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Title

Sub-title

Author

Publisher

Published

Pages

Size

Condition

Price

Comment

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A Baker's Tale  the life and times of Ernest Adams

 

Adams, Hugh

Hazard Press

2005

243p (1p)

8vo

P-B Ex-lib, laminated covers, rubber stamps EPs VG

22

With illustrations, 'tales' amongst the history of this New Zealand bakery, of the people and the development, a tidy ex-lib copy

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17.000000

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Fatal Necessity  British intervention in New Zealand 1830-1847

 

Adams, Peter

Auckland University Press, Oxford University Press

1977

308

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

The conflicting pressures that led to the British Government intervening in New Zealand, leading to 'The Treaty of Waitangi'

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28.000000

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The Taming of Distance  New Zealand's first international telecommunications

 

Airey, Elisabeth

Dunmore Publishing

2005

xi 187p

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the history of the undersea cable, New Zealand's connection with the telegraphic world, the control of the cable, and the people who worked with it in New Zealand

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The Settlement of Indigenous Peoples Claims to Natural Resources  The Sealords Deal

 

Aitken, Kristin P

Author Pub

1993

vii 90p (xxii appendices)

4to

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles  Near Fine

85

A thesis dealing with a New Zealand legal settlement over the 'ownership' of indigenous resources, here marine resources, detailing the background and the steps taken to bring the settlement to conclusion

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37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Incidents of the Maori War New Zealand in 1860-61

 

Alexander, Sir James E

Capper Press

1976

(frontis) vi (1p map) 425p (1p)

8vo

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

40

With map and illustration, a period of the New Zealand Wars, and the causes and effect of the Maori King movement

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

60.000000

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The Cultural Significance of Wetlands in Taranaki

Progress Report: Publications

Allen, Harry (et al)

The Royal Society of New Zealand

2004

37 leaves

4to

Spiral bound, soft card backing  Owner's stamp TP  Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of pieces from various journals dealing with New Zealand wetlands and artefacts found in them

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New Zealand in World Affairs 1990-2000

 

Alley, Roderic (ed)

Victoria University Press

2007

328

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with the position of New Zealand in its Pacific area and the wider world, politically, economically, environmentally

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30.000000

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34.000000

Sure to Rise  the Edmonds Story

 

Alsop, Peter ; Parsonson, Kate ; Wolfe, Richard

Canterbury University Press

2023

303p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards, cloth spine  Slight rubbing base  VG - Near Fine

50

The history, both human and graphic, of this New Zealand company and its brand

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32.000000

80.000000

75.000000

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Promoting Prosperity  the art of early New Zealand advertising

 

Alsop, Peter ; Stewart, Gary

Craig Potton Publishing

2013

439p (1p)

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

110

With many illustrations, a collection of essays focusing on early New Zealand advertising art and its powers of persuasion

13.000000

42.000000

91.000000

101.000000

112.000000

Selling the Dream  the art of early New Zealand tourism

 

Alsop, Peter ; Stewart, Gary ; Bamford, Dave

Craig Potton Publishing

2012

408

4to

D-J Laminated boards  Near Fine

145

With illustrations, the promotion of New Zealand through posters, brochures and other material, with essays

13.000000

54.000000

120.000000

110.000000

120.000000

Selling the Dream  the art of early New Zealand tourism

 

Alsop, Peter ; Stewart, Gary ; Bamford, Dave

Craig Potton Publishing

2012

408

4to

D-J Laminated boards Gift inscription HTP VG - Near Fine

145

Signed by the three authors, with illustrations, the promotion of New Zealand through posters, brochures and other material, with essays

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51.000000

142.000000

135.000000

142.000000

Bird Song  and New Zealad Song Birds

 

Andersen, Johannes G

Whitcombe & Tombs

1925

(frontis) (6p) 216p

8vo

Red cloth binding  Repairs spine  Wear top, bottom spine, bumping fore-corners  GD - VG

55

Subscriber's copy #201, with illustrations and musical scores, an important book, especially recording the sound of New Zealand extinct birds

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Fifty Years  The Vintage Car Club of New Zealand

 

Anderson, Molly (ed)

The Vintage Car Club of New Zealand Inc

1996

viii 207p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Fine

40

With maps, illustrations and drawings, the first 50 years of this car club, including races out of New Zealand, an interesting creation

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No Other Home Than This

a history of European New Zealanders

Andrews, John

Craig Potton Publishing

2009

364

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

32

With maps, an account of the backgrounds, and hence the cultural values, of the European settlers of New Zealand, what they brought with them, and how these helped shape what became their new home

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New Zealanders As We See 'em cartoons and caricatures

 

Anon

New Zealand Caroonists' Assoc

1937

434

8vo

Black cloth binding, gilt titles Slight wear spine Signature FEP VG

42

The second annual, recording New Zealand business and other leaders in cartoon and caricature form, an A-Z

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20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The New Zealand Parliamentary Record

 

Anon

Govt Print

1925 Revised edition

(frontis) 224p

8vo

Blue boards, slight rubbing top, bottom spine  Slight marks EPs  Signature FEP Slight corrections in text VG

35

The revised record of Parliament to 1925, with lists of Executive Councils, Legislative Councils, Parliaments, the Ministries and their Premiers,Speakers, MPs, Clerks, includes the Provincial Governments 1853-1876, with corrections written in

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Woodford House  Register of Old Girls 1894-1964

 

Anon

Woodford House

1964

154

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, a short history of this Hastings school for girls, with the full register of girls who attended, including some boys who attended for a short time

7.500000

22.000000

45.000000

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Regulations for Conducting the Survey of Land in New Zealand

 

Anon

Govt Print

1908

49p (folding charts)

8vo

Cloth over boards Water stain inside covers Owner's details TP Small coffee stain top some charts at rear Gd

60

With charts, the NZ regulations as of 1908, including those affecting mining surveys

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New Zealand Statutes1904

 

Anon

Govt Print

1904

xiii 421p

4to

Maroon cloth binding, gilt titles, blind rules  Rubbing FE, patches of fading  VG

40

The Public and Private statutes passed in the 1904 year

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21.000000

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History of Wellington Post-office

 

Anon

Govt Print

1913

42p (1p)

8vo

Red cloth binding, gilt titles, blind rules  VG

65

With illustrations, the various buildings used in Wellington in which the post office has worked

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New Zealand Statutes1918

 

Anon

Govt Print

1918

xiii 287p

4to

Maroon cloth binding, gilt titles, blind rules  Rubbing FE, patches of fading  VG

40

The Public and Private statutes passed in the 1918 year, including Acts dealing with the Armed Forces and War Legislation

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21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Wise's New Zealand Index  Every Place in New Zealand 9th Edition

 

Anon

H Wise & Co

1945

(4p ads) (frontis) (3p) (7p ads)  536p (map)

Small 8vo

D-J (chips, repairs, in protective plastic)  Light wear top spine cloth Owner's stamp verso frontis  Yates rubber stamp FEs  Small water stain top FE at rear Gd - VG

45

Stated as the 9th edition, but actually the 15th successive issue, with 12 plates, mostly of scenes from North to South

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32.000000

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The New Zealand Constitution Act

together with correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand

Anon

R Stokes, printer

1853

127

8vo

Cloth binding, grease stain top spine which goes throughout text block  Title page cut at top  Light foxing on a number of pages Gd

175

The first Act to make New Zealand a separate British colony, including correspondence between England and New Zealand building up to 1853

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37.000000

41.000000

Morrinsville Methodist Church Golden Jubilee 1903-1953

 

Anon

Morrinsville Methodist Church

1953

9 leaves

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations and lists, the first 50 years of this Methodist Church

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Thorndon Methodist Church 75th Anniversary Celebrations

 

Anon

Thorndon Methodist Church

1947

10

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations and lists, a short history of this Wellington Methodist church

5.000000

6.000000

17.000000

22.000000

19.000000

New Zealand Statutes1906

 

Anon

Govt Print

1906

xviii 382p

4to

Maroon cloth binding, gilt titles, blind rules  Rubbing FE, patches of fading  VG

40

The Public and Private statutes passed in the 1906 year, including the first 'Motor Regulation'

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21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Audacity of Faith  Sisters of Compassion Centennial 1892-1992

 

Anon

Home of Compassion

1992

168

4to

P-B Crease back cover VG

30

With illustrations, a hundred years of the work of Suzanne Aubert and her legacy, the Sisters of Compassion

5.500000

17.000000

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John Cawte Beaglehole  a bibliography

 

Anon

Alexander Turnbull Library, Victoria University of Wellington

1972

47p (1p)

Small 8vo

Wraps over card covers, title label front of wraps Small owners stamp HTP VG - Near Fine

20

With plate, a fairly complete bibliography, from 1919-1971, with his 'James Cook' to be published

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The Statutes of New Zealand 1885

 

Anon

Govt Print

1885

viii 528p

4to

Beige cloth binding, wear on spine  Fore-corners bumped  Inside hinges cracked Mechanics Institute rubber stamp prelims, at end  Gd - VG

55

Statutes for NZ, including Amendments to Mining Acts and the Immigration and Public Works Appropriation

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26.000000

54.000000

58.000000

62.000000

Regulations for Conducting the Survey of Land in New Zealand

 

Anon

Govt Print

1908

49p (14 appendices)

8vo

Khaki cloth over boards Owner's details TP VG

60

With illustrations and charts, includes survey regulations under the 1900 Act, regulations affecting Mining surveys under the 1905 Act, survey regulations under the 1892 act, and examination regulations

6.000000

19.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress Vol VII Anthropology

 

Anon

The Pegasus Press

1953

681p (1p)

4to

P-B Signature cover Light foxing FEs VG

50

With maps and tables, the papers from the 1949 Symposium, covering anthropology, publis health and nutrition, and social sciences in the Pacific

5.000000

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37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Split Enz  the definitive collection Bk 1 1973-1979, Bk 2 1980-1984

 

Anon

Sasha Music Publishing

2008

86p (2p) ; 86p (2p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

In two volumes, all of Split Enz's songs, with quotes and memorabilia

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Our World Heritage  a tentative list of New Zealand Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites

 

Anon

Dept of Conservation

2006

79

4to

Spiral bound, soft card covers  Fine

30

With illustrations and maps, cultural and natural sites from the North to South of New Zealand, some recommended for immediate world heritage listing, others for later inclusion

5.000000

14.000000

23.000000

28.000000

28.000000

Wild Journeys

 

Ansley, Bruce

HarperCollins

2018

279

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards Near Fine

30

The author journeys through New Zealand's history - human and natural - and the people who helped create that history

6.000000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Toys of Early New Zealand

 

Armstrong, Peggy ; Jackson, Denise

Grantham House

1990

(frontis) (2p) 74p

4to

P-B Signature HTP VG

28

With illustrations, the toys and passtimes of colonial New Zealand, Maori and pakeha

5.000000

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New Zealand's Burning  The settler's world in the mid 1880s

 

Arnold, Rollo

Victoria University Press

1994

319

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

The Summer of 1885-6 in Northern New Zealand, firing up at the end of a long drought, and the settler society coping with the great changes and emergencies as life became more 'settled'

8.000000

27.000000

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The Farthest Promised Land  English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

 

Arnold, Rollo

VUP

1981

xiii 408p

8vo

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

45

With illustrations and maps, a very important study of English immigrants into New Zealand in the 1870s and their impact on their new land

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30.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Settler Kaponga

1881-1914  A frontier fragment of the Western World

Arnold, Rollo

VUP

1997

383

8vo

P-B  Light browning, spotting EPs  VG

35

Inscribed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a detailed history of the settlement and development of a frontier settlement in the shadow of Mt Taranaki-Egmont

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29.000000

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Telling Stories

indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand

Attwood, Bain ; Magowan, Fiona (eds)

Bridget Williams Books

2001

xviii 269p

8vo

P-B Signature HTP Pen mark FE VG

22

With illustrations, the multiple forms of indigenous history in Australia and New Zealand, and their inter-reaction with the 'official' history

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

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Out of the Shadow of War 

The German Connection with New Zealand in the 20th Century

Bade, James N (ed)

OUP

1998

viii 288p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

These essays trace the development of the relationship between NZ and Germany through the two World Wars and into peace, with close political, economic and cultural ties, with illustrations

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New Zealand National Bibliography to the year 1960

6 volumes in 5

Bagnall, AG (ed)

Govt Print

1969-1985

5 volumes

4to

Black cloth binding, red spine labels, gilt titles (fading) VG - Near Fine

140

With facsimiles of title pages, the indispensable guide to virtually all literature, Maori and European, published in New Zealand till 1960, a nice set

20.000000

85.000000

220.000000

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220.000000

The New Friendly Islanders

 

Bain, Kenneth

Hodder & Stoughton

1993

207

8vo

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards Short inscription front paste-down VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, the Tonga of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, with illustrations

6.500000

24.000000

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Race, Ethnicity and Power

 

Baker, Donald G

Routledge & Kegan Paul

1983

viii 243p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

A comparative study of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia

8.000000

26.000000

55.000000

55.000000

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Archives are Fun  Twenty-six Years of Re-collecting and Re-searching

 

Baker, Marcia

Baker Family Publishing

2013

140

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a look at twenty-six years of working at the Methodist Archive in Christchurch, and how it can help others in their researches

5.000000

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The Harbour Ferries of Auckland

 

Balderston, David

Grantham House

1986

98

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, over a hundred years of ferry traffic on Auckland harbour, with much about the boats and the characters of the service

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Webs of Empire

locating New Zealand's colonial past

Ballantyne, Tony

Bridget Williams Books

2012

374

8vo

P-B Near Fine

44

A collection of essays positioning New Zealand within the tangled colonial webs of cultural and economic networks

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18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

Landscape/Communi ty   Perspectives from New Zealand

 

Ballantyne, Tony ; Bennett, Judith A (eds)

University of Otago Press

2005

190

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays that discuss variations on the theme of the effect of communities on their landscape, mostly in New Zealand, from conflict in colonial Bay of Plenty to protests against hydro-electric dams

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Disputed Histories

Imagining New Zealand's Pasts

Ballantyne, Tony ; Moloughney, Brian (eds)

Otago University Press

2006

283p (2p catalogue)

8vo

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

32

With illustrations, a collection of essays which ultimately discusses where to with the study of New Zealand history now?

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India in New Zealand  local identities, global relations

 

Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (ed)

Otago University Press

2010

269p (1p)

8vo

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

28

A collection of essays looking at the southernmost Indian diaspora, the place of Indian first and succeeding generations in a multi-cultural New Zealand, and the Kiwi-Indian experience

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New Zealand  a short history

 

Barber, Laurie

Century Hutchinson

1989

252

4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a description of New Zealand's history designed to help a present generation understand whence the nation has sprung, and perhaps see more clearly the future

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In the Paddock and On the Run

the language of rural New Zealand

Bardsley, Dianne

Otago University Press

2009

464

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, hundreds of words and expressions highlighting the individual nature of New Zealand countrysides, especially farming, including Maori expressions widely adopted

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19.000000

35.000000

41.000000

46.000000

New Zealand's First World War Heritage

 

Bargas, Imelda ; Shoebridge, Tim

Exisle

2015

287p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

38

With maps and illustrations, the New Zealand that the troops left behind, from the military training camps to the buildings that supplied them, from the farms and hospitals, to the memorials of their departure

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

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Bowling on  Hutt Bowling, Tennis and Croquet Club (Inc)

 

Barlow, Peter (et al)

Hutt Bowling Club

2003

63

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations and lists, the first 100 years of this New Zealand Bowling Club

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Those were the Days 1930s

 

Barnett, Stephen (comp)

Moa

1987

175

Folio

D-J Fine

40

A photographic history of NZ during the 1930s, compiled from the pages of 'The Weekly News'

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26.000000

54.000000

58.000000

62.000000

New Zealand! New Zealand!  In praise of Kiwiana

 

Barnett, Stephen ; Wolfe, Richard

H&S

1989

161p (1p)

4to

P-B Light fading spine  VG

30

The first edition of this dipping-into New Zealand popular culture, food, ways of life, beliefs and advertising icons

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34.000000

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New Zealand! New Zealand! In praise of Kiwiana

 

Barnett, Stephen ; Wolfe, Richard

Penguin Books

2000

(5p) 161p (1p)

Oblong 4to

P-B  Near Fine

25

With many illustrations, a special edition to mark the 30th anniversary of Bonus Bonds, with extra pages and illustrations

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Holding the High Ground  a history of Montecillo War Veterans Home 1918-2018

 

Barnz, Billy

Montecillo Veterans Home and Hospital Trust

2018

vi 330p

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a history of this War Veterans Home in Dunedin, its organisation, its people and its achievements

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Russophobia in New Zealand

1838-1908

Barratt, Glynn

Dunmore Press

1981

180

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

From a Professor of Russian, a look at how New Zealand governments and people viewed expanding Russia in the 19th century

6.500000

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Rulings of the Speakers of the House of Representatives 1867-1911  New Zealand

 

Barron, CCN ; Otterson, H (comps)

Govt Print

1912

vi 317p

Small 8vo

Leather binding, raised spine, gilt rules and titles  Wear top, bottom spine, fore-corners  VG

35

An A-Z of the rulings of the New Zealand parliamentary Speakers, up-to-date for 1911

5.500000

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Women of Polynesia

 

Barrow, Terry ; Sieben, Hubert

Seven Seas

1967

(frontis) 240p (3p)

4to

D-J (pieces missing top, chips extremities, in protective wrapper)  Cloth binding  Name covered FEP VG

110

Both a photographic and anthropological-historical treatment of the role of the women of Polynesia, with modern 'studies' by Hubert Sieben

6.500000

35.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

A Popular Vision  the arts and the left in New Zealand 1930-1950

 

Barrowman, Rachel

Victoria University Press

1991

(4p) 287p

8vo

P-B Slight signature HTP  VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a discussion of leftist philosophies and influences on the arts, especially publishing and theatre, before and after WW2, when New Zealand 'found its distinctive literary voice'

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41.000000

Victoria University of Wellington 1899-1999  a history

 

Barrowman, Rachel

Victoria University Press

1999

432

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight dents base Near Fine

38

Inscribed by the author, a history of the first hundred years of this New Zealand university, with illustrations

6.000000

35.000000

80.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Turnbull a library and its world

 

Barrowman, Rachel

Auckland University Press, Historical Branch DIA

1995

viii 232p

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

20

With illustrations, what began as a personal 'folly' became a bequest to the nation, and what has happened to the ATL since

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The Turnbull   A Library and its World

 

Barrowman, Rachel

AUP

1995

viii 232p

8vo

P-B Fine

35

The history of the man and the Library that became so important to NZ archives

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32.000000

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37.000000

Confrontation '51

The 1951 Waterfront Dispute

Bassett, Michael

Reed

1972

264

8vo

Paper over boards VG

25

An important book about an important turning point in NZ social and political life, with illustrations and cartoons

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Colonist  A Work on the Past and Present Position of the Colony of New Zealand

 

Bateman, William

JT Smith

1881

486p

8vo

Red cloth binding, gilt titles front cover  Spine worn Signs of insect hole to page 11 at bottom of pages  Bottom corner of p15 torn off, with slight loss of text  Marks on FEs Fair to Good

90

The book was intended as a critical economic assessment of the Colony of NZ till that time, so that readers could gain benefit from a more thorough knowledge of the workings of Government and its resources. The author includes his papers on 'The Agricultu

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The One Day War    The Battle of Omarunui, 1866

 

Battersby, John

Reed

2000

144

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

A detailed inquest into the Battle of Omarunui, inland from Napier, on 12 October 1866, during the NZ Wars, with illustrations

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Always the Sound of the Sea

the daily lives of New Zealand's lighthouse keepers

Beaglehole, Helen

Craig Potton

2009

263

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

38

A kind of sequel to the author's 'Lighting the Coast', this time concentrating on the men who lit the coasts, their families, and the experience of lighthouse keeping, with illustrations

5.000000

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36.000000

41.000000

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The Discovery of New Zealand

 

Beaglehole, JC

DIA

1939

(frontis) xvi (2p) 160p (folding map)

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing)  Signature FEP  VG

25

With illustrations and maps, the first edition of this study of the pre-cursors to Cook, and of Captain Cook

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The Discovery of New Zealand

 

Beaglehole, JC

OUP

1961 2nd edition, revised

(frontis) xii 102p (folding map)

8vo

D-J (browning spine)  Slight foxing FE  Signature FEP  VG

20

With illustrations and maps, the revised edition of this study of the pre-cursors to Cook, and of Captain Cook

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25.000000

25.000000

Home Away from Home

 

Beasley, AW

Central Institute of Technology, Grantham House

2000

158

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

25

With maps, illustrations and genealogical charts, the three families of the Homes, from the UK to New Zealand, and their surgical connections

6.000000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Fifty Years in the Field  Essays in honour and celebration of Richard Shutler Jr's archaeological career

 

Bedford, Stuart (et al, eds)

New Zealand Archaeological Association

2002

260

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, maps and tables, a collection of pieces on the archaeology of the South Pacific, New Guinea, Micronesia, Melanesia

8.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Dusky Bay

 In the steps of Captain Cook

Begg, A Charles & Neil C

W&T

1966

240

8vo

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

60

The reconstruction of the history of the Dusky Bay - Sounds area, retracing the footsteps of Captain Cook, with many illustrations

6.500000

28.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Port Preservation

the story of Preservation Inlet and the Solander Grounds

Begg, AC & NC

W&T

1973

398p (1p)

8vo

D-J (chips, closed tears, piece missing top, bottom spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards Signature FEP VG

65

With maps and illustrations, the story of Preservation Inlet and the Solander Grounds, from the Cook voyages to sealing and whaling and gold prospecting

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Dancing with the King

 

Belgrave, Michael

Auckland University Press

2017

viii 428p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

With maps and illustrations, a study of the King Country 1864-1885

5.500000

22.000000

44.000000

46.000000

48.000000

Making Peoples  A history of the New Zealanders from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century

 

Belich, James

Allen Lane, Penguin

1996

497

8vo

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards Slight browning Fes Owner's small label FEP VG - Near Fine

30

The author's detailed discussion of what has made the two distinct founding peoples of New Zealand, Maori and pakeha, till the 1880s, continued in 'Paradise Reforged'

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The New Zealand Wars

and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict

Belich, James

Penguin Books

1986

396

8vo

P-B Signature TP  VG

22

A reinterpretation of the causes and effects of the New Zealand Wars, leading to a television series, with maps and illustrations

8.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Paradise Reforged

 A history of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the year 2000

Belich, James

Allen Lane, The Penguin Press

2001

606

8vo

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

35

The sequel to 'Making Peoples', beginning with the desire for NZ to be a 'better Britain' and ending with a different society, with new Maori and pakeha consciousness

6.500000

35.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Replenishing the Earth

the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939

Belich, James

Oxford University Press

2009

x (2p) 573p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With maps, a discussion of the spreading of the Anglo-World, and the English language that went with it, through the wider settler societies from Old Briton and the growth of their wealth and power in world terms

8.000000

32.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Languages of New Zealand

 

Bell, Allan (et al, eds)

Victoria University Press

2005

376

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With maps, tables and illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with New Zealand's linguistic landscape

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand  Identity, Space and Place

 

Bell, Claudia ; Matthewman, Steve (eds)

Oxford University Press

2004

xiv 298p

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, a collection of pieces on what makes up the everyday in New Zealand, and what constitutes being a New Zealander

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

New Zealand between the Wars

 

Bell, Rachael (ed)

Massey University Press

2017

(frontis) 351p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With tables and illustrations, a collection of essays which underline the transformation of the New Zealand state, setting a blueprint for state intervention and asistance that remained largely unchallenged for the next 50 years

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

New Zealand Railways Road Services

 

Bellamy, AC

Southern Press

1981

64

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature TP VG

15

With illustrations, a history of this branch of New Zealand Railways from 1907 to the 1980s

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

God of the Whenua  Rural Ministry in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Bennett, Bill

Philip Garside Publishing

2005

vi 128p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

With maps, a survey/discussion of where the rural 'church' is going in New Zealand, its pressures and problems, including amongst Maori rohe

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

St Paul's Lutheran Church 80th Anniversary July 2004

 

Bennett, Ron (et al)

St Pauls 80th Anniversary Cttee

2004

23

4to

Spiral binding  P-B Fine

20

With illustrations, a short history of the first 80 years of this Christchurch Lutheran Church

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Tribal Guns and Tribal Gunners

the story of Maori artillery in 19th century New Zealand

Bentley, Trevor

WillsonScott Publishing

2013

vi p7-175

4to

D-J Laminated boards  Near Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, the story of how 19th century Maori acquired and deployed various cannon pieces, fascinating

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

He Kupu Whakawairua  Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand  Catholic Voices

 

Bergin, Helen ; Smith, Susan (eds)

Accent Pubs

2002

(3p) 277p

8vo

P-B VG

32

A collection of essays presenting Catholic theology and spirituality in New Zealand

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Man's tall Dream  the story of Eastwoodhill

 

Berry, John

The Eastwoodhill Trust Board

1997

xii 126p (folding maps)

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the story of this hill farm of Ngatapa, inland from Gisborne, and the Eastwoodhill Arboretum

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

First Crossings  historic NZ adventures brought to life

 

Biggar, Kevin ; Fitzgerald, Jamie

Random House

2013

320

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, recreating ten historic journeys in New Zealand, from the explorers like Brunner to the treasure hunters like Kelly Tarlton

8.000000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Stories Without End Essays 1975-2010

 

Binney, Judith

Bridget Williams Books

2010

424

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, a collection of the author's essays, many arising or adding to her books about the Urewera and its people, others 'bringing people out of the shadows'

5.000000

22.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

The Shaping of History

 

Binney, Judith (ed)

Bridget Williams Books

2001

xvi 422p (2p catalogue)

8vo

P-B Fine

48

With illustrations and tables, a selection from the New Zealand Journal of History, from encountering Maori history to the writing of New Zealand history, a celebration of the NZJH and some of New Zealand's leading historians

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The People and the Land  Te Tangata me te Whenua an illustrated history of New Zealand 1820-1920

 

Binney, Judith (et al)

Bridget Williams Books

1993 reprint edition (1990)

352

4to

P-B Light fading spine  Slight browning FEs  VG

30

With illustrations, a history of New Zealand covering the conflicting perceptions of the growing New Zealand from the Maori and Pakeha points of view

5.500000

22.000000

48.000000

52.000000

56.000000

The Yanks are coming  the American invasion of New Zealand 1942-44

 

Bioletti, Harry

Century Hutchinson

1989

ix (4p maps) 210p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With maps and illustrations, what happens when thousands of American troops alight on wartime New Zealand soil, filled with anecdotes from Enzeders and 'Yanks' alike

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Women mean Business  colonial businesswomen in New Zealand

 

Bishop, Catherine

Otago University Press

2019

404

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, hard-working business women in 19th century colonial New Zealand, from the boarding-house keepers and laundresses, to teachers and brothel-keepers, or to butchers and chemists

6.000000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

NZ Woman's Weekly  The First 60 Years

 

Blackwell, Janet (ed)

Moa Beckett, NZ Magazines Ltd

1992

207

4to

D-J  Near Fine

35

A nice copy of the review of this magazine which is also a selection of the stories which impacted on the nation

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Money, Medicine and the Masses

 

Blanc, Albert D G

Reed

1949 2nd impression

xii 193p

8vo

Red cloth binding VG

22

A discussion of social medicine and social security in New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Jet Boat   The making of a New Zealand legend

 

Bloxham, Anne and Les

Reed

1983

xii 242p

4to

D-J (slight rubbing extremities, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards  Slight bumping base VG

35

With illustrations, a history of the development of the jet boat and its world-wide spread

6.500000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Jet Boat

The making of a New Zealand legend

Bloxham, Les ; Stark, Anne

Reed

1994 2nd edition (1983)

xii 260p

4to

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

35

With illustrations, the second edition of this life of the Hamiltons and their jetboat, including updates on the jet-boating scene

6.500000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Links in the Chain field surveying in early New Zealand

 

Bogle, AH

The NZ Institute of Surveyors

1975

x 86p

4to

D-J (chips, light foxing inside) Cloth binding Marks covers VG

20

With maps and illustrations, the work of the author as a field surveyor in the North Island, opening the land for further development

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

Keeping a Low Profile  an oral history of German immigration to New Zealand

 

Bohnisch-Brednich, Brigitte

Victoria University Press

2002

351

8vo

P-B VG

28

With illustrations, interviews with 102 immigrants from Germany over a 60 year period in the 20th century,  a study of being a German in New Zealand, and what makes a kiwi

6.000000

22.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Starch Work by Experts  Chinese Laundries in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Boileau, Joanna

Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, DIA

2019

386

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

75

With illustrations, a study of the world of laundries undertaken by Chinese immigrants to New Zealand, its rise and fall, and importance in the fabric of New Zealand society

9.000000

42.000000

105.000000

100.000000

105.000000

Against the Wind  the story of the New Zealand Seamen's Union

 

Bollinger, Conrad

New Zealand Seamen's Union

1968

(3p) 260p

8vo

D-J (slight chips) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, the rise of this Union, its conflicts and advances

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

More Water On 1878-2003

 

Booth, Graeme D (et al)

United Fire Brigades' Association

2003

112

4to

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, including badges, the first 125 years of the United Fire Brigades' Association in New Zealand

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Child Poverty in New Zealand

 

Boston, Jonathan ; Chapple, Simon

Bridget Williams Books

2014

296

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A study of the threat of child poverty in New Zealand, identifying real options for reducing this form of poverty

5.500000

15.000000

32.000000

35.000000

38.000000

Social Investment  a New Zealand policy experiment

 

Boston, Jonathan ; Gill, Derek (eds)

Bridget Williams Books, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies VUW

2017

448

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With figures, a collection of essays that attempt to develop a deeper understanding of social investment in a New Zealand context, in order to address serious social problems

6.000000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Good-Bye Maoriland  the songs and sounds of New Zealand's Great War

 

Bourke, Chris

Auckland University Press

2017

ix (3p) 294p (2p)

4to

Decorated soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

38

Wih illustrations and reproductions, another magnificently detailed discussion of the shades of music in the lives of New Zealanders during WW1, from patriotism to regret

6.500000

31.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Kelburn, King Dick and the Kelly Gang

Richard Seddon and political patronage

Bourke, Kevin

Hit or Miss Publishing

2008

256

4to

P-B Fine

70

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a study of the links between Seddon's Liberal government and some West Coast business friends in the construction of the Wellington cablecar, the suburb of Kelburn and the location of Victoria University

5.000000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Golden Service  a history of 50 years of Lions in New Zealand and the South Pacific

 

Boyle, Vince

Lions New Zealand

2004

390

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, from the formation of the first Lions Club in 1955 in Auckland, fifty years of the people and the events of Lions in New Zealand

6.000000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

A History of the Garden in New Zealand

 

Bradbury, Matthew (ed)

Viking, Penguin Books

1995

(frontis) (3p) 208p

Oblong 4to

P-B Fading spine  Crease front cover  VG

25

With illustrations, a history of a national pastime, from Maori horticulture to European husbandry, as well as the evolution of garden design, both public and private

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

44.000000

48.000000

Woolscours of New Zealand

tales of the early industry

Bremner, Julie

NZ Woolscourers Assn

1985

136

4to

D-J (slight chips, small piece missing base front, in archival wrapper) Plasticised boards  VG - Near Fine

50

With illustrations and tables, the history of the scouring of wool in New Zealand, scarce

5.000000

19.000000

36.000000

41.000000

44.000000

Acknowledge no Frontier  the creation and demise of New Zealand's provinces 1853-76

 

Brett, Andre

Otago University Press

2016

343

8vo

P-B Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, a study of the division of the pioneer New Zealand into self-governing sections, then the establishment from then on of a unitary government

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

37.000000

40.000000

White Wings  Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1840-1902

 

Brett, Henry ; Bradwell, Cyril R (ed)

Reed

1984

xi 225p

4to

D-J Near Fine

40

With illustrations, an edited edition of Breet's original 2 volumes, covering 113 of the first immigrant ships to New Zealand

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Scandinavian Footprints  a story of Scandinavians settling in New Zealand

 

Brew, Margit

Author Pub

2007 Revised edition

319

8vo

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a life of Swede Bror Erik Friberg and his wife in pioneering New Zealand, and the foundations of a Scandinavian populace

8.000000

28.000000

50.000000

55.000000

50.000000

Teenagers  the rise of a youth culture in New Zealand

 

Brickell, Chris

Auckland University Press

2017

(frontis) (2p) 382p

4to

Card covers Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a study of the social changes in New Zealand society that saw youth rising from the yolk of past conservatism, and the causes for the changes

6.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Boutique Wineries of New Zealand

 

Brimer, Richard ; McMillan, Michael

Random House

1993

vi (1p) 191p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fine

25

With Richard Brimer's photographs, an evocative North to South study of 1990s wineries, including the rising Central Otago pinot noirs

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The Celluloid Circus  the heyday of the New Zealand picture theatre 1925-1970

 

Brittenden, Wayne

Godwit, Random House

2008

304

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a celebration of a book, studying the buildings, the staff, the audiences and the motion pictures which made up going to the movies in New Zealand

5.500000

22.000000

44.000000

46.000000

48.000000

The Celluloid Circus  the heyday of the New Zealand picture theatre

 

Brittenden, Wayne

Godwit Random House

2008

304

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the days when New Zealand audiences flocked to the cinema, from the people who served them to the buildings that greeted them

7.500000

34.000000

85.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Penguin Eyewitness History of New Zealand

 

Brockie, Bob (ed)

Penguin

2002

293

8vo

P-B Near Fine

34

Moments from NZ's past, detailed as eye-witness reports, starting with Tasman sighting the NZ coast, with drawings

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

A history of New Zealand Women

 

Brookes, Barbara

Bridget Williams Books

2016

554

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

50

With illustrations, New Zealand's history from the female point of view, with biographies

6.500000

38.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Women in History  Vol 2 Essays on Women in New Zealand

 

Brookes, Barbara (et al, eds)

Bridget Williams Books

1992

vi 321p

8vo

P-B Pages browning  Slight signature HTP VG

20

A collection of essays dealing with women's issues in New Zealand, from domestic work to rural women to delinquency and wartime work

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Women in History  Essays on European Women in New Zealand

 

Brookes, Barbara (et al, eds)

A&U, Port Nicolson Press

1986

xiii (1p) 202p

8vo

P-B Fading in patches VG

20

A collection of essays dealing with women's issues in New Zealand, from prostitution and the control of their lives to women's votes to modern feminism

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Communities of Women  historical perspectives

 

Brookes, Barbara ; Page, Dorothy

University of Otago Press

2002

229

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of 11 essays dealing with the underlying idea of what does community mean to women, from mediaeval Europe to 20th Century Australasia

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Milestones  Turning Points in New Zealand History

 

Brooking, Tom

Mills Pubs

1988

207

4to

D-J (laminated)  Sight signature FEP  VG - Near Fine

65

Author signed, a nice copy of the first edition of this useful reference to important moments in the history of NZ, with illustrations, drawings and maps

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

The Rise of New Zealand Labour  a history of the New Zealand Labour Party 1916-1940

 

Brown, Bruce

Price Milburn

1962

x (2p) 244p

8vo

D-J (fading, chips) Paper over boards Signature HTP  VG

20

With illustrations, the formative years of this New Zealand political party

6.000000

21.000000

48.000000

43.000000

48.000000

New Zealand in World Affairs  Vol 3 1972-1990

 

Brown, Bruce (ed)

VUP, NZ Institute of International Affairs

1999

336

8vo

P-B Fine

20

The third volume in a series discussing New Zealand and its place in the evolving world situation, a collection of essays covering from NZ's role in the world economy to its relationships with its immediate neighbours

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Vision & Reality  Christchurch's Cathedral in the Square

 

Brown, Colin

Christ Church Cathedral Chapter

2000

202

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the human and architectural history of this iconic Christchurch building, perhaps soon to be lost

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Shaping a Colonial Church

Bishop Harper and the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch 1856-1890

Brown, Colin (et al, eds)

Canterbury University Press

2006

315

8vo

P-B Fine

28

With illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with the job of setting up a branch of the Church of England in a brand new colony, and the models chosen

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The Languages of the Pacific

 

Brown, J MacMillan

Bishop Museum Press

1920

29

4to

P-B Gd

45

An occasional paper of the Bishop Museum, a comparison of the world's major languages with Pacific forms

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Heartland Strong  how rural New Zealand can change and thrive

 

Brown, Margaret (et al, eds)

Massey University Press

2019

239

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays on how rural New Zealanders can build in resilience in their communities and economies

6.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Searches for Tradition essays on New Zealand music, past and present

 

Brown, Michael ; Owens, Samantha (eds)

Victoria University Press

2017

294

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, studies of New Zealand music history, Lilburn and the search for tradition, and what makes New Zealand music New Zealand

6.000000

22.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

A Vision Unfolds  a history of Frederic Wallis Ecumenical Retreat House

 

Budge, Peggy

The Frederic Wallis House Trust Board

1990

vi 90p

8vo

P-B Slight fading covers Near Fine

20

With illustrations, named after the third Bishop of Wellington, a house of retreat for members of the church

6.000000

19.000000

48.000000

43.000000

48.000000

New Zealand's First War

or the rebellion of Hone Heke

Buick, TL

Capper Press

1976 (1926)

(frontis) (5p) 304p

8vo

D-J (slight chips, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards  FEP clipped at top VG - Near Fine

40

With maps, plans and illustrations, the reprint edition of this historical biography of a 19th century Maori leader and the first armed revolts against the British forces

8.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Archaeology in North Taranaki

a study of field monuments in the Pukearuhe-Mimi-Urenui Area

Buist, AG

New Zealand Archaeological Assn

1964

102

4to

P-B VG

25

With illustrations and charts, a study of archaeological sites in Northern Taranaki, both pa and kainga

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Pioneers  an album from the past

 

Bullock, Ian

The Lodestar Press

1981

48

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature inside front cover VG

15

An illustrated short study of the first European pioneers and their settling in New Zealand

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Historic Houses  a visitor's guide to 65 early New Zealand houses

 

Burgess, Linda

Random House

2008 Reprint edition (2007)

317

4to

Laminated soft card boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a useful guide for visitors to these New Zealand houses, from Northland to Otago, including New Zealand's 'Castle' in Dunedin, and the Treaty House in Waitangi

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

The Australia and New Zealand Nexus

 

Burnett, Alan & Robin

Australian, NZ Institute of International Affairs

1978

xiv 289p

8vo

P-B VG

35

A study of the complex working relationship which binds Australia and New Zealand, and thus a case-study of the network of these bilateral arrangements by the 1980s

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Fatal Success  a history of the New Zealand Company

 

Burns, Patricia ; Richardson, Henry (ed)

HeinemannReed

1989

327

8vo

D-J (light fading spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards VG

25

With maps and illustrations, the rise and demise of this colonising company, the Wakefields, and the effects on New Zealand

7.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Julius Haast in the Southern Alps

 

Burrows, Colin J

Canterbury University Press

2005

215

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Slight fading spine  Owner's details covered FEP VG - Near Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, Haast's journeys and studies in the Southern Alps, and the developments in glaciology

7.000000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Young New Zealand

 

Butchers, Arthur Gordon

Coulls Somerville Wilkie

1929

(frontis) xv (1p) 380p

8vo

Brown cloth binding  Bumped at spine, fore-corners  Signature FEP VG

85

A history of the early contact of Maori with the European immigrants, and of the establishment of a national system of education in NZ - an important introduction to NZ's education system

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

More than Law and Order  Policing a changing society 1945-92

 

Butterworth, Susan

University of Otago Press

2005

348

4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, volume 5 in the history of policing in New Zealand, the post-war period, covering the rapid changes in society and in the police force, a nice copy

6.000000

35.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Century in New Zealand  a history of the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance in New Zealand 1878-1978

 

Byrne, TB

Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Co NZ Ltd

1978

xv (1p) 193p

4to

Laminated boards  Fine

20

With illustrations, the development of this Assurance Company built on the amalgamation of Guardian Assurance, Royal Exchange, China Traders', Manchester Fire and New Zealand Plate Glass, to form a national company, with lists

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Meat Acts the New Zealand Meat Industry 1972-1997

 

Calder, Mick ; Tyson, Janet

Meat New Zealand

1999

412

4to

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a supplement to the 50-year jubilee book ('Golden Jubilee'), another 25 years of turbulent times in the New Zealand Meat Industry

6.500000

33.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Wool to Weta  transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy

 

Callaghan, Paul

Auckland University Press

2009 Reprint edition (2009)

x 174p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A discussion with New Zealanders involved in science and business about changing New Zealand's future to one built upon science, technology and intellectual property, rather than the primary industries

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Rae Budding or Slums in New Zealand

 

Campbell, David Paton

Craig Printing Co

1934

79p (1p)

8vo

Yapp card covers, chips  VG

45

A collection of addresses dealing with the problems of slum living in New Zealand during and after the Depression

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

In Search of Ancient New Zealand

 

Campbell, Hamish ; Hutching, Gerard

Penguin, GNS Science

2007

239

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, a study of the processes involved in bringing New Zealand to the shape it now has, including perhaps being totally submerged 23 million years ago

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

36.000000

39.000000

European Treasure  AH Reed's French and Italian autograph letters

 

Cappozzo, Valerio

Reed Gallery

2015

97p (2p)

4to

P-B Crease back cover  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of the Reed Gallery at the Dunedin Public Library, AH and AW Reed, and the collection of rare autographed letters

6.000000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Changing Times  New Zealand since 1945

 

Carlyon, Jenny ; Morrow, Diana

Auckland University Press

2013

vii 520p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

32

With illustrations, a history of the transformation of New Zealand life after WW2, from conformity to diversity, socially and politically

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Policing in the Mountain Shadow

A history of the Taranaki Police

Carr, Margaret

Author, New Zealand Police Pub

1989

(frontis) x 163p

4to

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

30

With map and illustrations, a history of a police district that began as early as the 1840s, and developed through the New Zealand Wars period of Taranaki history, with lists and descriptions of the various stations

6.000000

27.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Boots and Bridles  50 Years of New Zealand Pony Club

 

Carson, Betty (comp)

New Zealand Pony Clubs Assn

1998

224

4to

P-B Short inscriptionHTP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a record of the movement's first 50 years, with both memories from the members  and the minutes

5.000000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

A Family Affair  a brief survey of New Zealand Methodism's involvement in missions overseas 1822-1972

 

Carter, George G

Wesley Historical Society of NZ

1973

viii 245p (21p)

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards VG - Near Fine

20

With map and illustrations, missionary work by Methodists from New Zealand in the South Pacific Islands

6.000000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

'Water on!' A century's history of the United Fire Brigades' Association of New Zealand  1878-1978

 

Cathcart, BC

UFBA

1978

116

4to

P-B Stapled spine  Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the first hundred years of the UFBA, its branches and its people

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Celebrating Women New Zealand Women and their Stories

 

Catley, Christine Cole (ed)

Cape Catley

1984

183

4to

P-B VG

30

Biographies and interviews with 50 NZ women, celebrating the diverse and special contributions women make to NZ society at all levels and in all fields, with illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Motorcycles in New Zealand

 

Chadwick, Tim

Grantham House

2006

80

4to

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

25

With many illustrations, the introduction and development of the motorcycle in New Zealand, from the daily ride to sports action

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Pictures from the Past Waikato

 

Challinor, Deborah

Whitcoulls

2002

93p (2p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

A collection of photographs from the first 50 years of the twentieth century of the Waikato

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The New Zealand Portfolio

 

Chapman, Henry Samuel

Hocken Library

1969  (1843)

viii 136p (2p)

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

25

Hocken Facsimile #9, a series of papers originally published for the 'information' of colonists, and those who would sponsor them

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Glory Days  from gumboots to platforms

 

Chapman, Ian (Dr Glam)

HarperCollins

2009

319p (1p)

8vo

P-B VG

25

Signed and inscribed by the author, the experience of the 1970s in  New Zealand via the rest of the world, both an historical and hysterical view, great fun

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Across a Hundred Years 1841-1941  Auckland Methodism

 

Chappell, Rev AB

Auckland Centenary Cttee

1941

63

8vo

P-B Trinity Methodist College stamp on cover, at beginning and end VG

25

With illustrations, the beginning and early progress of Methodism in New Zealand

5.000000

6.000000

17.000000

22.000000

19.000000

Across a Hundred Years 1841-1941

Methodism in Auckland

Chappell, Rev MA

Auckland Methodist Centenary Cttee

1941

63

8vo

Paper wraps  Rubber stamp covers, back EP  VG

25

With illustrations and lists, the first 100 years in the Methodist Church in Auckland

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Terrain  Travels through a deep Landscape

 

Chapple, Geoff

Random House

2015

269

8vo

P-B  Slight dents in front cover Top fore-edge yellowed VG

20

With maps and illustrations, a walk down New Zealand with geologists and artisans who work the rock, discovering the turbulent forces that created New Zealand

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Without Fear or Favour  150 years of policing Auckland 1840-1990

 

Cherrett, Owen C

The New Zealand Police, L Patrick Hunter

1989

340

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With many illustrations, policing in the Auckland district from the New Zealand Wars to the 1990s, including the development of services

5.000000

28.000000

60.000000

66.000000

71.000000

Candles and Canvas  A Danish Family in New Zealand

 

Christie, Poula Langkilde

New Women's Press

1987

(1p) (frontis) 169p (1p)

8vo

P-B Short inscription HTP VG

24

The author's family immigrated from a cultvated Denmark to NZ in 1907 and faced years of hard work to tame their area of the NZ bush, with illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

A Race Apart  Parliament and Race Separatism  The story

 

Christie, Walter

The Wyvern Press

1998

246

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

The sequel to the author's 'Treaty Issues', an alternative view of the meaning of the Waitangi Treaty and its importance in NZ history

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

New Zealand Lighthouses

 

Churchman, Geoffrey B

GP Books

1989

148

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a pictorial guide to the most significant NZ lighthouses, with a short history of the Service

6.500000

21.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Born to a Changing World  childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

 

Clarke, Alison

Bridget Williams Books

2012

314

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed study of motherhood in colonial New Zealand, the differences between class, both in Maori and Pakeha, and the real threats on the lives of mothers

6.000000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Holiday Seasons  Christmas, New Year and Easter in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

 

Clarke, Alison

Auckland University Press

2007

viii 189p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

25

With many illustrations, a study of the seasonal celebrations and the making of New Zealand culture

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Holiday Seasons  Christmas, New Year and Easter in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

 

Clarke, Alison

Auckland University Press

2007

viii 189p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, how the European pioneers celebrated a day off in early New Zealand

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Born to a Changing World

childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand

Clarke, Alison

Bridget Williams Books

2012

312

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the widely different experiences of New Zealand women giving birth in the 19th century, from rich to poor, and from European to Maori

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

St Luke's Lutheran Church Centennial 1882-1982

 

Clausen, Stuart (comp, ed)

St Luke's Centennial Cttee

1982

56

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fading spine  VG

25

Signed, inscribed by editor, the history of this Lutheran church in Palmerston North, with illustrations

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Temperance and Prohibition in New Zealand

 

Cocker, Rev J ; Murray, J Malton (eds)

Epworth Press

1930

(frontis) 276p

Small 8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles spine  Blind titles, decoration front  Gd - VG

40

An historical as well as sociological study of the development of the prohibition movement in NZ, with illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Authentic and Genuine History of the Signing of The Treaty of Waitangi

 

Colenso, William

The Capper Press

1971 Reprint edition (1890)

42p (1p map)

8vo

D-J VG - Near Fine

35

With map, the author's on-the-spot recollections of the Treaty signing, February 5 and 6, 1840

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Our Motoring Heritage

 

Coleridge, TTN

Author Pub

1973

x 164

Large 8vo

D-J Near Fine

45

Author signed; NZ's past on the road

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

An Identity for New Zealand?

 

Collinge, John

Thesaurus Press

2010

(1p) 259p

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With many illustrations, seeing New Zealand European settlement through the various eyes of the settlers, and drawing conclusions on the creation of New Zealand identity

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

Broadcasting Grave and Gay

 

Collins, Ken G

The Caxton Press

1967

196

8vo

D-J (rubbing, chips on extremities, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Gd - VG

30

With illustrations, forty years in New Zealand broadcasting, from radio 'uncle' to radio manager

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Standing in the Sunshine

a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote

Coney, Sandra

Viking, Penguin Books

1993

332

Folio

D-J (in archival plastic) Slight finger marks top FE  Slight cant to spine Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a Centennial history of New Zealand women, the experiences and their impact upon New Zealand history

12.000000

34.000000

57.000000

79.000000

83.000000

I Do 125 years of Weddings in New Zealand

 

Coney, Sandra

Hodder Moa Beckett

1995

103p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

20

An illustrated study of the social changes apparent over 125 years of marriage photographs

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Shock of '31  the Hawke's Bay Earthquake

 

Conly, Geoff

Reed

1980

(6p) 234p

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a study of the 1931 earthquake fifty years after

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Healing our History

the challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi

Consedine, Robert & Joanna

Penguin Books

2005 updated edition (2001)

329

8vo

P-B Fine

25

The authors update the issues current in the Treaty debate, including the foreshore and seabed debate, Maori access to political power and the growth of the Maori economy

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Lake of Coal

the disappearance of a mining township

Cook, David

Craig Potton Publishing, Ramp Press

2006

216

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Slight fading covers Near Fine

45

A superbly illustrated New Zealand social history, the growth and disappearance of Rotowaru, Waikato, and what happens to a community when it loses the ground beneath its feet

6.500000

30.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Fit to Fight  Compulsory Military Training and National Service in New Zealand 1949-72

 

Cooke, PDF

David Ling Publishing

2013

631

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations, the history of the post-war military training of arond 100,000 ordinary New Zealanders, initially with CMT, then National Service

6.000000

36.000000

79.000000

88.000000

95.000000

Shell in New Zealand

 

Cooke, Peter

Shell Heritage Society

2004

(2p) 267p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, a history of the role of Shell in developing New Zealand's resources as well as the people who worked for it

6.500000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Portrait of a Profession  the centennial book of the New Zealand Law Society

 

Cooke, Robin QC

Reed

1969

(frontis) 439p

4to

D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the personalities and events that make up New Zealand's law practice

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The Lives of Colonial Objects

 

Cooper, Annabel (et al, eds)

Otago University Press

2015

368

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a fascinating collection of Maori and European objects held in New Zealand museums

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

52.000000

56.000000

Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era

an illustrated history 1830-1900

Cottrell, William

Reed

2006

591

Folio

D-J  Paper over boards Very slight rubbing top board  VG - Near Fine

275

With many illustrations, a comprehensive study of imported and indigenous furniture in Settler New Zealand, a wonderful creation

18.000000

65.000000

160.000000

155.000000

160.000000

A Venture into Shipping 1912-1972 Geo. H Scales Ltd

 

Coveney, TC

Geo H Scales Ltd

1972

87p (4 leaves)

8vo

Cloth binding, yellow titles  Slight bumping top, bottom spine, fore-edges   VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a short history of this company which began by becoming intermediary between shipping companies and agriculturalists in New Zealand

6.500000

21.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The New Zealand Wars and the pioneering period  2 vols

 

Cowan, James

Govt Print

1983 reprint edition (1922)

Vol 1 (frontis map) xxviii 466p Vol 2 (frontis) xx 633p

8vo

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

140

With maps and illustrations, still a useful study of the New Zealand wars and the frontier life growing around them, a nice set

6.500000

36.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Settlers and Pioneers

 

Cowan, James

DIA

1940

(frontis) xii (2p) 153p (1p)

8vo

D-J (faded, thin piece missing top, bottom spine)  Owner's inscription FEP Otherwise VG - Near Fine

35

Part of the NZ Centennial Surveys, the author takes a semi-personalised view of the European settlement and development of NZ

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Public and Private Worlds

 Women in Contemporary New Zealand

Cox, Shelagh (ed)

A&U, Port Nicholson Press

1987

xii 235p

8vo

P-B Signature HTP, slight presentation TP VG

28

A collection of essays which discusses the various female experiences in terms of the artificial division between public and private worlds in NZ society

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Antipodean Empire  the New Zealand and Australian Land Company in New Zealand

 

Crawford, Noel

Henry Elworthy Publishers

2018

424

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, a detailed history of one of New Zealand's largest land companies which established the frozen meat trade from New Zealand

5.500000

25.000000

53.000000

58.000000

63.000000

Genealogical Resources in the Hutt Valley

 

Crawford, Peggy (ed)

The Hutt Valley Group NZSG

1992

viii 114p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a still-useful genealogical guide to New Zealand and world sources, albeit pre-internet

3.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

A History of the Frozen Meat Trade

 

Critchell, JT ; Raymond, J

Constable

1912

xviii 442p

8vo

Red cloth boards Light wear top, bottom spine  Spine faded  VG

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, an early history of the Frozen Meat Trade, including the New Zealand Freezing Works

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Men of Pluck  a centennial history of the Taupo Totara Timber Company Ltd

 

Cudby, Kevin

Cudby Publications

2001

56

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With map and illustrations, a hundred years of the exploits of this company milling the bush and its locomotives

6.000000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Totara Estate  Centenary of the Frozen Meat Industry

 

Cuff, Martine E
New Zealand Historic Places Trust

New Zealand Historic Places Trust

1982

(frontis) 80p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the Totara Estate north of Dunedin, its development and role in the first voyages of New Zealand frozen meat

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Home Free

Housetrucking in New Zealand

Cunningham, Fiona ; Hoult, Chris

Random House

1994

121p (2p)

4to

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, an insight into New Zealanders who have taken to an alternative, travelling lifestyle, through interviews and enthusiasm, a cult classic now, a nice copy

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

From Rust to Restoration

a century of shaping a new world with tractors 1889-1989

Cutt, John A

Southern Tractor Cent Cttee

1989

73p (15p)

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

22

With illustrations, an historical celebration of tractors in the south of New Zealand, including advertisements

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Girls & Women, Men & Boys  gender in Taradale 1886-1930

 

Daley, Caroline

Auckland University Press

1999

viii 216p

8vo

P-B Fine

20

With illustrations, a study of a Hawke's Bay town in its first 50-odd years, relecting on the differences in social experience occasioned by gender in a pioneering society

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Frontier of Dreams  the story of New Zealand

 

Dalley, Bronwyn ; McLean, Gavin (eds)

Hodder Moa

2005

(frontis) 416p

4to

Boxed Cloth binding, leather-look spine All edges silver Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, the limited edition (100/120) adaptation of the popular TV programme, the creation and development of New Zealand as a nation

12.000000

49.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

Going Public the changing face of New Zealand history

 

Dalley, Bronwyn ; Phillips, Jack (ed)

Auckland University Press

2001

226

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A collection of essays dealing with history writing and writers stepping out into public history and other ways of looking at the past

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

War and Politics in New Zealand 1855-1870

 

Dalton, BJ

Sydney University Press

1967

(frontis) xi 311p

8vo

D-J (price-clipped) Cloth binding, title block spine Slight tea stain base prelims VG - Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the author examines the political and social history of this formative period in New Zealand, including the causes, conduct and effects of the New Zealand Wars

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Up From Under

 Women and Liberation in New Zealand 1970-1985

Dann, Christine

A&U, Port Nicholson Press

1985

vi 152p (1p)

8vo

P-B  Slight ink mark FE  VG

25

The coming of age of the women's liberation movement, and its effect on NZ's culture and society

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Transplanted Christianity

 

Davidson, Allan R ; Lineham, Peter J (eds)

The Dunmore Press

1989 2nd edition (1987)

361

8vo

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

25

A comprehensive collection of New Zealand church related documents, from the first missionary beginnings, giving a wide introduction to the history of Christianity in New Zealand

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Cook Voyages Encounters

 

Davidson, Janet

Te Papa Press

2019

(errata slip) 279p (1p)

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations, the Cook voyages collections at Te Papa Museum in Wellington, from art to impliments

6.500000

34.000000

75.000000

65.000000

75.000000

The Prehistory of New Zealand

 

Davidson, Janet

Longman Paul

1984

iv 270p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Owner's plate front paste-down VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a broad coverage of what was known till 1984 about life in New Zealand before the coming of the Europeans

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

History of S. John's College

 

Davis, John King

Author Pub

1911

(frontis) 117p (1p)

8vo

Cloth binding Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of St John's, from its beginnings in Waimate North to Tamaki, Auckland, including a list of those ordained

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

Lines in the Water  a history of greenshell mussel farming in New Zealand

 

Dawber, Carol

October Enterprises Ltd, River Press

2004

306p (12p)

4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, the birth and development of the mussel industry in the Marlborough Sounds

9.000000

35.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

The New Zealand Woman

 

Dawson, Bee

Whitcoulls, New Zealand Magazines Ltd

2012

256

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With many illustrations, the impact of 'The New Zealand Woman's Weekly' over the female population of New Zealand since 1932, over 80 years

8.000000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Staying in Tune  Chamber Music New Zealand at 60

 

Dawson, Jane

Chamber Music New Zealand

2010

288

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a celebration of the work of this New Zealand music federation, at all levels in New Zealand society

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Castlepoint

the story of life on an iconic New Zealand sheep and cattle station

Day, Lorain

HarperCollins

2011

250p (6p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

35

With map and illustrations, a history of this farm, first settled in 1847, and still stretching 12 kms on the Wairarapa coast

6.000000

27.000000

52.000000

56.000000

60.000000

Catholic Women's League of New Zealand  national history 1931-1990

 

De Courcy, Noeline

Catholic Women's League of New Zealand

1990

80

4to

P-B Slight signature TP  Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the first sixty years of this Catholic Women's movement in New Zealand, with many lists

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Chariots for Fire  a pictorial history of the New Zealand fire engine

 

Denton, Brian

Reed

1995

200

4to

D-J Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the New Zealand fire brigades and their equipment, from the horse-drawn Tilley pump of 1846, including industrial brigades, fire parties and appliance restoration

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

52.000000

57.000000

Kiwi Companeros  New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War

 

Derby, Mark (ed)

Canterbury University Press

2009

304

8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

With illustrations, a series of personal biographies of New Zealanders who went to help and/or fight in the Spanish Civil War

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

The ultimate guide to New Zealand English

Deverson, Tony ; Kennedy, Graeme (eds)

Oxford University Press

2005

xix 1355p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Fine

45

With thumb indices, the first full Oxford designed for New Zealand users, with over 100,000 general English words and meanings, and a further 10,000 New Zealandisms, building on Harry Orsman's Dictionary of New Zealand English, a great achievement

10.000000

49.000000

110.000000

100.000000

110.000000

The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

The ultimate guide to New Zealand English

Deverson, Tony ; Kennedy, Graeme (eds)

Oxford University Press

2005

xix 1355p

4to

Boxed  Full leather  AEG  Near Fine

95

The first full Oxford designed for New Zealand users, with over 100,000 general English words and meanings, and a further 10,000 New Zealandisms, a great achievement. This special, limited edition weighs over 3kg

10.000000

49.000000

110.000000

100.000000

110.000000

Savaged to Suit  Maori and Cartooning in New Zealand

 

Diamond, Paul

New Zealand Cartoon Archive

2018

201

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Slight lifting of laminate on front cover Near Fine

38

With illustrations, a history of how Maori are presented in cartoons, especially political cartoons, from the 1930s to the 1990s, an important book

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The Voyages of the Clontarf

 

Diver, Marolyn

Dornie Publishing Co

2011

105

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the two voyages of this immigrant ship to New Zealand, including passenger lists for 1858-60
3

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

The New Zealand Diver's Guide

 

Doak, Wade (ed)

Reed

1993

ix 165p

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, an essentially practical guide to diving underwater, what you need and where you can go

7.500000

24.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

To All Parts of the Kingdom

Christian Brothers in New Zealand 1876-2001

Donaldson, Graeme

Author Pub

2001

32

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, 125 years of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand, especially their schools, starting in Dunedin

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Open 7 Days

A celebration of the New Zealand General Store

Donovan, Don

Random Century

1991

82p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

35

Author signed, with 37 watercolours, the author looks at a selection of mainly small town and country stores

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Religions of New Zealanders 2nd edition

 

Donovan, Peter (ed)

The Dunmore Press

1996 Up-dated edition

277

4to

P-B Fading spine VG

25

With illustrations, a collection of articles dealing with the now huge variety of faiths and spiritual paths in Aotearoa/New Zealand

5.500000

17.000000

35.000000

38.000000

41.000000

Religions of New Zealanders

 

Donovan, Peter (ed)

Dunmore Press

1990

272

8vo

P-B VG

40

With illustrations, a collection of essays which puts forward an across-the-board, A-Z introduction to the many faiths and spiritual paths in Aotearoa-New Zealand

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Ham Shacks, Brass Pounders & Rag Chewers  a history of Amateur Radio in New Zealand

 

Dougherty, Ian

New Zealand Assoc of Radio Transmitters, History Branch DIA

1997

298

4to

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

32

With illustrations, a history that covers both the development of radio equipment and of the radio transmittimng community

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Captain Marion

 

Dumas, Alexandre ; Reed, FW (trans)

The Caxton Press

1949

53

8vo

D-J (browning spine, slight chips spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding Signature FEP  VG

85

An edition of 400 copies, translating Dumas' narrative of the killing of Captain Marion du Fresne in 1772 by Northland Maori

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The French and the Maori

 

Dunmore, John (ed)

The Heritage Press

1992

203

4to

D-J (fading spine)  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with French contacts with Maori before and after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

45.000000

49.000000

New Zealand and the French

Two Centuries of Contact

Dunmore, John (ed)

Heritage Press

1997 2nd, updated edition  (1990)

213

4to

D-J Near Fine

58

The updated edition of this study of France's impact on New Zealand, from the earlest sightings down into the 20th century

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

60 years ago  celebrating the anniversary of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and France

 

Dunmore, John (et al)

Alliance Francaise

2005

120

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a collection of pieces covering the period 1945 - 2005, from early French visitors and visions of colonial ownership, through Allied war contacts, the role of diplomats in France and New Zealand, and Ginette Delmas in New Zealand

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

34.000000

35.000000

Drivers of Urban Change

 

Early, Lisa (et al, eds)

Steele Roberts

2015

272

4to

P-B Signature HTP Near Fine

35

With maps and tables, a report exploring the pressing issues of compact vs dispersed urban development in New Zealand, using the five cities of Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin as examples

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Missionary & Maori  Kerikeri 1819-1860

 

Easdale, Nola

Te Waihora Press

1991

162

8vo

P-B (light fading spine) VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, an account of the Kerikeri Mission Station, its missionary settlers and the Maori who came and went, including pieces on Kemp House and the Stone store

8.000000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

kairuri  The Measurer of Land

The life of the 19th century surveyor

Easdale, Nola

Highgate, Price Milburn, NZ Institute of Surveyors

1988

175

4to

D-J VG - Near Fine

70

New Zealand through the eyes of the early surveyors, using their writings and illustrations

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Te Whakapono  St Matthew the Apostle Church Tuparoa Bay  1857-1982 the story of a Maori Church

 

Eastcott, Andrew David and Tai

Taka Press

1982

(frontis) 134p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the events, personalities and creation of the church as a building

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Victoria's Daughters

NZ Women of the Thirties

Ebbett, Eve

Reed

1981

(1p) 165 (1p ads)

4to

D-J (in plastic)  Signature FEP VG - Near Fine

25

Filling a hole in the history of NZ, developing the role of women in NZ, with many photographs

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Women in Wartime

NZ Women Tell Their Story

Edmond, Lauris (ed)

Govt Print

1986

viii 278

4to

P-B Signature FEP VG

25

Oral histories  from NZ women about their experiences during both of the World Wars, with illustrative photographs

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Put Him in the Longboat

 

Edwards, Doug

GP Books

1989

80

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations and drawings, the naval and NZ career of Edward Main Chaffers, who sailed on the Beagle and became the first Harbour Master of Wellington under the aegis of the NZ Company

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Ready to Fly

The Story of New Zealand Rock Music

Eggleton, David

Craig Potton Pub

2003

199

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

45

With many illustrations, a pop overview of 50 years of popular, then rock, then other styles, New Zealand music

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

New Zealand's China Experience

 

Elder, Chris (ed)

Victoria University Press

2012

256

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a collection of source pieces, from written to painted, which unravel 'the genesis, triumphs, and occasional moments of less than complete success' of the relationship, official and unofficial, between New Zealand and China

5.000000

19.000000

39.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The History of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1840-1940

 

Elder, JR

Presbyterian Bookroom

1940

xv 463p (1p)

8vo

Hard covers Silver label spine  Slight rubbing top, bottom spine VG

25

With maps and illustrations, a centennial history of Presbyterianism in New Zealand, and its leading figures

5.500000

23.000000

48.000000

53.000000

58.000000

The History of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1840-1940

 

Elder, JR

Presbyterian Bookroom

1940

(frontis) xv 463p (1p)

8vo

Full leather binding, light rubbing spine, fore-corners VG

55

Signed by the auther, the deluxe edition, a presentation copy, with etching by AH McLintock, with maps and illustrations, a centennial history of Presbyterianism in New Zealand, and its leading figures

6.500000

34.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Great Wrong War  New Zealand Society in WW1

 

Eldred-Grigg, Stevan

Random House

2010

488

8vo

Laminated boards  Near Fine
Laminated boards  Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, a study of the New Zealand that went into WW1 and what emerged from it, including the economic and social consequences

8.000000

23.000000

52.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Dominion Post 150 years of news

 

Elenio, Paul

The Dominion Post, Fairfax Media

2014

248p (4p)

4to

Soft card covers Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the founding and development of this Wellington newspaper

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

New Zealand Ghost Towns and Glimpses of the Past

 

Ell, Gordon

The Bush Press

1988

80

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a guide to the deserted, or largely deserted 'ghost towns' of a former New Zealand, with travel directions for visitors

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Gold Rush Country of New Zealand

 

Ell, Gordon

The Bush Press

1987

80

8vo

P-B  VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a survey of the gold towns  and the people, mining methods and relics

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Gold Rush  Tales and Traditions of the New Zealand Goldfields

 

Ell, Gordon

The Bush Press

1995

128

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, an interesting mix of pieces on the people and places during the New Zealand goldrush period

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Explorers, Whalers & Tatooed Sailors

 

Ell, Gordon & Sarah

Random House

2008

300p (4p)

Small 8vo

D-J Laminated boards Owner's label covered HTP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a reworking of the author's earlier 'Adventurous Times', tales of exploration of New Zealand, and experiences around its shores

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A New Zealand Christmas

Three centuries of Kiwi Christmas celebrations

Ell, Sarah

Godwit, Random House

2008

208

4to

D-J (fading spine)  Laminated boards Owner's label covered HTP  VG - Near Fine

25

With many illustrations, a celebration of New Zealand Christmas celebrations from the 19th to the 21st centuries

9.000000

23.000000

51.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Adventures of Pioneer Women in New Zealand

 

Ell, Sarah (comp)

The Bush Press

1992

208

4to

P-B Owner's stamp inside front cover VG

25

With illustrations, a selection of early European female settler writings and reminiscences coming to and living in New Zealand

6.000000

26.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Adventurous Times in old New Zealand

first-hand accounts of the lawless days

Ell, Sarah and Gordon  (comps)

The Bush Press

1994

184

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a compilation of writings from the early days of European contact with New Zealand, from exploration to whaling to missionaries to contact with Maori

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

The 9th Floor  conversations with five New Zealand Prime Ministers

 

Espiner, Guy ; Watkin, Tim

Bridget Williams Books, Radio New Zealand

2017

224

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, in-depth interviews on the leaderships of PMs Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark

6.000000

15.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Churchman Militant

 George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of NZ and Lichfield

Evans, John H

Allen&Unwin - Reed

1964

298

8vo

D-J VG

45

Describes and evaluates Selwyn's work, his impact on the church and society of his time, accompanied by his wife

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Ideal Society and its Enemies

the foundations of modern New Zealand society 1850-1900

Fairburn, Miles

Auckland University Press

1989

316

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

25

With illustrations, a study of the settler society in New Zealand during its first 50-odd years, what were its characteristics and what kind of social organisation was created

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Class, Gender and the Vote  historical perspectives from New Zealand

 

Fairburn, Miles ; Olssen, Erik (eds)

University of Otago Press

2005

288

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With tables and illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with a quantitative approach to studying New Zealand history, from social questions to ruling the state

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Living in Paradox  a history of Urban Design across kainga, towns and cities in New Zealand

 

Falconer, Garth

Blue Acres Press

2015

516

4to

Soft card covers Near Fine

60

With plans and illustrations, a history of New Zealand's past developments of town planning and a look forward to future options

5.500000

30.000000

68.000000

78.000000

82.000000

Building the New Zealand Dream

 

Ferguson, Gael

Dunmore Press, Historical Branch, DIA

1994

344

4to

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

40

With illustrations, a tidy ex-library copy of this chronological history of housing policies in New Zealand, especially State Housing policies, and examines the effects these policies have had on people and environment

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

How We Remember  New Zealanders and the First World War

 

Ferrall, Charles ; Ricketts, Harry (eds)

Victoria University Press

2014

296

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a collection of writers reflect on the experiences, and truths, of the First World War and New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Truth about New Zealand

 

Field, AN

Author Pub

1939

viii 189p (1p catalogue)

Small 8vo

P-B Past water adhesion on one page with some loss of text, and sign of silverfish damage Otherwise VG

20

The author's pre-War polemic about the dangers of New Zealandis capitalist system undergoing Socialist pressure

3.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

St Paul's Methodist Church 1865-1965

 

Fields, Ronald E

St Paul's Methodist Church

1965

12 leaves

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations and lists, the first 100 years of this Hokitika Methodist church

5.000000

6.000000

17.000000

22.000000

19.000000

Home and Away

Images of New Zealanders in World War II

Filer, David

David Bateman

1990

144

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight fading top) VG - Near Fine

35

NZers at home and at war, from Europe to the Pacific, in over 230 photographs

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Seddon's State Houses

The Workers' Dwellings Act 1905 & the Heretaunga Settlement

Fill, Barbara

New Zealand Historic Places Trust

1984

40

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

20

With plans and illustrations, the history of the 'State' houses in Patrick St, Petone

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Datus a chronology of New Zealand from the time of the moa

 

Finn, George

Author Pub, National Printing Co

1932 4th edition

(frontis) 237p

8vo

Cloth binding, short split in spine cloth base spine Covers faded VG

20

With illustrations, a record of New Zealand 'history', including lists of leaders, from Parliament to City Councils

4.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The First Hundred Years  Dominican Friars in Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

 

Fitzgerald, Thomas P OP

Dominican Fathers SA Inc

1998

xv 192p

4to

P-B  VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of the Dominicans in the South Pacific, including the teaching institutions

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

No Place to Hide  Climate Change  a short introduction for New Zealanders

 

Flynn, Jim

Potton & Burton

2016

104p (2p)

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, where the climate is at, how it got there, and what can be done about it

7.500000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

The Excavation of Site R11/1386 Maungamaungaroa, Howick

 

Foster, Russell

Dept of Conservation

1989

iii 23p

4to

P-B, stapled spine Owner's stamp front cover, TP  Near Fine

20

With map and plans, the description of a site above the Maungamaungaroa River, probably occupied by Ngai Tai before the 19th century

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

At the Front

A Story of Pluck and Heroism in the railway construction camps…

Foston, Herman

Arthur H Stockwell

1921

(frontis) vii (1p plate) 231p

Small 8vo

Red cloth binding, gilt titles front, spine  Spine faded  Slight wear top, bottom spine  Inside hinges beginning  Light browning FEs  Gd - VG

70

Now scarce, an NZ story about life on a construction gang on the Stratford-Taumarunui railway, with religious and temperance emphasis, illustrated

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

From Inkwells to E-mail  the story of Accounting in Hawke's Bay

 

Fowler, Michael B

Eastern Institute of Technology

2005

xii 148p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the development of accounting practices in Hawke's Bay, through earthquakes, World Wars and depressions

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Symbolising New Zealand

 

Fox, Alistair (ed)

Centre for Research on National Identity

2011

126

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

A collections of symposium papers from 2010 examining the perceptions of New Zealand as a nation through its symbols and national myths, and the purposes and effects of such symbolisation

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

35.000000

38.000000

Cinematic Adaptation and the Articulation of New Zealand Identity

 

Fox, Alistair ; Hine, Gabrielle (eds)

Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago

2011

88

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays which attest to the importance of cinema in the construction and transmission of collective memory as a force inherent in social change, and the subsequent evolution of national identity

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Six Colonies of NZ

 

Fox, William

Hocken Facs #12

1971 (1851)

viii 168 (4p ads)

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

25

A facsimile edition of this account of the setlement and development of the new country, New Zealand, up to 1851

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

A Long, Long Trail

 

Frances, Neil

Wairarapa Archive

2015 second printing

86

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With map and illustrations, a record of those New Zealand troops who marched the long road over the Rimutaka Hill 1915-18 before they went overseas, and the re-enactment, 100 years later

5.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

The Enderby Settlement

 

Fraser, Conon

Otago University Press

2014

256

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, Britain's whaling venture on the Subantactic Auckland Islands 1849-52

8.000000

29.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

A Distant Shore

Irish Migration & New Zealand Settlement

Fraser, Lyndon (ed)

Otago University Press

2000

196

8vo

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

28

With map and illustrations, a collection of essays telling the story of Irish migration to New Zealand in the 19th and early 20th century, including Irish on the Goldfields and the West Coast

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Shifting Centres  women and migration in New Zealand history

 

Fraser, Lyndon ; Pickles, Katie

University of Otago Press

2002

213p (2p catalogue)

8vo

P-B Fine

20

With map, illustrations and tables, a collection of essays detailing the various experiences of women migrants into New Zealand since the beginnings of human settlement

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

New Zealand Official Year-Book 1912

 

Fraser, M (ed)

Govt Print

1912

(frontis) xv 957p

8vo

Brown cloth binding, gilt titles  Owner's label FEP Fore-corners bumped VG - Near Fine

50

With tables and graphs, a nice copy

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

The Story of Nansen House

 

Fraser, Very Rev Ian

Nansen Home

1985 reprint edition (1984)

65

8vo

P-B VG

20

With biographies, a history of Nansen Home, established in Lower Hutt in 1963 as a home for elderly refugees

5.000000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Living Space towards sustainable settlements in New Zealand

 

Freeman, Claire ; Thompson-Fawcett, Michelle (eds)

University of Otago Press

2003

240

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a collection of essays exploring the concept of sustainability and its application to New Zealand settlements, rural and urban

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Anthropology in the South Seas

 

Freeman, JH ; Geddes, WR (eds)

Thomas Avery

1959

(frontis) 267p (1p)

4to

D-J (closed chip base spine, internal browning)  VG

48

With maps, figures and illustrations, a collection of essays presented to HD Skinner covering the prehistory and contemporary life of the Maori of New Zealand and other Pacific peoples

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Out of the Silence

Methodist Women of Aotearoa 1822-1985

Fry, Ruth

Methodist Publishing

1987

242

8vo

P-B Presentation plate laid on inside front cover VG

25

A significant contribution to the study of NZ women's history and NZ social history, including a record of the overseas missions undertaken from NZ

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Community of the Sacred Name a centennial history

 

Fry, Ruth

The Community of the Sacred Name

1993

112

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a hundred years of life and service of this Anglican religious order in Christchurch

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Turning Stone into Jade  the history of the New Zealand Chinese Association

 

Fung, David

New Zealand Chinese Association

2014

311

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

50

With illustrations, a history of the NZCA, its branches and its achievements

7.500000

34.000000

85.000000

75.000000

75.000000

Change Through Time  50 Years of New Zealand Archaeology

 

Furey, Louise ; Holdaway, Simon (eds)

New Zealand Archaeological Assoc

2004

viii 374p (lacks CDROM)

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, drawings, maps and tables, a collection of 14 papers covering the archaeology of New Zealand and the Pacific

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Prelude to Arbitration in 3 Movements  Ulster South Australia New Zealand 1890-1894

 

Gardner, W Jim

Author Pub

2009

174

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The background and the history of the IC and A Act of 1894, with illustrations

6.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Climate of New Zealand

A geographical survey

Garnier, BJ

Edward Arnold

1958

191

4to

D-J (browning spine, small piece missing top spine, chips fore-corners, in protective plastic) Signature front paste-down, owner's small stamp base  VG

45

With maps, illustrations and figures, a study of the weather and climate of New Zealand, and the climatic regions, with a useful bibliography (till the date of publication)

5.000000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Dunedin City Transport Overseas Bulletin No 9 March 1944

 

Garrick, Oscar (ed)

DCT

1944

36

4to

Pink paper covers, staple spine  Rubbing spine, fading FEs  VG otherwise

40

With illustrations, a bulletin designed to be sent to members of the DCT who were serving overseas in various New Zealand Army battalions, with news, messages, and some history, now quite scarce in good condition

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Without Prejudice  Women in the Law

 

Gatfield, Gill

Brooker's Ltd

1996

xxii 549p

8vo

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

25

With illustrations and tables, tracing the evidence of sex discrimination and gender bias in the practice of the law in New Zealand, and the implications for the wider debate on equal opportunity in New Zealand

5.000000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Heartlands

New Zealand historians write about where history happened

Gentry, Kynan ; McLean, Gavin (eds)

Penguin Books

2006

266

8vo

P-B Fine

32

With illustrations, a team of New Zealand historians write about their favourite historical places and what happened there, from the working classes of Dunedin to the New Zealanders at Gallipoli

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

With Hillary at Scott Base  a Kiwi among the penguins

 

Gerard, Vern

Bateson Publishing

2012

xvi 147p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

With illustrations, an account of the early days at the New Zealand Antarctic Base, Scott Base

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Ghosh, Gautam ; Leckie, Jacqueline (eds)

Otago University Press

2015

316

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

35

With tables and illustrations, a series of essays that discuss aspects of New Zealand's multi-culturalism and how this fits within a national state

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Wired for Sound The Stebbing history of New Zealand music

 

Gillanders, Grant ; Welsh, Robyn

David Bateman

2018

347p (1p)

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, a history of modern New Zealand music, with Stebbing Studios and the Zodiac recording label

9.000000

44.000000

95.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Meet Me at Beggs  the story of Charles Begg & Co, music and appliance manufacturers and retailers 1861-1970

 

Gleeson, Clare

Ngaio Press

2012

240

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

55

With illustrations, a history of a New Zealand firm, in its time synonymous with music publication and instrument production

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Methodism in Auckland during the Maori Wars 1860-1864

 

Glen, Frank G

Wesley Historical Society

1957

36

8vo

P-B Slight foxing prelims One slight tear corner one page  VG

28

With map and illustrations, the 1957 Wesley Historical Society lecture, a discussion of the role the missionaries played in the first phases of the New Zealand Wars, in South Auckland and the Waikato

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Tangiwai  a medical history of 19th century New Zealand

 

Gluckman, Laurie J

Author Pub

1976

271

8vo

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

40

Signed by the author, limited edition (#1057), covering the medical history of European medicine in New Zealand up till 1860

8.000000

26.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The History of the Jews in New Zealand

 

Goldman, Lazarus Morris

Reed

1958

272

4to

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

120

With illustrations, the history of the Jewish contribution to the social, commercial and cultural development of New Zealand, scarce

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Fletchers  a centennial history of Fletcher Building

 

Goldsmith, Paul

David Ling Publishing

2009

352

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a hundred years in the life of this construction company, from small beginnings in Dunedin to a multi-national company and the go-to for disaster building in Christchurch after its earthquakes

6.500000

34.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Guards of the Sea

 

Grady, Don

Whitcoulls

1978

192

8vo

D-J (slight chips) Paper over boards Near Fine

58

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the life and times of this early European whaling and fishing family from Port Underwood, Marlborough Sounds

8.000000

26.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Sealers & Whalers in New Zealand Waters

 

Grady, Don

Reed Methuen

1986

307p (1p)

4to

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

45

With many illustrations, a history of the sealing and whaling in southern waters, including much from ships' logs

6.500000

35.000000

80.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Frederick Weld

 

Graham, Jeanine

Auckland University Press, OUP

1983

(frontis) (5p) 225p

8vo

D-J (slight chip spine)  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and maps, the life of a pioneer NZ pastoralist who became Premier 1864-5, then Colonial Governor in Australian states and Straits Settlements

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Jagged Seas  the New Zealand Seamen's Union 1879-2003

 

Grant, David

Canterbury University Press

2012

383

4to

P-B Near Fine

38

With illustrations, a history of a New Zealand union of workers which played an important role in the country's seafaring industry

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Question of Faith  a history of the New Zealand Christian Pacifist Society

 

Grant, David

Philip Garside Publishing

2004

120

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the CPS, established in 1936, its people, its beliefs, and what happened based on these beliefs, in peace and war

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Shear History  50 Years of Golden Shears in New Zealand

 

Grant, Ian F (et al, eds)

Fraser Books

2010

xii 443p

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

With map, illustrations and lists, a detailed history of the New Zealand shearing competition, including the personalities, events, and records

6.000000

23.000000

50.000000

54.000000

58.000000

The Visitation  the earthquake of 1848 and the destruction of Wellington

 

Grapes, Rodney H

Victoria University Press

2011

191

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the cluster of devastating earthquakes that struck the fledgling settlement of Wellington in 1848

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Greytown Glimpses 1857-1967

 

Greathead, Mervyn J (et al, eds)

Greytown Methodist Church Book Cttee

1967

(frontis) (1p) 66p (2 folding charts)

8vo

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, 110 years of Methodism in this Wairarapa area, with lists and short biographies

5.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

British Capital, Antipodean Labour

Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915-1951

Green, Anna

University of Otago Press

2001

202

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

Based on oral histories, a study of the NZ waterfront and its politics, culminating in the nation-turning 1951 waterfront dispute

6.500000

21.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

A review of the prehistoric sequence in the Auckland province

 

Green, Roger C ; King & Shawcross (eds)

Auckland Archaeological Society, NZAA

1963

114 (errata slip tipped in)

4to

P-B with cloth strip spine  Signature TP Slight pen marks back cover, slight underlining one page  VG

30

With maps and tables, an important review of the archaeological evidence up till the 1960s of Maori occupation of New Zealand and Auckland specifically

5.000000

14.000000

23.000000

28.000000

28.000000

A review of the prehistoric sequence in the Auckland province

 

Green, Roger C ; Leach, BF (ed)

Auckland Archaeological Soc, NZAA

1970 2nd edition

xii 60p

8vo

P-B Pen underlining on some pages Gd

15

With maps and figures, archaeological evidence of the pre-history/pre-European occupation of the North of New Zealand

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

The Threat of Nuclear War  a New Zealand perspective

 

Gregory, JC (ed)

The Royal Society of New Zealand

1985

83

4to

P-B Black tape spine  VG

20

A report describing the threats of nuclear war in 1985 with particular regard to New Zealand

8.000000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Aotearoa and New Zealand

A historical geography

Grey, Alan

Canterbury University Press

1994

xix 476p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

A very useful way to look at the first hundred years of NZ as a nation, the development from a relative forest-clad wilderness to a highly pastoralised landscape, and the effects on NZers as a people

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

New Zealand, Her Commerce & Resources

 

Griffin, Gilderoy Wells

Govt Print

1884

178p (folding table, folding map)

8vo

Red cloth binding, black decorations, gilt titles Light fading spine Title written on spine  Owner's plate front paste-down  Slight bumping fore-corners  VG - Near Fine

48

A series of pieces written while the author was American Consul in New Zealand, including trade in minerals and farming goods, with up-to-date statistics from New Zealand government sources

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Book & Print in New Zealand  a guide to print culture in Aotearoa

 

Griffith, Penny (et al. eds)

Victoria University Press

1997

352

8vo

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

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays which explores the impact of the book and other forms of print on New Zealand culture

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Bishops, Boozers, Brethren & Burkas  a cartoon history of Religion in New Zealand

 

Grimshaw, Mike

New Zealand Cartoon Archive

2019

iv 135p

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a history of newspapers and journals portraying religions and politics in New Zealand

6.000000

19.000000

40.000000

38.000000

42.000000

Dear is the Life

 Adventures, Memoirs of Arthur and Daisy Grundy

Grundy, AW

Author Pub

1981

96

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

The Grundy family history in New Zealand, especially the lives given to Missions

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

From the Cradle to the Grave

 

Gustafson, Barry

Penguin

1988

369 (2p)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Owner's stamp FEP VG -  Near Fine

25

Michael Joseph Savage, and the rise of the Welfare State in New Zealand, and how it evolved, with illustrations

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

White Out!

 

Guy, Michael

Alister Taylor

1980

254

Small 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the author's account of the Air New Zealand DC-10 crash on Mount Erebus 28/11/79

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

A Sequel to one of England's Little Wars

 

Hadfield, Octavius

Hocken Library

1967

16

8vo

P-B Fine

15

Hocken Library Facsimile reprint, an open letter to the English people (after it had been refused by 'The Times') which underlines the first letter's claims about the illegal operations of the Governor in Taranaki

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Rotary in New Zealand 1921-1971

 

Hall-Jones, FG

New Zealand Rotary

1971

312

8vo

D-J Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and lists, the first fifty years of Rotary in New Zealand

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

34.000000

38.000000

Down Every Street and Byway

 

Hamblyn, Mike

Otago Heritage Books

2001

48

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a short history of Stone's New Zealand directories

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Vegetation Management on Archaeological Sites

 

Hamel, Gillian Eileen ; Jones, Kevin Lewis

New Zealand Historic Places Trust

1982

28

4to

P-B Light foxing cover VG

20

With illustrations, a manual for archaeologists, with selected site examples

5.000000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

The New Zealand Liberals    The Years of Power, 1891-1912

 

Hamer, David

Auckland University Press

1988

418

8vo

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

40

Tracing the beginnings of party government in NZ and its dominant Prime Minister, their land and labour laws, pensions and other social reforms which gave it the reputation of NZ as a 'social laboratory'

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Out of the Common Way the European Church in the Colonial Era 1840-1913

 

Hames, EW

Wesley Historical Society of New Zealand

1972

(3p) 147p (5p Index)

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards VG

22

With illustrations, a history of the Wesleyan Church in New Zealand until WW2, beginning as the 'Maori Mission', detailing the developments in the various 'circuits'

5.500000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

Coming of Age New Zealand Methodism 1913-1972

 

Hames, EW

Wesley Historical Society of New Zealand

1974

157p (6p Index)

8vo

D-J Cloth binding VG

22

With illustrations, the Wesleyan Church in New Zealand over the two World Wars, from the union with the Primitive Methodists

5.500000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

A Venture in Faith  the history of St Paul's Collegiate School 1959-2008

 

Hamilton, Bruce

The St Paul's Collegiate School Old Collegians' Association

2008

437

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, lists, anecdotes and reminiscences, the first 50 years of this now-co-ed Hamilton school

6.000000

36.000000

75.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Bush Carpenters

Pioneer Homes in New Zealand  Images from the Alexander Turnbull Library

Hammond, Janny (selector)

John McIndoe

1979

80

4to

P-B Fading spine, FE  VG

30

Images of early rural New Zealand from the time of the arrival of the first European settlers to about 1900, with relevant selections from contemporary writings

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Life in a Young Colony

 

Hankin, Cherry (ed)

Whitcoulls

1981

287

8vo

D-J Near Fine

25

Selections from early NZ writing

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

A Centre of Attraction the story of Downstage Theatre

 

Harcourt, Peter

Downstage Theatre

1980

31p (2p)

4to

P-B VG

22

With illustrations, a history of this professional theatre in Wellington and a complete list of its productions up till 1980

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Fantasy & Folly

the lost world of New Zealand musicals 1880-1940

Harcourt, Peter ; Ashworth, Norma (ed)

Steele Roberts

2002

vi 170p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

38

A study of early New Zealand musical theatre, with illustrations and portraits, including costume designs

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

One Hundred Years

A history of Wellington Girls' College

Harding, Olga E

Wellington Girls' College Cent Cttee

1982

xv 192p

8vo

D-J (small piece missing fore-corner)  VG

22

With illustrations and lists, the story of this Wellington institution, its pupils and its administrators

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

New Zealand in the Mid-Victorian Era

an album of contemporary engravings

Hargreaves, RP ; Hearn, TJ

John McIndoe

1977

46 leaves

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With historical engravings from overseas and local newspapers, a graphic depiction of a developing settler New Zealand

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Colonial New Zealand

Engravings of the Victorian Period

Hargreaves, RP ; Hearn, TJ

Reed

1998 (1980)

95

4to

P-B Fine

22

Engravings of pre and early settlement of NZ, from a multitude of publications

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Reading the Riot Act  a 200 year history of Justices of the Peace in New Zealand

 

Harkness, Philip

Media Features Ltd

2015

160

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of the JP office and its JPs in New Zealand, no longer required to read the Riot Act to unruly mobs

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Cleansing the Colony  transporting convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land

 

Harman, Kristyn

Otago University Press

2017

247

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a study of those 110 people who were transported from New Zealand in the 19th century, reflecting on a philosophy of 'cleansing' by the governing class

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Peace is more than the absence of War

 

Harrex, Wendy (et al, eds)

New Women's Press

1986

115

4to

P-B Fading spine Fore-corners curling  VG

20

With photographs by Gil Hanly, a collection of pieces by women, including politicians and peace activists, to document the happenings in New Zealand in the UN International Year of Peace, including past blockading of US submarines

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Respectable Lives  social standing in rural New Zealand

 

Hatch, Elvin

University of California Press

1992

vii 214p

8vo

D-J (closed short tear top spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

30

Signed and inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a study of what criteria New Zealand farmers use in judging social standing and worth, based on work done with a Canterbury farming community

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

36.000000

40.000000

Horsedrawn Vehicles of New Zealand

 

Hawke, Vera ; Scott, Amy

Dunmore Press

1980

180

Oblong 4to

D-J (in archival wrapper) VG - Near Fine

35

Includes many of the carts and buggies that were used by the various levels of society during early European settlement

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

45.000000

49.000000

Applico 25 years

 

Hawkes, Colleen

Trends Publishing Int'l

2011

80

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With many illustrations, the jubilee of a New Zealand appliance seller, from 'The Hood Centre' to 'Kitchen Things' to 'Applico', and the family driving it

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Swimming Upstream  how salmon farming developed in New Zealand

 

Haworth, Jennifer

Wily Publications

2010

303p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With many illustrations, the trials and tribulations of this innovative industry in New Zealand waters

5.000000

20.000000

41.000000

45.000000

49.000000

Local Government and the Treaty of Waitangi

 

Hayward, Janine (ed)

OUP

2003

xvi 200p

8vo

P-B Fine

48

Ten essays dealing with the role of local government in New Zealand in the workings of the Treaty of Waitangi

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

North Meets South

popular music in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Hayward, Philip (et al)

Perfect Beat Publications

1994

(1p) ii 125p

8vo

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, a study of popular music in New Zealand since the 1960s, its industrial and cultural contexts, including contemporary Maori music

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand

 

Heaphy, Charles

The Capper Press

1972

viii 142p (6p catalogue)

8vo

D-J Paper over Boards VG

25

The author's stay in New Zealand covered the foundation of the New Zealand Company's first settlements and he here discusses their prospects

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Cracks in a Glass Ceiling  New Zealand Women 1975-2004

 

Herd, Joyce

New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women (Otago Branch)

2005

ix 118p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a study of where New Zealand women stood in 2004, 29 years after the first International Women's Year, in family, work, health, education, and the results of the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The New Zealand Frozen Meat Trade

 

Hereford, PSE

New Zealand Publishing Co

1932

(frontis) 102p

8vo

D-J (chips, small piece missing front fore-corner, in protective wrapper)  Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a history of the first fifty years of freezing meat for export, and the delivery from the 'Dunedin' to Britain in 1882

5.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

New Zealand's Favourite Brands  an insight into some of New Zealand's most iconic brands Vol 1

 

Higgins, Monica (ed)

Neil C Tanner, David A Higgins

2004

115

Folio

D-J Black cloth binding, silver titles, design  Fine

75

With illustrations, an A-Z of the bigger New Zealand companies and their brands, from the All Blacks to Wrightsons, covering most areas of NZ life, from business to food to travel to furniture and personal equipment

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Upper Clutha Valley  an archaeological study

 

Higham, CFW (et al)

University of Otago, Dept of Anthropology

1976

199p (70p plates)

4to

P-B Black book tape spine  VG

50

With maps, plates and illustrations, an archaeological survey of the area around Cromwell in Central Otago

8.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

In the Line of Duty  100 years of the New Zealand Police

 

Hill, Murray

Endeavour Press

1986

88

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the development of the NZ Police force

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Policing the Colonial Frontier Volume One Part 1, 2

The Theory and Practice of Coercive Social and Racial Control in New Zealand 1767-1867

Hill, Richard S

Historical Publications Branch, DIA

1986

Part 1 xxi 409p Part 2 xiii (1p) p 413- 1141p (1p)

8vo

D-J (light rubbing, chips, in archival wrapper) Blue cloth binding VG - Near Fine

100

With maps and illustrations, a very detailed history of the early police in New Zealand and the uses to which they were put by governmental action. These are heavy volumes.

8.000000

45.000000

100.000000

95.000000

105.000000

The Colonial Frontier Tamed    New Zealand Policing in Transition 1867-1886

 

Hill, Richard S

Historical Branch, DIA

1989

xiii (1p) 386p

4to

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

45

With maps and illustrations, the history of policing in New Zealand Volume Two, covering the New Zealand Wars and the aftermath

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy  Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1900-1950

 

Hill, Richard S

Victoria University Press

2004

317

8vo

P-B Fine

30

A discussion of the relations between the New Zealand Crown and Maori groupings over the first 50 years of the 20th century, of Maori attempts to have the Treaty clauses enacted and Crown concerns to contain them

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The History of New Zealand Policing Vols 1-4

Vol 1 (2 parts) Policing the Colonial Frontier Vol 2 The Colonial Frontier Tamed Vol 3 The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove Vol 4 A Policeman's Paradise?

Hill, Richard S ; Dunstall, Graeme

Reed, Dunmore Press

1986-1999

xxi 409p, xiii p413-1142 ; xiv 386p ; xii 532p ; xii 528p

8vo

D-J (volume 1 lightly rubbed)  Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

300

With illustrations, covering the New Zealand pioneering settlement period through to the end of WW2, landmark works on the history of New Zealand policing

20.000000

48.000000

116.000000

127.000000

145.000000

Indigenous Identity and Resistance   Researching the diversity of knowledge

 

Hokowhitu, Brendan (et al, eds)

Otago University Press

2010

255

8vo

P-B Fine

38

With maps and illustrations, a collection of essays from indigenous scholars that reflect upon what makes indigenous studies

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The Shaping of New Zealand

 

Holcroft, Monte H

Paul Hamlyn

1974

159

4to

D-J (slight repair) VG

28

Heavily illustrated with contemporary images, detailing the roots of NZ society

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Hard Men

 

Holden, Philip

HarperCollins

2002

136

Oblong 8vo

P-B Inscription inside front cover VG

22

With illustrations, fifteen stories of New Zealanders who live and work in demanding places, from policeman to hunter to farmer to search and rescue

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Tragic Story of the Waihi Strike

 

Holland, E (et al)

Hocken Library Reprint

1975

202

8vo

Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

Includes hist New Zealand Federation of Labour, Reefton Lockout, other Industrial events 1912

5.000000

17.000000

29.000000

33.000000

34.000000

Home in the Howling Wilderness

settlers and the environment in Southern New Zealand

Holland, Peter

Auckland University Press

2013

viii 254p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

42

With maps, tables and illustrations, a study of the environmental transformation of the South Island South by the European settlers

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Caught Mapping

The life and times of New Zealand's early surveyors

Holm, Janet

Hazard Press

2005

(frontis) 302p

8vo

P-B Fine

38

With illustrations, a study of some of New Zealand's early surveyors, what was achieved and the struggles that they went through

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

On Zealand's Hills  where tigers steal along

Vignettes and memoirs from the exploration of New Zealand

Holm, Janet

Steele Roberts

2008

184

4to

D-J (fading spine) Near Fine

48

With maps and illustrations, early European settlers and explorers and 'personalities' in 19th century New Zealand, a nice creation

8.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

A City Possessed  The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

 

Hood, Lynley

Longacre Press

2001

672

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

28

A detailed investigation of a New Zealand criminal case in which a male worker was convicted, repeatedly, of child abuse, and how such a case could happen, why, and its importance for the future

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Back in the Shed

 

Hopkins, Jim ; Riley, Julie

HarperCollins

2002

152

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With many illustrations, a further uncovering of what many New Zealand men and women do in their outside sheds

3.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The First New Zealanders

 

Houghton, Philip

H&S

1980

156

8vo

P-B Slight rubbing top spine VG

25

With illustrations and figures, the author uses the archaeological evidence to describe the early life of New Zealand's earliest inhabitants

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The First New Zealanders

 

Houghton, Philip

H&S

1980

156

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing) Paper over boards, slight rubbing base Signature front paste-down  VG

45

With illustrations and figures, the author uses the archaeological evidence to describe the early life of New Zealand's earliest inhabitants

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Quest for Origins

who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?

Howe, Kerry

Penguin

2008 Revised edition (2003)

239

8vo

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

22

With maps and illustrations, a useful synthesis of the writings about the initial discovery and settlement of the Pacific, and a discussion of the 'new learning', the revised edition

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Zero Tolerance

 

Huata, Donna Awatere

ACT NZ

1998

128

8vo

P-B Fine

20

A political Programme for educational excellence, by the ACT education spokesman

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Bridges of New Zealand

 

Hudson, Patrick

IPL Books

1993

64

4to

P-B Slight fading spine  Near Fine

22

An illustrated history of a collection of New Zealand bridges from North to South

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Discharged in New Zealand

 

Hughes, Hugh & Lyn

New Zealand Society of Genealogists

1988

128

4to

P-B Ex-lib, stamps, including on the covers VG

35

P-B Ex-lib, stamps, including on the covers VG

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Vantastic  a pictorial history of caravans in New Zealand

 

Hunter, Chris

HarperCollins

2005

143p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

45

An illustrated celebration of generations of New Zealanders going on holiday in their caravan

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Music and the Stage in New Zealand

the record of a century of entertainment 1840-1943

Hurst, Maurice

Charles Begg & Co

1944

112p (2p)

8vo

Paper over boards Small piece missing top spine Owner's small stamp FEP VG

20

Paper over boards Small piece missing top spine Owner's small stamp FEP VG

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Over the Wide and Trackless Sea

the pioneer women and girls of New Zealand

Hutching, Megan

HarperCollins

2008

304

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the stories of representative European immigrant women, pioneering lives of challenge and struggle, from the 'high' to the 'low'

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Leading the Way  how New Zealand women won the vote

 

Hutching, Megan

HarperCollins

2010

320

8vo

P-B Dent in middle of top  VG

25

With illustrations, a narrative, with biographies, of the bitter path to the women's vote in New Zealand

5.000000

15.000000

32.000000

35.000000

39.000000

The Swinging Sixties  when New Zealand changed forever

 

Hutchins, Graham

HarperCollins

2008

256

8vo

P-B Fine

40

With many illustrations, a journey through the 1960s in New Zealand, politically, socially, economically, showing how the country changed its face

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

42.000000

45.000000

The Ilott Story

 

Ilott, Jack

Mallinson Rendel

1993

(frontis) 64p

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a well-made New Zealand family history

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Dragons on the Long White Cloud

the making of Chinese New Zealanders

Ip, Manying

Tandem Press

1996

168

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, a study of the development of New Zealand's ethnic Chinese population through several generations, including the effects of the large influx of Chinese in the late 1980s and early 1990s

6.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The Dragon & The Taniwha  Maori & Chinese in New Zealand

 

Ip, Manying (ed)

Auckland University Press

2009

x 374p

8vo

P-B Fine

38

With many tables, a collection of essays which discuss the historical context of Maori-Chinese interaction in New Zealand, the contemporary scene for both minorities within NZ, and their depictions in the media, both within and outside New Zealand

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Unfolding History, Evolving Identity

 The Chinese in New Zealand

Ip, Manying (ed)

Auckland University Press

2003

xvi 304p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

A collection of essays dealing with the experience of Chinese as immigrants and non-European New Zealanders, with illustrations

6.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Progress of New Zealand in the Century

 

Irvine, RF ; Alpers, OTJ

The Linscott Publishing Company, W&R Chambers

1902

xvii (1p) 460p (3p)

8vo

Green cloth binding, blind rules, gilt titles  Light bumping top, bottom spine Owner's small stamp HTP Sprinkling of foxing on some pages  Light foxing FEs VG

38

From the 'Nineteenth Century Series', a history of New Zealand from the beginning of the 20th century, in two parts, Discovery and Settlement, and Expansion and Experiment

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

41.000000

New Zealand's Lost Oilfields

 

Jackson, Brian

Tall Stories Publishing House

2005 2nd edition (2004)

120

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the second edition of the author's portrayal of the oilfields found in the 1970s in the Southern Basin and then 'forgotten'

6.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Floating on Oil & Gas

The story of New Zealand's Lost Oilfields

Jackson, Brian

Tall Stories Publishing House

2011

170

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With map and illustrations, the drilling on and off New Zealand for oil, and the prospects

6.000000

23.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Settlement by Sail  19th century immigration to New Zealand

 

Jackson, Gainor W

GP Pubs

1991

48

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With text and paintings by the author, an illustrated record of the ships and the people who took on the world's oceans to come to New Zealand

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Churches & People in Australia and New Zealand 1860-1930

 

Jackson, Hugh R

A&U, Port Nicholson Press

1987

ix 210p

8vo

P-B EPs, FE browned  VG

20

With illustrations, an account of religious practice in the early European settlement stage of New Zealand and Australia

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Dance

The illustrated history of dance in New Zealand

Jahn-Werner, Tara

Random House

2008

312

Oblong 4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Slight bump top FE  Near Fine

60

With many illustrations, a delightful look at the development of dance, formal and informal, in New Zealand, examining choreographers, teachers, styles, visitors

5.000000

23.000000

53.000000

57.000000

60.000000

New Territory the transformation of New Zealand 1984-92

 

James, Colin

Bridget Williams Books

1992

(2p) 367p

8vo

P-B VG

20

A thorough discussion of the changes wrought in New Zealand politics, social policies, labour policies, economic policies, wrought by the Labour Government of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, and the new country New Zealand has become

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The Crescent Moon  the Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand

 

Jansen, Adrienne ; Westra, Ans

Asia New Zealand Foundation

2009

94p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

30

With beautifully produced photographs by Ans Westra, a selection of Asian immigrants to New Zealand and their Islamic faith

12.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

Midden Sorting  Some Considerations

 

Jenkins, AVC

Dept of Anthropology, Otago University

1972

33

4to

P-B, stapled spine  Ex-lib  VG

30

With tables and figures, a study of the sorting of the material left over in archaeological digs in order to sift out information about the economic and living activities of the people formerly using the site

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

A Great Indoors for the Great Outdoors  the story of Liteweight Caravans

 

Jessen, Don

Davod Bateman

2015

159

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

36

With illustrations, an icon of modern New Zealand, the caravan that allowed so many to live away from their fixed homes

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The Auckland Ferry Building

 

Johnson, David

Remarkable View Ltd, Auckland Maritime Museum

1988

(1p) 59p

4to

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the resurrection to a new life for an Auckland city building after it was first conceived as a solid, workaday structure in 1905, opened in 1912, then gradually succombed to the grit and grime of industrial usage

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Hooked  the story of the New Zealand fishing industry

 

Johnson, David ; Haworth, Jenny

Hazard Press

2004

551

4to

D-J  Paper over boards Near Fine

55

With illustrations, the detailed history of this New Zealand primary industry, from infancy to world outreach

6.500000

44.000000

100.000000

90.000000

100.000000

Asia in the Making of New Zealand

 

Johnson, Henry ; Moloughney, Brian

Auckland University Press

2006

x 294p

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays investigating New Zealand's connection with its Asian neighbours, historically and modern day, and the impact of Asia on New Zealand's multicultural society

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Archaeological Survey of the Vink Subdivisions, Takou Bay, Whangaroa

 

Johnson, Leigh

Dept of Conservation

1988

iii 26p

4to

P-B, stapled spine Owner's stamp front cover, TP  Near Fine

25

With illustrations and maps, a survey of a Northland site, probably used since late pre-history

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Hochstetter's Nelson Diary 6 September - 2 October 1859 and Dun Mountain Report

 

Johnston, Mike (et al)

Geoscience Society of New Zealand

2012

68

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the editor, with maps and illustrations, the diary of the geological appraisals and travels Hochstetter made in Nelson province during his short stay in New Zealand in 1859

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Canterbury Books  1847-1955  A Bibliography

 

Johnstone, AH

Whitcombe & Tombs

1956

(1p) 195p

8vo

Cloth binding Marks front cover VG

30

A comprehensive list of books, pamphlets etc published in Canterbury, about Canterbury or by authors associated with Canterbury, compiled before Bagnall filled in the gaps

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

'At School I've Got a Chance'  culture/privilege: Pacific Islands and pakeha girls at school

 

Jones, Alison

Dunmore Press

1991

198

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

25

With illustrations, an insight into the politics of schooling in New Zealand

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Fighting Talk  boxing and the modern lexicon

 

Jones, Bob

Random House

2013

559

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations, boxing metaphors and expressions and their role in modern language

5.500000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

New Zealand Superbus

 

Jones, David & Trevor

Southern Press

1984

22 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature TP VG

15

With illustrations, an outline of the history of three axle base buses in New Zealand

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Gazeteer of New Zealand Place Names

 

Jones, EM (ed)

Dept of Lands and Survey

1968

xii (letter laid in) 575p (1p)

4to

Blue cloth binding, bumping top, bottom spine, fore-corners Ex-lib Accession number spine, Library plate front paste-down, rubber stamps etc prelims, BEP VG

60

A tidy ex-lib copy of the first Gazetteer, with maps, a large percentage of New Zealand's place names and their locations

5.000000

24.000000

50.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Nga tohuwhenua mai te rangi  a New Zealand archaeology in aerial photographs

 

Jones, Kevin L

Victoria University Press

1994

(frontis) 294p

4to

P-B Near Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, a study from North to South of New Zealand Maori and pakeha archaeological, historic and traditional sites as seen from the air, a great idea

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Nurse to the Imagination  50 Years of the Robert Burns Fellowship

 

Jones, Lawrence (ed)

Otago University Press

2008

251p (1p catalogue)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, short biographies and selections of work, the fellowship offered to writers of prose, verse, stage and screen in Dunedin, the first 50 years

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

Doing Well and Doing Good  Ross & Glendining  Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand

 

Jones, SRH

Otago University Press

2010

422

8vo

P-B Fine

35

With maps, charts and illustrations, a firm begun during the gold rush of 1862 in Dunedin as importers and growing to investing in sheep runs, a woollen mill, other manufacturing, and even a coal mine

6.500000

31.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

A Hard-Won Freedom

alternative communities in New Zealand

Jones, Tim ; Baker, Ian

H&S

1975

(1p) 158p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

An illustrated study of the 70s alternative life communities in NZ and their resources, including the Jerusalem Community

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Kai and culture: food stories from Aotearoa

 

Jonson, Emma (ed)

Freerange Press

2017

200

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a collection of pieces from New Zealand food cooks, food producers, food writers, and food academics which discuss the connection of food culture and people culture

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

The Australian New Zealand Agreement 1944

 

Kay, Robin (ed)

DIA Govt Print

1972

xxxvi 297

Large 8vo

D-J (slight rubbing) VG

40

Vol 1 of Documents on NZ External Relations; the 'Canberra Pact'

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Fire Economy  New Zealand's Reckoning

 

Kelsey, Jane

Bridget Williams Books, New Zealand Law Foundation

2015

344

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A study of the FIRE economy - built on finance, insurance and real estate - embedded in New Zealand, the risks posed, and the barriers to change beyond it

5.500000

15.000000

32.000000

35.000000

38.000000

Maori Christianity in te waipounamu

a history

Kempthorne, Renatus

Te hui amorangi o te waipounamu

2000

294

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed study of the impact of the Christian missionaries on Southern Maori, and the developments of the Maori churches

8.000000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Settlement in the South East Bay of Islands 1772

Studies in prehistoric anthropology Vol 3

Kennedy, Jean

Anthropology Dept, University of Otago

1969

(4p) 234p (3 leaves plates) (i-x bibliography)

4to

P-B Taped spine Type-script  Back cover marked  VG

40

With illustrations, maps and plans, a comparative study of the archaeology of this area, based on the French descriptions of 1772 and contemporary archaeological investigation

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Smell of Powder  a history of duelling in New Zealand

 

Kerr, Donald

Random House

2006

160

Small 8vo

P-B Fine

15

With illustrations, the stories of a number of duels held in New Zealand

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Campbell Island   A History

 

Kerr, Ian S

Reed

1976

xii 182p

8vo

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

40

With illustrations, the story of this sub-antarctic island, a nice copy

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Una Chiesa al Mare  A Church by the Sea

a history of San Antonio Parish Eastbourne, 1906-2006

Kerslake, Jocelyn M

Author Pub

2006

viii 144p

4to

P-B Fine

40

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the life, personalities and experiences of this parish in Wellington

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

37.000000

125 Years Education in the Warkworth District

 

Keys, HJ (ed)

Warkworth Education 125th Reunion Cttee

1987

56

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

22

With illustrations and lists, the celebration of Primary and Secondary education in this Northland area

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Penguin History of New Zealand Illustrated

 

King, Michael

Penguin Books

2007

464

4to

D-J  Paper over boards Near Fine

55

With maps and illustrations, the 'illustrated' edition of Michael King's phenominally successful 'History'

8.000000

37.000000

92.000000

85.000000

92.000000

Being Pakeha

An encounter with New Zealand and the Maori Renaissance

King, Michael

H&S

1985

214p (1p)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Slight foxing FEs VG

30

With illustrations, the author's discussion of what it means to grow up in a multi-cultural society

7.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Penguin History of New Zealand

 

King, Michael

Penguin

2003

570

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The first edition of Michael King's phenominally successful 'History', a book 'directed at curious and intelligent general readers'

6.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

A Land Apart

The Chatham Islands of New Zealand

King, Michael ; Morrison, Robin

Random House

1993

vii (1p) 144p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fading spine, base front cover VG - Near Fine

25

A great collaboration of text and illustration, a study of the Chathams life and history, the people, the businesses, the challenges

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Land Apart

The Chatham Islands of New Zealand

King, Michael ; Morrison, Robin

Random Century

1990

vii (1p) 144p

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight fading spine) Short inscription FEP VG -  Near Fine

50

A great collaboration of text and illustration, a study of the Chathams life and history, the people, the businesses, the challenges

6.500000

29.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Dark Island  Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island colony

 

Kingsbury, Benjamin

Bridget Williams Books

2019

176

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbour, site of New Zealand's leprosy colony from 1906 to 1925, and its inhabitants

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

A Century of State-honed Enterprise 100 years of state plantation forestry in New Zealand

 

Kirkland, Andrew ; Berg, Peter

Profile Books

1997

viii  p9-176

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

25

With illustrations, the centennial history of State Forests, and the story of the New Zealand Forest service

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Onward with Executive Power lessons from New Zealand 1947-57

 

Kumarasingham, Harshan

Institute of Policy Studies

2010

x 193p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

A discussion of the political developmens in New Zealand in the post-war years, and the entrenched 'dictatorship' of single-party government, the workings of the Westminster model in government

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Women's History  a short guide to researching and writing women's history in NZ

 

Labrum, Bronwyn

Bridget Williams Books, Historical Branch, DIA

1993

vi  114p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A very useful guide to researching NZ women

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Fruits of Our Labours  Chinese fruit shops in New Zealand  2 vols

 

Lam, Ruth (et al)

Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust

2018

440p, 441p - 904

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

110

With illustrations, the fruit and vegetable shops owned by Chinese which proliferated throughout New Zealand for much of the twentieth century, with lists of the known shops and their years of business, volume two

15.000000

66.000000

159.000000

140.000000

150.000000

The Fruits of Our Labours  Chinese fruit shops in New Zealand vol 2

 

Lam, Ruth (et al)

Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust

2018

441p - 904

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

60

With illustrations, the fruit and vegetable shops owned by Chinese which proliferated throughout New Zealand for much of the twentieth century, with lists of the known shops and their years of business, volume two

6.500000

45.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Street Corner

A study to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Caxton Press

Lamb, RC

The Caxton Press

1967

(frontis, plastic sheet) 56p

4to

D-J (slight chips)  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and drawings, a brief history of the area around the Caxton Press in Victoria Street, Christchurch, including the Press itself, nicely produced, as usual

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Treatymakers of New Zealand

heralding the birth of a nation

Lambourn, Alan

The Book Guild Ltd

1988

(6p) 206p

8vo

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

25

With map and illustrations, the story of Williams, Busby and Hobson and the Treaty of Waitangi

5.000000

18.000000

31.000000

35.000000

37.000000

From Forest Trail to City Street  the story of the Presbyterian Church among the Maori people

 

Laughton, LG

Presbyterian Bookroom

1961

100

8vo

P-B (Bible College Crest impressed cover) Label bottom FEP VG

25

A history of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand from 1914 to 1954 and its contact with Maori

4.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters

 

Lawrence, Louise (ed)

Penguin

2003

383

8vo

P-B VG

20

A collection of 167 letters/pieces, from and to Cook 1768 to 2002, artists,writers, historical figures who have touched, or been touched by New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology Volume 1 The Concept of Similarity in Prehistoric Studies

 

Leach, B Foss

Anthropology Department University of Otago

1969

(5p) 146p (85 leaves)

4to

Soft card covers, green cloth spine strip  Marks covers  VG

50

With illustrations, tables and figures, a study which applies the concept of proximity to a series of waste flake assemblages recovered from prehistoric New Zealand occupation sites

5.000000

19.000000

36.000000

41.000000

44.000000

Prehistoric Man in Palliser Bay

 

Leach, B Foss and Helen (eds)

National Museum of New Zealand

1979

vi 272p

4to

P-B  Near Fine

35

Inscribed by Foss Leach, with maps, drawings and illustrations, a collection of pieces dealing with the archaeology of this southern Wairarapa area and early Maori occupation

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

The Prehistory of the Southern Wairarapa

 

Leach, Foss

Royal Society of New Zealand

1981

(1p) p12-33

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

20

With map, illustrations and figures, a study of this area north of Wellington which suggests a series of 7 cultural periods, spanning AD1100 to AD1853

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

The Pavlova Story

a slice of New Zealand's culinary history

Leach, Helen

Otago University Press

2009 reprint edition (2008

189

8vo

Laminated boards Fading spine Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, some history and some recipes, delicious

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

'I have named it the Bay of Islands...'

 

Lee, Jack

H&S

1983

328

8vo

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

40

A detailed study of the birth of the nation to be called 'New Zealand', the focal point in the Bay of Islands of the Missionaries, Pacific trade, contact with Maori, and the Treaty of Waitangi

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Bay of Islands

 

Lee, Jack

Reed

2006 Reprint edition (1983)

(frontis) 328p

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With whakapapa, illustrations and map, a tribal and European history of this area, recording the 'birth' of New Zealand as a nation

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Socialism in New Zealand

 

Lee, John A

T Werner Laurie

1938

xii 304p

8vo

D-J (rubbing, chips spine, in archival wrapper)  Cloth binding  Light foxing FEs  VG

40

The author's views of New Zealand as a 'social laboratory', the role of the State in economics, business, labour, and social services

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A Place on the Edge  the story of St Matthew-in-the-City

 

Leigh, Jack

Random House

2005

186

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

20

With plan and illustrations, the story of this Auckland 'neo-gothic' church and its people

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

From Alba to Aotearoa profiling New Zealand's Scots migrants 1840-1920

 

Lenihan, Rebecca

Otago University Press

2015

320

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With figures and genealogical tables, a complex study of the backgrounds of those Scots who immigrated to New Zealand in the nations first 80 years

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Beached As  our New Zealand beaches

 

Levers, Craig

PhotoCpl Media

2011

128

Oblong 4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the beaches of New Zealand, from North to South, historically and in the present

9.000000

31.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Standard for the People

the 150th Anniversary of the Wellington Hebrew Congregation 1843-1993

Levine, Stephen (ed)

Hazard Press, Wellington Hebrew Congregation

1995

477

Folio

D-J Paper over boards Signature HTP  Near Fine

95

With illustrations, the very detailed story of Jewish life in New Zealand's capital city from colonial times, with family biographies and personal narratives

9.000000

36.000000

80.000000

89.000000

99.000000

The People and the Power

The History of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter

Lind, Clive

New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd

1996

252

4to

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

45

With many illustrations, a history of Comalco/NZAS' operations at Tiwai Point, encompassing the Manapouri campaign, the West Arm dam and tail race, and the construction on the Point

10.000000

42.000000

105.000000

100.000000

105.000000

Bible & Society  a sesquicentennial history of the Bible Society in New Zealand

 

Lineham, Peter J

The Bible Society in New Zealand, Daphne Brasell Associates Press

1996

ix 302p

4to

P-B VG

40

With illustrations, an account of the impact the Bible had on the young colony of New Zealand, and the development of the Bible Society in New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

There We Found Brethren

 

Lineham, Peter J

GPH Society

1977

218

8vo

D-J (small chips top, bottom spine, closed short tear FE, tear on fold of back flap, in protective plastic)  Blue plasticised boards, gilt titles  Book Fine

50

With illustrations, the detailed history of the Brethren in New Zealand, begun by those seeking to escape the persecution against the faith in Britain in 1850

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

New Zealand and the United States 1840-1944

 

Lissington, MP

Govt Print

1972

(frontis) xii 114p (folding map)

8vo

D-J (chips) VG

25

With illustrations and useful bibliography, a treatment of exterior relations between New Zealand and the USA,covering the years up to the end of WW2

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand

 

Long, John A

University of New South Wales Press

1998

188

4to

D-J VG - Near Fine

48

Heavily-illustrated, a comprehensive review of every known species of dinosaur, pterosaur, marine reptile, bird, mammal and amphibian that lived in Australia and New Zealand during the Mesozoic Era

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Philips in New Zealand

 

Lord, HA Leighton

Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd

1961

(frontis) (7p) 115p

4to

D-J (chip spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG

40

With illustrations, the tracing of the development of this firm in New Zealand from light bulbs to the first television sets

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Immigrants' Guide and Settlers' Handbook

 

Loughnan, Robert Andrew

Govt Print

1906

(frontis) 416p (Lacks folding map)

4to

Green cloth binding, bumping top, bottom spine Rubbing fore-corners Maps removed  VG

90

With illustrations, information as much for the immigrant from Britain as the settler in this Britain of the South who requires the fullest information about all the things relating to the country, the history and the current conditions of life

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Empowering Women  a history of Zonta International in New Zealand

 

Loughton, Jennifer A

Zonta International District 16 NZ

2017

476

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this women's professional association in New Zealand, since its first club being set up in Auckland in 1965

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

40.000000

44.000000

Calls to Arms New Zealand Society and Commitment to the Great War

 

Loveridge, Steven

Victoria University Press

2014

332

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a discussion of the reasons for New Zealanders committing themselves to the War effort in 1914-18, in material and human resources

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

New Zealand's Cavalcade of Trams

 

Lowe, David

The Lodestar Press

1980

32

Small 8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

15

With illustrations, a collection of trams from around New Zealand, including cable cars

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

New Zealand  A Roadside Camera

 

Lowe, David (comp)

The Lodestar Press

1978

32

8vo

P-B Signature inside front cover VG

15

A pictorial entertainment, picturing New Zealand road transport from  the 1870s to the beginning of the 20th century, from shank's pony to the first motor vehicles

3.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Wheels on the Run

 

Lowe, David ; Mansell, Edwin

Lodestar Press

1982

72

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

20

With many illustrations, a portrait of some of the big rigs operating in New Zealand

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

New Zealand's Cavalcade of Trucks

 

Lowe, David ; Trim, Bryan

The Lodestar Press

1980

32

Small 8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

15

With illustrations, a collection of heavy duty trucks in New Zealand

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

New Zealand's Cavalcade of Trucks  No 2 Kenworths and Macks

 

Lowe, David ; Trim, Bryan

The Lodestar Press

1980

32

Small 8vo

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

15

With illustrations, a further collection of heavy duty trucks in New Zealand

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Emerald Hours in New Zealand

 

Lowth, A

W&T

1907

xv 128

4to

H-B Slight repair bottom spine Insc FEP   VG

28

Contemporary book review pasted on IC; a travelogue with many illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Faring South    (including Gold Mining in NZ-The Kokupu)

 

Lyon, JH

Reed

1952

199

8vo

D-J (laminated) VG

35

Early travel and experience in NZ

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

28.000000

Vision and Process  The genesis of town planning in New Zealand

 

Mabon, Richard RJ

Author Pub

1991

iv 90p

4to

Cloth binding, gilt titles  Near Fine

45

Signed by the author, his thesis, with illustrations, a discussion of the background theories of town-planning, and the practicalities of town planning in pioneering New Zealand

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The Book of New Zealand Women

Ko kui ma te kaupapa

Macdonald, Charlotte (et al, eds)

Bridget Williams Books

1991

(frontis) xiii (1p) 772p

8vo

P-B Slight browning FEs VG

30

With illustrations, a collection of short biographies on New Zealand women, both Maori and pakeha, both historical and contemporary

8.000000

23.000000

48.000000

50.000000

53.000000

The Fifth Wind  New Zealand and the Legacy of a turbulent past

 

MacDonald, Robert

Hodder & Stoughton

1989

xx 313p

8vo

P-B VG

25

With map and illustrations, the author's experiences as a Scottish immigrant in New Zealand, and as a Pakeha accompanying the Maori on the 1994 march to Waitangi, to demand the upholding of the original Treaty undertakings

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Footprints of Kate Edger  History of the NW Federation of University Women 1921-1981

 

Macdonald, Winifred ; Mabee, Molly J (ed)

New Zealand Federation of University Women

1982

179

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the formation and history of the NZFUW, and the education of girls in New Zealand

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Piano in the Parlour

 

MacGibbon, John

Ngaio Press

2007

127

Oblong 8vo

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

32

With illustrations, a celebration of former times in New Zealand, when the piano served as a TV, with music and personalities

8.000000

17.000000

31.000000

35.000000

37.000000

Etiquette & Elbowgrease

Housekeeping in Victorian New Zealand

Macgregor, Miriam

Reed

1976

77p (1p)

4to

P-B Signature TP VG

20

With illustrations, life inside the houses of early European settlement New Zealand

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

100 Years in Retrospect

 

MacIntosh, Joan

Invercargill Nth School Cent Cttee

1977

92

8vo

P-B Near Fine

15

Centenary of Invercargill North School 1877-1977

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

An Appetite for Wonder  Cawthorn Institute 1921-2011 90th Anniversary.

 

Mackay, Deirdre

Cawthorn Institute

2011

231

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, celebrating the foundation and work of this centre for learning in Nelson

5.500000

21.000000

42.000000

46.000000

50.000000

Frontier New Zealand  the search for Eldorado

 

Mackay, Duncan

HarperCollins

1992

159

4to

P-B Slight inscription HTP VG

25

With illustrations, a history of those - predominantly - men who worked on the get-rich-quick resources in New Zealand, the sealers and whalers, the bush fellers and gumdiggers, the goldminers, and their passing

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

For Whom the Bell Tolls  a history of the National War Museum

 

Maclean, Chris

Heritage Group, DIA

1998

64

4to

P-B Small bump base front cover  Small owner's stamp inside front cover  VG

22

With illustrations, a history of this memorial and chapel in Wellington

4.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

These Antipodes

NZ Album 1814-1854

Maddock, Shirley

Collins

1979

x 317

Small 4to

D-J Fine

45

Early Settler experiences-photos of NZ

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

A Christmas Garland  a New Zealand Christmas Album 1642-1900

 

Maddock, Shirley ; Easther, Michael

William Collins

1980

93p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards  Fading spine  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, how Christmas has been celebrated in New Zealand, from Tasman's shipboard festivities to the Edwardian picnics of later times

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Pattering of Paddle Wheels

 

Maffey, Neil A

Lodestar Press

ND

16 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature top front cover  VG

15

With illustrations, a short depiction of the paddle wheel steamers in New Zealand waters

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

The Story of Gate Pa  April 29th, 1864

 

Mair, Captain Gilbert

Bay of Plenty Times

1937 Expanded edition (1926)

88

8vo

P-B Staples spine Piece missing top, bottom spine  Marks covers Light foxing FEs  Gd

25

With map and illustrations, the background to this Battle in the New Zealand Wars, what happened, and relevant consequences, and lists, including the nominal roll of those killed and wounded on the European side

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Story of Gate Pa  April 29th, 1864

 

Mair, Captain Gilbert

Bay of Plenty Times

1926

50

8vo

P-B Staples spine Small piece missing top, bottom spine  Marks covers Light foxing FEs  Gd

35

With map and illustrations, the background to this Battle in the New Zealand Wars, what happened, and lists, including the nominal roll of those killed and wounded on the European side

5.000000

12.000000

18.000000

22.000000

20.000000

Nets, Lines and Pots

a history of New Zealand fishing vessels

Makarios, Emmanuel

transpress

2005 Reprint edition (1996)

112

4to

P-B Fine

28

Volume one in the author's series on New Zealand fishing and fishing boats, with illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Good old Kiwi baches

 

Male, Kevyn

Penguin

2001

112

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, New Zealand holiday homes on the cheap, from tiny cribs and baches to fixed caravans to something more a bit up-market - including the author's own

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Bodgie  a study in abnormal psychology

 

Manning, AE

Reed

1958

96

4to

P-B Gd - VG

25

With illustrations, starting with the 'problem', the young people of pre-1960s Australia and New Zealand, the author sudies what makes young pople into 'Bodgies' and 'Widgies'

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

New Zealand's First Refugees

Pahiatua's Polish Children

Manterys, Adam (ed)

Polish Children's Reunion Cttee

2004 Revised edition

368

8vo

P-B Fine

28

With illustrations, a record of the 60 years in New Zealand of the Polish children who arrived on November 1 1944 after being deported from their homes by invading Russian troops

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

New Zealand or Recollections of it

 

Markham, Edward ; McCormick, EH (ed)

Govt Print

1963

(frontis) ix (1p map) p11-113 (1p)

4to

D-J (slight foxing inside)  Owner's plate FEP Slight foxing FEs  VG

25

With illustrations, the 8 and a half months the author spent in New Zealand in the year 1834

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

From the Bay to the Bush  the people, post offices and postmarks of Hawkes Bay

 

Marshall, Bruce ; Startup, Robin

Jubilee '84 Cttee, Hawkes Bay Philatelic Society

1984

383

4to

D-J (slight chips, rubbing of colour on spine) Plasticised boards  VG - Near Fine

80

With maps and illustrations, a history of postal services within the Napier postal district, the post offices and their people, mails by rail, the postal datestamps, and the effects of earthquake on the post

5.000000

24.000000

51.000000

57.000000

62.000000

The Finger of God in the Disruption 1843-1993 Scottish Principles and New Zealand Realities

 

Matheson, Peter

The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

1993

53

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The impact of the 'Free Church' in Scotland, and its translation into a new and distant country

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Presbyterians in Aotearoa 1840-1990

 

Matheson, Peter (et al) ; McEldowney, Dennis (ed)

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

1990

203

4to

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

25

With illustrations, 150 years of Presbyterianism in New Zealand, from 'Settlers' Church', homeward looking, evolving into an indigenous body with Maori and Pacific Islands worshippers, and changes in worship styles

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The West Coast Gold Rushes

 

May, Philip Ross

Pegasus Press

1967 2nd revised edition (1962)

559p (1p)

8vo

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

70

With maps and illustrations, the detailed creation of a 'settled' West Coast in the 1860s, and the gold that flowed

8.000000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Gold Mining at Waihi 1878-1952

 

McAra, J Bert

Waihi Historical Society

1978

347p (1p) (1p catalogue)

8vo

D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Very slight foxing top FE  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, drawings and plans, a detailed history of gold extraction in the Waihi area, including the Martha mine, with much on ore treatment and gold recovery

5.000000

17.000000

31.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Memoirs of a Country Carrier

 

McCabe, W (Bill) M

Author Pub

2004

144

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, stories from the transporting experiences of this North Otago carrier

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Women in the House

 Members of Parliament in NZ

McCallum, Janet

Cape Catley

1993

(frontis) xii 284p

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

Biographies of those female Members of Parliament in NZ, starting with Elizabeth McCombs in 1933

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Te Papa  reinventing New Zealand's national museum  1998-2018

 

McCarthy, Conal

Te Papa Press

2018

255p (1p)

8vo

Laminated soft card covers Near Fine

35

With illustrations, marking twenty years of Te Papa, and how it goes about building a portrait of New Zealand's evolving history

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The First Fleet of Auckland

 

McCarthy, Darry

Tower Publishing Assoc

1978

118p (6p)

4to

P-B Fading patches on covers Covers curling at edges VG

20

With illustrations and lists, the passenger names from the ships that arrived in Auckland before 1850, including the 'Convicts'

8.000000

25.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Star in the South  the centennial history of the New Zealand Dominican Sisters

 

McCarthy, Sister Mary Augustine

St Dominic's Priory, Dunedin

1970

(frontis) (7p) 341p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Signature FEP VG

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a history of the establishment and development of Dominican convents in New Zealand

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Hold this Land

 

McCaskill, Lance

Reed

1973

xi 274 (1p ads)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

A history of soil conservation, and the Soil Conservation Movement, in NZ, with many B-W illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

A Stockman's Gift

Daniel Vickery Bryant and the Bryant Charitable Trusts  A Legacy for Waikato

McClean, Rosalind

DV Bryant Trust

2007

viii 351p

8vo

Laminated boards  Small dint in front board  Near Fine

42

With maps and illustrations, a history of this ex-farmer's trust and its humanitarian and social work in the Waikato

8.000000

23.000000

50.000000

54.000000

58.000000

The Wonder Country  making New Zealand tourism

 

McClure, Margaret

Auckland University Press

2004

x 318p

4to

P-B  Thin strip fading spine  VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, how New Zealand was sold to the world, the story of tourism from 1870 to the end of the twentieth century

5.500000

19.000000

40.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Then and Now  Canterbury, Otago & Southland

 

McCrystal, John

Whitcoulls

2003

95p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

Historical and contemporary photographs comparing the old and modern south of New Zealand

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Cars we Loved  New Zealanders' love affair with British cars of the 1940s, '50s and '60s

 

McCrystal, John

Penguin

2001

128p (4p)

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the British cars New Zealanders drove, from the British Motor Corporation, to Rootes Group, the Ford Motor Company, Jowett, Rover, Standard-Triumph, and Vauxhall, from the Ford Prefect to the Hillman Super Minx

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

100 Years of Motoring in New Zealand

 

McCrystal, John

HodderMoaBeckett

2003

viii 272p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a century of the motor vehicle in New Zealand, including 'biographies' of some of the cars

6.500000

34.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Yank Tanks  the cars we dreamed of

 

McCrystal, John

Penguin

2002

128

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the big American cars that most New Zealanders wanted after WW2, but few could afford, and the histories of the cars that made it to New Zealand, from American Motors to Chrysler-Dodge, Ford, General Motors, to Studebaker-Packard

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Singing the Trail  the story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand

 

McCrystal, John

Allen & Unwin

2019

275p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards Thin strip fading FE Near Fine

55

With many reproductions, the story of New Zealand through its first, uncertain maps, then its surveyed length, fascinating

9.000000

35.000000

80.000000

80.000000

90.000000

Otiwhiti Station

the story of a Hill Country Station and pioneering polio hospital

McCrystal, John (comp) ; Duncan, David (et al)

Random House

2011

319

4to

Paper jacket over card covers Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the story of the Duncan family, its farming station and polio hospital

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The Centenary of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina) 1864-1964  Programme of Events

 

McCully, RD (et al)

Gate Pa Centenary Cttee

1964

24

8vo

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, the centennial programme for this battle of the New Zealand Wars, with a short history

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Hostile Shores

Catastrophic events in pre-historic New Zealand

McFadgen, Bruce

Auckland University Press

2007

xiii (1p) 298p

4to

P-B Bump top spine VG - Near Fine

48

With maps, illustrations and figures, the effects of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and other natural disaster events on pre-European Maori coastal communities and the effects on Maori culture and civilisation

6.500000

29.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

New Zealand and the Korean War Vol 1 Politics and Diplomacy

 

McGibbon, Ian

OUP, DIA

1992

xiv (1p) 468p

8vo

D-J (slight tape discolouration base, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations, setting the scene for New Zealand's post-war development in foreign, defence and economic policy, leading up to and including the Korean War

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Reed Book of New Zealand Quotations

 

McGill, David (ed)

Reed

2004

293

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

Over 3000 quotations putting New Zealand - and its people - to the steel, sometimes with admiration

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Hawke's Bay Earthquake  New Zealand's Greatest Natural Disaster

 

McGregor, Robert

McGregor, Robert

2007 third edition (1998)

47p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, Napier in pictures before and after its 1931 earthquake

4.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Maori Magna Carta

New Zealand Law and the Treaty of Waitangi

McHugh, Paul

OUP

1991

xv (1p) 392p

8vo

P-B Slight foxing FEs Signature inside front cover VG - Near Fine

125

Becoming the standard work on the laws affecting Maori, especially land tenure and the Treaty, scarce

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

41.000000

47.000000

Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History

 

McIntyre, WD (et al)

OUP

1971

(29p) 489p

8vo

P-B Creases in covers Light foxing FEs  Fading back cover VG

20

A collection of documents covering the political and social foundations of New Zealand, from settlement and relationships with Maori to 1969, with maps

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Te Hao Nui  the great catch  Object stories from Te Manawa

 

McKergow, Fiona ; Taylor, Kerry (eds)

Godwit, Random House

2011

294

4to

Plasticised boards  Slight bump FE, slight mark FE  VG - Near Fine

30

With many illustrations, insights into the history, people and places of Manawatu, based on the collections of Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History

5.000000

24.000000

50.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The 'Taxwoman'

101 years of women working in the Inland Revenue Dept 1892-1993

McKerrow, Fiona

IRD, Historical Branch DIA

1993

54

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a short history of women employed in New Zealand's tax-gathering organisation, including short biographies

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Bateman New Zealand Historical Atlas  Visualising New Zealand

 

McKinnon, Malcolm (ed)

David Bateman, Historical Branch, DIA

1997

290

Folio

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

50

With many maps and illustrations, from tectonic movement to human settlement, a great piece of geographical and sociological history

13.000000

47.000000

100.000000

95.000000

100.000000

Great Tales From Rural New Zealand

 

McLauchlan, Gordon

David Bateman

2016

259

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps, a selection of 48 stories of country life and people in New Zealand history

6.000000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Great Tales From New Zealand History

 

McLauchlan, Gordon

David Bateman

2014

275p (1p catalogue)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps, a selection of 46 moments from New Zealand history, from Maori myth, through two world wars, and the stand-off at Bastion Point

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The Saltwater Highway

 

McLauchlan, Gordon

David Bateman

2012

256

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of ports and shipping in New Zealand

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

100 Historic Places in New Zealand

 

McLean, Gavin

Hodder Moa Beckett

2002

190

4to

P-B Near Fine

28

With maps and illustrations, the author's personal selection of significant  places, from Polynesian migration to European colonisation to the development of a New Zealand culture

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Pictures from the Past Wellington & Wairarapa

 

McLean, Gavin

Whitcoulls

2002

95

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

A collection of photographs from the first 50 years of the twentieth century of the southern North IslandA collection of photographs from the first 50 years of the twentieth century of the southern North Island

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Masters or Servants? a short history of the New Zealand Merchant Service Guild

 

McLean, Gavin

New Zealand Merchant Service Guild

1990

95p (1p)

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first hundred years of this Guild, and its role in waterfront disputes

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Governors  New Zealand's Governors and Governors-General

 

McLean, Gavin

Otago University Press

2006

424

4to

D-J (in archival wrapper)  Cloth binding  Short inscription verso FEP  Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, the string of official British contacts with New Zealand, from lieutenant-governors to Governors to Governor Generals, once New Zealand became its own dominion, and gained its own GGs

9.000000

28.000000

61.000000

70.000000

74.000000

New Zealand Tragedies Fires and Firefighting

 

McLean, Gavin

Grantham House

1992

x 218p

4to

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, New Zealand fires, fire brigades and equipment

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

How to do Local History

 

McLean, Gavin

Otago University Press

2007

96

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, a guide to writing your local history, including sources

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Whare Raupo the Reed Books story

 

McLean, Gavin

Reed

2007

294

4to

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

25

With illustrations, a history of this long-serving New Zealand publisher, from the days of the Reeds with a religious bokselling hobby in 1907

5.000000

20.000000

41.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Quarantine! protecting New Zealand at the border

 

McLean, Gavin ; Shoebridge, Tim

Otago University Press

2010

184

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a history of the hits and misses of the on-going struggle to keep the nasties from New Zealand's shores

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Sweat and Toil  the building of New Zealand

 

McLean, John

Tross Publishing

2020

252

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a study of some of the major public works undertaken in the European pioneer period of New Zealand

6.000000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Work in New Zealand

A portrait in the '80s

McLennan, Roy ; Gilbertson, David

Reed

1984

(4p) 303p (1p)

8vo

P-B  Fading Spine  VG

30

The first results of an in-depth study into work in NZ, interviewing people from all walks of life and discussing how much work is a part of our social lives

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Shotover Jet  the story of Queenstown's adventure tourism pioneer

 

McLeod, Jenny

Shotover Jet Ltd

2016

157p (1p)

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a history of this jet boat tourist operation, and of Queenstown tourism

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Crown Colony Government in New Zealand

 

McLintock, AH

Govt Print

1958

(frontis) xix 475p

4to

D-J (rubbing extremities) Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the author considers the factors leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi, Colonial Office policy regarding NZ government, and the 1852 Constitution

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

40.000000

The Upper House in Colonial New Zealand

 

McLintock, AH ; Wood, GA

Govt Print

1987

271p (folding chart)

4to

D-J (rubbing extremities, slight fading spine)  Red cloth binding, gilt titles  VG - Near Fine

38

Signed and inscribed by GA Wood, a history of the second stage of government in New Zealand, abolished in 1951, with maps

5.000000

17.000000

30.000000

34.000000

35.000000

Historical Records of New Zealand 2 vols

 

McNab, Robert

Govt Print

1973

xv (1p) 779p; xxii 650p

8vo

Plasticised boards Slight foxing FEs  Near Fine

70

The facsimile reprint of the gathering together from the 'New South Wales Records' all those printed records relevant to the early history of New Zealand

8.000000

40.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Figuring the Pacific  Aotearoa & Pacific Cultural studies

 

McNaughton, Howard ; Newton, John (eds)

Canterbury University Press

2005

136

8vo

P-B Fine

32

With illustrations, a collection of essaysdealing with cultural studies in the Southern Pacific, looking back at the past, but with a refined magnifying lens, considering such as Pacific narratives, convicts basics, European and Maori first contacts

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Wartime Memories

 

McQuaid, Peter (ed)

Dolphin Publications

1995

149

4to

P-B Near Fine

22

With many illustrations, a pot-pourri of pieces from the memories of New Zealand men, women and children who went through World War Two, covering all the fields of service, and at home

3.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

New Zealand Electoral Atlas

 

McRobie, Alan

GP Books

1989

154

4to

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

150

With maps and tables, the electoral results from 1853-1987, including Maori electorates. Scarce

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

New Zealand Jazz Life

 

Meehan, Norman ; Whincup, Tony

Victoria University Press

2018

238

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, celebrating the lives and music of some of the jazz musicians active in New Zealand during the past 40-odd years

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Tuamaka  the challenge of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Metge, Joan

Auckland University Press

2010

xiii (1p) 137p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a distillation of the author's work over the last 50+ years, drawing together the strands of knowledge and culture from the various peoples in New Zealand in order to make a stronger nation

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Native Strangers  Beachcombers, Renegades & Castaways in the South Seas

 

Milcairns, Susanne Williams

Penguin

2006

288

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With many illustrations, a study of the many 'real-life Robinson Crusoes' who ended up in the Pacific Islands through shipwreck or being castaway

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Homesteads  the story of New Zealand's grand country houses

 

Millar, Debra

Point Publishing

2020

270

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

55

With illustrations, the history and architectural character of these large New Zealand rural residences, in both South and North Islands

8.000000

42.000000

106.000000

100.000000

106.000000

Christchurch & Dunedin City Bus Fleets

 

Millar, Sean

Millars Transport Books

1979

32

Small 8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

15

With illustrations, a catalogue of all buses operated by Christchurch and Dunedin local authorities, including Dunedin's trolleybus fleet, as of 1979

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Major New Zealand Bus Fleets

 

Millar, Sean

Millars Transport Books

1984

52

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

15

With illustrations, a catalogue of the vehicles of the Railways Road Services, Newmans Coach Lines, Mount Cook Line, H&H Travel Lines as of 1984

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Wellington's Motoring Spirit

 

Millen, Julia

Vintage Car Club of New Zealand

1993

69p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first 35 years of the Wellington Branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Early Victorian New Zealand  a study of racial problems and social attitudes 1839-1852

 

Miller, John

OUP

1958

(frontis) ix (1p) 217p

8vo

Green cloth binding  Owner's stamp top TP, Contents page  VG

25

With illustrations, a study of the changing situation in New Zealand brought about by organised European settlement

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Piano Forte  stories and soundscapes from colonial New Zealand

 

Moffat, Kirstine

Otago University Press

2011

275

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the piano that reminded European settlers of 'home', and its role in social and cultural activities

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Fixed and the Fickle

Religion and Identity in New Zealand

Mol, Hans

Pilgrims South Press

1982

vii (1p) 109p

8vo

Brick red cloth binding, black titles  Near Fine

28

A study of the effect of religion on the identity of the native Maori pre-European then post-European, and the effect on race relations

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Love in Time of War

 

Montgomerie, Deborah

Auckland University Press

2005

(2p) 146p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a study of letter writing in times of war - WW2 - through examples from three NZers writing to their loved ones in New Zealand and overseas

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Edge of Empires

New Zealand in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Moon, Paul

David Ling

2009

240

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

32

With illustrations, New Zealand in the 1850s, the period after the Treaty, the importation of settlers, the pressure on the locals and their resources

7.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

New Zealand in the Twentieth Century  the nation, the people

 

Moon, Paul

HarperCollins

2011

672

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the social, political, and cultural landscape of New Zealand in the 20th century

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

The Voyagers

remarkable European explorations of New Zealand

Moon, Paul

Penguin

2014

251p (4p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Strips of fading front cover  Near Fine

28

With illustrations, 22 travellers in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century, from Government agent to artist to missionary to settler

7.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Fitzroy  Governor in Crisis 1843-1845

 

Moon, Paul

David Ling

2000

311

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The life and contemporary history of New Zealand's second Governor, his personality and his effect on New Zealand's early colonial government

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Hobson Governor of New Zealand 1840-1842

 

Moon, Paul

David Ling

1998

318

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A biography of New Zealand's first Governor, who had to arrange a treaty with the inhabitants, and then set about ruling the new country

6.000000

27.000000

52.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Service from the Sea

Nga Mahi no te Moana

Morey, Kelly Ana

Viking, Penguin Books

2008

232

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

50

With many illustrations, New Zealand naval history told through the collections of the Royal New Zealand Navy museum

9.000000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

Sir Joseph Banks in New Zealand

 

Morrell, WP (ed)

Reed

1958

159

8vo

D-J (chips) Cloth binding Slight foxing FEs VG

20

With illustrations, extracts from the Bank's Journal about his experiences in New Zealand

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

With all our Strength  an account of the anti-Tour movement in Christchuch 1981

 

Morris, Juliet

Black Cat

1982

(4p) 133p

8vo

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, the anti-tour movement in Christchurch in 1981, the story of what happened and the lessons learnt. Scarce

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

The Cornerstone Century  the story of Milburn New Zealand Ltd

 

Morton, Harry (et al, eds)

Milburn New Zealand Ltd

2002

148

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp TP Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the life of this cement company, from a lime kiln on the Otago Peninsula at Sandymount in 1865 to a nation-wide spread as Holcim, no longer New Zealand owned

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Anzac Day Origins Canon DJ Garland and Trans-Tasman commemoration

 

Moses, John A ; Davis, George F

Barton Books

2013

(frontis) xxxii 417p

8vo

P-B Finger mark base Near Fine

38

With illustrations, a detailed study of the movement to commemorate those killed in both the Australian and New Zealand armies in World War One and of the involvement of the Australian Canon  DJ Garland

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Bibliography of New Zealand Education

 

Mules, Mary ; Butchers, AG

NZCER

1936

84

8vo

P-B VG

20

A bibliography of educational sources, both governmental and private, from pre-Treaty of Waitangi

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Maori, Pakeha and Democracy

 

Mulgan, Richard

OUP

1989

viii 159p

8vo

P-B VG

25

A discussion of biculturalism in New Zealand, Maori claims and the position of open democracy

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Quake Part 2 The Aftermath

 

Muller, Adrian

Author Pub

1987

223

4to

P-B Slight fading spine  VG

25

With illustrations and newsclips, an account of what happened to the land and people as a result of the 1987 earthquake in the Bay of Plenty, a useful digest for later earthquakes

5.000000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

A Superb Occasion  The Centenary in Retrospect  February 25-27 1983  Nelson College For Girls

 

Mumm, Judy (et al)

Nelson College for Girls' Old Girls' Association

1983

(3p) 78p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, group photos and lists, the 100th celebrations at Nelson Girls

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Days that are no more

 

Mundy, D

Author Pub

1953

150

8vo

Paper D-J P-B VG

35

Description of writer's experiences on the road

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Some Aspects of Waipipi Ironsands

 

Munro, AS

Author Pub

1980

iii 78p

4to

Cloth binding Typescript Near Fine

25

With map and figures, a thesis on New Zealand ironsands

6.000000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Success Through Adversity

 

Murphy, Nigel

The Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers Inc

2012

168

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a history of the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers, including biographies

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

A Century of Growth  Presbyterian Overseas Mission Work 1869-1969

 

Murray, Rev JS

Presbyterian Bookroom

1969

112

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the work of the Presbyterian missionaries in Asia and the Pacific

6.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Marsden  the history of a New Zealand school for girls

 

Murray, Tosti

The Marsden School Old Girls' Association

1967

(frontis) 278p

8vo

D-J (spine fading, slight marks) Plasticised boards VG

25

Signed by the author, the story of the first eighty years of this school for girls in Wellington

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Tupuna Awa  people and politics on the Waikato River

 

Muru-Lanning, Marama

Auckland University Press

2016

ix (1p map) 230p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With maps, diagrams and illustrations, a discussion of the politics involved in 'owning' New Zealand's natural resources, and the crunch that arises between government and the people

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

A Centennial History of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Zealand 1892-1992

 

Nathan, IJ

The Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Zealand

1992

x 297p (12p)

8vo

Cloth binding Owner's small stamp FEP  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first century of this Masonic Order in New Zealand

8.000000

27.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

The Price of Vigilance

 

Neal, Kerry ; Leov, Nola (comps)

Author Pub

1999

243p (14p)

4to

Laminated paper covers  Laminate lifting FEs  VG

45

With maps and illustrations, the building of the Gun Emplacements in the Marlborough Sounds 1942

7.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Beyond Betrayal  trouble in the Promised Land - restoring the mission to Maori

 

Newman, Keith

Penguin

2013

327p (1p catalogue)

8vo

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, New Zealand after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and those elements which had deleterious effects on the Maori population, leading to the later strife

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Bible & Treaty  missionaries among the Maori

a new perspective

Newman, Keith

Penguin

2010

367

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a study of the two-way influence and effects of the missionaries in New Zealand before and after the Treaty of Waitangi, from evangelising to the dawn of disillusionment

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

By Batons and Barbed Wire  a response to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand

 

Newnham, Tom

Real Pictures

1981

96

Oblong 8vo

P-B Creases front cover Light rubbing spine VG

30

With illustrations, the Springbok Tour of 1981 from the point of view of those against it and protesting

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

1840-1990 A long white cloud?  Essays for 1990

 

Newnham, Tom (ed)

Graphic Publications, CARE

1989

111

8vo

P-B VG

15

With illustrations, a collection of essays from both Maori and pakeha which look at New Zealand's past and reflect on the future

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Piping and Dancing Association of New Zealand 1908-1983

 

Nicholson, John C (comp)

Dominion Council PDANZ

1983

168

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the first 75 years of the Association, with lists and biographies

4.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Sunset to Sunrise  an illustrated history of New Zealand's lighthouses

 

Nicol, Timothy

New Holland

2018

314p (6p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With maps, plans and illustrations, a survey of all of New Zealand's lighthouses, from an historical perspective, the author having been tasked to maintain them between 1990 and 2000

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Mobil 100 Years in New Zealand

 

Nightingale, Tony

Mobil Oil New Zealand Ltd

1996

(frontis) 218p

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fading front fore-corner Near Fine

25

With illustrations, starting with a Mobil subsidiary, the Vacuum Oil Company, expanding into New Zealand in 1896, and quickly dominating the market, then expanding into the vehicle fuel business

8.000000

35.000000

75.000000

75.000000

75.000000

The Bad Old Days  a century of life in the young colony of New Zealand

 

Nolan, Tony

Reed

1979

112

4to

P-B VG

25

With illustrations, a selection of published pieces opf New Zealand from first European contact with Cook to the end of World War One

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

The Bad Old Days

A century of life in the young colony of New Zealand

Nolan, Tony

Reed

1979

vii (1p) 112p

4to

P-B Small disturbance to front cover where small price label removed  VG

20

With many historical illustrations, pickings from the many writings (both positive and negative) about the development of life in the colony of New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Colonial Furniture in New Zealand

 

Northcote-Bade, S

Reed

1971

(frontis) 164p (1p)

4to

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

25

With illustrations, from the furniture early settlers brought with them to the furniture made in New Zealand factories

7.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The New Zealand European Connection

 

O'Connor, Martin

Grantham House

1989

viii 167p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, the author takes the reader to 22 places in Europe which have cultural, sporting or military links with New Zealand, eg Whitby, Messines, Gallipoli, Cardiff Arms Park

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

All Good Children  Life in a New Zealand children's Health Camp

 

O'Connor, Terry ; Findlay, Katherine

 PhotoForum

1983

96

Oblong 8vo

P-B Light fading spine Near Fine

25

Terry O'Connor's photos examine the day-to-day experiences of New Zealand's seven Health Camps for both the children attendees and the adult staff

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Through Irish Eyes

 Australian & New Zealand Images of the Irish 1788-1948

O'Farrell, Patrick

Aurora -  David Lovell

1994

vi (5p) 131p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

Photographs and drawings of the Irish immigrant experience in Australia and New Zealand, the fourth of the author's series on the Irish in Australasia

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

From Gigs to Rigs

Steel Brothers and 120 years of Road Transport in New Zealand

Ogilvie, Gordon

Hazard Press

1997

182p (2p)

4to

D-J  Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed record of how this Christchurch family engineering firm has developed over 120 years, from gig and phaeton construction to rigs and sidelifters

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Extracts from the Journals of the ships 'Recherche', 'Esperance' and 'Coquille' 1793 and 1824

 

Ollivier, Isabel (transcribed, translated)

AT Library Endowment Trust, Indosuez New Zealand Ltd

1986

219p (1p)

Oblong 4to

Grey cloth binding, black title frames, gilt titles  Nice book launch dedication FEP  Near Fine

75

With illustrations and maps, extracts from the New Zealand journals from ships under the command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperry, Parts 3 and 4 of the 'Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life' series

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

52.000000

55.000000

Extracts from the Journals of the ship St Jean Baptiste 1769

 

Ollivier, Isabel ; Hingley, Cheryl (trans)

ATL Endowment Trust, National Library of New Zealand

1982

(1p) 225p

Oblong 4to

Blue plasticised boards Near Fine

75

With maps and illustrations, extracts from French exploration of the New Zealand area, with the original and the translation side-by-side, Book 1 in the 'Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life' series

5.000000

23.000000

51.000000

54.000000

59.000000

The New Zealand Wars  nga pakanga o Aotearoa

 

O'Malley, Vincent

Bridget Williams Books

2019 Reprint edition

272

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, an exploration of the events, causes and consequences of the series of conflicts which make up the New Zealand Wars

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Voices from the New Zealand Wars  he reo no nga pakanga o Aotearoa

 

O'Malley, Vincent

Bridget Williams Books

2021

vii (1p) 439p (1p)

4to

Card covers with flaps Near Fine

55

With illustrations, the words of both Maori and English combatants in the New Zealand Wars, from the War in the North of 1845-6 to Te Kooti in 1868-72, from published and unpublished accounts

6.500000

36.000000

85.000000

75.000000

80.000000

The Story of a Treaty

 

Orange, Claudia

Bridget Williams Books

1992 reprint edition  (1989)

80

8vo

P-B Signature TP VG

15

With maps and illustrations, a discussion of the Treaty of Waitangi, its origins, history and meanings

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Story of a Treaty

 

Orange, Claudia

Bridget Williams Books

2019

176

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, a discussion of the Treaty of Waitangi, its origins, history and meanings

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Nautical Astronomy in New Zealand  The Voyages of James Cook

 

Orchiston, Wayne

Carter Observatory

1998

131

4to

Soft card covers with flaps VG - Near Fine

48

With map, tables and illustrations, an account of the three Cook voyages into the South Pacific, concentrating on the scientific work carried out in New Zealand

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

kauri

Witness to a Nation's History

Orwin, Joanna

New Holland Press

2004

208

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Owner's name sticker top HTP Near Fine

45

Inscribed and signed by the author, a study of the Kauri forests, their early meaning to Maori, their exploitation to fill European needs, and the movement for conservation, with maps and illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Honours, Titles, Styles and Precedence in New Zealand

 

O'Shea, Phillip P (ed)

Govt Print

1977

(frontis) 214p (1p)

4to

D-J Cloth binding Owner's stamp covered FEP VG

25

A guide to the Honours System which formerly applied in New Zealand, including a list of all those holders of honours and awards up to 1977

6.000000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Notes in connection with  Procedure in Committee of the whole in the House of Representatives of New Zealand 1911

 

Otterson, H

Govt Print

1912 Fourth Edition

xxxii 133p

Small 8vo

Leather binding, raised spine, gilt rules and titles  Rubbing top, bottom spine  VG

25

An A-Z of the rules of procedure in the New Zealand Parliament up till 1911

5.500000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Prophets in the Wilderness

The Weslyan Mission to New Zealand 1819-27

Owens, JMR

AUP/OUP

1974

192

8vo

D-J  Paper over boards, slight fading base  VG

50

With illustrations, a study of this Christian mission in early-contact New Zealand and its effect on the 'natives'

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

An Engineer Told Me  Duffill Watts & King Ltd  the story of the first 50 years

 

Pairman, Ian R

Duffill Watts & King Ltd

1997

175

8vo

Laminated boards  Author's presentation plate FEP Near Fine

22

With maps and celebrations, a detailed celebration of the people and work of this Dunedin-founded firm of consultant engineers, from local New Zealand work to expansion into the world

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Two Per Mile  a history of the Rural Electricity Reticulation Council

 

Paris, Susan

Morris Communication Group

1996

147

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a history of electricity distribution in the New Zealand countryside and off-shore islands through the RERC, established in 1945

5.000000

16.000000

29.000000

33.000000

33.000000

Kaitaia's 1950s

The memories linger on

Parker, Keith

Author Pub

1995

288

4to

P-B Fine

40

With illustrations, the second of the author's reviews of the growing years of this Northland town, the 1950s, with immigrants and returning heroes

5.000000

21.000000

38.000000

44.000000

46.000000

Fifty Years On  the development of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists 1967-2007

 

Parker, Vivienne M

New Zealand Society of Genealogists

2007

vi 240p

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the history of the society, its branches, its people, and its resources

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The Big Show  New Zealanders, D-Day and the War in Europe

 

Parr, Alison (ed)

Auckland University Press, The Ministry for Culture and Heritage

2006

xiv 239p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

28

With illustrations, a collection of personal memories of New Zealand servicemen who took part in D-Day

5.000000

20.000000

35.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Engineering Hundred

 

Parry, Gordon

Montgomery Watson NZ Ltd

1998

80

8vo

P-B Author's bookplate inside front cover Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a history of a New Zealand, and now Australasian engineering firm

3.000000

11.000000

22.000000

24.000000

26.000000

Sport Society & Culture in New Zealand

 

Patterson, Brad (ed)

Stout Research Centre

1999

183

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

A collection of essays from a conference in 1998, looking at how 'sport threads and binds the lives' of many of today's New Zealanders, including in political and gender ways

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Unpacking the Kists  the Scots in New Zealand

 

Patterson, Brad (et al)

Otago University Press

2013

xx 412p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a study of Scottish immigration into New Zealand, where they came from, and the influence they have had in the development of New Zealand

7.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

After the Treaty  the settler state, race relations and the exercise of power in colonial New Zealand

 

Patterson, Brad (et al, eds)

Steele Roberts

2016

356

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

48

With maps and illustrations, an important collection of essays branching out from Ian Wards' 'Shadow of the Land' and its conception of the realities of colonialism in New Zealand after 1840

6.500000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

A Bob Both Ways  celebrating 100 years of Naylor Love

 

Patterson, Rosemarie

Advertising & Art

2010

393

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a history of this New Zealand construction company, from lowly beginnings to large buildings, ferry re-accommodations and power stations

5.500000

22.000000

46.000000

51.000000

57.000000

The Scots of New Zealand

 

Pearce, Gilbert L

David Winter & Son

1976

240

8vo

D-J (creases) Paper over boards VG

25

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the Scottish immigrants into New Zealand, their backgrounds and what happened to them in their new country

5.500000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Looking Out To Sea  New Zealand as a model for ocean governance

 

Peart, Raewyn

Environmental Defence Society

2005

xxiii 206p

8vo

P-B VG

22

With illustrations and figures, a contribution on how New Zealand could better manage its oceans, with suggestions on what a world leading ocean's governance system for New Zealand might look like

6.000000

26.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Tasman  Biography of an Ocean

 

Peat, Neville

Penguin

2010

239p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, a  heavily-illustrated overview of the strip of water between New Zealand and Australia, its human and natural history

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Invading Sea  coastal hazards and climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Peat, Neville

The Cuba Press

2018

189

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, with illustrations, an investigation of the multiple faces of the greatest environmental issue confronting New Zealand and other Pacific nations

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

The VSA Way  25 years of volunteering overseas

 

Peat, Neville

Compatriot Press

1987

xii 195p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, marking the first 25 years of the VSA organisation's contributions to the world need

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Tokelau Atoll   Associate of New Zealand

 

Peat, Neville ; Conly, Maurice

Compatriot Press

1984

48

Oblong 8vo

P-B Light rubbing extremities VG

55

Signed by the author, a human and social history of this string of islands in the Pacific, scarce

6.500000

21.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Finding a Way to Live  a race for the whale

 

Perano, Hoki (comp)

Author Pub

2019

x 245p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

55

With illustrations, a collection of photographs and stories of whaling in New Zealand waters

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Pictorial New Zealand 1895

 

Percival, WB (et al)

Lothian Publishing Company

1985

(frontis) xvi 301p

8vo

Decorated red paper over boards  Plastic sleeve  Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, a nice copy of the facsimile copy of this illustrated tourist guide with history

5.000000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Shrek  the story of a Kiwi icon

 

Perriam, John ; Stephen Jacquiery

Random House

2010

255p (1p)

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, the 'life' of this celebrated 'hermit' merino, found uncut on Bendigo Station in 2004, and his voyages around the country, including to an iceberg off the Southern coast of New Zealand

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

New Zealanders at Home

A cultural history of domestic interiors 1814-1914

Petersen, Anna KC

University of Otago Press

2001

172

4to

P-B Fading spine Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, a study of the development of the New Zealand society as reflected in, and influenced by, the interior world of New Zealander's homes

6.500000

30.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company

 

Petre, H William

The Capper Press

1971

94p (8p catalogue) (folding map)

8vo

D-J VG

25

With map, the facsimile edition of this story of the Wellington NZ Company settlement

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Wellington Watersiders  the story of their industrial organisation

 

Pettit, PN

Wellington Branch, New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union

1948

155p (1p)

8vo

Cloth binding VG

20

With illustrations, a history of this Waterside Workers' Union

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Mother Experience

NZ Women talk about Motherhood

Phillips, Jenny

Penguin

1988

185p (1p) (4p ads)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

15

After many questionnaires sent out to mothers in many different situations, the author creates a number of case studies of what it 'means' to be a mother in NZ

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

To the Memory  New Zealand's War Memorials

 

Phillips, Jock

Potton and Burton

2016

246

4to

D-J Laminated boards Slight bump bottom fore-corners Near Fine

45

With illustrations, an up-dating and development of the author's earlier 'The Sorrow and the Pride', and speaking to the nation's new interest in our war past, and memorials to it

5.000000

23.000000

50.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Brief Encounter  American Forces and the New Zealand People 1942-1945

 

Phillips, Jock ; Ellis, Ellen

Historical Branch DIA

1992

72

Oblong 8vo

P-B Short inscription TP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, what happened when US forces began arriving in New Zealand in 1942, when so many New Zealand men were overseas

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Gateway to the Ice  Christchurch International airport - Antarctic Air Links from 1955

 

Phillips, Tony

Christchurch International Airport

2001

112p (map in rear pocket)

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, the story of the air link between New Zealand and Antartica

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Sari  Indian Women at Work in New Zealand

 

Pio, Edwina

Dunmore Publishing

2008

175

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

With illustrations, examining the experiences of New Zealand Indian women as employees, employers and entrepreneurs

8.000000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Passenger Ships of Australia and New Zealand 2 Vols

Vol 1 1876-1912 Vol II 1913-1980

Plowman, Peter

Collins

1981

224p, 220p

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

65

With illustrations, a comprehensive coverage of all the passengers ships used in Australasia, including fleet lists, a useful addition to Sir Henry Brett's  'White Wings'

7.000000

40.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

New Zealand  being a narrative of travels and adventures

 

Polack, Joel S

The Capper Press

1974

2 vols (frontis) xii (1p) (folding map) 403p (8p catalogue) ; (frontis) vi 441p (1p errata)

8vo

D-J (fading spine, chips, closed tear front vol 1, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards  FEP clipped at top  VG

55

With map and illustrations, the facsimile reprint of the author's years (1831-1837) spent in New Zealand, with much on his relationships and travels amongst Maori

8.000000

35.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders 2 volumes

 

Polack, Joel Samuel

Capper Press

1976 (1840)

(folding map) xxxiv (plate) 288p ;  (frontis) xviii (plate) 304p

8vo

D-J (chips, Vol 1 has tape repair top spine, slight stains from price sticker, in archival wrappers) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

60

With map and illustrations, the author's expansion of the 'Maori' chapters in his previous 'Narrative of Travels and Adventures', an attempt to portray what he saw of Maori social life and customs

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

50.000000

A Mingled Yarn

the Seifet family and flaxmilling in New Zealand

Pollard, Jane

Author Pub

2004

viii 159p

8vo

P-B Fine

35

With illustrations, the history of a New Zealand family which milled flax from Southland to the Waikato

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Manapouri/Bluff Aluminium Industry  an economic appraisal

 

Poole, WA (et al)

New Zealand Institute of Economic Research

1971

201p (4p Index)

4to

P-B Short closed tear back cover Near Fine

30

With charts and figures, the first publicly available economic appraisal of the Comalco aluminium project at Bluff

6.500000

28.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Manapouri/Bluff Aluminium Industry  an economic appraisal

 

Poole, WA (et al)

NZ Institute of Economic Research

1971

(8p) (3p) (11p) (1p) 201p (1p) (3p)

4to

P-B Rubbing spine VG

25

With map and tables, the report that puts forward the case for an aluminium smelter at Tiwai, Southland

6.000000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Sense of History

a commemorative publication for John Cawte Beaglehole

Porter, Frances (ed)

Govt Print

1978

(10p) 90

8vo

Plasticised boards VG

20

With illustrations, essays on Cook's landing sites in New Zealand, and the commemoration of JC Beaglehole, the Cook scholar

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Turanga Journals

Letters and Journals of William and Jane Williams

Porter, Frances (ed)

Victoria University Press

1974

659

Small 4to

D-J (slight rubbing spine) Slight foxing frontis VG - Near Fine

45

A view of early Poverty Bay (then called 'Turanga'), and the first East Coast Mission 1840-1850

5.500000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

From Oak to Kowhai

Centenary of the Little Company of Memory

Pound, Father JN

Author Pub

1977

(2p) 76

Small 4to

P-B VG

18

Chronicling the Little Company of Mary in NZ, 1913-1977

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Centennial History of the Auckland Institute and Museum 1867-1967

 

Powell, AWB (ed)

Council of the Auckland Institute and Museum

1967

88

8vo

P-B VG

20

A useful record of the development of the Auckland Museum and the figures involved

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart New Zealand story 1883-1983

 

Power, Sister Anne Marie

Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart

1983

356

8vo

D-J (fading spine, top FE) Cloth binding  VG

20

With illustrations, the work of this Order throughout New Zealand

8.000000

27.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Sketches in New Zealand

 

Power, W Tyrone

The Capper Press

1974 Reprint edition (1849)

xlviii 290p (2p catalogue)

8vo

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

25

With illustrations, the author recounts the experiences he had in New Zealand from 1846-1848

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

35.000000

The Western invasions of the Pacific and its Continents

a study of moving frontiers and changing landscapes 1513-1958

Price, A Grenfell

OUP

1963

viii 236p

8vo

D-J (spine sunned, slight chips)  VG - Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, a study of the developments caused by European expansion into the Pacific area, both positive and negative

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

New Zealand's First Talkies  early film-making in Otago and Southland 1896-1939

 

Price, Simon

Otago Heritage Books

1996

92

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a study of early New Zealand film-making, especially the work of Henry Gore and Jack Welsh

6.000000

17.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Katikara 4 June 1863

 

Prickett, Nigel

Auckland War Memorial Museum

2008

41

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, the military engagement at Katikara, Taranaki, 4 June 1863, with maps and illustrations

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

The First Thousand Years

Regional perspectives in New Zealand archaeology

Prickett, Nigel (ed)

The Dunmore Press, NZ Archaeological Assoc

1982

204

4to

P-B  VG - Near Fine

30

With maps, figures and illustrations, still an important collection of pieces on the variety of ways the Maori lived across and down New Zealand before European arrival

8.000000

27.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

The Camera in the Crowd  filming New Zealand in Peace and War 1895-1920

 

Pugsley, Christopher

Oratia Books, Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

2017

xv (1p) 509p (3p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

75

With illustrations, the story of film in New Zealand in its first 25 years, reflecting the New Zealand that developed at the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of the 20th century, through its challenges in New Zealand and overseas, in war

5.500000

33.000000

74.000000

83.000000

90.000000

The English Church in New Zealand

 

Purchas, Henry Thomas

Simpson & Williams

1914

(frontis) xviii (1p) 252p

8vo

D-J (chips) Blue cloth over bevilled boards  Light foxing FEs  VG

30

With maps and illustrations, a history of the Anglican Church in New Zealand, beginning with the missionaries and the CMS in the Bay of Islands

5.000000

19.000000

34.000000

39.000000

41.000000

The English Church in New Zealand

 

Purchas, HT

Simpson & Williams

1914

(frontis) xviii (1p) 252p

8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles Bevilled boards Owner's details covered FEP, verso HTP Signature HTP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of Anglicanism in New Zealand, and its leading figures

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

34.000000

38.000000

A Handy Book of Local Government Laws

for the use of county councils and road boards

Pyke, Vincent

ODT

1882

(errata slip tipped in ) (1p) vii (2p) 76p cxxviii (1p)

8vo

Purple cloth binding, blind rules, gilt titles  Spine faded  Patches of discolouring of cloth  EPs browned  VG

125

A guide book for those working in contemporary local authorities about what to do with the Counties Act, The Roads Act and the Rating Act, now a scarce New Zealand local administration title

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Recognising the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

 

Quentin-Baxter, Alison (ed)

Institute of Policy Studies, VUW

1998

xviii 216p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

32

A collection of essays which provide insights into indigenous rights, especially those of Maori, from within government, the New Zealand legal system, the health system and Maori organisations

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Vintage Gold  the first 50 years of the Canterbury Branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc.)

 

Rae, Colin (comp)

Canterbury Branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand

2006

xvi 324p

4to

Paper over boards, gilt titles Near Fine

80

Limited edition (#192/1100), with illustrations, the decades of collection, restoration, parading and 'running' of the Canterbury vintage fan membership

9.000000

21.000000

58.000000

66.000000

70.000000

Challenge and Change

 

Rae, Simon H

Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership

2011

vi 202p

8vo

P-B Signature TP Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a study of the years at Knox Theological College in Dunedin from the time of its centennial in 1976, and the changes in direction and priorities that have seen it become a centre for ministry and leadership

5.000000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Inequality a New Zealand Crisis

 

Rashbrooke, Max (ed)

Bridget Williams Books

2013

xii (1p) 279p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With figures, the stretching of income inequality in New Zealand and the social impacts

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Police in Sport  including the Oficial History of the New Zealand Police Council of Sport (Inc)

 

Read, Ray ; Franklin, Joe

NZ Police Council of Sport

2003

383

4to

D-J (light foxing inside) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

75

Limited edition (00183), with many illustrations, a history of the many and varied sports played in New Zealand and their police sports teams, including police 'olympics', with many lists

5.000000

28.000000

61.000000

68.000000

74.000000

Just to Let You Know I'm Still Alive  postcards from New Zealanders during the First World War

 

Reddiex, Glenn

Granthan House

2015

184

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the messages, and the images, sent by New Zealand servicemen in the NZEF while thousands of miles away

8.000000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Truckers  New Zealand truckers on the road

 

Redmond, Ken

Hodder Moa Beckett

2000

128

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, capturing the life of the men and women who make their living hauling loads on New Zealand roads

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

Tact and Tenacity  New Zealand Women in Policing

 

Redshaw, Valerie P

Grantham House, New Zealand Police

2006

304

4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Fine

50

With illustrations, the detailed history of the role of women in the New Zealand Police Force, from volunteers to recruits

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

A Dog's Life  working dogs in New Zealand

 

Redwood, Miriam MacGregor

Reed

1980

xiv 132p

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the author starts with sheep dogs, and develops out to other working dogs, police dogs and guide dogs

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific

 

Redwood, Rosaline

Reed

1950

125

8vo

D-J (chips, small piece missing top, bottom spine) Cloth binding VG

30

With illustrations, the sealing industry in the islands around New Zealand and down towards the Sub-Antarctics

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Supplement to Place Names of New Zealand

 

Reed, AW

The Reed Trust

1979

(3p) 177p

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine

25

An update on the Place Names, with additional information on a number of places, adding to knowledge of no-longer current names, and includes a list of superceded names and detail on Maori words

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Place Names of New Zealand

 

Reed, AW

Reed

1975

xvi 510 (1p catalogue)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Slight foxing Fes  VG - Near Fine

30

An A-Z of New Zealand place names, their origin and meaning

5.000000

21.000000

40.000000

47.000000

51.000000

The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names

 

Reed, AW ; Dowling, Peter (ed)

Reed

2002

xxiii (1p map) 621p (3p catalogue)

8vo

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

30

A detailed A-Z listing of New Zealand place names, from the well-known to the more obscure, the revised, updated edition

8.000000

35.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Place Names of New Zealand  origins and meanings for over 10000 names

 

Reed, AW ; Dowling, Peter (rev)

Raupo

2010

502

8vo

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

30

A revised edition of this user-friendly - and indispensible - guide to the naming of New Zealand

8.000000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

The Gift of Waitangi

 

Reed, Vernon H

Reed

1957

(frontis) 146p

8vo

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

22

With illustrations, marking the 25th Anniversary of the Deed of Gift of the Bledisloes in buying the Waitangi block and handing it over to the Nation of New Zealand

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

The New Zealand Shipping Company's Pocket-Book

 

Reeves, W Pember (et al)

Adam & Charles Black

1908

(frontis) x (1p) 159p (1p) (10p memoranda/notes)

Small 8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles, decorations Slight rubbing top, bottom spine Owner's small stamp FEP  VG

55

With plates and maps, a guide for NZSC passengers, including pieces by F Rollett, Malcolm Ross, WH Triggs, A Wilson

4.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Long White Cloud  (Ao Tea Roa)

 

Reeves, William Pember ; Wray, Cecil J

A&U

1924 3rd edition, revised, enlarged

(frontis) 390p (folding map) (2p)

8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles, decoration  Bumping top, bottom spine  Signature front paste-down  Slight inscription FEP  Light foxing FE  VG

40

With maps and illustrations, the 3rd edition of this history of New Zealand, enlarged to bring it up-to-date

5.000000

19.000000

36.000000

41.000000

44.000000

The New Zealand Gown of the Year

 

Regnault, Claire

Author Pub

2003

70

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a record of the four years the 'New Zealand Gown of the Year' went on the road in the 1960s, based on the costumes housed in Hawke's Bay Museum

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Harraways Going for Grain  150 years milling at Green Island Dunedin

 

Reid, Rebecca

Harraway & Sons Ltd

2018

312

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a firm that began in the 1860s flour and oatmeal industry, joined with Dunedin's Hudson family and now celebrate 150 years of the same family ownership

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Vintage Trucks and Commercials  kiwi collections

 

Reid, Steve

Bateman

2017

199p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Slight rubbing base VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a selection of the mechanical workhorses of New Zealand's past from the collections of their devoted owners

6.500000

32.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Veteran Cars  amazing New Zealand Collections

 

Reid, Steve

HarperCollins

2013

189p (3p)

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a collection of motor vehicles manufactured and imported into New Zealand  before December 1918, their fascinating histories, and their owners, from an Albion truck to a Swift light car

6.500000

31.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Switching on the King Country

 

Reilly, Helen

Steele Roberts

2009

243

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, a history of power distribution in the King Country, and its difficulties

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

42.000000

45.000000

Power to the People 100 Years of Public Electricity Supply in New Zealand

 

Rennie, Neil

Electricity Supply Assoc of New Zealand

1989

256

4to

D-J (fading spine, slight repair top spine) Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP  VG

28

With maps and illustrations, a popular history of electrical distribution in New Zealand, beginning in 1888 at Reefton

5.000000

17.000000

35.000000

38.000000

41.000000

Creating a National Spirit  celebrating New Zealand's Centennial

 

Renwick, William (ed)

Victoria University Press

2004

294

8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

With maps and illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with the first 100 years of European settlement, the publications, the art shows, the festivals, Maori meeting houses, the history and the 'romance' of history

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Black Flu 1918

 

Rice, Geoffrey W

Canterbury University Press

2017

96

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a centennial review of the influenza that swept the world, and New Zealand, in the first month of peace after WW1 had finished

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Sealing in the Southern Oceans 1788-1833

 

Richards, Rhys

Paremata Press

2110

278

8vo

P-B Fine

90

Signed by the author, a bringing together of 50 years of articles on sealing in the South Pacific, including south of New Zealand, with maps, tables and illustrations

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

42.000000

45.000000

New Zealand Abroad Te Tuao Tawahi Volunteer Service Abroad

 

Richards, Trevor (et al)

Bridget Williams Books, Volunteer Service Abroad

2002

256

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  VG - Near Fine

30

With many illustrations, the work of VAS in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the people who have made it work

5.000000

25.000000

50.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Trucks  A Vintage Collection

 

Richardson, Bill

Craig Printing

2006

221p (3p)

Folio

D-J Laminated boards  Near Fine

50

With illustrations, Bill Richardson's wonderful truck museum in Invercargill

10.000000

42.000000

106.000000

100.000000

106.000000

Coal, Class & Community

The United Mineworkers of New Zealand 1880-1960

Richardson, Len

AUP

1995

viii 344p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the at-times stormy history of this NZ union

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

Historic Place Names of New Zealand

 

Rickard, LS

Minerva

1968

(3p) 119p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

30

With maps, a study of some non-Maori placenames in New Zealand and their origins, starting with Tasman and Cook

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Weekly News

Those Were The Days 1940s

Ridge, Phillip (comp)

Moa

1988

175

Large 4to

D-J (fading spine) VG - Near Fine

25

Photograph articles taken from the pages of the 'Weekly News', covering the War years (both in and out of NZ) and post-War restoration

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Shear Hard Work  a history of New Zealand shearing

 

Riseborough, Hazel

Auckland University Press

2010

x 350p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

36

With many illustrations, New Zealand shearing both as an economic income earner and a championship sport

8.000000

21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

51.000000

Eyes of Fire

 

Robie, David

LIndon Pub

1986

(2p) 168p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

25

The last voyage of the 'Rainbow Warrior', to be sunk by French in Auckland NZ, with loss of life

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Rocking the Cradle the story of the Society for the Preservation of the Kerikeri Stone Store Area, Inc

 

Robinson, Cathy (comp)

Society for the Preservation of the Kerikeri Stone Store Area, Inc

2009

100

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, preserving the historic area around the Stone Store in Kerikeri from development

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Initial Excavation of the Auckland Acclimitisation Society Fishponds

 

Robinson, James

Dept of Conservation

1988

ii 31p

4to

P-B, stapled spine Owner's stamp front cover, TP  Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a survey of the fishponds and surrounding structures in the Auckland Domain, thought to be the site of the AAC's trout hatching and rearing complex

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Kohimarama Conference 1860

 

Robinson, John

Tross Publishing

2022

155

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a discussion of this conference, called between the then-Governor and some Maori chiefs, and the ramifications the author sees for later New Zealand

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Lion of Scotland

 

Robinson, Neil

H&S

1952

(frontis) 155p

8vo

D-J (chips, slight stains) Slight foxing FEs, EPs  VG

28

An account of Norman McLeod and his people leaving persecution in the Western Highlands, to Nova Scotia, to Australia, and finally to Waipu in NZ

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

To the Ends of the Earth

 

Robinson, Neil

HarperCollins

1997

260

8vo

Soft card covers Near Fine
Soft card covers Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the story of Norman McLeod and the Highlanders' migration to Nova Scotia and New Zealand

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

A Lucky Landing

The story of the Irish in New Zealand

Rogers, Anna

Random House

1996

246

4to

Paper wrapper with flaps over soft card covers VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, Irish who came to New Zealand for a better life and their experiences

8.000000

35.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Turning the Pages  the story of Bookselling in New Zealand

 

Rogers, Anna and Max

Reed, Booksellers New Zealand

1993

xi 300p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a history of the early need for books in New Zealand, hence the rise of the bookseller, and the development of bookshops in New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Policing Two Peoples  a history of Police in the Bay of Plenty

 

Rorke, Jinty

The New Zealand Police

1993

xiii 450p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

65

With maps and illustrations, policing in the wider Bay of Plenty district, from laying the foundations in the New Zealand Wars period, into the 1990s

5.000000

27.000000

59.000000

65.000000

70.000000

'Bottled Lightning' The story of the Reefton Electric Light

 

Rosanowski, John

Cornwall & Associates

2001

24

4to

P-B Fine

20

With map, illustrations and contemporary advertising, the story behind New Zealand's first town being lit by electricity

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Not Strictly Kosher  Pioneer Jews in New Zealand

 

Rosenthal, Odeda

Starchand Press

1988

207p (1p)

4to

P-B VG

25

Inscribed by the author, a survey with biographies of the significant early Jewish settlers in New Zealand and what they achieved

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

New Zealand Aspirations in the Pacific in the Nineteenth Century

 

Ross, Angus

OUP

1964

xi 332

8vo

D-J (light browning spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding Short inscription FEP VG

30

Traces the development of the missionary, commercial and political aspirations of New Zealand from the early nineteenth century propaganda about the colony's imperial destiny to the death of Seddon in 1906

8.000000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The White Ensign in New Zealand

 

Ross, J O'C

Reed

1967

121

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing) Paper over boards VG

24

With illustrations, the development and role of the Devonport Naval Base, especially during the New Zealand Wars

6.500000

21.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Going Bush  New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century

 

Ross, Kirstie

Auckland University Press

2008

viii 191p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, an exploration of the idea of what the 'bush' means to New Zealanders, vegetation, tramping and holidays, environment in danger, a refuge

5.000000

16.000000

28.000000

32.000000

32.000000

The Duke in Southern Isles  New Zealand's Loyal Welcome

 

Ross, Malcolm (et al)

McKee & Co

1901

(24p)

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers Some marks, staples rusting VG

40

With illustrations, describing the official visit of the Duke of York, afterwards King George V, notable for the call to the importance of 'Empire'

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Toil and Trouble

The struggle for a better life in New Zealand

Roth, Bert ; Hammond, Janny

Methuen

1981

180

4to

D-J  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of the development of the workers unions in New Zealand

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Trade Unions in New Zealand  Past and Present

 

Roth, Herbert

Reed

1973

xii 180p

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing extremities, slight chips)  Some underlining first two chapters  Otherwise VG

20

A study of the development of trade unionism in NZ, and an analysis of the situation prior to the Employment Relations Act

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

'In Good Faith' symposium proceedings marking the 20th anniversary of the 'Lands' case

 

Ruru, Jacinta (ed)

The New Zealand Law Federation, The Faculty of Law, university of Otago

2008

(4p) 134p (104p Appendices)

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

30

Twenty years on from the Court of Appeal decision in 1987, interpreting the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Making our Place  exploring land-use tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Ruru, Jacinta (et al, eds)

Otago University Press

2011

243

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With maps and illustration, a collection of essays dealing with the interplay of people and place in New Zealand, as well as people and people over place

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Tackling Rugby Myths  Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854-2004

 

Ryan, Greg (ed)

Otago University Press

2005

247p (1p)

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp FEP Near Fine

30

With illustrations and tables, a collection of essays which discuss the historical role of rugby in New Zealand, as a game and a social glue, and some of the myths that have arisen about this 'role'

6.000000

26.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog

Captain Cook in the South Seas

Salmond, Anne

Allen Lane, The Penguin Press

2003

xxii 506p

8vo

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

45

With maps and illustrations, a recounting of the three voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific, and the cross-cultural effects on the piece of England in which he was sailing

8.000000

33.000000

75.000000

75.000000

75.000000

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog

Captain Cook in the South Seas

Salmond, Anne

Penguin

2004

xxiv 506p (6p catalogue)

8vo

P-B  Tape around base of covers  VG

25

With maps and illustrations, a recounting of the three voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific, and the cross-cultural effects on the piece of England in which he was sailing

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Colourful Colony  Pioneering Life in New Zealand

 

Sanders, John

David Bateman

1983

54p (1p)

4to

Laminated boards  Slight fading spine Near Fine

15

With the author's illustrations, aspects of the working lives of many of the early European settlers in New Zealand

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Some Account of New Zealand

 

Savage, John

The Capper Press

1973

(frontis) vii (1p)110p (2p)

8vo

D-J (slight chips, small piece missing base spine) Paper over boards  Name cut from top FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With 3 plates, the facsimile edition of this first New Zealand study, detailing what the author saw in 1805

8.000000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Achievement  50 years of missionary witness in Southern Rhodesia (+ Forward into Freedom)

 

Savage, Murray J

Reed, Foreign Mission Executive Cttee Associated Churches of Christ NZ

1949

112

8vo

P-B Slight signature HTP VG

25

With illustrations, missionary work in Africa, with the sequel, work in South Africa and the Pacific Islands

8.000000

24.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

New Zealand In Evolution  Industrial, Economic and Political

 

Scholefield, Guy H

T Fisher Unwin

1909

(frontis) xxiv 363p (folding map)

8vo

Brown cloth binding, gilt titles, decoration  Bumping top, bottom spine TEG Light foxing FEs  VG

75

With map and illustrations, the author's summary of New Zealand after nearly seventy years of European colonisation

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

50.000000

We Call it Home

A history of state housing in New Zealand

Schrader, Ben

Reed

2005

272

4to

P-B Near Fine

45

With illustrations, an historical and social study of the development of state-owned housing in New Zealand, especially from the tenants' point of view

8.000000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Celebrating Wellington Girls

125 years of Wellington Girls' College

Schwass, Margot

Capital Girls' Association

2008

280

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

38

With many illustrations, and biographies, this New Zealand girls' secondary school over the eras of educational development for girls

8.000000

20.000000

37.000000

43.000000

47.000000

A Pioneering Ministry  Presbyterian Home Missionaries in New Zealand 1862-1964

 

Scott, Harold

Presbyterian Church of NZ

1983

(4p) 94p

8vo

P-B Inscription FFEP Slight note-making as up-dates  VG

30

An historical account of the development of the Presbyterian Home Missions in NZ, from Central Otago goldfields and the Chinese miners to post-war suburbs

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Dear Dot  I must tell you  a personal history of young New Zealanders

 

Scott, Keith

Activity Press

2011

576

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, a compilation of children's writing from the 'Dot's Little Folk' column in the 'Otago Witness', a kind of facebook for the beginning of the twentieth century

5.000000

21.000000

44.000000

49.000000

53.000000

A Great Place to Work

 

Seata, Alison

Fraser Books

2012

viii 186p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the story of the Oldfield family and of its growing contracting business

5.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Customs and Habits of the New Zealanders 1838-42

 

Servant, Father C ; Glasgow Dr J (trans) ; Simmons, DR (ed)

Reed

1973

(3p) 84p

8vo

D-J  Slight foxing top FE  VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, life in the Hokianga amongst the Maori during the 4 years this Marist priest was in New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The New Zealand Native Rebellion

letter to Lord Lyttelton 1864

Sewell, Henry

The Hocken Library

1974

51

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

25

A tract questioning the actions and attitudes of the contemporary New Zealand Government about the policy of coercion adopted towards the Waikato tribes and the rights of the 'tribes' under the Treaty of Waitangi

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Crisis at Kerikeri

 

Sharp, Andrew

Reed

1958

109

8vo

D-J Small inscription FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a reconstruction of the events  (and personalities) of the years 1814-1828 in the north of New Zealand, as the 'nation' of NZ was being projected

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Duperry's Visit to New Zealand in 1824

 

Sharp, Andrew (ed)

Alexander Turnbull Library

1971

125p (folding chart)

8vo

D-J Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, some accounts from Duperry's visit in 'La Coquille', looking at 1824 Maori and Europeans

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Waitangi  Cradle of New Zealand

 

Shaw, Peter ; Hallett, Peter

Cosmos Publications

1992

96

Oblong 8vo

D-J (fading extremities)  Cloth binding  VG - Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, both a event and an architectural history of Waitangi and the Treaty House

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Portrait of Change  a record of Country Women's Institute in New Zealand 1921-1996

 

Shepherd, Noma (et al, comps)

New Zealand Country Women's Institute

1996

112

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the first 75 years of this important New Zealand women's organisation

6.000000

18.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

A Pocket Guide for Justices and Police Officers

in New Zealand

Shortland, Frederick William

ODT

1906

172

8vo

Green cloth binding, gilt titles  Spine fading  Slight wear top spine, fore-corners  Signature verso FEP  VG

40

The everyday working statutes of the Police Courts, the powers and duties of the JP, the relevant Police Act, and the duties and powers of Police Constables, a necessary summary for the turn-of-the-century JP, signed by a Dunedin JP

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

NZ Rock 1987-2007

 

Shute, Gareth

Random House

2008

359

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

40

With many illustrations, 20 years of New Zealand rock music, taking over where the original 'Stranded in Paradise' left off, Enz and Crowded House, Flying Nun, the Dunedin Sound, the Indies and onwards

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Soldiers, Scouts & Spies  a military history of the New Zealand Wars 1845-1864

 

Simons, Cliff

Massey University Press

2019

431p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

45

With illustrations, an examination of the New Zealand Wars from a military perspective, both British and Maori

6.500000

30.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Opera in New Zealand  aspects of history and performance

 

Simpson, Adrienne

Witham Press

1990

(1p) 151p

8vo

P-B Fading spine VG

22

With illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with opera in New Zealand, its past and its future

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Opera in New Zealand  aspects of history and performance

 

Simpson, Adrienne (ed)

Witham Press

1990

151

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a collection of essays on touring companies, performers, composers and supporters

7.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Bloomsbury South  the arts in Christchurch 1933-1953

 

Simpson, Peter

Auckland University Press

2016

ix (1p) 353p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations, the artists of all sorts, writers, publishers, designers, dramatists, musicians, painters, who made Christchurch vibrant for a time, and helped create the New Zealand 'identity'

6.500000

35.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Sugarbag Years

 

Simpson, Tony

Alister Taylor

1974

168

4to

P-B VG

22

With illustrations, a study of the 1930s Depression in New Zealand

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

A Distant Feast  the origins of New Zealand's cuisine

 

Simpson, Tony

Godwit, Random House

1999

184

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a fascinating study of the development of the immigrant-driven cuisine and domestic culture of early New Zealand

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The Sugarbag Years

 

Simpson, Tony

Alister Taylor

1974

168

4to

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

30

With illustrations, an oral history of the 1930s Depression in New Zealand

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Kinds of Peace

Maori People after the Wars 1870-85

Sinclair, Keith

AUP

1991

161

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With illustrations, the aftermath of the New Zealand Wars on a large number of Maori people, politically and culturally, as the land is occupied by European settlers

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

A History of the University of Auckland 1883-1983

 

Sinclair, Keith ; McNaughton, Trudie

Auckland University Press ; Oxford University Press

1983

xi 364p

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the gradual development from Auckland College to the University of Auckland

6.000000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Laplace in New Zealand, 1831

 

Sinclair, Keith V

Heritage Press

1998

155

8vo

P-B Fine

40

With illustrations, a translation and explication of Laplace's narrative of his trip to NZ in 1831, a trip which had wide-ranging effects on the pre-colonial history of NZ

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Archaeological Investigation at the Shaw Block (R11/1525), East Tamaki

 

Slocombe, Adrienne ; Veart, David

Dept of Conservation

1989

iv 42p

4to

P-B, clipped at spine Owner's stamp front cover  TP  Near Fine

30

With maps and charts, a detailed survey of this Auckland site as part of a programme of research into the settlement and garden sites in the volcanic fields of South Auckland

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

On Display  New essays in Cultural Studies

 

Smith, Anna ; Wevers, Lydia (eds)

Victoria University Press

2004

248

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays that look at historical and contemporary culture on display

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

On Display  new essays in Cultural Studies

 

Smith, Anna ; Wevers, Lydia (eds)

Victoria University Press

2004

248

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, offering essays thinking around culture in New Zealand, across borders, institutions, venues and disciplines, including museums and art galleries, where culture is hung out to dry under the public gaze

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

'Upon Them Hath the Light Shined'  a brief history of the Presbyterian Maori Mission

 

Smith, John Nicoll

Author Pub

1952

52

8vo

P-B VG

25

A short history of the work of the Presbyterian Church and its ministers amongst Maori parishioners, especially in the North Island

5.000000

6.000000

17.000000

22.000000

19.000000

Heritage of Industry

Discovering New Zealand's industrial history

Smith, Nigel

Reed

2001

258p (14p index)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the author surveys the development of NZ's major industries

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Call to Mission

the story of the Mission Sisters of Aotearoa,  New Zealand and Samoa

Smith, Susan

David Ling Publishing

2010

372

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With maps, illustrations and lists, the story of this Catholic Mission in New Zealand, starting in Napier in 1865, and especially the contribution these women have made to the life of the Church

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Saga in Sepia  the Shailer collection in the Palmerston North Public Library

 

Smith, Valerie

Dunmore Press

1979

189

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a photographic record of the people and buildings in Palmerston North and the changes they portray

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

Soundtrack 118 Great New Zealand Albums

 

Smithies, Grant

Craig Potton Publishing

2007

202

4to

Soft card covers with flaps VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, as much a personal selection of New Zealand record albums/CDs, as a record of current New Zealand music, with guest discussions by musicians, artists, record-shop owners, etc

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Downstage Upfront The first 40 years

 

Smythe, John

Victoria University Press

2004

512

8vo

P-B Fine

35

With illustrations, a celebration of New zealand's longest-running professional theatre and a discussion of how it survives and succeeds

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Pakeha and the Treaty  why it's our Treaty too

 

Snedden, Patrick

Random House

2005

187

8vo

P-B VG

20

A discussion of what the Treaty of Waitangi could mean for pakeha today and into the future, including what it means to be a pakeha New Zealander

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Cottages of New Zealand

 

Somerville, Malcolm

Hodder Moa Beckett

2000

128

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

20

An illustrated celebration of  some of the cottages in New Zealand, those used as homes, those adapted from older uses, and a few abandoned cottages crying out for refurbishment

3.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

The Turanganui River

a brief history

Spedding, Michael

Dept of Conservation

2006

47p (1p)

4to

P-B Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the historical significance (locally, nationally and internationally) of this river on the East Coast and its heritage values, the place where the Horouta Canoe landed and where Cook first stepped ashore in New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Incoming Tide

Sir William Sullivan and the 1951 Waterfront Dispute

Spencer, Marcia

Author Pub

1998

(frontis) 304

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

An alternate view to the issues and personalities surrounding the 1951 waterfront dispute in New Zealand, a political turning-point in the country's history

6.500000

23.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

New Zealand Court of Appeal 1958-1996  A History

 

Spiller, Peter

Brookers

2002

xxvi 475p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the first fifty years of the premier local court in New Zealand, the judges and their work, and what the court represents to New Zealand

5.000000

24.000000

48.000000

54.000000

59.000000

The Politics of Nostalgia

racism and the extreme right in new zealand

Spoonley, Paul

Dunmore Press

1987

318

8vo

P-B  Finger marks FE  5 lines underlined on one page  Gd - VG

25

With diagrams, a study of the history of 'political racism' in New Zealand, especially the proliferation of 'extreme' right organisations in the 1970s and 80s

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Tauiwi

Racism and Ethnicity in New Zealand

Spoonley, Paul (et al, eds)

Dunmore Press

1984

250p (2p catalogue)

8vo

P-B Signature FEP Near Fine

28

A collection of essays dealing with the issues surrounding race relations in New Zealand and the problems involved in being a multi-cultural society

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Welcome to our World? Immigration and the reshaping of New Zealand

 

Spoonley, Paul ; Bedford, Richard

Dunmore Publishing

2012

325

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps, a discussion of the new immigration and the new New Zealand as a result

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Colonial Architecture in New Zealand

 

Stacpoole, John

Reed

1976

224

4to

D-J Near Fine

35

The author plots the course of European building in this country, from 1809 to the late 1880s, with many illustrations and examples of outstanding architecture

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Pride, Passion and Parochialism  a history of FMG 1905-2005

 

Standing, Russ

Dunmore Press

2005

375

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the first century of a farmers' group that began as a co-operative of local farmers and grew to encompass the country

5.500000

26.000000

56.000000

62.000000

66.000000

Too Old to be Secrets Now  a history of Allied Farmers Limited 1889-2009

 

Standing, Russell A J

Dunmore Publishing

2009

424

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, beginning life as the Taranaki-based Egmont Farmers' Union Ltd, a history of this New Zealand-wide agricultural commercial enterprise

8.000000

35.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

150 Treasures

 

Stead, Oliver (ed)

Auckland War Memorial Museum

2012 reprint edition (2001)

195

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

With illustrations, 150 objects from the 150 years since the AWMM was founded in 1852, from both our human and natural history

6.000000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Building God's Own Country

historical essays on religions in New Zealand

Stenhouse, John ; Thomson, Jane (eds)

University of Otago

2004

278

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, aspects of New Zealand's past religious beliefs and values, especially in the South

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

Beyond the scene  landscape and identity in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Stephenson, Janet (et al, eds)

Otago University Press

2010

221

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a series of investigations into what landscape means to New Zealanders, beyond the scenic and into the cultural and individual identity

6.000000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Prehistoric New Zealand

 

Stevens, Graeme (et al)

Heinemann Reed

1988

128

4to

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

25

With maps and illustrations, the passage of New Zealand, in geological and natural history terms,  from Gondwana to Southern Pacific, and the impact of man

5.000000

18.000000

34.000000

38.000000

41.000000

New Zealand Adrift  The theory of continental drift in a New Zealand setting

 

Stevens, Graeme R

Reed

1980

xxii 442p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight rubbing base  Near Fine

30

A heavily detailed study of plate techtonics in and around New Zealand, with maps and illustrations

6.500000

34.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

Pyne Gould Guinness Ltd  the jubilee history 1919-1969

 

Stevens, PG (comp)

Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd

1970

152

8vo

D-J (chips, small piece missing back, short tear back, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards VG

20

With illustrations, the founding years of this stock and station agents

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

8.000000

30.000000

From Fur to Fashion  the background story to the establishment of the New Zealand fur industry

 

Stewart, DW

Author Pub

1991

180

4to

P-B Price label removed from front cover with slight loss of laminate Crease back cover fore-corner VG

65

Signed and inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a scarce history of the fur industry in New Zealand, from the dressing and export of rabbit skins, to possums, ferrets and weasels, with details of the firms and some of the workers in the industry

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

The End of the Penny Section  a history of urban transport in New Zealand

 

Stewart, Graham

Collins, Fontana Silver Fern

1975 Reprint edition (1973)

xvi 221p (2p)

8vo

P-B VG

25

With many illustrations, a history of tram transport in New Zealand, horse-drawn and electric

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

When Trams were Trumps in New Zealand

 

Stewart, Graham

Grantham House

1985

112

4to

D-J (slight rubbing) Paper over boards, light rubbing base Name rubbed out FEP  VG - Near Fine

35

Signed and inscribed by the author, an illustrated history of the birth and evolution of the tramcar in New Zealand, including many examples of the tickets used

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

41.000000

43.000000

The End of the Penny Section   when trams ruled the streets of New Zealand

 

Stewart, Graham

Grantham House

1993 Revised, enlarged edition

xii 260p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

With many illustrations, the revised edition of this history of passenger transport in the urban streets of New Zealand, horse-drawn and electric

9.000000

26.000000

57.000000

65.000000

69.000000

Mr Justice Richmond and the Taranaki War

 

Stewart, William Downie

Reed

1947

(frontis) 35p

Small 8vo

Green-blue paper over boards Title label front board  Light browning spine Light browning pages  VG

40

With 2 portraits, an attempt to vindicate Richmond in his actions leading to the 'Taranaki War' (as opposed to Governor Grey's laying the blame at Richmond's feet), an edition of 250 copies

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Golden Age of Radio in the Home

 

Stokes, John W

Craigs

1998 4th revised and enlarged edition

162p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

55

A history of how broadcasting became the means of bringing news and entertainment to NZers, as well as a history of radio manufacturing and manufacturers in NZ

6.000000

21.000000

42.000000

46.000000

50.000000

More Golden Age of Radio

 

Stokes, John W

Craigs

1990

203p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

65

The companion volume to 'The Golden Age', with more information about NZ manufacturers, and an Australian section, with many illustrations

6.000000

21.000000

42.000000

46.000000

50.000000

From Tamaki-Makau-rau to Auckland

 

Stone, RCJ

AUP

2001

xiii (1p map) 342p

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

35

With plan and illustrations, the history of the settlement of the Auckland-Tamaki isthmus, from pre-historic Maori to European arrivals, and the impact on traditional Maori life and ways

8.000000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Making of Russell McVeagh

 

Stone, RCJ

Auckland University Press

1991

xi 371p (1p)

4to

D-J (light fading spine) Cloth binding Inscription HTP Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the first 125 years of the law practice of Rusell McVeagh McKenzie Bartlett & Co 1863-1988

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Tradition and Change  Mount Albert Grammar School the first 75 years

 

Stone, RCJ ; McMillan, NAC

Mount Albert Grammar School

1997

ix 405p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Fine

30

With illustrations, the first 75 years of this Auckland boys' school, with lists and Old Boy biographies

5.000000

21.000000

41.000000

47.000000

51.000000

Notes on the Progress of New Zealand 1864-1884

 

Stout, Robert

Govt Print

1886

39p (2 folding maps) (23 folding tables)

8vo

Cloth over boards, gilt titles Slight marks boards Closed tear on each map   VG

125

A 20 year economic survey of New Zealand, indicating how well it is developing, and with a piece on future prospects

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Ko Taoka Hakena  Treasures from the Hocken collections

 

Strachan, Stuart ; Tyler, Linda (eds)

Otago University Press

2007

240

4to

D-J Cloth binding Owner's label covered FEP VG - Near Fine

40

With many illustrations, a celebration of the Hocken Library in Dunedin and its collections, printed word, maps, charts, manuscripts, art, and human knowledge

6.500000

34.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Fifty Years So Cold  the story of the South Otago Freezing Co Ltd

 

Strang, AT

South Otago Newspapers Ltd

1960

52

8vo

D-J (slight fading spine) Cloth binding Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the people and organisation of this Otago Freezing Works

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Little Theatre  golden years of the New Zealand stage

 

Strange, Glyn

Clerestory Press

2000

x 190p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a history of this theatre inside the University of Canterbury, its leading figures, such as Ngaio Marsh, and its importance to drama in New Zealand

6.000000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Skyline  a New Zealand tourism success story

 

Sullivan, Jim

Skyline Enterprises

2005

128

Oblong 4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of one of New Zealand's most successful companies

8.000000

32.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

An Empty Ocean Road  surfing history of the Mainland

 

Surgenor, Ian

Author Pub

2018

160

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, riding the waves, and the beaches, through time around the South Island

8.000000

28.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Poverty & Progress in New Zealand

 

Sutch, WB

Modern Books

1941

153p (5p Index)

Small 8vo

D-J over card covers (browning spine) Browning FEPs VG

32

The author's study of the New Zealand social services, the pensions and allowances, including the development of education services

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Guilty of Manslaughter?

 

Sutch, WB

Progressive Pub

1944

76

8vo

Paper covers over card VG

35

An appeal by an at-war economist to the workers and employers in NZ on ways of increasing production to aid the war effort

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

Cook's Ark  the animals that sailed with James Cook

 

Sutherland, Alison

Author Pub

2019

180

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the invited and uninvited animals that Cook brought with him into the South Pacific, especially New Zealand

7.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Saying So Doesn't Make it So  papers in honour of B Foss Leach

 

Sutton, Douglas G (ed)

New Zealand Archaeological Association

1989

vi 303p

4to

P-B Fading spine VG - Near Fine

35

With maps, illustrations and tables, a collection of essays relating to Pacific Archaeology, especially Maori

7.500000

29.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

New Zealand and its Colonisation

 

Swainson, William

Smith, Elder & Co

1859

(map) viii (errata slip) 416p (24p advertisements)

8vo

Red cloth boards, gilt titles spine  Bumping top, bottom spine  Old water mark base spine, base front and back of book  Owner's small stamp base FEP VG

100

With a map, the experience gained from serving in New Zealand during the formative years the author discusses

8.000000

30.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

'A Fair and Just Solution'?  a history of the integration of Private Schools in New Zealand

 

Sweetman, Rory

Dunmore Press

2002

323

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the separate systems of education running in New Zealand (Public and Private) until the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act of 1975, and the consequences of the Act for the New Zealand education system

7.500000

28.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Faith and Fraternalism  a history of the Hibernian Society in New Zealand 1869-2000

 

Sweetman, Rory

Hibernian Society

2002

xi 228p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the history of a society, first 'founded' on the goldfields of New Zealand from 1869, which saw its role as protecting the Irish immigrants in New Zealand, culturally and economically

8.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Shipping Arrivals and Departures Victorian ports Volume 2 1846-1855

 

Syme, Marten A

Roebuck Society

1987

(2p) x 830p

4to

D-J (slight rubbing base, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  Small owner's stamp FEP Near Fine

50

With charts and illustrations, a very detailed account of the ships that were in Victorian ports, and where they were bound,  including immigrant ships

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

67.000000

71.000000

The Third New Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue

 

Taylor, Alister ; McCormack, Deborah (et al, eds)

Alister Taylor

1977

217p (1p)

Folio

P-B FEs browned  VG

40

The third compilation of ideas, guides, readings and suggestions to self-improvement, alternative lifestyle and wider thinking, with illustrations

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

A Roll of Book Collectors in New Zealand

 

Taylor, Clyde RH

The New Zealand Ex Libris and Booklovers Society

1958

41

8vo

D-J (slight foxing, slight rubbing fore-corner) Blue cloth binding, slight rubbing base  Slight foxing FEs VG

40

Signed, limited edition, the larger private collections of the 50s, a lot available for outside researchers

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Everyone's War  a collection of tales from World War II

 

Taylor, Don (comp)

Zenith Publishing

2005

vii 311p

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of 56 personal experiences of New Zealanders in World War 2, both on service overseas and life in New Zealand

5.000000

19.000000

34.000000

39.000000

42.000000

Journal of Ensign Best

1837-1843

Taylor, Nancy M

Govt Print

1966

(frontis) 465p

4to

D-J (fading spine)  VG

40

With maps and illustrations, the Australasian journal by this young army officer serving on board a convict ship, full of the experiences and sights met with

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Early Travellers in New Zealand

 

Taylor, Nancy M (ed)

Oxford University Press

1959

xxx (2p) (folding map) 594p

8vo

D-J (chips, browning spine, in archival wrapper)  Slight browning FEs  VG

50

With maps, the experiences of 11 European 'travellers' in 19th century New Zealand, based on their journals, diaries and reports, scarce

5.500000

22.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

Dangerous Ideas in Planning  essays in honour of Tom Fookes

 

Taylor, Prue ; Crawford, Jan (eds)

School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland

2015

234

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A collection of essays, some reflecting on Tom Fookes and his ideas and work in New Zealand planning, others debating human settlements and the ecological/social contexts that sustain them

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Straight through from London The Antipodes and Bounty Islands, New Zealand

 

Taylor, Rowley

Heritage Expeditions New Zealand Ltd

2006

415

4to

P-B VG

45

With illustrations and maps, a detailing of the history (both human and natural) of these Sub-antarctic Islands

5.000000

23.000000

51.000000

54.000000

59.000000

Speeches that Shaped New Zealand 1814-1956

 

Templeton, Hugh & Ian ; Easby, Josh

Hurricane Press

2014

284

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

A collection of some of New Zealand's more important speeches, both social and political

5.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

A Wise Adventure  New Zealand & Antarctica 1920-1960

 

Templeton, Malcolm

VUP, The New Zealand Institute of International Affairs

2000

328

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With map, the history of New Zealand's involvement in the Ross Dependency, from reluctance to negotiating in an international regime

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Human Rights and Sporting Contacts

New Zealand attitudes to race relations in South Africa 1921-1994

Templeton, Malcolm

Auckland University Press

1998

x 374p

8vo

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, an historical and social study of the growing tensions between love of sport - especially rugby - and the ideal in New Zealand society of racial justice, in the context of contact with an increasingly racist South Africa

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Music is where you find it  music in the town of Hawera 1946

an historical ethnography

Thomas, Allan

Music Books New Zealand

2004

xvi 205p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  CD in end pocket  Near Fine

35

With illustrations and CD recordings, the results of 1946 Mobile Unit of Broadcasting recordings, including Maori groups, bands, schools, soloists and choirs

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Artefacts of Encounter  Cook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum histories

 

Thomas, Nicholas (et al, eds)

Otago University Press

2016

348

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

60

With illustrations, a collection of artefacts from Cook's voyages in the Pacific held by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, providing new interpretations and fresh approaches to the significance of these objects of encounter

8.000000

30.000000

68.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Our Scottish Settlers  The Thompson Family

 

Thompson, Jean

Author Pub

1987

(frontis) 148p

8vo

P-B Ex-lib numbers verso TP, stamp EP VG

25

Signed by the author, the family history of the descendants of Richard Thompson (1806-1885) and his family in Scotland and New Zealand

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Living Together  towards inclusive communities

 

Thompson-Fawcett, Michelle ; Freeman, Claire (eds)

Otago University Press

2006

272

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of experts explore some of the challenges, strategies and solutions to developing inclusive, engaged and robust communities

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Sharing the Challenge

 

Thomson, Barry ; Neilson, Robert

JC Rowe, Christchurch Police District History Book Cttee

1989

360

4to

D-J (slight chips base spine) Paper over boards Slight tea spot FE VG - Near Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, including contemporary cartoons, a social history of the first 100 years of policing in the Christchurch Police District

5.000000

27.000000

59.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Sharing the Challenge  a social and pictorial history of the Christchurch Police district

 

Thomson, Barry ; Neilson, Robert

JC Rowe, Chrstchurch Police District History Book Cttee

1989

360

4to

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

45

With illustrations, a hundred years of organised policing in the Canterbury area, the stories that arose, and the people who investigated them

6.500000

35.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Climbing the Pole  Edmund Hillary & the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958

 

Thomson, John

The Erskine Press

2010

144p (6p catalogue) (1p map)

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, a study of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition and discussion of why the Hillary-led party reached the South Pole before the Fuchs official party

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Books & Bibliography  essays in commemoration of Don McKenzie

 

Thomson, John (ed)

Victoria University Press

2002

216

8vo

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

20

With illustrations, a collection of essays which explores the history of the book, especially in New Zealand, bibliography, libraries, and print culture

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

A Distant Music

The Life and Times of Alfred Hill 1870-1960

Thomson, John Mansfield

OUP

1980

(7p)  239

4to

D-J Near Fine

25

Alfred Hill was NZ's first fully professional composer, and this book not only tells his biography, but also places it in relation to NZ and Australian music, with many illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

New Zealand Country of Peace  sites of Peace in Aotearoa

 

Thomson, Margaret Bell

Xlibris

2012

84

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

Inscribed by the author, areas of peace, or quiet places where people in New Zealand can enjoy peace, including parks, memorials, sculptures

6.000000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

New Zealand  Country of Peace

sites of peace in Aotearoa

Thomson, Margaret Bell

Xlibris

2012

64

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, discussion of the sites set aside for 'peace' from north to south in New Zealand

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Cast in Concrete concrete construction in New Zealand 1850-1939

 

Thornton, Geoffrey

Reed

1996

240

Oblong 4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards  Nice gift inscription HTP  VG - Near Fine

85

With many illustrations, a detailed survey of building in concrete in New Zealand in both private and public, from the 1850s

13.000000

30.000000

64.000000

74.000000

77.000000

New Zealand's Industrial Heritage

 

Thornton, Geoffrey

Reed

1982

x 194p

4to

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

30

With many illustrations, the author charts the progress of many early New Zealand industries, eg flax, timber and flour milling, ship and bridge building, agriculture and mining, and looks at the buildings designed for these industries

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

The Politicisation of Ethics Review in New Zealand

 

Tolich, Martin ; Smith, Barry

Dunmore Publishing

2015

240p (1p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

38

Two experts take the reader through the rise of the research ethics committees and what has happened to the workings of those committees, the gradual undermining of their independence

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

New Zealand then and Then

 

Townsend, Colin

South Canterbury Multiple Sclerosis Society

2003

72

8vo

P-B Fine

15

With illustrations, a collection of short histories, including Anzac and Gallipoli, execution on the West Coast, sinking of the SS Taniwha, Waimate

5.000000

6.000000

17.000000

22.000000

19.000000

Tales from the Back Country Vol 2

 

Tozer, Katherine

Author Pub

2011

96

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

22

With illustrations by the author, twelve stories of people and their animals living on isolated stations and farms in New Zealand

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Republicanism in New Zealand

 

Trainor, Luke (ed)

The Dunmore Press

1996

190

8vo

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

25

With illustrations, a collection of essays dealing with a movement towards turning New Zealand into a republic and the effects of such a change on everyday life, including tino rangatiratanga

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Republicanism in New Zealand

 

Trainor, Luke (ed)

The Dunmore Press

1996

190

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

A collection of papers which explore the background to Republicanism in New Zealand and what it would mean to NZ, including Maori and the Treaty of Waitangi

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

French Akaroa  an attempt to colonise Southern New Zealand

 

Tremewan, Peter

Canterbury University Press

1990

xx 383p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

Inscribed by the author, with maps and illustrations, an important history of Southern New Zealand and its connection with France

5.500000

17.000000

34.000000

36.000000

38.000000

French Akaroa  an attempt to colonise Southern New Zealand

 

Tremewan, Peter

Canterbury University Press

2010 Revised edition  (1990)

383

8vo

P-B Fine

40

With maps and illustrations, the revised and expanded edition of this important history of Southern New Zealand and its connection with France

5.000000

23.000000

50.000000

54.000000

58.000000

Icons Nga Taonga from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

 

Trewby, Mary (et al, eds)

Te Papa Press

2008 (2004)

xiii 306p

4to

Soft boards with flaps  Fine

50

With many illustrations, a spectacular selection of iconic art and objects from the Pacific and around the world

9.000000

28.000000

63.000000

85.000000

76.000000

Catalogue of the Hocken Library Dunedin

 

Trimble, WH

ODT

1912

516

Large 8vo

Red buckram binding Signature front paste-down Near Fine

45

Signed by John Caselberg, New Zealand writer and poet, the record of Hocken's inestimable collecting of both early NZ and world writing

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Rape of our Heritage

 

Trotter, Brown

Author Pub

1978

(4p) 194p

8vo

D-J (fading of colour in places) Paper over boards  Owner's details HTP VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, the development of the author's work, and experiments, on improving pasture content for animal and human health

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Unearthing New Zealand

 

Trotter, Michael ; McCulloch, Beverley

GP Books

1989

128

4to

D-J Fine

38

With maps, drawings and illustrations, researching how New Zealand was settled, a lovely copy

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Wanted, a beautiful barmaid  women behind the bar in New Zealand 1830-1976

 

Upton, Susan

Victoria University Press

2013

239

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a social history of women in the liquor trade, and the underlying social attitudes that they had to contend with

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Men & Marbles

 

Urquhart, Harry R

Author Pub

1917

46

8vo

P-B Light foxing FEs VG

25

An address, originally to be delivered on December 24 1916, but then 'prohibited' because its title suggested it might be seditious, since its content was urging the end of New Zealand involvement in WW1

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

A 150 Year Pilgrimage  St Luke's Church, Masterton

 

Vallance, Alison (et al)

St Luke's Union Church

2005

vi 158p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first hundred years of Knox Church, then St Luke's, in Masterton, the building and its people

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Trust and Obey a forty year history of the Reformed Churches of New Zealand 1953-1993

 

Vanderpyl, DG

National Publishing Cttee Reformed Churches of New Zealand

1994

xi 590p (8p)

4to

Laminated boards Slight bumping spine, fore-corners Near Fine

80

With illustrations, a history of the Reformed Church and the various city branches, then essays about the Church and NZ society

5.000000

26.000000

56.000000

62.000000

66.000000

Hello Girls and Boys!  a New Zealand toy story

 

Veart, David

Auckland University Press

2014

(frontis) 3p 311p (1p)

4to

Paper over boards Near Fine

38

With illustrations, toys made in New Zealand, and imported, over the twentieth century, fascinating

6.000000

32.000000

60.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Brown Frontier

New Zealand 1806-1877

Vennell, CW

Reed

1967

190p

8vo

D-J (slight chips, rubbing extremities)  VF - Near Fine

32

Thirteen stories of the period from early European involvement to the end of the NZ Wars, with illustrations

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Bow Waves on the Waikato

 

Vercoe, Graham

Reed

1997

88

8vo

P-B Fine

25

A textual and photographic history of the life and craft on the Waikato River, showing the river developing as a lifeline as the area develops with new settlement

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

The Kiwi Pacific Records story

 

Vercoe, Tony ; Martin, Tony

Steele Roberts

2017

208

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a series of interviews which trace Kiwi Pacific Records from its beginnings as a part of Reeds to its independence, and its important role in recording New Zealand music

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

The Municipal Handbook of New Zealand 1905

 

von Dadelszen, EJ (comp)

Govt Print

1906

(frontis) vi (1p) 135p

8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles spine  Signature and 2 rubber stamps of owner on prelims  VG

75

The second edition of this local government handbook, giving details covering all the municipalities in New Zealand in 1905, including details of population, rateable value, size, social organisation and services, officials, and short histories

5.000000

6.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Prelude to Arbitration in 3 Movements  Ulster South Australia New Zealand 1890-1894

 

W Jim Gardner

Author Pub

2009

179

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

The background and the history of the IC and A Act of 1894, with illustrations

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Journey in the Northern Island of New Zealand

 

Wade, William Richard

Capper Press

1977

206p

8vo

D-J Paper over boardsNear Fine

20

Facsimile reprint of one of the first overland journey descriptions in NZ's North Island, in 1842, with descriptions of the places, the people, the flora and fauna

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

Books for a Nation  the Whitcoulls story

 

Waite, Noel

Whitcoulls

2008

128

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp FEP Near Fine

15

With illustrations, a history of this New Zealand publisher and bookseller, from the Christchurch of George Tombs and George Whitcombe to the world of Whitcoulls

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

30.000000

33.000000

The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield

 

Wakefield, Edward Gibbon ; Pritchard, MF Lloyd (ed)

Collins

1968

1040

8vo

D-J (in archival wrapper) Cloth binding  Signature FEP  Slight marks EPs VG

35

The collected works of the inspirer of the New Zealand Company, including his various writings on Colonial immigration/colonisa tion

5.000000

23.000000

51.000000

54.000000

59.000000

The Lost Journal of Edward Jerningham Wakefield

 

Wakefield, EJ ; Moncrief-Spittle, Malcolm (ed)

Kilmog Press

2008

(frontis) xvi (blank) 72p

Folio

Paper jacket  Purple cloth covers with central paper wrap-around Black titles with lino-cut portrait, Kilmog Press cut on back board  Hand-set TP printed in red and black  Hand-bound  Fine

145

An edition of 150 copies, EJ Wakefield's journal from 1850-1858, 'lost'  until 2007, with an introduction by the editor

9.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

History and Politics.

Containing the Political Recollections and Leaves from the Writings

Wakelin, Richard

Hocken Library

1973  (1877)

100

4to

D-J Fine

25

Hocken Facsimile #13, beginning with Wakelin's arrival in NZ, his newspaper beginnings, and his support of the Grey Ministry in the 1870s

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

56 Days  a history of the Anti-Tour movement in Wellington

 

Walker, Geoff ; Beach, Peter (eds)

Lindsay Wright, COST

1982

96

4to

P-B VG

30

With illustrations, the anti-tour movement in Wellington in 1981, the story of what happened and the lessons learnt, and the role of COST. Scarce

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Manual of New Zealand History

 

Wallace, J Howard

Author Pub

1886

(4p) 70p

8vo

Green cloth binding, gilt titles  Slight piece  missing top, bottom spine  Slight worm holes spine  Inside front hinge cracked  EPs browned  VG

32

In 460 numbered paragraphs, an outline history of prehistoric and historic New Zealand

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Democracy or Dictatorship?

 

Wallace, William (Callendar, William Wallace)

Author Pub

1945

46p (2p)

8vo

P-B (short tear top spine) Browned paper Owner's stamp HTP

20

With the stamp of the 'Douglas Social Credit Movement', an argument for monetary reform and easier credit, with non-party government as 'true democracy'. Scarce

5.500000

20.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Archaeological Site Recording in New Zealand

 

Walton, Tony ; Prickett, Nigel (eds)

New Zealand Archaeological Assn

1999

x 138p

8vo

P-B Fine

35

With maps, tables and illustrations, a handbook for those wishing to take part in site recording in New Zealand, including Maori sites

3.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Information Relative to New Zealand compiled for the use of Colonists

 

Ward, John

Capper Press

1975

(folding map) ix (3p) 168p

8vo

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

20

Issued originally by the New Zealand Company for the use of intending immigrants in 1840, just one month after the 'Tory' had set out for Port Nicholson, with maps

8.000000

26.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Life among the Maories of New Zealand

being a description of missionary, colonial, and military achievements

Ward, Rev Robert

G Lamb

1872

(2p ads) (frontis) x 472p

Small 8vo

Blue cloth binding, blind rules boards, gilt titles spine  Front external hinge split, back hinge with splits  Spine sunned, marks on boards Rubbing top, bottom spine, fore-corners bumped, some wear Internal hinges split Short inscription p/down Gd

90

With frontis (in facsimile) and two plates, the experiences of this missionary after 26 years in the North Island of New Zealand, including discussion of Maori ways and the New Zealand Wars

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Secrets and Treasures

 

Waru, Ray

Random House

2012

383p (1p)

4to

Laminated card covers Short inscription verso FEP  Near Fine

38

With illustrations, exploring the boxes and boxes of objects from New Zealand's history at Archives New Zealand and thereby discovering many of its past stories

6.000000

35.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Confortare  a history of Sacred Heart College, Auckland 1903-2003

 

Waters, Tony

Sacred Heart College

2003

322p (6p)

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the history of an influential New Zealand college, the first the Marist Brothers owned in New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

31.000000

34.000000

Hostage to the Beat

The Auckland Scene 1955-1970

Watkins, Roger

Tandem Press

1995

192

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a record of the groups who made rock 'n roll music in Auckland, including discographies, a companion-piece to his Wellington scene

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Links

A History of Transport and New Zealand Society

Watson, James

Ministry of Transport, Govt Print

1996

ix 315p

4to

P-B  Near Fine

25

A fascinating study of the different forms of transport in NZ, the impact of each on NZ society and the factors which shaped NZ's development

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Hillary's Antarctica  adventure, exploration and establishing Scott Base

 

Watson, Nigel ; Ussher, Jane

Allen & Unwin

2018

240

4to

Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, documenting the contribution Sir Edmund Hillary and the New Zealand team in the Trans-Antarctic Expedition made to Antartic history

8.000000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Trial of Minnie Dean

 

Watt, JOP

TPS

1973

(3p) 82

8vo

D-J (slight chips spine, fore-corners, in archival wrapper) VG - Near Fine

25

A record of the inquests, court hearing and trial of the convicted 'baby-murderer' in Southland, NZ, who went to the gallows

5.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

Growing with Auckland  a history of Glaister Ennor 1907-2007

 

Wear, Graham

Glaistor Ennor

2007

42p (4p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, a century of work with this Auckland solicitors

8.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

More than Fifty Years on Chatham Island

 

Weiss, Dr Bruno (comp) ; Dennison, KJ (trans)

Anthropology Dept, University of Otago

1975

43 leaves

4to

P-B Red cloth spine  VG - Near Fine

45

The second in the Working Papers in Chatham Islands Archaeology, the translation of the German missionary, JG Engst, and his experiences on Chatham Islands, scarce

8.000000

24.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

The Lucifer  a story of industrial conflict in New Zealand's 1930s

 

Welch, Dave

The Dunmore Press, The Trade Union History Project

1988

189

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of an industrial dispute in Christchurch in 1932 that divided the city and led to sometimes violent unrest

5.500000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

notes on the country i live in

 

Westra, Ans ; Baxter, JK, Shadbolt, Tim

Alister Taylor

1972

124

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

45

The photographs of Ans Westra, and  the text of Baxter and Shadbolt, capture images of NZ at the beginning of the 1970s

8.000000

23.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Historic Sheep Stations of the South Island

 

Wheeler, Colin

Reed

1968

(frontis) 71p (1p)

4to

D-J (slight fading spine, in archival wrapper)  Cloth  binding Slight inscription FEP  VG - Near Fine

35

With tipped-in reproductions, map and illustrations, The first volume in the author/artist's series on New Zealand farm stations, here the first 20 in the South Island

9.000000

33.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand

 

Wheeler, Colin

Reed

1982

vii 96p

4to

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

35

With maps and illustrations, a reworking and updating of the author/artist's three volumes on NZ sheep stations, with eight new stations in both Islands

5.500000

19.000000

38.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Historic Sheep Stations of the South Island A Second Series

 

Wheeler, Colin

Reed

1971

(frontis) 94p (2p)

4to

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

40

Signed by the artist, with reproductions, maps and illustrations, the second volume in the author/artist's series on New Zealand farm stations, here the second 20 in the South Island

9.000000

33.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

New Zealand Republic

 

Whelan, Alan ; Cook, Barrie

Niu Pacific Ltd

1997

84

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With a Maori point of view by Edward Te Kohu Douglas, a discussion of the question of republicanism in NZ

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Mount Cook Way  the first fifty years of the Mount Cook Company

 

Wigley, Harry

Collins

1979

218

8vo

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

20

With map and illustrations, the first fifty years of this New Zealand tourism company, from bullock-teams to aircraft

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Shipwreck  NZ Maritime Accidents

 

Wilkinson, Douglas

Southern Press

1974

30

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

15

A selection of shipwrecks around the NZ coast, with accompanying historic photographs

5.000000

3.000000

4.000000

5.000000

7.000000

'Te Kooti Tango Whenua'  the Native Land Court 1864-1909

 

Williams, David V

Huia Publishers

2009

xvii 390p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed discussion of the workings of the Native Land Court in New Zealand and its effects upon the tangata whenua whose land was 'taken'

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Tales from the Shearing Sheds  a New Zealand way of life

 

Williams, Tony ; Bush, Peter

Hodder Moa Beckett

1999

132

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

22

With illustrations, life with the shearers in various parts of New Zealand and in Te Kuiti, 'the shearing capital of the world'

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Centenary Sketches of NZ Methodism

 

Williams, WJ (ed)

Lyttelton Times

1922?

xv 327 (4p appendix)

8vo

Cloth binding, gilt titles spine   VG

30

Sketches of Ministers etc in NZ Methodism 1822-1922

5.000000

12.000000

19.000000

23.000000

22.000000

A Lasting Legacy  William Davidson 125

 

Williscroft, Colin (ed)

NZ Rural Press

2007

162

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the 125 years after William Davidson pushed for frozen meat to be exported and its effect on New Zealand farming

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The New Zealand Police Medal

 

Wills, John D

Author Pub, New Zealand Police

1990

171

4to

D-J Paper over boards Short inscription FEP Near Fine

60

With illustrations, descriptions of the types and appearances of the NZ Police Medals and lists of the recipients, in New Zealand, her dependencies and mandated territories 1886-1976

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

40.000000

43.000000

Land Problems of the New Zealand Settlers of the 'Forties

 

Wilson,  E Wilson

Reed

1933

255p (1p)

8vo

Cloth binding, bumping top, bottom spine Slight signature FEP VG

35

With maps and illustrations, a discussion of the first ten years of European settlement of New Zealand and the claims for land made by both Maori and immigrant

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

From the Hills with Vision

 

Wilson, Boyd ; Garland, Chris

The John Daniell Memorial Trust

2007

v (1p) 162p

Oblong 8vo

P-B Short crease top fore-corner VG

25

With illustrations, the story of the Wairere farm, and John Daniell, twenty years on from the original publication, and the wider world of farming politics and the future of New Zealand farming

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Past Today

Historic Places in New Zealand

Wilson, John (ed)

New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Pacific Publishers

1987

vi 183p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With illustrations and maps, a collection of New Zealand's historic sites, from Maori to late European, with extra reading resources

5.000000

22.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

Justice & Identity  antipodean practices

 

Wilson, Margaret ; Yeatman, Anna (eds)

Bridget Williams Books

1995

xvi 223p

8vo

P-B VG

25

A collection of essays which challenge traditional concepts of justice in New Zealand and Australia

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

From Manapouri to Aramoana  the battle for New Zealand's environment

 

Wilson, Roger

Earthworks Press

1982

192

4to

P-B Slight highlighting in the Introduction  VG

25

With illustrations, a history of New Zealand environmental campaigns until the early 1980s

6.500000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Street Wise

How the streets of Carterton, Greytown, Featherston and Martinborough got their names

Winter, Gareth

Wairarapa Archive

2005 2nd print (1999)

99

8vo

P-B Fine

24

With illustrations, taking a stroll through the streets of South Wairarapa

5.000000

5.000000

15.000000

9.000000

17.000000

The Way We Wore

the clothes New Zealanders have loved

Wolfe, Richard

Penguin

2001

128

Oblong 8vo

P-B Light fading spine Near Fine

30

A rummage through the clothing of the last 60 years, revealing much about the New Zealand society that wore them, from the wartime uniformity to the swandri and the black singlet

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Building Futures  The Downer Story

 

Wolfe, Richard ; Barnett, Steve

Downer NZ Ltd

2014

205

8vo

D-J over card covers Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the history of a leading New Zealand construction company, launched in the 1930s, built upon the work of the Government Departments of the P&T and Public Works

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The New Zealand People at War  Political and External Affairs

 

Wood, FLW

War History Branch, DIA

1958

x 395 (1p)

4to

D-J (pieces missing, in archival wrapper) Green cloth binding, gilt titles Gd - VG

30

With maps and illustrations, New Zealand during wartime, domestic and external pressures that affected external policy, Official History NZ in WW2

5.000000

20.000000

36.000000

40.000000

42.000000

Studying New Zealand  a guide to sources

 

Wood, GA

University of Otago Press

1999

(4p) 154p

8vo

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

25

A very useful guide to finding out more about any New Zealand topic

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

State and Sovereignty is the State in retreat?

 

Wood, GA ; Leland, LS (eds)

University of Otago Press

1997

xiv 233p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

Papers from the 31st Foreign Policy School 1996, discussing the questions of the meaning of sovereignty, what is a sovereign state, and the possibility of remaining a sovereign state in the world

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

W P Morrell a tribute  Essays in modern and early modern history

 

Wood, GA ; O'Connor, PS (eds)

University of Otago Press

1973

(frontis) vii 307p

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

30

With maps, a collection of essays relating to the experiences of the English-speaking peoples over time, including colonial experiences, especially in New Zealand

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

31.000000

34.000000

Victorian New Zealanders

 

Wood. June A

Reed

1974

80

4to

P-B Fading to covers VG

20

With illustrations, a compilation concentrating on Colonial Pakeha life in the reign of Victoria, dealing with the interests and concerns of all the 'classes'

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Diplomatic Ladies  New Zealand's unsung envoys

 

Woods, Joanna

Otago University Press

2013 Revised edition (2012)

286

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of stories about New Zealand diplomats' wives, including teaching during 9/11

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Big Ideas  100 wonders of New Zealand engineering

 

Wright, Matthew

Random House

2009

240

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a hundred New Zealand engineering projects reflecting the growing complexity of living in the country, from farm and sea to land and communication

5.500000

23.000000

46.000000

50.000000

54.000000

Quake

Hawke's Bay 1931

Wright, Matthew

Reed

2001

158p (1p)

8vo

P-B Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, an account of New Zealand's most destructive natural disaster

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Reed Illustrated History of New Zealand

 

Wright, Matthew

Reed

2004

488

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

Using the resources of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the author develops a highly illustrated history of the development of New Zealand and its people

9.000000

33.000000

66.000000

76.000000

80.000000

New Zealand's Engineering Heritage 1870-2000

 

Wright, Matthew

Reed

1999

167

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Inscriptions HTP VG - Near Fine

35

With many illustrations, a record of the significant engineering projects from the early days of European settlement of NZ to today's high-tech engineering marvels

5.000000

22.000000

47.000000

51.000000

54.000000

Big Ideas  100 Wonders of New Zealand Engineering

 

Wright, Matthew

Random House

2009

240

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers Owner's signature HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a celebration of ewngineering in New Zealand, from Maori construction to European, from bridges to roads, railways, buildings, tunnels, and everything in between

7.500000

31.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Cars around New Zealand

 

Wright, Matthew

Whitcoulls

2005

144

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With many historic illustrations, a snapshot of New Zealand's love affair with cars

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

Motorbikes Around New Zealand

 

Wright, Matthew

Whitcoulls

2008

144

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With many illustrations, motorcycles in New Zealand travelling, playing, and at war

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

Napier  city of style

 

Wright, Matthew ; Ralph, Clive

Napier City Council

1996

112

Oblong 8vo

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

30

With illustrations, both an historical study of the town and its area, and the buildings that arose from the quake in 1931

6.000000

28.000000

50.000000

46.000000

52.000000

New Zealand 1826-1827

from the French of Dumont D'Urville

Wright, Olive (trans)

Author Pub, Wingfield Press

1950

xi (plate) 250p (1p)

4to

Soft card cover with flaps  Slight marks spine  VG - Near Fine

40

Signed by the translator, with maps, illustrations and drawings, the 'Voyage de l'Astrolabe' in New Zealand waters, a nice copy

6.500000

27.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Preliminary Results of the Auckland Islands Expedition 1972-73

 

Yaldwyn, JC (ed)

Dept Lands and Survey

1975

xvii 447p

4to

Card covers with spine tape  Rubbing top, bottom spine VG

90

With maps, tables and illustrations, a compilation of reports of this survey of the natural and human history of the Auckland Islands, becoming scarce

5.500000

26.000000

56.000000

62.000000

66.000000

An Account of New Zealand

 

Yate, William ; Binney, Judith

Reed

1970

xxi (frontis) (8p) (folding map) 310p (10p original index) (viii new index)

8vo

D-J (slight rumpling top spine)Paper over boards Signature FEP Slight foxing top FE VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations and map, the author's account of the setting up of the CMS missions in NZ, the author's role in this and a record of his experiences, especially with Maori, includes an introduction by Judith Binney

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

38.000000

With Confidence and Pride  policing the Wellington region 1840-1992

 

Young, Sherwood (ed)

Wellington Police Trust

1994

450

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight inscription FEP Near Fine

60

With maps and illustrations, one hundred and fifty years of policing in the Capital area, including Chatham Islands, the stories, and the people who investigated them

6.500000

41.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

New Zealand Green

The Story of Marijuana in New Zealand

Yska, Redmer

David Bateman

1990

184

4to

P-B Finger marks FE  VG

30

A century of marijuana use and abuse in NZ, with illustrations

5.000000

16.000000

31.000000

35.000000

39.000000

New Zealand and Asia  Perceptions, Identity and Engagement

 

Zhang, Yongjin (ed)

Asia 2000 Foundation, New Zealand Asia institute

1999

iv 136p

8vo

P-B VG

20

A collection of essays discussing New Zealand's relationship with its Asian neighbours, historically and in the future

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

29.000000

Where the People Sing

Green Land of the Maoris

Zimmerman, John Lee

Alfred A Knopf

1946

ix (1p) 234p

8vo

Green cloth binding, gilt titles spine  Fading spine Owner's details FEP  VG

22

With map and illustrations, the author's experiences, especially with Maori, as  a US Marine Corps Officer in New Zealand during WW2

6.000000

26.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

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