M H Holcroft (139 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good+ (in mylar). Textblock clean and tight, beautiful illustrations. All page edges are straight and sound. Bumping to the head and foot of spine. Unclipped, spine-sunned dust jacket, tear to front top edge and corner, rippled at head and foot of spine. 159p., including list of illustrations. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Color Illustrations (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. No dust jacket. Cover bending with marks, discoloration, and minor rubbing. Slight spine lean. Pages tanned. Writing on front end page. Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. HARDCOVER, w/dj. would be AS NEW bu dj has a 2 inch diagonal piece cut off (presumably price clipped,) its edition. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOCATION alpha auth HC H. …

Condition: Good. 1968. Revised Edition. 139 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Colour and black and white photographs throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 8vo. Revised edition. Dedication to front pastedown. Dw has creasing to edges and some small tears. Book.

Condition: Good. 1968. First Edition. 62 pages. Green dust jacket over green paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Sticker remnants to front panel. Light rubbing and marking all over.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A Sea of Words is the second of the two volumes of autobiography of M. H. Holcroft, and the sequel to The Way of the Writer. These books give unparalled insights into New Zealand society, particularly the writing scene. As the longest serving editor of The Listener, he fostered writers and poets and presented them to a wide readership, thus helping to create a climate in which literature could develop. Here are many of the great names in New Zealand writing, people presented in the round as Holcroft knew them. Tanned. 221 pages.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine cracking. 206 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Scarcely anybody now asks if motor cars are really necessary, but a few people still mange to live without owning or driving them. Monte Holcroft admits that this apartness can be a form of second-class citizenship. But he is not sure that a first-class life (or what is taken to be one in our mobile society) is worth having. He has been thinking about motor cars, and what they are doing to us - as well as for us - since he wrote a chapter on the subject in his prize-winning essay, The Deepening Stream, published in 1940. The motoring revolution had not then begun the giant acceleration which has changed the world and all our lives. But changes and problems were beginning to show themselves. Holcroft now looks at New Zealand in what he sees as the climax of the motoring age. DJ. Dust jacket faded. 136 pages.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 206 pages.

Condition: Good. 1968. 139 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water marks to edges and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Includes approximately 30*b/w sketches of Auckland. 62pp. DJ has a 4cm closed tear to head of spine, a 1cm closed tear to upper front DJ edge and rubbing to edges. White, Unk (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 64pp, black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Patterned cloth-covered boards; white titles on spine; illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends with cloth starting to wear. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has some shelf wear and minor loss, small closed tears, chipping to edges, price clipped. White, Unk (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pictorial endpapers. Small gift inscription in front, faint foxing in edges. Dust jacket is unclipped, light edge wear, rubbed at spine ends and corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Over 80 colour illstns by best know New Zealand artists. Very tidy, faint toning in edges and endpapers. Dust jacket is intact, part faded at the spine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A good copy in a rather tatty jacket. . Contents; The land divided. Rivers to Cross. Tracks into roads. The iron pony. Connected by Marriage. A farmers life. Obedient servants. A bad night at Himatangi. The little towns. Advancing wheels. The Foxton endowment. A sense of direction. …

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 21.5 cm, 168 pp, soft covers. VG copy. copy. This is lighter in weight than the average allowed for at the checkout and there will be a freight rebate made for orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn - Age Spots, Browned. No Jacket. First.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A hint of foxing and a little light edge wear to the jacket. A selection of eighty editorials examining New Zealand society and international affairs during the 1950s. The pieces range from serious questions such as capital punishment, the Suez crisis, politics and social change to lighter observations on everyday life, revealing a period when New Zealand was beginning to reassess its identity and place in the world. Thoughtful, independent and sometimes gently satirical, the essays place contemporary events in a wider cultural and historical context while encouraging readers to question conventional attitudes and reflect on the character of New Zealand society.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illstd with b&w photos. Very tidy. Dust jacket is bright, one tiny edge tear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Tight clean unmarked book, about new, in dj with slight edgewear; 63 pp. Illustrated by Unk White (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 64 pages. Unk White (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn - Marks. No Jacket. First. Cover is badly worn. Some pencil marks inside the back cover (scribbles). Various Artists (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn - Esp Edges, Water Damage. First Edition. Unk White (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illstd with b&w photos. Very tidy, just an ownership name in front. Dust jacket has minor edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy of the autobiography of NZ writer M H Holcroft.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'New Zealand' by M. H. Holcroft. Illustrated by Kenneth and Jean Bigwood. A. H. & A. W. Reed 1963 first edition. Slight pull to the top of the spine and a little very light shelf wear. Near VG. No dust jacket. Bigwood, Kenneth and Jean (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small amounts of foxing to the closed page edges and two tiny closed tears to the jacket. Signed by the author on the title page with no other inscriptions. Contents; The land divided. Rivers to Cross. Tracks into roads. The iron pony. Connected by Marriage. A farmers life. Obedient servants. A bad night at Himatangi. The little towns. Advancing wheels. The Foxton endowment. A sense of direction. Signed by Author(s). …

Softcover staple bound octavo (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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small pen name and signed by the author. Just light shelf wear to the jacket and one repaired closed tear. Contents; The land divided. Rivers to Cross. Tracks into roads. The iron pony. Connected by Marriage. A farmers life. Obedient servants. A bad night at Himatangi. The little towns. Advancing wheels. The Foxton endowment. A sense of direction.…