Author wellington (40 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No dust jacket book is in fine condition. U.S. orders are shipped from Lewiston, NY location.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. A charming overview of a picturesque area located north of Wellington, New Zealand. It includes several coastal communities and an island known by the same name. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawings and watercolors mostly in color, done by Robin Rogerson. Horizontal format, measuring 10.5" x 7.5" with 32 pages (unpaginated). SALE PRICE. Robin Rogerson (ilustrador). …

Soft cover. Condición: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Self-Published by the Author, Wellington, KS. 2026. Softcover / Trade Wraps. First Edition / First Printing. Signed and blind stamped on the title page by the author. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Cook Condition: New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 308 pp 8vo. This book tell of plainspoken recollections related to a boy's treasured heritage, including times of struggle and those of celebration, from boyhood to manhood in and around Moscow, Kansas. The son of a Kansas tenant farmer during the drought of the late 1950s, stories are told or retold as passed down from ancestors. In this book, stories encompass southwest Kansas humor as well as sensitivity to unusual subjects under extraordinary circumstances. Many period specific photographs of family members going back generations. A clean very presentable copy.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Self-Published by Author, Wellington, KS. Probably printed in the 2000s as he passed in 2005. Softcover/plastic comb binding. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping and scuffing to wraps. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is secure in comb binding; text is secure in binding with no torn through comb pages. 77 pp 4to. These are the author's recollections and those of many friends he went to school with of a life spent on the plains of Northeastern Colorado in the 1930s and 1940s. There are no chapters, just 1-2 page recollections about events in the years these people were together. They write about one-room schoolhouses, farm life, self-sufficiency, hunting, farming, schooling, poverty, and the Dust Bowl Days. A clean very presentable copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. A very good ex-library copy with tidy markings and a well protected dust jacket.

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 22cm, 91pp, b&w photo frontis and plates, soft covers. VG copy. This is lighter in wieght than the average allowed for at the checkout and there will be a freight rebate made for orders.

Pictorial Card. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket (as published). 1st Edition. 44 Pages, Illustrated. An Unmarked Booklet. Not Ex Library.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Brown cloth with gilt titles on front. Corners and spine ends are bumped.Contents tight with age-toning to e/p's. Previous owner's name and old booksellers plate on front e/p's. 70pp. Nice copy.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. 191 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers. Corner tips worn. Lightly rubbed. Bookstore price sticker on rear cover. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. A biography of one of the most significant artists of the 19th century in the art world of New Zealand. Includes an eight page section of colour plates of the artist's work.…

8vo, 70pp. A very good paperback copy in illustrated card covers.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with colour fold-out frontis and several b&w photos. Intact bright dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 44pp with b/w and colour photos - glossy covers - lightly rubbed and soiled - slight wear to edges - SCARCE - NZ Railway history.

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 24cm, iv, 144pp, b&w photo illus, soft covers. Name label to half title. Signed on the title page by the author. A VG signed copy. In her 91st year, Florence Howland remembers '. a simple story of an ordinary life.' Born into a Salvation Army family in England at the beginning of WWI, and unable to follow her dream of becoming a missionary in China, Florence worked at Kensal Medical and Gospel Mission in London from 1936 until 1953. Surviving the Blitz and the vagaries of post-war Britain, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1958. Florence recounts her experiences at Arohata Borstal (now Arohata Women's Prison) where she was Superintendent form 1959 to 1974, and reflects on a life of service from her retirement at Pukerua Bay, Wellington. Signed by Author(s).…

1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, facsimile, paintings). Title-page: Facsimile of Journal of a Voyage.1827. Eps: Map of South West Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 17.5. Trading between Australia & New Zealand. Whaling off Kermadec, Tonga, Solomons. between 1827 & 1837. …

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy, with many b&w photo illstns.

Brown Cloth. Condición: Good. First Edition. xvi, 287 pages. Lacks half-title page and frontispiece.

reprint).Oblong format,52 pp.,colour photographs, lengthy inscription, softcover.

Hardcover. 18.5cm, xvi,287p., frontis portrait, free fly clipped, previous owners inscription, fine linen, gilt title and decorations on the spine and upper cover, a very good to fine copy (lt).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. With b&w and colour illstns. A very good copy of a scarce title, corner curl to the front corner of the cover.

Paper Covers. Condición: Good +. No Jacket. First. Privately published by the author. Covers the life and work of John Gully. 43 page booklet with pink paper covers. Fading at edges and spine. Binding tight. Foxing of contents. Frontispiece photo of the artist has original tissue. Photo has some spotting. Top quarter of title page has been cut away. This is a scarce booklet.…

Hardcover. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. 1st. 1st. 22 cm By 15cm. Octavius Hadfield (1814-1904) was an important figure in the early European settlement of NZ, particularly in the Otaki coastal area north-west of Wellington. While primarily a missionary he was also active and influential in civic affairs and among the Maori people, in times that were often troubled. He later became Bishop of Wellington where his good works, both eccleastical and secular, continued. In spite of his notable contribution to early settlement his role remained largely unrecorded until the author, his great grand-daughter, produced this excellent biography, which includes a large selection from his own letters and dairies. 203 pages including two appendices and index, seven b/w illustrations, photos/art. Green hard covers with gilt spine titles VG+, neatly inked name top FFEP, text block otherwise excellent. Colour art DJ VG with light brusing to spine base. Photos, Art (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Fading to spine. Crease to half-title page. No dust wrapper.; viii, [2], 180 pages + panoramic folding colour frontispiece (Wellington, 1842) + b&w plates + plans on endpapers. Brown papered boards. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. History of Wellington, New Zealand.; 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. 1st. Published in 1970 by the author to mark the centennial of the official declaration of city status for Wellington, this history looks back to 1840 when the first European settlers arrived under the auspices of the New Zealand Land Company. Arthur Carman is a respecterd historian, particularly of the Wellington area, where his forebears were early settlers. He was a well known Wellington bookseller and also wrote on NZ sporting topics. His "The Birth of a City" is a well researched history, taking the Wellington story through the earliest days of settlement and the election of the first borough council in 1842. 180 pages including 10 appendices and index, fold-out colour art frontis, two colour art plates, three document plates, five b/w plates, eight small portraits, e/paper plans of Wellington 1941. Brown hard covers with gilt spine titles VG+, internally excellent, no inscriptions. DJ is VG, unclipped with colour city coat of arms to front, tiny perforation lower front adjacent spine. Art, Photos (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 16 pages. A tight bright copy - 159p. small crease to softcover corner & first few page corners o/w a tidy copy.

first edition 287pp VERY GOOD- (mauve cloth,mod.rubbed and stained,spine sunned,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's bookplate to front pastedown,dealer's stamp to frontis.verso,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) Bagnall K125.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New lge. octavo 255pp., b/w plates, appends., index, Memoirs of Ron Smith, A New Zealand Communist.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. No Jacket. 1st. Possibly the first history chronology of NZ, this manual opens with a general description of NZ, a brief history, a section on the "native race" and one on the Government before beginning the chronology. This opens with passages on suggested European discoveries before Able Tasman in 1642, with more than 400 entries then covereing significent events, personalities, conflicts, settlements and statistics up to the Tarawera eruption of June 1886. Other sections, on specific subjects, take the total entries to 460, followed by a comprehensive index. Contains numerous fragments of history, many of them near-forgotten. 70 pages, blue swirl pattern hard covers VG with slightly dulled gilt front titles, small dents centrer top and lower edges, top corner bumped. brown marks on both FEPs, ink name/address top dedication page, text block otherwise excellent.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 243 pages. D/J - faded - small tears to edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 200 pages. 200 pages. d/j worn at spine & lacking piece-repaired with archive tape - 'with a chapter on working gun dogs by G F Birkett'.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good+ condition. First Edition. xxii, 148 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minor bumping to corners and minimal shelfwear. No dustjacket. Includes a one-page typed letter to Marder signed by Neville Watkins. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the inside of the rear cover. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.…