Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1843 (second edition)/ [1842]. More about Polynesia, or, an Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, including New...

London, Gall and Inglis, [c.1873]. More about Waihoura, or the New Zealand Girl

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 about A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language

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 about Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1895. Vol. XXVIII (Eleventh of New Series

Invercargill, [The Author], 1899. More about My Life and Lays

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 about Ocean and Isle

[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 about The Plan of Salvation as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Sydney, Church Missionary Society, 1925. Not least, Maoris and Australian Aborigines. More about A History of the Church Missionary Society in Australia and Tasmania

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 about David T. Abercrombie Co., Camp Outfits [cover title

[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 about Souvenir of the Programme of the Australians and New Zealanders at St Paul's Service March to...

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 about Death and the Dancing Footman

Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1949. The author was 'Captain of the Fiji team touring New Zealand, 1948'. Loosely inserted is the original 1948 hand-written receipt for the book. More about Cricket in the Fiji Islands

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 about Maori Pronunciation and the Evolution of Written Maori

London, British Museum, 1953. More about The Trichoptera (Caddis-Flies) of Australia and New Zealand, described and figured by

Auckland, The Pilgrim Press, 1956. More about Immanuel's Land. Stories

Wellington, Glover/ Mermaid Press, 1957. More about Since Then

Christchurch, The Caxton Press, 1961. More about The Halting Place

London, Nicholas Kaye, 1964. More about The Legend of Lovelock

Christchurch, The Caxton Press, 1965. Loosely inserted are four leaves (ie, pp 5 - 12 describing the Caxton Press, evidently clipped and removed from a book. More about Settler and Stranger. Poems by

Wellington, Reed, 1966 (first edition). "The first complete and definitive study of the most magnificent of the wild creatures introduced to New Zealand" (in 1905; by 1923 they were so well established that the first shooting licences were issued). More about Wapiti in New Zealand. A History of the Fiordland Herd

London, MacDonald, 1967/ 1888 [second edition]/ 1873. More about Buller's Birds of New Zealand.. edited and brought up to date by E.G. Turbott

Wellington, Reed, 1968. More about Game Animals in New Zealand

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969 (facsimile edition, with biographical comment and index new to this edition)/ 1847 [second edition]. More about Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand. Being an Artist's Impressions of Countries...

Wellington, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1971. More about Intensive Care. A Novel

Wellington, Newrick, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1909. One of 1,250 numbered copies. Offered together with a fine copy of the 1975 facsimile reprint edition of the 1927 Supplement, compiled by A.H. Johnstone (octavo, iv, 74 pages: limited to 1000 numbered copies). More about A Bibliography of the Literature relating to New Zealand