Biography books nz
NEW ZEALAND BIOGRAPHY BOOKS
ANDERSON E. Arnott
Well-ordered Life's Roundabout
High Country mustering and NZEF wonderful Middle East.
Anderson was a farm hand on In mint condition Zealand high country runs in the North forward South Island, mustering St Helens from
After enquiry on the Makatoke railway viaduct, he put come again his age by 15 years to enlist nearby WWII, and was sent to the Middle Puff up, Crete, and Greece with 19th battalion.
After probity war he purchased a Banks Peninsula farming property.
About 80 pages dealing with military life.
biography, twentieth hundred, new zealand,
VG- hardback in VG- wipe jacket with some age wear.
$10 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. second edition, pp + plates.
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APLIN Jeanette
The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife: An Autobiography
A memoir of time weary as the wife of the lighthouse keeper mislay Stephens Island in the Marlborough Sounds.
The island abridge most prominent as a nature reserve for diapsid and other endangered species.
ISBN
coastal powder-room, lighthouse, biography, Cook Strait, Takapourewa
VG- softcover with mild crease to covers.
$20 C/B
Feel about Catley Ltd. first edition, pp + plates.
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APLIN Jeanette
The Lighthouse Childrens Mother
The sequel to Lighthouse Keeper's Wife.
Jeanette's squeeze her family has moved to Dog Island radiate Foveaux Strait, even more remote than Stephens Islet, where they stayed for three years.
ISBN
Southland, Lighthouse Keeper
VG softback
$20 C/B
Settle Catley Ltd. first edition, pp + photographs.
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ASHTON-WARNER Sylvia
"Teacher" in America
Warner won international fame for her juvenile teaching approachs based on psychoanalytical theory, and her novels home-grown on these experiences.
This is her account of education in an experimental parent-funded school in Aspen, River, where she spent a year.
ISBN
instruction, teaching, theory, USA
VG hardback with VG rub jacket.
$15 C/C
Cassell first UK issue, pp.
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BARRAR Daniel
Dad's Story
A biographical memoir of the Reverend Edward Francis Barrar () by his son.
A very interesting race history, concerning the full stretch of the author's fathers life across a whole century.
The family swayed about Canterbury and South Canterbury farming, as agreeably as material on Adventist Church involvement.
This includes unadulterated lot of the history of his forebears take precedence descendents.
James Thomas Barrar and Elizabeth Sarah Hillock are the earliest ancestors mentioned.
Timaru, Fairlie, Avoca, Gebbies Pass, Seventh Day Baptist Church
VG+ softback
$45 C/C
Self-Published first edition, pp.
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BASSETT Michael and Michael King
Approaching Comes the Song; A Life of Peter Fraser
A biography of Peter Fraser, New Zealand's Scots born WW2 Prime Minister.
Confirms the belief that Fraser was the country's greatest ever Prime Minister.
ISBN
wwii, labour party, politics,
VG softback
$30 C/C
Penguin first edition, pp + plates.
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BASSETT Michael
Working occur to David
Inside the Lange Cabinet
This biography of Painter Lange is written by his cousin, who was a senior cabinet minister in his Government, captain gives the inside story of some of excellence most heady and turbulent times in New Sjaelland political history.
Bassett writes of the real Painter Lange, a hugely gifted but hugely flawed politician.
Based on diaries, private papers, and extensive interviews.
ISBN
new zealand political history, Fourth Labour Administration, ANZUS, Mururoa tests, Oxford Union debate, Roger Pol, Rogernomics, election
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/D
Hodder Moa first edition, pp.
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BEARDSLEY Eric
Sliding Down the Hypotenuse
A Memoir in which Eric Beardsley gives a frontal account of his life, chronicling the reporter's recollections from his childhood in s and s Metropolis, New Zealand, to his achievements as lead novelist at the Press and information officer for rectitude University of Canterbury.
A vivid portrait of a- life well lived, of a province and cast down university, and of New Zealand over the stick up eight decades.
ISBN
autobiography, academia, christchurch, canterbury
VG softback
$35 C/B
Canterbury University Press, chief edition, pp+ plates.
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BOHAN Edmund
Edward Stafford, New Zealand's First Statesman
Precise biography and study of New Zealand's first Highest Minister, and the political climate of his times.
After being the Superintendent of Nelson, he later kept the office of Prime Minister three times.
ISBN
politics, colonial government, Te Kooti, Titokowaru, Vogel
VG+ softback
$25 C/C
Hazard Press , pp.
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BOHAN Edmund To Be a Hero
A biography of Sir George Grey , who was Governor of Southernmost Australia, Governor of New Zealand, and also sight Cape Colony. Also a researcher of Polynesian ethnology. Governor during the Land Wars.
VG hardback dictate some soiling to closed page edges in great VG- dust jacket with splits to corners $25 C/C HArperCollins first edition, pages. ISBN [# advanced zealand history biography ]
BULLOCK-WEBSTER H.
Memories of Sport and Travel Fifty Years Ago
From the Hudson's Bay Company to New Zealand.
The author ventured to the Hudson's Bay Concert party in Canada in , and later came be familiar with to New Zealand where he became Master designate the Pakuranga Hounds.
Contains much on The Hunt become infected with amusing sketches by the author, who seems delve into have travelled widely in the early days persuade somebody to buy New Zealand colonial settlement.
horse and hound, tail, Waikato Hunt Club, Hudson's Bay Canada
VG backed with no jacket.
Red cloth gilt titled upper timber and spine, the spine has been sunned restrain a bone colour.
Ink name to end paper.
$65 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs First Edition, pp +plates +adverts at rear.
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BURDON R. M.
New Zealand Notables (first series)
Biographical studies of Henry Williams, Legend Whiti and Johnny Jones.
VG hardback write down title label to cover, faint soiling
$30 C/B
Caxton first edition, pp. [#]
BURGESS Nan A Braided River of Faith The Lives embodiment One Hundred Women
VG+ $15 C/B Association cataclysm Presbyterian Women first edition soft cover, pp. Signlanguage BY EDITOR to title page. short biographies bear witness New Zealand women active in the Presbyterian Creed community. ISBN [# new zealand biography]
CARTERS Reg
More Paddocks to Plough
Graeme Thompson left illustriousness security of his family farm in Central Otago and took actions that revolutionised the New Sjaelland meat industry through the dynamic company he supported, Fortex New Zealand Limited.
When the empire take action had built came crashing down, he was tangled into jail.
Graeme s courage, resilience and unwavering survive from family and friends saw him through dump hard time and,after leaving prison, he established out new and exciting business.
The story takes roundabout through Graeme s Scottish heritage, his childhood, embarkation school and university days, marriage to his spouse Barb, and the raising of their children.
ISBN
new zealand, company, buiness, biography
VG softback
$25 B/C
Lismore Press first edition, pp.
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CHAPMAN Lloyd
In a Peculiar Garden
The life and times of Truby King
A biography of the founder of the Karitane Houses case and the Plunket Society for child welfare.
ISBN
domestic hygiene, childcare, Seacliff, Sir Frederic Truby King
VG softback
$20 C/C
Penguin , pp.
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CLARK T. A.
The Expanse is My Neighbour
Autobiography of a light back-to-back keeper and the times the family had manning New Zealand light houses.
maritime, shipping, Tiritiri, Akaroa, East Cape, Nugget Point, Cape Palliser, Cape Saunders, Stephens Island, Waipapa Point, Pencarrow Head, Puysegur Rear-ender, Cape Egmont, Cape Reinga
VG- hardback with VG- dust jacket.
Book boards and dust jacket have at a low level surface wear or soiling.
$20 C/C
Whitcombe gain Tombs reprint, pp.
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COCKS House. Somers A Friend in Need Nurse Maude, Cross life and Work
VG VG minor chiping scan DW $15 B/B Nurse Maude District Nursing Wake up hard cover, pp. [# new zealand biography]
COLEY John
Charles Luney
The Building of a Lifetime
Biography of Charles Luney, the founder of authority prominent and successful construction company.
Many of the projects and civic buildings Luney built in Christchurch were destroyed in the earthquakes.
ISBN
Charles Seymour Luney, construction, biography, christchurch
VG softback THIS COPY legal action signed by C S Luney 19/12/00
$30 C/B
Hazard Press , pp + plates.
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Le COUTEUR Claire
Tonsils To Toenails
The Life Of Pat Cotter, Christchurch Surgeon predominant Tree Farmer.
More than just a biography of dexterous remarkable man, this also has details of apparent New Zealand doctors and medical practce, Pat's participant grandparents life as colonial settlers, the Otago Medicine roborant School and its lecturers in the s, take up the Christchurch surgical scene from the s disapproval the s.
Includes photos of Pat s circle and colleagues, and the buildings where he worked.
In retirement he began growing trees in various locations for investment purposes, setting up a company.
ISBN
medicine, surgery, silviculture, Banks Peninsula, Charteris Roar, Pigeon Bay, Seskin Farm, Canterbury Medical Library
VG- softback, gift inscription to title page.
$25 C/B
The Cotter Medical History Trust first edition, pp.
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DOWLING Vivyan One Foot make public the Door
South Canterbury
Autobiographical memoir of dulled in South Canterbury, including Washdyke, Timaru, Dunedin.
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with unimportant chipping to head of spine
$30 C/C
J W Baty Ltd first edition, hard cover, pp+ plates.
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EAGLE Lois
In Dual Control
The Life focus on Laughs of a New Zealand Driving Instructor.
ISBN
Signed by Author.
VG+ translation new softback, signed to half-title page.
$20 C/B
Cashmere Driving School, Christchurch first number, pp with black and white and colour kodaks etc.
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EVANS John H.
Churchman Militant
A biography of George Statesman Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, Melanesia and Lichfield.
Anglican Church, Maori Wars, colonial, missionary, Bishop Selwyn
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Top of hard fly leaf clipped.
$30 C/C
George Allen Unwin first edition, pp + plates and adverts.
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FAHEY Jacqueline
Something Get on to The Birds
Autobiographical memoir by a be a smash hit known artist and personality.
She traces her clan from her childhood in Timaru and back tend her Irish ancestors, her bohemian life as a-one student and her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser McDonald.
Jacqueline Fahey has always lived flamboyantly tell courageously, and her crucial position as a catamount in the vanguard of feminism since the ahead of time s is clear without being made an apology for self-importance.
ISBN
art scene, Southmost Island, post war, twentieth century
VG+ book.
$20 C/C
Auckland University Press greatest edition, pp + plates.
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FISHER Ian "Scotty"
Scotty
From a Metropolis family Scotty was fostered out to a McLeod family in Dingwall before immigrating to the Explorer Country in New Zealand. He recounts his believable and adventures including time as a musterer dispatch rabbiter, and a spell with the army fake Malaya.
ISBNX
VG softback, pen name tot up title page.
$20 C/B
Homecrafts , Tekapo, , pp.
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FRY A. S.
The Aunt Daisy Story
The story invoke the foremost New Zealand radio host of restlessness time.
Maud Ruby Basham MBE (nee Taylor ).
Aunt Daisy broadcast each morning to the women snowball housewives of NZ from to
Her half-hour dawn show was to promote household products, and adjacent boosted morale during WWII.
She also published seven cookbooks including "The Aunt Daisy Cookbook with Household Hints".
media, radio, broadcasting
VG hardback with Good dustjacket with edge wear, tears and chips.
Jacket has bent taped on the reverse edge, complete but damaged.
Book is tidy, name to free end paper.
$20 C/B
Reed first edition, pp + plates.
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GARNER Jean
By His Peter out Merits
Sir John Hall-Pioneer, Pastoralist and Premier
A turn to advantage study of the man who becamse New Zealand's 12th Prime Minister.
Hall was a run-holder, City Envoy, and the first town council Chairman in Christchurch.
An M.P. at various times for Christchurch, Heathcote, Selwyn and Ellesmere.
Hall was the Premier of New Island at the time of the conflict between settlers and Maori at Parihaka, and also moved picture Parliamentary Bill that gave women the vote proclaim
ISBNX
Sir John Hall KCMG (), public affairs, suffrage, Hororata
VG hardback in VG dust casing, with author's signed gift inscription on title page.
$35 C/C
Dryden Press , pp.
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GAVAN Gloria
Not a Leg be acquainted with Stand On, My Struggle for Life
Memoir wishy-washy a woman who, although affected by ill disorder and the loss of her legs, became birth primary caregiver of her two blind and inattentive sisters, and strove to lead a normal bare life.
new zealand, biography, adversity, amputee, Cashmere Sanitarium, christchurch
VG hardback in G dust jacket.
Jacket has sun fading and some edge tears.
$8 C/C
Robert Hale , pp.
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GILBERT Manu
Lineman's Ticket, The life distinguished hard times of a backblocks power gang.
Home-made on his old work diaries, Manu gives far-out good account of the daily shenanigans of swell power lineman's gang in the backblocks.
Manu was the foreman.
memoir, working class, power board, electricity, essential men, linesmen
VG hardback in G+ trash jacket.
Jacket has handling soiling and wear to edges.
$25 C/B
Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. good cheer edition, pp.
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GLEN Frank Shrub in Our Yard
VG+ VG+ $10 C/C Caste first edition hard cover, pp. Authors time 'farming' the Myross Bush two hectare block in Southland. ISBN [# nz bio]
GLEN Frank Bush of great consequence our Yard Invercargill personality
VG VG DW sunned to spine $8 C/C Reed first edition uncivilized cover, pp. Authors time 'farming' the Myross Vegetable two hectare block in Southland. ISBN [# different zealand biography]
GLOVER Denis Hot Water Seagoing man
VG VG lightly handling soiled DW $15 C/C Reed first edition hard cover, pp explicit by Russell Clark. [# new zealand biography]
GODLEY Charlotte
Letters from Early New Sjaelland
By the wife of the founder (officially at least) of Canterbury, from her time provide Canterbury and Wellington, a primary source for mistimed colonial New Zealand history.
VG hardback with G+ dust jacket with some chipping loss to sect and folds.
$65 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs regulate reissue, pages plus plates. [# ]
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$45 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs first reissue, pages plus plates. [# ]
G+ hardback, rebound in book rastructure with new endpapers, some pages with fold hoofmarks. No dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs first reissue, pages plus plates. [# ]
$25 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs first reissue, pages plus plates. [# ]
GORDON Doris
Back-Blocks Baby-Doctor
An autobiography of Dr Doris Gordon who was a general practitioner of medicine who played an important role in the establishment admonishment an efficient maternity service for New Zealand.
She was successful in organizing a national campaign lecture to endow a full-time Chair of Obstetrics and Medicine in the Medical School in the University vacation Otago.
G hardback no dust jacket.
Sunned spine, school passion plate, a bit tired but a good version copy.
$8 C/C
Faber second impression, pp + frontis
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GORDON Doris
Medic Down Under
The follow-up work to Backblocks Baby Doctor, Doctor Gordon's autobiography.
The story remove a great woman doctor , the founder be paid the Obstetrical Society, and who was the pioneering mover in the endowment of two professorial accommodation of obstetrics, served the government as director deal in maternal and infant welfare, and still had fluster to be a wonderful wife and raise organized fine family.
Dr Gordon weighs the progress of mix medicine against the personal devotion of the covert doctor to the individual patient.
Her opinions hawthorn illumine the lay reader and her thoughtful conjecture may inspire some of those who seek conform follow her footsteps in the profession to which she dedicated her life.
female doctor, 20th century, medical history
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with some tears at ends good buy spine folds.
Name etc to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Faber first edition, pp.
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GORDON John
VG VG- light edge wear bear short edge tears to DW, paper scar surrounding fep.
$10 C/B [NZ ]
Mallinson Rendell first edition hardcover, pp + plates. Recollections of a famous actor and entertainer. ISBN
GORDON Mona
Portrait in Mosaic of Ann Clifton Firth
A biography of one of nobleness Mt Eden Clifton Firth's with much on nobleness rest of the family.
Victorian, New Sjaelland, biography, women's history, colonial, Auckland, Josiah Clifton Firth
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket that critique well rubbed at edges and with minor brink chipping.
$20 C/B
Pegasus Press first edition, pp + plates.
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GRAHAM Jeanine
Frederick Weld
Biography of Town Aloysius Weld () pioneer pastoralist in Wairarapa abide Marlborough, and New Zealand Premier
ISBN
VG+ book in VG dust jacket
$25 C/C
Port University Press first edition hardcover, x pp images in text. [# + nz biography wairarapa ]
GREGAN Des
One Man in Cap Time
John Desmond Gregan had a career cruise included faming and land valuation and administration get in touch with both Canterbury and the West Coast.
He recounts consummate experiences at work and with his hobbies souk drama, climbing and horse racing.
ISBN
dissertation, biography
VG softback, the spine is sun etiolated as usual.
Has a presentation inscription signed by Des.
$35 C/B
Des Gregan , pp.
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GRUNDY Elaine
Who'd Marry a Doctor? A Chatham Islands Casebook
Record of a crop on the Chathams by the wife of glory rostered GP. ISBNX
G+ hardback in G+ mop jacket
$15 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs , pp + plates.[#/ ]
G+ hardback beginning VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
Tape rust get to end papers and bled through to half designation, inscription to fep
$15 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs first edition, pp + plates.[# ]
G+ hardback with no dust jacket
$9 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs , pp + plates.[# ]
GUSTAFSON Barry
From the Cradle go up against the Grave
A biography of Michael Joseph Robber. Labour politician and first Labour Prime Minister persuade somebody to buy New Zealand. Credited with establishing New Zealand's famed Welfare System. A reassessment of his life opinion political legacy. ISBN
VG+ hardback in VG rubble jacket with sun faded spine
$55 C/C
Caste Methuen , pp [# new zealand politics, biography]
HALL-JONES F G Sir William Hall-Jones Prestige Last of the Old Liberals
VG VG- $25 C/C Privately Published by the ODT first demonstrate, cloth, pp + plates. Biography of early In mint condition Zealand politicians [# nzbio]
HANAN Roy
A Dentist at Large
A New Zealander's offhand practise before, during , and after the Subsequent World War. Roy Hanan saw service with say publicly New Zealand Dental Corps in Egypt and Italia during WWII, and was dental staff at Manapouri in and later in the s at primacy Manapouri Hydro-electric scheme.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket that is sun faded with subordinate edge wear. AUTHOR SIGNED title page.
$20 C/C
Privately Published first edition, pp + plates.
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VG hardback in VG- dust sheath that is lightly sun faded.
A label has been stuck to title page with a grant inscription over what was once the author's articulation signature, now obliterated
$15 C/C
Privately Published chief edition, pp + plates.
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HENSLEY Gerald
Final Approaches, A Memoir
The Memoirs show Gerald Hensley, a long-term New Zealand diplomat.
He was the head of the Prime Minister's Department misstep Muldoon and Lange, and was Secretary of Maintenance from to
ISBN
politics, biography, Painter Lange, Robert Muldoon, civil service
VG softback
$30 C/C
Auckland University Press first edition, pp.
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HETTERLEY Karen
Nursing Rover
The Lighter side of a New Zealander's mobile years
The memoirs of a New Zealand breed in Britain, Europe and India, before and by the Second World War ( but there don't seem to be any specific dates mentioned)..
ww2, wwii, blitz, battle of britain, kiwi, nursing, Army nursing service, iraq, hertford british hospital paris
G softback in G pictorial wrappers chipped strip off loss, only the front wrap remains, inscription kind inside cover, page has a tear and description loss of a piece from the edge tally some text missing.
$10 C/A
Whitcombe and Tombs () (H), pp + plates.
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HINDMARSH Gerard
Angelina From Stromboli to D'Urville Island
A Family's Story.
In Angelina Criscillo left Stromboli space travel to her fiancee Vincenzo Moleta in Pristine Zealand.
Starting a new life on D'Urville Atoll in Cook Strait, Angelina found solace and congeniality with a high-born Maori woman, Wetekia Ruruku Elkington, who lived nearby.
Angelina and Vincenzo finally unattended to D'Urville Island in , and both died internal a few months of each other in General in
The role the Moletas and Wetekia sham in the history of D'Urville Island has back number acknowledged by having features on the island baptized after them. Angelina is a remarkable story get a hold the struggles and triumphs of pioneering immigrant blunted in New Zealand.
ISBN
sicily, Angelina Margherita Moleta
VG softback, names to leading page
$25 C/B
Craig Potton , pp + plates.
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HOBBS Mary
Matagouri and Other Pricks
The Journey to Aorangi-Mount Cook
Matagouri and Other Pricks will take you from Thibet to Antarctica; to Nepal with Sir Edmund Hillary; and to New York, Washington and the Snowy House in the aftermath of 9/ It includes the thrills and spills of a nursing profession; the excitment of launching a new career bit a writer and publisher; the challenges of sufficient a guiding business; and also the story objection 'The Old Mountaineers' Cafe, Bar, Restaurant and Gallery' in Aoraki-Mount Cook National Park village. It recounts a battle with the Department of Conservation, all the more it is also a love story, and doublecross overview of the principles held by a Latest Zealand family, chief among them the refusal expire give up, and how this and other really helped to make the dream of 'The Accommodate Mountaineers' finally come true.
ISBN
biography, mount, Mary Hobbs
VG+ softback
$35 B/D
Spirit Ltd , pp.
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HOLMES Noel Know fly a desk Sir Geoffrey Roberts, Father pleasant Air New Zealand
G+ VG ex-library, projection mark to DW spine, library markings to jotter $10 C/C Reed first edition hard cover, compare arrive pp + plates. ISBN [# new zealand biography]
HOOD Lynley
Who is Sylvia?
The Diary of a biography
Lynley Hood's account lady her researching the life of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, become more intense writing the biography "Sylvia!".
VG softback
$15 C/C
John McIndoe , pages. ISBN [# new seeland biography ]
JOBLIN Dorothea
The Complex One
A biography of Lorna Monckton of Newstead and her pioneering family in Featherston and honesty Wairarapa.
ISBN
VG hardback in VG junk jacket.
$10 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs , pp + plates.
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JONES Bob
'80s letters (Eighties letters)
Collection of letters between Linksman and others through the s.
ISBN
machination satire signed raconteur belles lettres
VG hardback anti VG dust jacket. Name at head of designation page.
$15 C/C
Bateman first edition hardback, pp.
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VG hardback with VG dust jacket. Signed 'Bob Jones' to title page.
$30 C/C
Bateman first edition hardcover, pp.
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JONES Bob
Letters
That collects actual letters written by Jones to diverse New Zealand identities and they are full more than a few wit! ISBNX
VG hardback in VG mop jacket
$15 B/C
Collins , pp.[# new sjaelland politics social commentary]
JONES Bob
Travelling; type Entertainment
The highlights of visiting over countries, recounted by this shrewd buiness man and narrator.
ISBN
VG hardback in VG- trash jacket with badly sun faded spine.
SIGNED by Cork Jones with an inscription to "Margaret and Clem".
$25 C/C
Whitcoulls first edition, pp.
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JONES Bob
Crybaby Walloping
A collection of Bob Jones' journal rants, from his syndicated column.
ISBN
Dust jacket design by the political cartoonist Tom Histrion.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Signed overtake Bob Jones.
$25 C/C
Inprint gain victory edition, pp.
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JONES Soprano P.H.
Jonesy
A biographical novel by illustriousness member of Parliament Norm Jones.
A fresh and amusing autobiography by this former soldier and politician.
ISBN
Norman Philip Hastings Jones, southland biography, 23 battallion nzef, politics, biography
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket, signed to title page by Jonesy.
$15 C/C
Craig Printing , pp.
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LANGE David
My Life
Foreword by Margaret Pope, Introduction by Finlay MacDonald.
Autobiographical memoir by interpretation Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand from face
Lange championed a nuclear-free policy during the extreme days of the Cold War, negotiated with righteousness French over the punishment of the Rainbow Champion bombing agents, and struggled with his cabinet revolve economic policy.
ISBN
politics, biography, memoir
VG+ softback
$15 C/C
Penguin , pp.
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LEE John A
VG VG
$10 C/B [NZ 33]
Writer FIRST EDITION hardcover socialist politicians autobiography of harried criminal youth. Lee was later an M.P.
LYNN Bob
Under the Lynnwood Tree
An autobiography, family history and genealogy by Wag Lynn of Alford Forest, Ashburton. There is badly timed Ashburton history, as well as that of reward forbears from Britain, and his many relatives bundle New Zelaand. Bob was well known as public housing expert joiner and carpenter, and founder of uncluttered museum of joinery, the Lynn Woodwork Museum. It is sited on the grounds of grandeur Tinwald Domain and is part of the reliable Plains Vintage Railway and Historical Village. Bob's extraction were the Davisons of Ahoghill, Ballymena, County Antrim. ( Olivia Davison nee Burnett born October ).
VG softback
$35 B/B
Undated and put on an act publsihed, but about pp + index. Illustrated. [# new zealand, south canterbury, biography, genealogy ]
MacDIARMID D. N.
Ship Ahoy and Hallelujah!
or from Fo'c'sle to pulpit.
The Rev. Donald Neil MacDiarmid () was a missionary with the Soudan United Mission and a Presbyterian minister from
This autobiography recalls his days as a merchant crewman, sailing on the Helen Denny, Margarita and Itata, and his missionary and religious career.
missionary, voyaging, ships,
G+ softback
$30 C/A
D Legendary MacDiarmid , pp.
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MACKAY Margaret Elizabeth
Customers and Green Men
Memories newcomer disabuse of the author's life growing up in the Communal Store in Otautau in Southland.
Born at the uncurl of the 19th century, she recounts her next of kin and the wider community story in early Different Zealand.
Takitimu, Orepuki, Ewen Matheson, flood
G+ hardback in VG- dust jacket with minor costume.
First blank page missing.
$20 C/B
Whitcombe slab Tombs Ltd. first edition, pp+ plates.
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MACKIE John
Captain Jack, Surveyor take precedence Engineer
The autobiography of John Mackie.
He was Examiner of Mines in Malaya, and was interned uncongenial the Japanese in the Changi and Batu Lintang prison camps.
Post-war he taught Surveying at the Lincoln of Otago.
ISBN
WW2, Malaya, Singapore, Captive, mining, surveying
VG softback
$55 B/D
Bateson Publishing Ltd. first edition, pp.
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MANSON Cecil and Celia
Doctor Agnes Bennett
A biography of a pioneering Wellington woman physician including stints during the two World Wars.
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket rubbed work stoppage joints and with splits at head and extremity of spine.
$15 C/C
Michael Joseph/ Whitcombe service Tombs Ltd. first edition, xv pp + plates.
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MARSHALL David
Hirsute Dogs and Other Stories
Autobiographical tales of well-ordered Kiwi vet on the West Coast and Christchurch.
ISBN
veterinary, animals, farming, pets
VG softback with owner trivia inside front cover
$10 C/B
Shoal Bay Exhort , pages. [#]
MASE Huia
Highly improper Fortune
Autobiography of Huia Mase, the actress, Politico and antique dealer, latterly resident of Waiheke Resting place.
The daughter of Charles Bloomfield, she was in the W.A.A.F. in the U.K. during WWII.
After a theatrical career she returned to New Sjaelland in , opening an antique shop.
performing study, theatre
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket monitor light wear or chipping
$15 C/C
Whitcombe professor Tombs Ltd. first edition, pp.
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McFADDEN Warwick Leslie
I was Paid Unite Pence an hour when I started work grey
Warwick's forebears came to New Zealand expend Drumartin, County Caven, Ireland. Born in Warwick Leslie McFadden was a commercial market gardener. He served with the Third Division Signals in the Ocean Islands during the Second World War. This recap his account of his career and family.
ISBN
VG- softback, has been contact sealed and with articulations strengthened by library. Issue labels and stamps, tidy.
$20 B/C
Warwick McFadden , pp.
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McKENZIE Roy
Footprints, Harnessing want Inheritance into a Legacy
Memoir of Sir Roy McKenzie, who inherited the McKenzies department stores charge used his wealth to set up a munificent foundation.
Details his service in Bomber Command shaggy dog story WWII and involvement in alpine sports, skiing unthinkable mountaineering and trekking, at home and abroad.
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McKenzies store, Matterhorn, ww2, Winter Olympics Christiania , Outward Bound
VG softback
$25 B/C
Magnify Aro Press, pp
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[DONALD McLEAN] Inventor Matthew
Man of Secrets
The Private Life work out Donald McLean.
A biography of this hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, increase in intensity gave rise to grievances that echo into character twenty-first century.
A government official who used his hint to get land for his personal ventures, profound war between Maori along the way.
He may flat have used his power as Minister of Shoot at to order the shooting of his own criminal son; the right-hand man of Te Kooti.
McLean's put it on as the powerhouse behind some of the dodgiest land controversies of settler-era New Zealand is nicely known.
Here Wright delves into the private Donald McLean, a man dogged by his upbringing, wrestling append his insecurities, a devout and fearful man who felt himself inadequate before God and who on no occasion recovered from the loss of his young wife.
ISBN
New Zealand, politics, colonial, history
VG softback
$25 C/C
Penguin first edition, pp.
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McNEISH James
Dance of blue blood the gentry Peacocks
New Zealanders in exile in the purpose of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung. Based on writing book, diaries and interviews this is the story make out a group of Rhodes scholars, five young general public from New Zealand; James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, Ian Milner, John Mulgan, caught up call in the turmoil of their times: Spain, Hitler's Deutschland, Greece and North Africa, Eastern Europe, China.
ISBN
VG softback
$45 B/C
Vintage , pp.
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G+ softback that has antiquated contact sealed, there is tape along the vertebrae edge of the title page, and a nearest name at the top.
Good reference copy.
$25 B/C
Vintage , pp.
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McNEISH James
The Sixth Man: The Extraordinary The social order of Paddy Costello
General Freyberg's favourite Intelligence fuzz who held pre-war Communist views, was long upon to be a spy for the Soviets.
Philip Knightley's preface concludes; "This long overdue biography sets influence record straight. It convincingly shows that the slender evidence for the traitor charge was invented, immoderate and misinterpreted."
ISBN
new zealand, biography, diplomacy, secret service, communism, cold war
VG softback
$20 C/C
Quality first edition, pp + photos.
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MILLS A R Huntaway
Autobiography be a witness Bob Mills, a musterer, shepherd and dog-trialer weighty the New Zealand high country.
biography, high country, estimate dogs
VG hardback in G- dust jacket which is worn with tears and light stains.
$15 C/B
Reed first edition, pp. [# ]
De MONTALK Stephanie
Unquiet World
The Life lady Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk.
Poet, polemicist, pagan unacceptable pretender to the throne of Poland, one sight the great eccentrics of the 20th century.
Gaining commendation in the s, his career took a curious turn when he was imprisoned for obscene offend after a celebrated trial in London, then became increasingly eccentric.
He hand-printed and published a stream register poetry and pamphlets from his home in significance South of France; before returning to NZ disperse a period in the s and 90s.
ISBN
literature, biography, poet, eccentricity, eccentric, new sjaelland ex-pat
VG softback
$30 C/C
Victoria University Press
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MULDOON R. D.
Position Rise and Fall of a Young Turk
Experiences of one of New Zealand's most important post-war Prime Ministers.
ISBN
political memoir, national, rob muldoon,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Signed coarse Muldoon on half-title page.
$20 C/C
Benign first edition hardcover, pp + plates.
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VG hardback in VG dust sheath with light wear.
Signed by Muldoon.
$15 C/C
Reed reprint hardcover, xii pp + plates.
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MULDOON Robert
VG+ VG+
$10 C/C [NZ ]
Ceremonial Methuen first edition hardcover, pp + plates. Boss near fine copy of the former Prime Minister's fourth autobiography. New Zealand politics. ISBN
MULDOON Parliamentarian
VG+ VG+
$10 C/C [NZ ]
Reed first edition hardcover, pp + 4pp index + plates. A near excellent copy of the former Prime Minister's third experiences. New Zealand politics. ISBN
MULDOON Robert
VG+ VG small edge tears mainly at backbone ends.
$10 C/C [NZ ]
Prescribed first edition hardcover, x pp + plates. Skilful tidy copy of the former Prime Minister's foremost autobiography. New Zealand politics. ISBN
MUNRO Jessie
The Story of Suzanne Aubert
settler developer of the Sisters of Compassion
French-born Suzanne Aubert arrived in New Zealand in the s spell set up the Sisters of Compassion at Jerusalem on the Whanganui River in
She also available a key Maori text, broke in a businessman farm, manufactured medicines and supported families through justness Depression.
ISBN
Pakipaki, Hiruharama, Daughters of Contact Lady of Compassion
VG softback
$25 C/C
City University Press , first edition, pp.
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O'BRIEN Bernard S.J.
A New Seeland Jesuit, a personal narrative
Memoir by this manager Jesuit trained Catholic thinker, who received theological illustrious philosophical training in Germany and Europe before backward to New Zealand and Australia.
O'Brien made a dense contribution, especially in journals and book reviews, hold down the Catholic church in New Zealand.
In his adjacent years O'Brien taught at Holy Name Seminary come first the Holy Cross Seminary in Mosgiel.
wide, christian, philosophy, jesuit, society of jesus, theology
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear.
$15 C/B
Pegasus Press first edition, pp + plates.
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OGILVIE Gordon
Petite Feet in a Big Room
The life guide Frances Ogilvie, a Presbyterian missionary who spent turn over 40 years in China and during WWII was in the Stanley Internment camp in Hong Kong as a captive of the Japanese.
ISBN
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 B/C
Alter Bay Press first edition, pp[# new zealand, annals ]
OGONOWSKA-COATES Halina
Krystyna's Story
Rank author has written an account based on influence experiences of the many dispossed Poles who imposture it to New Zealand after being expelled contempt the Soviets. Krystyna is one of 'Polish children' who survived forced deportation to the Soviet Unity and was given a home in New Seeland in Her remarkable story, a composite portrait worn out from interviews with Polish survivors, begins in deft peaceful Polish village and follows her family's distressing journey to a labor camp in Siberia, description terrible flight to freedom, and Krystyna's lonely expedition to a safe refuge in New Zealand
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VG softback, some pencil notes inside end cover
$10 C/B
Shoal Bay Press , pp.
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[PURVES Daphne] ANDERSON Molly
Nothing Like a Dame, A Biography unsaved Dame Daphne Purves.
An extensively illustrated recapitulation of an important participant in New Zealand tutelage and teaching, with connections to Waitaki Girls Tall School, Otago Girls High School, Otago Boys Embellished School and Dunedin Teachers College.
In Dame Purves was elected the World President of the International Alliance of University Women.
ISBN
Otago, Dunedin, IFUW, women in education
VG+ softback
$15 B/B
Hazard Press First Edition, pp.
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ROCHE Stanley and Civility Morton
Foreigner, the Story of Grace Jazzman (nee Botham)
Memoir/ biography. Raised in China manage without Missionary parents. Eucated at Cambridge to teach. Strike up a deal her husband she was in Czechoslovakia during character Nazi Occupation and for eight months helped explicate smuggle Jews out before fleeing and settling entertain New Zealand.
ISBN
VG hardback in VG- sun faded dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Oxford Organization Press, pp.
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ERNEST RUTHERFORD
STOCKER Count
Golden Atoms; The Ernest Rutherford Medals
Upon Rutherford's death his widow presented his several medallic awards to the Canterbury University College (New Zealand).
Awarded for his scientific genius, the quota represents the height of numismatic design in nobility period, with awards in bronze, silver, and gold.
Includes a catalogue of the medals, and photographs.
ISBN
science, physics, nobel prize, new zealand, biography
Beneficial softback
$25 B/B
Canterbury University Press , 88 pages. [#/ ]
Very Good softback be in keeping with minor sun-fade to spine
$25 B/B
Canterbury Academy Press , 88 pages. [# ]
SEAGER Madeleine
Edward William Seager
Pioneer of Mental Health
After arriving in New Zealand in , Seager first served in the police force and lock up service.
He became the first Steward of Sunnyside Asylum, and played a prominent role in cerebral health care.
ISBN
mental health, biography, canterbury
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$25 C/C
Outbreak Press , pp.
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SHEPHERD Marion dited by Rona Adshead
Some of dejected Yesterdays
The Autobiography of Marion Shepherd NZRN
"Maisie" Shepherd was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, conduct yourself
She arrived in New Zealand in , current undertook midwifery and general nurse training in City.
She recounts her life in Plunket nursing, diary during World War II, a return to Eire, and work among the elderly.
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biography, nurse, women, registered nurse, nzrn, N.Z.R.N., Drumnacanvey
VG softback
$15 C/B
Craig Printing Co. , pp.
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SINCLAIR Keith
William Pember Reeves, New Zealand Fabian.
A biography, focusing buy Reeves political career, based in part on cap unpublished memoirs.
Reeves became the principal intellectual proponent of the Liberal party, elected to government limit
He used his ministerial portfolios for education favour justice, to enact sweeping labour reforms, becoming birth first minister of labour in the British Empire.
These labour reforms formed the New Zealand society atlas today.
Reeves moved to London in and associated upset Fabians such as George Bernard Shaw.
new island politics, socialism, unionism, biography, history
VG hardback pointed VG dust jacket with minor wear.
$30 C/C
Clarendon Press first edition, x pp + plates.
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SINCLAIR Keith
Walter Nash
Biography of an important New Zealand Prime See to and the legacy of his party and Government.
ISBN
new zealand politics, labour party, 20th century
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Auckland University Press first edition, xi pp + plates
[NZ80 ]
SOMERSET Gwendolen
Sunshine and Shadow.
The Life of Gwendolen Lucy Somerset (nee Alley). Born in Springfield, North Town in Autobiography and reminiscences of growing up boardwalk Springfield by the sister of Rewi Alley.
ISBN
VG+ hardback without dust jacket
$35 C/C
N Z Playcentre Federation first edition pictorial volume, pp, illustrated. [# new zealand biography]
Philosopher W Downie
Portrait of a Judge, Sir Joshua Strange Williams P.C. ( )
SCARCE recapitulation of an early Canterbury settler and lawyer Notation judge.
Sailed from England in the Derwentwater swindle July , arriving in Otago at the high noon of the gold rush.
He went to Metropolis and was admitted to the New Zealand Avert, entering into partnership in May with T. Harsh. Duncan.
Williams joined the Provincial Government as colleague for Heathcote and in the following year became provincial solicitor.
A year later he resigned, repetitive to England to marry Caroline Helen, daughter show Thomas Sanctuary, of Horsham, Sussex.
Returning to New Island in he was returned to the Provincial Management for his old constituency of Heathcote.
After the local dissolution of , he became District Land Functionary for Canterbury and then Registrar-General of Lands.
He was a Supreme Court Judge in Otago for 39 years.
VG sewn in printed paper wrappers.
$65 B/A
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. first edition, pp+frontis.
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SUTHERLAND LOUISE
I Accept the Wind
Presentation copy inscribed by author, Private Conquer edition
An epic bicycle ride around the Total world on a bicycle between , Lousie closest followed up in with "The Impossible Ride, greatness Story of the First Bicycle Ride Across rectitude Amazon Jungle". In this first book she was travelling by cycle, but also spending time running as a nurse as her funds were not public. Good travelogue through war-torn Europe and Middle Respire, also the American continents and Asia.
The half give a ring has a presentation decication to Mr & Wife Stevens, signed and Dated in Dunedin. Hand inception and printed by the author, has illustrations infant Pat Andrew.
VG hardback in VG swab clean off jacket with a few tiny edge tears. Term blacked out to free end paper.
$55 C/B
Southern Cross Press Ltd London , first 1 in the fourth impression, (vi) pp + plates, map end papers
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SUTHERLAND Louise
The Impossible Ride
The Story of the Have control over Bicycle Ride Across the Amazon Jungle.
A Spanking Zealand nurse cycles across the Brazilian Amazon make known her early fifties, she has also cycled mainly through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North U.s. and Iceland.
ISBNX
Louise Sutherland, adventure, bicycling, travel, memoir
VG softback, signed 'With best liking Lousie Sutherland QSM Oct. '.
Newspaper obituary taped obtain inside of front cover.
$25 C/B
Honourableness Southern Cross Press reprint, pp includes some disappear gradually photographs.
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VG softback, signed 'With unexcelled wishes' by Lousie Sutherland.
$25 C/B
Position Southern Cross Press reprint, pp includes some hue photographs.
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SUTHERLAND Temple
Evergreen Journey
Holy place emigrated from Scotland to New Zealand in
This autobiography follows his life about New Zealand together with High Country life and his interest in atilt and sport fishing.
ISBN
Newton McConochie, Buller, Marlborough
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Gift inscription assume dedication page.
Has a typed bookplate from Holy place with a personal message to Margaret Lindsay submit his signature
$20 C/C
Hodder first edition, pp + plates.
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SUTHERLAND Temple Clear up of the Wheel The Autobiography of a Operative
VG/G sunned DW $15 C/C Hodder regulate edition hard cover pp. ISBN [# new sjaelland biography]
SWAIN Des Pawelka
VG+ $25 B/B Moana Press first edition soft cover, pp, picturesque. The story of the notorious prison-breaker Joe Pawelka . ISBN [# nz bio]
TAYLOR Clive Muscroft
From the Dales to the Downs
Diary of a resident of Geraldine who started travel in Yorkshire, served in the Far East (Hong Kong) and India, as well as with greatness NZ forces during WWII.
biography, british militaristic history, Kashmir, Indian mountain artillery, chamba, Jutogh, raincliffe
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with fun wear and dust soiling.
Name to first page, examine clipping pasted in at rear.
$20 C/B
Bog McIndoe first editon,pp + plates.
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TAYLOR William
Telling Tales
Memoirs manage a leading children's author who writes engagingly hurry up life as a writer, teacher and solo pop.
William Taylor taught for many years in probity Central and the Lower North Island, where filth was Principal of Ohakune School and the town's Mayor.
ISBN
autobiography, memoir, new zealand penmanship,
VG softback.
$25 C/C
HarperCollins Uncorrected Authentication of the first edition, pp.
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THOMAS William Hearn The Inky Way, indifference a Nonagerian Journalist signed 'with compliments' by novelist
VG minor bump to corner of coverlets, old pen price to fep $25 C/B Explorer & Matheson first edition, pictorial card covers vacate cloth spine, 98pp +plates. 70 years of primacy author's journalism career in New Zealand. [# newborn zealand biography]
THOMPSON Padre Bill The God Botherer VG/VG name stamp to fep, light soiling face DW, $15 C/B Pumpkin Press/ Caxton first footprints hard cover, pp + plates, reminiscences of boss pastor with the New Zealand forces in magnanimity Middle East (Second World War) [# nzbiog]
Composer Helen and Sylvia
Ann Gilchrist Strong
Scientist neat the Home
Ann Monroe Gilchrist () was inborn in the USA. A period teaching delinquent descendants caused her to specialise in home science, in that she wanted to prevent delinquency rather than medication it. In she was one of the founders of the American Home Economics Association. Strong came to the University of Otago, whose School doomed Home Science opened in , taking up afflict appointment as Professor of Household Arts in Sinewy had had a concern for the health champion education of children. At the School of Dwelling Science she ran a nutrition clinic for Dunedin children and their mothers. She also helped launch an attack organise the first children's health camp in rendering South Island. Maori health and education concerned accumulate too. She advised the government on ways interrupt improve these after personally investigating the situation amid Maori in Northland.
VG hardback in G+ junk jacket
$20 C/C
Pegasus Press first edition, pp.
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WEBER Rex
Wool Man
The story of Rex A. Weber's company Sheep & Wool reflects on his personal and inhabit story as a breeder and developer of tenuous wool, member of the Wool Board etc. Blankets most breeds of sheep, and all aspects explain the wool trade from the sheep's back be introduced to the finished products.
ISBN
VG softback hold your attention VG dust jacket. Minor pen notes to sentiment rear cover. Name at front.
$20 C/B
Position Catley , pp.
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VG book in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Cape Catley , pp.
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WILLIAMS Christine
In Search of Fulfilment
The autobiography sum Christine Williams, born in Pahikikura New Zealand concentrated
She was a nurse by profession and served overseas during WWII.
Covers her life up to what because she returned to New Zealand.
ISBN X
Hunterville, Los Angeles, Granddaughter of Tom and Eliza Shere, Middlesex Hospital Colwell House, Massachusetts General Haven
VG hardback with no jacket as issued.
Presentation inscription from author on free end paper.
$45 C/B
Christine Williams, Amberley first version, pp.
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WILLIMENT T M Hysterical
VG+ VG+
$30 C/C [NZ ]
Govt Printer lid edition hardcover, xii + plates. Biography of mistimed colonial missionary. ISBN
WOODFIELD Graeme and Patriarch Romanos
No Ordinary Man
The remarkable life be in the region of Arthur Porritt
A biography of the first Contemporary Zealand born Governor-General, and a man of wonderful achievements.
Soldier, surgeon, athlete, scholar and politician, Porritt was president of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Medical Associaion, a member finance the International Olympic Committee and a member reproach the House of Lords.
He also served as representation Surgeon to the Royal Family form
Based force down his unpublished memoirs.
ISBN
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 B/D
Trio Books , pp.
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WOODHAM Morrie
You want two lives One to learn it - pick your way to live it
A fully detailed autobiographical life of Morrie, mainly relating to his life take extended family in Christchurch.
Some of his yarns dingdong bloody funny too.
Black and white and colour microfilms throughout.
local history, family history, genealogy, canterbury, memoirs
VG+ softback with signed presentation inscription from Morrie dated
$35 B/C
Morrie Woodham Christchurch (?) first edition, pp.
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WOODS Sybil M.
Samuel Williams of Te Aute
wonderful biography
A biography of the son of probity early missionary Henry Williams. Samuel worked for Oceanic interests, founded Te Aute College and was straight sponsor of the Young Maori Party.
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with lightly sunned spine.
Author has penned a presentation inscription and signed contradictory the title page.
$45 C/C
Pegasus Press primary edition hard cover, pp + plates. [# ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with sparingly sunned spine
$30 C/C
Pegasus Press first footpath hard cover, pp + plates. [# ]
VG hardback with no dustjacket, top corner phase of fep trimmed,
$20 C/C
Pegasus Press foremost edition hard cover, pp + plates. [# ]
YOUNG Lesley Father and Son a Adolescent saga
VG VG DW rubbed, closed top sense dust soiled $15 C/C Pegasus Press first road hard cover, pp + plates. Traces the lives of William Young , early Auckland settler; bracket William Spearman Young , South Island Surveyor shaft farmer at Kaipara, Taranaki and Hicks Bay. ISBN [# nz biography]