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Published by Blackie & Son, 1924
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1924. No Edition Remarks. 103 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards with cloth to spine. Black and white illustrated plates. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Frontispiece is detached but present. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends.
Published by Blackie and Son, London, 1929
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Photos, Maps (illustrator). 1st. This was probably the first book devoted to the early phases of exploration in New Zeraland and the contribution these ventures made to the wider settlement of New Zealand, particularly the interior parts of the country.The explorers not only were surveyors ,engineers and other trained professsionals but were also adventures, working in areas where few, if any, Europeans had previously ventured. Mapping of NZ's many mountain ranges was prominant in the work they carried out while they also located land suitable for agriculture and settlements, made geological discoveries, plotted roads, tracks and gold mining locations. The author, then Professor of History at Otago University, in addition to biographically detailing the most notable of these early explorers and their NZ travels has also told of the part played by sealers and whalers, missionaries and scientists in recording the territorial characteristics of NZ in its earliest stages of European settlement, up to and beyond the 1860s. An impressive book not only for its record of early explorations and explorers. but also for its accounts of remote areas of NZ as witnessed by these intrepid and resourceful men. First edition from Blackie and Son of 1929, 120 pages plus bibliography, illustrated with dual-portrait frontis, four other portraits and and five full page photos of notable NZ scenic features, NZ maps to end-papers. Blue hard covers with light brown front titles and small, centred. decoration of mountain scene are VG+. Black spine titles and a small decoration are on a light grey fabric spine strip. Few faint and unobtrusive marks on title page, text block otherwise excellent. The VG light gray DJ has colour painting of mountain scene applied centre front panel, few short tears near spine top, also at lowe spine. with small adhesion mark on back panel.The jacket flaps are spot glued to the front and rear end-papers.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie / A. H. Reed 1934, 1934
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
page loose, limited numbered edition, super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie/Reed, Dunedin, 1934
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Art, documents, Maps (illustrator). 1st. This sequal to John Elder's earlier book "The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden" is largely based on documents and records from the collection that became Dr Thomas Hocken's bequest to Otago University, which was instrumental in the publication of this title. (John Elder was Professor of History at Otago University.) The book explores the background to the establishment of the Church Missionary Society in NZ, in the second decade of the 1800s, with the document studies revealing much about the mission's relations with the Maori people, the difficulties encountered and problems created. A fascinatings study of the earliest days of European settlement in NZ. This is an ex-library copy of the 1934 limited first edition of 1000 copies, this being No 405 with Professor Elder's signature below that number on the title page verso. 280 pages including four appendices and index, colour art frontis, nine b/w plates including art, portraits, documents, three maps. Blue hard covers are VG with short overlay repair at spine top partially obscuring upper part of gilt spine title, light wear lower spine, FFEP has section cut from top corner. (7.5cm by 2cm deep), library stamp, donation label and card pocket below, library stamp with codes etc lower corner title page verso, through text block four small library stamps top page edges close to corner, apart from few creased corners text block otherwise excellent, having apparently spent much time in the library "stack." Original plain paper DJ has been backed with brown paper, is plastic protected, with a few chips and small pieces missing front corners, jacket taped to both pastedowns, crossed bar code lower front. By Author.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie and A. H. Reed
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
hardback. limited, numbered. Limited edition edition of 1000 copies, this one a presentation copy, not numbered nor signed. No dustjacket, page edges grubby, general wear to boards.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie and A. H. Reed
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
hardback. special overseas edition. No dustjacket, crayon scribbles to half title verso and frontispiece verso, wear to spine ends and corners, contnets otherwise very good.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie 1934, 1934
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Signed
signed and numbered, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 280pp, VG+ (light wear, light discolouration to page edges and eps).
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie & AH Reed & Otago University 1932, 1932
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Imperial octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, 580pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to boards, some light bruising to spine extgrems, small dings to board corners, owner's name to fep,).
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie, 1934
Seller: Vintage Books of Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand
Book Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited/Numbered. (frontis) 280p D-J (small pieces missing spine, front, in archival wrapper) Blue cloth binding, leaching of blue colour at base Light foxing FE Signed by the editor, #599 /1000, the important edition of the words of those who worked with Samuel Marsden and the CMS missions in New Zealand, including the Journals of Kendall and Hall, with illustrations. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie 1932, 1932
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
SIGNED BY EDITOR, NUMBERED 651/1000, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, frontispiece, 580pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name & white adhesive label to ffep & verso of frontis, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate staining & tanning, flaps trimmed).
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie, Dunedin, 1934
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Some foxing. Chips and tears to margins of dust-jacket, with adhesive tape repairs at corners and at ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy is No. 32 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the author. 280 pages + colour frontispiece + 9 plates + 3 maps. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed blue (but very faded). Contains extracts from the diaries and correspondence of three agents of the Church Missionary Society - Thomas Kendall, William Hall, and John King. The companion volume to "Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden". Bagnall E124.; Signed by Author.
Published by Blackie & Son London 1924, 1924
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback in original cloth Near Fine small octavo vi + 103pp., frontis., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Front hinge firm but tender o/w nice copy.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd, Dunedin, 1934
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Book First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First / Limited. No 338/1000 copies and signed by Elder. An ex-library copy with minimal library marking. Blue cloth has titles in gilt on darkened spine. The corners, spine ends and edges are bumped and rubbed. Binding is tight with some foxing throughout - heavy in places. 280pp with maps and illustrations. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie, Dunedin, 1934
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No signatures. Some spotting and dust stains to top page edges. Several 1" tears at head of dust wrapper spine. 2/3" tear at one corner of dust wrapper. Some creasing and foxing to dust wrapper spine and margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; No. 188 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the author. This copy has the original receipt from the publisher loosely included. 280 pages + colour frontis + 9 plates + 3 maps. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed blue. Contains extracts from the diaries and correspondence of three agents of the Church Missionary Society - Thomas Kendall, William Hall, and John King. The companion volume to "Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden". Bagnall E124.; 8vo ; Signed by Author.
Published by Coulls Somerville Wilkie, Dunedin, 1934
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. ; This copy is noteworthy for having an elaborately illuminated presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, signed by A W Reed [Alexander Wyclif]. The presentation is to Mr F. W. Moor, from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and Sunday School, Trentham. Reed's uncle A. H. Reed was a collector of mediaeval illuminated manuscripts and early bibles. His collection is now housed in the Dunedin Public Library. The firm of A. H. & A. W. Reed was a major publishing house in New Zealand. 280 pages + colour frontispiece + 9 plates + 3 maps. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No. 270 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the author. Contains extracts from the diaries and correspondence of three agents of the Church Missionary Society - Thomas Kendall, William Hall, and John King. The companion volume to Elder's "Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden". [Reference: Bagnall E124].; 8vo ; Signed by Author.