Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1843 (second edition)/ [1842]. More

London, Gall and Inglis, [c.1873]. More

Auckland, Upton, Williams and Norgate, 1892 (fourth edition). With the armorial bookplate of the New Zealand author and photo-historian, Frederic Hardwicke Knight and the contemporaneous ownership signature of John. W. Hay. Some photocopied ephemera is loosely inserted. More

Wellington, John MacKay, Government Printer, June 1896. With many significant articles on Maori history and culture, and the exploration, geology, botany and zoology of New Zealand. More

Invercargill, [The Author], 1899. More

Melbourne, Pater, 1902. An independent account by the American evangelist of the whole missionary field "of Heathendom... in its actual condition, operations, modes of organization, instruction, and efforts, its different peculiarities, its needs, its difficulties..." Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Thursday and Friday Islands, New Guinea, the Phillipines and (naturally) Australia..... More

[Auckland], Messenger Print, [circa 1910?]. An early New Zealand edition of this much-reprinted Mormon tract, which appears to have been first published circa 1880. See 'A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930' (second edition, 2004): this item seems to be a variant of 5506c (not noting the rear cover catalogue). More

Sydney, Church Missionary Society, 1925. Not least, Maoris and Australian Aborigines. More

New York, Abercrombie, 1931. Loosely inserted is a typed letter on company letterhead, signed by company president Robert F. Abercrombie, to New Zealand sporting goods suppliers A. & W. McCarthy of Dunedin. Among other things he states that 'we furnished a good part of Commander Byrd's equipment for his Antarctic..... More

[London, no imprint details], 1937. The entire programme looks to be the product of a well-meaning amateur. The text is obviously hand-set and hand-printed, and it is written in an engaging chatty style, commencing thus: 'Six war-blinded Australian ex-Servicemen will be in the contingent of Australians and New Zealanders who..... More

London, Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1942. The dustwrapper is unclipped but unpriced, indicating it is the Colonial Edition issue; the small ticket on the front pastedown of the contemporary Adelaide booksellers, F.W. Preece Ltd, proves the point. More

Wellington, The Beltane Book Bureau, 1948. NZ Collectors' Monographs Number 4; this unsigned edition was limited to 500 copies. Loosely inserted is a 1950 typed letter signed by David H. Graham, Lower Hutt, explaining the origins of an accompanying leaflet, 'Ex Libris. A Note describing the Bookplate of David H...... More

Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1950 (third impression)/ 1946. 'The incorrect pronunciation of Maori place names will inevitably cause the extinction of the Maori language'. More

London, British Museum, 1953. More

Auckland, The Pilgrim Press, 1956. More

Wellington, Glover/ Mermaid Press, 1957. More

Auckland, Whites Aviation, 1960 (new, expanded, edition)/ [1957]. An important pictorial record; this expanded second edition boasts some 100 more pages of aerial views. Loosely inserted is a pamphlet, 'North Otago 1968. A Blueprint of Industrial Power and Potential' (Auckland, 1968), featuring large number of aerial photos by the author..... More

London/ Melbourne, University of London, the Athlone Press/ Melbourne University Press, 1964. With the original receipt made out to T.G.[H.] Strehlow loosely inserted. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology Number 27. More

Wellington, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1965. More

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1966. The author was Reader in English at Adelaide University, so it is no surprise to find that the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow, and his inscription 'University of Adelaide 29 March, 1966' is followed by the autograph of the author, inscribed 'Adelaide, 4 May..... More

Wellington, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967/ 1963. More

Wellington, Government Printer for the Historical Publications Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs, 1968. More

Wellington, Reed, 1969 (second edition)/ 1951 and 1969. More

Wellington, Reed, 1970 (first edition). More

Honolulu, University of Hawaii, [1972]. More