Hon Pember Reeves (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 32 COLOUR ILLUS. SKETCH MAPS TO PAGE 1. INDEX. 7 CHAPTERS. BLUE CLOTH. GOOD CONDITION. 2ND EDITION REPRINT. SPINE LITTLE WEAK. F & W WRIGHT (illustrator).

Condition: Fair. 1927. 2nd Edition. 241 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Front endpaper has been removed. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has tear with small losses and that is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, some very mild spotting to closed edges else text remains unmarked and clean, sketch map, 32 colour plates, xx + 241pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN CHIEFLY TO GIVE A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE NATURAL SCENERY OF NEW ZEALAND, AND THE MORE PICTURESQUE ASPECTS OF LIFE THERE.

Hardcover. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Second Edition. London, UK: A&C Black, Ltd. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1927). Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 241 pp., Cover slightly rubbed, bumped . Color Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second Edition. xx, 241pp, [1], bound in blue, blind stamped cloth, gilt on spine still bright, binding tight, front hinge cracked. Complete with 32 colour plates, and two maps, as called for. Occasional pencil markings. The dust jacket shows wear/tear and is in a protective mylar cover. Wright, F. & W. (illustrator).…

Boards. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. orange boards, white lettering on spine, 241 pages, pages clean, binding very good, folded map in back, rfep pencil marks; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall A1. Illustrated by F. And W. Wright (illustrator).

octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii+241pp, illus, (VG-) spine is loose slight fraying to pages with tanning to pages copy of Warwick Laurence (nz poet) name to fep,with wear and fading to extermities.

hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Early New Zealand reader for 5th and 6th standard classes, produced under the direction of then Minister of Education William Reeves; maroon cloth boards with black titling and Southern Cross motif to front board and gilt titling to spine; selection of prose and poems on NZ subjects, including Captain Cook, Maori Arts, Milford Sound, The Treaty of Waitangi, etc; ornate endpapers; very occasional minor foxing, o.w. Very Good, unusual for old school readers which are often heavily marked; boards sunned to spine (no loss of text). no dustwrapper. 289pp. 12mo. Very Good. b&w illustrations (illustrator).…

Or.cl. with gilt decoration on front board.390pp. col.front. & b/w plates. Folding maps at the rear of the volume. Very good copy. Deales with the poetry and ferocity of the Maoris and their struggles against the gold-seekers and other pioneers.

board_book. Condition: Good.

UNCOMMON IN SUCH A NICE JACKET! Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt Maori decoration/illus to front board, frontispiece, 390pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps & prelims, occasional spots of foxing & tanning throughout, light creasing & foxing to folding map- 5cm closed tear also) in d/w, VG (in protective plastic cover- easily removed if desired, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine & edges, light tanning & soiling overall).…

orig.cloth ( Orig.Lwd. geb. 8° mit Wappen Blindpräg.,Titel in Goldpräg XX,241 pp. S. with 32 illustrations and 2 maps (guter Zustand).

London. Very Good; Cloth; Adam and Charles Black; 1908; First Edition. Hon. William Pember Reeves High Commissioner For New Zealand. New Zealand. Painted by F. And W. Wright London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908, 241 pp. Brown cloth boards with highly decorative spine and front board. Gilt titles to the spine and front board, top edge gilt. Moderate wear to all extremities. Features 75 colour plates with tissue guards. Includes fold-out map at the rear of the book. 241 pages plus ads for Black's Beautiful Books. Gift inscription in pencil, scattered foxing thru out. Hinges cracked .; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages . Very Good; Cloth; Adam and Charles Black; 1908; First Edition. F. and W. Wright (illustrator).…