greenstone door (35 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Originally published in 1914.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Slight fading to jacket on spine.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. The Greenstone Door William Satchell 1940 Whitcombe & Tombs HC/DJ. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Modified Item: No. Topic: Literature. Binding: Hardcover. Author: William Satchell. Subject: Literature & Fiction. Language: English. Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs. Special Attributes: Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint Reissued. Light foxing in the edges and endpapers. Intact dust jacket with slight fading to the spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. From the library of Roy Daniells, d.1974, UBC English prof. No dj, Moderate wear, corners sharp, text block clear and binding good. WR.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Tiny hint of foxing and some minor dulling to the spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. A nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 398 pages. tidy copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. A very good copy of an early reprint in green clothbinding. A small gift inscription in front, otherwise unmarked. The dust jacket is unclipped and bright but has slight loss at the corners, in a clear film protective sleeve.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 408 pages. This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries? mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepa.

paperback, some foxing (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback (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.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condición: Worn - Age Marks, Browning, No Jacket. Reprint. An inscription is in the front dated 1939. The front cover is worn.

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardback. Condición: Good. DJ. DJ worn along the top edge. 400 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine Hardback. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine Dj. No writing or tears.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Hardback. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Dj. Reprint. Golden Press No writing or tears.

Hardback. Condición: Good. No DJ. Green boards, spine faded and some markings on front; previous shop stamp inside. 400 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. Very Good In A Like Jacket Pp 400 Glossary.

VGD. VGD.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Jacket illustration by Ferdinand von Tempsky Ilustrador. First Thus. First published in 1914, this is a new edition (New Zealand Classics) of 1973. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, spine slightly sunned. Not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 400pp. William Arthur Satchell (1861-1942), was a notable New Zealand orchardist, writer, stockbroker, novelist and accountant. Satchell's most famous novel, set during the Maori Wars of 1830-60.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. pp.viii+400. 21cm. Glossary of Maori words. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy. ISBN. 0-85558-285-5. First published in 1914. Historical novel of the Maori wars.

Condición: Good. 1950. Reprint. 400 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Prominent forward lean to text block. Boards are noticeably bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Loss to jacket edges and corners.

Hardback. William Satchell, Golden Press. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsSet against the dramatic backdrop of early colonial New Zealand, The Greenstone Door chronicles the tumultuous lives of settlers and Maori during a pivotal era. This sweeping historical novel presents a vivid tapestry of cultural clashes, burgeoning love, and the quest for identity in a new world. William Satchell masterfully illustrates the complex relationships and profound challenges faced by those forging a new society. The narrative details the struggles for land and understanding, painting an unforgettable portrait of a nation in its formative years. Readers will find themselves immersed in a richly imagined past, where adventure and destiny intertwine. Hardback.

Condición: Sehr gut. 18.5cm x 12.5cm. viii, 400 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Satchell's fame rests ultimately upon his last book published in the unlucky year of 1914. The Greenstone Door is a historical novel, set in 1830-60, and involving not experience recalled and transmuted, but a past reconstructed. It is more carefully organised, more thoroughly prepared than the earlier three stories. In the previous chapter it was suggested that serious Maori novels set in the past tend to sink under the weight of necessary information. Satchell chose most skilfully to focus his story through the mind of an adult remembering his childhood. The reader is in this way taken naturally into the hero's confidence. To some extent, the reader learns as Cedric Tregarthen learns; where needed, and quite acceptably, Satchell exercises the storyteller's usual privilege of supplementing with extra material, but this does not spoil the illusion, for the teller is still Cedric himself. Thus, in chapter 1, Satchell begins evocatively with Cedric's earliest vivid memories, slips in the further details which the grown man knows though the child did not ("I have no actual recollection of the moment when these two intrepid white men . . . ") and fills out the picture from a later point of view with such phrases as "at the moment of which I write ." or, "At this period the practice of cannibalism . . ." It all falls together naturally; the recollections of childhood blend with the later wisdom of the man who writes them down. It is a simple technique, handled artlessly, but it works well enough for its purpose, at least in the first half of the novel. Many New Zealanders know The Greenstone Door. Cedric's father page 34 is killed by the Maoris, the child is protected by Trader Purcell, the Thumb of Te Waharoa, and adopted by that chief as his Little Finger. He grows up among the Maori people, with his foster sister Puhi-Huia, and his friend Rangiora. Together the three young people penetrate to a secret limestone cave, where in their fancy the stalagmites take the shapes of men and women in some drama of the future; Rangiora and Cedric end the racial hostility of their boyhood with an oath of peace, the compact of the Tatau Pounamu, that the Greenstone Door be closed. Events then move on in history, through the troubles that followed Waitangi. In his teens, Cedric is sent to Auckland, to be initiated into the white man's world; this enables Satchell to give us our dose of Pakeha facts in their turn. The boy grows up into an eligible young man who meets Sir George Grey and falls in love with a heroine improbably called Helenora. When the wars break out, sympathies and loyalties are divided; we are shown both sides. Purcell, who joins the Maori people, is executed as a traitor. Satchell contrives in Scott's manner to involve his fictitious persons in historical events where they can play noted parts. Cedric goes, for instance, with General Cameron to the siege of Orakau Pa in April 1864, and accompanies Major Mair to the edge of the redoubt to make that famous offer of surrender terms the resounding rejection of which has been so well remembered. It is Rangiora who is made to speak the Maori defiance "E hoa, ka whawhai tonu ahau ki a koe, ake, ake!" (Friend, I shall fight against you for ever, for ever!) Puhi-Huia is among the slain. With all his companions dead, shattered by his experience of conflicting loyalties, Cedric lies desperately ill, but is nursed backalas, in the best Victorian sentimentby the repentant Helenora. (NZL) William Arthur Satchell was born on 1 February 1861 in London, England. He was the son of Hannah Mordey and her husband, Thomas Satchell, a civil servant who became surveyor general of the Inland Revenue. Thomas Satchell maintained an ample house in Hampstead, and kept up an acquaintance among people of the arts such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilkie Collins. He was a bibliophile, interested in E.

viii+400pp. 8vo. Original cloth with chipped dustwrapper. A little canted, otherwise a very good copy. A novel sympathetic to Maori rights in New Zealand.

New Zealand Classics Series.8vo.pp.vi + 400, Green hardcover very good in fine pictorial dust wrapper. The hatreds between the Maoris and the Pakeha settlers; the bloodthirsty raids on enemy villages; all brought to life through the skilful pen of William Satchell. New Zealand Classics Series.