

40

With accompanying 5 track CD, the author's story, including his time with Split Enz

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Stranger than Fiction  The life and times of Split Enz

 

Chunn, Mike

Govt Print

1992

272

8vo

P-B VG

50

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

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Stranger than Fiction  The life and times of Split Enz

 

Chunn, Mike

Govt Print

1992

272

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

60

Signed by the author, the story of New Zealand's first super-group, with illustrations, and the ups-and-downs of the subsequent groups

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Ancestors and Descendants of William and Mary Brown

 

Clark, Jennifer (comp)

Family Tree Press

2004

244

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With map and illustrations, the family history of a Scottish couple who emigrated to New Zealand in 1864

6.000000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Beyond Expectations  fourteen New Zealand women write about their lives

 

Clark, Margaret (ed)

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

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

John Mansfield Thomson  Notes towards a biography

 

Clark, Margaret (et al, eds)

Steele Roberts

2003

227p (1p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Light fading spine  Inscription HTP  VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a collection of memories and tributes to this New Zealand musicologist and author

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Air Marshall Sir Robert Clark-Hall KBE CMG DSO

 

Clark-Hall, RH & JL

Author Pub

1995

xii 172p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a biography of a New Zealander who served in both World Wars, in the navy and Air Force

5.500000

27.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Air-Marshall Sir Robert Clark-Hall KBE CMG DSO

 

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

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Memories of Marie  reflections on the life and work of Marie Clay

 

Clay, Jenny

Pearson Education NZ

2009

259

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a compilation life of this New Zealand educator, the developer of Reading Recovery

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Wings of Song

 

Cockburn, Effie

Author Pub

2010

(7p) 250p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a chronicle of the fifty years plus the author spent in a musical life and theatre in Dunedin

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Mornington Memoirs

 

Cockburn, Effie

Author Pub

2021

(4p) 267p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the lives of the Jellie family of Mornington in Dunedin, and their extensive exploits

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Connections  From London to the Antipodes  the family of John Boxall and Sarah Hugkulstone

 

Coghlan, Robyn

Author Pub

2008

296

4to

P-B Owner's signature FEP VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the lives in New Zealand and Australia of a branch of the Boxall family

7.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

65.000000

It doesn't take a War  a life forever changed by the Hyde Railway crash

 

Coleman, Elizabeth

Author Pub

2019

xii 159p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the Hyde Railway crash, June 4th, 1943, on the Central Otago line, and its after effects on the author and those around her

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Rutherford Waddell  memoir and addresses

 

Collie, James (ed)

Reed

1932

302

8vo

Cloth binding  Light foxing FEs  VG

20

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

5.000000

14.000000

23.000000

28.000000

28.000000

Charles Meryon  a Life

 

Collins, Roger

Garton & Co

1999

(frontis) xvii 299p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Fine

70

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

8.000000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

Ice on My Palette

 

Conly, Maurice ; Peat, Neville

Whitcoulls

1977

64

Oblong 4to

D-J (slight chip)  Near Fine

34

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

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

White Gujaratis  Bramwell and Dorothy Cook

 

Cook, H Bramwell

Author Pub

2007

238

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the inspirational lives of these two Salvation Army Officers and especially their times in India

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

42.000000

45.000000

Diary of a Kiwi Soldier

 

Coughlan, Cecil ; Coughlan, Garrie (ed)

Reed

2006

(frontis) 50 leaves

Small 8vo

P-B Fine

20

With illustrations and maps, a 2NZEF war medic in North Africa and Italy narrates his experiences in diary form

3.000000

6.000000

18.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Sir Donald Maclean

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

The first full biography of this NZ politician, as Minister and Native Land buyer, much revised by modern historians

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

36.000000

40.000000

twenty-five okitio women from last century  selected memories

 

Cowan, Muriel

Author Pub

2000

(2p) 91p

8vo

Spiral bound, soft card covers  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, short biographies of 25 women from this Wairarapa community

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Recollections   Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand

 

Cox, Alfred

Whitcombe & Tombs

1884

vii 262p

8vo

Blue cloth boards Rubbing top, bottom spine  Fore-corners bumped  VG

40

Dedicated and dated by the author, his memories of life in Australia, the home countries and especially New Zealand, and its politicians

7.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Men of Mark of New Zealand

 

Cox, Alfred

Whitcombe and Tombs

1886

xi 237p (1p)

8vo

Red cloth binding, black/gilt titles, decoration Light fading of red on spine Light bumping of spine cloth VG

60

An A-Z of past and present men in public life, including ecclesiastical and military, in 1886, a first attempt at a biographical dictionary for New Zealand

5.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

I can do no other

 a Biography

Crane, Ernest

H&S

1986

xii 338p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

22

A biography of Ormond Burton, Reverend, writer of War Histories, and Conscientious Objector

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

From the Catlins to Tauranga

 

Crews, Arthur

Author Pub

1994

145

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of experiences from the bush in the South Otago Catlins to business in the North Island, ending in Real Estate in Tauranga

6.500000

24.000000

48.000000

45.000000

48.000000

Andris Apse  Odyssey & Images  an illustrated biography

 

Crosby, Ron ; Apse, Andris

Reed

2006

216

Oblong 8vo

D-J (curl on FEs, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

60

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

8.000000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

Such Absolute Beginners  A Memoir

 

Cross, Ian

David Ling

2007

151

8vo

P-B Fine

28

A memoir of this New Zealand writer, editor and broadcaster, with illustrations

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Spencer  The Gold Seeker

 

Crumpton, EW

Batyprint NZ Ltd

1979

(frontis) (4p) 193p

8vo

D-J (chips, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a narrative of two generations of a pioneer family that was involved in the West Coast gold rushes

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Seeds in the Storm

 

Dabrowski, Stanislaw ; Churchman, Geoffrey (ed)

Maurienne House

2011

56

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

25

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

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Curved Horizon  an autobiography

 

Dallas, Ruth

Otago University Press

1991

(3p) 181p

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, the autobiography to 1991 of this NZ poet and children's writer

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Julius Vogel  Business politician

 

Dalziel, Raewyn

AUP, OUP

1986

368

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of one of the most influential early politicians in New Zealand, where he served as both Treasurer and Premier

6.500000

31.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Doctor at War  a life in letters 1914-43

 

Daniell, Christine

Fraser Books

2001

vi 370p

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

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

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

A Doctor at War  a life in letters 1914-43

 

Daniell, Christine

Fraser Books

2001

(2p) 370p

4to

P-B Fading spine  Near Fine

42

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

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

Daniell of Masterton

 

Daniell, HH

Author Pub

1952

(frontis) 32p

8vo

Card covers VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of Charles Edward Daniell, builder, businessman and member of the Masterton Land Trust

6.500000

24.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Lieber Freund!  Letters from Eugen von Guerard to Julius von Haast

 

Darragh, Thomas A ; Pullin, Ruth

Art Gallery of Ballarat

2018

81

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, letters from von Haast's painter friend from Australia and Europe

8.000000

25.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Professor Penguin

 

Davis, Lloyd Spencer

Random House

2014

335p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, from Antarctica to the Galapagos, and miles in between, a life studying penguins

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

On a Mission   Men of Mount St Mary's tell their stories

 

Davison, Shaun

Steele Roberts

2013

254

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, 21 men from Mount St Mary's Seminary in Napier tell their stories, why they chose to be priests, and what has happened to them after their seminary years

7.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Ladies of Lethenty

 

Dawber, Carol ; Pickering, Sarah

River Press

2015

224

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

42

Signed by the authors, a record of the women who ran 'Lethenty' in Bulls, and the house itself

6.000000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Awaroa Legacy  the story of the Hadfield family

 

Dawber, Carol ; Wilson, Lynette

October Enterprises Ltd, River Press

2005 2nd edition (1999)

346p (6p index)

4to

Laminated card covers Fading spine VG - Near Fine

40

Wth map and illustrations, the story of the Hadfields of Awaroa, on the edge of Abel Tasman National Park

6.500000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Turner Family London to New Zealand

 

Dawson, Betty

Betty & Chris Dawson

1994

239p (2p)

4to

P-B Plastic spine strip  Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the descendants of Joseph and Frances Turner, who came to New Zealand in 1874 aboard the 'Buckinghamshire'

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Oma Leni my story

 

De Bres, Leni

Hill Family Publications

2010

73p (4p for notes)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the life of a Dutch woman who came to New Zealand in 1954

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A biography of Norah Corson

 

De Courcy, Noeline

Author Pub

1991

36

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp page 1 Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a biography of a New Zealand nurse, including her war service

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Pioneer Catholic Women of New Zealand

 

De Courcy, Noeline

Catholic Women's League of New Zealand

1992

94

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, shorter and longer biographies of 125 New Zealand women, from pioneers to later settlers

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

From the Other End of the World  memories of post-war immigrants to New Zealand from Great Britain

 

Dean, Rachel Kathleen (ed)

GWW Services

2010

216

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

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

5.000000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

40.000000

William Deans  the passionate pioneer

 

Deans, Louise

Wily Pubs

2018

288

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

Based on the prolific letter writing of her ancestor, the author recreates the man's life and times, including the early life in Canterbury

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Owaka Jack  the Jack McNab Story

 

Deuchrass, Shirley

Author Pub

2008

viii 117p

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With map and illustrations, the life of an Otago All Black in the 40s and 50s

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Elizabeth Yates

the first lady mayor in the British Empire

Devaliant, Judith

Exisle Publishing

1996

160

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the life of New Zealand's first elected female politician

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Peter Milne of Nguna, New Hebrides

 

Don, Alexander

Foreign Missions Cttee

1927

296p (1p)

Small 8vo

Cloth binding Bumping top, bottom spine VG

38

The Rev Peter Milne was a missionary in the New Hebrides for 50 years, with illustrations

6.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

An Architectural Journey

 

Donnithorne, Don

Author Pub

2012

(frontis) (3p) 93p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

60

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

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

High Street Shopping and High Country Farming

 

Dougherty, Ian

Mahana Trust

2009

95

4to

P-B Nera Fine

30

With illustrations and genealogical tables, a history of the Wardell and Anderson families in Otago and beyond, the Wardell's shops in Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington, the Andersons out on the land

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Arawata Bill

 

Dougherty, Ian

Exisle

1996

160

8vo

P-B Signature inside front cover  VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the life of a legendary gold prospector in West Otago and Westland, immortalised by Denis Glover

3.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Books and Boots

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

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

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Pulpit Radical the story of New Zealand social campaigner Rutherford Waddell

 

Dougherty, Ian

Author Pub

2018

296

8vo

P-B Near Fine

58

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

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Books and Boots 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 Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of this prolific New Zealander, founder of AH and AW Reed, and builder of library wealth for his fellow citizens

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

Wild Cards eccentric characters from New Zealand's past

 

Dunmore, John

New Holland

2006

175

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the lives of not-so-ordinary New Zealand dwellers, from Baroon de Thierry to William Larnach to Donald Sutherland to Mabel Howard

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Norman Kirk  a portrait

 

Dunmore, John

New Zealand Books

1972

116

8vo

D-J (slight wear extremities)  Signature FEP  VG - Near Fine

20

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

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Sir Robert Stout

 

Dunn, Waldo Hilary ; Richardson, Ivor LM

Reed

1961

224p

8vo

D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Signature front paste-down Slight note on one page  VG

38

With illustrations, a political and personal biography of this New Zealand Premier and Chief Justice

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

A Fistful of Summer

 

Dunstan, Peggy

Whitcoulls

1981

142p (1p)

8vo

D-J Near Fine

20

A nice copy of this humorous record of the writer's growing up both sides of Cook Strait, nicely illustrated by Jean Oates

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Billy Wallace  a true rugby legend

 

Dwyer, Denis

Bateman

2022

224

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a special 1905 All Back and his later life, in and out of rugby

8.000000

26.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Black Jersey Silver Fern  Tom Ellison first Maori to Captain the All Blacks

 

Dwyer, Denis

Grantham House

2015

224

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations a life of this New Zealand 'All Black' captain, 'father' of the black jersey and silver fern, author of 'The Art of Rugby'

6.000000

23.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Good Citizen  Tom Ryan, All Black, artist, entrepreneur, sailor, adventurer

 

Dwyer, Denis

New Holland Publishers

2018

206

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a story of a very varied life, from scoring the first points for the All Blacks to painting Te Kooti and influencing the development of tourism services in Taupo

7.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Billy Wallace  a true rugby legend

 

Dwyer, Denis

David Bateman

2022

224

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of this 'Originals' All Black and his life afterwards

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Margaret and Frank Collins of Cattle Flat  Ancestors and Descendants

 

Earland, Irene Tannock

Author Pub

1995

116

4to

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

38

With map, illustrations and tables, details of this Southland family, Wendonside and beyond

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

A Pakeha' s Recollections

the reminiscences of Murray Gladstone Thomson

Eccles, Alfred (ed)

Reed

1944

(frontis) 120p

8vo

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

90

Limited edition (#203/300), signed by the editor,  with illustrations, the life of this early European Otago settler, including his experiences at Murdering Beach

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

John Jones of Otago  whaler coloniser shipowner merchant

 

Eccles, Alfred ; Reed, AH

Reed

1949

111

8vo

D-J (chips, piece repaired base front) Cloth binding, browning base  VG

60

With illustrations, the first biography of one of the real powers behind the early settlement of Otago, including his merchant life in Dunedin

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

I've Lived another Year

 

Ede, Jack

Author Pub

2004

xiv p15-368

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

28

With illustrations, more in the adventurous life of this New Zealander, especially in climbing

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Hot October

 

Edmond, Lauris

Bridget Williams Books

1991 (1989)

239

8vo

P-B Fine

12

The reprint of this first volume of the author's autobiography

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Hot October

 

Edmond, Lauris

Allen&Unwin

1989

vii 239

Small 8vo

P-B Fine

20

The first volume of the author's autobiographical story, covering her childhood in Hawkes Bay, then into Wartime Wellington, and her marriage

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

An autobiography

 

Edmond, Lauris

Bridget Williams Books

2001

ix 420p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

38

The second edition of the autobiography of this New Zealand writer, with additional essay 'Only Connect', on the author writing autobiography

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Bus Stops on the Moon   Red Mole Days 1974-1980

 

Edmond, Martin

Otago University Press

2020

272

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a memoir of a part of the author's life, with the theatrical group, Red Mole

6.000000

24.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Kintyre to Catlins   Duncan and Agnes Smith (nee McMillan)

 

Edwards, Doreen Miller ; McCrone, Jennifer

Author Pub

2012 Revised edition

viii 189p

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, celebrating the centennial of the arrival of this Smith clan in New Zealand in 1912, and their move to South Otago

8.000000

30.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Waiting for the Revolution

 

Edwards, James

David Ling

1998

159

8vo

P-B Fine

15

The eldest of 8 children, the son of an unemployment rights campaigner, tells a story of an early life brought up in NZ poverty

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Cheerio for the Present  a New Zealand soldier's life in World War II

 

Edwards, Jim ; Edwards, Cecilia (ed)

Claddy Press

2018

xii 461p

4to

P-B Near Fine

44

With illustrations, the experiences of a member of 2NZEF in Egypt and Italy, 1943-5

6.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Mihipeka  Early Years

 

Edwards, Mihi

Penguin

1990

168

8vo

P-B Near Fine

14

The early years of a Maori woman growing up in rural New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

A Path Through the Trees  Mary Sutherland - forester, botanist & women's advocate

 

Edwards, Vivien

Author Published, Writes Hill Press

2020

201

4to

P-B Slight bump fore-corner  Near Fine

30

Inscribed by the author, a life of this New Zealand forest advocate

6.500000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Collection of my Recollections

 

Elder, Jim

Author Pub

1989

(folding map) 95p

8vo

P-B VG

22

The memories of family and farming life in North Canterbury in the early years of the Twentieth Century

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Marsden's Lieutenants

 

Elder, John Rawson (ed)

Coulls Somerville Wilkie

1934

(frontis) 280p

8vo

D-J (small pieces missing spine, front, in archival wrapper)  Blue cloth binding, leaching of blue colour at base  Light foxing FE  VG

70

Signed by the editor, #599 /1000, the important edition of the words of those who worked with Samuel Marsden and the CMS missions in New Zealand, including the Journals of Kendall and Hall, with illustrations

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

41.000000

43.000000

The Lives of Pioneer Women in New Zealand  Vol 2

From their letters, diaries and reminiscences

Ell, Sarah (selector)

The Bush Press

1993

183

4to

P-B  Slight fading spine VG - Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a second volume of extracts from the lives of pioneer women, in town and country, from arriving to living with the land and other people

6.500000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Vasili

The Lion of Crete

Elliott, Murray

Century Hutchinson

1987

175

8vo

P-B FEP removed Fading spine VG

22

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

4.000000

13.000000

21.000000

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Firth of Wellington

 

Elliott, Sir James

W&T

1937

228

8vo

D-J Slight foxing FEs   Gd - VG

30

Firth was Headmaster of Wellington College from 1892-1920

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Storys of Abdy Farm  Yorkshire to New Zealand

 

Ellison, Glenys (et al)

Wickcandle

2014

288

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the Story family, the female half of whom stayed in England in 1863, the other male half emigrating to New Zealand, and their descendants

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Edward's Legacy The Elworthys of South Canterbury

 

Elworthy, David ; Henry, Ros

Henry Elworthy Ltd

2011

416

4to

D-J (fading patches) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

75

Signed by both authors, No 252 of 600 numbered copies, with maps and illustrations, the development of agriculture in South Canterbury, Holme Station, and the Elworthy family

8.000000

35.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Edward's Legacy The Elworthys of South Canterbury

 

Elworthy, David ; Henry, Ros

Henry Elworthy Ltd

2011

416

4to

D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Near Fine

65

No 337 of 600 numbered copies, with maps and illustrations, the development of agriculture in South Canterbury, Holme Station, and the Elworthy family

8.000000

35.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Beds I Have Slept In  memoirs of Bernard Esquilant

 

Esquilant, Bernard

Author Pub

2018

283

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed and inscribed by the author, memories of this Dunedinite of travels both around the world and in New Zealand, and Shakespeare in between

7.500000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Shipping Out a merchant sailor's tale

 

Evans, Gerry

Sarah Bennett Books

2006

(5p) 238p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's tales of life in the British Merchant Marine, which he joined in 1954

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Accidental Immigrants

 

Ewan, John

Chateau Publishing

2017

164p (2p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the Powell family who sailed for India and settled in New Zealand

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Porters in My Past

 

Ewan, John

Chateau Publishing Ltd

2015

159p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

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

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

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26.000000

A Lifetown on the Land

 

Ewers, Chris

Author Pub

1993

(1p) 170p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

Signed by the author, German immigrants building farms in the Nelson area, the author's generation farming, and hop growing

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Something for the Birds

 

Fahey, Jacqueline

Auckland University Press

2006

(2p) 208p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

32

With illustrations, looking back on the earlier life of this New Zealand artist

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Letters of ARD Fairburn

 

Fairburn, ARD

OUP

1981

xxv 272

8vo

D-J Near Fine

28

Ed by Lauris Edmond; an important NZ writer and poet

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Nearly out of heart & hope

The puzzle of a colonial labourer's diary

Fairburn, Miles

Auckland University Press

1995

(frontis) ix (1p) 275p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

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

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Isabel Maud from Devonport

 

Fairgay, Joyce (ed)

Devonport Library Associates

2006

47

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a life of Isabel Maud Peacocke, 1881-1973, New Zealand children's writer

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Coates' Tale

 

Farland, Bruce

Author Pub

1995

viii 200p

8vo

P-B Short creases back cover  VG

22

Author signed, 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

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Recollections of an old Scarfie

 

Fastier, FN

Amidine Pubs

2004

(frontis) 190p

8vo

P-B VG

25

Inscribed by the author, a collection of his talks, discussions, lectures and seminars dealing with science, education, and governments

5.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

A Colonist's Voyage to New Zealand

 

Fell, Alfred

Capper Press

1933

(4p) 112p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

The reprint edition of this diary of shipboard life in a voyage to New Zealand in Septeber 1841, arriving at the end of February, 1842

8.000000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

The Road to Castle Hill  a High Country love story

 

Fernyhough, Christine ; Callan, Louise

Random House

2007 (reprint edition)

335p (1p)

4to

D-J (chips top spine) over soft card covers  VG - Near Fine

25

With map and illustrations, the author's experiences owning and learning to run Castle Hill Station, near Porters Pass in Canterbury

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Backtracking

 

Field, Jim

Wairarapa Times-Age Co Ltd

1993

x 248p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the experiences of this New Zealand dog handler 1974-1987

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Just an Ordinary Guy

From Scotland to New Zealand

Findlay, Jim ; McCallum, Fay

Author Pub

2001

158

8vo

P-B Signature verso FEP  VG - Near Fine

25

Signed and inscribed by the author, his life before WW2, then during and after the War, including service in the Western Desert

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Tooth and Nail

The story of a daughter of the Depression

Findlay, Mary

Reed

1974 (1974)

267 (1p ads)

8vo

D-J VG

30

The reality of the Depression in NZ

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Neil Finn Once Removed

 

Finn, Neil ; Smith, Mark

Sanctuary Publishing

2000

iii (1p) 131p (1p) (7p index)

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

42

With illustrations, a period of life with Neil Finn, on stage and on travel

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

35.000000

35.000000

My Dear Cousins a family history Pt 2 Humphrey Delves Cleaver

 

Fitchett, Pauline Elwy

Author Pub

2000

192

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations and extensive family trees, a further exploration of three New Zealand families

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Growing up on the Hill

 

Flynn, John J

Author Pub

2005

160

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a history of the market gardens in Pukekohe, through three generations of the author's family

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Memories of Yesteryear

 

Fordie, Katherine CM

Author Pub

1983

(3p) (illustration) 213p

4to

Soft card covers VG

48

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

5.000000

14.000000

29.000000

32.000000

35.000000

The Farm at Black Hills  farming alone in the hills of North Canterbury

 

Forrester, Beverley

Random House

2015

272

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's experiences of farming in the Hurunui district, North Canterbury

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Wild Waves and Isolation

 

Fox, Lois

Author Pub

2003

70

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

Memories of a childhood on Centre Island Lighthouse, Foveaux Strait, with illustrations

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

An Autobiography

3 volumes in one

Frame, Janet

Vintage, Random House

1994

437

8vo

D-J (in archival wrapper) Blue paper over boards, silver decorations Near Fine

45

The limited, numbered edition of the author's 3-volume autobiography of her life in NZ and the world, with illustrations

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

48.000000

52.000000

You do not travel in China at the Full Moon  Agnes Moncrieef's letters from China 1930-1945

 

Francis, Barbara (ed)

Victoria University Press

2017

295

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a life experienced by this New Zealander during her humanitarian work in China, from 1930-1945

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

42.000000

44.000000

And then there were ten  The Francis' of Masterton

 

Francis, Bill

Author Pub

1997

248

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Slight fading spine  Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a family history which is rich in children and twins, life through the 20th century, with letters and diary entries

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Tom Moir DCM MM  Hero behind the lines in WW2 Crete

 

Frazer, Ian

Wild Sweet Productions Ltd

2022

(errata slip) 101p

4to

P-B Near Fine

28

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the activities in Crete, then as a POW, then after repatriation, of this New Zealander, a story of dedication and commitment to others

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Self-Portrait

 

Friedlander, Marti

Auckland University Press

2013

(2p) 258p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

45

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

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

75.000000

75.000000

The Ward History

 

Froggatt, Lucy I

Author Pub

1975

39

8vo

P-B Fading covers VG

25

With illustrations, a short history of this family from Otago and Southland

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Ward, Simpson Family History 1861-1976

 

Froggatt, Lucy I

Author Pub

1976

12

8vo

P-B Fading covers VG

15

With illustrations and lists, information about this connected New Zealand family, from England to New Zealand

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

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22.000000

Our Padre  a biography of Walter Edmund Wilmshurst Hurst 1912-1987

 

Fulton, Donald JP

Author Pub

2006

208

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

A Geologist Remembers  recollections of fieldwork

 

Gage, Maxwell ; Nathan, Simon

Geological Society of New Zealand

1999

52

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Nola Millar a theatrical life

 

Gaitanos, Sarah

Victoria University Press

2006

408

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

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

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Walter Buller  the reluctant conservationist

 

Galbreath, Ross

GP Books

1989

336

8vo

D-J (in protective wrapper) Paper over boards   VG - Near Fine

30

With map and illustrations, the biography of a man of contradictions, on the one hand the author of 'A History of the Birds of New Zealand', on the other the instigator of the extinction of some of the birds in the book, and his Papaitonga estate

8.000000

28.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Behind Bars

 

Garbett, Elaine

Author Pub

2009

52

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

22

With illustrations, experiences working in pubs in Featherston and Patea, and the life in these towns, including the closure of the Patea Freezing works

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Letters to Grace  Writing home from colonial New Zealand

 

Garner, Jean ; Foster, Kate (eds)

Canterbury University Press

2011

203

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a collection of letters from four women of the Hall family from four farms in inland Canterbury in the 1860s and 1870s

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Te Manihera  The Life and Times of the Pioneer Missionary Robert Maunsell

 

Garrett, Helen

Reed

1991

321

8vo

P-B Name covered HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of this missionary from the Church Missionary Society, arriving in New Zealand in 1935 and becoming the Superintendent of the Waikato Mission

7.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

An Artist's Daughter  with Christopher Perkins in New Zealand 1929-34

 

Garrett, Jane

Shoal Bay Press

1986

192

8vo

P-B VG

15

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

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Clan Cameron New Zealand

a history of the Clan Cameron Association of New Zealand 1935-2000

Gavin, Dorothy Cameron

Clan Cameron NZ

2004 Second edition (2003)

x 310p

4to

P-B  Near Fine

60

With illustrations and pen portraits, a history of the various Clan Cameron branches in New Zealand and their activities in the 20th century

5.000000

20.000000

41.000000

46.000000

50.000000

The Ancestors and Descendants of Horatio Smith Mackay and his wife Janet McIndoe

 

Gibson, Christabel

Author Pub

1998

136p (4p genealogical lists)

4to

Spiral bound Plastic front, back Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a New Zealand Mackay family history, including the diary of the voyage out (1853)

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Missions, Moons & Masterpieces   The Giffords of Oamaru

 

Gifford, Michael

Heritage Press

2005

218

4to

P-B Last two pages slight scratches Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, the story of this multi-talented family, arriving in Oamaru in 1862

5.000000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

My Life in Two Halves  a memoir

 

Gilderdale, Betty

David Bateman

2012

160

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, beginning in England, then in New Zealand from 1967, helping build the groundswell of children's fiction

6.000000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Seven Lives of Lady Barker

Author of 'Station Life in New Zealand'

Gilderdale, Betty

David Bateman

1996

xvi (1p) p18-312

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

32

With illustrations, the detailed biography of a writer whose publications in each of the countries she lived in have been successful, including New Zealand

5.000000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Postcards from Tukums  a family detective story

 

Gluckman, Ann

David Ling

2010

286

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

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

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

42.000000

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Mussolini, Bella Maria & Tojo

a kiwi soldier's memoir

Good, Lindsay

Steele Roberts

2003

157

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, a memoir of service in WW2, through New Zealand, Italy and then in Japan after the war

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

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Warm Milk and Apples

 

Goodall, Evered H

Author Pub

2004

196

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

Inscribed by the author, a detailed memoir of his early life in the 1930s in Riwaka, Nelson province

5.000000

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Warm Milk and Apples

 

Goodall, Evered H

Author Pub

2005 Reprint edition (2004)

196

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the life experience of this New Zealand retired farmer

4.000000

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In the Shadow of the Cape a history of the Gordon family of Clifton

 

Gordon, Angus

Author Pub

2004

216

4to

D-J (fading front, spine) Hardcover VG - Near Fine

40

Inscribed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the Gordon family and the farm at Clifton, beside Cape Kidnappers in Hawkes Bay

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

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Diary of a Hundred Days  Vol 2

 

Gormack, RS

Nag's Head Press

1975

83p (1p)

Small 8vo

D-J Cloth boards Paper label front board  Near Fine

25

A limited edition of 200 copies, days 51 - 100, from 7 August to 25 September 1942, life in Christchurch during wartime with the author and his circle of acquaintances

5.500000

23.000000

48.000000

43.000000

48.000000

Diary for 1940

 

Gormack, RS

Nag's Head Press

1986

57p (1p)

Small 8vo

D-J (fading, especially spine) Cloth boards, paper label front board Signature FEP VG - Near Fine

20

An edition of 225 copies, the author's experiences in Christchurch at the beginning of the war

5.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Once Upon a Pillion  a memoir of the 1940s

 

Gormack, RS

Nag's Head Press

2002

27p (1p)

Small 8vo

D-J Cloth boards Paper label front board  Near Fine

25

An edition of 70 (#32), the mind-meanderings of a trip by two motorcycles from Christchurch to Hakataramea and back in the early 1940s

5.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Only a Second Eleven Man

 

Goss, Alan M

Author Pub

2002

80

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

22

Signed by the author, a memoir of a New Zealand Minister, his War service and the various ministries around New Zealand and abroad

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

A Driven Man

Missionary Thomas Samuel Grace

Grace, David

Ngaio Press

2004

375

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps, slight fading spine  Near Fine

38

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

8.000000

19.000000

35.000000

39.000000

41.000000

From the Centre  a writer's life

 

Grace, Patricia

Penguin Random House

2021

301

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand writer, her books and her actions

7.500000

24.000000

48.000000

43.000000

48.000000

Uncle Alec and the Grahams of Franz Josef

 

Graham, Alec ; Wilson, Jim

John McIndoe

1983

224

8vo

D-J (fading, slight chip) Paper over boards VG

30

With illustrations, the diary of Alec Graham and his mountainous career, in and around Franz Josef and the Southern Alps

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Mighty Totara  the life and times of Norman Kirk

 

Grant, David

Random House

2014

511p (1p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

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

6.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Fearless and Outspoken  the lager-than-life Alfred W Renall

 

Grant, Diane (ed)

Wairarapa Archive, Fraser Books

2019

viii 137p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a life of this early Wairarapa local body and national politician

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

A Working Holiday 1940-1945

 

Grant, L/T Donald RN(NZ)9

Allen & Hodden

1992

(5p) 246p (1p)

8vo

P-B FEP clipped top fore-corner  VG

22

Thirteen 'trips' on the convoys to Russia, a New Zealand morse operator in the Royal Navy

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Quiet with the Hills

 

Gray, Constance (comp)

Pegasus Press

1970

210p (2p)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG

20

With illustrations, the life and experiences of Alfred Edward Peache, who arrived in New Zealand in 1875, aged 22, and went on to run the Mount Somers sheep station of more than 12000 acres

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

We Travel Together

 

Gray, Ian

Author Pub

2014

vii 295p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed and inscribed by the author, the travels of the author and his wife, both in life and in distance

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The History of a Family  the life, the times and the descendants of Charles Frederick Greenslade 1843-1917

 

Greenslade, Ken (comp)

Author Pub

1965

83

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

35

Signed by the patron of the family, with illustrations, this branch of the Greenslade family in Dunedin and New Zealand

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Riemenschneider of Warea

 

Greenwood, William

Reed

1967

152

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the biography of a German Protestant minister who ministered in Taranaki for 14 years from 1844-1858

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Cutten

 

Greif, Stuart W ; Knight, Hardwicke

Authors' Pub

1979

80

8vo

P-B Slight foxing covers Near Fine

40

Limited edition (#84/200), with illustrations, the life and letters of this early Dunedin businessman and landowner, and his Belmont House

6.000000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Growing Up and Growing Old in Governor's Bay

 

Griffen, Lachie

Author Pub

2009

208

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, life experiences of over 80 years living in Governor's Bay, on Bank's Peninsula

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Mark Cohen (1849-1928)

 

Griffiths, George

Author Pub

2008

24

4to

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, the life of a Dunedin newspaperman and sportsman, the ODT and Evening Star, and Albion Cricket Club

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Queenstown's King Wakatip

 

Griffiths, GJ

John McIndoe

1971

(frontis) 156p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, including Rees' own drawings, a life of this pioneer run-holder in the Wakatipu area

5.500000

14.000000

23.000000

28.000000

28.000000

The Blackstocks of 'Burnside'  their ancestors & descendants

 

Guise, Ian (comp)

Author Pub

1990

132p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

40

With maps and illustrations, the Blackstock family in Scotland and New Zealand, and descendant families, Wilson, McLean, Guise and Pirie

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Dr Gundry's Diary 2 vols

 

Gundry, John Seager

Nag's Head Press

1982

100p; 121p (1p)

Small 8vo

D-J (small chips, slight silverfish holes) Cloth boards  Paper label front board  VG - Near Fine

50

A limited edition of 300 copies, Volume 1 covers the author's migration to New Zealand as Surgeon-Superintendent on the 'Steadfast' February-June 1851, Volume 2 Commencing practice in Christchurch June-October 1851

5.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Hammy's Gold  prospecting yarns of the Wakatipu & Western Australia

 

Hamilton, Alan

Author Pub

2007

159

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the author looks for gold in Central Otago and Western Australia, and tells us how he scored

8.000000

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50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

 Indeterminate Sentence

 

Handyside, Allan

Philip Garside Publishing

2005

viii 120p

8vo

P-B Fine

35

The biography of a New Zealand conscientious objector during WW2, with maps and illustrations

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Indeterminate Sentence

 

Handyside, Allan

Philip Garside Publishing

2005

viii 120p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With map and illustrations, the 4 years spent in Rangipo Prison by this New Zealand WW2 conscientious objector

5.000000

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21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

One Good Run  the legend of Burt Munro

 

Hanna, Tim

Penguin

2005

308

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life of a true kiwi charachter, and world speed creator

6.000000

18.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Kim  the Kiwi on the Konig

 

Hanna, Tim

Finish Line Publications

2010

(2p) 508p

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand motorcycle racer in the 1970s

6.000000

30.000000

65.000000

65.000000

70.000000

All at Sea war and peace and other skirmishes

 

Harker, Jack

HarperCollins

2004

312p (6p catalogue)

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, the life and experiences of this New Zealand writer of naval books, including 'Well Done Leander' and 'HMNZS Achilles'

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Wharf at Waterfall Bay

 

Harper, Lisa

Random House

2013

269p (1p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, from farming and fishing in the Marlborough Sounds to cheese production and a new future

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Harrington Connection  our branch of the tree

 

Harrington, Jim (comp)

Author Pub

1990

144

8vo

P-B VG

40

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

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Johnny Jones a colonial saga

 

Harris, Diana

Reed

2007

311p (1p)

8vo

P-B Short inscription TP VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life and times of an early Otago business leader, farm owner, and whaler

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Flies, sand and unwashed socks  Letters from WWII

 

Harris, RG (Dick) ; Cambridge, Susan (ed)

Author Pub

2017

149p (4p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, the letters home from this New Zealand soldier, from Egypt and Greece, through North Africa and into Italy 1940-43

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac

 

Hastings, David

Auckland University Press

2018

185

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author goes in search of this survivor of WW1 and finds George McQuay

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie

 

Hastings, David

Auckland University Press

2015

230

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the murder of Mary Dobie in 1880s New Zealand, and the social and political results

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Forgotten Philanthropist  the life of Robert McDougall 1860-1942

 

Haworth, Jennifer ; Wagemaker, Paula (ed)

Translations Worldwide Ltd

2019

xvii p19-416 (1p)

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the life of this Christchurch businessman and family man, building up his 'Aulsebrooks' biscuit firm, giving him the capital to be philanthropic, most notably the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Riding with Whales  stories of great Sounds women

 

Heberley, Heather

Cape Catley Ltd

1999

xiv p15-259 (1p)

8vo

P-B Signature HTP Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the lives of 13 Marlborough Sounds women

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Recollections of Frances Elizabeth Menzies

 

Hector, Janet (comp)

Author Pub

2005

124

8vo

P-B Ex-lib, stamps, reinforced hinges  VG

20

With illustrations, diary entries and letters about growing up in England as  a Butler, then operating as a Menzies housewife, and farmer's wife in Southland. A tidy ex-lib copy

7.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Recollections of Frances Elizabeth Menzies

 

Hector, Janet (comp)

Menzies Reunion Cttee

2004

124

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, memories of a life in rural New Zealand in the nineteenth century, in Southland and on Banks Peninsula

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

High Country Legacy  four generations of Aspinalls at Mt Aspiring Station

 

Hedley, Alex

HarperCollins

2012

253p (3p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

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

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

My Yesterdays  in sunshine and shadow

 

Henderson, Alice E

Author Pub

1947

199

8vo

P-B Slight rubbing spine  Owner's name TP VG

22

The life of a New Zealand missioner in India at the beginning of the Twentieth Century

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

A Blaze of Colour  Gordon Tovey Artist Educator

 

Henderson, Carol

Hazard Press

1998

256

8vo

P-B VG

22

With illustrAtions, the life and work of this New Zealand artist and art educator, including as the national art supervisor in New Zealand

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

31.000000

33.000000

Jim Henderson's People

 

Henderson, Jim ; Foster, Bruce

Reed Methuen

1986

179

Oblong 8vo

P-B Inscription HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, short talks with Jim's people mostly in the Nelson-Golden Bay area

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle and beyond

 

Hennessy, Brian ; McMillan, Karen

McKenzie Publishing

2017

184

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

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

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

The Descendants of John Angus McDonald and Grace McQueen (2 vols)

 

Hey, Dorothy ; McDonald, Gordon

Author Pub

1977, 1986

15p (1p) ; 48p

8vo

P-B Inscription front cover vol 2, writing inside cover  VG

25

With lists and genealogical tables, this Scottish immigrant family to New Zealand which settled in Southland and then spread

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Pizzles in Paradise  the escapades of a travelling vet

 

Hicks, John

Jovi Books

2007 Reprinr ed (2005)

223

8vo

Card covers with flaps Crease front cover VG

20

With illustrations, the life of a Southland vet, after more than thirty years of tending to bird and beast

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

The Hills of Herbert

 

Hill, Dave E

Whitestone Publications

1998

142

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the lives of this North Otago family in Herbert/Otepopo and beyond

5.500000

16.000000

30.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Da Flittin'  of the Nicolsons from Shetland and the Duthies from Kincardine

 

Hill, Kathleen ; Miller, Diane (et al)

Lifelogs Ltd

2017

292

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

Signed by the co-author, with illustrations, the lives of these English immigrant families in New Zealand

7.500000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Richard Henry of Resolution Island

 

Hill, Suzanne and John

John McIndoe

1987

364

4to

D-J (fading spine, slight chip, in archival wrapper) Pale blue paper over boards  Slight tea stain base BEP VG  - Near Fine

125

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

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Richard Henry of Resolution Island

 

Hill, Suzanne and John

John McIndoe

1987

364

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards  Near Fine

150

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

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Westland  Journal of John Hillary, emigrant to New Zealand 1879

 

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

With maps and illustrations, the journey to New Zealand, and back to England, by a family of immigrants, a nice copy

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

View From the Summit

 

Hillary, Sir Edmund

Doubleday, Random House

1999

xi (1p map) 309p (1p)

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, Sir Edmund looks back over the climbing, the adventuring, the diplomacy, and the work in places like Nepal

5.000000

19.000000

34.000000

39.000000

42.000000

Taranaki between the wars 1918-1939

the people, their lives, their stories

Hitchcock, Valerie (et al, comps and eds)

Telford Media and Design

2008

240

4to

P-B  Near Fine

30

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

8.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Character and Longevity  a McIntosh Legacy 1859-2009

 

Hoban, James K W

Author Pub

2009

(5p) 180p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

48

With illustrations and genealogical tables, the life and descendants of Kenneth and Grace McIntosh in New Zealand, after 150 years

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Dr Hocken of Dunedin a life

 

Hocken, AG

East Riding Press

2008

(frontis) xii 194p

4to

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a life of this important New Zealand collector and Doctor

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

A Merchant Navy Man's Story

 

Hodgson, David Lionel

Author Pub

1998

(frontis) 192p

8vo

P-B Fine

35

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the war experiences of an engineer officer in the New Zealand Shipping Company 1939-1945, scarce

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Going South  a road trip through life

 

Hogg, Colin

HarperCollins

2015

272

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

Inscribed by the author, with map and illustrations, two ex-Invercargillites come back home and reconnect with their pasts

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Edward Johnston  Master Calligrapher

 

Holliday, Peter

The British Library, Oak Knoll Press

2007

xx (2p) 389p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the life of this important English calligrapher, letterer and influential teacher in the Central School of Art and Royal College of Art, and the setting-up of the craft communiuty at Ditchling in Sussex

7.500000

37.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Nothing but Grass and Wind  the Rutherfords of Canterbury

 

Holm, Janet

Hazard Press

1992

279

4to

D-J  Laminated boards Near Fine

55

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

5.000000

23.000000

50.000000

53.000000

58.000000

No Place to Linger  saga of a wartime Atlantic Kiwi

 

Holm, John

Holmwork Publishers

1985

xii 220p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the experiences of a New Zealand naval captain in the Atlantic convoys of WW2

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Best of Both Worlds the story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau

 

Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa

Penguin Books

2010

344

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

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

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Dear Sister  letters between a pioneer Wairarapa family and relatives in rural England 1856-1883

 

Holmes, Dr Robin ; Farley, Allan J (eds)

Wairarapa Archive

2006

x 221p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

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

5.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Sylvia!

(The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner)

Hood, Lynley

Viking

1988

264

8vo

D-J Near Fine

20

The biography of a NZ educator-writer, whose educational theories and practice were at first too advanced for the authorities.

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

36.000000

40.000000

Minnie Dean  her life and crimes

 

Hood, Lynley

Penguin

1994

221

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps VG

22

A study of the 'Winton Child Murderer", the only woman hanged by law in New Zealand

5.500000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Hoppertunity Knocks

 

Hopper, Edith

Author Pub

ND

125

8vo

Cloth binding Near Fine

45

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a Hopper family story, including life in Whangaparaoa

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Horncastle's Suitcase

a New Zealand family story

Horncastle, Graeme

The Pavilions Hotel Ltd

2011

360

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the life of this family, especially on the West Coast, and developing into rising and falling fortunes

8.000000

33.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

The Diary of Alfred Domett 1872-1885

 

Horsman, EA (ed)

OUP

1953

(frontis)  (1p) 311p (1p)

8vo

D-J (in plastic wrapper, price clipped)  Cloth binding  VG - Near Fine

35

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

8.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Goldfield Balladeer

the life and times of Charles R Thatcher

Hoskins, Robert

Collins

1977

xii 194p

8vo

D-J (slight chip, slight fading spine) Paper over boards  Near Fine

22

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Singer in a Songless Land

A life of Edward Tregear 1846-1931

Howe, KR

AUP

1991

241

8vo

D-J Near Fine

30

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

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Ghosts of Anzac

 

Howe, Onesimus William

Langsford Publishing

2015

182

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the diary of a New Zealand soldier who fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Shooting from the Lip  a Kiwi soldier's military mischief

 

Hughes, Lee

Random House

1999 reprint edition (1999)

223

8vo

P-B  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, episodes in a New Zealand soldier's life, including being a paratrooper and a gunner

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Speaking a Silence

 

Hunt, Christine

Reed

1981

146

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards, fading spine VG

20

With illustrations, the lives of fifteen characters from the Golden Bay community

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Black Prince

the biography of Fintan Patrick Walsh

Hunt, Graeme

Penguin

2004

288

8vo

P-B Owner's plate covered inside front cover  VG - Near Fine

22

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

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

A Passion for Fashion  the life of Lindsay Kennett, master milliner

 

Hunt, Hilary E

Ehn and Smith Publishing

2016

191

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand hat-designer, 'New Zealand's foremost millinery stylist'

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Hone Tuwhare  a biography

 

Hunt, Janet

Godwit, Random House

1998

200

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the first edition of a study of this New Zealand poet and writer, a nice copy

7.000000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

In Flanders Fields

the World War One diary of Private Monty Ingram

Ingram, Neil ; Kittow, Peggy (eds)

David Ling

2006

175

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Owner's stamp covered TP, blacked-out FE  VG

20

D-J Paper over boards Owner's stamp covered TP, blacked-out FE  VG

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Home Away From Home  life stories of Chinese Women in New Zealand

 

Ip, Manying

New Women's Press

1990

192

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life-stories of eight women from China who settled in New Zealand

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Q

 

Irvine, Elizabeth Fines

Author Pub

2009

(2p) 130p

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a Quartley family history, from England to New Zealand, especially the author's father

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

35.000000

38.000000

Akatere A Place Far Away  A Memoir

 

Jameson, J Lyndsay

Northland Historical Publications Society

2001

164

8vo

P-B Slight fading spine VG - Near Fine

32

With map and illustrations, the story of a Northland family's struggle for survival during the Depression

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Mollers  a family business

 

Jamieson, Bill

Moller Holdings Ltd

1982

(3p) 168p

4to

P-B Paper wrinkle bottom fore-corner, with slight paper loss first five fore-corners VG

30

With illustrations, the spread of Mollers through New Zealand, from transport and motors to a spread of industries

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

McPherson Family of Dunedin, New Zealand 1865-1947

 

Jeffery, Beverley

Author Pub

1995

(2p) 207p (4p for Notes)

4to

Paper over boards Bumping top, bottom spine Short inscription HTP VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the history of this family, first from the antecedants in Scotland, then the descendants, McPhersons, Munros, Mackays of Dunedin

6.000000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Worlds of James Jeffery, Victorian Teacher

 

Jeffery, WE

Author Pub

1995

v 276p

8vo

Cloth binding, gilt titles Near Fine

40

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

5.000000

15.000000

32.000000

35.000000

38.000000

From Norway with Love

 

Johnson, Rachel M

Author Pub

2006

232

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a recreation of the Anderson family and its settlement in the Manawatu

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

My Story

 

Johnston, Andrew J

Author Pub

1968

96p (p97-105 in end pocket)

4to

Plasticised boards Signature FEP Near Fine

40

The life and travels of a New Zealand Methodist Minister

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The amazing Mr Joy  an autobiography

 

Joy, Ian Harper

Author Pub

2012

86

4to

P-B Owner's signature inside front cover  Repaired crease back cover VG

25

Signed by the author, the colourful life of a New Zealand entertainer and magician

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Ngoingoi Pewhairangi  a remarkable life

 

Ka'ai, Tania M

Huia

2008

xxviii 144p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps CD in pocket inside rear cover  Fine

35

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A Soldier's Story a Mediterranean odyssey

 

Kane, Pat

Quality Pubs

1995

xi 147p

8vo

P-B Fine

35

With the author's signed plate, the illustrated experiences of this decorated New Zealand soldier in the Middle East and Italy

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

More Bygone Days in Lower Hutt

 

Kaye, George

Lower Hutt City Council

1989

101

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, short historical pieces on the people and events of Lower Hutt

6.000000

18.000000

36.000000

40.000000

44.000000

Aspiring

 

Kelly, Kieran

Pan Macmillan

2008

xi 286p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, taking up climbing in the Southern Alps in middle-age

6.500000

24.000000

48.000000

45.000000

48.000000

A House at Sunrise  a history of the Kempton Families of Elm Grove, Greytown, New Zealand 1839-1990

 

Kempton, Margaret ; Koh, Elizabeth (ed)

Author Pub

1990

(1p) 234p

4to

P-B Crease top fore-corner  VG

40

Signed, limited edition (#92/500), with illustrations, a branch of the Kempton family in New Zealand, and their property, Elm Grove

8.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

A Passion for Fashion

 

Kennett, Lindsay ; Hunt, Hilary E

Ehn and Smith Publishing

2016

191p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

55

With illustrations, the life of Lindsay Kennett, New Zealand master milliner

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Amassing Treasures for all Times

Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector

Kerr, Donald Jackson

Oak Knoll Press, Otago University Press

2006

351

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

35

With illustrations, an excellent study of this British colonial Governor, and New Zealand politician, and his written material collecting, and consequent gifting to the nations he 'governed'

7.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

To Find a Fortune  Women in the Thames Goldfield 1867-1893

 

Killip, Rosemary

Women's Studies, VUW

1995

112

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

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

7.500000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Frank Sargeson  A life

 

King, Michael

Viking, Penguin Books

1995

478

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards Light brown FEs VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the masterly biography of this key New Zealand writer

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

34.000000

38.000000

Tread Softly  for you tread on my Life

 

King, Michael

Cape Catley

2001 2nd print (2001)

186

8vo

P-B Fine

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

At the Edge of Memory

a family story

King, Michael

Penguin

2002

168

8vo

D-J Fine

28

With illustrations, further investigations of the author's family, here stretching through the USA back to Poland

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Wrestling with the Angel

A life of Janet Frame

King, Michael

Viking

2000

583

8vo

D-J Paper over boards, slight rubbing base  VG - Near Fine

48

Inscribed by the author, the long-awaited, weighty biography of Janet Frame, with illustrations

5.000000

25.000000

52.000000

56.000000

60.000000

Wrestling with the Angel

A life of Janet Frame

King, Michael

Viking

2000

583

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

The long-awaited, weighty biography of Janet Frame, with illustrations

5.000000

25.000000

52.000000

56.000000

60.000000

The Collector Andreas Reischek  a biography

 

King, Michael

H&S

1981

196

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Signature front paste-down  VG - Near Fine

28

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

An Inward Sun  the world of Janet Frame

 

King, Michael

Penguin Books

2002

160

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a companion piece to the author's 'Wrestling with the Angel'

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Being Pakeha Now

Reflections and Recollections of a White Native

King, Michael

Penguin

1999

251

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, a re-thinking of the earlier 'Being Pakeha', carrying the cultural debate forward

5.000000

18.000000

31.000000

35.000000

37.000000

Te Puea  a biography New edition

 

King, Michael

Reed

2007 Reprint edition

372

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

King of the Road  some showbusiness memories

 

King, Trevor

Author Pub

2006

76

4to

Soft card covers with taped spine  Near Fine

20

With illustrations, including show posters, memories of a life in entertainment in New Zealand, and some of the tours he was on

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Ordeal of William Larnach

 

Knight, Hardwicke

Allied Press

1981

136

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the various lives of William Larnach leading to his death in 1898 in Parliament

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Elsie

 

Knox, Judy

Author Pub

2010

196

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the life of the author's mother, Elsie Knewstubb (nee Cunningham)

6.000000

23.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

From the Lowlands to the Hills

 

Kolff, Tora

Author Pub

1987

iv 205p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the author's life in Holland, and then in New Zealand, especially in the Riverside Community

5.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Selections from the Writings of 'Tohunga'

 

Lane, William

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

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

5.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

A Kiwi in the Shetland Scattald

 

Laurenson, Graeme

Author Pub

1980

xvii 146p

4to

D-J (lightly foxed)  Paper over boards Signature FEP  VG

40

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

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Earlybird   the story of Phil Lightband

 

Laurenson, Wendy

Phil Lightband

1996

318

8vo

P-B Very slight tea spot back fore-corner  Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, the flying career of this motivator of the small aircraft industry worldwide

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Good Luck and Lavendar

 

Lawry, Marie

Author Pub

1980

(5p) 144p

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a semi novelisation of the Lawry family and its experiences in New Zealand, includes family tree

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Sea-Diaries of Thomas Laws

 

Laws, Robert (et al)

Author Pub

2018

vii 294p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, travelling between England and New Zealand in 1873 and 1901

6.000000

19.000000

38.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Not So Poor  an autobiography

 

Lee, Mary Isabella ; Cooper, Annabel (ed)

Auckland University Press

1992

163

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

20

With illustrations, the autobiography of the mother of John A Lee

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

We've made it... to the Twenty-first Century

 

Legg, Paul Beauchamp

Author Pub

2001

(1p) 226p

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

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

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

39.000000

42.000000

West Coast Memories 2 vols

 

Legg, Paul Beauchamp

Author Pub

1999

(3p) 162p (2p) ; 221p (1p)

4to

P-B  Owner's signature Vol 1 TP Near Fine

50

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a 'lifetime' of flying on the West Coast of New Zealand

8.000000

23.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

Dell to Dunrobin  The family tree and brief history of Alexander Finlay McKenzie and Elizabeth McFarlane

 

Leitch, Alan

Author Pub

1994

116

8vo

P-B  Covers laminated Signature TP With extra notes written/tipped in  VG

25

With map and illustrations, the wide-spread family of this couple who settled in 'Glen Dhe', Dunrobin, West Otago

7.000000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

As the Years Went By Between Greville and the Rai

 

Leov, LCF

Author Pub

1970

250

8vo

Brown cloth binding, gilt titles Slight foxing FEs Near Fine

120

With illustrations, the first edition of this memoir of life in the Marlborough Sounds area from 1897 to 1970

5.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Romantic Agony the love-letters of Charley Turner and Matilda McKenzie 1867-1870

 

Leov, Nola M (ed)

The Copy Press

2009

50

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, early life in European Nelson and the Pelorus Sounds

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Waiting 1895-1896

 

Leov, Nola M ; Turner, Margaret J

The Copy Press

2010

64

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, more about the Turner family of Nelson from 1895-1896

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The World of Emily Gracilla  letters to the Turner family from their faithful English friends and relations 1883-1886

 

Leov, Nola M ; Turner, Margaret J

The Copy Press

2011

42

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, further details about the lives of the Turner family of Nelson

4.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Slough of Despond?

 

Leov, Nola M ; Turner, Margaret J

The Copy Press

2013

44

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, more about the Turner family of Nelson in 1899

4.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

From Tiger Moths to Test Pilot

 

Lewis, Bernie

Author Pub

2015

(1p) 162p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

34

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

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Memories of Early Years and other writings

 

Lilburn, Douglas ; Hoskins, Robert (ed)

Steele Roberts

2014

150

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a collection of written pieces and musical scores by this New Zealand composer

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Wareing Saga  memories of a colonial South Canterbury family

 

Lipyeat, Moira (comp)

Wareing Family Reunion Cttee

2013

64

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a history of a New Zealand branch of the Wareing family, the first Wareing arriving in 1864 (JB), and moving to Temuka in South Canterbury

5.000000

15.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Willie Apiata VC  the reluctant hero

 

Little, Paul

Penguin

2008

255

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand SAS trooper and his winning of the VC

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Nordy  Arnold Nordmeyer  a political biography

 

Logan, Mary

Steele Roberts

2008

486p (2p)

8vo

P-B  Slight tea stain top fore-corner  VG

25

Inscribed by the author, a detailed study of this Labour politician and his effect on the Health and Welfare systems in New Zealand

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Printing of a Masterpiece

 

Loney, Alan

Black Pepper

2008

xi 113p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

28

How the writer, printer, publisher 'created' the masterpiece of 'Leonardo on Nothingness'

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

The Falling  A Memoir

 

Loney, Alan

AUP

2001

(2p) 130p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

18

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Remarkable Life Story of Sir Joseph Ward  40 years a Liberal

 

Loughnan, RA

New Century Press

1929

234p (1p) (2p catalogue)

Small 8vo

P-B Browning pages  VG

25

A relatively partisan biography of this New Zealand politician who became Liberal Premier, defeated by the Massey conservatives in the 1911 election

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Easily the Best  the life of Helen Connon 1857-1903

 

Lovell-Smith, Margaret

Canterbury University Press

1994

139

8vo

P-B Owner's label covered HTP  VG - Near Fine

22

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

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Plain Living High Thinking  the family story of Jennie and Will Lovell-Smith

 

Lovell-Smith, Margaret

Pedmore Press

1994

182

4to

P-B Near Fine

38

With illustrations, the story of a Christchurch family from the 1860s, and the development of a growing women's movement from the 1880s to the 1960s, the 'White Ribbon' magazine, the women's franchise movement, and the 'Women's Vote'

6.000000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

From the Wistaria Bush

 

Lowry, Vanya

Auckland University Press

2001

viii (2p) 157p (1p)

8vo

P-B Fine

32

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Reminiscences of a New Chum

 

Lucas, Charles F

Author Pub, ODT

1952

(frontis) 46p

8vo

D-J over soft card covers Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the author's experiences in farming in New Zealand, especially in Otago

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

A Lifetime Revisited  the first 92 years

 

Lundie, WJ (Jack)

Author Pub

2009

(4p) 192p

8vo

P-B VG

35

Signed and inscribed by the author, a long life, including time on South Island high country farms

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Under the Lynwood Tree 1840-1940

 

Lynn, Bob

Author Pub

1982

(2p) 142p (4p index)

8vo

Soft card covers Small tea stain one page Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the detailed story of this family in New Zealand and Australia, a nice copy

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

28.000000

The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd

 

MacDonald, Finlay

Penguin

2013

207p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations and reproductions, the life and art of 'Hairy Maclary' and friends

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Member for Mount Ida

 

Macdonald, Sheila

Ferguson & Osborn

1938

(frontis) (3p) 156p (portrait)

8vo

Blue cloth, black titles  Slight fading spine  VG - Near Fine

70

With illustrations, the life of 19th century New Zealand farmer and politician MJ Scobie Mackenzie, scarce

6.500000

20.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Going Abroad

The MacGibbon family and other early Scottish emigrants to Otago and Southland, New Zealand

MacGibbon, John

Ngaio Press

1997

231

4to

P-B Light fading spine VG - Near Fine

40

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

5.000000

20.000000

42.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Going Abroad Second Edition revised and Enlarged

The MacGibbon family and other early Scottish emigrants to Otago and Southland, New Zealand

MacGibbon, John

Ngaio Press

2002

258

4to

P-B Signature inside front cover Near Fine

45

A very detailed, illustrated family history which describes much of early immigration by the Scots to New Zealand and their development as New Zealanders

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Captain Jack  Surveyor and Engineer

the autobiography of John Mackie

Mackie, John

New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

2007

(5p) 444p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

45

With illustrations and maps, a very full life, including World War 2 and POW experience with the Japanese, and surveying back in New Zealand

5.000000

23.000000

51.000000

54.000000

58.000000

Wartime Correspondence

 

Macky, Peter (comp, ed)

Livadia Publishers

2007

323p (1p)

Oblong 4to

Laminated soft boards Slight fading spine Near Fine

35

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

9.000000

38.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

John Pascoe

 

Maclean, Chris

Craig Potton Publishing, The Whitcombe Press

2003

344

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, a detailed account of the author, historian, mountaineer and photographer who was John Pascoe, a nice copy

8.000000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

John Pascoe

 

Maclean, Chris

Craig Potton Publishing, The Whitcombe Press

2003

344

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a detailed account of the author, historian, mountaineer and photographer who was John Pascoe

8.000000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Nursing in New Zealand  history and reminiscences

 

Maclean, Hester

Tolan Printing Co

1932

(frontis), 283p

8vo

Red cloth binding  Slight wear top, bottom spine  VG

25

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A Will to Live

 

MacLean, Rick

Author Pub

2014

27 leaves

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the early life, aircraft accident, then return to life of this Wanaka man

6.000000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

The Fighting Man

a study of the life and times of T E Tylor

Macleod, Nellie FH

Dunbar and Summers

1964

(frontis) (10p) 143p

8vo

D-J Near Fine

24

With illustrations, the life of an early New Zealand socialist and Mayor of Christchurch

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Hard Times on the Chain Hills

 

MacManus, Vincent (et al)

Author Pub

2006

152

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, memories of this Dunedin family, farming during the Depression and later

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

I, Duncan, from Skippers

 

Macnicol, Duncan ; Trotter, Margaret

Author Pub

1987

(frontis) (3p) 103p

8vo

P-B  Tape residue Eps  VG - Near Fine

40

Signed by the Macnicols and 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

7.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Our Lesser Stars  twelve New Zealand Family Biographies

 

Main, Colleen P

New Zealand Society of Genealogists

1990

328

8vo

P-B Light fading spine VG

24

With illustrations, a collections of essays about New Zealand families of the 19th and early 20th centuries

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Reminiscences and Maori Stories

 

Mair, Capt Gilbert

Brett Printing and Publishing

1923

viii 120p

8vo

Cloth binding  Rubbing of colour top, bottom spine, and in white titles on front cover  Internal hinges beginning to crack VG

70

With illustrations, the author's memories of the New Zealand Wars and various Maori legends associated with the Rotorua region and the Bay of Plenty

7.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

There and Back  the story of a branch of the Malcolm family through the centuries

 

Malcolm, Lindsay

Author Pub

2008

182

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With maps, illustrations and tables, the lives of the Malcolm families from around Oamaru

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

From the Tops  A daughter reminisces on the life of Erskine Bowmar

 

Malloch, Janet

Author Pub

1992

155

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Slight fading spine Near Fine

25

The life of a driving force in Southland farming and local bodies, with map and illustrations

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

A Blessed Life  from Makarewa to Motueka

 

Maloney, Father Pat

Earl of Sutcliffe Art Workshop

2008

233

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

Inscribed by the author, a detailed autobiography of a New Zealand priest, overseas and in New Zealand, with illustrations

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Some Reminiscences

 

Mandeno, Harry

Author Pub

1968

107

8vo

P-B  Near fine

55

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

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Eighty Years in New Zealand

embracing fifty years of New Zealand fishing

Mannering, George E

Simpson & Williams

1943

255

8vo

Cloth binding, red titles  VG

30

With illustrations, the writer's reminiscences, including mountaineering and fishing in the North and South Islands

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Standing my Ground  a voice for nature conservation

 

Mark, Alan F

Otago University Press

2015

312

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the life of this advocate for the preservation of areas of ecological importance in New Zealand

5.000000

20.000000

40.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Life and Work of Samuel Marsden

 

Marsden, Rev JB (ed J Drummond)

W&T

1913

x 232

8vo

Card covers Slight wearing spine Insc FEP VG

35

Studies the life and effect of Marsden in NZ

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Black Beech & Honeydrew

 

Marsh, Ngaio

Collins

1966

287

8vo

D-J (slight chips, price-clipped)  Slight foxing FEs Small inscription FFEP  VG

28

The author's autobiography, with illustrations, of life in NZ and beyond

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

'The Years Roll On'

 

Martin, George P

Author Pub

1978

204p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With map, the detailed life of a teacher in Otago and Southland, working with and in his various communities

6.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Happiness in Willowbank Home

 

Martin, Gladys

Author Pub

2006

(10p) 203p (xxiii) (1p)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, the author's experience and guide to Diversional Therapy

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Doss 1914-2014 Well Worth the Journey

 

Martin, Graeme

Author Pub

2014

103p (5p)

4to

Paper over boards, gilt titles  Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a family scrapbook, with genealogical trees, cuttings and other ephemera

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Colonist's Gaze  the life of Charles Rooking Carter

 

Martin, John E

Wairarapa Archive, Fraser Books

2018

iv 323p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a life of this English immigrant in 1850 who worked hard to develop Wellington and the Wairarapa area, having a town named after him

6.000000

26.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Henry Cooper of Auckland Grammar School

 

Mason, Andrew

Auckland Grammar School Old Boys' Association, David Ling Publishing

2005

xiv 424p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life and experiences of this teacher and headmaster of Auckland Grammar School, Chancellor of the University of Auckland, and an important guide for the Woolf Fisher Trust

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

From Mountains to Meteorites

 

Mason, Brian ; Nathan, Simon

Geological Society of New Zealand

2001

72

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the life of this internationally-known New Zealand geologist

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Three Score Years and Ten  some thoughts along the rural way

 

Mathieson, EH

Author Pub

1979

55

8vo

P-B VG

20

A series of pieces which reflect on the author's rural life and economy, including the farmer's role in local government

3.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Will to Win

 

Mauger, Ivan

Golden Key

2010

xvii (1p) 430p

8vo

D-J Laminated boards  Near Fine

38

With illustrations, the autobiography of this New Zealand-born speedway rider who took on the world

5.500000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

A Life full of Flavour  the memories of John Maunsell

 

Maunsell, John

Fraser Books

2002

viii 232p

8vo

P-B Fading spine Owner's stamp covered FEP  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the growth of the Hansells company, and the development of the author's life

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Recollections and Reflections of an old New Zealander

 

Maxwell, Ebenezer

Reed

1937 3rd edition (1935)

(frontis) xviii (1p) 233p (4p ads)

Small 8vo

D-J (slight chips, in protective plastic)  Inscription FEP Slight foxing FEs VG - Near Fine

65

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Rock on Rarotoko  Centre Island Revisited

 

Maynard, Vaunda

Author Pub

2012

80

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

Signed by the author, life on this lighthouse island in Foveaux Strait in the 1940s

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Yours faithfully, Henry Tewsley

 

McBride, Ally

Author Pub

2015

227

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

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)

5.500000

15.000000

32.000000

35.000000

38.000000

Scattered Cedars  stories from the Lebanese Community in Dunedin

 

McCauley, Lisa (comp)

Cedars of Lebanon Club

2013

(4p) 138p

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight bump fore-corner) Plasticised boards, slight bump fore-corner  Near Fine

40

With illustrations and genealogical tables, the lives of the Lebanese settlers to Dunedin between the 1880s to 1930s and their families

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

44.000000

48.000000

Jenkins Family History

 

McClelland, Isabel (et al)

Jenkins Family Book Cttee

1997

280

4to

Laminated card covers  Fine

52

With illustrations, a detailed compilation of material on the generations of this family from Scotland to New zealand

5.000000

20.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Family Life on a Rehab. Farm  Early Days at Atiamuri

 

McClunie, Jessie

Author Pub

1996

53

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, the author's life experiences, including on a Rehabilitation farm in Atiamuri, in the Rotorua district

5.000000

6.000000

16.000000

10.000000

19.000000

Alexander Turnbull

(his life, his circle, his collections)

McCormick, EH

Alexander Turnbull Library

1974

xvi 324

Large 8vo

D-J (fading spine) Cloth binding Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a study of a man, his society, and his collecting

5.000000

17.000000

34.000000

37.000000

39.000000

The Gold Baron  Central Otago's mining entrepreneur

 

McCraw, John

Central Stories Museum

2009

146

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Beeby Fascicles 6 vols

 

McDonald, Geraldine ; Benton, richard (eds)

Te Aro Press

1992

6 vols

8vo

Boxed set  Near Fine

35

A collection of essays as a festschrift for the retired first director of the NZCER in New Zealand

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Shaking the Bee Tree

 

McEldowney, Dennis

AUP

1992

219

Large 8vo

P-B Fine

12

The author writes lovingly of the life of his wife and partner-in-life

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Shaking the Bee Tree

 

McEldowney, Dennis

Auckland University Press

1992

219

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the life of the author's wife, from 'blue' baby to septuagenarian

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

An Absurd Ambition

Autobiographical Writings of EH McCormick

McEldowney, Dennis (ed)

AUP

1996

xviii 213

8vo

P-B Fine

24

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Charles Fleming  Environmental Patriot

 

McEwan, Mary

Craig Potton

2005

(frontis) xxiii 382p

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards  Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand scientist, biogeographer, palaeontologist, zoologist and conservationist

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Te Oka  pakeha kaumatua  the life of Jock McEwen

 

McEwen, Mary

Reviresco Trust

2016

xi 312p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

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

5.000000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

The First New Zealand Bushranger

 

McGill, David

Silver Owl Press

2006

215

8vo

P-B Fine

22

The life of the 'Goldfields' Robber', Henry Rouse, known as Henry Beresford Garrett, and the legends that have grown around him

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Stacey

 

McGill, David

Silver Owl Press

2005

299

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

The life, style and 10 notable trials of this New Zealand Criminal Lawyer

7.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Will there be horses in Heaven?

 

McGregor, Dorothy

Author Pub

2017

230p (1p)

4to

Spiral bound, card covers Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a life in nursing and farming in Southland, with horses

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

44.000000

48.000000

Castle on the Run

 

McInnes, Gay

Pegasus Press

1969

189p (1p)

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

Life on Earnscleugh Station in Central Otago as the author grows up

7.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Journal of Henry Sewell 1853-7

 

McIntyre, W David (ed)

Whitcoulls

1980

2 Vols   510-371

Large 8vo

D-J Fine

45

Sewell was an important figure in early settler politics; in his journals are many judgements of the early politicians

5.000000

19.000000

36.000000

41.000000

43.000000

With Grace  her story and place in Campbell History 1642-1856

 

McIver -Keeley, Evelyn

Litle Red Schoolhouse Publications

2023

290

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the  expansive English life of Grace Campbell/Stevens and the descendants, including in New Zealand

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

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

With illustrations, a substantial biography of this early NZ journalist who rose to become leader of the Liberal Party and Premier

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The Life of James K Baxter

 

McKay, Frank

OUP

1992

xii 320p (2p maps)

8vo

P-B Inscription HTP VG

25

With illustrations, the soft cover edition of this detailed biography of one of New zealand's premiere poets

7.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The life of James K Baxter

 

McKay, Frank

OUP

1990

xii 320p

8vo

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards Nice inscription, owner's plate HTP VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of this 20th century New Zealand poet whose shadow falls long

7.500000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

My Life My Story

 

McKay, Leslie J

Author Pub

1993

208

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of a long-time member of the New Zealand Labour Party

5.000000

13.000000

36.000000

38.000000

30.000000

The Gentle Giants

 

McKenzie, Gordon

Author Pub

2010

viii 156p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, working with bullocks in the Northland bush in 1938

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Footprints  harnessing an inheritance into a legacy

 

McKenzie, Roy

Te Aro Press

1998

vi 279p

8vo

P-B Near-Fine

20

With illustrations, the life of a New Zealand businessman, philanthropist, and the Roy McKenzie Trust

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Gardner Family of Rosemains

 

McLaren, Ethel (comp)

Author Pub

ND

33

4to

Plastic cover over soft card covers, taped spine Owner's small stamp covered at beginning and end VG - Near Fine

25

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

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

The Gardner Family of Rosemains

 

McLaren, Ethel (comp)

Author Pub

 

33

4to

Plastic over paper covers Near Fine

20

Signed by the compiler, a branch of the Gardner family in Australia and New Zealand

8.000000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Reflections of Yesteryear

 

McLaren, ID

Author Pub

2004

60

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the next collection of the author's memories of living in Otago and going off to War

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

'Your Obedient Servant'  perspectives of a soldier  1942-46

 

McLaren, ID

Author Pub

 

56

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

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

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Your Obedient Servant" perspectives of a soldier

 

McLaren, ID

Author Pub

ND

58

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With map and illustrations, the author's war experiences, 1942-46, as a member of the NZ transport division, especially in Italy

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Henry Ferris Norman and Mary Ann Edwards

First reunion of Descendants Wanaka January 11-12 1986

McLeod, Shirley (et al)

Norman Reunion Cttee

1986

68

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations and family trees, the history of this South Island family

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

A Typographic Journey

 

McLeod, Tara

Katsura

2020

191p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

65

With illustrations and examples of the artist/printer's work, an overview of the 'products', from type specimens, wallhangings, broadsides and posters, to bookwork and typography in the third dimension

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Forget-them-not Our Past Women of the Chatham Islands

 

McMillan, Karen (et al)

Author Pub

1993

40p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

28

With illustrations, memories of seven Chatham Islands' women and their legacies

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Morrison Family Reunion  Glencoe Herbert 1974

 

McMillan, Tot (et al)

Morrison Family Reunion Cttee

1974

32

8vo

P-B VG

22

With illustrations, a branch of the New Zealand Morrison Faily, with genelogical lists

6.500000

18.000000

38.000000

35.000000

38.000000

Keith Harper  Man with a mission

 

McPherson, Suzanne

Author Pub

2012

271

8vo

P-B Short crease front VG - Near Fine

30

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

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

By the Braes of Balquether

 

McRae, Shona

Author Pub

1963

111p (1p)

8vo

D-J (fading spine, slight chips, paper rubbing, in archival wrapper) Two-tone cloth binding  Slight signature FEP  VG - Near Fine

60

No 41 of an edition of 400, with maps, drawings and illustrations, the McRae family at the Glens of Tekoa, in the Amuri, Canterbury

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

From Archangel to New Zealand  the diaries of Robert Henry Harding

 

McShane, Gregor

Rimu Publishing Co

1985

106p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

22

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

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

A Teacher's Story

 

Melser, June

Fraser Books

2004

(2p) 170p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Title page rippled VG

20

With illustrations, the teachings and experiences of this New Zealand teacher, so important in teaching reading

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A West Coast Holiday in the 1880s

 

Menzies, Mary

Menzies Family History Group

2003

50

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Mine Alone

 

Mercer, Rosemary D

Butterfly Creek Books

2007

(6p) 277p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

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

8.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Joan's Journey  the autobiography of Joan Millar

 

Millar, Joan

Sycamore Print

1992

75

8vo

P-B TP clipped  VG

22

Inscribed and signed by the author, the life of a Southland woman, especially farming at Browns, inland from Winton

5.000000

6.000000

17.000000

22.000000

19.000000

No Fretful Sleeper  a life of Bill Pearson

 

Millar, Paul

Auckland University Press

2010

xi 380p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

With illustrations, an absorbing biography of the author of 'Coal Flat'

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

41.000000

46.000000

Ronald Hugh Morrieson a biography

 

Millen, Julia

David Ling

1996

246

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life and works of this New Zealand writer

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Capturing Light  Roy Miller New Zealand Stained Glass Artist

 

Miller, Brian

Lifelogs Ltd

2016

272

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

55

Signed by the author, with wonderful illustrations, New Zealand stained glass windows and one of New Zealand's best stained glass artists

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Gold in the River

 

Miller, Fred WG

Reed

1974 Reprint edition (1946)

135

8vo

D-J Short inscription front paste-down VG - Near Fine

25

The author's life in Central Otago, looking for gold during the Depression, new, revised edition, with illustrations by John Husband

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Stitches in Time

 

Miller, Naomi

Water Under the Bridge Publications

2018

133

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, memories of life in New Zealand, initially as a Goodwin, in and around the South of New Zealand

5.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Conversations with Hilton Harrington

 

Miller, Naomi

Author Pub

2016

138

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life on Otago Peninsula, as family man, farmer, milk deliverer and truck driver

7.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Blue Banner  the life story of the Rev TD Nicholson

 

Miller, R Strang

Presbyterian Bookroom

1950

xi (1p) 185p

8vo

D-J (chips, small sticker removed from front with slight loss) Cloth binding VG

20

With illustrations, the life story of the pioneering Presbyterian minister in Nelson and Marlborough

5.500000

17.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

James and Ann Lawson Milne of Wyndham 1860-1985

 

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

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

41.000000

43.000000

Milner of Waitaki

 

Milner, Ian

John McIndoe, Waitaki High School Old Boys' Association

1983

218

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the life of this rector of Waitaki Boys' High School for nearly forty years

6.000000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Adventures by Sea and Land

 

Moffatt, Harry Louis

Nelson Historical Society

1979

(2p) 89p

8vo

P-B Signature crossed out front cover, Preface page VG

20

With maps and illustrations, the author's autobiography from 12 - 70, his voyage to Nelson, New Zealand, and his experiences there

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Adventures by Sea and Land

 

Moffatt, Harry Louis

Nelson Historical Society

1979

(frontis map) 89p

4to

P-B VG

20

With maps and illustrations, the life of an early traveller to New Zealand, including his experiences on the Nelson and Otago goldfields

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Family Business  an Italian-New Zealand story

 

Moleta, Vincent

Canterbury University Press

2012

311

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the life of the Barnao family in New Zealand, and the fishing business which developed

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Knocking about in New Zealand

 

Money, Charles L

The Capper Press

1972 (1871)

viii 151p

8vo

D-J (slight crinkle front)  Paper over boards Near Fine

25

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

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

From Poverty Bay to Broadway  the story of Tom Heeney

 

Monin, Lydia

Hodder Moa, Hachette Livre NZ

2008

256

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, the fighting life of a New Zealand boxer who just didn't win the Heavy Weight Championship

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Notes on my Life

 

Montgomery, WH

Shoal Bay Press

1995

144

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Slight remains of owner's plate FEP  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a long life, well-lived, a lawyer, artist, politician, farmer on Banks Peninsula, and traveller

6.000000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

More than you know  an autobiography

 

Moore, Albert

Jonathan and Rachel Moore

ND

314

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand minister and Professor of Religious Studies

5.000000

18.000000

34.000000

38.000000

41.000000

Stewart Family Gathering 12th March 1988

 

Moore, Charles Stuart

Author Pub

1988

76p (1p) (5p)

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, the descending family from Donald Stewart (1734-1806), Edinample Balquhidder, Duncan Stewart 1776-1839, Alexander Stewart (1805-1879), Westwood Blairdrummond, includes Downies

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Anzac Jack

 

Moore, Jack H

Author Pub

2004

136

8vo

P-B Fine

28

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

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

From Pushchair to Railway Train

The Memoirs of a Marlborough Farmer

Moore, John

Author Pub

1996

ix 162p

8vo

P-B Fine

25

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

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Samuel H Moreton the story of an Artist Explorer of the Middle Island of New Zealand 1863-1921

 

Moreton, Fraser R (ed)

Purfex Ltd

2004

(3p) 166p (2p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, this early artist's travels in New Zealand, and the resulting landscapes, including his trips on the Milford Track

6.000000

20.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Forgotten Founder  DM Stuart  Otago pioneer in the Church and education

 

Morgan, Margaret

Stuart Residence Halls Council

2019

72p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an appreciation/biograp hy of this early Otago minister and educationalist, including his role in the founding of Otago University

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Seaswept  Twelve Years in Quarantine

 

Morrison, Kathy

Author Pub

2021

203

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the twelve years that the author spent on Quarantine Island in Otago Harbour

8.000000

27.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

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 (chips, fading,  in protective wrapper) Strip browning EPs  VG

52

An edition of 750 copies, a nice copy of these letters from the West Coast gold rushes, describing his surveying experiences, with illustrations

7.000000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

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

28.000000

52.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Story of Suzanne Aubert

 

Munro, Jessie

Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books

1997 reprint edition (1996)

(3p) 364p

8vo

P-B Light fading spine  VG

25

With illustrations, the life of a 'missionary' who became a legend

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Metcalfe Family Album

Six Generations of Traditions and Memories

Murphy, Sallyann J

Chronicle Books

1999

(256p)

Oblong 8vo

Decorated paper over boards, red cloth spine, gilt titles  Near Fine

35

A wonderful way to show a genealogical history, with writings, letters, photographs, a lovely idea

7.500000

35.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Captain Anthony Wilding

 

Myers, A Wallis

Hodder & Stoughton

1916

(frontis) xii 306p

8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles spine Fading spine  Owner's signature FEP VG

40

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand-born tennis player before WW1, winner at Wimbledon, and killed in France

5.000000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Gold Wings and Webbed Feet

 

Nairn, Don

Craig Printing Co

1996

292

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the experience of a New Zealand pilot in War and Peace, in the Pacific and Fiordland

6.500000

29.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Half and Half  the memoirs of a charity brat 1908-1989

 

Nalden, Charles

Moana Press

1989

450p (1p)

8vo

P-B Fading spineVG - Near Fine

20

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the life of this English/New Zealand musical leader, lecturer and innovater

7.500000

28.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

The Memoirs of Norman Alfred Nash

 

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

Numbered, limited, signed edition (#156/400), memoirs of a various life, including fishing in New Zealand, and newspaper work

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Harold Wellman  a man who moved New Zealand

 

Nathan, Simon

Victoria University Press

2005

272

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, with maps, diagrams and illustrations, the life of one of New Zealand's more influential geologists

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

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

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Brother Wohlers

 A Biography of JFH Wohlers of Ruapuke

Natusch, Sheila

Pegasus Press

1969

226p (1p)

8vo

D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

45

The biography of JFH Wohlers, from the North German Mission Society, in his 40 years of mission work in the Foveaux Strait area, based on Ruapuke in amongst the Strait's Maori

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Brother Wohlers

 A Biography of JFH Wohlers of Ruapuke

Natusch, Sheila

Pegasus Press

1969

226p (1p)

8vo

D-J (chips, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards  VG

50

Inscribed by the author, the biography of JFH Wohlers, from the North German Mission Society, in his 40 years of mission work in the Foveaux Strait area, based on Ruapuke in amongst the Strait's Maori

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

From London to lonely Rai

 

Neal, Pearl E (comp)

Author Pub

1969

vi 208p

8vo

D-J (chips, rubbing, lacks front flap, in protective wrapper) Soft card covers Owner's details TP Gd-VG

40

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a branch of the Turner family in Nelson and wider afield in New Zealand

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

This is Our Story

 

Nees, Ernest and Doris

Author Pub

1982

259

8vo

H-B VG

15

Presentation copy; the foundation of a family and a family firm in Wellington

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

A Reverend Gentleman and his family

 

Neill, Mary

Author Pub

2001

337

8vo

P-B Near Fine

38

With illustrations, the life of Reverend William Nicholson, Presbyterian Minister in Australia and New Zealand, and the long line of descendants, with genealogical tables

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Bishop's Diary: Samuel Tarratt Nevill, with a short history of S Paul's Cathedral

 

Nevill, Canon ER

Author Pub

1922

131p (1p)

8vo

P-B Yapp covers with short tears, small piece missing top spine VG

30

Signed by the c0-author on the cover, a memoir by the first Bishop of Dunedin 1871-1919, and Primate of New Zealand 1904-19, scarce

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Life is a Barrel of Apples

 

Niblock, Joan ; Ritchie, Rayma (comp)

Author Pub

2001

72p (8p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life and experiences of a New Zealander who was in the First Aid Yeomanry (FANYs) during WW2

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Two Lost Threads

 

Nolan, Iris

Bateson Publishing

2003

vii 117p

8vo

P-B Fine

25

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

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Tiger Moths & Butterflies

with the Airforce in war and peace

Norman, Peter

Hazard Press

2003

136

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, life for the author and his young friends in joining the NZRAF and their war-time experiences

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

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

36.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

John Ritchie at Ninety  a festschrift

 

Norman, Philip (comp, ed)

Nota Bene Music

2011

xiii (1p) 200p

8vo

P-B Slight singature HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of pieces celebrating this New Zealand composer at the age of ninety

7.500000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Annie's War a New Zealand woman and her family in England 1916-19

 

Norris, Susanna Montgomerie ; Rogers, Anna

Otago University Press

2014

255

8vo

P-B Slight rub top, bottom spine Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the diaries of Annie Montgomerie providing an account of one New Zealand family's life in England during WW1

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

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The Jaffray Line  a brief detail of William and Margaret and their descendants

 

North, Joy

The 1987 Jaffray Reunion Cttee

1986

84

8vo

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, the long line of descendants of this couple who arrived in Dunedin in 1848

6.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

A Plumber's Progress  pilgrimage to the heart of Tibet

 

OConnell, WJ

Longacre Press

2003

222

8vo

P-B VG

20

With map and illustrations, the journey for a New Zealand plumber into another life, pushing the limits in Tibet

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Pioneers of the Plains  the Deans of Canterbury

 

Ogilvie, Gordon

Shoal Bay Press

1996

296

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the Deans brothers as early European settlers in Canterbury, then the family and their impact

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

44.000000

48.000000

The Riddle of Richard Pearse

 

Ogilvie, Gordon

Reed

1973

xiii 251p

8vo

D-J (in archival wrapper)  Paper over boards Owner's stamp FEP Near Fine

30

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

5.000000

18.000000

31.000000

35.000000

37.000000

Denis Glover  His Life

 

Ogilvie, Gordon

Godwit

1999

544p

8vo

D-J Near Fine

35

The first comprehensive bibliography of this NZ man-of-letters and printer, a valuable addition to the field of NZ literary biography

5.000000

26.000000

58.000000

63.000000

67.000000

Little Feet in a Big Room  Frances Ogilvie of China

 

Ogilvie, Gordon

Shoal Bay Press

1994

108

4to

D-J Paper over boards Owner's details FEP VG - Near Fine

20

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

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Picts and Porridge  an Ogilvie family history

 

Ogilvie, Gordon

Alan Gibbs

2002

viii 312p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, with many biographies, a wonderful family history

8.000000

21.000000

40.000000

46.000000

49.000000

James K Baxter  a portrait

 

Oliver, WH

The Port Nicholson Press

1983

(frontis) 160p

4to

D-J (fading spine) Plasticised boards VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand poet

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Looking for the Phoenix  a memoir

 

Oliver, WH

Bridget Williams Books

2002

ix 178p

8vo

P-B VG

20

The author, historian, poet, teacher, editor, his life and thoughts on life, where 'memory takes many forms'

5.000000

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A People's History

Illustrated Biographies from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

Oliver, WH (ed)

Bridget Williams Books, DIA

1992

xi (1p) 281p

4to

P-B Award plate HTP VG

40

With illustrations and plates, a very useful companion to the Dictionary of NZ Biography Vol 1

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vols 1-5

 

Oliver, WH , Orange, Claudia (eds)

A&U, DIA, Bridget Williams Books, AUP

1990-2000

5 vols

4to

D-J  Signature FEP Vol 1 Fine

400

Hundreds of biographies covering New Zealanders from 1769 - 1960, a lovely set.

20.000000

44.000000

100.000000

110.000000

124.000000

John A Lee

 

Olssen, Erik

University of Otago Press

1977

xii (1p) 223p

4to

D-J (slight rubbing extremities)  Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a sympathetic life of this New Zealand politician, in and out of the first  Labour Government

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

34.000000

35.000000

Otway Family History

 

Otway, Clive S (comp)

Author Pub

1982

(3p) 28p

4to

P-B Spine tape VG

28

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

3.000000

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24.000000

A Fighting Withdrawal  the life of Dan Davin writer, soldier, publisher

 

Ovenden, Keith

OUP

1997 Reprint edition (1996)

xxii 469p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a detailed life of this New Zealand ex-patriate writer and publisher for OUP

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Turning Back the Pages

a family history 1656-2007

Page, Roddy

Author Pub

2007

vii 174p

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the story of this family in New Zealand and overseas, with many illustrious members

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Champion  New Zealand's first Olympic winner

 

Palenski, Ron

New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame

2012

114

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of Malcolm Champion, the first New Zealander to win an Olympic Swimming Gold Medal, and his life afterwards

4.000000

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26.000000

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30.000000

Man At Arms

Capt John Richard Rushton NZ Militia

Parham, WT

Whakatane and District Historical Society

1977

(4p) 25p (4p illustrations)

4to

P-B with brown tape spine  Marks covers  VG

35

With map and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand Wars soldier, on both the West and East coasts of the North Island

5.000000

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19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Away from it all

Donald Sutherland of Milford Sound, NZ

Parham, WT

Whakatane and District Historical Society

1977

(3p) 24p (8p illustrations) (folding map)

4to

P-B with brown tape spine  Marks covers  VG

50

With map and illustrations, the life of this early explorer of Fiordland and fighter in the New Zealand Wars

5.000000

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19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Lasting Legacy  Alexander McMillan's contribution to the people of Otago

 

Parry, Gordon

Alexander McMillan Trust

2005

56

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

20

Inscribed by the author, a biography of one of Otago's modern benefactors

3.000000

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19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Lasting Legacy  Alexander McMillan's contribution to the people of Otago

 

Parry, Gordon

Author Pub

2005

55p (1p)

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a biography of this Otago businessman, patron, benefactor, and the Alexander McMillan Trust

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Once a Marine - always a Marine

 

Parsons, Capt Edward

Author Pub

1983

(frontis) 161p

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the author's experiences and promotion in the Royal Marines, and his life after war, including writing columns on such as catering and food

7.500000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Before We Say Goodbye

 

Parsonson, Denys

Whitcoulls

1975

199

8vo

D-J Near Fine

20

Farming and tourism in the Marlborough Sounds

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Mr Explorer Douglas

 

Pascoe, John ; Langton, Graham

Canterbury University Press

2000

320

8vo

P-B Fading spine  VG- Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the revised edition of this study of Charlie Douglas and the exploration of the West Coast, with new illustrations and material

6.500000

27.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Cassino to Trieste  a soldier's story

 

Paterson, EB 'Scotch'

Steele Roberts

2004

(frontis) 173p

8vo

P-B Fine

32

With illustrations, the author's experiences in the Italian campaign

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Patersons a story of land and sheep

 

Paterson, Martin M (et al)

Paterson Family

2016

357

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

80

With many illustrations, the Scottish, then New Zealand Paterson lineage, their Otago land and their sheep raising, with maps and lists

5.000000

21.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

Cowboys not what they used to be

 

Patterson, Jack

Countrywide Publications

1998

85

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

20

A collection of stories centred around experience of Central Otago, memories of farming and growing older

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

The Next Patient in the Waiting Room  essays on Edwin Keith Macleod physician, poet, thinker

 

Paul, Charlotte ; Somerville, Gwynnedd (eds)

Versal Press

2016

192

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the work and ideas of this Dunedin physician, through his words and those of his friends and colleagues

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

A History of the Craig Family  Scotland to Otago 1858-1990

 

Pearce, Don & Winifred (et al, comps)

Author Pub

1990

(4p) 77p (folding chart)

4to

Spiral bound, soft card covers Owner's small stamp Introduction page Near Fine

45

With illustrations and genealogical charts, a history of this family which spread from Scotland to Otago and out to New Zealand

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

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33.000000

Seeking a See  a journal of the Right reverend Henry Lascelles Jenner, DD, of his visit to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1868-1869

 

Pearce, Rev John (ed)

The Standing Cttee of the Diocese of Dunedin

1984

228

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the journal of the first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin who was originally refused a see when he arrived in Dunedin

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Hurricane Tim

the story of Sir Tim Wallis

Peat, Neville

Longacre Press

2005

(frontis) 325p (3p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, the first edition of this captivating biography, the life of one of New Zealand's premier entrepreneurs, with illustrations

5.000000

20.000000

40.000000

42.000000

44.000000

Seabird Genius  the story of LE Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the yellow-eyed penguin

 

Peat, Neville

Otago University Press

2011

288

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a life rich in importance for albatross research in New Zealand and around the world

6.500000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Hurricane Tim

the story of Sir Tim Wallis

Peat, Neville

Longacre Press

2005

(frontis) 325p (3p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

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

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Wiremu Pere  The Life and Times of a Maori Leader 1837-1915

 

Pere, Joseph Anaru Te Kani (et al)

Libro International, Oratia Media Ltd

2010

440p (end pocket with 2 folding charts)

4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Near Fine

80

With illustrations, the life of this East Coast Maori leader and parliamentarian, living through the post-colonial struggles

8.000000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

A Story of Five Generations  the Alexander and Brooke Taylor Families

 

Perry, Sydney (comp)

Author Pub

1980

76

4to

P-B VG

35

With illustrations and genealogical tables, a history of this English emigrant family who arrived in New Zealand in 1858

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Brothers in Arms  Gordon & Robin Harper in the Great War

 

Phillips, Jock (et al)

NZHistoryJock

2015

180

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

32

With illustrations, the war experiences of two New Zealand brothers in WW1, 1914-1916, including in Gallipoli and Palestine

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

36.000000

39.000000

In Thy Toil, Rejoice the story of JJ Patterson, Taranaki pioneer

 

Pickmere, Arnold

Author Pub

1991 revised edition (1990)

(2p) 202p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Inscription FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With map and illustrations, the revised edition of this study of a farming pioneer in Taranaki, in the shadow of the mountain

6.000000

20.000000

40.000000

44.000000

48.000000

The Life and New Zealand Descendants of  Harry E Pitt

 

Pitt, Geoffrey R (comp)

Author Pub

1980

16 leaves

4to

P-B Signature top front cover VG

20

With illustrations and family lines, the descendants of Harry Pitt and Emma Florrie Walter, who arrived in New Zealand in 1904-5 and took up farming in South Otago

8.000000

23.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

The Children from the Lighthouse

 

Pollock, Mabel

Pollock Books

2007 Revised edition (1993)

(2p) 208p

8vo

P-B Fine

45

Signed by the author, experiences in a lighthouse keeper's family around New Zealand, with illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Trees, Timber and Tranquility

 

Poole, Lindsay

C Rex Monigatti Publishing

1998

144

4to

D-J Paper over boards Owner's details covered TP VG - Near Fine

38

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealander, spent amongst the trees and forests

6.000000

26.000000

60.000000

50.000000

60.000000

A Journey in Search of Ancestors

the English Cotswolds to the Wairarapa in New Zealand

Pope, Christopher

Fraser Books

2008

viii 100p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a family history with a difference, an English cousin finds his family in the Wairarapa, New Zealand

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

From the Balkans to the Antipodes  memoirs of War and Peace

 

Popoff, Boris

Kingsclear Books

2010

(2p) 485p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

34

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a life under communism in Bulgaria, then in New Zealand, teaching Commerce and travelling

5.500000

22.000000

44.000000

46.000000

48.000000

Born to New Zealand  a biography of Jane Maria Atkinson

 

Porter, Frances

A&U, Port Nicholson Press

1989

ix 416p

8vo

P-B Fading spine Owner's stamp covered HTP VG

25

With illustrations, the life of a vivacious and intelligent woman in early European settlement New Zealand

6.000000

26.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Under the Nor' West Arch

 

Porter, Grace and Ted

Red

1970

173p (1p)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Signature HTP VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a life of farming in the Canterbury high country at Manuka Point, up the Rakaia River

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Recollections of a Voyage to South Australia and New Zealand commenced in 1838

 

Porter, William ; Law, Miranda and Garry (eds)

Maruiwi Press

2007

91

8vo

Paper wrapper over light card covers  Near Fine

24

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

5.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Just where do you think you've been?

 

Powell, Paul

Reed

1970

211

4to

D-J (slight chips top FE, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  VG

25

With maps and illustrations, the author's life in the mountains, both in New Zealand and overseas, answering the question in the title

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Green Sailor, Green Sea

 

Powell, Paul

Shag Point Press

2000

xiii 226p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The author's experiences on the convoy escorts in WW2, then service in the Pacific, with illustrations

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Banking under Difficulties or life on the goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand

 

Preshaw, George Ogilvy

Edwards, Dunlop & Co

1888

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

70

The experiences of a bank official in the Australasian goldfields in the 1860s

5.000000

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28.000000

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32.000000

Charles and Annie Aller and their six daughters

 

Price, Susan ; Allardyce, Robin

Gondwanaland Press

2000

x  p11-108

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

The family history of an English couple and their NZ-English children, with illustrations and family trees

5.000000

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21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Morgan Price & Family

 

Price, Trevor N

Author Pub

1991

299

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards  Fine

64

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Elespie & Ian  memoir of a marriage

 

Prior, Ian

Steele Roberts

2006

152

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the fascinating  family history of this New Zealand couple

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Carse Head and Crichton Park Farms  a story of the land and its people

the Trapski-Pullar family

Pullar, Margaret

Writes Hill Press Ltd

2013

viii 214p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, the story of a combined family who settled and farmed in Pukerau, Southland

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

On the Road Again my story of life on the road droving with a young family

 

Pullen, Gill

Author Pub

1996

96

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by both Pullens, with illustrations, a life in farming, including moving stock over miles of road

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

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Skirt Tales  stories of the lives of 100 women of Upper Clutha Area

 

Purdie, Margaret (ed)

Wanaka Women's Suffrage Cttee

1995

175

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, stories of women living in the Wanaka area

5.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Zero to 60

 

Quinn, Tony

PenguinRandomHou se

2016 6th printing

334p (2p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the story of a self-made man, the founder of Highlands Motorsport Park in Central Otago

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

40.000000

44.000000

The Snow Farmer  John Lee of the Cardrona Valley

 

Rae, Sally

PenguinRandomHou se

2016

303p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the story of the Lee family in the modern Cardrona Valley, the farms and their inhabitants, and the ski and snowfields that have grown up

8.000000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

My Story  a life fulfilled

 

Ralston, Stan

Author Pub

2014

127p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of a man born on the Taieri Plain and his future career as a Valuer

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

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A very New Zealand Family

 

Randle, Cushla

Author Published

2014

263

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a detailed history of a branch of the New Zealand Weston family which emigrated to New Zealand in the 1850s

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Memoirs of a minor Chemist

 

Rands, Max

Author Pub

1993

iii 89p

4to

P-B VG

30

The life and travels of a New Zealand chemist who worked in the meat industry

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

In the Years that are Gone

 

Reeves, Harman

Author Pub

1947

(frontis) 158p

8vo

D-J Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

The autobiography of a Dunedin businessman born in 1871, and his experiences in Gold Dredging, South Africa and Sharebroking

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

After the Fireworks  a life of David Ballantyne

 

Reid, Bryan

Auckland University Press

2004

vii 224p

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand writer

6.000000

20.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

James Michael Liston  a life

 

Reid, Nicholas

Victoria University Press

2006

412

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

The life of a long-standing Catholic Bishop in New Zealand, with illustrations

5.000000

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34.000000

39.000000

41.000000

James Michael Liston  a life

 

Reid, Nicholas

Victoria University Press

2006

412

8vo

P-B Library stamps, including FEs VG

25

With illustrations, the life and word of this New Zealand Catholic priest, Bishop of Auckland for fifty years, a tidy, ex-lib copy

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

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40.000000

Regular Soldier a life in the New Zealand army

 

Rennie, Frank ; Hayes, Jack (ed)

Willson Scott Publishing

2012

xii p13-330

4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the military life and experience of the author, and the foundation of the NZSAS

5.000000

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55.000000

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Cricketing Colonists  the Brittan Brothers in Early Canterbury

 

Rice, Geoffrey ; Ryman, Frances

Canterbury University Press

2015

328

8vo

P-B Slight tea mark FE Near Fine

35

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the biography of two of the forgotten early leaders in Christchurch, including in founding cricket in the town

5.000000

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32.000000

Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna  the illustrated biography second edition

 

Rice, Geoffrey W

Canterbury University Press

2008 2nd edition (2001)

383

8vo

P-B Near Fine

38

With maps and illustrations, the life of this Canterbury public figure of the past, soldier, politician, cabinet minister, philanthropist, stamp collector, cattle breeder and horticulturalist

5.500000

24.000000

48.000000

52.000000

56.000000

A Pioneer's Life

 

Richards, Bill

Benton-Guy Publishing

1989

93

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, the author's life pioneering the land, being a bushman, and shearing, the sequel to 'Off the Sheep's Back'

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

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26.000000

Off the Sheep's Back

 

Richards, Bill

Benton-Guy Publishing

1991

171

8vo

P-B Short inscription TP VG

20

With illustrations, a story of living off the land in the 1900s

5.000000

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24.000000

A Tribute to the Past  a history of the  families of Simeon richards and Agnes Niven

 

Richards, Valerie

Author Pub

2002

379p (Corrections slip at rear)

4to

P-B Rubbing extremities VG

40

With illustrations, a history of these branches of the Richards family from Cornwall and the Niven family from Scotland, and their lives in Australia and New Zealand

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Guiding Lights  the extraordinary lives of Lighthouse Women

 

Riddell, Shona

Exisle Publishing

2020

(8p) 243p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Owner's small stamp covered FEP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the lives of lighthouse women across the world, both as keeper's wives and keepers themselves

7.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Blighted Fame  George S Evans 1802-1868 A Life

 

Riddiford, Helen

Victoria University Press

2014

xxi (1p) 503p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

55

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

5.000000

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32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Conversations with Dorothy Jenkin

 

Ritchie, Eve ; Miller, Naomi

Author Pub

2015

145

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, and the artist's work in reproduction, a life of this eventual Stewart Islander

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Fitz  the colonial adventures of James Edward FitzGerald

 

Roberts, Jenifer

Otago University Press

2014

392

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a biography of this New Zealand 19th century politician and journalist, and his public life for over 50 years of NZ history

6.000000

28.000000

52.000000

48.000000

54.000000

The Roberts- Orme Ancestry Vol 1 Roberts, Muir and Allied Families

 

Roberts, John Douglas (ed)

Author Pub

1994

ix 346p (2 folding charts)

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

The first volume of this family history, concentrating on the history, and family relationships, of the American Roberts-Muir connections

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Beyond the Hills of Hundalee

 

Roberts, Thomas EL

Author Pub

1949

144

8vo

P-B Marks covers VG

25

With illustrations, the authors recollections of farming in Canterbury and Marlborough, on Woodbank, Starboro'and The Shades stations

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

For the Duration

2NZEF Officer Bruce Robertson on active duty and 'in the Bag'

Robertson, Bruce ; Robertson, Rosanne (ed)

Ngaio Press

2010

267

8vo

P-B  Marks FE VG - Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the war experiences of this New Zealand soldier, serving in North africa, then captured by the Germans and being a POW until 1945

5.500000

17.000000

31.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Hard Country  a Golden Bay life

 

Robilliard, Robin

Random House

2014

285p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

25

With map and illustrations, farming marginal land in Golden Bay, Nelson, and living with the neighbours

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

James Fletcher: Builder

 

Robinson, Neil

Hodder & Stoughton

1970

189

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards Small owner's stamp FEP Near Fine

22

With illustrations, the story of the founder of Fletcher's Construction, from humble beginnings in Dunedin as a young immigrant carpenter

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels  how the two lives of Grace Oakeshott defined an era

 

Robson, Jocelyn

Palgrave Macmillan

2016

xx 233p

8vo

D-J (slight nick top FE) Paper over booards Near Fine

40

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

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Johnny Rogers

 my life and times

Rogers, Johnny

Heritage Press

1984

127

8vo

P-B Fine

20

Autobiography of a famed NZ horse trainer-tamer, trick riding and stockman

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Keep on Trucking!

 

Rogers, Philip

Author Pub

2013

48

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the author's life, from getting cerebral palsy as a child, losing his speech, to running a radio show and playing songs for truckers

6.000000

18.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Clan Campbell Kamura in Aotearoa New Zealand 1800-2009

 

Rogerson, Tom LC (comp)

Clan Campbell Society of New Zealand

2009

120

4to

P-B Owner's details inside front cover Near Fine

25

With illustrations, personal details of Clan Campbell settlers in New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Brothers at War  a Kiwi family's story

 

Rolfe, Jim

Penguin Books

2004 (1995)

247

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the Second World War experiences of the author and his brothers in the Mediterranean and into Italy

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Brothers at War  a Kiwi family's story

 

Rolfe, Jim

Penguin

1995

247

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the story of the Rolfe Brothers from Putaruru in WW2

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Master

JD Ormond of Wallingford

Rolleston, Rosamund ; Wilson. Ormond

Reed

1980

(4p) 141p (2p catalogue)

8vo

D-J Near Fine

25

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

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

More than meets the Eye

 

Rose, Murray

Author Published

2010

320

8vo

P-B Slight paper wrinkling beginning and end VG - Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the life and experiences of this Southern farmer and one-time politician

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Recollections of a Chippie

 

Ross, Alex

The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit

1991

v 79p

4to

Spiral bound, plastic sheet over paper Small owner's stamp TP Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life story of this Southlander who worked as a carpenter in the South Island

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Women with a Mission

rediscovering missionary wives in early New Zealand

Ross, Cathy

Penguin

2006

208

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

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

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

William Stewart  Sealing captain, trader and speculator

 

Ross, John O C

Roebuck Society

1987

xi 200p

4to

P-B Fading spine VG

25

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

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Mixed Grill

 

Ross, Mrs Malcolm (Forrest)

Whitcombe and Tombs

1934

282

8vo

Card covers Water marked top back cover  Gd - VG

25

A collection of stories, sketches and recollections by Forrest Ross and her son, Noel, who served in WW1 and died in London in 1917

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

34.000000

38.000000

Life and Times of DM Stuart DD

 

Ross, Rev C Stuart

J Wilkie

1894

(frontis) xvi (portrait) 311p

8vo

Cloth binding, gilt titles  Fading spine Internal hinges repaired VG

40

With illustrations, the biography of this early leader of Knox Church in Dunedin

5.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Arapawa  Once upon an Island

 

Rowe, Betty

The Halcyon Press

1988

186

4to

P-B Slight fading spine VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, an American couple settles in the Marlborough Sounds and sets about saving the wildlife

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

A Fringe of Reeds

 

Rowe, Rosamund

HarperCollins

1997

(2p) 151p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Slight tea stain FE Owner's stamp TP VG

22

With illustrations, the transformation of a bare expanse into a country refuge for animals and the author

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A Humble Beginning  the Rush family 1730-1999

 

Rush, Steve ; Hartle, Dale

Author Pub

1999 2nd edition

iv 229p (3p) (folding map)

4to

P-B Near Fine

55

Limited edition (#239), with illustrations and genealogical tables, the story of the Rush family in New Zealand and earlier, in England, going back generations

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

From Far Strathearn

a family history

Rutherford, Alma

Author Pub

1983

48

8vo

P-B VG

24

With illustrations, the family history of the McEwans of Perthshire, then of Tokoiti and Browns, New Zealand, and the spread throughout New Zealand

6.000000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Prison Life on a Pacific Raider

 

Sandbach, Betsy ; Edge, Geraldine

Hodder & Stoughton

1941

x (1p) p13 -223

8vo

Cloth binding  Browning spine VG

25

With illustrations, the trials and tribulations for a pair of nurses and their children, the loss of the 'Rangitane', their capture and eventual arrival in Australia

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Venturer Courageous  Group Captain Leonard Trent VC DFC

 

Sanders, James

Hutchinson

1983

266

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Signature, short inscription covered FEP VG

25

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

5.500000

17.000000

35.000000

38.000000

41.000000

Moon, Tides & Shoreline  Gillian Karawe Whitehead  a life in music

 

Sanders, Noel

Steele Roberts

2010

287p (1p) CD in rear pocket

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

38

With illustrations, a biography of this modern New Zealand music composer and her music practice

6.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Major of King's

 

Sandford, LB

Author Pub

1973

103

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of Charles Thomas Major and King's College, Auckland

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

What Lies Beneath  a memoir

 

Sandys, Elspeth

Otago University Press

2014

223

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a memoir of this New Zealand writer

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Edwin Stanley Brookes  an Albertlander

 

Savage, Kevin

Kale Print

2012

148

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

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

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Haddon of Glen Leith

an ecumenical pilgrimage

Savage, Murray J

Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand

1970

88

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, the life and teachings of this first Principal of the New Zealand Churches of Christ Bible College at Glen Leith, Dunedin

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Oscar X-Ray Calling  the story of the Scarlet family in Papua New Guinea  1962-1971

 

Scarlet, Betty

Author Pub

2005

173

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

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

The first, extended study of notable New Zealanders, both Maori and pakeha, still useful

8.000000

43.000000

79.000000

88.000000

98.000000

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

With map and illustrations, the first serious study of New Zealand's first Governor and the Treaty of Waitangi

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

All the Juicy Pastures  Greville Texidor and New Zealand

 

Schwass, Margot

Victoria University Press

2019

296

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

32

With illustrations, the biography of this writer who spent time in New Zealand in the fourties, wrote 'These Dark Glasses' and other stories, and had an extraordinary life

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

In Remembrance

 

Scott, A Robert

Author Pub

1994

(1p) 179

8vo

P-B VG

38

Inscribed by the author, the memoirs, with illustrations, of a Southlander who became a Presbyterian Minister around New Zealand, especially in Southland and Otago

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

'C' a biography of Clem Scott

 

Scott, Dennis

Hazard Press

2004

216

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealand soldier (20 Battalion), becoming an amputee, then his life training horses back in New Zealand

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Stake in the Country  Assid Abraham Corban and his family 1892-1977

 

Scott, Dick

Southern Cross Books

1977

215p (1p) (additions/correction s sheet)

4to

D-J (chips, slight fading spine) Paper over boards Light foxing FES Slight coffee stain base last few pages  VG

25

Signed, limited edition (#427/1000), the story of this family's 75 years of wine-making in New Zealand

7.500000

34.000000

75.000000

75.000000

75.000000

A Radical Writer's Life

 

Scott, Dick

Reed

2004

342

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a life story by the author of 'Ask That Mountain'

5.000000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

John Bathgate 1809-1886

a sketch of his life and times in Edinburgh, Peebles and Dunedin

Scott, Sheila (ed)

Author Pub

1977

74

8vo

P-B VG

30

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

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

From the Edge of the Sky  a memoir

 

Shadbolt, Maurice

David Ling

1999

238

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

20

The follow-up to 'One of Ben's', a second volume of memoirs bringing sa life up-to-date

6.000000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

My Life from Antarctica to the Yukon

 

Shannon, John A

Author Pub

2010

(5p) 244p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the experiences of this New Zealand navy man, including his time in the Antarctica and upon the roadways of Northern Canada

6.500000

28.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The World, the Flesh, & the Devil  the life and opinions of Samuel Marsden

 

Sharp, Andrew

Auckland University Press

2016

viii 926p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

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

12.000000

26.000000

59.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Heaphy

 

Sharp, Iain

Auckland University Press

2008

vii (1p) 232p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Fine

58

With maps and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand artist, explorer, Victoria Cross winner

8.000000

23.000000

50.000000

54.000000

58.000000

From Rotenberg to Rector

 

Shaw, Alon

Timaru High School Old Boys' Association

2005

271p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life and career of Mervyn Ansley Bull, as soldier, churchman and teacher, especially at Timaru Boys' High School

6.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The Shaws  from shore to shore  19th century Irish emigrants to New Zealand

 

Shaw, Leone

Author Pub

2012

38

8vo

P-B Extra information written in  VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the story of Irish emigrants Thomas Edward Shaw and Rachel McCullough and their descendants

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

The Shaws from shore to shore

Nineteenth century Irish immigrants to New Zealand

Shaw, Leone

Author Pub

2012

38

8vo

P-B Near Fine

24

With illustrations, the story of an Irish mixed-religion family who arrived in New Zealand in 1865 and their descendants

3.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, composer

 

Shennan, Jennifer (et al, eds)

Steele Roberts

2015

256

4to

Plasticised boards Near Fine

55

With illustrations, a collection of contributions which highlight the life and music of this New Zealand composer, both home and abroad, just lovely

5.000000

20.000000

40.000000

42.000000

44.000000

"Like Smoke in a Wheelbarrow"

 

Sheppard, Elizabeth

Author Pub

2001 3rd reprint (2000)

vi 300p

8vo

P-B Light fading spine Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a memoir of growing up in Dunedin between the two world wars and into the late 40s

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

The Path from Guadalcanal

 

Shinya, Michiharu

Outrigger Publishers

1979

160

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

25

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

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Beyond Death and Dishonour

one Japanese at war in New Zealand

Shinya, Michiharu ; Thompson, Eric H (trans)

Castle Pub

2001

155p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the experiences of a Japanese POW sent to Featherston in WW2

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Sailing Ships and Sheep Stations

 

Shirres, Christian

Photo Process Printers Ltd

1964

(frontis) 407p

4to

Blue plasticised boards, gilt titles  Signature TP  Review affixed EPs Near Fine

60

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

8.000000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Good Citizen  a life of CE Daniell of Masterton

 

Shoebridge, Tim

Fraser Books, Wairarapa Archive

2009

vii (1p) 279p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

29

With map and illustrations, a biography of one of Masterton's early leading citizens, especially in its educational, commercial and infrastructural facilities

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Robert and Elizabeth Simmers

a family saga

Simmers, Keith (ed)

Simmers Family Reunion Cttee

1984

84

8vo

P-B VG

38

With map and illustrations, the lives of this extended family, settled from the UK in South Otago

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Bring on the Music

A life in the law, arts and community

Simpson, RSV (Dick)

Steele Roberts

2002

120

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

25

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

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Last Maopo

the life and First World War sacrifice of Wiremu Maopo

Simpson, Tania Te Ranginganngana

Libro International, Oratia Media Ltd

2014

157

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

38

With illustrations, the life and experiences of a 2nd Maori contingent soldier in WW1, and the subsequent lives on return to New Zealand

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

From Caithness to Southland

 

Sinclair, John ; Trotter, Margaret

Author Pub

1994

(frontis) (3p) 70p

8vo

P-B Slight tea stain bottom fore-corner front cover  VG

35

With illustrations, the life of this Scottish immigrant who came to farming in Southland

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Yvonne Rust  Maverick Spirit

 

Sjoquist, Theresa

David Ling

2011

244

4to

P-B Near Fine

48

With illustrations, a life of an artist, educator, potter, inspirer, positive force for humanity from her Brewery Studio

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The Taylor Millions    James & Elizabeth Taylor of Winton and their descendants

 

Smith, George A (ed, comp)

Taylor Family Cttee

1987

358

8vo

Paper over boards Gilt titles VG -  Near Fine

50

With maps, illustrations and genealogical tables, a detailed history of this Southland family

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Footprints of the Cook Family    Pioneering Sawmillers

 

Smith, Janet

Author Pub

2013

211

8vo

P-B Owner's details covered TP Slight rubbing base spine VG

40

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the author's parents' life in Otago and Southland from the early 20th century until the 1970s, sawmilling, including on the Routeburn

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Minnie Lily & Netta  memories of the Martins from Skerry

 

Smith, Kathy

Author Pub

2001

(2p) 38p (4p)

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the lives of three Irish sisters who emigrated to New Zealand in 1925

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Up the Blue  a Kiwi private's view of the Second  World War

 

Smith, Roger

Ngaio Press

2000

271

8vo

P-B Fading spine  Near Fine

30

The war experiences of an ordinary Kiwi soldier in the 24th Battalion in North Africa and Italy

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Working Class Son  my fight against capitalism and war

 

Smith, Ron

Author Pub

1994

x p11-256

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

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

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

41.000000

44.000000

King of the Castle

A Biography of William Larnach

Snedden, Fleur

David Bateman

1997

xi 268p

8vo

D-J Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the detailed life of this New Zealand businessman and politician, the author's grea-great-grandfather

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

No bugles no drums

 

Snell, Peter ; Gilmour, Garth

Minerva

1965

(frontis) (4p) 140p

8vo

D-J (rubbing around extremities, fading spine, in archival plastic)  Signature FEP Small tea spots FE  VG

95

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Seeds of Wisdom 2 vols

 

Snook, Barry

Author Pub

1998

198p, 200p

4to

P-B slight fading spine. VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the experiences of Rotorua citizens which can inspire and motivate others to overcome their own troubles

5.000000

23.000000

50.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Snow in the Lindis an autobiographical ramble

 

Snow, Madge

Author Pub

2014

(1p) 480p

8vo

P-B Short crease back fore-corner  Near Fine

40

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

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Snow in the Lindis an autobiographical ramble

 

Snow, Madge

Author Pub

2014

(1p) 480p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

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

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Snow on the Lindis  my life at Morven Hills Station

 

Snow, Madge ; Dawson, Bee

PenguinRandomHou se

2015

268

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the Snow family and the generations farming on Morven Hills, by Lake Hawea

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Bruce wants to go faster  Bruce McLaren from backyard racer to World Champion

 

Sobanja, Dreyton

Inspired Kids Ltd

2016

63p (1p)

4to

Hardcovered Near Fine

25

Signed by the author and Jan McLaren, a book about Bruce McLaren designed to inspire children to achieve great dreams

6.000000

20.000000

40.000000

46.000000

52.000000

Mana Whakatipu  Ngai Tahu leader Mark Solomon on leadership and life

 

Solomon, Mark ; Revington, Mark

Massey University Press

2021

247p (1p)

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards Signature FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the steward of the Ngai Tahu Settlement with the Crown, and his people

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

The Otago Somervilles

 

Somerville, Lenore

Somerville Family Reunion Cttee

1972

48

8vo

P-B Short inscription, signature inside front cover VG

35

With illustrations, a short history of this 'Otago' family, up to the third generation, scarce

5.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

The Green Years

 

Soper, Eileen L

John McIndoe

1969

80

8vo

P-B Signature HTP VG

15

With illustrations, the author's growing years in Invercargill and Dunedin

3.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Brother John  the life of the Rev John Hobbs

 

Spooner, TGM

Wesley Historical Society

1955

(frontis) 54p

8vo

Card covers with paper wrappers  VG

25

With illustrations, the life of a Methodist minister who arrived in New Zealand in 1823

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Give Your Thoughts Life   William Colenso's Letters to the Editor

 

St George, Ian (comp)

Otago University Press

2011

497

8vo

P-B Near Fine

48

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

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Appo Hocton  Wong Ah Poo Hoc Ting  New Zealand's fist Chinese immigrant Nelson 1942-1920

 

Stade, Karen

Nelson Provincial Museum

2013 2nd edition

78

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life story of a Chinese immigrant who jumped ship in Nelson and rose through the settler society to die as a 'gentleman'

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Thomas Potts of Canterbury  colonist and conservationist

 

Star, Paul

Otago University Press

2020

328

8vo

P-B Short crease front cover fore-corner  VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a life of this early Canterbury colonist and his early efforts in New Zealand towards environmental conservation

6.500000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

South-West of Eden  a memoir 1932-1956

 

Stead, CK

Auckland University Press

2010

ix 345p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

Memories of the first 25 or so years of this New Zealand writer

5.000000

14.000000

29.000000

32.000000

35.000000

Billy's Trip Home  the remarkable diary of an All Black on tour

 

Stead, William (Billy)

New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame

2007

88

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

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

7.000000

20.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

John Grigg of Longbeach

 

Stevens, PG

Whitcombe and Tombs

1952

xiii (1p) 63p (1p)

8vo

D-J (tears, small piece missing top spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding  VG

20

With illustrations, a life of this Canterbury farming pioneer

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Waggoner Jack and us

Waggoning tales on the Crown Terrace Arrowtown to pioneering on the Southland peat

Stevenson, Alma

Author Pub

2009

84

Oblong 8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of an Otago family around Arrowtown across the twentieth century

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A man of the land

 

Stevenson, Brian ; Ramsay, Claire (ed)

Author Pub

2011

77

4t0

P-B Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, the busy life of this Otago farmer, his services to farming and to the community

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Portrait of a Judge

Sir Joshua Strange Williams PC

Stewart, W Downie

W&T

1945

(frontis) 112p

Small 8vo

P-B Owner's inscription HTP VG

35

The author's homage to a Dunedin Supreme Court judge, the book inscribed by J M Macandrew of Dunedin

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Born Lucky  Colin Richardson's journey from town boy to rural legend

 

Stirling, John (comp)

Richardson Family

2008

96

8vo

P-B Inscription by Colin richardson on TP  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, life as a farmer in South and West Otago, then in the politics with Federated Farmers

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Stokes Centenary 1879-1979

 

Stokes, Bert

Author Pub

1979

51p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

35

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

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

James Dilworth

 

Stone, Russell CJ

Dilworth Trust Board

1995

xiii 269p

4to

D-J Fine

30

With illustrations, the life of this Auckland businessman and the boarding school he founded, a lovely copy

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Bomber Barron

Wing Commander James Fraser Barron

Stowers, Richard

Author Pub

2009

156

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the war experiences of this New Zealander, holder of the DSO and Bar, DFC and DFM, Pathfinder pilot in WW2

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

Musterer on Molesworth

 

Stronach, Bruce

Whitcombe and Tombs

1953

(3p) 69p

8vo

D-J (chips, small pieces missing) Cloth binding VG

25

With illustrations, experiencing mustering sheep on what was once New Zealand's largest sheep stations

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Craigie-Lea  the Craigie family history New zealand 1848-1973

 

Stuart, RJ

Author Pub

1973

16 leaves

8vo

P-B  Slight inscription TP VG

20

With illustrations and family trees, the 125th anniversary of this family in Southern New Zealand

6.000000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Graduate  reminiscences and reflections of an octogenarian

 

Stuckey, Freda C

Author Pub

2005

65p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the life and travels of this Otago teacher/counsellor

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Allen Curnow  Simply by Sailing in a New Direction

 

Sturm, Terry ; Cassells, Linda (ed)

Auckland University Press

2017

xiv 717p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand poet and literary critic (1911-2001)

10.000000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Three Brothers

 

Styles, Lynette

Author Pub

2019

228

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the lives of three Styles Brothers, William, John and James (Jim) who left England behind for Australia and New Zealand, and their lives, and descendants, thereafter

7.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Fleur  the life and times of pioneering restaurateur Fleur Sullivan

 

Sullivan, Fleur ; Brown, Natalie

Random House

2011

258p (4p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of this New Zealander, a cook, a chef, a restaurant owner, and so much more

6.500000

29.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

A Way Home

 

Sullivan, Jillian

Potton and Burton

2016

199

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, how the author came to find peace-restored in the construction of a strawbale house in Central Otago

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

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31.000000

Patearoa at War  Central Otago Soldiers write Home during World War One

 

Sullivan, Jim

Rock and Pillar Press

2012

197

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

40

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

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Essie Summers Story

 

Summers, Essie

Mills & Boon

1974

(2p) 212p

8vo

D-J (in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, the autobiography of this prolific New Zealand romance author, complete to the year of publication

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

My Dear Chick  a New Zealand love story 1911-1948

 

Sutherland, Beth

Fraser Books

2008

iv 271p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Paikea  the life of I L G Sutherland

 

Sutherland, Oliver

Canterbury University Press

2013

480

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

55

With illustrations, a life of this New Zealand scholar known for his advocacy for Maori self-determination

8.000000

21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

51.000000

Stewart Island Days  a district nurse looks back

 

Swain, Gladys

Author Pub

1970

112

8vo

D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, life on Stewart Island in the 1930s and 1940s, from the point of view of a nurse

6.000000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Halls of Huirangi

 

Swain, Maggie

Author Pub

2001

iii 272p

4to

P-B Near Fine

58

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

5.000000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

 Mike Sinclair  King Kenny's spanner-man

 

Swanson, Kerry

David Bateman

2016

335

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the story of a motorcycle racer who became crew chief for Kenny Roberts' Yamaha Grand Prix Team

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Te Ahiwera  A Man of Faith The life of Benjamin Y Ashwell

with his Reflections of a Waikato Missionary

Tagg, MA

Anglican Historical Society

2003

80

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the life, work and words of an early Church Missionary, especially in the Waikato, during the New Zealand Wars period

5.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

In the Chair  the public life of Sir John Ormond

 

Tait, PS

Author Pub

1989

viii 192p

8vo

D-J Plasticised strip spine Paper over boards Near Fine

25

Signed by JD Ormond, with illustrations, a life of this Chairman of the New Zealand Meat Board and of the New Zealand Shipping Company

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Family from the Terrace  the Robert Wilson family history

 

Taylor, Dorothy B (comp)

Author Pub

1983

260

8vo

P-B VG

35

With illustrations and family trees, the detailed history of the extended Wilson family in southern New Zealand

5.000000

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24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Leslie Bourneman Neale  A Man of Faith and Vision

 

Taylor, Leah

Dunedin Methodist Mission

2000

(1p) 125p

4to

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of a significant Methodist Church leader, 21 years as Superintendent of the Dunedin Methodist Central Mission

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Peter Fraser Hill of Fearn

 

Taylor, Marjorie E

Fearn Community Council

2006

66

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the origins of this wartime New Zealand Prime Minister, then his political experiences through the War

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

As Darker Grows the Light

 

Taylor, Peter

H&S

1975

x 153

Large 8vo

D-J (fading spine) VG

25

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

The Lure of New Lands  the family histories of the Taylors and the Brookings

 

Taylor, Peter W

The Bush Press

2004

160

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the establishment of these two families in the early New Zealand of the 1850s, and the subsequent generations

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Chance is a Fine Thing

 

Temple, Philip

Vintage, Random House

2009

272

8vo

P-B Owner's stamp covered EP  VG

20

With illustrations, a memoir of an extraordinary New Zealander, writer, historian, mountaineer, campaigner

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A Sort of Conscience  The Wakefields

 

Temple, Philip

Auckland University Press

2002

(2p) 584p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight chips top FE of last few pages VG -  Near Fine

50

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

6.500000

38.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Problematical Journey  the story of a New Zealand family

The Templetons of Southland 1862-1997

Templeton, Hugh

Templar Press, Templeton Reunion Cttee

1997

351

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, a detailed history of this family from throughout Southland, with genealogical tables and lists

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Road from Goodwood

 

Thomas, Bill

MC Jones Trust

2020

242

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

60

Signed by the author, the story of the Jones family and its descendants, beginning with John Jones, the farm at Goodwood, North Otago, and spreading into the twenty-first century

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

May Your Shadow Never Grow Less

 

Thomas, Helen

Fraser Books

2016

v (1p) 489p

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

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

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

52.000000

56.000000

May Your Shadow Never Grow Less

 

Thomas, Helen

Fraser Books

2016

489

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

50

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the life and times of Henry and Jane Holland, in Canterbury 1863-1945, farmers and local politicians

6.000000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

And some found Graves

The Goldfields diary of John Aspinall

Thompson, AJ (comp)

Hesperian Press

2002 Second edition (1993)

viii 87p (1p)

8vo

P-B Inscription inside front cover  VG

25

With illustrations, the diary of a goldminer in New Zealand's Central Otago who left for the goldfields of Australa

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Covering the Ground

 

Thompson, Colleen

Author Pub

2013

288

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's life, from 1933-2013, covering many miles between Auckland and Kerikeri, and various farms

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Open Windows  Women of the Mahurangi tell their stories

 

Thompson, Dianne (et al)

Warkworth BPW

1998

224

Oblong 8vo

P-B  Small signature TP  VG - Near Fine

25

With map and illustrations, a collection of 38 women's stories from around the Warkworth area

7.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Open Windows  Women of the Mahurangi tell their stories

 

Thompson, Dianne (et al, eds)

Warkworth BPW

1998

224

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

With map and illustrations, a collection of the stories of 38 women from the Mahurangi

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Peter Fraser

New Zealand's Wartime Prime Minister

Thorn, James

Odhams

1952

288

8vo

D-J (chips, small piece missing top, bottom spine,  in protective wrapper) Signature FEP Light foxing FEs VG

25

Written by Fraser's Parliamentary Under-Secretary; covers background, years in Labour, Ministerships and subsequent trials in War; selected illustrations

7.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Long Long Trail

 

Thorp, MM

Author Pub

1971

110

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the story of a long life, a childhood in the lower North Island, then nursing and travel

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Passageways  the story of a New Zealand Family

 

Thwaite, Ann

Otago University Press

2009

352

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the story of a New Zealand-British family that first came to New Zealand in the mid-19th century, and included in its fold Harrop, Campbell, Valentine, Jefcote and Oliver

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Second Chance

 

Todd, Mark

Orion Books

2012

ix 272p

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the autobiography of this legend of a Kiwi equestrian

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Robert Butler  Aus and NZ Criminal

his early life from 1860 till his death (by hanging) 1905

Tonkin, Lance C

Author Pub

1980

20 leaves

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

15

With illustrations, the life and death of this 'criminal' in Australia and New Zealand

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Memorials of J A Torrance

 

Torrance, John Ainslie ; Chisholm, Rev James (ed)

NZ Bible Tract and Book Soc, The Patients' and Prisoners' Aid Soc

1908

(frontis) 158p

8vo

Cloth binding, gilt titles  Browning spine Browning EPs Slight foxing FEs VG

25

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

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Hero from Nithdale Station  the remarkable true life story of Major Charles WH Tripp 'The Boss'

 

Tripp, Dick

Wild Side Publishing

2019

81

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the life of this Southland farmer and New Zealand soldier in WW2 Pacific

6.000000

18.000000

36.000000

36.000000

40.000000

William and Isabella Trotter

 

Trotter, Margaret

Author Pub

1983

(frontis) 117p (1p)

8vo

Soft-card covers  Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the family history of the author's husband, early farmers in the South and Southland, with extended family

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Cowie Family

 

Trotter, Margaret

Author Pub

1977

141

8vo

Soft-card yapp covers Signature HTP  VG

30

With maps and illustrations, the author's family history, early settlers in Southland

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Margaret's Story  a Southland childhood in the 1920s

 

Trotter, Margaret ; Trotter, June

Author Pub

2011

125

8vo

P-B Signature HTP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a family tale of the Cowie and Trotter families in Southland

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Dunedin's Spiteful Socrates  JGS Grant

 

Trotter, Olive

Author Pub

2005

158

8vo

P-B Crease front fore-corner VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a biography of a Dunedin personality who infuriated everyone

7.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

A Versatile Kiwi

 

Trounson, Gordon Vivian

Author Pub

1999

157

8vo

Spiral binding Card covers VG

25

The varied vocational life of a New Zealand tradesman

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Governor William Hobson his health problems and final illness

 

Trubuhovich, Ronald V

Author Pub, Auckland Medical History Society

2015

vii (1p map) 64p

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a study of New Zealand's first Governor

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse

 

Tunnicliff, Shirley (ed)

Daphne Brasell Assoc

1992

(2p) 121p

8vo

P-B Fine

28

With illustrations, the letters and life of the wife of the first Anglican Bishop of Nelson

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Somebodies and Nobodies

 

Turner, Brian

Vintage

2002

399

8vo

P-B TP cut at top forecorner  VG

22

Inscribed by the author, life in the Otago Turner family into the 1960s, as the author is launching into verse

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Living at Mount Algidus

 

Turner, Gail

Hazard Press

2006

133

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Paradise Lost a memoir

 

Turnhout, John van

Author Pub

2018

133

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the life and experiences of a Dutch New Zealander from the mid 1950s, in the South of the South Island

6.000000

24.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Salt in my Blood

 

Twomey, John

Author Pub

1998

168

4to

Laminated soft card covers Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the author's experiences on board ships, including 17 years with the Ellerman Line, before, during and after World War Two, and his moving to New Zealand

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Winemaker  George Fistonich and the Villa Maria story

 

Tyack, Kerry R

Random House

2012

368

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the turning of a cottage industry winery into an international brand while maintaining its independence as a family company

7.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Captain Charles   Engineer of Charity

the remarkable life of Charles Gordon O'Neill

Utick, Stephen

Allen & Unwin

2008

xii 276p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

8.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A Deserter's Adventures

the autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli

Vaggioli, Dom Felice ; Crockett, John (trans)

University of Otago Press

2001

xx (2p) 271p (1p)

8vo

P-B Owner's label covered inside front cover Fading spine VG

30

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)

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Hell-Bent for Life

 

Valentine, Dr John

John Valentine Publishing

2009

(8p) 360p

8vo

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

30

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

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

Bread in the bulkheads, bilges full of booze

Bruce Vallely 1929-1999 Yachtie Commodore Columnist

Vallely, Raema

Waiata Publishing Ltd

2001

(2p) 56p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

24

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a cruise through Bruce Vallely's recorded memories, and memories of others, a nice eulogy

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Growing up in Wartime

recollections from chidren & adolescents of the 1940s

Veitch, Isobel (comp) ; Palmer, Mervyn (ed)

Author Pub

2009

101

8vo

P-B Wear spine, fore-corner Gd - VG

20

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

3.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Brown and the Elms

 

Vennell, CW

The Elms Family Home Preservation Trust

1984

x 189p

8vo

P-B VG

30

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

The Forgotten General

 

Vennell, Jock

Allen&Unwin

2011

xiii 338p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

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

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Man of Iron  the exraordinary story of New Zealand WW1 hero Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone

 

Vennell, Jock

Allen&Unwin

2015

(x) 274p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

For King and Country  Four Brothers, Four Crosses  a New Zealand story

 

Vennell, Jock

Wily Publications

2019

120

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the Christophers Invercargill family with five sons, four of whom were killed in WW1, and the after-effects of WW1 on its returned soldiers

7.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast  a New Zealand pioneer

 

Von Haast, Heinrich Ferdinand

Author Pub

1948

(frontis) xxi (1p) 1142p

4to

Blue binding, gilt titles Light rubbing top, bottom spine Short inscription front paste-down   VG

70

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

8.000000

29.000000

64.000000

71.000000

77.000000

Out of the Ashes

 

Waddington, EB

Author Pub

1971

30 leaves

8vo

Plasticised boards Near Fine

35

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

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Tales of a Port Doctor

 

Walker, Norman

Author Pub

2006

236p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's medical life, expecially as a doctor in the port of Lyttelton

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

From Sailing Ships to Microchips

 

Walker, Vern

Author Pub

2009

344

4to

Laminated boards  Top fore-corner bumped Signature covered FEP   VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a history of the Shirley and Walker family from England and their immigration to New Zealand, with the mixing in of the Moran and Welsh families from Ireland

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Black Singlet Brigade  tales of adventure in the New Zealand bush

 

Walsh, Tony

Author Pub

2013

105p (3p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

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

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Down the Bay  growing up in the shadow of Larnach Castle

 

Walther, Margaret

Printmax Christchurch

2009

65

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a childhood on Otago Peninsula in the 1930s

3.000000

10.000000

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Dear Lizzie  a Kiwi soldier writes from the battlefields of WW1

 

Ward, Chrissie (ed)

HarperCollins

2000

142

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards  Near Fine

32

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

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Dear Lizzie  a Kiwi soldier writes from the battlefields of World War One

 

Ward, Chrissie (ed)

HarperCollins

2000

142

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

20

With illustrations, Ira Robinson's experiences with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade on the Western Front, and his letters home

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Miles Warren an autobiography

 

Warren, Miles

Canterbury University Press

2008

vi 182p

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards, cloth spine  Near Fine

50

With illustrations and plans, a life in New Zealand architecture

5.000000

21.000000

43.000000

47.000000

51.000000

Sunnyside  the Mitchell family of Mimihau

 

Watson, Lindsay ; Berry, Lorraine ; Bray, Heather

Lindsay R Watson

2018

x 275p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, the family Mitchell who left Scotland in 1868 and settled in Southland, New Zealand, and all their many descendants

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Courage Without Cash Pt 2

 

Watson, Stuart

Author Pub

2002

104

4to

P-B Spine tape VG

28

With illustrations, the continuation of the Watson Family story, including life in the Marlborough Sounds

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Scribbling in the Dark  Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

 

Wattie, Nelson

Steele Roberts

2011

64

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a introductory sketch/biography of this New Zealand poet

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Grass Catcher  a digression about home

 

Wedde, Ian

Victoria University Press

2014

288

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a memoir of a writer's life

6.500000

26.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Tuned in to the Galley Stove

 

West, Theodore L

Author Pub

1996

100

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

Signed by the author, a recounting of his six years starting as a cabin boy at the end of World War Two and working in the galley around the world, with illustrations

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Beatrice (Hill) Tinsley 1941-1981 Astronomer

 

Whineray, Scott (comp)

Massey University, NZ Institute of Physics

1985

97

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a tribute to this outstanding physicist who made 'spectacular' contibutions to the understanding of Earth's origins

8.000000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

How the Land Lies

of longing and belonging

White, Pat

Victoria University Press

2010

239

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a memoir of a New Zealander coming to grips with discovering a place to call home

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

J  John's Journey

 

Whitelock, John

Heritage Press

2008

389p (3p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

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

9.000000

21.000000

59.000000

67.000000

71.000000

John's Journey

 

Whitelock, John

Heritage Press

2008

389p (3p)

4to

P-B Small name blacked out HTP Near Fine

38

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

5.500000

28.000000

58.000000

64.000000

68.000000

The Wilson Story

 

Wierzbicka, Cynthia (comp)

Author Pub

1973

(frontis) 222p (folding map)

8vo

Green hard cover Near Fine

140

Signed by the compiler, the family of the Wilsons of Hawick and the development of Ngaio station, scarce

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Model A Motorhome

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

With illustrations, a Depression journey down the South Island of New Zealand, including memorable moments on the West Coast

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Days and Ways at Boys' High

 

Wilkinson, VF

Pegasus Press

1979

214p (1p)

8vo

D-J (slight chips) Paper over boards VG

22

With illustrations, life at Christchurch Boys' High School for over thirty-five years, the 1940s to 70s

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Paua Skies  a life of many colours

 

Williams, Elspeth

Author Pub

2007

403

8vo

P-B Slight crease cover Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations, from birth in Japan, childhood in England, then life in New Zealand, with genealogical charts

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The McNee Family Affair  from Balquhidder to the Buller

 

Williams, Jean

Author Pub

1982

58p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

22

Signed by the compiler, with illustrations and genealogical tables, the descendants of Jane and Robert McNee in New Zealand

5.000000

18.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

More Mosgiel Yarns

 

Williams, Judy (ed)

NZSG Mosgiel Branch

2002

(5p) 72p

4to

P-B Spiral bound  Near Fine

25

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

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

To Build a Dream

 

Williamson, Edith

VM Press

 

(4p) 132p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

28

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'

5.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

My Throne a Cockpit

 

Williamson, Owen Donald

David Bateman

2016

256

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, topdressing tales from Southern New Zealand, especially Central Otago, in the 1970s

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

John Hobbs 1800-1883

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

With maps and illustrations, a study of the early Wesleyan mission to New Zealand and its impact on Maori, especially in the North

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Rutherford  Simple Genius

 

Wilson, David

Hodder & Stoughton

1983

638p (1p)

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Slight writing FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a detailed life of this New Zealand, and world, scientist, from simple beginnings in Nelson to burial in Westminster Abbey

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

75.000000

75.000000

The Wilsons and Ngaio

 

Wilson, Hamish

Author Pub

1982

(2p) 75p

8vo

Plasticised boards Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, the Wilson family of Ngaio, in the Rangitikei, including family tree

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Intimate Stranger  reminiscences of Dan Davin

 

Wilson, Janet (ed)

Steele Roberts

2000

240

8vo

P-B Near Fine

34

With illustrations, a collection of essays by literary figures, family, friends and colleagues paying tribute to Dan Davin and his contributions to literature

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

John Harris  a memoir

 

Wilson, Ormond

Christ's College

1986

24

8vo

P-B VG

20

A memoir of this teacher and librarian whose legacy is the John Harris Collection at Christ's College Library in Christchurch

8.000000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Free Lodgings

 

Winter, Peter

Reed

1993

143

8vo

P-B VG

22

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

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Poetry and Exile  letters from New Zealand 1938-1948

 

Wolfskehl, Karl ; Wattie, Nelson (ed, trans)

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

Being Chinese a New Zealander's story

 

Wong, Helene

Bridget Williams Books

2016

182p (1p)

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

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Being Chinese  a New Zealander's story

 

Wong, Helene

Bridget Williams Books

2016

181p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a Chinese New Zealander coming to grips with her ancestry

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Iggy's Air Force Tales

 

Wood, Iggy ; Wood, Diana

More Than Words Ltd

2013

159

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With ilustrations, the experiences while being with the RNZAF for 30 years

6.000000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Soldier, Sailor & Airman Too

the fighting life of Group Captain AB 'Woody' Woodhall

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

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

GeTaWay

 

Woodroofe, Gordon Thomson

Riverside Publications

1998

viii 320p

8vo

P-B VG

35

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the story of the only New zealand airman to escape from a German POW camp and make his way back to England during World War Two

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Herbert Woods   a famous Broadland pioneer

 

Woods, Jennifer

Captains Locker Publications

2002

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

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Emily Peter 1858-1927  A Nurse at War

 

Woodward, Joan ; Mitchell, Glenys

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

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

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Sage Tea  an autobiography

 

Woollaston, Toss

Collins

1980

268

8vo

D-J (fading spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards Signature HTP  Slight foxing FE VG

25

The first part of this New Zealand artist's autobiography, up till the early 1930s

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

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

37.000000

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