Maoriland Adventures by Stack J W (13 results)
Published by Southern Reprints
- Hardcover
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.The Book Bin
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. No date [1970s]. Rich with details of Maori life recorded by the son of one of the earliest missionaries in Whangaroa in 1823. Stack, born there in 1833, raised and conversant among Maori language and culture, returned in 1852. Valuable document for historic…anthropology. 157pp. Color frontis, vignettes.
Early Maoriland Adventures of J. W. Stack
STACK, J. W.; REED, A. H. (ed.); & ARCHBISHOP JULIUS (forew.)
Published by A. H. and A. W. Reed 1935, 1935
- Hardcover
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketOctavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
Further Maoriland Adventures of J. W. and E. Stack
STACK, J. W. and E. & REED, A. H. (Ed) & AVERILL, ARCHBISHOP (Fore)
Published by Southern Reprints 1994, 1994
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Add to basketREPRINT, Sm octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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 may reduce your overall postage costs. All onlin…e listings are held in Dunedin.
Further Maoriland Adventures of J. W. and E. Stack
STACK, J. W. and E. & REED, A. H. (Ed) & AVERILL, ARCHBISHOP (Fore)
Published by Southern Reprints 1994, 1994
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Add to basketREPRINT, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-) some moderate cracking to gutters; 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 may reduce your…overall postage costs.
Published by London: Oxford University Press/Reed, 1937, London, 1937
- Softcover
Seller: BOP Books, Tauranga, New ZealandBOP Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 2nd. Decorated Card with DJ. G+. 2nd. 18.5cm By 12.5cm. James Stack's manuscripts of his life in early NZ, where he was born in 1835, were not found until 1930s. His record covers his father's missionary activities, his own travels in the northern North Island, encountering a…nd observing warlike tribes, describing the people, the vast bush areas etc, to leave an invaluable account of NZ as it then was. First published in NZ in 1935, by OUP in 1937. 157 pages, colour frontis, e/paper maps and one other, some b/w sketches. The card covers and text block are VG, whited out name on FFEP. The price clippedt colour art DJ has some edgewear, tiny section missing spine top and lower and top of rear fold. Colour Frontis, Sketches, Maps (illustrator).
Published by A. H. & A. W. Reed 1938, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy card boards, black lettering to spine and boards, black rule to boards, illus eps (nz maps), frontispiece (of Stack), xv + 255pp + 5pp adverts, VG (moderate scuffing and bruising to boards edges, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG- (chipping to spine extrem with tape repairs, moderate soiling)….
Published by A. H. and A. W. Reed 1936, 1936
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus. eps., 255pp, VG (sl. scuffing to boards, light tanning and foxing to edges and within) in d/w VG (moderate scuffing chipping and creasing, minor archival tape repairs to top of spine).
Published by Oxford University Press, 1937
- First Edition
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.My Book Heaven
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Published by Oxford University, London. 1937., 1937
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Add to basket8vo, 157pp, colour frontis, black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in worn dust jacket with loss to head of spine. Light stain to front of cloth cover. Foxing to fore edges. Previous owner's details.
Published by Reed, Dunedin. 1936., 1936
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Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, AustraliaSainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd.
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Add to basket8vo, 256pp, black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in edgeworn dust jacket with loss to head of spine and corners. Foxing to fore edges.
Published by Reed, Dunedin. 1938., 1938
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Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, AustraliaSainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd.
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Add to basket8vo, 255pp, black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in worn and torn dust jacket with loss to head of spine. Foxing to fore edges, less so to endpapers. . Inscribed by the publisher A.H. Reed.
More imagesPublished by A. H. & A. W. Reed (1935), Dunedin, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex-library. Some library stamps, labels and markings. 16mm tear at tail of dust-jacket spine. Some foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1937 UK edition of a title first published in New Zealand in 1935. 286, [2 (a…dvertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 7 plate leaves. Advertisements on recto of rear free endpaper. Maps on endpapers. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 181 x 119mm. "Born in a Maori pa in 1835, when the New Zealanders were still cannibals, James West Stack, in his recently discovered MSS., tells the story of his early life, spent on his father's mission stations, in perilous isolation amidst warlike tribes. Here are true stories of adventure, interspersed with graphic word pictures of the Maori of those days, and of the land and sea, forests and rivers, that he loved." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Forewordo by Archbishop Churchill Julius; Preface; James West Stack, Memoir; Early Maoriland Adventures of James West Stack: Puriri and Mangapouri; Mangapouri; Te Papa; Te Papa (continued); Poverty Bay; East Cape; East Cape (continued); East Cape (continued); A Whaling Station; Captain Cook's Well; Journey to East Cape; East Cape; East Cape (continued); Journey to Kawakawa; East Cape and Voyage to Auckland; St John's College, Auckland; Sydney; Appendices: I - Sir Julius von Haast - A Biographical Note by H. F. von Haast; II - The Maori and His Greenstone - Notes on Maori Manufacture of Greenstone by J. W. Stack; Index. [Reference: Bagnall S1455 - "The first section of Canon Stack's reminiscences dealing chiefly with his childhood recollections of mission life in the Waikato and on the East Coast, prefaced by A. H. Reed's biography (p.23-98)."].
Published by A. H. & A. W. Reed 1938, 1938
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE EDITIOR. Sm 8vo, red cl bds, spine & front board lettered & rolled in black, illus. eps, frontis., xv + 255 pp. + [5] pp. advts., VG+ (light scuffing & creasing tobds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning/foxing & soiling to pg edges & eps, prev ownership inscrip…tion to front pastedown, light soiling & foxing to prelims/terminals, signature (A. H. Reed) to tp, light soiling & foxing throughout), in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing.fading & soiling, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping, archival repairs to head/tail spine folds & front/back flap extrems).
