Stack j w (20 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. Facsimile Edition. In pictoiral wraps, 8vo, 246pp. (toning/browing to page edges/extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Binding a bit shaken, corners a bit rubbed, text clean and unmarked. 1924 Hard Cover. 152, [1] pp. Black-and-white diagrams and illustrations throughout. A guide to the construction of numerous vehicles and mechanisms, including kites, electric cars, sleds, and canoes. …

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Baseball, Sports) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.…

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.…

REPRINT, 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 online listings are held in Dunedin.…

REPRINT, 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.…

Soft cover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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 and 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 (ilustrador).…

FIRST 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).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Limited Edition. Through Canterbury and Otago with Bishop Harper in 1859-60 by Rev. J W Stack. Publisher: Nags Head Press, 1972. LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 200 COPIES. THIS BEING NO. 135. Hardback with jacket, bookplate of NZ author Frank Glen to ffep otherwise near new. Jacket has fading and marks with a small closed tear. 90 pages. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.…

FIRST 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).

Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the life of Te Rauparaha, a prominent Maori chief who played a significant role in New Zealand's history. The author delves into Te Rauparaha's origins, tracing his rise to power and the impact he had on the Maori tribes during a period of great upheaval and warfare. The book examines the complex social and cultural dynamics of the Maori people, shedding light on their customs, beliefs, and the challenges they faced during the 19th century. Through the lens of Te Rauparaha's life, the author provides a captivating account of a pivotal era in New Zealand's past, offering insights into the resilience and adaptability of the Maori people in the face of adversity. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

dj. First Edition. First English Printing. Very Good book in a Very Good dust wrapper.

THIRD EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, 399pp, illus, G+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading & tanning to spine, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters of first 52 pages- some pages loose/detached but present).…

8vo, 256pp, black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in edgeworn dust jacket with loss to head of spine and corners. Foxing to fore edges.

8vo, 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.

8vo, 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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 (advertisements)] 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)."].…

FIRST 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 inscription 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).…

First edition, Bagnall S1463, scarce, octavo, beige paper stapled wrappers iwth brown cloth spine, 28pp, VG (some staining & soiling to covers, creasing to cover corners, moderate browning to edges).