Mystery Moa New Zealands Avian by Buick Lindsay (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant by T. Lindsay Buick. Publisher: Thomas Avery & Sons, 1931. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. Published under the auspices of The Board of The Maori Ethnological Research. Good hardback with torn jacket. Binding firm. Red cloth boards have a little compression to spine ends, minor marks, light scattered foxing to end-papers and page edges, no inscriptions, creasing to internal corners Frontispiece with complete tissue-guard. All illustrations present and in good order. Jacket is torn, stained, chipped, marked and rubbed with some loss. 357 pages with photos. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.…

Hb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Pebble red coth on boards , gilt title and blindstamped border trim. Light soiling and rubbing. Spine: sunned; head & foot with thin bumping. Edges: foxing. Frontis with tissue guard: b/w illustration of Dinornis Maximus, Glenmark, in comparison with a human skeleton. Few only faint foxings to a few pages, moslty to the margins. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is VG+. 357p.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The author, in his preface, describes his purpose in compiling the book as to "gather together the scattered story of the bird." and "to draw such reasonable deductons as can be drawn from the vague circumstances surrounding the Moa as we vaguely know them." His summation of the bird was for many years a leading guide to the existance and demise of the Moa, based on the information, scientific and anecdotal, then available. Today it remains a collectors item, but still valued by researchers. VG green hard covers have short crease top front corner, gilt front titles bright and clear, light fading to spine strip. photo frontis tissue protected, liberally illustrated throughout. Book published under the auspices of the Maori Ethnological Research Board. Photos (mono) line drawings, maps (illustrator).…

FIRST EDITION, tipped in bookplate signed & dated by author, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 357pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to extrems, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, sl occasional foxing throughout, 2cm loss to rear ep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling).…